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CORRESPONDENCE.

LATE BUNOPEAN NEWS.

‘ng SDL LOL LLIN BA PRIMM OO acai

Ay on ae eau yANCr TTY Nepere oe an -\

& TUK EASTERN GURSTION. FRANCE AND NORTH GERMANY.

- a Tn the audience given by the Emperor Na-
CIRCULAR OF TRE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT. poleon on Tuesday to Cou.t Von der Goltz,

A species af B ue-beek has just been published the gap cred te J repre entative of
by the KNussian Geeerament, containing @ series North bab — Coutederation, the KE gag
4 aiitin md ’ >. | Speke as follows - “In notifying to me the
. ' _ menents Spon the Eastern new functions with which you are invested. us
Question. The earlier of these go back as far ae (he represeniative of the Confederation of the

ces of the fi i

the begining et Is66, and among the latest isa North, you renew Che assurat lewd

; circelar addressed to te Riu«dag embassies and Sbip of the King of Prussia. [thank you for it. ;
Iega rome abroad by Prinee Gertechakolf On my prart, Lembrace the opportunity with
7 : pleasure to confirm the g vod nuderstanding

as the [Sih October last hia circular

is fellows;

gecenthy yt
fof you to be the interpreter of my sentiments
to the King. Having been able to appreciate
ithe high qualities which distinguish you, I do

eXisting between the two Governments

“Sr. Perensnrae, Oct. 18.—You are ac-
quainted with the course followed by the Imperial
cabinet in the afluireotthe Bast. You are aware

. that, ae far back as 863, it called the attention |" t poser ar you “on continue as_ rn tesa
. . : }to exert all your efforts to maintain between
daily. In facet, epon the one band the Christian which is the pledge of theit prom army and a
4 populations, seeing the collective action of the | guarantee of the peace ot Europe” Count Von
4 great powers, which had become therr sole guaran. | d Goltz was afterwards received by the
tee, paralyzed by the waut eft ogreement, gradua'- > nypress.
i ly levmt thet: peo an ameloratian in th tate Paris. Taveaspay Nicur.—Upon reeeiving
gad thete confidence in the suppert of l irape ep sehen ay eel ibe car
Upon the ether hand, their desires were raised “hat
Cie Med Wkkdst deeede bi wetriues they saw | 8X okes of the D io omane 8 “iv at the
tree wh elsew heer, 2 1by accomplished facts in! Luileries yesterday ythe Emperor replied ; i
neighborimg countries fhis tweteld current,| 4™ happy to beyiu the vew Vear as lsu il, sur
whieh acted apon these popalations, could net rounded by the represeutatives Of ail the Powers.
fail to reuder their position more paintul and} Ll am abie to ailirm vuce more my constant
theig resignation mere difficult. Partial aed) desire to maintain the best relations with them.
suceessive outbreaks tn Syria, the Lebanon, | [ thank you iur the wishes you have been good
Servia, Bosnia, the Heraegovima, Montenegro, | enowzh na express in their naiwne for France,
dud witiwately ia Candia, had acourred to con-| yy family, and myself.”’ In answer to the
firm eur previsions, and lo altest the tmeninenee | rvs hbishop of Paris, the Emperor replied nih
of a ertate which became po ahh trope by tO ther | of The prayers you address tu heaven for the
more geveral, Nevertheless, our warnings have! ., . i ;
rematmed truitless. When recently the rising in| impress, the Prince Tiny rial, and myselt
Candia revealed the progress of thie movement, affect me deeply. They Spring trom a noble
the Lmperial cabinets repented ite efforts with | eart. I know that you do not separate |
the Purktes) Geeernment and the Great Powers. | eligious interests trom those ot the country
Ir addressed te the cabinets tae invitation te join | and of civilization.”
it iu exhertiag the Porte net to allow that teur-
rection te tuerease, which wight be re-vehoed | FENIAN ALARMS AT WOOWLICH.
throughout the whole of the Chriatian East, and nie Oe
b ‘olind the first apark ef a general conflagration i. At the oul wick vay 8 4 a ol
In anticipating an explosion by wise concessions | UNS prevails 4s ust reported. rom it
: te the complaints ef the Cretans, by granting | formation rece ived by the G vernment, there 1s
: be equitable sufistaction te the demands of the | not the shadow vt au dvubt Dut that tor the
Serviana, reftorms whteh weald assure bearable! prompt action takea on Friday se nuight, a
conditions ut existence te the Sultan's Christian | pizht attack would have been made upon the
subjects, it wae permitted to lope fer an appease-| Arsenal, Round house and East Store, contain-
meut of wen's minds which would leave to time, | ing rifles and Armstrong guns. The intelli-
te the progress of idea, and to the develapment | rence received since shows an increased de-
of tuppgrets the peaceful solution of the social and) toemination oa the part of the Fenians to make
ietiins bis aaa ong Basen lraids on the Government stores in all parts of |
ef the cabinets bas remained inemnplete, and the country where arms and ammunition are
their Ianguage haa net pradeced the desired im.) XCPG and it has been deemed necessary to in
pression pen the Turkiek Governusent. It has) crease rather than ee the precautionary
parsued a course of repression with a rige } measures. Phe Roya! Arsenai continues to be
whieh has only rendered the struggle more ardent, | guarded day and night with troops, with sizuals
pistens mere augry, agreement more difficult.; to be in operation for communicating with the
aud ite partial attempts at conciliation, taking | diderent barracks, where additional reserve
piace at the eleventh beur, ave lost their op) troops are kept armed and accoutred through
portuneness aud eficacy. a ider these circum: | jut ‘the night. The progress of the special
pe aye Bo ag fe atl ne a Tae | constable movement in Woolwich is extraordi-
course was marked out for il by the views go-| “YS and unprecedented. lhe entire civilian
versing the policy of eur august master, of the adalt male population have manirested a un-
traditions of Russia, ber iuterests aaa neighboring | MIMous determination to enrol themselves for
power. ae an European great power, bound up| the maintenance of law and order, and it Is be-
With the repose of the East and the mainteuance | coming an extremely diflicult matter to find a|
the geweral peace. In her opinion, it there | man in Woolwich, Piumstead, or Chariton who
were stil any chawee avertiog imminent com |is not either a special constable or a soldier. | _
4 plications by cowusel addressed to the Turkish | Oy Wednesday the Roval Arsenal presented an
Govergment. that task belonged exclusively to) extraordinary and animated scene on the vc
Lurepe, interpesing its collective suthority be casion of the swearing in of the whole of the
tween the parties at vanaree, and speaking to employees, 9,000 in number, as special con-
them with firmness in unanimous terme It the ee Boe : 7 ,
chance were lost, and the evisia become mevit. | 8O!€s- In addition to the above 3,000 of the |
able, the duty and interest of all were then bownd Woolwich Dockyard workmen have been
t+ cireumscribe it by abstzining from all inter. | Sworn in.
“ veution and presenting it from comprounsing the |
general peace. It was this the Imperial cabinet) THE CLERKENWELL EXPLOSION,
* proposed under date of Now 16, 1566. Some) At the Mansion House, on Wednesday, the
; woong the Great Powers have adhered to its Lord Maror said that the Clerkenwell Rehef

