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aactioretion of the peonle, and the advance- JAMES WHALEN.
ment ard pr sperity of the whole Island.
Phe Bill was then read a third time and
passe i.
jtouse adjourned

The following is a detailed account of)
It is from the columns of |
| the Montreal Telegraph, and is the most cum. |

Tovrsnay. April 23. prehensive we have met :— i

, Whaien’s history.

The greatest porrion of the day was ocan-
pied m Comerences wih te Lezeatwe
Coane, relative: to the »menrdmen's made by} wears a./0.
that beds to the aufortonate D beore’ Act.) of bin, wid isabout 28 years of age.
Tre House in Committee rageived tae report) ther or not he g ‘
ot a Committes on Contingent Exnenses the say. Itis very evident
de) eon on which took place with closed | nay be stvied an ignorant man, and does not
doors | want at ali for In due time he was}

Fripey, Apri! 24. | apy renticed to a tailor in Dubiiu, and seems to!

Ow Friday, at half paet three o'clock, Hie! have served out his time faithfully and well
Excellency the Lieutenant Governor came) When he became his own master he showed |
diwn to the Coune! Chamber, and afer | a disposition to wander about a good deal : |
giving bie assent to 25 bills prorogued the) went over te Enziand, and when there never

Whelan has not been long in this country, |
ving arrived in Quebee ouly some three!
Whe
much education we cannet
what |

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that he is not

st ewdness.

Lezielature. jremained very jong in one place. Now he
A. MeNetrt, Revorter. | was in Londou, now in Manchester, and some
- short time after at other places. Altozether

he ah t » apoker ot a8 or he yas re tle
THE RBRILLIAN r EXPLOITS OF GEN

A e .| others as the cause of his troubles, rather than
. . oe na a | wt
NAPIER AND THE BRITISH TROOPS ty ascribe them either to his own fully or his
IN ABYSSINIA.

own lucompetencs

be better if ta a position different trom what he

actually occupied, and always ready tu blame

ment in his own line of business wih Valliere
and afterwards with McKeuzie, and seems to
have continued about that city for some tine.
It was during his residence in Quebec that he
jvined a volunteer troop of cavairy, and for a
while behaved so weil as to attain the rank of
corporal. This was in 1366. Bye-and-bye,
however, he seems not to have been able t

One of the marvela of modern times is the

rapidity with which the d-tai's of rreat events
are made known all over the civilized world.
Seidom have we had a better example of thi«
than in the ease of the war in Abyssinia. The
N.Y. Merald of the 27 has two columns of
Cable tele rrams containing all the news known | restrain himself, either while sober or when in
i .
The | esecups, from saving very strong things against
| the British Government; and coming out very
jdecidedly with Feniau notions and Femas
icurses. For this he Was put under arrest, and
| it was only from the clemeucy of the authorities
that he was not dealt with in a severe and
}summary manner. He was, however, set free
posed :— jand speedily left the city. The next
On» the Mth instant. news was received at!

place where he turned up was Hamilton, and
head jnartess from army anies, to the effect that of a tull-tledzed Fenian

on the subject, in London on the 26th.
following are the princinal particulars, not
already mentioned, and they are of great in-
terest. The vietors is far more brilliant, be-
cause involving greater efforts than was sup-

very

}nowin the character

Theodorus inte: ded movins immediately on the! feom Butalo, who eould and would do terrible
. . . | . 1 } > be
British, Gen. Napier instantly crossed the | things; to whom the whole British Empire was

Judts River to the nlain of T inta, which he
conmenced to traverse, many animals were
leet in crossing a terrible ravine. It is eirht
miles wide having a descent ef three thousand
five fundred feet, and an ascent extending four|
thousand five handred fret on the other side. |

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a pour, miserable, worn-out thing, easily knock
ed to pleers ike a child's eastle of cards.
was, as misht be eapected, ayain arrested, burt
for some reason or another, possibly from his
very insizuificance,silowed ouce more to get off.

The Q en's army havir
marched over the «K

wide, onward
reeonr

accomplished both.| ing snip misht very naturally not be regarded
as it very. formidable

British authority, and prosecution, it misht he

r
a road,”’ thirty feet
then halted and
at Mardala in person.

pany way a enemy
itred the positi thousht, would simpiy entail expense, and sive
II> sav the King’s camo, with intrenched de im a little noturety, ;
fences * hic! anneared more sna! le On the the ngwis Fenianism to an end,

Sth of Anril Mr. Rassam,
forwarfed a letter to Gen. Napier, dated
Mardala, Gth, in which he said:—** Beware, | Wialen bold. Like poor Train, |
the King is At this date King!sibly have zot into the idea that

Theodorus had 28 guns mounted inside the! Gover

without having auy in-
jenee in bri
one of the eaptives,| Eseaping in this way, once and again, from
the hands of the authorities, seew to have made
l he may pos-
the British
ment, or at leist the Canadia

moving.

He was bornin the neighbour hood | evionia! Coal Mining Co., of Cape Breton, on
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He

A notvery sober talking, swaggering, bluster: ;

to]

in Govern: !

~~ COLONIAL,

PAA EOL LOL LD LOLA AANA A NANA NAA

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correspondence of 4 Montreal paper :—

We clip the following from

Sevecal influential geutiemen from Nova

Scot ave about to have an interview with the |

Minister of Finaice with the object of present
iny aed supporting & petition teom the Luter
the subject of a ralway. Dt appears the Com
pany owns some extensive and valuable beds
on the Island, twelve to fourteen miles from
Sydnev, to which fine harbor they desire to
ruild a railway for the purpose of openmy up
the interior resources of Cape Breton; thei:
own, of course, included. They represent that
the harbor newr their mines at which vessels
now load, is too exposed and unsafe for ship-
ping; and that in the present depressed state of
the wmoney market, it will be impossible tor
them to raise the money required, unless ata

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iof $400,000 at 6 per cent; a sum which wil
j put them in a position to buiid the road, stock
hat with three joeomotives and 150 cars; as also
to erect piers and slides, and such other accom

inodation as will enable them to ioad six large |

vessels ata time. The requestis not unreason

f the present conciliatory policy, and cousider
that the raiwag will be used by the othe:
Mining Companies oa the island: that it wil!
enable them to lay down coal at $1.50 to $1.75
|per ton; and that the Company's request is
fhacked by all the clerzyinen and leading mes
of Cape Breton; and not less than 1,300 tax-
| pavers, who state,in a supplementary petition,
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When he got to Quehec, he found employ | able when you come to retiect on the tendency |
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| that owing to the present lack of employment, |

they are frequent!: ina great state of destitu-
ftion, and will likely continue so, unless the
|Dominion Goverumest vives this suarantee,
jand incidentally furnishes them with perma
lnent employment. Should the Dominion Gov
lernment grant their request, the Company wil
lyive ita first lien on the whole of its property

| as security for gwarantee.

| THe Lave Me. McGer.—We extract the
| folliowtag trom a letter addressed by the late

