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A ‘correspondent of the New York!
Times writes from Jerusalem :

** The discoveries made hitherto may be
summed up briefly. ‘Lhe south wwll ot
the sacred area, Haram El Shereft, within
Which stood'the temple, has been explored
to the very fonndatigns It has found
that in one place the wall was no less than

180 feet high. At the lewest point of the
Wall, Which is now determined to be also
the lowest puint of the Lyropmon Valley.
he discovered x small passage which he
explored for sume 150 feet of ancient con-
struction, and evidenty intended to cary
off superfluous water, Previously to. this

discovery it had been supposed that the)

Jowest point was the southwest angle of

the wall, there was the great arch Known |

as Robinson's Arch, Visitois to Jerusalem
‘will remember the spring of the old arch,
atthis point, They will be gratified to
learn that all the conjectures with refer-
ence to what formerly

heen abundantly verilied.

Not only was

there a splendid arch crossing the Tyro- |

peu Valley at this point—the span of
“which was forty fect across—aud the,
voussir's and ruins of which new lic buried |
in the debris, but beneath this old arch, |
“covered with a pavement, presumably to
‘cover these ruins, lie the stones of an arch
older still, perhaps the arch built by Solo-
‘mon himself. ‘Lhe complete investiga-|
‘tion of this arch dins been a long anid ec
Vy undertaking, butits importance is very |
Great,

On the east side of the Hiram wall lies!
the Valley of the Uedron. Lieutenant)
Wanren by a series of shaits and borings,!
has ascertained that the present bed of the |
stream is no less than forty leet higher!
than the old bed—the beds having been}

at

raised by the enormous misses ot debris |
and auins that have been hurried over in-|
tley. By the latter in Jerusalem

dda plan of the system of cham:
bers discovered at ** Wilsou’s Arch,” high: |
ip on the western wall nearthe * Wail-|
ing Place” of the Jews, Lieutenant Wir
ren hus discovered, at a depth of some)
fitty teet below the surface of the ground, |
we Vast system ol chambers and passages.
These chambers whose use has .ot yet)
jeen decided, are mostly about twelve |
Jeet square, vaulted and filled up with)
rubbish or with water, About eighteen |
have been opene! ot which it is conjee
tured that two or three are of Sarcen
origin and the rest of Jewish, They
branch off right and left along a great
piss. This has been followed up for a

stood there have |

The Empress Charlotte; the unfortanate | ~~~ se
Empress seems, aceording to carrent re: | ‘fo tux Eprrorn oF tHe Jounnat, |
ports concerning her, to be pretty well ih | Sir,—In perusing the Islander of the 20th
the same state of mind and body as hither- | ult., my eye was-aerested by a communication
ito. Lt there is any difference, it is suid to | headed ** Mail Conveyance Backwards,” and |
incline towards ‘the better side, A. still | dated * Mickyy's Hollow,” which, wats alto~
brooding, often interrupted by violent gether unnecessary, for at the Sb aes at
weeping, is the moral state in Which she | the article in question, you wou d° DSst cer
is at present Hngering, Ot the violent | tainly have placed the writer there, for cay
| outbursts of passion spoken of ut times in| eee wee a locality Lota aby |
| the papers nothing is known by those who | 8 busy and anxtons to become donspic ry
(surround her One thing is very. strictly He commences by stating that the Pdst has
| watchéd over, namely, that she receives | it aleseday tree aga ectaye es ee
no letters nor any other journals, which | * ia Gee DING Ri TRNAS poe Mls heal
only tend to vol the Hunberini demon! Ne proceedud on to the W estward; a
OPAC AHI. Men OUIIy GURIt ie RAIL [IecectL Me RR Omen OPN Hs TOMES 130% 5)
ba good; sho is oven tiGlined to tau ntee did not think it worth his while visiting Port

emeeies + | Lill Post Office, which was no doubt the case,
j In eating and drinking, owever, she still | for very likely Mr. Owen, like the majority of
jexhibits the same anxiety as during her) the public, would much rather suffer Mr.
journey to Rome. She prefers eating tnd | sickey’s severe chastisement than visit that
j drinking when she is, or inmygines hersell| plac. ; for had he taken the pains to visit that)
}to be entirely alone, ‘The Prince Royal is) Office, it would be at the risk of haying to beg |
istillalive; but his decease is hourly ¢x- shelter under some hospitable farmer's root, |

in the House of Assembly, [ ant determined
tft they never shall be held by a1 ignoml-
nivus tenure; and Lam sure they can never
be Jost in a more honorable way than in
doing what 1 congeive to be right.

1 never sought the Leadership. It was
thrust upon me by the Conservative partly at
a time when if I had consulted my own feel-
ings, | would have accepted the Speaker's
Chair which was offered to me, anasked, by
the unainmous vote of the Liberal party, in
the present House of A sembly. Tam ready
to pay the penalty of my recent vote, at a
moment's notice, by resigning the Leadership,
upon receiving a requisition in writing from

a majority of Uig Conservative party in the}

Legislature.
Yours, &¢.,
T. HEATH HAVILAND.
Alma Cottage, Ch’town,

Noy, 24,63.
ide §ournal.

