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(From the London Daily Telegraph.)
After the review was fairly over, the Royal
personages dismoumed aud re-entered their
warriages, which had been keptin waiting.
The Limperor Napolvou the Crear, and his
two suns get into pne, the King of Prussia
and the Euipress into another, Lscorted by
Cent Gardes they proceeded towardes Paris,
but ataslow pice, the throng of equipages
tendering anything like rapid movements ti
Nip OF the terrible incident that
vllowed it is not easy to give the exact par
Uculors, tor every individusl who witnessed
it gives a diferent account trom his feilow,
On reaching the cascade, not fur from Jsaron
Rothchild'’s house, a shot was fred, according
to one account, froma tree. Which, like ali
the others in the neighborhood, was. filled
with occupants; according to most other
statements from amid the crowd standing to
view the cortege, a young man waa seen to
raise his hand, point a pistol, and fire, first
one shot and then a seeond, atthe carriage
in which the Emperor Nupoleon was sented
boside his guest. The Linperor’s groom for-
tunately perceived the uplitced hand in tine,
and wade his horse spring forward. The
bullet passed through the animal's nostrils,
and then right across tho'cafriuge between its
distinguished occupants, wounding a lidy on
the other side.—The shot, hurriedly fred
burst the pistol, and the would-beeussassin
fell to the ground witha cry of pain, his hand
shuttered by the explosion. ‘Dae people aur-
rounding the spot at once seized him, and
were upparently with diffleulty restrained
from administering Lynch low there and then.
The effect produced on the illustrious person-
ages Was notvery remarkuble. The Emperor
Napoleon, it is stated, turned very pale, but
at once rose in his seat and pointed to the
perpetrator, ‘ho Czar and his two sons sat
48 unconcerned as if being made a target for
patriotic pistols was an every-day incident in
their lives, The King of Prussia and the
Empress looked more deeply moved than any
of tie others. After a slight delay, however,
the cortege resuined its progress, loudly
cheered by the spectators, who were new
surging with uncontrollable excitement. Here
I must stop till Lascertuin further particulars.
But I can give you no idea of the strong and
varied feelings which now occupy the minds
of the Parisians, All their traditional syta-
pathy for Poland does not make them in the
least inclined to sympathise with a regicide,
and they ure furious that their character for
corteous hospitulity should for a moment
sutfer by the criminal fanwucism which could
imagine that the wrongs of Poland might be
righted by the murder at broad noon of one
to whom the ** heritage of triumphant w A
has only descended fromthe actual per;
tors,
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
Tt appears that the Emperor Nuapoleon’s
uniforin was soiled by the explosion of the
assassin’s pistol. The Kmperor immediately
rose, apparently to point out the spot whence
the shot had been fired. Cries of * Vive
VEmpereur!” were heard in all directions.
In the course of the evening numbers of
persons of all ranks lett their names at the
uileries and the Hiysee.
‘The following is the official account of the
attempted assassination published in the Mon-
iteur-—‘t Yesterday, while the review was
being, held in the Bois de Boulogne, amid
an immense and indescribably enthusiastic
crowd, an individual, who calls himself a
Pole, fired a pistol at the carriage in which
the Emperor of Russia and his two sons were
seated. ‘he ball struck the head of the
groom in waiting, who was riding at the door
of the carriage. The Weapon burst in the
hand of the assassin, who was arrested by the
crowd. The interference of the police was
necessary to save him from the rage of the
populace. Noone was hurt. The assassin
declared his name to Le Beregowski, andthat
‘he was a native of Volhynia,”
After the attempt upon the life of the Czar,
the Emperor Napoleon, turning towards the
Emperor Alexander, smiling, said, ‘* Sire,we
have been under fire together.” The Czar
replied, ‘* Our destinies ure in the hands of
Providence.”
The Temps publishes a letter signed by
several Poles, expressing the sorrow and re-
probation which the attempt inspired in the
minds of all Poles.
The lady wounded is Madame Saborie, tho
wife of a Councillor General of Turin. The
Emperor Napoleon has conferred the cross of
the Legion of Honor upon the groom in wuait-
ing, Raimbaud. ‘Lhe horse of the latter died
last night.
Beregowski,the Pole,who made the attempt
on the Czar’s lite, was examined on the 7th
inst, and the following information elicited
from the prisoner, who gave hi8. replies with
great cooiness,
He is twenty years of age, of Polish nation-
ality, and was employed at M. Gouin’s, an
instrument maker, after which at M. Cail’s.
whom he left on the fourth of May, and he
has since been living on his savings,augment-
ed by the pecuniury assistance given to refu-
gees. He was asked, ‘* How could you fire at
# Sovereign, the guest of France, who nour-
ished you?” He replied, with tears in his
eyes, ‘' It is true I committed a great crime
towards France.” ‘‘ But you ran the risk of
killing the Emperor Napoleon.” ‘* No,” he
replied, ‘fa Polish bullet could not go astray.
It must go etraight when aimed at the Czar.
I wished to deliver the world of the Czar, and
the Czar himself of the remoree which must
weigh upon him.” He wasfurther questioned
vy M. M. Routher, and Schormaloff, and in
reply said that ho wag an insurgent at sixteen,
when he broke off all intercourse with his
family. He had not communicated to any
one his intention of assassination for fear of
being betrayed, After the examination Bere-
gowski was perfectly collected. He signed
the reports of the proceedingg and showed no
sorrow, but expressed his regret at not having
been successful.
THE UNDER-GROUND RAILROAD OF
LONDON,
The process of tunneling under the London
streets is very diferent from alike process in
the open country. The material to be pene-
trated is so fuil of delicate channels, which
must not he rudely destroyed, that the labor
is rendered twenty-fold more diMcult and ex-
pensive. There are the water mains with
their connecting pipes; the main or branch
sewers, with their connecting draiis; the gas
mains, with their connecting pipes, and very
often the tubes connecting lung lines of tele-
graph wires. The engineers of the Metro-
politan Railway, which has done so much to
relieve the overcharged road-tariff, had to
romove all these oli tubular channels to the
sides of the roadway, stecring their tunnel in
between with the delicacy ofa surgical opera-
- tion. At one end of the works the black
Styx of London, the old Fleet ditch, had to be
safely caged, and a large boiler-looking tube
running across the roof, 4 one part of the
tunnel, carries it over the heads of the pass-
engers. It was long before people could
believe in this scheme, It was ten years be-
fore the public on paper. and three years in
construction. Jt was for somé time darkty
hinted that the subterranean scheme had been
fonnd impraotible, and that a hole at the two
ends would be all that would come of it. But
the suvcess has been remarkable, rapid aod
rent,
The main tunnel contains a double line of
rails. It is twenty-eight and a half feet high.
and sixteenand a half broad, The branch
tunnel containe n single line of rails, and are
thirteen feot broad and fifteen feet high.—
When the line crosses overany great thorough-
fare, the form of the arth is altered to give it
exteaordinaro strength. Where. dead woight
scope, with its maltiturious ce vesthe roadway
iy paved over. The stations are well-built,
and the carriages broad and well-lighted with
gas. ‘The time consumed in the journey ts
avout onesfourth of the tune taken by omni-
buses, aud alihough the fares of these liter
vehicles have been very greatly reduced, tae
railway lias still the advantage in point of
vheapness. ‘The cost was something like
£950,000 a mite,
The underyzound line has extensions in
Progres* @ostward and westward. On Easter
Munday is Carried 101,493 passengers.
Metaxcmoty Case oF Suicips.— We
regret to have to revord to-day a melan-
choly case of selidestraction, which oc-
curred yesterday morning, at the Citadel
The victim was a soldier of the B0th Regi
ment, named Mamiltun de Villiers, quite a
young man, and, we understand, most
respectably connected. The fteartul act
was committed while the nian was on sen-
try at the Citadel gate, between midnight
sud two o'glock this morning; and his
melancholy fate was not ascertained
until the relict was marched out at the
latter hour, when his lifeless body was
found close to the wicket, with a bullet
Wouud through the leit breast. In conse-
quence of all the gates being closed, the
extreme thickness of the boombproot walls
and the still hour at whieh the rash deed
must have been accomplished, the report
of the musket had not been heard by the
guard, ‘The suicide appears to have been
a determined one, and deeply premedita-
ted,from the fact that, after having opened
the package containing Ins ammunition,
for the purpose ot carrying onthis despe-
rate purpose,he again so carefully made it
up, that at firstit was wondered where he
had obtained the cartridge, He then took
his boot-lace, which he passed through the
rammershead, and, maki git fast to the
tigger, thus obtained tall command of the
musket, which he appears to have placed
against his breast, probably supporting: it
st the wallatthe gate. His death,
itis said, must have been instantancous.