IMs. MeGee to MJ. HL Dales, the Emigrae

jtion Avent at this city, principally in answer |

to enquiries as to the formula to be observed
the inteaded presentation

of a porteait to the deceased statesman on. his
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fia connection with

funera! The letter melanchoiy

possesses a

iiterest as bein amony the last he ever wrote: }

My Dean Dar gy,—The Mayor would be th
\ ery Dest
I think

sul weriber

peisou to make the preseutation, hui
a preliminary meeting of the
‘ss augsht to he held,
more otf them, and taey oushtt iuvite Aim to
ee FB Babies,
Anril 13th, is) my
hirth-day, the presentation mizht be left. til
then. * * © [Tam vlad our friends are s

You

prineipa

sav twelve «

‘tas their Spoxesman,

T shall be sure to be devn,

leased with the Patrick’s Day speeches.

works, and mostly in frontef his camn, bearing} ment waa afraid ot him, and had not the! mayt a!-e teleyraphic rumours about mv aecept
en the Enclish advanee. Gen. Nanier for-| couraze to take that 2ourse azainst his freedom | tng office with some grains of salt: when [ 20
warded « letter to the kK wr, officially dem wd | or his lite, which they were onty too anxious} down at Easter it there is anything to be told

ing te release of the cantives. The Evglish to pursue. The deusions under which very
army was concentrated on the Besnelo River, sai men sometimeslabouraieo thest aizest,
the troons were furnishe 1] with sealins-ladders, and it is
tornedses and other engines of assault, and) stances as possible trat this tailor and Fenian
were held in reatiness for an attack on the | shou!d persuade himself that tear, abject fear,
fortress of Mazdala. was at the bottom of all this clemency.

From Hameton

just as likey a thing inthe circume

: |
he seems to have zone to

I shall then and there subnut to my friends
first . . 7 + + “*
Yours always,

J. H. Darey, Esq. — Montreal News.

George Etienne Cartier. Minister of Militia,

THE ATTACK. Montreal and worked there for some time with and leader aud representative man of the

A despatch fro:n the /eral{'s correspondent, | Gibbs and others. His Fenian proclivities |Prene® or Lower Canadian element in the

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dated before the fortress on Good Friday, re | pecame more and more de ‘ided, and his de- Dominion, bas heen cievated to the aisnity ot

Pp grted that th Br tish army had arrived there

and and Ihngiish rule still
in f ont of the Kin ¢’s stron shold,

expected, aud

nunciation of Eng

The troons more violent As wis tO he uS

were six miles distant from the fortress. The! ig the case with only too many, he was never more appropriate, More wortay, or in
Kin:’s cam» was situated on a great hei cht, in} more eloquent apon the wrongs of Ireland than | °¥*'S 8euse more just and politic. Ts is an ac
fall view. The third despaten of the 13th of | whee he was more or less intoxicated ee ee ee SS Te a ae
A vil said a truce which had been ag eed on} When Whalen was in Mo treal, he joined BOTT o! the recijnent, buta recoznition of the
between (reveral Napier and Theodorus termine the St. Patrick’s Society, and became a rather | 4/8 Gue 7 a name which is both wationa
ated early that morvi Immediately after) active ; He|* id historieal, the proudest name in fact which |

‘. , Oustling member of that fraternity.
the termination the Kinz not having sarrend 4/30 married one, who, froin all accounts, seems
ed the tives, General Navier placed him

al d second b irades

va to bea respectable person, and continued

selfat the head Moutreal bis home till the morth of

Ht the hist make

of his army and moved ap the hill towards the! Qetober or November last, when he removed
aii :2 eo ,: aa :
fortress as far as Shi'lasst. This portion of th to Ottawa and obtained work with E.cleson, in

efrone ’

whose employment, according to Eazleson's
evidence, he has heen ever He must

surrendered to Genera
Napier by the chief in mamand after a brisk
attack in which the African troops were defeat-| have joined the Ortawa St. Patricks Society
ed. The rthe Euglish advance. | almost immediately for we tind that he was one
and it, first fruits,retreated into the centre of the! of the Marstials at the procession on the 17th
Mardala works on tl of March fast, avd as such fizures on horseback

works Wis

srce

worns observi

iteau, having first

rianted five gure at the hase. When Gen |in photozraph taken at the time of the pro-
Naver came in sizht with hs izades the Mivent personares in that dispiay.

Ki v's @tillery Opened on the advance with} Mrs. Whalen has not removed to Ottawa,
these sana inthe presence of Theodorus. The! but aceording to Earleson she meant to do so

sritizh vevlied immediately with 12 pounder} very soon, aud had heen up to the city making
Armstrong suns and 7 inch ‘ .

Mountain mortar}

rocket runs, throwing rockets tote the place. |
Theo King’s works were carried after a vigor
ous resistance. Theodorus lost durins the en-|
yagement sixty men killed and two hundred |
wounded, he Evzlish had fifteen rank andj peard him refer to McGee, it seems uuquestion-
le wounded. After the works were complete able that winle he always used very strong
v taken Theodorus was tound dead by the | language against English domination in Ireland,

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E.vslish soldiers in the ceutve of bis stron. |
whom he rezarded as its great upholder iu this

hod.
LATER. | Province. It is said that on one oceasion, at
Two despatches from Gen. Napier to Sir S.} any rate, his lansuaye was so strony and dis-
N etheote have been received. The tirst says! loyal that he was turned out of his boarding
tere had been an ensa cement on Good F ides, | vouse, and that on another, after speaking very
Lush Agel, when Koug Phesdorus was defeat-| harshiy of the deceased statesman, he pulled
ed with hesvy uss. QO. the English side Capt. | out his pistol, shook it, and clenched his asser-
Roberts, of the 4ta Tufantry, and 16 men,| tons with a ts by G—,” leaving the threat
were wounded, None of the British were kill-|to be inferred. Rumor, of course, with its
ed Daring the next two days Theodorus sur. | hundred tongues will be busy enou sh in cireula-
rendered ali the European captives, but had/ ting, and magnising and distorting everything
He | he may have said, and very possibly may be
was alioved 24 hours fiom the 12th of Apritin| giving him eredit for some thinss ke never
the morning either thournt or uttered; but enough is un
questionable to show that ins antecedents
wot made itunhkely that he would
such a desrerate ente prise.

arian fements. 5
ay vod character, SiV3 he was well liked hy his
shop-mates, and could earn from $12 to S14 a
week, Aithougit neither Eazleson nor his
brother, according to their own account, ever

Whalen’s employer gives him

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he was peculiariy bitter against that sentleman

sot surrend=red himself aus beates in war.

tu decide us tu lis course. |

is dated the L4th. Tt}

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Pae second despatel
Was then sreatiy dis- |

amy

wartleued is Ceise puence of ts severe luss, a. d
t

hare
eugage in
He is upon the
| whole, not illooking, as may be seen from the
| avcompanying portrait, is vain, reckless, daring

SAVS sue lug g§

tliat the Cmets hed su: endered the most for-
midable position on the approach to Mazdala “
oilied. Gialouen wid many. thuanend native! 4 excitable; not very well able to manaze
aed tad down theic arma. Theodurus his owu weekly income to any £ood account 5
retived to Mardata with the troops which bad but entirely persuaded that if he were put in
Se taithtul An assault was ordered o1 | charge of Ireland for a week ov two he would
tae b3ih, under cover of the Armstiong stee! a right the wionzs of panne oe he
guns rucket battery. ‘The ascent to the gates hac = jy torte cane with Mr. McGee is
vf Macdala was of the most formidable deg- | 0b 88td. Indeed it dues not apvear that they
ever came in contact with each other at all.

eription. The Keig was kilied inside, defend
ing bimself and ois position to the last. The| But that he bitterly hated the murdered man as
a traitor to what he was pleased to think the

tus ofthe British was small, and the army

Gini tlh a oo in eines ote eh. * | best interests of Leeland and Irishmen seems
unquestionable.

