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“ Now i Terpect fully recommend that power, eaving no lews than 14 aeamnen, some of whem be!
should be gives to the President to extend the! dfagged by wain force outef thé water in @ etate |
‘Treaty of Reeiprocity for asingle year, if @anada | of nudity As the daylight appeared it was seen
hall, before the bat of April next, discontinue her| that a Veséel had atrack ov thé break water ; that)
free porta and check iheit trade by raising her}the eight slodps in front of the pier bad been so’
duties en spiri's to the point at which our Red thoroughly smathed that there were no two!
veuse Comiuietionera shall recommpend our Go. planks sufficiently fixed together to indicate the,
reroment te place it, and shall gepeal her duties character of the vessel of which they had formed |
on the articles Ramed in the @imexed dratt fea) part; and thatfrom Brixham along the evast ol |
treaty.” dl riguton there Were between 20 and 30 wrecks. |

Will the organs now blame the representative | W ben-all the can gw npn eg “y ag

7 : fe }erews were mustered, they were found to be in
of our Goverument for not accepting the | woh a condition that it became necessary” that |
a they should repair to the shops of the town, aud |
ibe provided! with clothing. A comuilttee to pro-|

vide for their wants was at once got up.
, clothes shops fell short of the supply needed, as
most of the seamen lost their all, but many per-
+? sews charitably gave from their own stores of
With editoral Qourish the arrival of a Canadian} etothing, In the emergency the Literary [nati-
embassy ie agnounerd in New York, en rowe t! tution in Fore-street was made for the time a
Wgthington. | We do not hate England or ber! gaitors’ Home, iu which the men were supplied
pass udeucies. We do not desire tu ste 8p OF) with warm refreshwents and clothing. Eighteen
eep altve any international avimosities, Whet'| meu then received pa s tickets, and went, des-
tBe panpleef Eogland cheek their Tory artwstoeracy, | yutehed per rail, to their homes. More than ene
and compel there te douse justice, we Rerald the) pugdred men tien remained to be provided for,

. tact with pleasure. When a representative of Her | o.asequently the Assewbly Roows were fitted

DOges'y assists in couferriug a benefit upon the | iy aud beds of straw were hastily extemporized,

wammerce of the world, as did Sic Frederick | yng so tard on the floor as to afferd much comfort

Broce im hiv diplomatic career in China, we |i, the wearied men. Hot soup and bread were

chragiclethe evwnt with satiefaction. And while) piven te them for their supper, and each man

we de not intend to indulge ty tecrimination upon) was supplied with blankets, quilts, and other

Canada for beartivss conduct towards us during) warm articles of covering, leut by the drapers ot

the war, we woo'd seggest to the Canada gentle. | the town. Mesere. Green and Brooking, sur-

ten whe are ndout to honor us with their pre-| vone attended to relieve the men who had suf-
Renee, that their case is hopeless if they expect & | pored injuries in being tossed about in the water
eTenewal of the Reviprecity Treaty. hand en the rocks; aud the Revs. R. Elrington
The feeling against it is general and decided | ond Patch, with others, passed the night with
‘Rewoustranees are pouring in from West and) che men in order that ue urgent waut might

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THE RECIPROCITY TREATY.

From the Wash igton Republican — Government organ

The}

* Rast against ite continuation. The fishermen of
the Atientie coast join with the tarmera of the
pratries to dewand its abrogation. The plea tor
at #8 insperative. and the reason for its termination
.dtre protoeund ; and they are these:

First The Reciproenty Treaty inured greatly

| remain eusatistied.
é ow
SHOCKING TRAGEDY.

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IN THE FLAMES.

A HOUSE BURNED AND FOUR CHILDKLEN PERISHED

tye the benefit «4 Canada, and in many iastaucee
wos detrimental to the Unived States. ‘
largely terabe pooetreamey ab tre tnd “ wi vf te mast brort-senting peptenin by fre

offical reports Does any one sGppose that an) ° we a
thtebiaeor American Daligress is to legislate for | Shilock, composed of Mr. and Mr. Shilock They
° ; ke and fownd the house im flames, when sbe

bee fit of Canada, and for her accomuiodation | awe ;
eae stipulation, the spirit of which she has | immediately sprang froin the bed, and remember-
frequently violated? It is too abaurd for diecus |! the four childrea in the other recm that wae
won. But oar waina objection te the renewal ot | reached by a passage, she rushed to their rescue.
“His Tieaty ia: Thad no special arrangements can | Mr. 8. followed an instant later, but in his passage

+} ‘ . : re eug ruins wor d tell late the

. s 4 he made with Canada without | PYOke through the burning fluor au t

ohn Regugnagh i helpeng thie nediee . leellar. By a desperate effort, alinost suffocated
r 3

“ey $e sh Siintty aril wwe) by bent and smoke, he again reavted the bed
ian ght at Pa eee | which he had left, and grasping the sleeping babe,
prviatrdie tke citsmeree, and d-pnpulalr as ler.| threw it through a window he broke out; but on
ritory We are well aware. But her loss acill be | tueuing to see what had becowe of his wile, he

eur gain Y And we shall hard y be expected to| ¥4* met by the flames, aud but barely escaped by
“consider the welfare of a foretga people betore | the window through Which be bad threwn his
gut Own. The embastadora from Canada. will| child. Upon reaching the outside, he heard the
“ae ay ee? ’ : wy » ad ” el per~
Le rir boi rte fr eg ie son = 4 voring to gaiu the recom occupied by the children,
fresh (0 their minds aa ft ia in Oure that her soil) until she herself had become surrounded by fire
* was the theatre of the lake piracies, and the St | Through almost saperhaman exertion he succeed.
Albans raid aot robbery. We hare not quite ed in bursting in the door and reecumg her, al-
fofguttes that Canadian jurisdiction was the} though beth were terribly burned. They now
rhelter aud security af our public egenies, and | used every exertion to Bave the ehildren, but al
ior cities the rendezvous of those incarnate fiends | '@ 2° purpose, aud soon they were euabled to see
whi sought to Tight the skies with the lurid flarues | he tour aiaudiag together ia the middle of the
of our barifing marta, and import into our midst | room, clinging to each other, with their eyes raised
pestilence and sialadies more deadly and devas. | toward heaven, mm which position they were con-
tapweg than the dreadful devastations of war. | sumed by the Hames, in full sight of their agouized
"Phe tate of Canada must follow a degree superior | parents whe could lend thei ne aid,
ite the power of American atatates. } ee

[ From the Shakopee ( Minn.) Argus, 11th ]

‘The daw of in migration.will compel these whe| More Barsaniry in New York.—The pub-
ocewpy the trezen belt that stretehes acruss Unie | ic mind was shocked “a few days ago by an ac-
continent, now that slavery is no imere, to. ceek | count ot the snileriogs of a poor etmigraut woman
the warmer lati udes, richer soil, lessened cost of | Who Was rulblessly left to die after her confine-
living. which are tobe fond in the South, The | went, unattended aud alowe, amid the foulness
Canadian exodus will be stimulated undoubtedly | and discomforts of the steerage of a passenger

aby the ¢esattion of the Reeiprocity Treaty; and | sbip at the wharves ef our city. The atrocity ot

veurely for ne obi gation that we are under te ow this case finds a parallel in ove which was yes: |

pNoertwern neigh ours can we be asked to barri-| terday befure the corouer. Christian Anderson,
eade for her advantage the providential disposi | a poor Swedish sailor, arrived a few days since
tiemeteveots, On this question we sbull have | (n the emigrant ship Jobu Brigit, trom Liverpool,
more lv say here ater. | euttering from an attack ef sitp fever. and se-
| verely trost-bitien beside in bis lower extremities
His condition was clearly such as to make him a