Deceased was aged about 25 years, and
represented as coming from D on, Where
he was aclerk when he enlisted, and hay-
ing respectable and wealthy connections,
with whom he was in the habit ot keeping
up correspondence of kite about some right
he claimed in property or money in their
eave. hese relatiy it is stated, Jad
treated his last applications as offen@ite,
and threatened to report him to. his
minding officer, Despondency had s
seized him, and he had more’ than ever
kept aloof from his comrades, apparently
meditating the foul deed whieh -brought
him to the untimely death of a declared
**suicide.”
A Gnostin A Lonpon SaQuanr.—The
inhabitants of Wolburn-squace, Blooms-
bury, have been annoyed during the past
< by large numbers of the ragged and
noisy population of St. Giles in guest of a
ghost, said to be a denizen of their en-
closed square garden, So great and in-
took Aiteen officers of the rank of General.
eight thousand prisoners, all their arms, |
and inmpense quantities of ammunition,
The result was not credited by the Liber-
als here until the matter was oxplainal by
the exposition ot the successiul treasonalle
plot. No fighting whatever occurred, and
the only shots fired were by the traitors
upon their former conipanions in’ arms,
Whe delivery of the garrison ut the Cross
was complete, and was done under the
supervision and by order of the ollicer of
the day in person, Who was this infamous
traitor, this miserable wretch, this abased
oliver who comtiited that black and
damning wet? Tt was Colonel Miguel Lo-
pez, Who commanded at Chipullepoe as
Governor ot the Castle, and was atterwards
Colonel ot the * Empress” regiment ol
cavalry. He acted as escort to the Em-
press, Ho the bosom tricnd of M
tuilian; aman that had been loaded with
favors by that prince. Maximilian was
god-father to the traite t child, Ue
is unele to Marshal Bazaiae, and had) by
his prowess and gallantry won a decora-
tion of the Legion ot Honor—all to con-
¢lade with an act of treason and infamy,
His price was one thousand ounces or Bix-
teen thousand dollars, but Christ was sold
cheaper., Now, can the liberals, under
such circumstances, shoot theim prisomtr?
As humus beings, having the least claim
to being civiliz sin they do it? Tsay
no, But they 1 already commenced
shooting, by exceuting Colonel Maxinio
Campos, who was taken prisoner at Que-
retaro with all the others, Menileris also
reported shot. Mivamon vas taken in the
streets of the city ou the morning of the
battle by # junior officer of Escobedo’s
command, Tle tried to esenpe into a
» but was pursued and cnught.
non resisted syngly, aid the ollicer
was compelled to use bis arms. He shot
him, wounding him slightly in the cheek,
Latest by Telegraph !
Maximilian Shot!
London, June 80.
At a public breaklast given in honor of
William Lloyd Garrison, yesterday, a let-
ter from the Count of Varis was read,
whieh cuolgised in warm terms the ser-
vices done by Mr. Garrison in the cause
of humanity and freedom,
Me Adams the Minister of the United
States who was absent, also sent a letter,
the tone of which was rather qualified and
reserved,
Rome, June 30.
The Holy Father, both before and after
the grand ceremonies yesterday, and
where le appeared in public, was re-
ceived with the most enthusiastic manifes-
tations of devotion aud attachment; trom
the iuimieuse crowd ot clergy and laymen
gathered from all parts of the world,
Paris, June 30,
ereasing had been the crowd for the last
night or two that police have been told off
for the speeial purpose of maintaining or-
der and making the populace move on,
The excitement appears to date from last
Saturday night, and various absurd ru-
mors of skeletons, women in white, &e.,
are rile, though itis by no means clear who
was the first to detect this supposed ghost-
ly visitor. nor casy to find anyone who
ssert that he has seen any such ap-
i Altera visit to this spot, we
can alirm that the whole evidence of any-
thing out of the common is confined to
the existence ofa patch of light falling
upon an arbour at tie north-east eoruer of
the enclosure, and which is perfeetly evi-
dent to any one looking through the rail-
ings on the west side of the square near
tue spot, The light is, we believe, no-
thing more than that thrown by a gas
lamp at the north end of the square, and
which, passing through a gap in the street,
is cust in a somewhat remarkable manner
upon the spot in question, It the light
were temporarily extinguished, we belicve
that both the ghost and the consequent
excitement would subside simultancously.
Mr. TrosAs Cartyte on A Rumon.—
A‘ Working Man” at Rochdale a few days
since addressed x letter to Mr. Thomas
Carlyele, in which, alter stating that an
‘expression of Mr Ruskin’s that you can-
not go throngh the strects of London with-
out being insulted has gone the round ot
tho papers,” he says, ‘The thing looks
almostineredible, One explanation given
is that your sympathy for Mr. Eyre arous-
ed popular indignation, But the English
people are so notoriously of * pluck’ that I
for one, should have thought that act of
yours would have excited their admira-
tion, even though they might disagree
with the object of that act. How do you
account for the London people's behaviour?
A reply will favor yours, &.” To this
epistie Mr. Carlyle sent the following re-
ply :—** Sir,—The thing now ‘going the
rounds’ is untrae; diverges from the {act
throughout; and in esseitials is curiously
the reverse of the fuct; an ‘incredible’
(and at once forgettable) ‘thing.’ ‘That
is the solution of your dithculty.—T, Car-
LYSLE,—Chelsea, May 23, 1867.”
MEXICO.
IMPERIAL ACOUNT OF MAX'S, SUR-
RENDER,
Up to the 7th tlt., the Imperialists, as
now admitted by the Liberals were suc-
cessful in every engagement. From the
8th to the 15th nothing of importance had
taken place, On the morning oi the 15th
the Imperialists were to have made a gen-
eral attack, and if not successful in routing
the Liberals, at least compel Escobado to
raise the siege, The plans were well laid
und suecess was probable, but there was
a traitor in the camp, by whom probable
victory was turned into an unavoidable
surrender. For several days previous to
the 15th the traitor had been in consulta-
tion with the Liberal General Velez, for-
merly a Reactionest. Ile had sold his
sovereign, his country. his companions in
arms, and his bosom friends, and before
daylight on the 16th ultimo had delivered
his sacred charge of hnman flesh up to his
enemy. Escobedo was aware of the trea-
sonable plot, but was lar from expecting
such results. As evidence that he disbe-
lieved it to the last he would send two
hundred men to take possession of the in-
vulnorable fortification of La Cruz, but he
wes soon apprised of the occupation of
tht main fort without firing ashot. ‘There-
up§n he ordered a force to enter the city,
r the command of Colonel Palacious,
who ook the place by surprise. He sur-
rounded the tent of Maximillian and de-
manded surrender. The Emperor ad-
vanced sword in hand in a dignified and
undaunted manner. He told Colonel
Palacious that he could not surrender to
an officer of inferior grade, and demandeu
the presence of the commander-jo-ehief.
peonses upon it With. unusual forec,the tunnel | General Escobedo, who was a leagno dis-
Tlis Sublime Majesty Abdul Aziz, Sul-
tan of Turky, arrived in this city to-day,
and was received by the Emperor Napol-
eon,
OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF TIL SHOOT-
ING OF MAXIMILLIA!IN /
Washingtoa, July 1.
The following official despu{tches have
been received here s—
South West Pass, Louisiana, June 28th,
1867.—TZo Count Wydenbeack, Austrian Mi-
nister, Washington. —1 came here trom Vera
Cruz to telegraph you of the condemna-
tion and death ot the Emperor Maximilian
ut 7 o'clock on the morning of June LYth.
President Juarez retus.d to deliver up his
body. Signed, GraLrer Lienorr, Com-
minder Austrian Sloop.”
The following was received atthe Navy
Depaitnent to-night :—
United States Steamer Tuconey,
Vera Cruz, June 8th, 1867
To Hon. Gildeon Wells, Secretary of the
Navy :—
Maximillian was shot on the 19th inst.—
Hord begged for his corpse tor the Aus-
tvian captain and was relused. The Ci
of Mexico surrendered to the Liberals.
Vera Cruz holds out on account of the
Foreign Legion. Diaz orders no accept-
ance of its surrender. I am moored be-
tween Nelya and the North Bastion, The
Jason isin company. I write by mail.
(Signed) F, A. Rog, Commander,
London, July Ist.
Tn the House of Commions last evening,
Lord Stanley Secretary of State for foreign
Affairs, stated that his government was
making slow progress in its degotiations
with the Government ofthe United States
in regard to the Alabama case, but he said
he did not despair of alappy resuit. The
Foreign Office would soon jay before the
{louse all the documents and correspond-
ence in the case. A large number ol Fng-
lish claims against the United States had
been filed,
Vienna, July 1.
Baron Von Beust has received the ap-
pointment of Chancellor of the Austrian
impire, an office formerly held by Prince
Metternich,
Paris, July 1, even,
The distribution of prizes took place at
the Internationa) Exposition in the presence
of a vast multitude of spectators who filled
all the aisles and circles of the building
and overflowed tothe garden of the Champ
DeMars. Napoleon and Eugenie with the
Princo Imperial and Prince Napoleon
with their suites, proceeded to the Expo-
sition in eight carriages, each drawn by
six horses, They were accompanied by
the Sultan of ‘Turkey and suite in six
splendid carriages, each drawn by six
horses splendidly comparisoned, When
the inithutory ceremonies were concluded,
the Emperor rose from the throne ani
suid:—*' Peoples and Kings have come
here to crown the idea of peace and con-
ciliation, France is proud to be great,
and tree, yet she is not un-nerved by her
material joys. The thoughtful can see
the national fibres vibrate for the honor of
France,but this noble susceptibility should
not create fears for the world’s repose, as
we here prove our anxiety for peace.”