views, the first perven ef thie programme was

fulfilled. The result ia known, The pressing) ~ age ; ine! eulievinan of

and reiterated steps of the Linperial cabimet, and, “4° alleviating ve ep en er dian Ann
: of the government associated with it, fated in the people injured by the explosion, and £3,
the face of the resulutions of the Porte. The| 000 towards repairing the loss and damage ot
private ‘attempte at persuasion exerted by our | furniture and tools owned by persons who
august master during the mission of Fuad Pasha! could but very ill afford to suffer such juss and
tu Livadia met with no greater success. Henee-| inconveninence. The committee had a balance
forth the imperial cabinet considered that nething| of £1,500 in hand. after providing for those
remained save to aequit iteeif of the seeond | oousualties, but fresh claims were being made
portion ef the task reserved to the Powers. This ,
was the ehject of the declaration bad proposed, |
aod which, with these slight verbal alterations
augaested by the cabinet of the Tuileries, and a sees -. wa eroe
ogreed te by the eabinete of Berlin and Florence, POWDER AT FAVERSHAM.
has just been banded te the Porte by their re} The coroner of East Kent bas held an in-
presertatives at Constantiouple. While forward-| quest at Messrs. Hall's oilice, Faversham,
mg the text aw aunexed (already published), I touching the death of eleven unfortunate men
think mt necessary to point out the sense we! wig were literally blown to pieces by the ex-
attaes tov . | plosion which occurred at the powder mills on

“@Wur anguest master desires te release him |) pt ; fos

, Saturday. The relatives of the deceased men
from responsibility tor a eituation of whieh hin) ee e and identify, if
linperial Majesty torsees the perti«, and which ne | “8V® Deen anxious $0 See Sng Wentiny, pos-
has done everything tu avert. He desires to pre- “ :
vent political rivalries trew adding te the already | duthorities, knowing that it would be utterly
serious complications of the Easters question that useless for them to attempt to do so, in kind-
whieh the present situation of Larope affords. It, ness to them refused to allow any to enter the
is Wil this intention bis Imperial Majesty bas sbed in which the remains were deposited, for
laid down the principle ef nenoatervention, which nothing could ever obliterate from their minds

Committee had already dispensed £1,500 to-

ee

upon them daily.

THE TERRIBLE EXPLOSION OF GUN-

7 ice ai each ae we nie seen aie ar le in. ncaa easel tama nla em ARE ts A at

speeted by the other Powers. This principle,
} however, can in ne case imply ind:ff-rence. We
are wnable, any more than the cabinets which
have assectated themeelves with us, to renounce
the generous umiscien their mn-
pose upon the Great Powers upen occasions . . :
where humanity tenders ita law. For the same!) been In the enjoyment of the full ur
reaen, while abstaining tram all isolated action | manhood and the sole support of as many
which would aggravate the complications existing wives and families. Of these only one re
in the East, the Imperial cabmet will always be! tained the resemblance of humanity, and that
ready te concur in an European agreement for! body w as so blackenedand disfi sureil that even
the object of setting them It \s firmly convinced | the men who had worked in the factory for
thas such an agreement could oniy have tor its | years, and knew all the unfortunate fellows
aim & work of jusuee, worthy of Christan powers, | well, could not form the least idea to whom the
coutormmable te lke general interests of peace and , iy lend uaa TheC op daid that ‘the
civiligstion, befure which all political rivalry and | 20CF D@monged.—*he Norone had c " “
all exetasive views ought to disappear | names of the eleven men who had come to so

itself. In aheap in the centre ef the shed
lay a mangled heap of human flesh, so charred
ind shattered as to render it almost impossible

aoteciones tu bring the mind to believe that it represented
eieveln menu,
vie

ol

Fie © You will be good enough to express yourself witimely on end ware John Young, aged 425
bi in this sedse toward the Government to which | Edward Young, 455 George Taylor, 67;
| you ave averedited. Receive, &e | William Sole, 41; Christopher John Cole, 30;
cg “ GoRTSCHAKOFF.” | Thomas Bladock, 27; William Austin, 35;
A! a oe - | William Eley, 37; John Payne, 39; Thomas
ie SufPwWReck AND Loss of Lire.—The Sehr.) Back, 29; and Tiomas Amos, 40. The cause
Susan, Capt’ MeKeane, fren Little Glace Bay,! of the explosion is not known, nor 1s it likely
&. B, for Halifax with a cargo of coal, wae totai j any information on the subject ean be obtained,
ly weeeke d at Louisburg, oo the night of Satur. but there is no doubt of it being an accident.
day, the 2eth ult, and, sad to relate, all hands
periehed. The names ot the crew are as tollows: | : rQQINTAN RYPRENIT =
3 Albert McKeaiie, of St. Mary's, captain; Jobn | THE ABY SSINIAN vine yt -
; Drisecll, Halilas. wate: L ideay Susith, ot | Api Ny Dec. 20.—The i vead of the secon¢
we Chester, Henry Eleenhaur, of Ship Harbor, and| brigade is expected to arrive here to morrow
fy | Samuel Maloue, of Halifax, seamen; Thomas Phe Seinde horse and the Bengal brigade will
eee hh Lewhy, Newfoundland, cook ‘The Susan was 74/ arrive between the end of December and the
a tons register, was built at Sheet Harver in 15845,/ middle of January. Transports with the postal
; and owned by Capt. Lang of this city. On the and telegraph staff, the commissnriat, the
~“ fame night the schooner Julia, Capt. Edward ordnanee, and other stores are passing daily
Fenton, from Sydury ter Halttax with & cargo ot) en route for Abyssinia. H M.S. Star is en-
ie coal, was wreeked at Liscomb, Guysborough Co , | 4
y. crew saved, The Julia was 99 tune register.| Cit Tie survey is approaching completion.

belt at Clementeport in e514, and owned by
Messrs. Ro Noble & Sous and Capt. Fenton. The
cargo was fully insured, but there was ouly $1,-
000 on Ue vessel.

| The report that the Ezyptian authorities there
| had received a letter announcing that the cap-
tives chains had been taken off, and that there
was every chance of their speedy release, are
considered probabie here. Intelligence from
Senafe to the 11th inst., states that the health
and spirits of the troops were excelient. The
mortality among the horses continued. Tne
3rd Cavalry regiment had lost upwards of 150
horses. The weather was very cold. The ad-
vance brigade was to remain at Senafe until
the arrival of Sir Robert Napier. It is report-
ed that the chief of Shoa had surrendered
Magdala.

—_ ——<—Po —- —
Tue OFLy ALTERNATIVE.— Lord Stanley in-

A fiste upon it that the late ee-called Coniederate
States were entitled to the belligerect right of a

separate nationality and there he stands. Mr.