Léa. the Correspondence of the Montreal Gazette,

| cries of his wile, who had been frantically endea- |

is a strip of land between the Andes and the
Pacifie, in lengh of const line about two thousand
two bundred and seventy tuiles, and in breadth
averaging trow 200 te 20. The harbors alovg
her extensive cost are neither numerous nor
good. The best of them is Talcahuane, in Tal-
cahuane. Valparaiso, though the busiest port of
the evuntry, hee open to winds from the nerth-
ward, and accidents to the shipping in the harbor
are frequent. Besides Chili proper, the Clilian
Government exercises jurisdiction over a large
umber of outiving islands. The population, ac-
cording to a census taken in 1857, was 1,553,453
Phe population is very heterogenous. It is esti-
mated that only between one-fourth avd one-
third of the Chilians are of pure Spanish blood,
the remainder being made up of domesticated
Tndians, the fruit of their intercourse with the
duiminant race.

~~ A Cure Por INTeMPERANCE.—Talking over
this curious and barbarie rite, Mr. Bruce mwen-
tioned an illustration of the stern discipline which
is sowetimes enforced in Chinese families that
came under the observation of Mr. Meadows.
A Chinaman of respectability was much annoyed
by a profligate brother, He used every eudeavor
to cure him of his evil ways, first by moral means,
and latterly by physical ones. All his efforts,
however, proved unavailing, and the following ex-
treme measure was ultimately adopted by bun:—
Ou the vecasion of lis brother coming home late
oue night from a debauch, he had him treed hands
and feet, and by his servants conveyed to the
bank of the canal and put into the water, be bim-
sell seizing the body and pressing it with his hand
under the water until life was extinct. The body
was then reconveyed home, and buried as if death
had resulted from a natural cause. No official
notice was taken of the matter, as the cireum-
stances of the case were tiewed a8 justifying the
act. Ordinary murder is usually punished very
severely.— Peking aud the Pekingese. By D. F
Renntee, M. D.

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A Fenian AMBASSADRESS.—Ellen A. O'Ma-
bony, sister of the * Head Cextre,” who recently
issued an address to the Fenian sisterhood of New
York, calling ou them to contribute to the utmost
of their power, the means requisite to aid in
equipping a fleet and raising au army for the po-
litueal regeneration of Lreland, is now believed to
hein Dublin. She is the accredited ambassadress
trom the American Feniao Irish Republic, and
bas been endowed, eo the Liverpool Post saya,
with fuil discretionary power to aid the move-
ment by any means which in lier judgment appears
best suited [0 promote If.
ae

Vessen Aprivt.—A small schooner, with
vame obliterated, and said to be from 26 to 30
tous, and supposed to have drifted from some
harbor ef P. BE. Island, was about the beginning
of the year deseried fleating in the drift ice on
the north side et Cape George, with all materials
on board, and chain to the bow; and had lately
| been iu the coal trade. Some of the jahabitants
of this place boarded and stripped her of ail ma-
| terlals—eul the masts by the deck and the chain
by the ice, She was lust seen (about the Gth
inst) off the Light House, Cape George, with fair
wind to the Strait of Canso, where she may be
intereepted by the inhabitants aud saved.

Cupe George, Jan. dist, 1866.

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Divorces ts Cricsaco.—Chieago is becoming
metropeliian. “There were two hundred and seven-
ty-five divorces granted in that city, by the seve-
ral courts, during the year 1065. The Chicago
Journal says: —*‘ Of these ove bundred aud
seveuty-seven were applied for by wives, whose
grounds of grievance against their husbands
were: drunkenness in fifi'y cases; desertion and
cruelty four; adultery eight; drunkenness, deser-
tion, cruelty and adultery combined, two;_ big-
jany two; other cases, two. Of the entire
joumber of divorces granted, nineiy-eight were
applied for by husbands, whoae grounds of griev-

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Che Gxraminer,

LD DOE PDL LPI AIO LOI
Charlottetown, February 26, 1866.

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THE RECIPROCITY TREATY.

Every Colonial paper we have received by
the late Mails contains a large amount of matter
in reference to the above subject ; and it is re-
markable that the Colonial press, with one or

| two insignificant exeeptious, is unanimous in

declaring its unqualified objection to the pro-
posa's submitted to Congress as the basis of a
new treaty. The feeling throughout the Pro-
vinces appéars to be one of exultant, self
reliance, aud a-séuse of relief at the close of
the negotiations with the Washington Govern-
ment, when the unfriendly spirit of that Go-
vernment was fully developed in the report
made to Congress at the instance of the Secretary
of the Treasury. It is now opealy confessed by
United States Senators, Congressinen, and
Journalists, that the Colonies must be coerced
junto annexation; and the first step towards that
is the proposal to levy prohibitive duties on
Colonial productions and manufactures, ez-
cepting grindstones, gypsom, and two o7 three
other unimportant articles ; but we are rejoiced
to find that the Colonies will not submit to this
attempt at coercion, ard now regard the pro-
ject of annexation with more disfavour than
ever they did. The Americans have certainly
overshot the mark in their attempt to absorb
these. Colonies. The general feeling is, that,
with new channels of trade opened up to us, as
they will be—we shall be able to get on very well
without any more than that intercourse with our
Republicau neighboars which is absolutely in-
dispensable between foreign countries—and that
we may, for a long time yet, be spared the hu-
mitiatioa of seeing the stars and stripes waving
over us.

We have given a very larze amouut of space
in our present No. to articles on the Recipro-
eity Question, in which a great deal of infor-
mation will be found. It is the only subject
all public writers and thinkers in the Colonies ;
and it is important that we should all know the
relations in which we are about to be placed
with the neighbouring Republic. ‘Amongst the
articles we have inserted will be found an
authentic copy of the Memoranda drawn up by
the United States Government, in which they
make their modest proposals for a new treaty.
We think the perusal-of them will convince al!
—except the most *rebid’ annexationists—that
we have nothiag how to expect from the
American Government in the way of friendly
commercial intergengse. é

— one
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TOCITY TREATY.

THE RECIPI

atices agaiust their wives were; adultery in fifty
}vight of the cazes; desertion twenty; drunken-
| bess eighteen ; bigamy none; other causes nele.

+e

| A Mopesr PRoposst.—The Syracuse Journal

} saye:— Tf the possess'on of the Provinces by a
| foreign power is a circumstance which will dis-

dated New York, £cb’y. let }
A Bayne on vue WaAr-GonG BY Mr. Dix —
Mr Bis late Coperal) teok oeeasion last myht,
at’ the Teh Regt. Reeeption,” (in the Acadeny

of Music) te-gite a ban@eon hie war-gong, worthy |

of a Obivese Me darin
ferred to Britat

lo a long speech he re- |
in Shia cotld way:—** For two}
years the arguts at the ingurgenta were kept in|

leandidate fer a hospital. Satisfied of this fact, | able this Government from cartyivg ita revenue
| the deputy. he Ith officer at quarantive ordered the | laws tuto execution, the remedy is to be found,
jtransier of the patient to the fever hespital ar | uot in the abandonment of our national policy,
| Ward's Island, an institution under the care o} | but in the acquisition of the territory which affords
ithe eoummissioners of emigration. So far all wane the offending facilities
+ right.
lever-parched, mumb-limbed creature made! |
Feeble, wretched aud half-clad, without a hat,!
shecless aud stockingleas, he was placed on the

amabee nieasures fail.”’