The Emperor closed his speech by saying:
* This lsxposition marks an era of har-
mony and progress, and the triumph ot
great moral principles which with justice
can alone establish thrones and ennoble
humanity,”
Cincinnati, June 26.
A very large and enthusiastic Fenian
meeting was held here to-night. Addres-
ses were made by James Gibbons of
Philadelphia, Vice-President of the Bro-
therhood, and Mayor McAdams. About
twenty-five young men signed the military
roll and $1,600 were subscribed for tho
purchase of uniforms, &e. After the mect-
ing adjourned Senator J, Wy. Fitzgerald
gallon a secret meeting of the Brotherhood
to, take action in regard to President Rob-
eits, now in Paris.
Now York, July 2---Gold 188.
No notice can be taken of anonymon!
munications We must know the names and
addresses of our correspondents as a guaranty
of their good fiith, We cannot undertake to
resura communications that are not used,
jon «aha “ans oa na
Ws have received a pamphlet of forty-
seven pages, entitled ** Confederation
examined in the Light of Reason and
Common Sense, and the British N. A.
Act shown to be uncoustitutional,” hav-
ing for its author Martin J. Wilkins, Q.
CU. As the two signiticunt letters ap-
pended to the author's name led us to
believe that he must be a lawyer of some
standing, and therefore a scholar and a
gentleman,-and as his subject was a
most important one, we cut the leaves of
the yampblet with the expectation of
reading a temperate, well-reasoned and
scholarly production. We, however,
were sadly disappointed. Anything less
like a calm appeal of a thoughttul man to
the common sense ofis readers, and
more like the passionate declamation of
a heated and unscrupulous partizan, can-
not well be imagined.
Mr. Wilkias, in common with a great
many Colonial small politicians, labors
under the impression that the bull of the
people have a tuste for vilification and
abuse. He evidently thinks that if he
fastens a nickname on an opponent he
has done a very clever thing. He has
consequently disfigured his pamphlet
by language that would be considered
coarse énd ungentlemanly even among
bar-reom politicians, discussing the affairs
of the nation over a half-emptied brandy
bottle.
Mr. Wilkins entertains some very
singular ideas concerning the province of
logic... Among the propositions which he
promises his readers to prove, ** by argu-
ments logical,conclusive and irrefragible,”’
we find the three followings ‘* That the
Province (Nova Scotia) under Contfed-
eration would,in a financial point of view,
be reduced to ruin. ‘hat the Canadas
would dispose of our fisheries to obtyin
commercial’ advantages to themselves
from the United States.” * That the
Canadas, if Confederation be accepted
by Nova Scotia, will sell our railroads to
pay off our public debts, and will keep
our money into the bargain.”
Common sense in Neva Scotia and
common sense in Prince Edward Island
are very different things indeed, if Mr.
Wilkins did not utterly ignore it when
he penned these propositions, Any one
wlio possesses the smallest share of that
rare but iuvaluable commodity in P. 1.
Island, will tell him that it is utterly
impossible to prove by argument how
any man, or any body of men, will act in
the future, Conjectures and predictions
may be sagacious and probable, but it is
beyond the power of logic to prove them.
Would not Mr, Witkins make a laughing
stock of himself, if in his place in Court,
he offered to prove to the jury, * by
arguments logical, conclusive and irre-
fragible,” that Brown would at some
future time steal his neighbor's purse and
ham-stiing his neighbor's horses; or
that Robinson, if perinitted to escape
justice, would one fine morning murder
Jones's baby, set fire to Smith's house,
and afterwards cut his own wortiless
throat from ear to ear. The Nova
Scotia Queen’s Counsel would, of course,
never, while in his sober scnses, make
such a fuol of himself. Yet we ask any
man of common sense if, in promising te
establish by argument a set of equally
improbable and unprovable assumptions
and predictions, he. is not acting a part
equally unworthy a reasonuble man, and
y|one whose business it is to convince
others by argument.
’ Mr. Wilkins is not areasoner, and our
faith is not strong enough to believe that
he is a prophet. Our author affirms that
the B.N.A. Colonies will acquire nothing
under Confederation that they do not
enjoy already; but by the context we
glean:that he means to say that Confed-
eration will not give those Colonies any
advantages which they might not have
obtained without it. Without Confed-
eration they might have Free ‘Trade, a
common Military organization, an inter-
colonial Railroad, a common currency
and a general system of postal regula-
tions, &c. We have heard all this be-
fore, but our answer is that though it is
barely possible that Colonial politicians
under the policy of isolation might so fur
forget their mutual jealousies and anti-
pathiesas to make some advances towards
procuring these good things, it is exceed-
ingly improbable that they ever would
obtain them. We know thatin the year
of Grace 1866 there was not the remotest
prospect of getting them without Con-
federation,
But if we understand Mr. Wilkins
aright, he is fur from thinking inter-
colonial free trade a good thing. He.
would, it seems from what he has writ-
ten, wish to see each colony widely sepa-
rated from every other colony as possible.
Tie would like tosee Nova Scotia farmers,
fishermen, and manufacturers protected
by hostile tariffs from competition with
the farmers, fishermen, and mannfac-
turers of Canada, New Brunswick, and
Prince Edward Island. If each of the
above named colonies pursued the same
enlightened ani’ liberal policy, and pro-
tected every native industry with jealous
care, these colonies would present to the
world a truly singular appearance. Half
a dozen miniature and utterly insignificant
Chinas would be seen vegetating on this
northern portion of the American Con-
tinent, all inhabited by men of the same
race, and all under the dominion of a
common sovereign. Such is not the
fate that a true patriot and an enlightened
statesman would wish for those fine pro-
vinces.
Canada is the great bugbear with which
Mr. Wilkins and the other Anti-unionists
of Nova Scotia endeavor to frighten the
people. Canada is his bete noir, Cana-
dian politicians are too astute for simple
confiding men of the maritime provinces.
Cunadians will tyrannize over their fellow
colonista near the sea. Canadians have
devised this scheme of Confederation,
be the people of Nova Scotia, It will
be to their interest to keep taxation
down to the lowest point possible, and
it will also be their interest to develope
to the utmost the resources of every part
of territory of the New Dominion.
Nova Scotia well governed and prosper-
ous, will Sea mach better and more
profitable neighbor to Cauada than Nova
Scotia, poor and ill governed. The
Canadians have, no doubt, sense enough
to see this, Besides it is very improiu-
ble that parties in Canada will sink their
differences and unite to plunder the
Maritime Provinces. There is at present,
at any rate, very little prospeet of such
a miraculous change. So tar from this
being the case, we should not at all
wonder if in the popular branch of the
New Dominion, the Representatives of
theMaritime Provinces, when they choose
to unite to accomplish a given object,
will, owing to the balance of parties in
the Canadas, be able to effect much
more than their numbers, and the popu-
lation of the countries which they repre-
sent would warrant us to expect. We
have neitver time, space, nor ability to
examine the legal argumentation of the
Nova Scotian pamphleteer, but if his
law is not sounder than his political
economy, we imagine that his pleadings
will have very litle effect upon the minds
of those who have in their hands the
political future of Nova Scotia, As the
Coustitutionality of the B. A Act, Mr.
Wilkins will pardon us if we pay greater
respect to te dispassionate, well cou-
sidered opinion of the learned and vener-
able Judge Jounston, than to the hasty
and heated utterances of a partizan law-
yer, Whose intention is evideatly to gain
votes for his party by hook or by cruok,
by fair means or foul. brom an address
of Judge Johnston, of Cumberland Coun-
ty, to the Grend Jury we estract the
tollowing passage :—
The moment we become an integral
part of the Dominion of Canada, it is the
duty of us all to pray lor the wellare of
tue Dominion of Canada, because on that
prosperity rests indissolubly the prosperity
of Novascotia. Lhe law weare all pound
to observe. ‘Lhe measure to which 1 re-
fer has been passed by the highest legal
authority kuown to the Brisa Constitu-
tion, ‘Lo that all must bow, both those
Who approve and those who disapprove of
the measure,
*'Lhere is this to encourage all who are
timid and teartul of the result, that they
have in favor of the measure the opinions
of men whose views are entitled to great
respect. We cannot but believe that the
opinions in favor of tie measure of those
great nen in England, whose edocation,
talents, taining of mind, and habits ot
thought have ied them to understand the
nature of governments und the elfe¢gts of
Constitutions, are enuitied to great weight.
We cannot imagine, woen we tiud a large
vody of the highest stutesmen in Bagtiud,
concurring With altuost unparalleled Una-
uimity, in an opinion iavoravle to the
measure, that it can be so disastrous in its
results us sume seem to think. ‘Lhis is a
consolation to those Who fear its results.”