Seward jusiets that said states were nothing wore

than a deagee of insurgents, and that they had no

shadow of right de avy belligerent mghts under

' the daw of tations, aod there Le stands. What,
thom, is te be done? Clearly, the only alterna

tive left our government ie te cut the Gordion

hoot in the Jacksonian titweatum of indemutty |

* - oo grits cash or the Canadas.—N. Y.| Bomuar, Dee. 14, via Taresre.—The second
’ as |

iat ‘ | brigade of the field force leave Bombay imme-

In a lecture on newspapers, delivered in Phila-|‘liately, under Brigadier Welly. The
deiphia, by Rev. Dew iit Talmadge, be said: brigade consisting of H. M) 45th and the 2ud
“LT now declare that L consider the Dewepaper Native Infantry Regimer fs, follow in the
te be the grand agency by whieh the gospel ix) Course of the week, A transport is now under
preached, guerance east out, oppression dethron-| orders to sail for Vingorla to embark 518
‘ime extirpated, the woild raieed, heaven | native infantry, congtituting part of the Sth
rejoiced, and God glorified [lu the elauking of | brigade.
the printing prese. as sheete fly out, I hear the! of the 3rd and 4th brigades from Bengal are
Lord Almighty praelsiming to all the dead na-theing rapidly pushed forward. Sir Robert
tons of the earth, ‘Lazarus come forth, aud te!) Napier and his staff sail in afew days. Twenty
be aa surges of darkness ‘let there be}. io hans were embarked on the 7th inst., for
ight!

ed, ¢

—— i Cte
Mr. Spurgeon recently tuld his hearers that if|
some of them stayed at home on week days!
ty uaind the '
to perecuin:
bankrupt. Ho also advised hin female devotees
to stay at home “darnivg” their husband's}
ly, instead of tho king to!
ua ¢XcuMement.
eo F
See te it, all ve nice young
W ben Corns sour feet corrode,
That Grace's Salve yor surely get
Aud take to your abod ’
If well applied, there ae ne -diwht
But what it will the owisance reut.

The latest news received here con
cerning the expedition is of a very cheering
business, instead of running abou | character. The dificalties in the way of an
ladvance were gradually disappearisy, and it
had been decided that the expeditionary force
should enter Abyssinia by she Sooros Pass to
Senafe. Netwithetanding the number of mules
sent from Arabia, Persia, the Mediterranea
jand elsewhere, there not available more than
one-third of the number actually required — It
8 beliewed that efforts will consequently he
made to find them in Abyssinia iteeif. Not
withstanding the efficiency of the Sappers, it is
doubtfal whether any wheeled carriages ean be
taken up the torrent beds, which are the only

on | highways into Abyssinia.

Johnston's Anodyne Liniment ie the most de-| | 5 4

servedly popular medicine of the present day. Its!
teefulloess ie net hunted te ay People or eeet .—
but tis used alike by the rich and the poor, the
educated aud the iguorant. '

| follow.

ite

chappels, fe wer would become
stockings occasions
tudulge iu a little rv

ory
“,

Catcurtra, Dec. 7, cia Trreste.—The 23rd
Punjaub Pioneers have embarked for Abyssinia.
Prior to their embarkation they were inspected
by the Viceroy, who addressed them The
. | rest of the Bengal brigade is awaiting otders tu
The only thing suved frosm the yeneral des-|embark, The transports are all uearly pre-
was the dress of the ghost in “‘ Dou Giovanni.” | 2¥ Steamers.

ik ia ates rr 7 | The traces of the late cyclone are fast dis
im Stated tual

—. a . oo one ° bs
a ig Thoroughfare * by Clas. Dicker and Wilkie! is aot so great as was anticipated Ahove
i Collins, bave been seid iu bo, anu.
o.
%

sland helped to work se tiuch mischief in India— |

sible, the remains of their friends ; but the |

4 ae Oaerve , al . . j
he ready to ooserve eo long ae it ahall be re- the shocking spectacle which there presented

who had only two days previously |

third |

The preparations for the departure |

| Abyssinia, and an equal number ‘will soon)

|

“ d i é iduced and vilified the mau
540,000 copies of “ No appearing, and the distress resulting therefrom |, d ‘
‘it Was notin my pewer to rexch.

lincluding the Government grant. The ex-
ne iy Of Oude is now endeavouring to investi.
and elear off his debts.
jot the Siam and Casserim frontier has been
leompleted. ‘The treaty concluded by Colonel

| prute

the | Fyiche, with the Government of Burmah, was |

ratified by the Viceroy on the 26th alt. The
King of Burmae has assented tu the despatch
fanexploring party to Western China via

Bharao, and has issued an edict to vive it every

sus istanve.

of the party.

Captain Sladen ts appointed leader

FURTHER FROM Tike ABYSSINIAN EXPE
DLTION—AN EMBARRASSING ALLY. |
'( Army Correspondence of London Times of |
Dec. 24.)
The Egyptians have vot only mustered 3,000)

i fresh troops at Massowah, but have actually taken
j upon themselves to send a message to Theodore, |
warning bim that if he does net give ap the eap- |
tives, they tntend toe join in our expedition, and
otherwise give usiall the aid) at their com |
Thev are further g te send to this |
neighborhboud ten which they
itely off ho any uu
ber of tre peand g All this ceurtsey trom a
beloved ally may

mand Ae

+

frigates, Ost pe
r te place at our disposal, wit
Nhs
t be very gralily-
; If aj
notion that the Eeyptians are going to help us, |
ne general credeuee in Aby un

luckily the muster of treops at Massewah and |
the arrival of a naval equadron will give it color. |
‘ing—we may find ourselves engaged ina national |
and religious war, as desperate as seml-savage
patriots and fanatics can make it, in lieu of the
comparatively easy task fo hunt dewn one out-|
lawed and hated leader overmatched by power.

tul foes. The very name of Egyptian stinks in

usty and well

ing. but just now itis very embarrassing

rains ssinia—and

Abyssinian nostrils; and Theodore could wish| motion, I feel fully assured that your inherent | Fenianism does not simply aim at the redress | more

nothing werse for ourown, or better for his, than |
the assistance our kind ates are offering us,
. * * * *.
Massowah is full of Abyssinians, some of them |
messengers recently arrived from Magdala, Debra
Pabor, and other places in the heart of the country,
jand their report is that the people have a notion

! '
}—the netion which has given us se much trouble

|

that the English are commg With an army te}

}

jmake them proseiytes by the sword, to do by
force what the tuissionaries have failed toe do by |
persuasion. ‘The nation has not, even after the |
lapse of two centuries, forgotten the cruel perse- |
leution of the Portugese bigots, and this netion,
iow, perhaps, but a vague suspicion, would be at
ence converted into certainty of conviction it the
fanatical followers of Mehomed came wie the
cotntry with us as our fellow soldiers and allies.
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Jan. 9 —Very late ad-
i views from Col. Mereweather of the British Abys

lsinian expedition have been received here,
conveying the rather important intelligence that

bands of nalives, supposed to be fHostie, Were]
prowling around the English Camp at Senate
In conse quence of this manifestation orders were |
issued ter all the Eure pean troops temporarily }
stationed at Annesley Bay and the different points

(along the line of march trow there to the interior |
to advance to the trout aud join the headquarter
division at Seuape.

—e_
|

——s Che =~ Gramier.

ON or ee nee |

SIREN RN RIN ERR RRR PR EERE

| Charlottetown, January 27, 1868.

Hast thou killed, and ulso taken possession ?

