: THE, HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 8, 1868. ua

v ht t H ern I l “| tariff must be supple: ented by other modes of taxa-|culous as to say that any person is very much impress.
Bie | 4 rd

~ Must have reconrse to sone extraordinary means to save |do with the Clerkenwell explosion. They
for me and for posterity a portrait of the hero of Avcola.”) manded to jail for farther examinations?

* tion. Another confiden rtion of the Confederates | ed by his first visit—or bis last, vither—to our London,

Sho eat down in the arm-chair, and ehe beckoned to] Tt is reported that the Emperor has propaged to Se aa ==" | which has been rudely dispelled is, that the Upper and | but I believe that the above remark, about the London

aa — - _— m ‘ee ee senging we gp ah Soa oe ve ag gag pie hips join Wednesday, Janunry 8, 1868. Lower Catadians, aa matters affecting peel of the world, touches on a chord of the human heart
“ ¢ she called Napoleon to her, and, ope ie France ina Customa Union, elgiom 18 8a °C) aeons gi anaes oapemmmnaemaacamminemmee maui as distinguished f ld | which is the great motive power of -half th

ln dawn o ; : } catia SPS Pot E guis rom the Maritime Provinces, woul g power of one the jour-

hath arma. she drew him dawn on her lap, and in this | declined the proposition an the groand that she has al » FE N IANISM., not combine to oppress thedatter. Now, the debate on | neys undertaken even in this practical age. If a coun-

way she induced him to sit down quietly a few moments) ready concluded a military aud commercial alliance
tnd allow the painter the sight of his fage, thus enabling | with Prussia. Sixce, Last we appeared before you, dear friends, | he tari? shows tho contrary, and proves that the /try ladin England leaves his farm-house or his work-

him to sketeh the portrait, A’report is enrrent at Berlin thatthe Grand Duke of : hl i i-Confed | liable i hop. he ts, three ti
: n eo Of é their view | shop, he ls, three times to one, nduced to de go by a
hte therend of thie Hav-slitiew:-Hanaparte-emilutlialon willabdioat } leave the Duchy free to juin | Feaianisin has exhibited itself under a most repulsive | anti-Confederates were the more reliable in .
peculiar sitting. Bonaparte aang Tae WE Hn ona tcntiien aspect, At this wo are not surprised, for ‘wer felt as-|of the working of the scheme, Whilst the tariff ex-/*trange admixtureof curiosity and pleasure, accom.

Kgly remised that he would next day grant the paint-| the North German Confederation, ied h ; int id
cool ove, provided Joaephine would again have Montreal, Dec. 20. | sured that the spirit whiclr called thet Organization; in| pressly protects the agricultural and other products of | Pavied. perhaps, with a faint idea of doing a littl busi-
: ' ness on his own account, If the city nierchant leaves

the * extravidinary meane'* sendy, She conseated,| -A‘namber of officers belonging to the Canadian Val- |g existence in a time of profound peago~at.a the! Qanada by the imporition ‘of a heavy doty: upon im-

and for four days in sncvession Le Gros Was enabled to unteer service, have left for Rome to join the Papal when the Gates of {anus were closed throughout the Em-| ported oats, wheat, flour, meal, rye, &e,, of which she his counting desk for a day or two to take a ramble
pit eture im a quarter of anchour and theow npou his;army. A reeruiling office hae been opened hero with _— , 4 through the country, be generally does #0. not h

van the features of the General, while he quietly | the object of raising a regiment for Papal service. pire of Britain, and when the chances of a successful re-| has a surplas, the coal and other interests of Nova 7, Be ge , Not from any
; ose ». , New York, Dee, 31, | bellion were hopeless, would be galvanized into aj Scotia and New Brunswick, of whieh the Upper Pro- superabundant'love. of Country scenery and country
A aj Leaping which i one ap ot - Gold 1334. pei ad hee state of unnatural activity on the execution pe Pht vinces are deficient, are sacrificed by allowing the same ~~ _ ara icy if you will, but honest
tu et ruse of Jovephing, and which was eouttered j London 0, *%. | disciples of the Brotherhood at Manchester. Our telo- | products of all other countries to compete with them | Withal—o njoyment,

throagheat Karope in oapper-place’ prints, represented; The Governmont is still taking precautionary ? tii ee P ivil

Honayarte, with ongoscred head, holding a standard in| measures to guard against expected arene e4 of the graphic despatches fully corroborate this view of the CAs?) upon an equal footing... Upon this poiut, the corres- . oe inne Asie: lines to

anid it is mow manifest that a reign of retaliation bas | nondent from whom. wo have already quoted says :—- pe 3 ell-known Acadian