7 “2S ~

Mr. O'Flaherty woadertook te tell how many

This might be aceamplish- |
But bow was this transier et the miserable, | ed peaceably, by negotiation, or FORLIBLY, ¥ |

the field through -upphes.of arms, ammunition and !
Chothi g trem her wetksheps, I believe it is ne}
eSigeration te say, that she bas cost us a hun-| :
Qtef thousand Tees, avd added fitteen handred | te pretect him from the eager and sipping air, |
MlMAis fo our National debe. Gentlemen, 1 am| “ hile the tugboat made her suail-like top of fitteer: |

Gn@ of Yhose. who believe that these wrongs must | miles frear quarantine te the Ward's Ishid hos-
jpital, Pew persons in robust health could bave |

be Bedressed. | do not object fo the postpone- | i Aye
Tt ¥ offaur reclimations att our infernal tke: endured this long exposure in Winter weather aud
of hae ‘ i sscaped severe Hilhess. Fs it, therefore, a marvel

® i * i i be s d ” : A )
ae F Stinll Be fiily asgure that this wretehed sailor, etek and helpless “and

| tell the name of the otter.

—ard—wko the devil was four? Let we see
(eounting his flagers) the two Crogans was one,
M ke Foun was two, meself waa three—and—be-
dad, there was feur of us, but St. Patrick couldn't
Now, it’s meself las
m. Mike Bion was one, the two Crogans was
two. weself waa three—and—and by my suwl, |

TH& Mexican Loax (Ree ) Swispie.—The |

Mexican loan ewindle sti fauuta before the pub-
dic bere., A Mr.J. N. Pitt, i agent of the thing,
aud Sener Jose Maria J. Careajal (a Mexican
lawyer) director )rechief of it. Asif te buimbog

the public the Mexiean flag hangs out of the |

~wilice, lovingly close te the stars and stripes, bat
thevouly effect of this is to chest the remark —*
pretzy humbug, isn't it.”

Lever or tik OccreaTion oF Mexico
TY Tue Preset —Marehal Bazaine bas lately

said & i order that the intervention may be fruit-|

tui (fetonde) we must remain in Merico until the

boys eight yeurs of age to-day become men tor the | journals gave the substance of a circular issued | European work on surgery, and many of the
mew ob thease days are robbers, without principle | by Gtyeral Sweeny to the Fenian brotherhwod, | plates on ostevlugy and natural history were

or juewpable of doing anything goed et theu-
selven”™ Li the Freseh remain in Mexico unti!
tae boys, now eigi | years of age, grow up to man-

hood, the length ef the oeeupation will be twelce | General Sweeny is determined to make mouey.| cruelty bas often been commented upon, but ima-

years at least; ati this may threw some hgut on
the designe of the Bioperor of the French, who
will eertaimly regard the words of Marshall
Bazoiue.

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DREAPFUL SCENES ON THE SOUTH
COAST OF GREAL BRITAIN.

An English contemporary givea particulara in
suference tou the cavages of the recent storms on
the British const. Sowe of them have already
beeu published, Tie following will doubtless
be found interesting by very many vf our
readers s—

“At Torbay the vale has left a scene of disaster
te which it Would be difficult to find a_ paralle!
pen the southern coast during the present cen-
tury, Persons standing npan the weatern shores |
of Torbay tay observe Frou a single paint ny leas |
thag 30 wrecks of vessela, whose destruction re- |
presents a loss fo the shipping aud mercantile in-
teresté of several hundred theusanud pounds, and
a Toss from tuany a home of fhe brave heart that
wha its chief stay. Out of a fine fleet of 74 ves

speecrivss as he was, should bave died within a

few minutes of the time that he entered the hoe-|

pital? Such brutal iohumanity would eause the
i cheeka of a Pejée Islander to tinge with shame,
}and instances of it are becoming tar too common
here to admit of anyexcuse. The coroner's Jury
| have seen fil to consider the quarantine autheri

®| ties responsible in this ease, aud if the offence ean | illustrations ar

| be justly laid at their dyer vo punishment whiek
} could be inflicted upon them would be too severe
| for the exime.—New York Times, Jan. 29.

—_—_- > o-—_—— —

| FeNIANISM.—Several days age the New York

| calling on thems to prepare for action, particularly
jto be in haste te supply the sinews of war.
| «oe . . .

| There is no doubt about this part of the objeet;

|The ultimate object of the subscriptions, the
| bretuven are told. is te make the paper republic
vot Ireland a real republic. But there is a sort of
| understanding that, thengh that is the ultimate
lobjeet, a raid or a series of raids on Canada
would be a fair beginning of the work ef revolution
lu that ease, frontier towns, easy of access, would
of course be selected an the objects of the opera-
von. Seame policy of this kind may be in con-
templation ; for Bweeny seems toe be mad evergh
to suppose that some apology for war could be
carried on by @ privaie joint stock company of
Universal Liberatora. Should the experiment be
tvied, the experimentora--the amateur revoln-
tienisis—will, in the end, have the greatest cause
to regret it.

ie Morne last

Eiaut Hexprep Steer SMoTHERED.—The
Ararat Advertiser mentions a singular oceurrence,
as illustrating the remarkable tendency which
animals have to fallow a leader.

A Jarge mob of |

i think there was buat three of us after ail.”

_ = >, —
| In the eellection of Japanese objects at the
| Dublin exhibitivn were sowe very curious illue-
| trated treatises on physics, zoology, botany, and
javatomy. ‘The letter-press of these was uot par-
| teularly intelligible to Enrepean visitors, bur the
re spoken of a3 excellent, and indi-
cative of advanced Knowledge in the several sub-
| jeets to which they relate. The cuts represent-
j Hig bandaging, awpatation, the use of the lancet,
j and se forth, are suid to have been almest pre-
| cisely similar te tuese which would be found iv a

equally good.

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REFINEMENT IN CrueLry.—The ingenuity of

gination bas perhaps seldom conceived a more
atrocious crime than one reported to have been
committed at Pesth. A miiler bas killed his
daughter, aged nineteen, by tying her arms close
to her sides, 80 as effectually to prevent any move-
ment, aud then hanging her up by the feet
Death ensued after sotue bours of indescribable
torture.