1 Kings, ch. xxt., v. 19th.
THE APPROACHING ELECTION FOR
THE SECOND DISTRICT OF KING’S!

COUNTY.

t

| Mr. Edward Reilly having vacated his seat
in the Assembly by his acceptance of the office
{ot Queen's Printer, is nuw again a candidate |
for the suffrages of “the free and independent
of the Second District ef King’s

County, in the hope that they will again be in-

electors’

duced to elect him as their leyisiative repre-

sentative in the lower branch of the Legislature;
and, until quite recently, as there had been no

mention of any intended opposition to * his

| claims’? — whatever these may be —io that

honor, his hope of
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his Own ODS

. ! ‘
re-€ieci

n, as appears by
rvations respec ting it, had grown
into certainty. It now seems, however, that,
on that head, he bad been reckoning without

his host, for many of those who, formerly

under the influence of false impressions, |
save him their support, having, in consequence |

vf a late mournful event, been led seriously to|

investigate the grounds on which alone he can

base his pretensions to the honor he covets,

jhave discovered that these, imstead of being |

such as ought to entitle him to it, are in fact!

precisely such as should call forth from the

whole Qonstituency nothing but feelings of the

most indignant conte inpt for his presamption.
In consequence of this opening of eyes and

revulsion of feeling, a goodly number of the
eiectors—— men of substance, of influential

positions, and of unquestionable intezrity —|

| having cast about them to see whether there
uy
jeould not be found among themselves any in|

|dividual worthy of the honor of representing |

|

the District inthe Assembly, have pitched upon

Mr. James KR. McEwex — one of many resi-
(dent within its bounds possessed of these grand |
essentials of a parliamentary representative ot
the people —integrity of principle, love of |
|country and honest indepeudence —- and having

j

expressed to him their belief that he is a fit| Fietcher, however, for good and sufficient | out the country, be fairly banished from it

The settlement |

| that there is,

| divect crook’d means”

; any

| tore

} —and

and yet with the most bitter and per-

!
| called,
shtent maliguity, haraased, thwarted, and lit

| er-

ally hurried into bis grave @ tan whose only|

offence against me was his beiug, mi every

respect, immeasurably my Superior.

after having thus yot id of him, I have |
aled triamph,

not, inthe momentof my ill-conce

through the naked ailectation of eurogium,

coupled with foul and insidious detraction,

|dared to insult hig memory and outrage the

feelings of his bereaved and mourning friends.
And neither, as if to attain Che very summit of
baseness and wickedness, have I, after having
killed, taken possession. I have not been ac-
cessory to the death of a husband and a father;
and then seized upon what ought to have been

t

the son. Now, gentlemen, in declaring that I
am not a man who has been guilty of such
moral « big ‘ities as these, I beg you will ob-|
serve that I do not positively say either that,

there is such aman, or that, even admitting

he

have or are likely to have any immediate con-

is one with whom you eithe
.

nexion. But this I will say, that, should any

such man—you having full knowledge of his

being so—peresume in his eager desire for the

emoluments of office and the outward honor of

position to solicit your suifrages for his pro-| they have, however, had no just conception, | Land Questions both happily settled, son

love of honor, justice,and integrity, your natural |

abhorrence of falsehood, meanness, and maligni
ty, would induce youto give him such evidence

of your detestation of his principles and

practices as, though it might fail to eradicate |

jhis natural depravity, would yet render him,

for the future, less confident of the efficiency

lof wicked machinations, however cunningly

devised and speciously practis d: and force

upon his mind the conviction, however slow
is unquestionably at altimes, the best policy,
andunwilling he might be to adinit it, that honesty
and the surest means of obtaining permanent
life.

success and elevation in Now, gentle-

men, I have done. You have a full know-

ledze of my worth, if in your estimation I have |

any, as well as of my defects; and if,

ito the one, in despite of the drawback of the

’ ’
other, you choose to do me the houor toe elect

me, I can confidently promise you that I shall |

ever be foaud faithful to your interests aud

those of the people at large.

With the peculiar resources of Mr. Rielly’s| As respects that majority, it is justly observed | disappear; abuses would be corrected ; wrongs

And, |

he dower of the widow and the patrimony of |

trusting |

‘community any individuals who sympathize
| with the perpetrators of the recent most dia-
bolical Fenian outrages which have occurred
There is not, we are certain,
honest-

lin England.
at

either home or abroad, a single
hearted Irishman who has heard of these ew
ormities that does not feel the utmost abhor
of What we

the greater part of the Irish amongst us,

rence them. meau is this: that

having as immigrants, brought with them, or
‘as having been born here of Irish parents,
having inherited, not only a strong and tender |

l attachment to the soil of Old Ireland, but an
}

lalmost inextinguishable aversion to the Gov-|
leruament which they believe, and not without)

abundant reason, to have ruled through cen-

!
turies, disastrously tor their Father Land, on

becoming aware that preparations otf a most

imposing character were being made for the

liberation of their native soil from the domin

of |

the

| ion 4“ stranver’’ have, as under such

circumstances is most natural, rejoiced in heart
at the new-born hope of the r alization of their |
country’s independence; and have, perhaps, |

jsecretly, but earnestly, prayed that success

might crown the enterprise.
| Or the real objects of the Fenian organiza-
|tion and of the true characters of its leaders, |

of grievances; it contemplates the subversion

of all existing institutions; it aims at the over- |

throw of public order and the peace of society. |

There is a wide dillerence between their desizns

and that which was the aim of the great agitator,

Daniel O'Connell. He was loyal to the throne, |

steadfast in his attachment to the Coustitution, |

and the material instrument or mere physical |
- “ > rf j
‘force he held in abhorrence. What he sought

to accom and

jan Trish Parliament, whereby it was his belie!

plish was a repeal of the umn,

| all the wrongs of Lreland would be redressed
}and the couutry raised to an exalted deyree of

| prosperity. What the Fenians wish is to es-|

tablish a Republic after the American fashion |
in the place of the existing monarchy, get rid
4]

Mui

te

of the Church as a costly super y, and

‘divide the land in such a manner as might
seem good to themselves. Agreeable, howerer, |
as all this might be to the individuals engag: d|
lin effecting it, there is a vast majority of the!

[rish people to whom it would not be agreeable.

are those who will te!! us that it

way, and there
qd, for my part, heliere

is hostile to religion.

t th i” rer was, or eer will be, hostilk ta : _'.
that no me bi but let me | *Wore that the package containing the

religion which is agre cable to justice ,
coummend this subject to your deep, earnest, and

serious reflection, for, rely upou it, you have yot |}

\

this betore you; itfa es You, B Cour its YOUs | that he delivered the M
stops you ia the way, it wil pursue you 4 her

you Ireland is ut
videuce has piace d ier there; law and jeyisia

ture have madi

evel vo youl

must face these obligations, you naust dea! with
| ther aud discharge them, :
viving effect to this principle, I don’t enter |
I am of opinion they should be
| dictated, asa general rule, by that which may
appear to be the mature, well-cousidered, and |
but, us to}

upon them,

yeneral sense of the Irish people.
the principe itsell, J entertain a depth of con-
viction in regard te it, and a strength of assur-
ance that it will come up aud meet us at every

»ofeour future progress until we have dealt

iin uw presence, but urges me a.ain l

iva 110 bey you to lay to heart the considera

i tions that are conuects d with the complete and

effectual settlement of this great and pressii

! (Quest ey

In these sentiments, must heartily do we con-
cur; and most sincerely do we wish that they
may find such liberal aud enlizhtened accept-
the

speediiy lead to their practical adoption.

ance in Imperial Parliament as may

a compact between you; you

As to the modes of

tte

| and addressed to the cashier of the
Bank, who reeeived the letter of advice,
ithe remittance. Some of the Pitts’