THE DEPARTURE OF THE
TROOPS,
We sce by the last Islander that the
soldiers left the Island on ‘Thursday last.
This is a circumstance which may be
deeply regretted and loudly deplored by
a tew forsaken females and others resident
in and near the metropolis, but we do
not think that the people of the Island
in general have much cause to lament
their departure. ‘The soldiers and their
officers may have added somewhat to the
gayety of Charlottetown, and they cer-
tainly spent a good deal of money among
its citizens; but afterall a garrison, if it
contributes to the liveliness of a country
town, by no means improves its morals ;
and that country must be poor indeed in
which the loss of the money spent by one
or two hundred soldiers will ve for any
length of time very sensibly felt. The
farmers of the Island will tind that the
departure of the garrison will not cause
a very great fall in the price of farm
produce, and the forsaken females afore-
said will have to console themselves with
homespun sweethearts, who will in all
probability prove more constant as lovers,
and in every way more eligible as hus-,
bands, than the irresistible but incon-
stant warriors in scarlet uniforms.
That the soldiery are required to _pre-
serve the peace of the colony, is an idea
that no one at all acquainted with its
inhabitants, for a moment supposes.
We say without fear of contradiction
that the people of this Island are as
easily governed as any other under the
sun. ‘Lhey ure peaceable and law abid-
ing. Breaches of the peace are exceed-
ingly rare, and murder is almost unknown.
It is true that the Tenant League caused
some trouble in the country. Many
otherwise quiet and orderly citizens were
persuaded by a number of fanatical and
ignorant politicians, that they could re-
sist the collection of rent without violat-
ing the law, and without rebelling against
the authority of the Queen. ‘Ihese, ab-
surd as they may now appear to most
readers, were the honest convictions of
quite a number of worthy people in
Queen's County particulurly, They be-
lieved that the proprietors had no right
to their rents, and they were persuaded
that they were doing nothing wrong in
offering resistance to their collection.
And after all what did the resistance
amount to, no lives were lost, no blood
spilt, and we believe no bones wers
broken. ‘There wasa good deal ofnoise,—
speechifying, tin trumpet braying and
the like, but very little serious disorder.
Besides the agitation, such as it was,
was by no means general. Prince County
was not at all moved by it, and but a
very sinall portion of King’s.
The Sheriff's officer—Curtis—from, all
that we can hear, was just the wrong
man to send among the people at such a
time. It was only a day or two ago that
we heard the gentleman who held the
office of High Sheriff in King's County
during that troubled time, say that he
‘had to do business with some of the
in similar terms. If the for
Queen's County had been a sober, prad-
ent man, it is not at all improbable that
the government of the day never would
have had the slightest reason to apply for.
troops to keep the peace. They have,
however, done no harm. The Leaguérs
have learned the salutary lesson that the
law cannot be broken or evaded with ims
punity. And now that the troops have
taken their leave of the Island, we are
under no apprehension for the peace of.
the country, A man’s person, property,
and life are just as secure in this Island
as in the heart of any garrison town in
Great Britain or the Provinces,
Our readers will see by this day's
telegraphic summary that the Mexican
savages have shot Maximilian, The act
was one of wanton barbarity, From
what we have read of Maximilian, we
believe that he was a wise ruler anda
gallant gentleman, far too good a sover-
eign for the turbulent, brutal, and withal
cowardly Mexicans whom he, in an evil
hour consented to rule. Itis very singu-
lur that the Mexican General Juarez has
been permitted thus to outrage the fecl-
ings of the civilized world, by the com-
mittal of a crime at which men in futuro
times will shudder to read of. We hope
and believe that punishment will sooner
or later be inflicted on not only the.
principal perpetrators of this cold-blooded
murder, but on the whole nation to whom
they belong. Men capable of such a.
crime are not fit to rule a free country
in this age of the world, and the sooner
Mexico goes into possession of some
civilized nation the better for its inhabi-
tants. It is a deplorable thing to see a
fine country of such vast resources in the’
possession or men who have proved
themselves incapable of either improving
or governing it. It is very little odds
whose hands it falls into, whether those
of France, the United States or England,
as long as the Mexicans themselves are
not permitted to ruin it. As our con-
temporary, the St. John Morning Journal
says, the Mexicans are utterly unfit for
self government,
Tux following are the names of the
Wesleyan Ministers, and the Stations to
which they have been appointed by tho.
Conference :—
Chavlottetown—Geo, S, Milligan,A.M.,
R. Johuson, M. D., Sup'y,
Cornwall, &&—S. W. Sprague.
Pownal—F. W. Moore.
Bedeque—Richd, Weedall.
quested,
Margate—W.W.Colpitts.
Sumimerside—Jos, Gaetz; J.B. Strong,
Supy. ‘The brethren at Margate and
Summerside to interchange,
Souris, G—One wanted.
Murray Harbor-—Jabez A, Rogers.
West Cape, &€—G:W.Dockrill,
Harp to Byat.—Mr Edward Henry's
Shingle Mill sawed, on Friday last, 17,000
shingles from sun to sun, with a handfal
of minutes to spare. The Mill which did
this large day’s work is wholly of Island
manulacture, being built by Mr. Nelson
Burns, of Freetown, a native of the Island.
Our informant tells us that these Shingles
were well sawed, and altogether a prime
article, We do not think that there aro
many shingle mills of a similar construc-
tion in the Island or out of it that can
beat this day's work,
One re-
tr WE aro much pleased to be able to
intorm our readers that the high tide of
Monday morning flouted off the Hon. J.C.
Pope's new ship, which had untortunately
stuck on the ways when launched. The
tide was an uncommonly high one,
ta Tue weather has of late been very
pleasant. Lhe crops look well, The hay
promises to be more than an average crop,
Strawberries ave come. We don't think
thut the sun shines on a prettivr countrys
than this Island, seen at this season of the
year,
Surrsme Court.—The Trinity Term of
the Supreme Court for Queen’s County come
menced yesterday — Chief Justice Hodgson
presiding.—The business of the Court consists
of nineteen record cases, four summury suits,
and eight appeals. he Criminal Calendar
is very light, consisting of threy or four cases. )
ie fullowing are the names of the Grand
urors ;—
F. W. Hales, City, foreman; John C. Binna
New Glasgow; Samuel Hyde, West River;
Benj. Wright, Royalty; Wm. McGill, City;
A. Simpson, Lot 21; A. Robertson, Lot “4
Henry Holl, Princetown Road; Wm. Heard,
City; Jolin Drake, West River; David Lawe
son, Covehead; John Mutch, Lot 48; George
Beer, City; C. A. Hyndman, City; J. Leard,.
New Glasgow Road; George McGuigan, Lot
83; Mark Inman, Lot 29; John Leach, Stan-
hope; Thomas Delany, City — Her.
Burcrary.—We learn that the store of I. |
C, Hall, Esq., was burglarously entered on
Saturday night last, and # small sum in cop."
pers wken therefrom. The thiet cut out a
panel of the shop door with a knife, and thus
etiected an entrance. As he must havetuken
considerable time in sloing og thefacts speake
well for the vigilance of the Police,
The office of the Steam Boat Company
was also broken into, and a swa h sun of
money stolen therefrom.=+/b,.
Duownen at Magaguadavie on the t Of ¢
the 23 inst., from the brig Union of ae ° .
drews, Thovias Hughes,ot Summerside, P.E.1,
Deceased was about 21 years of age. He
went ashore with a companion about 4 o'clock
in the evening to get a tooth extracted and on
returning between 12 and 1 accidentally fel}
from the boat and was drowned. ‘The body
was recovered next day and an inquest held
before Mr. Valentine, Coroner, and Mr.Mess~
enet. ‘The body received a Christian burial,”
‘Lhe testimony went to slow that Hughes w:
sober, but that his companion was intoxicated
and having fallen asleep in the boat did not
know what had happened until a fr
his stupor.——-S¢ Grovz Courter
_ Hanferd’s Prices Current for July 3 have ~
just been received. An advance of fifty
cents per barrel on flour is reported in the
Canada Market, and prices in St. John
are something higher. Oats are scarce,
Oatmeal has fallen a little, and a large
quantity is in the market.
Children often look Pale and Bick’ from
no other cause than having yan =
stomach, Brown's ‘‘ vermifuge comfts ” 9
destroy worms without on! to the
Children having worms ire
attention, as neglect of the trouble
causes prolonged elckness.
NAL,
THURSDAY, JU
Le een aasnennrrccenecie aed
LY
4, 1867.