—

An affecting incideut was related to us the other
day. A family in a settlement io Prinee William
was visited by diptheria, aud the youngest child
tell the first vietim. While the little corpse was
yet unburied the two other children, lite boys,
one day engaged in bringing chips and wood for
the fire, when one of them said to the father,
what will You do when we are gone? who will
bring in ebips for you then?) The father replied
that they would not leave him, but Ged would
spare them to lnm. Oh no, replied the little
fellow, we will go, toe, next week you won't

about 4,000 sheep was turned out of the sheds bave us. Strangely correet presentient—the fol-
alter being shorn, to be shepherded on the side ot | lowing week the cuid’s words were verified, and
1 eveek where the grass grew more abundantly | the afllicted parents had to mourn over, and with
than on the plain further back. While depastur- | SOrrowing hearts commit their bodies to the mo-

wg areuud or uear a very large and deep hole in

ads ot every hind eounted as riding in the buy on
Wedaesday evening. only 49 remained when day-|
ight broke, and of these about SU were total

rechd. At nine o clock on Wedtesdoy, night!
the wintt Began to freshen, and it avon inereased |
tea yery stiff bre: ze, and at Jengtn becauie a}
atrong easterly gal As the fteatpest rose, the}
ipesfers of the vessels lying in the roads were dis
niayed at Godjng thal there was a feartul strain |
Svs tlieir anchors, and every preeagtion we ld}
aeein fo Wave been, adepted by all of them fo ren-|
) press re mpen their ships as fight as possi te; |
fat aif widnight t! ey discovered that they were
unable to prevent a eteady dragging of their an-|
eho ta, Abotit that hear, however, the wind rose |
viii dreréasing fore: in an ES E direction, aud
By; ars dasiy d over the ships with terrific vio- |
eber, #0 that shot’y after widiight, to the ore |
of those who aus ou-ly watched from the land,
the parted a ‘f the vessels were observed |
fo b+ Ga iing towardatheland. At this time tht
might was se dark aud rainy that the hulls of the
seventy ol! ships were not visible, bat the rash-
ing tegetber of many masthead lights in one fatal
Rese: ha told with dreadful certaitity the ehock-
ing gature of the effects of the gale. The sea
woe literally ranging “mnintaius tugh,” aud it is;
earel that those vesse's that aré missing could |
not al have made the Channel, but that seme, and
perbaps most, of thom must bave fyuudered in
the buy, with all ha sds,

At fre port of Britham the sea was, on
Friday afteravon, the J2:h, so extensively cover-
ej with beams, plooks, masts, keelsont, stan
elie, puts of heads and steros of ships, bow-
sorits, Fy s and chains intertwined, and even
Books, eoler, barrels of uvfermented wine, boots
ap] sioe:, avd bags that floated on the surface,
woyeralief whieh was opera broadcast such a
ged quantity of chips and splinters, that, instead
‘ tan dat ha a pov! jor floating debris, the water
ro c@ ep d presented the appearance of being a
large yad fw miscellaneous ship's stores, As
teu se eo swere Gury wilh violence against the
wall Que auclors were rescued from them by dint
«4 bre greatest bardiiend, the noblest most
f erless bravery on the past of those ov the pier
Vinh ep. thy pier v.01 ran iggminent risk frow
foilmy apare and .wir.ging blocks aid chaius ¢ yet
buy courszeously wo ‘uted the parapet, exten
@ line here, threw a rope or jawied iv a
gope at wwther py tut, and styetching for-
grad whenever agcedion allowed of jheir grasp
jug and sescuing say of the men. me
at the dangers to the saved were 30 im-
dnineps, avd the chagoe of rescue so small, that if

wities of but a few moments’ duration

had gyl bee prompll) takeu advantage of they
could wot-beve beeu eaened. Some were drawn
@ by jipaty clutc vee at but very small per-

foo od Cede dives, whilet others were hauled

' ¢ ships by reyes that were thrown tron
which the escapes
Richard Mills, a

pe a the gesscle tewun
., One aa, named
ya 4 is stated Wo baye been

feherwan,

the river bed, from whieb all the water had evap-
orated, owe of the flock, urged by some unae-
countable influence, jamped into it; another fol-
lowed, and another, till the whole flock rushed to
the spot, and velwithstanding every effort on the
part of tae suepherd, they pressed en masse into |
ihe large basin till it wae literally filled with a}
moving mass of animal liie, and neu less than 825
were smothered.
—_—__ ee

ther earth, Wenee came that impression to the
child’s mind? Was it a dream or au angel's
whispering 1—Carleton Sentinel. :
— 96a ——

The pork disease has reached America! It is
new in the Western States, where hoge are as
cleanly fed as in any part of the world. The
Detroit Tribune ssys that * one case of the dis-
ease called Jrinchinag, whieh haa- recently ex-
cied so mech alarm in Berlin, Prussia, has
appeared in, this city, and proved fatal. ‘The

SoLpbieriIne iy Earkvest.—The calling out ef |
ten battalions of the militia in Canada, has, ac-}
cording to fhe Moutreal Gazette, Leen resorted |
te, in order to test the Militia Law of the Pro-
vince, and the working of the “Service Militia
Aci.” Those to be called ont are the men who
were balluted for, and dvatted in the Militia i-
visions .of Hechelaga aud York. The cities wt |
Montreal and Terento are included in these
districts, so that the whole of the experiment |
will be tested in them. ‘The divisions in questien |
each contain Give battalions ot 779 men, exclusive |
of effiversa, who are to be selected from the Cadets |
of the wilitary schools in Upper and Lower Ca- |
nada, The Gazette “trusts if the experiment
succeeds, and ihe machinery is found to work
well, thar all the Service Militia Battalions inthe |
country may see the exaet position in whiei: it)
stands with respect te its defences. Canada has |
been playing at soldiers far too long. It is time |
that there should be something to show for the!
millions which have almost Deeu throwu away ”|

— ee oe

The Jesuite have published the statistics of the
members of their company. From these it ap-
pears that in the Comaraca alone there are 475
Jesnita, of whom 385 reside in Rome, and the re-
mainder in the Collegea ef Velletri, Frosinone,
aud Viterbo. There are 173 Jesuits superintend-
ing the Rowan College; 15 are engaged in direct-
ing the Juurual Cirilia Cattolica, 13 in the Ger-
wan College del Nobile, 13 in the South American
College, 54 live in the House of Protessien, 79
are assigned to the noviviate, and 28 remain in
the House of Refuge. At the end of 1864 there
were 7728 members of the Jesuit order in the
Catholic world, being 129 mere than 1863. The
order is divided into 21 provinces, of which four
belong to France, five to: Germany, Belgium,
Helland, twe to Spam, five to Ltaly, one te
Mexico, aud the other four are distributed in
England, Ireland, and the United Statea. In
Jedd there Were 15382 Jesuits employed in foreign
missions, being au increase of 342 over the year
1863. ‘The European miss ted to 2x;
the Asiatie to 296; the African to 214; the North
American to ¥76; the South American to 19s;
the Ocearjan to 55: and 15 wete on passage.
‘Twenty-five years ayo, viz: in J841, there were
but 3563 Jesuits, so thet since that period the
nuuiber bas been more than doubled.

tle oe ere

| SOOTHING SYRUP are sold and used with

* Tue Reeceuie or Cyits — Chili, or Chile, |
og it is indifferently written, the most pepulous

ia and important of the South Awerican Republics, | forte the mother

victim was a young Gerinan lady.”

cl a bat 3s
The St. Catherine’s, Canada, Journal, is in-
formed that the small pox is raging so fearfully
in Wellend that all those who can leave have lett
the village, and that nurses are eo scaree that $4
per doy waoffered. It is alse said that the pro-
prietors, editors, aud priuters of the local papers
have become frightened and skedaddled, and that
tie village is now One grand hospital. Nodeaths
have yet eecurred, but the nuuber a'tacked by
the foul disease is so great that (here eau scarcely
be a doubt but that some will eceur before long.

Every Sovrtek SUOULD HAVE THEM. —From
R. B. Heintzleman, Steward 72d Reg., P. V.:—
“ Your medicinal preparation (Brown's Bronebial
Troches) is certainly valuable to soldicrs in the

field, and I feel sati-fied, if generally adopted at
the bospitals, many sleepless nights of the weary
soldier would be averted. Our regiment are now
testing their qualities, and 1 believe are all satis-
fied with their good effects in allewating those
distressing affections of the throat arising from
cold and exposure. They are pow daily pre-
sevibed iu our hospital aud at the surgeon's wern-
ing call.”—Sold everywhere at 25 cts per box.