- - ™

but nut

w
/was caretully Hed up with the Summerside lettent
jputintoe the bag tor that office, and kecurely ted
and sealed in the presence of Mr Land who eaid
ail Bag to Mrs. Crably ag
he bad receiwed it. Evidence was alan
lo show that the Post Office at Summerside Was
conducted generally in a lovw and careless
manwer, but we think this part of the case wag
bot very stong. A geod deal, too, was made both
in the diveet and cross examinations of the tact
that the Post Odice was beld in or adj “ining the
Bar Room, with the same entrance to both. Be.
fore the present loss eceurred, a separate entrances
was provided tor the publie, though the Post
Master titosell eaters (he office through the bar
room as formerly, On the occasion when it was
alleged the money was lost, the Steawer reached
)Sununerside seme time atter widoight. Jt was in
‘evidence stated that Mrs. Crabb reeeived the
Maiistrom Mr, Lund, put them into the office, lock.
ed the deur, and look the key up stairs inty her bed
room, Where ber sou George found it when coming
,dewn at six in the morning to epen the Maile,
On taking up the bag he neticed that it looked
as it ithad beew intertered with, and he went at
onee aud asked bis mother it she opened it, le
Which she replied thet she bad not. The defend.
ants counsel ably coutended that when delivered
linto the Summerside office, every dilyenee and
j precaution which the law required for the tule
keeping of the mal bay had been used, and that
this being the case if the money reached the office,
jand war stolen therefroo: on the nigh? in qvestion,
| the detendant was net hable for damages, Jt ”

Sill, however, were the Lrish Church and | but justice to Mr. wid Mrs Crabb to eay that ang

would be required to give entire satis!

ac
see it suyyvest-
World

orld,

,
the sending oi

tion to Iveland; but that, as we

} \

ed in a late number of the News of t/

tie
Iniy hit e wily be accom pt ihe |

IP [reland—to hold th.

oy

a Royal Price to live in

| Court there, as representative of his illustrious
parent, bring Protestants and Catholics into
happy association, patronise an opera, en

couraze the native arts (and there are arts oi

exce!) make Ireland, in fact, what England is

, : 1 | !
music, oration, in which the

—a Royal place; and the agents of sedition:

would be at once and for ever discombted.
Tu such case, if the Prince (Prince Arthur, the
Queen's third son, is meant) should happen t
bestow his atfections upon an Irish lady, and
whatis there that
should cause the banns to be forbidden? The fair

;

descendant Of some preat oid irish King would

ainount of sympathy and
( ; uf t . 7 nere

\l [reland would re-

bring a wonderful

heart allegiance tu the would
be no ery for Separation ; a

joice in the Union;

v
o

mind and the extent of his inventive powers— | that they do not want a change in the form of] redressed; and no grim Transatlantic adven

° " ogo 3" | he ¢ » j 2
well as we know * by what bye-paths and in-| Goverment; they are loyal to the throne, | turers would be able to disturb the

he «ttained his present

position—we have so little acquaintance that

it would be wholly in vain for us to attempt, as

we
anticipatory ‘deliverance of himself’’ be-
the electors.
the

o!

matter entirely in his own hands; merely

serving that his position on that occasion

will bear a striking resemblance to that of|

Richard, Duke of York, waen seeking to cajole |

the populace of London into a seeming thrust-

ing the ill deserved powers aud hover of royal-

ty upon him; and whom, we think, we might

with but littie impropriety call his prototype.
Like Richard, he

venturous; and it would by no

is subtle, sly, and bold
means
surprise us if, through the persistent exercise
of these qualities, he were to secure his re-
But should

he do so, it would be well for him to remember

election as he first accomplished it.

that though craft and malizgnity may prosper
and work their will for a season, as they did

with Richard of England and Haman the

Agagite, yet, as with these preemineutly

wicked, and, for a time preeminently success-

| ful hypoerites, a period almost invariably ar-

rives when signal punishment, although it may

have been long delayed, falls upon them with
af

irresistible power and the moct crushing weizht. |

We have now only two additional remarks to
make. These, however, respect two points,
concerning which, we think, it behoves us to
speak out freely and distinctly.

The first respects Mr. J. H. Fletc!

would have bee iia

. .
time thought

it was at one
candidate for the vacancy iestion, and who

it

we say without the most distant

thouvht of inany way de tracting from the worth
of Mr. McHwen—as having been, in a con

siderable degree inured to the brunt of

|
political storms, as having thereby acquired |
as much ‘cunning in fence’? as can be}

possessed by Mr. Rielly and as being a man
** Who, steady to his country’s claim,
Has boldly stood in Freedom's name,

E’en to the teeth of tyrant Pride,

And all its tyraut power delied— |

|

would have been better armed than Mr. McEwen

Mr. |

to run the election agaist Mr. Rielly.

have done with respect to Mr. McEwen, |

We shall, therefore, leave |

and |

vreally |

| across the Atlantic, but to induce him to re-

ee |
j}and they feel their account in it; the destruc: |
jtion of the tie that binds the two islands toze-|

ther would produce an annoyavce to England ; |
but it would be death to the industry of Ireland.

The first to suffer would be the dupes who |

are doing the work of unseen Fenian leaders.

The next session of the British Parliament,

it is believed, will be enturely devoted to the |
affairs of Iveland; and it can not but be the |
hope of every lover of both Ireland aud Britain
that every thing possible to stutesmeuship and |

wise and enlightened legislation will speedily |

be effected, in order to allay present discontent

land hatred, and render the union of mutual)

|

interest and affection to both countries.

The “Irish Diiliculty,” we apprehend, will |
be found to be chiefly in the Irish Church, ** as |
|
fhe English papers express a hope that Lord |

I by law established,” and the Laud Tenures.

Derby aud his colleagues may hit upon a happy
mode of terminating the strife with satisfaction
to both sides; but, at the same time, they
rest

admit there is small ground for hope to

upon. Auy proposal, it is said, that would
imply the surrender of the land in perpetuity to

Ils occupants would be vehemently opposed by

the proprietary; and the two millions of Pro-|

testants in Ireland would be very much inclined
to dispute the correctness of the surrender ot

ithe Church Establishment.

| uppears to us that Mr. Bright’s is the most
| feasible plan that can be devised for its solution.
It scarcely, if at all, ditfer$ from that of out
own Land Purehase Act. He proposes a
Parliamentary Commission, to buy large es-
tates, and to sell them to existing tenants.
sum of £5,000,000, he says, would secure some

|large estates, and the process of creating |

‘farmers owners of farms’? would begin and |
go on rapidly. “The object,’ he further re- |
-

marks, “is to convince every Jrishman now in

. : . ry oe!
main a contented dweller on his own soil.

fidence may be!

By this means, he think:, confi
restored to Ireland, and the despair and dis-

loyalty, which so extensively prevail through-

land proper person to fill the vacancy in the | reasons, has declined to be put in nomination;; To do this would, however, require a com-

llevislative representation of the District, and| but bis valuable experience, activyy, and pulsory Act; but we do not think that the! :
P t ’ | use charred wood tor wood thal was not 6harred,

deciared their determination to endeavour by | 'esources, will, we doubt not, be honorably! British Parliament, with its present earnest de-| 4. gubstrute shingles tor clapboarda,

levery fair and honorable means to effect his

jreturn, he bas agreed to allow himself to be put
lin nomination, and has issued his Address ac-|
cordingly.
This Address, like the man himself, is ~)

pretending, free from every thing like bombast
jor cajolery. It is the language of a ada!

employed in support of Mr. Mciwen.