UR
Sa mae < saan ss ——— = = === ae
. ime a i i |roughest characters in his County during
Rn adi, “yarve tb like ot apple with a hole through it—solid) tant, was sent for, and.on his arcival re- ay R) and Canadians alone will be benefitted roug ae
€ nga i Paper me Litlodeork betes ae weil ay above. In no ceived the sworl of Maximillian, which, Summerside ournal, by it. Now this jealousy of Canada is/the agitation, and that be had mot as
veneers eee | ORME BDO Chere lees than halfa dagen rings of peport says, wae Helly decorated with 7" in our opinion execedingly foolish, Ca-) mach as an uncivil word said to bim, If
THR ATTEMYT TO As | triek, and over the outside arch is a on of diamoats aad valucd aan immense enn | TAURSDAY, JULY 4, 1867. nadiaus will be just as deeply interested | we recollect aright, we heard the pes |
pupoees heep co Ba el "heen ts ee [BU nmey. Borie HOw teats inate) ered in the well being of the Dominion as will] Sheriff of Prince County express
(From the London Daily Telegraph.)
After the review was fairly over, the Royal
personages dismoumed aud re-entered their
warriages, which had been keptin waiting.
The Limperor Napolvou the Crear, and his
two suns get into pne, the King of Prussia
and the Euipress into another, Lscorted by
Cent Gardes they proceeded towardes Paris,
but ataslow pice, the throng of equipages
tendering anything like rapid movements ti
Nip OF the terrible incident that
vllowed it is not easy to give the exact par
Uculors, tor every individusl who witnessed
it gives a diferent account trom his feilow,
On reaching the cascade, not fur from Jsaron
Rothchild'’s house, a shot was fred, according
to one account, froma tree. Which, like ali
the others in the neighborhood, was. filled
with occupants; according to most other
statements from amid the crowd standing to
view the cortege, a young man waa seen to
raise his hand, point a pistol, and fire, first
one shot and then a seeond, atthe carriage
in which the Emperor Nupoleon was sented
boside his guest. The Linperor’s groom for-
tunately perceived the uplitced hand in tine,
and wade his horse spring forward. The
bullet passed through the animal's nostrils,
and then right across tho'cafriuge between its
distinguished occupants, wounding a lidy on
the other side.—The shot, hurriedly fred
burst the pistol, and the would-beeussassin
fell to the ground witha cry of pain, his hand
shuttered by the explosion. ‘Dae people aur-
rounding the spot at once seized him, and
were upparently with diffleulty restrained
from administering Lynch low there and then.
The effect produced on the illustrious person-
ages Was notvery remarkuble. The Emperor
Napoleon, it is stated, turned very pale, but
at once rose in his seat and pointed to the
perpetrator, ‘ho Czar and his two sons sat
48 unconcerned as if being made a target for
patriotic pistols was an every-day incident in
their lives, The King of Prussia and the
Empress looked more deeply moved than any
of tie others. After a slight delay, however,
the cortege resuined its progress, loudly
cheered by the spectators, who were new
surging with uncontrollable excitement. Here
I must stop till Lascertuin further particulars.
But I can give you no idea of the strong and
varied feelings which now occupy the minds
of the Parisians, All their traditional syta-
pathy for Poland does not make them in the
least inclined to sympathise with a regicide,
and they ure furious that their character for
corteous hospitulity should for a moment
sutfer by the criminal fanwucism which could
imagine that the wrongs of Poland might be
righted by the murder at broad noon of one
to whom the ** heritage of triumphant w A
has only descended fromthe actual per;
tors,
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
Tt appears that the Emperor Nuapoleon’s
uniforin was soiled by the explosion of the
assassin’s pistol. The Kmperor immediately
rose, apparently to point out the spot whence
the shot had been fired. Cries of * Vive
VEmpereur!” were heard in all directions.
In the course of the evening numbers of
persons of all ranks lett their names at the
uileries and the Hiysee.
‘The following is the official account of the
attempted assassination published in the Mon-
iteur-—‘t Yesterday, while the review was
being, held in the Bois de Boulogne, amid
an immense and indescribably enthusiastic
crowd, an individual, who calls himself a
Pole, fired a pistol at the carriage in which
the Emperor of Russia and his two sons were
seated. ‘he ball struck the head of the
groom in waiting, who was riding at the door
of the carriage. The Weapon burst in the
hand of the assassin, who was arrested by the
crowd. The interference of the police was
necessary to save him from the rage of the
populace. Noone was hurt. The assassin
declared his name to Le Beregowski, andthat
‘he was a native of Volhynia,”
After the attempt upon the life of the Czar,
the Emperor Napoleon, turning towards the
Emperor Alexander, smiling, said, ‘* Sire,we
have been under fire together.” The Czar
replied, ‘* Our destinies ure in the hands of
Providence.”
The Temps publishes a letter signed by
several Poles, expressing the sorrow and re-
probation which the attempt inspired in the
minds of all Poles.
The lady wounded is Madame Saborie, tho
wife of a Councillor General of Turin. The
Emperor Napoleon has conferred the cross of
the Legion of Honor upon the groom in wuait-
ing, Raimbaud. ‘Lhe horse of the latter died
last night.
Beregowski,the Pole,who made the attempt
on the Czar’s lite, was examined on the 7th
inst, and the following information elicited
from the prisoner, who gave hi8. replies with
great cooiness,
He is twenty years of age, of Polish nation-
ality, and was employed at M. Gouin’s, an
instrument maker, after which at M. Cail’s.
whom he left on the fourth of May, and he
has since been living on his savings,augment-
ed by the pecuniury assistance given to refu-
gees. He was asked, ‘* How could you fire at
# Sovereign, the guest of France, who nour-
ished you?” He replied, with tears in his
eyes, ‘' It is true I committed a great crime
towards France.” ‘‘ But you ran the risk of
killing the Emperor Napoleon.” ‘* No,” he
replied, ‘fa Polish bullet could not go astray.
It must go etraight when aimed at the Czar.
I wished to deliver the world of the Czar, and
the Czar himself of the remoree which must
weigh upon him.” He wasfurther questioned
vy M. M. Routher, and Schormaloff, and in
reply said that ho wag an insurgent at sixteen,
when he broke off all intercourse with his
family. He had not communicated to any
one his intention of assassination for fear of
being betrayed, After the examination Bere-
gowski was perfectly collected. He signed
the reports of the proceedingg and showed no
sorrow, but expressed his regret at not having
been successful.
THE UNDER-GROUND RAILROAD OF
LONDON,
The process of tunneling under the London
streets is very diferent from alike process in
the open country. The material to be pene-
trated is so fuil of delicate channels, which
must not he rudely destroyed, that the labor
is rendered twenty-fold more diMcult and ex-
pensive. There are the water mains with
their connecting pipes; the main or branch
sewers, with their connecting draiis; the gas
mains, with their connecting pipes, and very
often the tubes connecting lung lines of tele-
graph wires. The engineers of the Metro-
politan Railway, which has done so much to
relieve the overcharged road-tariff, had to
romove all these oli tubular channels to the
sides of the roadway, stecring their tunnel in
between with the delicacy ofa surgical opera-
- tion. At one end of the works the black
Styx of London, the old Fleet ditch, had to be
safely caged, and a large boiler-looking tube
running across the roof, 4 one part of the
tunnel, carries it over the heads of the pass-
engers. It was long before people could
believe in this scheme, It was ten years be-
fore the public on paper. and three years in
construction. Jt was for somé time darkty
hinted that the subterranean scheme had been
fonnd impraotible, and that a hole at the two
ends would be all that would come of it. But
the suvcess has been remarkable, rapid aod
rent,
The main tunnel contains a double line of
rails. It is twenty-eight and a half feet high.
and sixteenand a half broad, The branch
tunnel containe n single line of rails, and are
thirteen feot broad and fifteen feet high.—
When the line crosses overany great thorough-
fare, the form of the arth is altered to give it
exteaordinaro strength. Where. dead woight
scope, with its maltiturious ce vesthe roadway
iy paved over. The stations are well-built,
and the carriages broad and well-lighted with
gas. ‘The time consumed in the journey ts
avout onesfourth of the tune taken by omni-
buses, aud alihough the fares of these liter
vehicles have been very greatly reduced, tae
railway lias still the advantage in point of
vheapness. ‘The cost was something like
£950,000 a mite,
The underyzound line has extensions in
Progres* @ostward and westward. On Easter
Munday is Carried 101,493 passengers.
Metaxcmoty Case oF Suicips.— We
regret to have to revord to-day a melan-
choly case of selidestraction, which oc-
curred yesterday morning, at the Citadel
The victim was a soldier of the B0th Regi
ment, named Mamiltun de Villiers, quite a
young man, and, we understand, most
respectably connected. The fteartul act
was committed while the nian was on sen-
try at the Citadel gate, between midnight
sud two o'glock this morning; and his
melancholy fate was not ascertained
until the relict was marched out at the
latter hour, when his lifeless body was
found close to the wicket, with a bullet
Wouud through the leit breast. In conse-
quence of all the gates being closed, the
extreme thickness of the boombproot walls
and the still hour at whieh the rash deed
must have been accomplished, the report
of the musket had not been heard by the
guard, ‘The suicide appears to have been
a determined one, and deeply premedita-
ted,from the fact that, after having opened
the package containing Ins ammunition,
for the purpose ot carrying onthis despe-
rate purpose,he again so carefully made it
up, that at firstit was wondered where he
had obtained the cartridge, He then took
his boot-lace, which he passed through the
rammershead, and, maki git fast to the
tigger, thus obtained tall command of the
musket, which he appears to have placed
against his breast, probably supporting: it
st the wallatthe gate. His death,
itis said, must have been instantancous.