LATEST. We have already referred to the chain of
Later advices, duied Zoula, the 18th, estate | evidence which connects him with the nwurder
that 14,900 native troops had surrendered to | tor which he will in due time tried. His
Ger, Napwr, Theod» us had 300 killed and| trial, of course, will be a fair one, and every
1500 wounded. The European captives, num | opportunity will be alforded tor clearing Lim.
beriag $4, iuciudieg men, women aad children | Self from the odicus charge. While, as we
Were alvewly au taeir way to Zoula for hume. | have suid, we do not wish to prejud se the case,
pee ee we must say that matters at present look very

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} badly for the prisoner, and hig whoie course of
‘ one life since he caine to this country seems rather
2 Pie ope veh of Munazer Buut {to confirm than to weaken the likelihoed of his
Wer, Which was read f r the Must part, from guilt. Noone, however, convinced of Whaleu’s
printed Bis, & d whieh occupies sixteen | Zuiit, helieves him to be alone responsible fur
€ petien is of the Boston Journal, was an extra-! the deed of blood which has made his nuime so
ordinary eifFort. It dea't with the evidence and | promineut the world over. The authoritics it
with the law—alao with early constitutional | i, said, have evidence which goes to show that
h story i “& very masterly manner. It cuu- | he is but one of a larze number handed tove-
cieded a follows: I ther for this purpose, and that it havpens that

Senators, as far as Tam concerned, the ease | he now stands in the positiou he now oc uples
is now in your hands, and it is syon to be! sunpiy because it was so determived by lot. hh
ciused by MY assuciaic.
presentatives hrve presevted ths c.iminal at PAM are mora ly guilty of the murder, and the
your bar with equal coutidence in hig guilt an J! owe who kills is simply the iustrument detailed
iu your dispositivu to administer exact justice | acco ding to a prea anged plan for the work.
between him and the people of the United | Such then are mere prominent facts in the
States. | histury of dames Whalen. The following few)

His conviction is the tiumph of law, of or-j weeks will supply more for bis history than al!
der, of justice. I do not contemplate his ac | the past year.

The Impeachment ot President draws

Hear 4 Civse.

It remains to be seen whether}

The House of Re-j such conspiracies this is generally the plan.| ;

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ub Baro et of the t

mat distinction has been couferred, which

could be

eould be borne by a Some three
hund ed vears ago Jacques Cartier discovered
the St

Canada,

Canadian.

Lawrence and the eountry kuown as

has alter ihis wide interval of time, made to
himself a distin ruished position m that

colony b

rreal

vizgouro his twents. Every Freael: Canadian
Is justly proud of lim, partly On his Own ac
count, but largely ou account of the honoured
Of what other discoverer, a:
this side the Atlantic, can it be said that ever
the name survives ? ‘
bua has been lon:

name he bewrs.

The posicrity ot Colum
extinet,
nat any descendant could be traced ot
Sebastian Cabot, of Cortez, of Henry Hudson,
or indeed of a: y ot the dariu.s explore

adveniurers of tue

nor have we eve

heard,
Ss anc
ifteenth and sixteenth cen
turies, wit the single exception of Jacques
Cartier who discovered Camwada. How tittine

then an every Way the honor, how appropriate |

the time and the sceasion! The first Baronet
created, belongins to the Dominion of Canada,
is George Exieune Cartier, descendant of the
first European who set eves upon the land, and
whose pinnace first broke the waters of th
m ghty St. Lawrence. Long may ke wear the
title su hunurabiy earned ! and we trust he may
be spared to add additional iustre tu the houvur
ed same he bears.— Hz. Express.

Me:axcnoty Occurrencs.—A sad, and in|

his case We must say mysterious eccurrence,
tuck piace in town on Monday last. A man
tamed Allan McDonald, trom the Gulf, came
to town on Sabbath. Ta the evening he went
tu West Acadin Mines, and on Monday morn-
ing returned to New Glasgow. At about ts
o'clock he went out in company with M
Thomas Smith to Smith's house. When in the
nenzgnhborhocd of Mr. Roche's house he sudden
ly exclaimed “Tam deunk,’’ and on reaenin
Sinith’s house he fell to the ground. Mr
Sunth endeavored to get him into the bouse
but the ma: violently resistins, he desisted,
wliowing bm to lie on the ground supposing
that he woud become sober in a sho:t time —
Two young men laid bin on a piatform, placed
a buidie under his head and left him. M:
Smith passed him several times, and seeing th:
Wan apparentiy asleep, be concluded not t
disturb him. About 11 c’ clock it was diseuve:
ed that the man was dead. He was immediate
ly carried mto Smith's house, and iwedicai at
called, and after a long and careful examin
ation it was found that life was extiner. Ed
‘ward Rach, E3j., Corover. suminoned a ju ¥,
and Dis. Mitche) acd Murray were calied i
to make a post mortem examination. The jus
ealied in ou Monday night failed tu arree on ;
verdci, and a new jury was summoned o
Luesday mormug. The post mortem examu.-
ation proved that there were nu signs of th:
manu having suifered violence. It was proves
that he had diunk no liquor at Acadia Mines,
but that be had drunk two glasses of gin at
MecKraracher’s, one at eisht, and the other at
Th
medical men stated that there was no food in
his stomach, that it contained nearly a pint of
Lqud, which emitted strony fumes of alcohol,
It was fousd that his brain was completely con
gested, and also emitted a strong smell o!
aleohol. The man’s heart, liver, and lunes
were in a very healthy condition, and it was
evident that the mana death was caused by in
tuxicatiniz lquors. The Jury, theretore, ave
ina verdict, that in their opinion, “the de-
ceased came to his death from couvestion ot
the brain, superinduced by the use of intox:-
Tiis agreed with the opinion

at about ten o'clock, Mouday forenoon,

callus i guors.

eXpresse d by Dis Murray and Mitchell, whi
| conducted the post mortem examination.—.Vew

Glasgow Chronicle.

Uuawa |

jyreat loss, aud they therefore ask the Dominion |
Government to gua antee the interest of aloan |

bith-day—Easter Monday—the day of his}

he foree of his character, and the ;

quittal—it ig impossible. Therefore I do not
jook beyoud. But, Senators, the people of
A:qeriesa will never permit an usurping Exe-
cutive to break dows the securities for liberty |
provided by the Constitution. The cause of
the country is in your bends. Your verdict of

est of midnizht murderers, or as one who with!

he will live in the history of Canadian ciiminal |

trials a great offeader, who pursuaded himselt
ihat he was playing the pact of a hero, when
he simply proved that he was one of the mean-

much cireumstantial evidence azainst him, was

guiity is peace to our beloved land, on the eve of securing a permanent thouzh far)
Judge Nelson was next heard on behalf of from honorable, niche in Canadian history, |

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the President. His arcument eceupied neariy j from which, through his own innocence, he
iwodara, aid wae mainly of a hard legal kind, | after ali made good his escape.