During the recent cold snap in Halifax which
closed the harbor, a number of accidents occur-
red on the tee, aad in several tstadees partirs
very uearly paid the forfeit for their temerity with
their lives. Among the number of victims were
two printers. One, a Mr. Frauklin of the Ez-
press office, tumbled through,.but was rescued by
the presence of mind of tis companion on the ice-
journey, a Mr. Robertson, of Messrs. Bowers's
establishment.— St. John News.

A new invention in Paris is said to be a pair
of musical boots. At every step the pressure of
the foot produces melody—it may be a waltz, a
mazourka, onan operatic air. This arrangement
would be extremely convenient for a dancing
master.

MILLons orf Borrres of MRS. WINSLOW'S

never-failng success. Its an old and well-tried
remedy, and bas stood the test of years. It re-
lieves the child from pain, regulates the stomach
and bowels, cures wind colic, softens the gums,

Tue following memoranda, laid before Con-
} gress, shows the propositions and coutte:
| propositions of the negotiating parties, and
| substantially cover atl the correspondence
Ie
| between them :—
Wasnixeroy, D. C.,: Feb. 2) 1866.

The trade between the United States and the
British Provinces should, it is believed, unde:
ordinary cireumstauces, be free in 1eference to
their natural productions; but as internal taxes
exceptionally exist in articles embraced in the
i tree list of the Ik ciprocity Treaty should con-

jtinue to be exchanged, subject only to such
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cold, wet deck of a steaurtag, With ae mattress! there were at the party: ©The two Croganus was | ' uties as may he e juin alent to that internal
beuenth his aching bones, and wet even a blanket | ones incself was two, Mike Finn was three, aud | taxation.

It is surgested that both parties
nay add certain articles to those now in the
With reference to the fisheries and
| the naviration of the internal waters of the
| continent, the British Provinees are willing
| that the existing reeuletions should continue in
effect; lut Canada is willing to enter into en-
4arements with the view of improving the
means Of access tu the ocean, provided the as
surance be given that the trade of the Western
States will not be diverted from its natural
channel by legislation; and if the United
States are not prepared at present to consider
the ceneral opening of their coasting trade, it
would appear desirable that as regards the in-
ternal waters of the continent, no distinetion
'should he made between the vessels of the two
| countries.

If the foregoing points be satisfactorily ar
ranged, Canada is willing to adjust her excise
duties upon spirits, beer and toha e), upon the
best revenue standard which may be mutually
adopted after full consideration of the subject,
and if it desired to treat any other articles in
the same way, the disposition of the Canadian
yovernment is to give every facility in their
power to prevent illicit trade. i

With regard to the transit trade, it is suy-
gested that the same regulations should exist
on both sides, and be defined by law. Canada
is also prepared to make her patent laws similar
to those of the United States.

MEMORANDUM 2.

In response to the memorandum of the Hon.
Mr. Gait and his associates, Hon, Mr. Smith,
Hon. Mr. Henry, and the Hon, Mr. Howland,
the Committee of Ways and Means, with the
approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, are
prepared to recommend to the House of Repre-
sentatives for their adoption a law providing for
the continuance of some of the measures em
braced in the Reciprocity treaty, soon to expire,
viz :—For the use and privileges enjoyed now
under the said treaty, in the waters of Lake
Michigan, provided the same rights and privi-
leges are conceded to thé citizens of the United
States by Canada, in the waters of the St.
Lawrence and its canals as are enjoyed by
British subjects, without: discrimination as to
tolls and charziuz rates proportioned to exnal
distance; ulso for the free transit of goods,
wares and merchandize in bond, under proper
reculations, by railroad across the territory of
the United States to and from Portland and
the Canada tine; prorided equal privileges
shall be conceded to the United States from
Windsor or Po:t Sarnia, or other western
points of departure to Buffalo or Ogdensburg
or any other points eastward, and that the free
ports established in the Provinces shall be
abolished; -a’so that the bounties now “iven to
American fish men shall be repeated and du-
ties not hisher imposed upon fish than those
mentioned in Schelude A, providing that all
the risht of fishing near the shores existing
und>r the treaty heretofore mentioncd shall be
granted and conceded by the United States to
the “Provinces, and by the Provinces to the
United States.

It is also further proposed that the following
list of articles shall be mutually ‘free, viz:—
Burr millstones, unwrought, cotton and linen
rags, firewood, grindstones, rough or finished,
gypsum, or plaster unground.

Scuetvpvr A.—Fish—Mackerel, one dollar
and fifty cents per barrel; herring, pickled or
salted, one dollar per barrel; salmon, two doi-
lays and fifty cents per barrel; shad, two dol-
lars per barrel ; all other fish, pickled, one dol-
lar and fifty cents per barrel, provided that any
fish in packages other than barrels shall pay in
proportion tothe rates charged upon similar
fish in harvels. “All other fish, one-half cent
per pound.

As to the duties which will be imposed upon
other articles ineluded in the treaty, the follow-
ing are submitted, viz :—Animals, liviny, ofall
sorts, twenty per centad valorem; apples and
garden fruit and vegetables, ten per cent ad
valorem; barley, fifteen cents per bushel;
beans, exeept vanilla and castor oil, thirty
cents per bushel: beef, one cent per pound;
buckwheat, ten cents: pdt dashel; butter four
ceuts perpound ; cheese, four cents per pound ;
corn, Indian, and cents per bushel ;
corn meal, Indian, and oafmeal, fifteen cents
per bushel; coal, bituminous, fifty cents per
ton; all other coal twenty-five cents per ton;
flour, twenty-five per cent ad valorem ; hams,
two cents per pound; hay, one dollar per
ton; hides, ten per cent ad valorem; lard,
three cents per pound ; lamber, pine, round or
log, one dollar and fifty cents per one thousand
feet; pine, sawed or hewn, two dollars and
fifty cents per one thousand feet; planed,
tongued and grooved or finished, twenty-five per
cent ad valorem ; spruce and hemlock, sawed

| said list.

and, by giving rest and health to the child, eom-

or hewn, one dollar per one thousand feet;

spruce planed, finished or partly finished,
twenty-five per cent ad valorem; shingle bolts,
ten per cent ad valorem; shingles, twenty per
vent ad valorem; all other lumber of black
walnut, chesnut, bass, white wood, ash, oak,
round, hewn or sawed, twenty per cent ad
valorem; if planed, tongued and grooved, or
finished, twenty:five per cent ad valorem ; oars,
ten per cent ad valorem; peas, twenty-five
cents per bushel; pork, one cent per pound ;
seed, timothy and clover, twenty per cent ad
valorem; trees, plant and shrub, ornamental
and fruit, fifteen per cent ad valorem; tallow,
two cents per pound; wheat, twenty cents per
bushel.
MEMORANDUM C.
Wasnixaton, Feb. 6, 1866.