Summers

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| pected, or travel the distance of four miles to Mr. |
So aersreneane tale htateaeacats | O'Connor's, being the nearest house of ac-| -
| Kinney ny a Meteor.—The Brisbane | commodation. |

| ates that several ot the yessels
just arrived trom the southward reperted |
that there was a great deal of electrical at: |
mospheri¢ disturbance, bnt whether it wis |
the effect or was simply coincident with)
the eclipse, our information could not sa,
In one case it wi tended with fatal re-
sults, nud n man was killed on board the
nia by the explosivoa of an
electric meteor, ‘Lhe vessel was off Crow-
dy Head on Monday, August 17, adout,
midnight, when a hes southwesterly |
squallc¢ me, and all hands were called to)
sborten sail, A seaman named IH. G Sales |
Was steering, and at 12.30 a m. on Tue
y, August 18th, + meteor, like a ball of |
fire, fell immediately over the vessels |
stern, and exploded with a loud report)
resembling that of a heavy piece of ord-|
ance, Sparks of fire were scattered all)
about the deck, and the steersman was}
killed by the shock. — Every one aboard)
telt a vivlent shock like that of a galvanic}
battery; but none of the crew were injured |
except Sales, who at his lact gasp when!
picked up. Ilis body showed no mar
but appeared to be blackened, and some sis
or seven hours alter decomposition set in,
and the poor fellow was buried over the}
side. Ile was a young min, abouttwenty- |
three, and a smart seaman. ‘The fire-ball)
»yparently travelled with the wind, which

| Courier st

| the Ontie

|

| _ He next forms a long and pitiful story about

the irregularity of the Mails conveyed to Port
Til, Now, Mr. Editor, it is well known to
you what the state of the road to Port Hillis,
und also the way the mails have to be convey-
ed to that ph I shoutd like to state to the
public the facts concerning the irregularity of
those important bags to Port Hill. The mails |
for the Westward have to be taken from Sum |
merside, leaving immediately after their ar-

rival from Charlottetown, conveyed through |
Lot 1%, crossing Grand or Uilis Kiyer Perry, |
“w ich Ferry, Lam sorry t6 say, is about ase
irregularly kept as are the Mails conveyed to |
Port Hill,” calling at Lot 14 Post Offive by |
Mr. John O'Connor's, thence on to Poks Lill. |
By looking at the map you will see that this!
Perry is much exposed. You will alsy notice |
that it will not require a heavy wind from the

Hastward to prevent crossing, ‘To g6 ‘round |
this river you have to cross the South West!
Bridge which carried away by the storm)
of October, 67, and has not been replaced. |
You can Sir, that if the Mails yo

to this Perry sinuot cross, they ure in a)
vain y of being irregular, ‘This was the
case during the week the return Mails laid in
The carrier to Por Hill, after
waiting all night at the Perry, returned to St.
Eleanor’s in tine to meet the carrier tor ‘Tig-
nish,—who, for reasons that will be shown
hereafter, v rbstinate enough to break the
contract by driving all the way through—who
then took the bags for Lot 14 and Port Till,

F return communications that are not used,

}was from the sonth-west, and hen it} and carried them on leaving Lot 14 b gs at
Jburst, the flush was so intensely brilliant) hat Ollice, and Port Hill bags at. A. MeLean’s,
|that the steward, who was lying in his} paying him or his son for carrying them ont
jberth beiow, declared that he saw the fire] Wa can A) A Me ANN GRE ah
through the seams of the deck, the cabin | knowledge, were those bigs carried from

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1868, |

No notice can be tiken of annonymous com-
munications. We must know the names and

| addresses of ovr correspondents as a guaranty

of their good faith. We cannot undertake to

“PUBLIC GONFLDENUE,

Ir every man would but consider how
much his own success in life depends upon
that of others, confidence in his fellow
man would not be so easily disturbed by
idle rumors. On the contrary, each
man would be careful how he gave heed
to reports which might prove injurious to
any man or body of men, if scattered
broadcast over the country ; and as every
person is, to a great extent, dependent
upon some other person, so is each class
of persons, pursuing any particular call-
ing, dependent for its success upon the
prosperity of those who follow some other
pursuit; and hence it follows that what
injures those engaged in one department

the value of the labor of those who pursue
other callings. If men would at all times
reflect upon these facts, and effectually
consult their own interests, they would
act directly opposite to what they too
frequently do, Did time and space al-
low, these plain matter-of-fact truths
could, by illustration, be rendered much

of labor, tends also to aid in depreciating

distance of 250 feet, its destination being | atihe same moment was filled with smoke,
yet uncertain, and its use problematical. | which blackened papers lying about, Cpt.
erhaps, howe » Ht wis a seeret | Se) Johnstone informs us that tne discolour-
tov troops'—The discovery is inteusely in- | ation of the paint was like that produced
teresting, and may lead to singular and | py + smoking the ship with charcoal.”
tnost interesting results, | peeuliar and indescribable smell was per-
‘ceived for some time alter the explosion,
+s like the soot from
emucr’s funnel were seattered about,
tain Milman, ot the Lady Young
(steamer), informs us that on bis list trip
to Sydney, a fire-ball was observed pass-
jing ahead of his ship, about 1 a, m., on
Monday, August 17. It travelled a hovi-

rand aquantity of flak

THE WARSAW M_TEOR.