The other respects what we are given to

) &8 an
Accoid

ing to Our information, he is endeavoring to
. . . |
persuade the electors that the office of Queen’s |

Printer was forced upon him by the Govern

understand is being had recourse t

electioneering dudze, by Mr. Reilly.

gaged in lighting and buoying the Abyssinian | honest, and earnest man — addressed to those ment—said we not well that he scems to have| great majority of the Scottish people has been
| who know him well, and upon whom it would! taken Richard the Third of Englane for his recognized. When a diilerence of the kind)

|

sire to redress the grievances of Ireland, would
hesitate to have recourse to such a measure. |

And, as respects the Church Quesiion, we |
are of opiuion, with Mr. Giadstone, that it ean |
j

be reasonably and equitably settled in no other |
3 |

way than by recoguzing the religion of the| Young and EJ. Huagson. The case ot E jJobu Haszard ws, the Charlottetown
| Weatherbe vcs. James Wisener, was taken up on | #urance Company, was called. At the close of the

great majority of the Irish people, as that of the

i

be as vain for him to attempt imposition as it prototype?—and moreover, that, either as arose between the English, as Episcopalian |

|

| woul

|own nature to practise it if in his power.

}

| cannot pretend to divine; but should his speech

d be repugnant to the truth:uluess of his; bound to it by the Government, or of his own) Protestants, and the Scotch, as Pres

| What it may be his pleasure tosay to the as- | Whelan one half the profits of the office. We their own way ; and that allowance
sembled electors on the Nomination Day, we have ouly time wid space to say, of this report about so happy and peaceable a state of things and 1866,and which the Government refused to

—that, if Mr. Reilly is acting in the manner

}

byterian

has brought |

in Scotland that scarcely any reasonable man

| be conceived in something like the following | stated by it, he seems bent upon pursuing to} would wish to disturb or undo it. In Ireiand

style,
ltruthful and effective :—
| Gentlemen,—You are all well acquamted

iwith me. You have a thorough knowledge |
nut only of my presennt position but of all my

antecedents. Iam, in every respect, one of

Yourselves. J was born, brought up, and final- |

yestablished amoung you. All my worldly in-|
terests are identified in your own. Il, there- |

fore, through your suffrages, | become a public

man, in regard fur my own interest you will|

have the best security of my regard for yours.

. . )
| most certainly am neither an accomplished

|scholar nor a gifted orator. I am nothing but}

a plain, blunt man who loves his friends and|

country. Sull, however, [ possess sufficient

ability, coupled with a sufficient knowledge of |
the general state aud wants of the country, aud |
. to enable

me—as it shall, at all times, be my study and|

especially of those of this Distric
|
jaim to do, if elected one of your parliamen-
tary representatives—to deal with every ques-
tion of geueral or particular policy in such a
way as may be justified at once by the evidence
of facts, the verdict of common sense, and the
approval of honesty. My simple ambition has

been honestly to increase my store, and tu bring

up my children in the paths of subviety, recti
tude, and usefuluess. I have always lived quiet- |
ily amoug you, injuring no one either by word |
or deed. I have never sought to elevate my-|
self by the depression of another. I have never, |

traction atthe Haymarket Dbeatre in London! pared to sail. The chief part will be towed ‘through the influeuces of an envious, malig-| lezislation as respects Ireland.

| want, and fieodish spirit, misrepresented, tra-|
whose excelleace

|
[have not, |

| fact that, after a rule over Ireland by England

| thing but a union of heart and Spirit between the

| meuts, with respect to Ireland, has undergone

tices which have given him his most question: |

able postion; und that, his assertions, as res-|

pects both particulars, are altogether false, |

and can most easily be proved to be so.

FENIANISM AND THE IRISH DIFFI
CULTY.

Ix our Island community there may perhaps
be two or three Fenians—not more, we should
think, ifso many. But, at the same time, the
fact is not to be disguised that there are many |
Fenian sympathizeis amongst us; and we are |
uot surprised at it, the general impression

among such men concerning the principles and

| object of that oryanization being ofa very vague |

and erroneous character.
These sympathizers—at least the better-in-
formed aud more intelligent portion of them—

have their minds deeply impressed with the
of six hundred years, the result has been any-

two peoples; and, at the same time, they ignore
this other fact, that, in the course of the last
.

forty or fifty years, the policy of British Goy-

great improvements, that civil rights have

been extended, odious penalties have been re-|
moved, religious distinctions which formerly |
existed have been effaced, and a better and}

inilder spirit has taken possession of British

When we say there are many Fenian sympa-

| thizers amongst us, we wish it to be elearly

understood that we are very far indeed from

, £14,000 has been raised to relieve the sufferers, without any provvcation,w hich could be justly so meaning that there are to be found in our

endowments of the country are given exclusively
jwimongst themselves almost the whole wealth

of the country are left to shift for themselves.

| ult.—** we would notendure that in our country

we are of opinion that it would be at ouce | the end the same crooked and nefarious prac-! an opposite rule has been adopted; a small

|
portion of the people are members of the Epis: |
copalian Protestant Church, and the natucal|

|

to the religion of that small number, comprising

of the country, while the multitude of the poor

Was ever religious inequality exhibited in a
more glaring fourm? or, was ever any species
To the

country which has imposed and sustained it, it

of tyrauny more galling or unjust?

is disgraceful in the extreme; aud it is scarcely
too much to say that it is almest equally so to
the people who have so long eudured it. |
‘“‘Now, gentlemen,’ said Mr. Gladstone, in
the speech to which we advert—a speech madk
to his constituents at S yuthp Mt, on the 19th,

If there were a Roman Catholie country, with
a dominant Roman Catholic majority, endea |
vouring to enforce upon us the simple converse
ef that which we entorce upon Ireland, to apply
against us the principle which we now apply
acaiust them, | ask you whether we should pa-|
tiently bear or not? No, gentlemen, we should
not bearit. We may, perhaps, by some practices
in the methods aud expedients of polities, show
a greater aptitude than our Irish biethren in|
choosing out for ourselves effectual ways and
means in applying a remedy to the evil, but if

) that evil had been felt: by us as it has been felt

by them, a remedy in one shape or another!
should and would have applied and done it long
ago. Now, gentlemen, I must express my
firm conviction that principles of relizion must
be established in Ireland, and that it is in vain

1 .
}to look to a true nuion and harmony between

that country and this, until the Legislature of
the country shall have made up its inind to
govern 30 as to attain that great consumma-
tion. Itmay involve 2 sacrilive of our pride,

there may be difliculties to encounter ou the

iwhich w

te put of tbe trial til wext Lerim,

jlads against wliom

| for the Government in his official capacity

ispectably counected, stuted bis own case

peace,

his suggestion, lightly as it is made, is one

}

dai

tion of the
is there in it to recommend its aduption, that

lisa Government; aud, sv uch

we should not be at all surprised 10 see it

j speedily and Happy earried into etlect——s0 lar

al least as respects its list slayes.

$$$ ———

SUPREME COURT.

Frew the Pairivt of Thursday.