Fo-r or iive more Counsel are to he peard.|
Tue prejudee excited arainst Chief Justice} Activity Amoxno THE Fenians. — The
(we, seems to he susiding. The Bosto: | Washinton corre spondent of a Boston paper |
A lvertiser aad its correspondents at Washiog- | writes that great activily prevalis amony the
toy state that nothing move dignified nor more} Fenians, and that there 1s reason to tear a for
hike what justice ourht to he has ever been | midable attack woon British America durin,
wituessed in a# Coustof Justice than the culings| the coming summer, He says O'Neil, the |

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4:1 Dea ings of the Chief Justive. It is alleg-| present Fenian President, is a brave and dar-|

{ that Gen. Butler—who ie not mach tin favo: ing man, and theagh he has little adiminist:a
hore or in New Ocleans—has distin suished him. | tive power, would not hesitate ty stoke a blow!
& fuece than any ofthe other eounsgel. Ih dows} if there were the shohtest chance of success
u tangeae what the result will he. That the! [t seems probable thar the attack will be made |

P-vsident acted ao offe sively ag to chiflenge|on more than one point. At Buffalo, for in-|
hooeachuent trece is no duubt. also that he! stanee, there isa larze quantity of Fenian arma. |
bofriazed the letter of a law which he held waal which were sered by the Washinzton Govern j
Ht constitutional or binding. That he ie) ame ¢ in 1465, but were restored to the Fenians
iish'e to impeachwent fy the sense of the con-|a few mouths ago. Ia California there is}
sutatioa #@ more than dwht. E.anthe result) creat activity among the Fenicus, and much)
of the trial will wat settie this point, History| apnrehension prevailed at Victoria, the capital

may yet do so. —3i. of Vuucusver's Leland, |

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tthe 25th ult.

'Lodse of Ensland at

A man named James T. Shand, an employee
lin the Saw Millof George McLeod, Esq., on
ithe Kouchtbonguae River, was accidentally
| kiliea mm the Mil on Thursday evening last,
funder very distressinz circunistances, having
lheen struck by the connecting rod, knocked
uuder the crank, and his head and body
horribly bruised and manzled. Decease:
was about 30 years of aze, and a native o!

| Seotiand, aud leaves a family of four smal!

children.

A terrible aceident oecurred in Montreal, o:
An eXperiment was bein s mau
at the Re-ervoir with a new explosive sub
stangs, when a premature explosion oceurred,
killing one man instantly — fiterally blowing
his head 20 pieces—-and seriously injuring six
or seven more

Sir John A. Maedonald. K. C. B., has hee
appotuted the vias d represeutative of the Grand
Cannda, which sits in Lo eudan on the 14th) Jody
vwext. fiis said that there will be ahout fom
hand ed and Uifty dele cates from ali
parts of the Dominion; aud further, that in is
the intention of the Free Masons of Loudon to
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the Grand

nesent

Colane! Kelly, one of the Fenians reseved
frem athe Manchester Police, has arrived at

New York,

and Mi K Get i

| day

=. Sod Comedie oak a ee

aunt of destitution in some parts of
Nova Scotia, aud especially im the Island of
(Cape Breton, is great, almost beyond pre-
cedent. ‘The mere fact that such i the case
oucht to call forth the eifurts ul the benevolent,
ous dt to Command the alteation of the govern
ment at vace, without stopping to enquire lr
tu the cause. Jt is enough that such is) the
jeagse, and our dury now is to give relief hivst
hand institute enquiry afterwards. The tacts
istuted are at once alarming and depiorabie.
| We ave told that in a part of the county vf Ta
i veruess, the cattle will be nea ly all lost) from
want of fuud, thatindeed they are already goue,
that the people have consumed all their seed
outs and potatoes, and that dire necessity is

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compelling them to feed upon their horses.
Surely this is a state of things which bas oniy
tu be made known, in order to obtaia instant
i consideration aad relet in a civilized
Not a day should be lost in ascertaining the
tacts of the case, and acling itt accor dance

country.

with its requirements.
Lt nothings etse can be done,

let the Road
|money, fur the year, go for this i

purpose. I

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}vur pevple are sullering as represented, anoim

| ve ulive duty is upon the Goverument to pro
vide the remedy without delay. Let not the

epoach be upon us that aay of our fein w
icreatutes ins this Province died from = actus
iwaut, or that whoie districts are famine stiica-
en and unrelieved, white we and those about
us ace Coguisunt of the fact. The past winte
has been the longest ard most severe tor iiss
years. It set is euwny du Uctuber, and hi
been now liogerng tai iate in Apri. Ther
is uot yeteven # sign of vegetation, aud ti
will probably be six weeks betore the cattic
fean find a mouthful in the helds. If assist aics
{is not atforded to thuse Who are utterly dest-

itute now, what wiil become of them betor
Tm
jis a Sort of thing tou which mere private be
| nevoience is ailogether unequai, however wil.
| ine Mo may be. Under ordinary Circumstances,
| we would be the last to advucate Goverament
jbounty in this way, but from the accouni:
|which reach us, itis evident that the preset
is an emergency, sv pressing and exceptional,
that all hesitation shouid be thrown aside.
We say then, to the Goverument, vive what is
really needed, to tide over the present severe
triai,—give road moaey, school money—it ab
lsolutely necessary—borrow if you have nut

got unouey ; but turn wot away from the cry ot
fanumsbing women aud cuidren, tu say uvthin,
;O. Strong Men,

jeveu that short time wiil bave elapsed ?

Tue Fraser Crax.—A meeting was held i:
Fraser Haiti, New Uilas sow, On Mouday, tne
| 27th dav of April, 1565, at 11 o'clock, ‘a. it...
hiv organize the * Cian Fraser’ for tine County
lof Pictou. !
Joon McI’ Fraser, Es }-. Chairman,

Johu A. Fraser, Secretary,
Hon. Jaines VP raser ‘

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bei called upon ad
| dress d the meeting, and eXplained its import,

ius la Commnection with a similar movement
ce ol Quebec.
It was moved by Hon. James Fraser. secoud-

led by Donaid A. Fraser, Exq

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aleiy taken place in the P:ovi

wid passer

t Frasers do orsanize themselves into a Cla
vith a benevolent and socal object, and d
and accordauce with
eT ‘ hee.

It was moved by James Fraser, Esq., (Dow
nie) seconded by My. Archibald Fraser, (ory)
aiid passed Unanimous. y, that the Hi. he Jai 5
Fraser be the Cinef of the Clan for the Counts
f Pictou, and also be a deleyate to the Cun
vention to be holden at Ottawa on the ]4th
| day ot May next.

It was inoved by Hon. James Fraser, second
ed by Mr. Murdock Fraser, and passed aeani-
Inousiy, that Juhu McP. Fraser Esq., be a
Chief tor the Eastern District, and Donald A.
i‘raser, Esq., for the Western Disinet of the
County ot Pictou.— Pictou Standard.

lhe late movement at

A Parliamentary return shows that expenses
of the Fenian prosecutions in Canada to have
been $86,620.