Deceased was aged about 25 years, and
represented as coming from D on, Where
he was aclerk when he enlisted, and hay-
ing respectable and wealthy connections,
with whom he was in the habit ot keeping
up correspondence of kite about some right
he claimed in property or money in their
eave. hese relatiy it is stated, Jad
treated his last applications as offen@ite,
and threatened to report him to. his
minding officer, Despondency had s
seized him, and he had more’ than ever
kept aloof from his comrades, apparently
meditating the foul deed whieh -brought
him to the untimely death of a declared
**suicide.”
A Gnostin A Lonpon SaQuanr.—The
inhabitants of Wolburn-squace, Blooms-
bury, have been annoyed during the past
< by large numbers of the ragged and
noisy population of St. Giles in guest of a
ghost, said to be a denizen of their en-
closed square garden, So great and in-
took Aiteen officers of the rank of General.
eight thousand prisoners, all their arms, |
and inmpense quantities of ammunition,
The result was not credited by the Liber-
als here until the matter was oxplainal by
the exposition ot the successiul treasonalle
plot. No fighting whatever occurred, and
the only shots fired were by the traitors
upon their former conipanions in’ arms,
Whe delivery of the garrison ut the Cross
was complete, and was done under the
supervision and by order of the ollicer of
the day in person, Who was this infamous
traitor, this miserable wretch, this abased
oliver who comtiited that black and
damning wet? Tt was Colonel Miguel Lo-
pez, Who commanded at Chipullepoe as
Governor ot the Castle, and was atterwards
Colonel ot the * Empress” regiment ol
cavalry. He acted as escort to the Em-
press, Ho the bosom tricnd of M
tuilian; aman that had been loaded with
favors by that prince. Maximilian was
god-father to the traite t child, Ue
is unele to Marshal Bazaiae, and had) by
his prowess and gallantry won a decora-
tion of the Legion ot Honor—all to con-
¢lade with an act of treason and infamy,
His price was one thousand ounces or Bix-
teen thousand dollars, but Christ was sold
cheaper., Now, can the liberals, under
such circumstances, shoot theim prisomtr?
As humus beings, having the least claim
to being civiliz sin they do it? Tsay
no, But they 1 already commenced
shooting, by exceuting Colonel Maxinio
Campos, who was taken prisoner at Que-
retaro with all the others, Menileris also
reported shot. Mivamon vas taken in the
streets of the city ou the morning of the
battle by # junior officer of Escobedo’s
command, Tle tried to esenpe into a
» but was pursued and cnught.
non resisted syngly, aid the ollicer
was compelled to use bis arms. He shot
him, wounding him slightly in the cheek,
Latest by Telegraph !
Maximilian Shot!
London, June 80.
At a public breaklast given in honor of
William Lloyd Garrison, yesterday, a let-
ter from the Count of Varis was read,
whieh cuolgised in warm terms the ser-
vices done by Mr. Garrison in the cause
of humanity and freedom,
Me Adams the Minister of the United
States who was absent, also sent a letter,
the tone of which was rather qualified and
reserved,
Rome, June 30.
The Holy Father, both before and after
the grand ceremonies yesterday, and
where le appeared in public, was re-
ceived with the most enthusiastic manifes-
tations of devotion aud attachment; trom
the iuimieuse crowd ot clergy and laymen
gathered from all parts of the world,
Paris, June 30,
ereasing had been the crowd for the last
night or two that police have been told off
for the speeial purpose of maintaining or-
der and making the populace move on,
The excitement appears to date from last
Saturday night, and various absurd ru-
mors of skeletons, women in white, &e.,
are rile, though itis by no means clear who
was the first to detect this supposed ghost-
ly visitor. nor casy to find anyone who
ssert that he has seen any such ap-
i Altera visit to this spot, we
can alirm that the whole evidence of any-
thing out of the common is confined to
the existence ofa patch of light falling
upon an arbour at tie north-east eoruer of
the enclosure, and which is perfeetly evi-
dent to any one looking through the rail-
ings on the west side of the square near
tue spot, The light is, we believe, no-
thing more than that thrown by a gas
lamp at the north end of the square, and
which, passing through a gap in the street,
is cust in a somewhat remarkable manner
upon the spot in question, It the light
were temporarily extinguished, we belicve
that both the ghost and the consequent
excitement would subside simultancously.
Mr. TrosAs Cartyte on A Rumon.—
A‘ Working Man” at Rochdale a few days
since addressed x letter to Mr. Thomas
Carlyele, in which, alter stating that an
‘expression of Mr Ruskin’s that you can-
not go throngh the strects of London with-
out being insulted has gone the round ot
tho papers,” he says, ‘The thing looks
almostineredible, One explanation given
is that your sympathy for Mr. Eyre arous-
ed popular indignation, But the English
people are so notoriously of * pluck’ that I
for one, should have thought that act of
yours would have excited their admira-
tion, even though they might disagree
with the object of that act. How do you
account for the London people's behaviour?
A reply will favor yours, &.” To this
epistie Mr. Carlyle sent the following re-
ply :—** Sir,—The thing now ‘going the
rounds’ is untrae; diverges from the {act
throughout; and in esseitials is curiously
the reverse of the fuct; an ‘incredible’
(and at once forgettable) ‘thing.’ ‘That
is the solution of your dithculty.—T, Car-
LYSLE,—Chelsea, May 23, 1867.”
MEXICO.
IMPERIAL ACOUNT OF MAX'S, SUR-
RENDER,
Up to the 7th tlt., the Imperialists, as
now admitted by the Liberals were suc-
cessful in every engagement. From the
8th to the 15th nothing of importance had
taken place, On the morning oi the 15th
the Imperialists were to have made a gen-
eral attack, and if not successful in routing
the Liberals, at least compel Escobado to
raise the siege, The plans were well laid
und suecess was probable, but there was
a traitor in the camp, by whom probable
victory was turned into an unavoidable
surrender. For several days previous to
the 15th the traitor had been in consulta-
tion with the Liberal General Velez, for-
merly a Reactionest. Ile had sold his
sovereign, his country. his companions in
arms, and his bosom friends, and before
daylight on the 16th ultimo had delivered
his sacred charge of hnman flesh up to his
enemy. Escobedo was aware of the trea-
sonable plot, but was lar from expecting
such results. As evidence that he disbe-
lieved it to the last he would send two
hundred men to take possession of the in-
vulnorable fortification of La Cruz, but he
wes soon apprised of the occupation of
tht main fort without firing ashot. ‘There-
up§n he ordered a force to enter the city,
r the command of Colonel Palacious,
who ook the place by surprise. He sur-
rounded the tent of Maximillian and de-
manded surrender. The Emperor ad-
vanced sword in hand in a dignified and
undaunted manner. He told Colonel
Palacious that he could not surrender to
an officer of inferior grade, and demandeu
the presence of the commander-jo-ehief.
peonses upon it With. unusual forec,the tunnel | General Escobedo, who was a leagno dis-
Tlis Sublime Majesty Abdul Aziz, Sul-
tan of Turky, arrived in this city to-day,
and was received by the Emperor Napol-
eon,
OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF TIL SHOOT-
ING OF MAXIMILLIA!IN /
Washingtoa, July 1.
The following official despu{tches have
been received here s—
South West Pass, Louisiana, June 28th,
1867.—TZo Count Wydenbeack, Austrian Mi-
nister, Washington. —1 came here trom Vera
Cruz to telegraph you of the condemna-
tion and death ot the Emperor Maximilian
ut 7 o'clock on the morning of June LYth.
President Juarez retus.d to deliver up his
body. Signed, GraLrer Lienorr, Com-
minder Austrian Sloop.”
The following was received atthe Navy
Depaitnent to-night :—
United States Steamer Tuconey,
Vera Cruz, June 8th, 1867
To Hon. Gildeon Wells, Secretary of the
Navy :—
Maximillian was shot on the 19th inst.—
Hord begged for his corpse tor the Aus-
tvian captain and was relused. The Ci
of Mexico surrendered to the Liberals.
Vera Cruz holds out on account of the
Foreign Legion. Diaz orders no accept-
ance of its surrender. I am moored be-
tween Nelya and the North Bastion, The
Jason isin company. I write by mail.
(Signed) F, A. Rog, Commander,
London, July Ist.
Tn the House of Commions last evening,
Lord Stanley Secretary of State for foreign
Affairs, stated that his government was
making slow progress in its degotiations
with the Government ofthe United States
in regard to the Alabama case, but he said
he did not despair of alappy resuit. The
Foreign Office would soon jay before the
{louse all the documents and correspond-
ence in the case. A large number ol Fng-
lish claims against the United States had
been filed,
Vienna, July 1.