On Weduesday,
ian in the empioy of W
pasd, indicted tot
longing to bis eaiployer, was tried and touwnd
giuilly. lu the case of the Summerside Burk, rs
Phowae Crabb, the Court refused the application

Denald Melitesh, a servant
Kiaian, Eeq., of Cra

stealng suvdry arlicies be

Was taken (to the juvat wm ibe defendant's afhda
vit, Which stated that the affidavit was sworn to
at Chariotteiowa, bul did not sel oul that Char
lottetowa was in Queen's County. ‘This objee-
tion being aflerwards waived, teave lo amend
was moved for on the part of the defendant, but
was refused on the ground that witness, defend
wit’s son, was, lu his father’s kKuewledge, living
New Hampshire, U. 8, ana
been sent for ib time ter the trial

, je
Portsmouth,

might buve

| besides, in a Case Where there Was stispicion thal

the application Was inade fer the purpose of de

lay, the applicant should disclose the nature ef the
} evidence which the abseut witness could testily,

in order to get bis case postponed Ou Thure-
day, Thomas Fennessey and James Kelly, Iwo
been towmnd, were put Gpou their trial and ae-
guitted. The prinespal wituess against them was

fa youth named MeLeod, an accomplice, who

turned Queen's evidence. For the Crown, the
Attorney wad Solicitor General; for the prisoners
C. Palwer.

Ou the evening of the same day, the case of
Michael Trayoor, vs. tbe Loedon and Lancasbiie
Fire |
the Whole of

cover the sum of £120

tae

Friday

4 Ourpal ‘, Ci on, atid ecelp ea
‘This Was ap action lo re

netted on a be-
Plawtiti, which was partially de-
stroyed by fire im Mareb, 1obo. When notified
of the loss, instead of payiug the amount of the
pohey, the agent had the building repaired at th
Company's expense. ‘Traynor refused to accepi
the house as repaired, ou the plea that ib Was pot
equal in all respects to the ove partially burnt
Evidence was adduced cn the part of the Plain-
uff, that the repairs were done in a slovenly and
uuworkmaulike style, iat some of the burnt logs
were leit in the building, that vew ones were

hhotiae

loging to the

{the land that we do not intend to drive him! placed over them, that the space between the new
}and burnt logs was five or six inches wide, and

the shingles were roughly put on, that dayhght

could be seen threugh them i several places, and

thal the window eashes were not

is, We
Pie detemce was that, two years a ileeysiced
wus in every way better than origi
nalone, which was twenly-six year® and
with the land had enly cost £50. The Court
held that in choosing lo repair a building partial. |
ly consumed by fire, rather than pay the amount |
insured thereon, au Lusurance Company eould not

Hotise

Betove
undertaking the repairs, the Company must know
that in inany particulars they would have to re-
place vld with uew material. but they could not |
thrust upon the insured a bouse in any respect |
Inferior to the one he had lost. Verdiet for the |
Plainuth £120. For the Plaintiff. E. Palmer, J |
Hensley and J. Longworth; for the Company, C. |

}

Saturday. After examining some of the Plain-|

| Uifl's witnesses, the deit, contessed judgment tor claimed by the plaintul.

£17 10s. in ove suit, and nominal damages (1s ) |
in the other, In the afternoon, Edward Palmer, |
cs. the Goverument, was called tor trial. This!
was an @eticn brought by the Plaintiff to recover |

free will and generous accord, he allows Mrs.| Protestants, the Scotch were allowed to have | #¢ #meunt of an account for drawing contracts |

for building and repairmg wharves, bridges and |
certain other public works in the years 1864, 1505,
|
pay on the plea that these services formed part |
ot Mr. Palwer'’s duties as Atturaey General, and

were covered by bis salary. This was denied by

the counsel tor the Plainiiff, who quoted the Sta- |
tute in Which the duties of the Attorney General |
are enumerated to be Crown prosecutions, give!
opinions, to put arginal votes te the Statutes, of
any other miscellaneous services performed by him
The
clause here placed in 1 allies Was that on which |
the defence ly ed Tt was alse shown by

ran

| reterenee te the Statute Labor Act that the Road

Commissioners were as wuch officers of the Gov

jernment as the Attorney General, and that upon

then by law devolved the task of drawing all
contracts relative to the expenditure ef the
public money on the roads, bridges aud wharts
within their several districts. In 1863, by a
resolution of the House of Assembly, all con-
tracts of this kind for sums over £50 were placed |
under the coutrel of the Superintendent of Public
Works, which relieved the Read Commissioners of
a certal portion of their duties. Mr. MeLeod
contended that the Government had no right to
thrust upoo Mr. Valiner work which the laws of
the Colony expressly Impesed upon ihe Road
Comuissioners, and i they did so they should pay

him as they woud any otber Attorney, The per

|
j formance of the services, and the reasonableness

of the charges being admitted, the jury, under |
the direction of Use Court, returned a verdict for
the Plaintiff for £75 Ss. 2d, the full amount
claimed, leaving the question of law, viz, wheter

the drawing of the contracts in question was or)

was tet a purtof Mr. Palmer's oficial duties as
Attorneys General, to be argued betore the Judges
For the Plaintiff Mesars. C. Palmer & McLeod;
for the deiewee, the Atiurvey and Sulicitor
General.

John Hayden, indicted far stealing a horse be-

longing to Robert May, kexqr, ot Rose Bauk, near
Southport, was tried on Mouday. The evidence
was clear and conclusive The prisoner,
whe is an intelligent looking man, and very re-
te the

thing

rievauces would gradually |

ei) deserves the wiost serious considera.

Ant ACeplion |

Indictments tor larceny had |

}ed fur turging

| evlf-sustaining ;

ja shadow of suspicion rests upon thea, nor did
}the Plaintiffs Counsel in any way implicate thay
in the trausachiou. Indeed they acquitted buth,
jbut laid cousiderable stress on the fact whiek
‘came out in the thal, that one key opened the bar
rooms aud the Post Otlice doors, and that &y
pexactl similar key bad been missing tor several
months betore the wneney was lost. This coupled
)with svother iuportunt fact, viz, that the Post.
jwmasters eldest son, who bad previously stolen»
(jarge suin el meney trem his tather, aud was at
this time living at bome, was urged as reasons
why the Defendant sbeuld be more than ordinari-
jly careful in the discharge of the duties of bis
j« flice. Alter sbout four hours’ deliberation, the
Jury, whe were the sole judges of the question of
lneglgence, reported that they were unable te
agree upon a verdict. . For the Bank, E. Palmer,
Heusely, C) Palmer aud M. McLeod. For
jibe Delendant, Haviland, Brecken, Longworth
rod Hi Ogseon.
| At the hour we write, (4 p. m, Wedneeday),
the case of James Jeukins and anolber ts. the
Goeveriment js going on.