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ond one of his collateral descendants, |

The miil-steamer Verlin arrived on Sunday
from St. John’s, N. F. The Ge: eral Assem-
bly of the Province was prorogued «
day the 29th ult. The total avriva
trom the ice, to date, are as follows:

n Wedaes

of sealers

| St. John’s, 30 vessels with 134.150 seats.
| H. Grace, 21 si ‘¢. 100,240. *

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! Total 69 vessels with 254,370 “

| —Halifax payer.

Monday last an the recention of the wood news
trom Abyssiwin.
out the city; the chimes of S. James’ Cau eh
rang forth a merry peal, and the reyorciag was
universal.

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There was great rejoicing in Toronto on
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The Government schr. La Canadienne is to |

sail this week for the protection of the fisberes,
fand the enforcemest of shins regulations in
| tie lower St. Lawrence. She is sow command-
ed by Mr) Teta, who has been detinitiveiy ap-
pointed in the room uf Capt. Fortin, vow M.

'P. for Gaspe.

Gotp Discovery.—We learn that a valuable
gold discovery bas been made at Sutherland’.
River, in this County, and a right of seareh haa
been taken out by Mr. WS. Copeland Some
DrOMIgihy Appearance,
jomt steck Company with 50,000 «iares, at $1 00
per abare, and test the wuciterours character ot
the locality in which the specimens hace been
tound From all we ean learn we think the dis
coveryis an important ove — Pictou Chronicle


The armies of Europe are said to be larver
a the present time than at any time since the
sorsof the First Napoleon. France has 1,300,
VOU men, of whom 556,000 ave in the .eserve.
ngiand bas 200,000 men; Prussia 690,000;
Traty about 215,006; Austria 800,(00, with
$00,000 more in reserve, and Spain about
~0,000. i

Mason Gesxerat. Hastings Doris. Lieut-
Goveruor aud Commander

of the Forces

The
Nova Scotia, who has arrived in Enziand on
short leave of abscence, it is reported is to re

ceive the honor of Kuizithood for his valuable
evil and miltary services in that) Colouy
during the late threatened complieation of
UTairs between the United States and
{tis not improbable that the Companionship
{the Bath will be eonferred on this distin
cuished officer.— Court Journal.

Three bundred and fitty Irish emigrants have
recently accepted a tree passage from Liverpool
o Rio Janeire, where they will get land ata
hilling an acre and have five years to pay itin
the next St. Patuick’s day will be celebrated in
raz

Latest News by Telegraph.

FROW EUROPE.
Loudon, M iy 2
It is said te-dav that the Prine Moiniater Dis
ach, bad tendered tis resignation, bul it was nei
ceepted
uspend all orders, and take Up fesvittions intre
uerd by him relating te the Trish Churen. Tt
Jone resouiutions are carried out. itis thought that
in Address to the Qucen Wl bol bow
A despatch states that Cranetl, the Austria
Ambassador at Rowe, bad arrived at that city
yesterday, :

Gladstone, ou Monday, wil move te

London, May 2
The erisia in the Britigh Cabinet occasioned by
the reeent dividien on the subject of the Lrish
Church, monopobzers the public attention ta day
It is theugbi thatat the measures which afte im
fleet approved by both Houses, are not opposed
by the Libera ss the present Cabinet will not die

nade te the new constituencies.
commends this Course

Consoles ciesed thia afternwon at 95% @ 94.
Beonds uffs easier without quotable change. Pro
vislous steady,

The Tunes re-

Louden, May 4th, even
The proceedings in the British House of Com-
Heme teh Were Sery literesenting and iin.
potent A the openng of the Session the
‘Premier do ieuded the conree of Ministry, and ex
itessea hope that the Liberals weuld net press

should have an opportunity for deiiberation re.
varding the @ouree he should PUrstie Mr Gilad
slotue replied fe M. Disrach and te his det tet*
f fortes

and gtaied (hal it was the duty of the
pints fepresented by hin ta press their poles
Pile termed tt gupreer dented mad aueniustitet pond
Mi Giads e was fotlowed by Mro Joho Bright

Loewe, who wer equals forcible,

| Betore Mi Gladstone coneluded, ne stated thal

lat thai tine cf the Ministers wonid name an early
Mr Disraeli fixed Chure-
the 7ib inal, forthe debate on the Prien
question

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fae would net urge consideration of iis qu sien

tolav for the Purpose

London, May 4th, p.m.

Consuls 939 «2 953; UL. 5.

Junanimousiv, that itis desirable that the family |

,
auw proceed te such orzauzation in sympathy

Flags were hoisted throuzh- |

ut (he specimens shown us yesterday had a very |
Ir Ix proposed te feoren FS

Canad:., |

aE a A MR PO
— os see ee oe SSS Hs Ae Se SR
——_- roms _—*

3C i 294 3d.; other ar- he upon whom “Observer” so plentifully
=" heaps his abuse, and to none did # greater
says that Prus share of unmerited obloquy fall. But Catholic
new and astrange advo-

ticles unchangre pens
| A Hong Kongletter of Feb. 26, J
lain Wae negeciing tor the aceession of the Inland claims have founia
lof Cheuson to Germany and thus place the in- ' cute.

ltereste of the Contederation in command of a | lic as he has proved to his Protestant friends,
‘great highway of the Choa and Japan trade.

time alone can tell. As an humble but sincere
and tried friend of the Catholic community of }
this Island, | advise them keenly to scan ae
motives of their new friewds, and to consider
well their antecedents. It is godlike to forgive
uur enemies, hut it is the extreme of folly to!
trust them,

IT cannot conelude without saving [ have
formed a very different estimate of our educa
ltienal system from that arrived at by
“ Observer.”

FROM THE STATES.
New York, May 2
| In the Tmpearhment trial the Presidents Cour
j rel closed thei tigumenta te dav. Cotgresetat
Bingham ade final argument tor the prosecution
on Monday, andit is theught a decision will be
jreached on Wednesday
| Gold steady at previous quotations.
New York, May 4th.
North German a«teamer Smidt lett: Bremen |
Haven early on April 4th. with # tull comphinent
of pasdengers, and has not arrived up to this date |
iat New York. te which place she was bound
Pears ace entertained tor he satety, the more as
hihe cable bus vet reported Ler anywhere,

Gold 1354.

SPECTATOR.
Mav 8 1868.

Che Gxraminer,

PRR RAR IS IRAP AELIEIRL LOLI ALO AIPA AL AP AD Ot

New York, May 4.
The North German Steamer Smidt has arrived

eet adam — — ean

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| Charlottetown, May 11, 1868.
FROM CANADA. | Tue v.ewspaper is a wonderfal institution.

Ottawa, May 5. By no other

It is a complete library ia itself.
means are the same amount and variety of

He who

In the House of Commone lest night. E.M
MeDonald (Lunenburg), in the abeonce ot Croke
coved few reurna relating to the Dt. Peter’
Canal. Carried

oir. Oliver, (Oxford, O ) moved that the Gov- leu nt be an ignorant man.
vecnor General's salary be reduced to $5,000
iter the betef Juiy next. Mo Dalersae moved ; é ; in ‘
i amendment (hat it be reduced tee $32.00. A }elimate, the productions of its seil, its mineral
jong dieeuasion ensued, in which miuistere and
~veraiot the leading meubers on the mineteria!