Baron Von Beust has received the ap-
pointment of Chancellor of the Austrian
impire, an office formerly held by Prince
Metternich,
Paris, July 1, even,
The distribution of prizes took place at
the Internationa) Exposition in the presence
of a vast multitude of spectators who filled
all the aisles and circles of the building
and overflowed tothe garden of the Champ
DeMars. Napoleon and Eugenie with the
Princo Imperial and Prince Napoleon
with their suites, proceeded to the Expo-
sition in eight carriages, each drawn by
six horses, They were accompanied by
the Sultan of ‘Turkey and suite in six
splendid carriages, each drawn by six
horses splendidly comparisoned, When
the inithutory ceremonies were concluded,
the Emperor rose from the throne ani
suid:—*' Peoples and Kings have come
here to crown the idea of peace and con-
ciliation, France is proud to be great,
and tree, yet she is not un-nerved by her
material joys. The thoughtful can see
the national fibres vibrate for the honor of
France,but this noble susceptibility should
not create fears for the world’s repose, as
we here prove our anxiety for peace.”
The Emperor closed his speech by saying:
* This lsxposition marks an era of har-
mony and progress, and the triumph ot
great moral principles which with justice
can alone establish thrones and ennoble
humanity,”
Cincinnati, June 26.
A very large and enthusiastic Fenian
meeting was held here to-night. Addres-
ses were made by James Gibbons of
Philadelphia, Vice-President of the Bro-
therhood, and Mayor McAdams. About
twenty-five young men signed the military
roll and $1,600 were subscribed for tho
purchase of uniforms, &e. After the mect-
ing adjourned Senator J, Wy. Fitzgerald
gallon a secret meeting of the Brotherhood
to, take action in regard to President Rob-
eits, now in Paris.
Now York, July 2---Gold 188.
No notice can be taken of anonymon!
munications We must know the names and
addresses of our correspondents as a guaranty
of their good fiith, We cannot undertake to
resura communications that are not used,
jon «aha “ans oa na
Ws have received a pamphlet of forty-
seven pages, entitled ** Confederation
examined in the Light of Reason and
Common Sense, and the British N. A.
Act shown to be uncoustitutional,” hav-
ing for its author Martin J. Wilkins, Q.
CU. As the two signiticunt letters ap-
pended to the author's name led us to
believe that he must be a lawyer of some
standing, and therefore a scholar and a
gentleman,-and as his subject was a
most important one, we cut the leaves of
the yampblet with the expectation of
reading a temperate, well-reasoned and
scholarly production. We, however,
were sadly disappointed. Anything less
like a calm appeal of a thoughttul man to
the common sense ofis readers, and
more like the passionate declamation of
a heated and unscrupulous partizan, can-
not well be imagined.
Mr. Wilkias, in common with a great
many Colonial small politicians, labors
under the impression that the bull of the
people have a tuste for vilification and
abuse. He evidently thinks that if he
fastens a nickname on an opponent he
has done a very clever thing. He has
consequently disfigured his pamphlet
by language that would be considered
coarse énd ungentlemanly even among
bar-reom politicians, discussing the affairs
of the nation over a half-emptied brandy
bottle.
Mr. Wilkins entertains some very
singular ideas concerning the province of
logic... Among the propositions which he
promises his readers to prove, ** by argu-
ments logical,conclusive and irrefragible,”’
we find the three followings ‘* That the
Province (Nova Scotia) under Contfed-
eration would,in a financial point of view,
be reduced to ruin. ‘hat the Canadas
would dispose of our fisheries to obtyin
commercial’ advantages to themselves
from the United States.” * That the
Canadas, if Confederation be accepted
by Nova Scotia, will sell our railroads to
pay off our public debts, and will keep
our money into the bargain.”
Common sense in Neva Scotia and
common sense in Prince Edward Island
are very different things indeed, if Mr.
Wilkins did not utterly ignore it when
he penned these propositions, Any one
wlio possesses the smallest share of that
rare but iuvaluable commodity in P. 1.
Island, will tell him that it is utterly
impossible to prove by argument how
any man, or any body of men, will act in
the future, Conjectures and predictions
may be sagacious and probable, but it is
beyond the power of logic to prove them.
Would not Mr, Witkins make a laughing
stock of himself, if in his place in Court,
he offered to prove to the jury, * by
arguments logical, conclusive and irre-
fragible,” that Brown would at some
future time steal his neighbor's purse and
ham-stiing his neighbor's horses; or
that Robinson, if perinitted to escape
justice, would one fine morning murder
Jones's baby, set fire to Smith's house,
and afterwards cut his own wortiless
throat from ear to ear. The Nova
Scotia Queen’s Counsel would, of course,
never, while in his sober scnses, make
such a fuol of himself. Yet we ask any
man of common sense if, in promising te
establish by argument a set of equally
improbable and unprovable assumptions
and predictions, he. is not acting a part
equally unworthy a reasonuble man, and
y|one whose business it is to convince
others by argument.
’ Mr. Wilkins is not areasoner, and our
faith is not strong enough to believe that
he is a prophet. Our author affirms that
the B.N.A. Colonies will acquire nothing
under Confederation that they do not
enjoy already; but by the context we
glean:that he means to say that Confed-
eration will not give those Colonies any
advantages which they might not have
obtained without it. Without Confed-
eration they might have Free ‘Trade, a
common Military organization, an inter-
colonial Railroad, a common currency
and a general system of postal regula-
tions, &c. We have heard all this be-
fore, but our answer is that though it is
barely possible that Colonial politicians
under the policy of isolation might so fur
forget their mutual jealousies and anti-
pathiesas to make some advances towards
procuring these good things, it is exceed-
ingly improbable that they ever would
obtain them. We know thatin the year
of Grace 1866 there was not the remotest
prospect of getting them without Con-
federation,
But if we understand Mr. Wilkins
aright, he is fur from thinking inter-
colonial free trade a good thing. He.
would, it seems from what he has writ-
ten, wish to see each colony widely sepa-
rated from every other colony as possible.
Tie would like tosee Nova Scotia farmers,
fishermen, and manufacturers protected
by hostile tariffs from competition with
the farmers, fishermen, and mannfac-
turers of Canada, New Brunswick, and
Prince Edward Island. If each of the
above named colonies pursued the same
enlightened ani’ liberal policy, and pro-
tected every native industry with jealous
care, these colonies would present to the
world a truly singular appearance. Half
a dozen miniature and utterly insignificant
Chinas would be seen vegetating on this
northern portion of the American Con-
tinent, all inhabited by men of the same
race, and all under the dominion of a
common sovereign. Such is not the
fate that a true patriot and an enlightened
statesman would wish for those fine pro-
vinces.
Canada is the great bugbear with which
Mr. Wilkins and the other Anti-unionists
of Nova Scotia endeavor to frighten the
people. Canada is his bete noir, Cana-
dian politicians are too astute for simple
confiding men of the maritime provinces.
Cunadians will tyrannize over their fellow
colonista near the sea. Canadians have
devised this scheme of Confederation,
be the people of Nova Scotia, It will
be to their interest to keep taxation
down to the lowest point possible, and
it will also be their interest to develope
to the utmost the resources of every part
of territory of the New Dominion.
Nova Scotia well governed and prosper-
ous, will Sea mach better and more
profitable neighbor to Cauada than Nova
Scotia, poor and ill governed. The
Canadians have, no doubt, sense enough
to see this, Besides it is very improiu-
ble that parties in Canada will sink their
differences and unite to plunder the
Maritime Provinces. There is at present,
at any rate, very little prospeet of such
a miraculous change. So tar from this
being the case, we should not at all
wonder if in the popular branch of the
New Dominion, the Representatives of
theMaritime Provinces, when they choose
to unite to accomplish a given object,
will, owing to the balance of parties in
the Canadas, be able to effect much
more than their numbers, and the popu-
lation of the countries which they repre-
sent would warrant us to expect. We
have neitver time, space, nor ability to
examine the legal argumentation of the
Nova Scotian pamphleteer, but if his
law is not sounder than his political
economy, we imagine that his pleadings
will have very litle effect upon the minds
of those who have in their hands the
political future of Nova Scotia, As the
Coustitutionality of the B. A Act, Mr.
Wilkins will pardon us if we pay greater
respect to te dispassionate, well cou-
sidered opinion of the learned and vener-
able Judge Jounston, than to the hasty
and heated utterances of a partizan law-
yer, Whose intention is evideatly to gain
votes for his party by hook or by cruok,
by fair means or foul. brom an address
of Judge Johnston, of Cumberland Coun-
ty, to the Grend Jury we estract the
tollowing passage :—
The moment we become an integral
part of the Dominion of Canada, it is the
duty of us all to pray lor the wellare of
tue Dominion of Canada, because on that
prosperity rests indissolubly the prosperity
of Novascotia. Lhe law weare all pound
to observe. ‘Lhe measure to which 1 re-
fer has been passed by the highest legal
authority kuown to the Brisa Constitu-
tion, ‘Lo that all must bow, both those
Who approve and those who disapprove of
the measure,
*'Lhere is this to encourage all who are
timid and teartul of the result, that they
have in favor of the measure the opinions
of men whose views are entitled to great
respect. We cannot but believe that the
opinions in favor of tie measure of those
great nen in England, whose edocation,
talents, taining of mind, and habits ot
thought have ied them to understand the
nature of governments und the elfe¢gts of
Constitutions, are enuitied to great weight.