In reference to the memorandum received
from the Committee of Ways and Medns, the
proyincial delegates regret to be obliged to
state that the proposals therein contained in re-
gard to the commercial relations between the two
countries are not such as they can recommend
for the adoption of the respective legislatures.
The imposts which it is proposed to lay upon
productions of the British provinees on thei:
entry into the markets of the United States are
such as in thetr opinion will be in some cases
prohibitory, and will ceistainly seriously inter-
fere with the natural course of trade. These
imposts are so much beyoud what the delegates
conceive to be an equivalent for the iuternal
taxation of the United States that they are re.
luctantly brought to the conclusion that the
committee no longer desire the trade between
the two countries to be carried on upon prin-
ciples of reciprocity. With the concurrence of
the British Minister at Washington, they are
therefore obliged respectfully to deeline to en-
ter into the engagement sugyested in the memo-

that engages now the most earnest attention of

randum; but the present views of the United
States may svon be so moditied as to permit of
the interchange of the productions of the two
tountries upon a nove hberal basis.

— a on

LEAGUER ON HIS MAR-
ROW BONES.

A TENANT

We copy the following advertisement from
the Royal Gazette. The “ Mr. Alex. MeNeili,
District Teacher, Lot 49,’ therein referred to,
‘s no other than the Chief Secretary of the
so-called Tenant Union. He was one of its
principal canvassers, while there was a chance
of collecting money from the silly dupes who

ing the Land Question, and is the author of
much of the nonsense that came before the
He

disowns or disayows his connection with the

public under the sanction of that body.

mischievous concern when he finds that there
is no more money to be made out of it, and
sees that public opiaion has raised its hand
against it. It is not unlikely that Geo. Adams
and Sam Lane will be the next to repudiate the
uncleax thing :—

“ Boarp or Epucation.—The following eom-
munication from the Secretary of the Board of
Education was laid before His Excellency the
Lieutenant Governor, in Council, and ordered to
be published in the Royal Gazette newspaper :—

February 7, 1868.

Sirn.—Referring to my communication of the
2od December last, on the subject of the suspen-
sion of the salary of Mr. Alex. McNeill, District
Teacher, Lot 49, 1 beg to intimate tor the iufor-
mation of His Exeellency the Lieut Governor, i:
Council, that the said Mr. Alex. MeNediil is agai
recognized by the Board of Edueation as a
licensed Teacher, as be has complied with. the
order of the Board, “hy disavewing, under his
hand, in the presence of the Board, his counee-
tion with the Orgauizalion known as the Tenant
Union.

1 am, Sir, your obedient serv’t.
(Signed) Joun MCNBILL,
Sec’y. Board of Education.
Charles DesBrisay, Esq , C. C.” ‘

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LATEST NEW3 FROM EUROPE

thought that the League was capable of settl-

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL.

Tue English Mail arrived here with the
usual foreign and Colonial mails on Thursday
evening. The following summary embraces
every topic of importance :—

Parliament met formally on the first day of
February, and avain elected their old Speaker,
Mr. Evelyn Denison; but the active part ot
the session will not commence until. Tuesday
uext, when the royal speech will be delivered
hy Her Majesty in person, and not by commis-
sion, and the tloodzates of eloquence will then
be let loose.

Fenianism is taxing all ‘the energy of the
Irish Government. Troops continue to pour
iuto the country, and the increase of the army
there during the last few months has been very
great. The hold which it has taken of the
people is best reflected in an investigation re-
cently held at Spike Island, near Cork, which
resulted in the dismissal of the jail warders
there, who had charge of some of the prisoners
recently convicted before the Commission now
sitting im Dublin. It is stated that the jail
warders throughout Ireland have been to a
large extent corrupted. The severe sentences
intlicted on the principal conspirators seem to
have had no effect on the great mass of their
deluded followers, for the making of pikes, the
securing of firearms, and other preparations for
an outbreak have suffered no diminution. Be-
tween the Fenians on the one hand, and the
Orangemen on the other, the Government is
placed in a perplexing position. Both the
rival factionists ave ready for a struggle, and
the most serious consequences would foilow if
the Government was not strong enough to
deal with boih. To show that even the slight-
est symptoms are not allowed to escape the at-
teution of the Irish: executive, is sutticient to
mention that on the 3lst of January a bazaar
was to have becn held in Dublin, the avowed

ADDRESS BY I. C, HALL, ESQ.,ON TRADE
RELATIONS WITH THE UNITED STATES.

The subject of the Reciprocity Treaty was au-

nounced for Discussion before the “ Charlotte-

town Literary and Debating Society " on Tues-

day evening last, and I, C. Hall, Esq, ‘kindly

coneented to open the debate. But as information

had been reccived that the negociations touching

that important subject at Washington had failed,

Mr. Hall very properly declined to enter into de-

tails on that subject ; and said that it pow remained

for the people of the Culony to take into consider-

ation the best ineans to obviate the depressing in-
fluence on our trade, consequent upon the aboli-
tion of the Treaty. He would, therefore, direct

the attention of his audience to the Fishing inter-

ests of this Island, upon which he said, the loss of
the Reciprocity Treaty would bear heavily, eepe-

cially on the Mackerel Fishing, the United

States being the ouly market of any importance
for the sale of mackerel. He observed that a

duty of two dullars in gold per barrel would be
intolerable ; and uuless a bounty of at least one
dollar per barrel be grauted by the Legislature.
that important branch of our industry would
be very seriously crippled, if not altogether des-
treyed. He alluded to the interesting fact that
there were at the prerent time some ten or fifteen
fishing vessels getting built on the Island, some
of them first class vessels from American models,
and would be fitted out iu the very best style.
He stated that hundreds of young men left this
Island and the adjoining Proviuces annually for
Gloucester, Mass., and the other fishing ports in
the States, aud shipped on board Americau fish-
ing vessels, to cateb fish around their own native
shores. Many of thuse young men, he said, be-
came permanent settlers of the United States,
and that at least one half of the population of
Gloucester, Mass., were natives of Nova Scotia
and P. E. Island. He stated that if the Govern-
ment of this Colony were not prepared to sec
their enterprising young men leave the Island,
they should at onee encourage the Fisheries by
giviug a bounty of at least one dollar per barre!
on mackerel for a term of five years, and thereby
enable a busives, now in its infancy, to establist
itself, and place Island fishermen m a position te
compete successfully with their American rivals
From the success which had already attended
ihe fisheries be was of opinion that in five years
our exports of fish would exceed our experts ot
grain. He regretted that the limited time at bis
dieposal for preparing his rewarks had not en-
abled him to prepare statistics in support of his
views on that point. The Cod or Hake Fiehing,
he said, might prove ecli-sustaining, as there
were markets for that article all over the world
The American market wax tie only available cr
remuverative warket for mackerel. The bounty
appropriated for mackerel Fishing would vastly
increase ovr Jinports, and improve Ube generai
busivuess of the Islaud by creating a howe market
for our farmers. Fishermen, he said, were large
cousnmers of beef, pork, butter, potatoes, &e
He spoke of the facilites for building fishing ves
sels on this Island. Timber of suitable size war
vasily obtained, and !abour was cheap. He said
barrel factories would spring up, in every fishing
port, and the whole trade of the Culony would be
greatly augmented if proper encouragement were
given to the working classes in connexion with
this, the most important branch of Island industry.
The idea that armed steamers could drive off
and prevent “ Yankee vessels ” front getting thei:
fares, was a fallacy. Men of-war would doubt-
iess Awney and at times interfere with the catch
of American vessels, but that would not vers

seriously obstruct them, us the Codfishery was
vrosecuted entirely beyond the three mile limit

and nearly one balf the mackerel were caught in
American waters, and of the poruon taken in
tiese waters a large per cenlage was caugh

outside the marine league,

The extent and value of our Fisheries, which la.
waste for want of enterprise, were then des
canted upon by Mr. Hall, who coneiuded hi-
adwirable and important addreas by alluding
our favourable position tor prosecuting not aly
the Cod, Hake, and Mackerel Fisheries, but ale.
the Whale and Seal Fisheries.