Inthe Paris correspondence of the New
York Zimes we find the following:

But what are we t» think of the wond-r-
ful dalide of Warsaw, of afew months ago?
Here is something more fantastie than any- HE
thing the astromoner ever dreamed of, On| Zoutal direction from north-west to south:
a starlight night the citizens of Warsaw gazed | erst. Apparently it was so near the ship
petrified with fear at the rapid approach of} that the oRicer of the wateh altered her
animmense ballo. tire which atdast barst| course to avoid it, when it burst, and for
ever their heads with anno
es never has been heard or felt before on the | bein a bl of light, and at the same
fice of the carth.—Atter the globe burst) time there was terrific thunder, Lightning
each of the pieces in turn broke up, until) and thunder coutinued at intervals through
parts of the mass, before reaching the earth | t and

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Al

se and shock such! the moment the whole heavens seemed to}

were in powder, the first discharges represen: |
ling from the sound the discharge or artillery,
wud the smaller pieces the rolling discharge
of inany reginients of small arms.— M. Daub-
tee, of the French Academy of Science, who |
lias just been lecturing on the subject, has |
obtained for the Academy 932 pieces of the |

broken dolide. M. Krantz of Bonn, gathered
np for himself 1,612 picces, Other professors
have done the same, and million of peices yet |
remain strewn over the section of country
where it broke,

“Tt was computed that this globe had
surface of 2.000 acres; and was consequently
Jirge enough to maintain the life of many
yatcroscopic nations. Wi did it come
trom, and what was the force that directed
it thus in astraight line against the earth?!
When first seen it appeared as large as the
moon, and never appeared any larger tillit
struck our atmosphere and exploded,
tuct shows its frightful rapidity of
tion, fur from (he distance at which it ap-
peared less than the moon till the time it ex-
ploded, it must haye shot so rapidly that the
vye had not the time to perceive its enlurge-
ment! Then, again, what was the cause of
the explosion so complete as to ulmost tritu-
rate the particles? Was it in the density of
the earth’s atmosphere that broke it, or was
the explosion @ue to the contract of certain |
yeases of the meteor with the constituents of |
the air? Itis more consoling to adopt the
virst theory, because we will then feel as if
our atmosphere served asa cuirass to the
earth, end would continue to protect us from
the stray globes .ike that of Warsaw. ‘The
xhock and the spring of the air must have
deen something beyond the computation of |
man! for itdid notkhock people down, and
yet it occured at something like fifty miles
trom the curth, and the pieces picked up
it tu have been a tolerable hurd stone,

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In the Law Courts
of Scotland it has been finally decided that
women have no legal claim to the suf-
frnge. The question at issue was, how
jar the Act known as Lord Romily’s in
sirtne of which the masculine is to include
the feminine gender, unless there be a
proviso to the contrary, affected the third
section of the new Retorm Act, wvich pro-

TremaLe SUFFRAG

vides that every man shall be cntitled to)
be registered as a voter who is

ot full age, and not subject to any legal
jneapacity. It was argued that the word
* man’ included women also, because no
specific provision was made against this:
nnd also, that legal incapacity was not
chargeable ag inst women, “Phe Court
ot Appeal was uninfluenced by these argu:
ments, and unanimously decided that
women were not entitled to have their
names placed on the register,

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Mazzint aNd THE Srantsi REVOLUTION |

—The tollowing is extricated trom a letter |
et Signor Mazzini to Senor Castelar:—|
Spain has glorionsly effected an imina- |
culate revolution which it it tollows the]
logic of its origin and possesses that Lold- |
ness Which at certain peniods is calied ge |
nius, way place her inthe Van of Kuro-}
pean nations—thes realizing the hopes;
which have so olten expressed to me in|
our conversations, Spain can, and ought}
to give the baptism of reality to the grand |
idea of the age—to conquer the most glo- |
yious ol initiatives for a Jong period in|
ahe progress ol civilization. Il she is not}
Hold enough to do what the world expects
of her, she consigns herself to a periud of
inferiority andanarchy, and to the neces- |
sity of another revoludion, May God en-
lighten you all, |
14 is understood that neither the Im-
sperial Government nor that ot the Domi-
nion of Canada, will pay any sum for the |
cession oi the rights claimed by the Hud-
su'n Bay Company over the portion of ter.
sitory lying between Western Canada and
Britivh Coluaibia.
Forty s
An Pennsylvania this year,

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1s" Revil” and * Oulouverier

lyraph. railroad

| destruye 1 yesterday morning by fire, |

thousand young men come of age men were burned to death, and three others so | House of Assembly for Georgetown ; for such | occasioned by Dr. ‘lremain removing to
badly burned that they are not expected to live | obloquy, I may eny, in the words of a great) Nova Scotia,

i Be ‘

out the n next day until about
cleared up.—No doubt the so-called me-
teor was un intense discharge of lightniug,
which not unfrequently makes a globular
form,

Very
London, Noy. 24.