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iknowledze wiven in an equal space.
ai rezularly and carefully reads the newspapers
If the render
wants information about a country about its
|resources, its manufacturing capabilities, the

extent of its trade, its facilities for commerce,

|

: |
ie #poke, opposing the reduction Aimendmen! ' ov :
dnaliy carried by YO te 45. The metien. a* lor the political, moral and social condition of
voended, Was then earned by 108 to 2 Minis | 49 sahahitento~stet ties nes eefer Gn Gamitivers

ers ia both eases wellag ta toe min onty. Henee |
ben Went inte Comimittee,carned the resolutions,
ind adjourned

Bayle and Hynes editors and publishers of the
‘Trish Canadian Nolan Seeretary of the HH:
erinan Society, and Owen Cosgrove, were arres!- | read them with care and attention.
ed om ‘Poronte yesterday for Feaianimm The |
papers have been seized aud their sale forbidden.

Ottawa, May 4ih-. 7
It is rumered that another Banking lostituten ithe country, and of the condition of those who

sf Ovtario is hwely to tail, and lead to tresh finan- Hive in it, than if he had spent weeks in hunting
cial embarrasament.

lu the Commons thie afternoon the Committee
ou Fisheries aud Navigation reported. recommend
the construction of @ large additenal num
oer of Lighthotuses,

Mr. Joues (Leeds) moved a reduction of tbe
Privy Counen to mine. Neither nitiistertialists | vives the observer who has eyes to see, a better
wor opposition neticed bis arguments, and the | ;
moon was declared lost.

Deue debate took place on matters relating to
old Canada,

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‘hooks of travels or question living travellers,

but let him procuce a file of its newapapers and
From
these, if he has any discernment, he will be

able in a few hours to form a herter idea of

up authorities and in comparing their conflict-

ing and cortradietory statements. The news-

ity

I paper, better than any other species of modern

| literature, holds the mirror sp to nature and

| view of even the faintest and most evanescent
|
Hineaments of her countenance than he ean ob-

i tain by any other means.

Toronto, May 4.
The ‘Trish Canadian” newpaper has been
suppressed by the Government, Patrick Boyle
editer, and several leading members ot the Ha

joernin Society have been arrested, and papers of
|

We have heen established in the ahove eon-

| clusions by readirg a few numbers of the Nafal

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t

Mercury, kin Ty lent us by our friend Major

Smith.of Brighton. Previoss to reading them,

| or dive into eneyclopedias, let him not pore over | jands of the colony ave not at the dispong) uf

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of the great drawbacks to the commercial
perity of the colony, The following extry
from the Mercury, will give the reader a

in the way of free trade in one at least Of thy
ports of Natal :

“The atate of the bar hae agnin become Boo, |
one matter, Until within the last few

we have latterly hoped that some practical in,
provement had been effected by the works
have been carried out. Detentions at the

er anchorage were very rare, and the

depth of the channel eeetned permanently reat,
er than it ueed to be But these hopes have
since September, been unhepprly exploded

the chronic sbheahng up of the chaunel, We
have returned te the old condition of gf),
when vessels were kept outede as a wWatier yy
course for weeks legether Ships arriving’
trom England bave now to discharge tueh
their earge at the roadatead betore they cay
come inside. Outward-bonnd veseels a
geveraily te go over the bar in light trim, aug
to take In cargo st the outer anchorage Bu s
this is only part of the evil Preeengere cu,
tinualiv euffer the greatest inconvenience
the diffientties and delays occa=med by the
scanty depth, or rough state. of the water *
the bar, The evils flicted upon our Consmeney
ie becoming eo great that it behovee sur ter,
cantile men te give some consideration toy
subjeet ae closely eounected with their ie
tereate.”

The great want of Natal is men—civiling
laboring men. This is the want of all hee

countries. The progressive party in the
wish to offer inducements to emigrants of thy,
class to settle inthe country. For this purpyy
they wish to be able to give the new comen

land near the towns, Jt seems that the pubjj.)

its loeal Government, and, consequentiy, the
colonists ave Torced to, yo cap in hand, to
Colonial Office to beg, as a favor, that
people of the eolony shal! have some voice &
the allotment of the publie lands which it cop
tains. Sr is very singular that people in Eng.
tand should consider themselves better judge
of what is best for a new cuuntry than men
equal intelligence living on the spot. We
that other countries have their land griev
us well as P:ince Edward Island. Bhe

way question is being discussed warmly
Natal. The distance fiom a market and the
rude meaus of intereommunication between th
different parts of the country are by no nea
satisfactory to the more inteliigent and en
prising of the planters and merchants.
Question of Union too oecupies the attent)
of the politicians of Natal. The policy of

jatreasonabie charseter belonging to the Hibet
ula Society seized, the parties under arrest are |
“upposed to be lupucated in Feuian Couspiracy

we had some misty netions about the eolony of
Port Natal.
=" ithe eastern coast of Africa,

We knew that it was sitoated on

that the famous

‘CORRESPONDENCE.

ee ne nr rn re rt es eR mt mt ot on een tee

Bishop Coienso lived there, and that the Zulus
hut

were rather shrewd fellows for black men;
To the Epirok oF THe Examiner.

Mr. Epiror,—

j ; i
{ if by some convulsion of natare the whole

colony and the surrounding States had dis-

appeared from the face of the earth, we would

” of the
Joke-nakins I>
His ejaborate aad Ciephantine

Lis very evident that the “ Observer
{stander is wo Syduey South.
nol his torte

have had buta very faint notiom of the foss

ithe world had Pat the
| perusal ot the newspapers alluded to above

sustained.
attempt ut pleasaniry is chiefly amusing ou ac-
cuuut of its extreme Clumstiess and its ridicu

——there are but three of them—has made us
fuus MAP PPOpPliAleness.

When even a witty
manis vulbot temper, he very seidom says or
writes a good thing; but ** Observer’? is not a |
witty mau, and he as very muca cut of temper.
fi is nu wonder thea that his solitary Joke Is
isme and far tetcbed, and uttered with such a
very bad ziace. But if “Observer” fails as a
He is deterimiued
nistake about that. H

| quite familiar with Natal, and hae ¢reated in us

a lively interest in every thing connected

with that valuable part of the British Dominions.
| We are new very anxions to see its splendid
ja rricultural and minera!
| devela-wd,

resources nrore fully

Wil, fe Suiues aS @ woralist. we wish to hear ot its infant
that there Cau be no — —

, . ne | manufactres receivins juTicioas eneourazemem,
takes a great deal of trouble to convince tis |

| we deplore the disadvantages under which the

mate. Betig such w iizid umeraiist, he wiil, ot }eolony labours, we yo in for a union wth

!
course, aduut that a inanis bound at aij times

io speak the truth of his neizhbour

j Feuders that he, at least, is the purest of the
{ ithe neighbouring petty states, and we feel
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: ene that!. i. pe
i. Re ' indisnant at the treatment of tts Dele rates hy
lwheu @ CUnristiuu asserts any thine likeiy tu | '

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linjuce w feliow-Choistian, in reputation or s-|'e hizh and mighty authorvies of Downing

a treet,

tate, he shouid first have spared no pains to |
| Culis ice Hiaisell ut the truth of what he utu rs.
* Observer’ uow states that Mr. Coles. amon:
others, voted avanis. the

Well, if Mr. Cowes did

We will for the edification sod amxsement

shai notes our renders, and@ to remied them

not

CAUCHKS.
Vole atatust the

Phat ur. C ; i short sketch of Natal—its pohi tieedt and socia
misht have fuued |
eutil he had taken the trouble to enqure. ||
ain Ietoi died on good uulhority, that whew tie

pot
jvaluable things mewspapers ace, vive them a
Staub in CauClis, Wihiat then? Hes
did net su vote, * Observer” . .

er dq thon, a id ws netoral TCROU SEs, clenned

ccatianiem ne

soley from the ournals bef r- us.
juestivon Of the grant was discussed in caucus, The climate of
Mr. Coles vecapied the ch: ir. Lhe division | people wou Pall te hoe
weitlagninstthe giant, and itonly remained for || : ge
Ae Me. Cole, | Ot complained of as uihealthy-.