Mr. Hall's address was followed by a very in
teresting debate, which was kept up till the bow
of adjournment, when it was unanimously resolved
to resume the subject at the next meeting of the

Society. Hons. E. Palmer, G. Coles, G. Beer.
and B. Davies, D. Laird and A. MeNeall, Esqre
took part in the debate, all of whom, thengh dit
tering On miner points, concurred in the necessity
of encouraging and tustering the fishing interests
of the Isiand.

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15TH REGT. AMATEUR THEATRICALS,

The following is a Statement of Accounts
of the Amateur Theatricals of the Detachment
of Ist Battalion, 15th Regiment :—

Gross receipts,......£93 7 74
BXPCUE, veer ress MH didh
Balance credit,....... £52,°°4. 6

Of this sum, £22 10s. was hauded over to
the following Ladies’ Societies, for distribution
among the poor: ——Churech of England, St.
James’ Benevolent, and the Roman Catholic.
The remaining half (with odd shillings,) viz:
£28 16s. 6d., was reserved for charitable
purposes in the Regiment.


object of which was to relieve the families of| | P48ta,ment.—We observe hy the last Royal
the men who. have been convicted at the spe-| Gazetéethat the Lezislature of this Island stands
cial commission. The motive on the face of it |

was audabieenoush, but the Government feared |
that it might be made a cloak fora Fenian dis. |
play, and felt itself bound to. prohibit it. It is |
believed that Stephens, the Head Centre, is still |
in Ireland, and larger rewards have been offer-|
ed tor his ca; ture. ‘The auxiety to secure him
is increased by the knowlege that his escape
and appearance amongst the Feuians in the
United States would give a fresh impulse to
the J'ransatlantic movement, This view is
confirmed by a missive which Stephens ad-
d essed as late as the 23rd December last to the |
Fenian Brotherhood in America, headed “ The |
IrshR eptblic,”” and declaring John O'Mahony
to be the true and only President of the Fenian
Brotherhood, _

The hopes that wete formed of vaccination
as acure for the cattle plague are gradually
disappearing. Jn many cases in which it has
been tried the result has been inefiicacious, and
inoculation has not been more successful. The
identity of the disease with small pox in human
beings is denied, thouzh a similarity is admitted,
The last specific propounded is lime-water.
Spain has been thrown into a terrible state
of consternation by the appearance of Chilian
privateers on her coast, and the fri vate Isabel
has heen directed to pursue them ; in fact, Peru
and Chilian men-of-war, said to have emerged
from the Thames and the Mersey, preying on
the marine ecommerce of her Catholic Majests,
bave been arresting great attention through
Europe.

a
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CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN’S INSTITUTE.

The Very Rey. James MeDonald, of Indian
River, lectured before the above named Insti-
tution on Wednesday evening last, taking as
his subject—*‘ A Tour in Europe.’’ He sketch-
ed graphically his visit to England, Ireland,
Scotland and Wales, France, aud the other
continental countries, and furnished a large
mass of information respecting their population
and resources. After the Lecture, an animated
discussion Oecurred, when the Reverend gentle-
man supplemented his Lecture by most interest-
ing information with regard to the present state
of Italy, in the course of which he argued that
the temporal power of the Pope would not be
endangered by the withdrawal of the French
troops from Rome.—On Wednesday evening
next the discussion on “ Fenianism ” will be
resumed—the Rev. Angus McDonald having
expressed his willingness te open the debate.

prorogued until the 1th of March next, but
not then to meet for the dispatch of business.
The Session now approaching ought to be one
of the most important in the history of the
Colony, there will be so many important ques-
tions to be discussed, if not settled; bat it is
impossible that they cau be hastily disposed of;
and just about the time of assem)ling in Session
country members will be anxious to stay at
home to attend to their fencing and ploughing,

silpeeaeirssngeleliaa ie eolikrite
We are glad to learn that J. Roberts Fekart,
Esqr., received advice last mail from Canada,
that his claim for tonnage, &c., of Schooner
Vincent — throuch the ice from Cumberland
Cove into this harbour about the middle of
December last—had heen allowed and paid by
the Quebce Marine Insurance Company. We
remarked at the time on the extremely low
rate of insurance (6 per cent.) charged on the
Vineent and carzo, considering the very late
date at which she left Quebec, and we reve t
to the matter in consequence of our having
heard very strong doubts expressed here as to
the probability of the elaim being paid.
=r
We are requested on behalf of several Ladies

of the Church of England to acknowledge, with
thanks, the handsome sum given by the Detach-
ment of the 15th Rezt., for distribution amongst
the Poor.

0 —
(FOR THE EXAMINER.)

The Ladies of St. Dunstan's Benevolent
Society beg to offer their grateful acknowledy-
ments for the sum of £7 10s currency, placed
ut thew disposal for the relief of the poor, by
the officers of the 15th Regiment. ;

February 24th, 1866.

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C. Y. M. L. Iystirere.— At the annual
meeting of the members of this Institute, held
ou the 20th instant, the following gentlemen
were elected office bearers for the current year,
viz:—Rt. Rev. Dr. McIntyre, Patron; Very
Rev. D. McDonald, Vice do; Rev. Angus Me-
Donald, President; Hon. E. Whelen, Vice do;
R. Reddin, Esy., 2nd Vice do; W. W. Sullivan,
Secretary; Mr. P. Blake, Treasurer. Com-

mittee of Management, officers ex officio—
Messrs. James Lahey, John Bowers, Thomas
Kelly, M. P. Rochford, Charles Quirk.
R. Reppry, Sec’y. pro tem.
February 21, 1966.

a joke or an insult, and answered by a

se et i

THE RECIPROCITY TREATY—NbGOCL
ATIONS ENDED.

For some time after the Detroit ©
adjourned, the finterest, which that great gather
ing of the representatives of the comme reigh
classes in all the Northern States and British Pry.
vinces created in the fate of the Reciprocity
‘Treaty, naturally declined. A vast deal of vajy.
able information wae elicited by the debates jg
that Convention, and a great deal of ig

and prejudice was dissipated. Brought lace ty
face for the fitst time in three-fourihe of @ century,
the leading wea of North America inspired each
other with mutual respect—diecnased their com.
mercial relations and interests with coummendabig
candour and moderation—and decided, with sin-
gular unanimity and with a full kuew thet
national obligations were to be res . that,
upon some basis of acknowledged tairness, their
commercial relations, on the expiration of the ex-

which bad ‘Within

ten years tuald be aan o> eg tear pavwual
guarantees tor us iudefimte expansion.

It was not to be expected that the State De-
pertinent of this country should innuediately set
Upon the decision of that Convention. The 8».
eretary of State, in giving the wetice to the
Britich Govermoent which terainates the

evce of the Treaty on the 17th of March, aeteg
under a resolution of Congress; and even ¢
sonaily favourable to the renewa! of the ‘Treaty, ig
was hardly to be hoped that he would
responsibility of renewing it, until the whole
ject Lal been aain reviewed Ly Congress Mr,
Gladstone would net have done thie, io the pre,
a nee of a restraining resolution of the Howse of
Commons; sor would a Finance Minister of any
of the Colonies have run counter to the |
pressed wish of the Legisisture in ® Biktter of
great importance. It is true that the
this Government makes the Secret
more directly responsible to the P
leas directly to the Legislature.
Senate has a voice poteutial in the rat?
Treaties, thie was a case in which the wiehes of
its members could not be safely disregarded.