Mr. Gladstone has been defeated in Lan-
sashire, which will ake it necessary tor him
to retain the Greenwick seat, wlich it was
proposed to be given to Mr. Mill.

‘Vne latest return from the elections are
very unfavourable to the Liberals, reducing
what was considered ‘an actual majority of
150 to 117,

Mr. Gladstone has just issued a pamphlet
in defence of his charge of opinions on Church
Estabiishment.

secutions of the press with the severity. Lhe
cditors of the ** Lemp: Journil de Paris,”
have been sum-
moned to appear before a Civil, Lribunal on
Friday next, to answer to the charges made
against them for promoting the subscriptions
tor the Baudon Monument.
Madrid, Nov. 24.

Large public meetings has been held in
Barcelona by both the Monarchist and Re-
publican parties. Processions, with bands of
inusic, parade the streets, and other demon-
strations are made,but though political feeling
runs high, all the proceedings have been
peaceable, and order respected, Lhe Monarch-

jists are largerly in the ascendant, though the

Republicans seems to be gaining ground.
All political parties in Madrid are preparing
to make similar demonstrations, and there is
every indication ofa lively canvass tor the
forthcoming election,

London, Noy, 25,
The Times says the liberal majority
in the New House will be 117. The defeat
of Gladstone for the South West Lancashire
distvict is muinly due to the local dislike of
the irish people in that district. Speculation
fe with regard to the composition of Mr,
Istone’s Cabinet, Itis considered very
rly certain the Karl of Kimboydi will be
Secretary of State for foreign affuirs.
New York, Noy. 26,

The following intelligence is received from
Portan Piince. After the bombardment of
Serenaic, Mresident Salnava bombarded, for
five hours, the town of Bergne, but was tinally
repulsed. Many of Salnave's pickets on
shore surrendered tothe revolutionists. The
districts of Borgne and St. Nicholas have
joined the revolution, All foreign Consuls
have been notified by Salnave that he intended
to attack the towns of Jaemel, Aux Cayes
and St. Mare, ‘The commander ot the Brit-
ish war vessels Niobe” had orders to prevent
the bumbardment of any town where British
residents were enga, ed in trade,

Havana journ Js ofsunday publish the man-
ifest uf the provisional government of Spain,
makirg liberal reforms in the government
of the island. It has been transmitted by tele-

townsintheinterior. Itis the general opinion

that the circulation ef the documentin the dis- |

turbed districts will prove a powerful auxil-
jury in putting an ena to the revolution, ‘The
Captain General has issued orders closing
all coustwise ports, to commence where there
are no custom houses, forbidding the tran-
sportation of any materials by railroad or
vessels, and rescinding a years’ tix upon any
farmer or others who nity take up arnis again-
st the insurgents.

Washington, Nov 26.

Our Government haa been officially inform: |

ed that Lord Stanley and Minister Johnston | justice but proscription,

have setiled the point, that the commission |
for the adjudication of the Alabama clainis, |
&e., willsitin Washington. Negotiations, us
to the detiils, are still in progress,

Elkin’s Hotel, in Southanipton, Canada, was

{

jbalfpast eight o'clock when the weather!

Latest Telegrams.

|
The French Government continues its pro- |

PF} week over a school of from forty to. sixty

8, and other channels to all the |

| crowded with the children of inflaential Pyr6-

dwo)

| Mr. MeLean’s to Port iil by any traveller.

| L will leave to your own judgment where to!

| place the negligence and wilful mismanage-
}inent of miscarrying those importunt Mail
bags.

All I have to say concerning tle Mails from
Po t Hillto Tignish is: 1 tound they were
likely to be catried very irr¢gular on account
of the reasons above shown, I drove to Sum-
| merside merely for the sake of accommodat-
‘ing the Western people, who, it can be easily
bseen, would not have reecived their Mails one
half the time regularly if depending on thes:
to be carried across Grand iver Ferry. I
may also state to Mr, Mickey that the con.
ance of Mails from Vort Hill to Tignish is
justas sate as it ever was, though for the last
| few trips there hus been no way bag, but the

s
lotters were conveyed, when there were any,
just as sate in a sealed parcel as in a bag.

‘Trusting this will have the desired eflect of
removing erroneous impressions from the
public mind, 1 remain

Yours, &c.,
Tne Western Mau. Bor.
Lot 14, Noy. 30, '6s,

To rue Eviror or tun Journat,

Sirn,—Knowing that your valuable columns
are cver open to the public, I embrace
the present opportunity of addressing you
afew lines on the suiject of Education.