4 he peg with hia far turned em bie ain ety a pba agpatet ; Spears 6. District, whieh, tor the “Wobeien shall'be -
ing on thom to follow him as he dashed en the! ‘The Troops which’ were yesterday deapatched for | been inaugarate ich will stop at no excess of crim-| ,, see te shia » Sha namels.,
The division lists will afford to the people of the am not going to enter into any description of the exhit-

‘bridge of Arcola amid a shower of Austrian balls. Portsmouth were to-day aent to Oaborne, Tele of Wight. |jnality or folly. There are many wiseacres in this :
“It is a beautiful, Hoposiag picture, aul eontempor-| ‘The Loudon Observer, in its issue of Satnrday. saye pescado or may look upon ct i we may say Maritime Provinces a sad verification of the oft-repeat- irating or other influences of our North American win-
; aries praised it fur'its Nieness to the hero; butne one that the Britieh Goverament, in all the. extraordinary tipon thiy subject with suspicion; but wo think we can ed prediction, that when our interests clashed with ter, which bag this advantage, at least. that, if an enemy
those of the Western seetion of the Confederacy we attempted to bivouac but one night in any portion of

i vould believe that Ula pale. grave countenauce, thase | preenations which it is now taking against the Fenians, , i ‘a :
gloomy eves, and carnest lips, whish seeued incapable, is acting with 9 full knowledge ef their recent plans, | safely say that, writing from a British American stand- : of . :
a6 of aemile, were those of Bonaparte aa he eat ou the | The alaruy caused hy the Fenians is subsiding. point, we bave shown that in Irishmen and Catholics in | Would certainly be outvoted by an Upper and Lower | British America, many would never * answer to the long
Advices from Japan i Pheeiea that in ag pr these Provinces, where the fullest measure of Givi} and | Canadian combination, In the late division on the | roll again.” Neither am I going to bore my readers
with the commissioners of Foreign Powers, the ports 0 religious liberty. prevails, no more loyal subjects tariff, nearly the whole mass of Upper and Lower Ca-| with a history of various little incidents that accompan-

AE lap of Josephine whewd.e Gros was painting i.
ca ee HHDVIDENTIAL MAN) Yeddo and Ovikea will he th Porei
feddo and Osaka will be thrown open to’ Foreigners ; 4 : ; ;
ibis for settlement and commeree on the 20th of daunary. to the Crown of England can, be found. Let us| nadian members threw out the amendments supported | ‘¢d my trip, and my return in due time to my home and
my business, I shalt not tell them how often my sleigh

A PROVIDENTIAL MAN!

_ There is uo aspiration so glorious as thy desire to do| ‘The new coustitation of Austria which recently pass-| not, however, be misunderstood, Catholics,—espe- by the combined majorities of Nova Scotians and New

17 <goal, Toward, bending over the coaeh of sickaves and | ed the Reighyath hax been promulgated throughout the | cially Irish Catholics,—are loyal because they enjoy. 10! Brunawickers.” With these important facte staring | “most upset. hi w rudely may faithful horse was driven

_ 7 “suoothing the pillow of death, was greater than Napo. | Bmpire hy Lmperial decree. | ; " proportion to their numbers, a full measure of civil and ; ; clean off the road by that stubborn race of mortals, the

: fF, leon at Aasterlitz, Aud Thomas Holloway, whose in.) ‘The Bill for the re-organization of the army which Pde acai no disabilities her on the| "im the face, with regard to the effects of Confedera- market people, (who, T verily believe, would think
} estimabie iiedicines are subduing disensosal every type. |)a8 been under disengsion for the past week in the | TS iBious Sberly j because no cis pal ae tion from the stand-point of sectional interests and|,.:... bel hey gave bs 4 0” to th Pri :

din everg-part of the habitable givbe, is more worthy, of | French Senate waa introduced in the Corps Legislatitt other side of the Atlantic, exercise eway, and, in fine, Gisiien wh OU Ai ei bein bat 4 twice before they gave * hui! the road” to the Prince of

evespect aud hoyour than any warrior that ever drew by M. Greasier, aud was debated during tho sitting | because the more equal competition to which all classes | ’ ¥ Mat wo were not right in Keep: | of Wales himself, if they met him,) and how every pub-

days i are subjected, have secured them a fair. share of | iS aloof from an experiment in Government whose'| tie house on the way appeared to observe with admi-