We cannot imagine, woen we tiud a large
vody of the highest stutesmen in Bagtiud,
concurring With altuost unparalleled Una-
uimity, in an opinion iavoravle to the
measure, that it can be so disastrous in its
results us sume seem to think. ‘Lhis is a
consolation to those Who fear its results.”
THE DEPARTURE OF THE
TROOPS,
We sce by the last Islander that the
soldiers left the Island on ‘Thursday last.
This is a circumstance which may be
deeply regretted and loudly deplored by
a tew forsaken females and others resident
in and near the metropolis, but we do
not think that the people of the Island
in general have much cause to lament
their departure. ‘The soldiers and their
officers may have added somewhat to the
gayety of Charlottetown, and they cer-
tainly spent a good deal of money among
its citizens; but afterall a garrison, if it
contributes to the liveliness of a country
town, by no means improves its morals ;
and that country must be poor indeed in
which the loss of the money spent by one
or two hundred soldiers will ve for any
length of time very sensibly felt. The
farmers of the Island will tind that the
departure of the garrison will not cause
a very great fall in the price of farm
produce, and the forsaken females afore-
said will have to console themselves with
homespun sweethearts, who will in all
probability prove more constant as lovers,
and in every way more eligible as hus-,
bands, than the irresistible but incon-
stant warriors in scarlet uniforms.
That the soldiery are required to _pre-
serve the peace of the colony, is an idea
that no one at all acquainted with its
inhabitants, for a moment supposes.
We say without fear of contradiction
that the people of this Island are as
easily governed as any other under the
sun. ‘Lhey ure peaceable and law abid-
ing. Breaches of the peace are exceed-
ingly rare, and murder is almost unknown.
It is true that the Tenant League caused
some trouble in the country. Many
otherwise quiet and orderly citizens were
persuaded by a number of fanatical and
ignorant politicians, that they could re-
sist the collection of rent without violat-
ing the law, and without rebelling against
the authority of the Queen. ‘Ihese, ab-
surd as they may now appear to most
readers, were the honest convictions of
quite a number of worthy people in
Queen's County particulurly, They be-
lieved that the proprietors had no right
to their rents, and they were persuaded
that they were doing nothing wrong in
offering resistance to their collection.
And after all what did the resistance
amount to, no lives were lost, no blood
spilt, and we believe no bones wers
broken. ‘There wasa good deal ofnoise,—
speechifying, tin trumpet braying and
the like, but very little serious disorder.
Besides the agitation, such as it was,
was by no means general. Prince County
was not at all moved by it, and but a
very sinall portion of King’s.
The Sheriff's officer—Curtis—from, all
that we can hear, was just the wrong
man to send among the people at such a
time. It was only a day or two ago that
we heard the gentleman who held the
office of High Sheriff in King's County
during that troubled time, say that he
‘had to do business with some of the
in similar terms. If the for
Queen's County had been a sober, prad-
ent man, it is not at all improbable that
the government of the day never would
have had the slightest reason to apply for.
troops to keep the peace. They have,
however, done no harm. The Leaguérs
have learned the salutary lesson that the
law cannot be broken or evaded with ims
punity. And now that the troops have
taken their leave of the Island, we are
under no apprehension for the peace of.
the country, A man’s person, property,
and life are just as secure in this Island
as in the heart of any garrison town in
Great Britain or the Provinces,
Our readers will see by this day's
telegraphic summary that the Mexican
savages have shot Maximilian, The act
was one of wanton barbarity, From
what we have read of Maximilian, we
believe that he was a wise ruler anda
gallant gentleman, far too good a sover-
eign for the turbulent, brutal, and withal
cowardly Mexicans whom he, in an evil
hour consented to rule. Itis very singu-
lur that the Mexican General Juarez has
been permitted thus to outrage the fecl-
ings of the civilized world, by the com-
mittal of a crime at which men in futuro
times will shudder to read of. We hope
and believe that punishment will sooner
or later be inflicted on not only the.
principal perpetrators of this cold-blooded
murder, but on the whole nation to whom
they belong. Men capable of such a.
crime are not fit to rule a free country
in this age of the world, and the sooner
Mexico goes into possession of some
civilized nation the better for its inhabi-
tants. It is a deplorable thing to see a
fine country of such vast resources in the’
possession or men who have proved
themselves incapable of either improving
or governing it. It is very little odds
whose hands it falls into, whether those
of France, the United States or England,
as long as the Mexicans themselves are
not permitted to ruin it. As our con-
temporary, the St. John Morning Journal
says, the Mexicans are utterly unfit for
self government,
Tux following are the names of the
Wesleyan Ministers, and the Stations to
which they have been appointed by tho.
Conference :—
Chavlottetown—Geo, S, Milligan,A.M.,
R. Johuson, M. D., Sup'y,
Cornwall, &&—S. W. Sprague.
Pownal—F. W. Moore.
Bedeque—Richd, Weedall.
quested,
Margate—W.W.Colpitts.
Sumimerside—Jos, Gaetz; J.B. Strong,
Supy. ‘The brethren at Margate and
Summerside to interchange,
Souris, G—One wanted.
Murray Harbor-—Jabez A, Rogers.
West Cape, &€—G:W.Dockrill,
Harp to Byat.—Mr Edward Henry's
Shingle Mill sawed, on Friday last, 17,000
shingles from sun to sun, with a handfal
of minutes to spare. The Mill which did
this large day’s work is wholly of Island
manulacture, being built by Mr. Nelson
Burns, of Freetown, a native of the Island.
Our informant tells us that these Shingles
were well sawed, and altogether a prime
article, We do not think that there aro
many shingle mills of a similar construc-
tion in the Island or out of it that can
beat this day's work,
One re-
tr WE aro much pleased to be able to
intorm our readers that the high tide of
Monday morning flouted off the Hon. J.C.
Pope's new ship, which had untortunately
stuck on the ways when launched. The
tide was an uncommonly high one,
ta Tue weather has of late been very
pleasant. Lhe crops look well, The hay
promises to be more than an average crop,
Strawberries ave come. We don't think
thut the sun shines on a prettivr countrys
than this Island, seen at this season of the
year,
Surrsme Court.—The Trinity Term of
the Supreme Court for Queen’s County come
menced yesterday — Chief Justice Hodgson
presiding.—The business of the Court consists
of nineteen record cases, four summury suits,
and eight appeals. he Criminal Calendar
is very light, consisting of threy or four cases. )
ie fullowing are the names of the Grand
urors ;—
F. W. Hales, City, foreman; John C. Binna
New Glasgow; Samuel Hyde, West River;
Benj. Wright, Royalty; Wm. McGill, City;
A. Simpson, Lot 21; A. Robertson, Lot “4
Henry Holl, Princetown Road; Wm. Heard,
City; Jolin Drake, West River; David Lawe
son, Covehead; John Mutch, Lot 48; George
Beer, City; C. A. Hyndman, City; J. Leard,.
New Glasgow Road; George McGuigan, Lot
83; Mark Inman, Lot 29; John Leach, Stan-
hope; Thomas Delany, City — Her.
Burcrary.—We learn that the store of I. |
C, Hall, Esq., was burglarously entered on
Saturday night last, and # small sum in cop."
pers wken therefrom. The thiet cut out a
panel of the shop door with a knife, and thus
etiected an entrance. As he must havetuken
considerable time in sloing og thefacts speake
well for the vigilance of the Police,
The office of the Steam Boat Company
was also broken into, and a swa h sun of
money stolen therefrom.=+/b,.
Duownen at Magaguadavie on the t Of ¢
the 23 inst., from the brig Union of ae ° .
drews, Thovias Hughes,ot Summerside, P.E.1,
Deceased was about 21 years of age. He
went ashore with a companion about 4 o'clock
in the evening to get a tooth extracted and on
returning between 12 and 1 accidentally fel}
from the boat and was drowned. ‘The body
was recovered next day and an inquest held
before Mr. Valentine, Coroner, and Mr.Mess~
enet. ‘The body received a Christian burial,”
‘Lhe testimony went to slow that Hughes w:
sober, but that his companion was intoxicated
and having fallen asleep in the boat did not
know what had happened until a fr
his stupor.——-S¢ Grovz Courter
_ Hanferd’s Prices Current for July 3 have ~
just been received. An advance of fifty
cents per barrel on flour is reported in the
Canada Market, and prices in St. John
are something higher. Oats are scarce,
Oatmeal has fallen a little, and a large
quantity is in the market.
Children often look Pale and Bick’ from
no other cause than having yan =
stomach, Brown's ‘‘ vermifuge comfts ” 9
destroy worms without on! to the
Children having worms ire
attention, as neglect of the trouble
causes prolonged elckness.