It is the universal opinion of the‘people of
this Ishind, that since the amendment of the
Kuducation Act, female teachers receive a just!
remuneration for their labors, but I think}
other A mile t er of the first class |

receives the sum of fifty-five pounds, while a
| temale teacher receives the sum of thirty-five
pou ds. Now Leppeal to the public.to know
jit this is just? Iftemale teachers are quali-
| fied to discharge the duties of a male teacher
| —and I know that they are—they should be
}paid accordingly. Look into our district
| schools, who are the teachers in the generality
of from sixteen to twenty years
of age, who enter the profession merely as ‘a
stepping stune to something else—who know
) ne more about the art of teaching than teach-

ing knows about them; and yet they receive
| the handsome sum of filty-five pounds, with
| the inducement of a higher salary if they are
jcl r enough to rise in the profession fwittist
| a female teacher, who is as well qualititd in
many respects, and detfer in the art of teach-
ing, for itis acknowledged by all that women
ure more capable of imparting khowledge to
the young than men--who toil from week to

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scholars, and receive only the paltry sum of
| thirty-five pounds, Inthe Provinces female
| teachers, if not on a par with the males, have
advantages far superior to their sisters of the
| Island, to which, no doubt, may be attributed
| the fuct that they are better educated, although
we have a ‘noble system of education.”
But, Mr, Mditor, thinking 1 have already vc-
cupicd too much space, and promising you
shail hear trom me again, 1 remain
A Tracuen.
New London, Noy 22, 1868

To tuk Epironr or run Istanper.
Sin:

In a leading article published in Saturday's
Patriot, and headed ** Phe triumph of Prine
ciple,” Lam taken to task for having sup-
ported Mr, James Pope at the Suimuuerside
election, I recorded my yote in favor of Mr.
Pope in the first place, on the grounds of his
being a Conservative; und fa the sécont} be-
catise T have come to the conélusion that, ac-
cording to every principle of common justice,
the Roman Catholic Schools which are situ-
ated in the principal ‘Lowes of the Island, are
entitled to ai’ from the State provided they
submit to Governinent irispection, and Pro-
testant childron are allowed to enter “thei,
without being subject to any re: tis? test.
In pursuance of this principle, Le have: advo:
catedand carried grants through the Legis-
lature for many years, towards the mainte-
nance of the Georgetown Infant School, and
| the Charlottetown Bog School, both of which
| institutions are in connection with the Church
jot England. Dy carrying out this principle,
there 18 no occasion thioughout the Colony.
In the Provinces of Upper Canada, Nova
sSeotin, and New Branswick, grants are un-
| mually mate by the several Legislatures there-
| of, in aid of the Roman Catholic educational

without its being considered

{dangerous to Protestanism. Not long ago
| the oman Catholic Priesthood were charged
with neglecting the education of their people,

and wiitully keeping them in ignorance.

| Now when tiey rival us in the cause of Mda-
feation, and their Colleges and Sehoolw ure

| institutions,

| testants, who prefer them to the Prince of
| Wales College and other kindred schools, we
jure alraid, and refuse assistance to: them out
of the common public purse.

This is not!

The vote cast by me in favor of Mr. Pope,
was not given without counting the probable
cost. 1 supported him regardless of ubliquy,

\that,

j the prices have fullen to 2s. 5d,

clearer, but we merely mean to add that

Tare 80th of November has come and |
gone since our lastissue. ‘Though no par-
cular notice of the oceasion wis tiken by
the busy men of Summerside, y2t we doubt
not that many Seoteh hearts among WS re-
membered the day. ‘Phroughoutthe elviliz-
ed world Scotchmen bave long hailed the
anniversary of Uieir Patron Saint asadavor-
able opportunity for social and national re-
union. We believe flrmly in keeping up
the old landmarks and cherishing a spirit
ot affection, aud, it need be, of devotion to|
the brave old county trou whence our
forefathers cane,

* Land of our sires, what mortal hard

Can c'er untie the filial band

Phat binds us to thy rugged strand,”

We believe the influence thus ex-
: to be one beneficial to a great
t, It serves to link together men ol
rious virtues and capabilities by the
strongest and best of ties, those of a com-
non origin and relationship. We rejoice
in the sterling worth of that race, whose
blood runs in the veihs of so many of our
peoplu-one which has proved itselt in
every country fied tor the sternest duties
and inest responsible honors of men, ‘Lhe
tine prayed tor by Barns bas come, so lar
us Scotchmen are concerned, when
** Sense and worth, o'er a’ the earth,

Do bear the gree and a’ that.”
And we believe that such is the force of
the national te among the sons of tie
heather, that the period hos also’ arrived
which he predicted thus:

* Fora that and a’ that,

The coming yet be a’ that,

That man to man the world o'er

Shall briciers be and a’ that.”