The Executive Government of the United States
did all that it could reasonably be expected to ds,
under the ec:reumstances. Weighted with an en-
ormous debt, which compelled it to collect a vast
revenue by a complicated and onerous system of
taxation hastily coustructed auudet the pertarba-
tions of a great civil war, its first duty was to
ascertayn if the required income could not be se-
cured, and some relief be given to the industry of
the country by a more scientific eyetem of tax-
ation, Its next duty was to ascertuin to what
extent, if any, the Keeiprocity Treaty —assuming
its value had not been over estimated at the De-
troit Couvention—should be modified in view of
the changed circumstances of this country, and
perbaps also of any legislation or fiseal ar
ments of the Provinees in violation of the spirit of
the Treaty, or that were not cobltemplated by the
negotiatore in 1654.

These duties naturally devolved upon the
Treasury Department; aud they have been die
charged by Mr. McCulloch with singular tagt
diseretion. Mr. E.H Derby, of Boston, a
man very familiar with the course of be-
tween this country and the Provinces, was “ pe
quested ” by the Secretary of the Treasury to te.
port upow the Treaty: and the general eu of
taxation and revenue was refered to three com
missioners, Mr. David A. Wells, of New York,

5S. Snowden Hays, of Lino.

external commerce and taxation, on that ¢
branch of trade which was covered by the i
procity Treaty, should carefully study all the re
ports which emanated frow these geutlemen. For
the present, we veed only say that the Revenus
Commissioners selected by Mr. MeCailech have
discharged their high duties, eo far as trade with
the Provinces is coueerned, im a tair and candid
spirit, yieldiug to no petty feeling of irritation,
and have discussed the great interests of the
country in a style and with a fuluess of informa.
tion that does credit to the Department under
which they served. .

The British Americans, on their part, follow-
ing up the opimons expressed at Detroit, ap-
pointed a Delegation te convey to the British
Minister at Washington their willingness to re-
uew the Treaty, or to accept anetber, with enech
ind-fications as might meet the altered condition
of cuings in this country and develop trade on fair
terms of reciprocal advantage. “This taission was
entrusted to the Finanee Minister of Canada and
ty the Postuaster General, with whow were as-
sociated the Atterneys: General of Nova Seotis
and New Bronewick—New toundiand and Prince
Edward Island wot being represented These
gentlemen remained about three weeks in Wash-
ington. When they arrived, the Secretary of
S ate, Mr. Seward, was absent; but they were
treated with ali courtesy and distinefion by Mr.
McCulloch, the Secretary of the Treasury, and
were placed ia communication with the Com-
mittee on Trade ef the House of Represen-
tativer, at the head of which was Mr. Morrill,
a determined opponent ef the Treaty. Wir
tas Couwmittee they bad several loeetings, ut
which the whole subject was discussed “at
large. Very varly, we believe, st was apparent
that Mr. Morrill controlied the Committee. The
Delegates were informed that no Treaty could be
uegociated, but that the subject might be disposed
of by reciprocal legislation. Though the reason
why a clumsy mede of dealing with the aubject,
liable to annual alteration, was to be substituted
for a permanent arrangement tora definite nam-
her of yearson which merchants and producers
could rely, was net very clearly explained, the
Colomal Delegates entered upon the enquiry,
assuming that the complex and vot the suuple
mode was to beadupted. These discussions were
continued down to Tuesday last; When the very
modest terms upon which the Committee were
‘dhsyosed to treat were finally wade known to the
D-legates, who mmediately closed the negoci-
ation, and lett Washington for their several Pro-
Vinices, tariying yesterday in this city.

We bav> not seen the papers which passed be-
tween the parties ; nor can we state with accuracy

the details of Mr. Morrill's proposition. We be

lieve we are right, however, when we assert that

almost everything coming from the Provinces

—Wheat, Flour, Cattle, Wool, Lumber, Coal,

Fish—were to be taxed in the United States, and

that, in return for the free admission into the

Proviuces of the great staples of this country and

of the cession of the inshore fisheries around 5,000

miles of cuast, the Committee generously offered

to adunt, duty free, into the United States, Fire

wood, Gypsum Unground. Grindstones, and Rays?
Now seeing that Gypsum, the guane of the

South, was never so imperatively required as now

to renovate the Southero plautations—that the

tactoties and machine shops of this country can.

vot de without Nova Scotian grindstenes—and that

the rags imported would go back in the form of

paper, which all the maritime Provinces take

trom New England and New York, these were

Haguaniinous Concessions !
Delegates thought so. * To your teute.O Tsraet !”
was the very natural response of gentlemen, who
telt that the proposition could omy be treated as
return to the bosow of their faméiies.--N. Vork
Albion,

' It is clear thst the

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JAMAICA.

By papers tothe 18:h ult. from Kingston, we
learn that Sir Henry Storks had been inducted
into office, and had called apon the Legislature to
mike provisions tor coupelling the attendance of
witnesses before the Royal Commissioners, and to
facilitate in other ways the enquiry that is pend-
ing. The Assembly, after much animated discuss
sion, in the course of which Me. Gordon's death
was Fligmalged, concurred by a vote of sixteca
to eight. Ttis clear that the temporary suspen-
sion of Governor Eyre, and the proceedings insti-
tuted, have had their effect in the Colonies. The
abject submissiveness of the chastized negro is re-
moved, and in seme districts he declines te work,
imagining, wm the fulinvss of bis Jittle intellect,
that the Imperial Government is devoted to bis
tereste., At home, the publication of a report of the
court-martial that condewned Mr. Gordon bas re-
vived public feeling, and made more bitter and
ye numerous the denunciaters of Governor
yre.

Some uneasiness was felt regarding the
safety of the W. 1. mail steamer Atrato, bavis
on board Mr. Ruasell Gurney, Mr. Maale, a
several neswepop r corre-pondents and lav yers,
attracted to the spot on which all eyes will seoa
be rivetted. She sailed frou Svuthamp‘on at the
height of the terrific gales, in which the London
and many another vessel wae lost.—New lork
Albion.

rT
Au English paper says: We understand that it
is very probable that a new decoration will be in-
stituted immediately. At present the marks of
distinetion given to those whe exhibit gallantry
in the rescne of life from shipwreck are conterred
by private associationsonly, Lt is vew likely that
a national decoration will take the place of these
less iormal tokens of recognition, It will be given
wy Her Majesty's name, and will be in the fomn
of a medal, under the designation of “ The Albert

Medal.”
me mee .

There have doubtiess been erroneous and ex-
aggerated sta‘ements respecting the recent dis-
coveries at Powpeii; but there is ne doubt that
an equestrian statue of great value has been ue-
earthed, and is now in the Museum at N

not yet exposed to public view. It is a statue of
Nero, in bronze. a little over tite size. The Ew-
peror is represenied sitting on a horse without
saddle or stirrups, aud bis right arm is extended
at full length. The face of the figure and the
action are precisely like those of the famous
statue of Marcus Aurelius on at Rowe.

the C.
must have been made a heedon wrton se
the last named statue.

It
to

isting treaty, should be renewed, and the great —
trade

Mr. Stephen Colwell, ot Penusylvaria, and Mr. *
Whoever desires —
to understand the general subject of iuternalaad

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