Natal is, we find, wari, some

hh is not moist, and
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| Mr. Coles tu deciare the resuit.
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wid nut vote azainst the yrant, ether in the | re ommend ce nsumotive
| Liouse of Assembiy or in caucus, any arcument

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wounded on such an assumption is necessarily |
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patients fo vo bo

Natal, assarins them thet they stand a better

" . chance of being cured there, than anywhen-
wituuul welsht. Che imposing steucture | — fo 4 . |
| which * Observer’? has erected with so muc!: }else. Perhans they are right. When we

jl.geuuity, bel 4 thus shewn to be Wilihout
j Sameeon, topples to the zeound, we hardly expect to believed. Nearly a’l the pro-
* Observer

; Coles’ morality, which he pronounces to be
funjust, uuchrsuan ad [ kuow not what ese.
Mt d kuow mysell 1 would be very sorry indeed
itu approve in any way of doctrines, either in
politics or in religion, which I beiieved t.. be
idishonest or unchristian. One of the doe-
jtrimes attributed to Mr. Coles i * Observer's ”
/own words, is, “A thing is right and just in itselt,
vut because there is a certain number agaist if,
it becuracs wrous.”” i, tur one, subserihe t
no such doctrine, aud I believe that Mr. Cules
would be about the last man in the
feouutry to give his asseut to it. The
(Cathoiics of this [stand have good reason
}to know that be is not the man to desert |
la cause merely because numerous and powerty land pears, there are ATAapes,
enemies are arrayed against it. What I do say |
is, that it is sumetimes most UnWise, Lat, the
iy Some Cases It is even Criminal, percistentiy to
urge claims about the justice of which there
cau be nu doubt. | have no wish to evter int
a theviosieal Controversey with ihe learned
+ Observer,’ but I don’t think that iat would be
very ditticu ttu prove tiom the Sacred Ws itines
lthat forbearance ts a christian virtue, and that
jit 13 not always expedicut to insist upon ou
iawful rights.
sistiug on a right, we can see no tai prosper
of success; if it can be shewn that. by i
sisting, we would on Vv raise strife aid du ou

accuses me of end Orsing M: Disseienads altiei ‘lie tienen okiceaten Manele
Pear, beans, cabba se, turnips, potatoes, curwne-
hers, lettuce, &¢., zrow in the vardens of the
of the colonists, and their fa ms produce,wieas,
harley—we are not clear as to outs—maize,
dho land other sram not known in these paris,te
vhich ave te be added the surar enue, the to

jhacco and cotton plants, and the cuTee and the

linulbervy trees. Somethin, too, is said of the
cullivation of tea.
that grow and flourish in Natal is enough to
Jesides apples, plums

inake Our mouths water.

ple apples, |
pyran res, naartjes, whatever they may be— |
shaddocks, cusia d appies, iemons, citrons,
suavas, peaches, apricots, baananas, plantains
aud melons, A Country that can raise its own

bread, its heef, its cotton, its tea, its coltee,

iS suzal, its tobaces, its sik, its wool, and

nearly every other necessary and luxury used

sige. hy civilised men, without being unhealthy or
It, in pursing a claim, or in i j

necessaiily badly goverred, must indeed be a

i
Measant pliuce to live in—almost a H awradige One
| ree . . °
uit would thisk. Then for minerals, there are |
seiVes serious lijury, and, afterall, notsucce ' ‘i i Sedans fi 3

as is val and iren, and indications of conper ¢
in accomplishing our ends, woud it not b — oe ow * ee apyper and
}yur duty, ty postpone our exertions until a mb lead, to say nothing of the vod elds lately!

r W hat ie
possessed of Common sense, would enter acu
test ju which he would be sure to receive haid
blows aud incur much obloquy, with the mora
certainty that the struscle weuld be in vain?
i Mr. Coles acd tis Catholic supporters were i Great niuce. the roid Beide are abut
precisely such a situation dusing part of the is ; j

propitious season shoud arrive To teil the toute, the

, | discovered,
eX ily in the colony, aud there are som sisht
Pelore the ecter

obstacles tu be surmounted

© d S titi |
Int «|
SOO miles |

ne
nee, the coun

prisins colonists can make it their awn,

Sessiow ol the Le risiature, Tiey Saw cleasari\ from — i i pa’ tne secu a

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that there woud be au overs heuning uw open

tryvi) their iminecdate viemnuity is oceuried by ta
hou ean fring 40 000 |
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fed and the other 10 |
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one of w

lin the House of Assembly arainst endowis gavase chiefs
denominational seco s, and they were mora
thet the P t poputstion of t

Colony, almost tu a mats, strousiy disapproce

j 4 ‘ .
a jarmed warriors int) the
certain testa " ,
} O00. Oue iacty) dicative of the dis; csition cf the

of such a potiey, Under these ciccumstances. ; atoreswid savarces towards prospecting Slranzers |
what course was left them to pursue except th
one thy tulosed? The usual comme

places ebout doing justice and about carrvii

vith white faces, struck us as peculiarly signifi
The discove er, a German, Herr, Mauch

yname, had to diz out his s ecimens with his

"amt.

jou priucipies at aii haszards, are what or
Yankee neighbors very pra ce ly denominat
‘tail talk.” Those omy Can do justice wk
have the power to do “a and iw one deservin :
the uae of politician woud use means to ca:

‘ners ora pocket kyife, we forget which, not

daring to use a pick or a erowhar, Se jealou-

tad susptcious were the native inbalstants Ts

what }

Dretors|

come to speak of the productions of its soil,.|

Jaber deaderetip otf Mr. Sumuci N. Earle. Too

British in South Atrica has for some years bee
Jndeed considerabie terrire
| which was at one time under British sway

| non-wegressive.

been shaken off und the inhabitants have beg
| permitted to erect petty kingdoms and repablig:

| in theimmediate vicinity of the British coloni
| These Lilipytian States,some inhabited by w
savazes and others by half suvayes, wre

Que oft

;
'
| tinustly at war with each other.
lthe Bashutos, getsing tied of independence

) begued to be permitted again to enjoy the
ivantage of British rule. A considerable pa
| i» the colony ure im favour of giving the save
| yes another trial, but they see ciearly enc
lif the Bashutos become British subjects th

| Govermmeut of the cvolony will be heid res;

tsihle for any owsrages they may comamit on t

ueighbouring Free Sretes, with whiea they
lin now a state of chronic warfare. To
| this difficulty it is propesed to take both
}belligerents under British cule. It seems t

| the whole of the Free States are sick and
of the burdens, the cares and the disquiet
fof independence, ard would g!adly exe

|} that state for one, which if leas dignidied, w
he more tranquil snd more secure.