St. Andrew was the brother of Simon
Peter, After the ascension of Christ his
name is not mentioned in the New ‘Testa
ment, but he is believed to have travéled
as a Missionary through Asiatic and Euro-
n Seythia, and at tae city of Patra to
sullvred martyrdom, le was cruci-
b peculi manner, hae jug been
fastened by cords instead of nails lo a cross
decussate, or one made in the shape of the
letter XN. ‘Lhe death thus suffered was one
most lingering, through hunger and thirst.
Uis body was embalmed by a Christian
lady of rank, named Maximela, and in the
4th century removed by Constantine to
Constantinople,
death of Constantine, in 308, Regulu
pious Greek Monk, conveyed the remains
of St. Andrew to Scotland, and there de-
posited them on the eastern coastof Fite,
where be boilt a chureh, and where after-

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Thirty rs ater the

we are led to indulge in this train of
thought from the fact that aay person who
has paid attention to the nature of
Banking institutions, the great facilities
they afford to those who are engaged in
trade, and the benefits which flow there-
from into every nook and corner of the
country, will not need to be told what a
paralyzing effect the closing of a Bank
may have in any place where a large
amount of business has been transacted
through it, and the innumerable incon-
veniences and losses which accumulate
therefrom to the community ; and_ there-
fore it is, that when a report detrimental
to the interests of any such institution is
circulated, it should not be received as
matter of fact without enquir, Any
man who would, on the receipt of any
such rumor, actas he would wish others
to act towards him, should first make
|due enquiry into the nature of such re-
| port, before receiving it as truth without
| alloy.

We are led to say this from the fact
for reasons best kaown ta the
would-be prophetic editor of the Halifax
Reporter, he gave insertion in his paper to
a statement to the effect that the Sum-
merside Bank, owing to its business
transactions with the Commercial Bank
of New Brunswick, and the banking in-
stitution of Mr. Scovil, of St. John, had
suspended payment, As soon as this
groundless report became circulated, we
have been informed that one man who
had a few hundred pounds in the Sum-
mersid¢ Bank took it immediately out,
and commenced operations in the shaving
department to the modest tune of 20 per
cent. per annum, while « flock of others
who had a few hundred dollars by them
in the paper of the Bank, came trooping
in panting for specie with as much eager-
ness as a herd of thirsty animals rush in-
to the cooling stream to quench their
tlirst on a sultry day in summer; where-
as if they had read the Bank Act and had
taken time to weigh the matter and make
enquiry at the proper place, they would
have found that there was no just cause
for pursuing a course calculated to injure
the Bank. When the report of the tail-
ure of Mr. Scovil became known to the
Directors, the President and Teller of the
Bank wert on to St. John, and we are
happy to know that the loss of the Bank
through Mr. Scovil was but trifling, and
that the Bank held but $103 of the Com-
mercial Bank paper, which was all the
transaction the Directors had with that
Bank} nor have we any hesitation in say-
ing that there was no just cause for the
three days panic which seized some peo-
pie like an epidemic. We hope the
Halifax Reporter will retract what he
said, or produce evidence more worthy
the companionship of a respectable jour-
nalist than Dame Rumor.

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te Trade in Charlottetown is pretty
brisk just now. Several vessels have yet
to load, and oats are coming into market
in great quantitics. The prices range
from 2s. 9d. to 2s, 10d., and we read in
the Patriot of one farmer who was fortu-
nate enough to get 38s, 6d.; this was
caused by two parties contending for the
load, The pork trade is also brisk, but
has fallen about 1d. below former prices.
A hog weighing 550, fed by Jus. Beairs-
to, Hivq., of Princetown, was sold for dd,
to Owen Connolly, sq. Small pigs
bring 4d.

te The Steamer still continues to run

between Charlottetown and Pictou,
There is no sign of ice in cither of those
ports.

A brisk trade has been done here these
last few days, ‘Thousands of bushels of
oats have been brought to market, and
Pork
has also fallen to 4d, and 44d.

By reference to our advertising colum-
ns it will be seen that Dr, Jamieson, from
Nova Scotia, has located at Margate ; and

| regardless of the risk which 1 might run of
| furteitng the Leadership of the present Con- |
servative party, and of josing my scat in the}

that Dr. Fuller purposes making regular
Visits to Centreville,to supply the vacancy

ward arose the renowned city and cathedral
of St. Andrew.

| down to us trom the old ages. llowever
rtain may be their trath, they yet
ye to dink the present with tbe pastand
serve the world from forgetting, in this
vllishucss and of ex. iting events,
eaten have lived betore us, and
great and noble lives have been sacrifice

on beball of the same blessings and privi-
leges we so Carnestly cherish,

SINAI, AND THE HOLY LAND.”

Tur above is the title of a late work by
the Rey. D, A. Randall, who gives in a
volume of 710 pages, the record of a jour-
ney from the great Valley of the West in
America, to the sacred places ot the: East.
This volume is designed to connect the
scenes wud plices visited with the most
striking and instructive histori: events
with which they are identilied, and to draw
such illustrations and present such des-
criptions as may bring out more clearly
the meaning ot the inspired writers, One
of its grand objects is to show the fullil-
mentot prophegy, as now seen in the lands
of the Bast, On ths principle that * the
univer: the hand-writing of God, and
all objects are words in it,” the writer, with
a rare fascination of style, proceeds to un-
lock the great lessons of truth, and to de-
cipher the propheey-corroborating testi-
monies, Which ave found as clearly in the

mt state of astern lands and cities,as

more solemn and impressive because of the
infidelity and blasphemy of the presentage,
‘The descriptions here given ave graphic
and racy. ‘They seem to paint the spots
which ure successively visited, upon the
retina of the readey’s mentaleye, and some
of the passages thrill the Whole mind as
they we read, ‘Dake the following des-
cription of Sinai, reached at length, and
surmounted with Granbling steps :—