From the Patriot of Saturday.
| In continuing our synopsis ot the proceedings of
| this Court, we bave to make one or two corrections
1» our Detece of the case of the Sammerside Bank vs
Thomas Crabb. The detendant’s tedroom, in which
ibe P.O. hey was kept, was situaced on the ground
floor, and not up stairs The «ne key which cpemd
| two doors, opened the dar-room and ball doors, and
not thore of the bar-roctn and post office.
Jawes Jenkins and another vw the Government,
| Was an action to recover the sum of £49 D4s. for
| extra labor und expense alleged to be incurred aboug

COULUY $) building a Powaer Mageaine in Victoria Barracks,

| ln 1s06, the Piaintifis, bricklayers by trade, entered
inte a contract with the Government tor the comple.
} tion of this work. The Magazine was to bea °
| fat roefed brick building, with an outer wall is
inches thick. Tneside was a second wall, 14 inches
in tuickness, 5 teet high and arebed overhead, For
ihe purpose of ventilation, an aperture oF open
‘space of 9 inches was lett between the two walls. Ik
| Was in evidence that the contractors followed the
| plan ard specification to the better, but that as the
k wos completed the arch tumbled down,
| In reLuriding it, the Superintendent of Public Works
| videred the space between the walls to be reduced
irom 9 inches to 44. The defence was that the
work was uot properly executed, nor supported by
the cutside wall as it should have been, and that
that was the reason it did not stand. The Plaintiffs
aumiticd that the inner and cuter walls were not
nected, but that was bo fault of theirs They
built the areh according to agreement, and did pot
feel themselves bound to supply any omission or
defect iv the plan aud specification. The alteration
afterwards made in the butlding by the Superinten-
dent of Public Works was prev that the plan was
aereelive On the other hand the defeadant’s coun.
sel contended that it was the duty of the Plaintiffs
to strepgthen the inper wall, by projecting the briskg
at the spring of the arch against be outer wall, but
tuis would pot only vary the contract but iperease
| the cost of the work beyond what the plan and spe-
cification lod the contractors to understand at the
time they tendered. Verdict tor the whole amount
claimed. For the Government, the Attorney Gene.
ral, Solicitor General and J. Longworth; for tse
Piaintitis Messrs. C. Palwer and Me q
Phe case of Wm. McGill es John Currie, occupied
all duy Tburscay. This wos an action Ww recover
damages tor a breach «f contraet and the balance
(£145) of an account stated between the parties,
With ibe cxception of the pree of tron, four barrels
}of flour and commission on the Invoice of imported
| goous, the co: rectouess of the account was aduutted,
| With respect to the claim for damages it was ia
jevidence that m Jannary, 1866, the deteudant
entered into agreement wits the Plaintiff to builds
} brigantine of about 209 tons, binding himself under

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a penalty of 4 100 to bave ber finished by the 25th
uf July followmyg. Toe vessel was not launehed
betore the Sth of November, ner delivered till two
ur bree days after Mo uill admitted that be gave

contractor up to the hat of De ptewber to fash
ber, while the contract: r and some of his witnesses
~wore that no specttic Gate was named, but that the
extensivn was i geceral teras to the fall. Evi-
denee was aiso adduced to show that shipping was
io Kagland in 1566, that the Plaintiff bad
abanduped origina: dea of reading the vessel
|} home at midsummer with a cargo of deals, ana led
| the dejendant to understand that all he Wanted wag
'to have ber ip time tor the tall shipment of oats
| However, she was not ready for sea till the Ist of
| December. The Plaintiff proved, that in conse-
| quence of the delay in finiehing the vessel, he was
uot only unable to ship a deck load, but bad to pay
a heavier rate of insurance aud higher price fur oats
}than be would have done had she railed earlier in
ithe season. The Jury struck the chasge for com-
mission out of the account, awarded special damages
for the incrersed cobecquent upon tbe
detention of the vessel, und by a loajority vt 196 to 2
returned verdict for £232 4s 184 For the
Piaintutt, Pelwer ard McLeou; tor the defendant,
dodgson asd Hensley.

On Friday forenoon, Roderick McKinnon, indiet-
2 nete of hand, was tried and convict-
ed. The prisoner is quite a young man, and pot
by any means an expert in his criminal art. The
names of the witness, endorser and both makers of
the note were forged, but im such @ clumsy Way a@
tu excile suspicion at first sight) The spelling was
mevrrect, aud small jewers were used tMstead of
Capitals, Months was written * mounts ”” For the
Crown, (be Atturuey and Suliciter General 5 for the
detence, Broeken and Hvdgson.

Iu the evening the last Recurd case on the docket,
Mutual Io-

{he

dull

bis

ju; urance

case the Jury returned a verdict for the full amount
The nature of Unis action
fully explained in the Company’s annual Meport,
published in some of the city papers.

Lhe Petit Jury was discharged yesterday, The
appeals, summary suits, and arguments, will pro-
bably vccupy the the Court the greater part of next
week,

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Says the Kingstone Wag of Sth inst:—
“The Lon. Mr. McGee ww spoken of in
connection with the filling up of the vacant
seat in the Cabinet, caused by the death of the
on. Ferguson Blair, but altogether without
any authority. The names of the Hon, G.
Alexander, of Oxtord, and Mr. Cowan, of
Waterlvo,are also mentioned in connecuon.”’

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CHARLOTTETOWN DEBATING CLUB.

On Friday evening just Mr. A. McNeill opened
stion, * Wouldthe Government be jastiied,
esent Land Purchase Act, in remitting
lue from the tenants on the
that the instalments
in are sailicient to wake the estate
if not, siould a new Act be paseed
for the purpose of remitting all moneys paid, or to
be paid alter the estate has been made self-sustain
ing.’ ‘The subject was ably avd warmly discussed
by many present, all of whom awreed that there
wus some difficulty in ascertaluing what was the
construction wt the Act: whether aceording
, aud intention the purchase of each

tie que
under the |
future 1
Selkirk Estate,

aiveady paid

Lie islaiuecutls

“ueSumily

legal

lo iis wordt

estate wet > be self-sustaining, or whether all
purchase jetively uuder the Aci, should be so.

be sense of the meeting having been taken, it was
decided by a majority of two, that ander the pre-

ent Act t ment would not be justified in
remi.ting ibe future instalments, nor should they
P irpose.

passa new Act for thea :

fhe sut y's debate will be,
resent policy of Kigland toward Lreland
culeulated to promote the happiness and
contentmeut of the Ivish people and secure their
att ucut aud leyalty co the British Vrown,’’ to

Liat

ject lor next evenln
8 ihe j}

the bee

be opened by the secretary. i
kk. FirzGenacn, Sec’y,
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ST. DUNSTAN’S TEMPERANCE SOCIETY
DEBATING CLUB.

On Monday night last Mr. W. C. Grant opened
the subjeet, “™ should imprisoument for Debt be
abolished in this Island.” on which a lively de-
bate ensued, and although the majority of speak
ers were in favor of hoprisonment, etill the great-
er nuwber at the meeting were decidedly op-

Jury. Verdict, guilty. The Suinmerside Bank | posed to it.

ics. Thomas Crabb, was then called on, avd vceu-| On Monday evening next, the 27th inst., the
pied the remainder of Monday and the whole of | follewing subject will be debated:—IJs the ua-
| Tuesday. This action was tried by a special Jury, | limited taxation proposed by the City Fathers i
and breught by the Plaintiffs to recever trom the their Bill as laid beiore the House of Aasembly
deiendant £113 odd, which they allege was lost | last session, necessary to the maintenanee of Ui
i through dua and neglect as Post-| Corporation. As this is an important question it
liuster Our readers will re.|is expected that the meeting will be well atten
The usual ice will be charged

carelessness

at Sammerside.
i August last of the lose of a ed by our ¢ Wizetis
MWe wailed in Charlottetown to detray cxpeuses.

member heart
sul vl mouey

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