| We have outs space remaining to makes
i

}

few statemeots relative to the social state of

j

inhabitants of Natal The farms in. the
tnhabi
Lsenttered over a wide extent of coautry. 7
by

Cattle st
Tt is an exce
bingiy difieult mxstter to trace out the offende

lare very larze, and the white

| natives we pretty numerons,
Pmeans vente. and net sivilized.

haus is a very eormmon crime.
bet where thes are found thes meet. wi
"Lhe re
dy proposed is te bold the whole tribe

sponsible for the offence of the individ

jsummary aad severe chastisement.

rember, and so make it the interest of the”
biscks themselves te put astop te the perpe
‘tration of the evwardly and ervel crime”

j
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| Out ates of another nature are by no mea

infreque t, if we are to judse by the pay
Fhe punishment to be detterreni
hromst we suppose be very severe. It isin

|

betore us.
it ~oibiy se. A movement has been set on
tu educate the biacks, but the example of viciow”
whites and the demeorakaing influence of rome

A mere list of the frutis| will, we fear, counteract the well meant effoit

of pinksnthropests.

Ih is somewhat singular that the name of the
wan whe i sv mach talked of in every part d
the world where the Knziish language is spoker
is barely mentioned in these newspapers. The”
existance oF Bishop Colenso is almost complete

lv ignored by the journalists of Nagal. i
-- -------2 ee |

THe Dramatic Club, snd the Charlottetown
Amateur Christy Minsirels, aceording to am
vouncement gate = grand pestormauce at St.
Audrew's thatl on Lhomduy evening last for the
bem fi ot Mr fh Viesseombe. The mtroductory

part of ibe prrio:mancre was, the * Kipling

Psiceuwn Galop.” whieh war played mn good style,
lby ont disiunguiehed Pianist SN. Karle, and H.

Vionieou be, the talented Viehinist, aller which
he Diaaate Cinb, gave ue ~ O'Callaghan on
is Last legs,” whieb was rendered and adwirably —

pecierwed, All the Amateurs sequitted them |
scisee Well i this prece * Panrua Ergo” was
tir te x! piece of music given,—it wae payed by
particular request. by Messrs. Earle aug Vinu-
combe 5 alter Whiek, ier the first tine here, “Lhe
Cuarlottetown Amateur Choets Minstrels’ come
wiward on the Stage, aod gate ute buth Vocal
vod Laethomental, whieh echipsed anything of the —
kind, by lar, ever auetupied bere betore, The
iwurical patlot the poilemmanee was under the

raat

aa

much praise cannel be given to our Minstrels tot
tee able maureen io winch they pertonmed on”
Miuuuay Mert-. Botes ane Pompey “ f
woeriny of particular wentlen, Phe Missirelé
ieod ising a gratd Ceneert in the Peuperavce
tial, ou Titiesday evening neat; ail lovers of
good titieic WOU do Weill lo attend — Com.

siiel,

————-3 io

We observe in many of our exchange paper

‘olve or resign Parhament until an appeal ean be |

outa principle which were calculated to defe
the recognition of that principle iodetinitels
If “ Observer’ is so indi rnant at some of ou
politicians hesitating in the face of a hosti.
majovity to press a measure which they be
lieve te he good, but know’ to be unponular,

sinuch ta be feared that many valuable lives
will be fost before the first crushing mill is
erected at the Now South Aimean x lddigvi ig-.
but Coal aud tron, which are after ail much

more necessary to toe development of the new

The bosh Chareb gtestion to a debate until he!

3 20's 7U$; Bread. ,

w at does he think of the morality of the Con
ise; Vative statesmen of EKugzland who aetualls
‘adhd what they heleved to be wrony, heeause
ithe Parisment and the ¢ vuntry required it? TL:

we do not find political morality. among the
C vservatives of England, it is rather a hope.

le-s besiness to look for it among the Liberais
of Prince Edward Island.
] elizious animosities, “ Ohserver"’ rensar':s,
are 1ot to last forever, History ands wever, cell us that such disagreements ar
leraily louslived. If “Observer” carried

sl raciice tis own pilucioles, he wotild have Li

fives Some credit to those | Per

: ‘
nm in

colony, are tound in abundance. Experiments

were beins made to teat the qualities of the

Natal coal, some of which proved highly satis

factory, and some quite the reverse.
To give our readves an idea of the present!
state of the exert trad

ot Natal, we msec |
|

] helow the account of

|

for Loodon laden with the produce of the colony,
the value of whch amonauted ty £LY1S4 ster
,%

By

em for Leoiton :

a4 bh alee Bee v = wal Bz

Piotestants wh-
dacs of persecution aid proweriptio : : he 7s om
, Ati tusk SJ earen 62 pieces very 250 the
OW bape 347 sucks muretived sugsr 2°77 cw.
Y cose ntrowroet bewt.
ZO bales back shine 2047
Soaoox ane cow bocke
i ox nnd cow lides 40 j owt
' 3 rhinaeeros berne, 300 ibe
660 cheep ekpos
4 cdaer Cayenne pepper, 7 Cwt
t let bowes. 5 tons.

The barbouss oi Neial ace bad,

steed by the side of the Catholics and ananfilly
fourht their battles with them. To do this
requi (dive smail amount of moral crave on
therr part. They were traduced, abused and |
mesreor sented: their nages were litecal ¢ cust
out as evil be a very larze portion of their co

visis, because they remaiied qeue te }
they Catholic fellow Liherals; asd no Prites- |
tant Fought move stoutly iu that struggle than |

|

relici

Tais is one

bot tie reign ot Geoge IL—Neo IL ;

i ‘
the carve of a vese:s bound | 0" Dewd— Quack lewedies tor Lreland— Orn out —

a detailed repertef a conversation between the”
Fenian aoeereant, Whalen, and hie fellow pre -
beoner, Diyie ‘Thee of our renders whe bare
seen tides fepert wil, we (Chink, agree with we
bat, ae ve goed car result from ite publiewtion, —
we de well io eyare them the infietion of 6 —
columa of low and blasphemous blackguardiom |
iu this conversation Whelan cConicssed to bev
wurdered the livu dd. D MeGee.

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The contents of Blackwood's Magazine fot
Apri are :— Horace tie Causes of tis Poputarili
Linda Liusseli- pit Vil; Histories! sketebed
or; Wiliam Eocupudetonne Aytoun ; Cornelive |

Parineis in ite Gand Coullon—A New Ope —
bieg tor Younger Sea—-On * Getting benind (be
Pompe; Chariot Kean and the Modern Stages
(Phe New Nostius jor Ireland—A Song; The

Battle ior Piace Wieever wishes to view the

feish Chueh Queten trem a high Dery stand

petit, eoute hei a berter thew read * Cornet :

O'tiowa’s Quack Readies ter Lreiand.” Tee
gottat Celie ine @iieacty witler in a very
ener Coat Cee may ct bie ie very wialhy
Co prep wea relurparden
~~ em
hiwava~ deo Te pert of the Pewrnm of
TRI) Asretioren, aeiisied w inet week & Bote

wer. tours jie oieecond potsgraph, ter”
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