Tere we stand upon the Mout oy Goo, For
this we lave made oar long and weary pilgrimage
ueross the desert On this Mount God once came
down in uwtal grandeur and nuijesty, and on this
sublime elevation his glory was displayed. 1
withdrew from uy compations behind the cover ot
a rock, and wa yselr up to tie emotions the
place was culculited to inspire. Tread above the
description of the wagast and imposing scene, when
the Mount wis made to tremble beneath the majes-
ty and glory of the presence of the Deity, 1 read
the commandments that were rehenrsed in the
hearing of the people. { fell on my knees and
lifted up my heat aud veice in prayer to Alimghty
God; wud were 1 fultitled the pledge J made to my
Church and people, that 1 would pray for then on
the top ot Sinai, Tt was an hour of devout and
solemn communication with the God of Abraham
and of Teune, of Jacob, aud of Moses.”

The author stood also in Calvary, and
gives expression to his feelings thus :—

“O, Catvanr! thou hast witnessed a power
that rent the rocks, opened the tombs, and shook
even yonder Mount of God, rending usuuder th
consecrated veil that e#neenled the Holy of Holi
Over thee yutheredan appalling darkueésa, and yet
from thee las gone forth a radianes that is kiidiing
into ylory.’” :

The Clergyman, the Biblical student, the
Sabbath Scnool ‘Teacher, will especially
notice the value of such a work as this,
We would-not, however, by iny means
confine our recommendation of itto them,
but echo the utterance of many of the first
ininds of the present day, that every man
should have & copy on his shelves.

: Maps, diagrams, and illustrations are
interspersed to give clearness and perspic-
uity to all the narrative,

This great work, * The Iland-writing of
God,” has just been received by the agent
for. S. Island, the Rey. Albert 8. Des-
Brisay. Library edition 84. Cloth Extra
$3.60,

A Ga

KR lce-ou.atEv.—We believe we are
doomed to be cut off in every way for want of
telegraph communication, The winter has,
to all appearance, fully set in—the steamer
has coased to run to Shediac, aml yet nota
single thing has been done towards repairing
the old, or laying a new cable, between Cape
‘Tormentine and Cape ‘Traverse, From the
great blowing of trumpets in some of the city
papers, when Mr. Hensley returned home
from Washington, we were led to believe that
the cable would be immediately laid. ‘There
isnot a manin the Island but will regret
that this important matter has been neglected;
and those who had itin their powerto remedy
the evil, but who have neglected to do 60,
deserve to be censured. While our neigh-
bors in every part of the other Provinces ure
daily receiving telegraph news from the most
distal parts of Kurope, over thousands of
mniles of vable, the people of this Island are

completely cut off tor the want of eight or ten

Such are the traditions which have come |

“HAND-WRITiNG OF GOD, IN EGYP?,|

ter fashiva.

kg «Winter bas conre upon & good many
rather unexpeetedly. Many persons were
not prepared to receive him so early. On
Friday it snow Heavy, and on Saturday w
good deal «fice formed in the Irarbor, but not
sufficient to prevemt several vessels lying in
the harbor working their way owt. ‘Lhe
steamer could epsily have eome in. had she
made her regular trip. ‘Fhe foads i. matly
places are drifted up, patie olelghing is
heavy. ot :
Shediac harbor, we lean, is completely
frozen up. . emote
pQ™ Many miles of the telegraph wire be-
tween this and Cape ‘Traverse Was blown down
on Saturday night last. pO
t@™ Godey’s Lady’s Book for December
has been received. It contains two beautiful
engravings for Christmas. It has also some
splendid fashion plates. The Literary depart-
ment is very spicy, Now is the time to sub-
scribe for 1860.

3@= Remember the sale ofthe Farm and
Stock of Mr. Solomon Strang, on ‘Tuesday
next, on the premises, at Beach Point, Lot li,
about 12 miles from Summerside, by way of
Miscouche.

pa" The Nova Scotian of the 80th ultimo
says that * the schooner ‘Junior Franklin,’
from Prince Edward Island, arrived at Pros-
pect a tew days ago, and proceeded to dis-
charge her cargo of potatoes without entering
at any Custom house, A revenue officer wenp
down, seized the vessel, and brought her to’
this port, where she now lies awaiting the
proceedings of the customs department, ~The
cargo was not seized.

Krom the Halifux Express we learn that
lurge lots of produce have arrived there from
this Island, Outs are quoted at 57 cents,
butter 24 cents for choice, potatoes irregul rp
from 25 to 40 cents per bushel; pork, mess,
822.00.

We publish to-day in another column, the
letter of the Hon. ‘I’. JL. Haviland, addressed
tu the editor of the /slander. He throws off
the mask so long worn by him, and comes
oul boldly for denominational grants. We
inter.ded reviewing his letter, bus want of
space will not permit us this week, Lt wall
keep.

Vostmasters throughout the country will
suve trouble by obeying the laws in regard to
newspapers, etc. When a paper remains
dead in the otlice for four consecutive weeks,
itis the duty of the postmaster or his deputy
to send the publisher a written notice ot the
fuct—stating, if possible the reason why the
paper is not taken.” ‘The returning to the
{publisher of a paper marked **not tuken,’?
* refused,” or uncalled for,” is not a legal no-
tive. Mostmusters who fuil to comply with
the luw in this respect are liable fur the sub-
scription for the time said papers remain dead
in their ottive.--Z/erald.

Bank Nores—The Notes of the St Stephen
Bank of New Brunswick will be taken ut the
face in payment tor subscription to the dour
nal.

j@ > Subscribers who do notreecive their
papers regularly will please report to us im-
iInediately when. they are missing. and we will
make it known at head quarters. ‘Koo many.
of oar countyy Post Ollices are used as read-
ing rooms, avd thas the papers are soiled or
taken away by those who have no vight to
them,

The fecling in St. John in reg .rd to mone-
tary matters has improved. The St. Ste-
then’s Bank, it is generally believed, will
resuine business ina few days. ‘the mi
yers seem to have been scared by the pan
St. Jolin and to have foolishly exaggerated the
transinission of a a few thousand dobhirs from
St. Jolin to St. Stephen, into lundreds of
thousands. Indignation rung streng againse
Mr. Seovil. who, having been arrested, has
applied tor his release on the ground that an
attorney is privileged from arrest.—dix, Mep-

Shocking Murder.

About 11 o'clock on Thursday night, a
sailor named Jolin Cullen ot Liverpool, in
ngland, was stubbed to death pear the
jail, on the street ranning back of the old
Barrack ground. lle had been down tor
the oflice of Peake Bros. & Co., about &
o'¢lock and shipped as second mate in one:
of their vessels. Ife atterwards walked
up the strect with two or three of his
tiessmates, ‘They all called at Murphy’s,
who keeps vtavern in Jonathan Conings?
old place, and remained there antl atigne
took place, when Cullen, who was a quiet
inoffensive man, and not engaged in the
quarrel, leit for his boarding house which
was renrly opposite the jail) Ie was
found a lite citer IL o’¢lock on the street
aloresaid, dead, with a ound on his Jett
broust, Av inquest held on the body,
betore Coroner Bee terday, and alter
cimination of several witnesses; the
jon was adjourned uutil to-day.
Suspicion pointing strongly to one Dowey,
steward ot the bark Clara Novella, a wit
rant for his arrest and that of three others,
Was issued late list evening. At the in-
quest yesterday, this man voluntarily ef
tered himself tor examination, and being
sworn, stated that he was standing with «
irl on the street near where Cullen was
Killed; that Cullen passed them three
times, and once came up and spoke to the
girl calling her Mary. Dowey saw the
man fall afew yards off, and a little boy
came over and said he was stabbed, but he
(Dowey) swore he knew not who did it.
On the inguisition being resumed, a mun
named Goodhue, of Newfoundland, was
sworn and examined, He testified that he
Was passing along right by the Jail, he
Sawa young man and woman standing at
the street corner Goodhue stopped and
asked where be could get lodgings tor the
night. In the conversation, Dowey let go
the girls hand, :he turned: round and ina
moment saw the man who accosted then:
running away as fast as he could. She
asked’ Dowey whut he had done? Mo
answered, * 1 kniled him,” Goodhue who
recognized both parties when he saw them,
testilied to Dowey’s attempt to stab him.
Itappears that seon alter, Callen came up,
and passed then onee of ‘twice, abd .on
one occasion he spoke to them, addressing
himself particularly to the girl. She step-
ped aside on the street, and Dowey went
over towards Cullen, and came back
in « few seconds, saying * f have stabbed
him.” She asked why he had done so, and
inquired ifthe man were dead, Lis re-
ply was ‘1 think he is for the knife went
into him up to the Handle.” ’ Standing Be-
side her, he drew the kuite from its sheath
and drawing the bhide betw eon his finger
jand thumb, wiped the blood offit, Doctor
Fraser made a post mortem examination,
and stated that the wound must have
caused instant death, asthe kuite pene-
trated irto one ot the ventriclea ot the
hoart. Verdict of wilful murder against
George 8. Dowey, who did nok peom in
the least moved or afveted during the in-
vestigation, ‘lhe wicked: wreish is not,
we are happy to learh a native of this
Island.— Vat,

“= was |
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Married,

. At Charlottetown, ou the ‘Wrd Nov. by the iter,

Thotims Daven, Meo dames H. Sheratd, to Miss
Sarah White, both of Shediae New. Brunswick. .
On the @tet ult. by the sume, Mf, Thomas
Boohamin, Helfust, t6 Mies Leoy Carrie, af
Charlottetown:

At the Manse, on Tuesday the Ist inat,, by the
Rev. W. R. Fraine, Mr. Alexander Warren, to
Miew Catherine Beaireto, both of Berntoy, Lop 1s.