M. Gressier, on reporting the Bill, made a speech de-| i. optats goods and honors. Sell-interest is tho | benefits are extremely problematical, but whore bur- | rabie punctuality a species of anti-climax with regard

the sword. When Koesuth visited the United States | yesterday.
she wag designated af one of the clergy as the “* provi- a ag a Pert pe H
x psa sae cbr igo tabs setae ari ges talisman which secures the loyalty of Irishmen in these | dens are unpleasantly realized. We may be told that; t® acevmmodations.. These are little ordeals which
every person ina similar situation must eXpectto pass

dential man.”’ Surley Professor Holloway, who has sma com tie lob ae aesle war be
travelicd over moat parts of the world, better deserves | denied that lt was A preparation lor.an © + ¥e- " : : |
that title: Eis penton establishment in London has | canse iu reality it would operate to redace the present | Provinces to the British Throue, as illustrated during the | tho echeme has not had a fair trial, and that it is pre- throagl, and which no person who has once passed
“been the fontal sources of health to millions of the afftiet. | elfective force of the army, He insisted that the) che Fenian ralds of two years ago. At the present mo- | mature to pronounce vpon its success or failure, that, | through them, ever thinks about afterwards. But. the
o. feo agencies, re in riage city aud town menace ee Ieee SAY 9a wise provision for the nent the act of Habeas Corpus, which secures the free- | 1p fact, we have metely given the debit side of the ac | Sve pve og of the a dar vf these rene
‘ oft universe, are the EOPLE'B DISPENSARIRS. | HECe suits fi aa ‘ Treland and in Eng- 4 : P : dig | Tobis native imperturbabilily ander the severest trials. bie
Wliat is traciof the popularity of his imedicives in, Lon- ; London, 22. dom of the subject, ig suspended in ripe desig . count, without taking into consideration the credit, sly hnimor, his patient endurance of wrong, his sirong
don, is true theonghout the world; for wherever civili-|  M. Roaher, Minister of State, also spoke iu sapport land, 80 thas any man, upon the merest sury ' Weill, perhaps so, We have given the debit side alone | love of religion, and (10 use a phrase which is, perhaps,
“gation hag penetrated, by land or sea, they are known of the Bill, He strongly protested #gainat the opinion | the instance, mayhap, of some implacable enouly. MAY ||, snqnuse we failed to discover the credit, and we simply | £2 mach frowned down an this side of the Atlantic)
aud appreciated. From Greenfand to Terra del Fuego | Which had been expressed that the introduction of the | he arrested and thrown into prison for an indefinite! . the f fiud th bee alae his pride of aneestry—these are subjects worthy of
-—from the Miseissippito te Ganges—they are adver- | bill waa not proposed by the Government as a tempor- period of time without trial, judge orjary,. The lesson give the facts as we Lud them, leaving the reader to) peng written about and read about, by all who can ad-
tized in every printed language, aud resorted to by | ary expedient to meet an immediate eontingeney,, but Wo ntinit: “ lor ee 4 ; mire human natare in its noblest aspect. The story of
races of every name and colour, as the only reliable | a8 & permanent measure to,improve the general efficien- a a new one to Mngland; but for the past seven centu- his trials, too, during those disastrous wars which end.
and provea remediea in all the phases of disease. The | 6Y of the wilitary farce of the Empire. ries it is an old story in Ireland, varied by periodical ed with the (ill of Louisburg, would be interesting in —
‘ading medical periodicals of Landon and Edinbargh | | M. Jules made a powerfal speech in opposition to} famines and unsuccessful rebellions. As a British its very sidness, were it not that it would be bighly un-
le gan } % | I l ghy

tatin Josephine’s la

Poke 4

draw hig own conclusions,

THE SELKIRK ESTATE AGAIN,

not omy except Hontoway'’s Pitus axp Ointaunr | the Bill. Towards the clove of the eitting the vote was
from their general deauuciations of patent medicines, }taken and the ministry was sustained by a majority of
bat unreservedly commend them. Ta short, if @e are | the Chambers, i ;
to believe the concurrent tustimouy of all natiuney Pro. | A Jong and angry debate in the Italian Chamber of
fervor Holloway hus done more to ameliorate haman | Deputies on the policy of the Governinegt on the Ro-
suffering and rob the grave of victims than anycovher Man question termimated yesterday, The final vote
thedical discoverer of this or any other age. We have) as taken, and the Goverumenc wae sustained by a

Subject, sincerely attached to British Institutions and to
the dynasty of Her Gracious Majesty, we express the
honest opinion that until the Irish peasantry are possess-
ed by Parliament ia an actual interest in the soil they
occupy and cultivate, until the Irish Church  Establish-
ment is abolishedy and util the Irish people are pos-

just to upbraid Englishmen of the nineteenth century

Tus editor of the Islander, with the praiseworthy | with the bratal savagery of ther ancestors a hundred
design of reinstating himself in the good graces of the! years ago. Let the merciful veil of oblivion be cast
‘Spoor Highlanders"! of Belfast, again reverts to the
purchase of the Selkirk Estate.

over this foul blot on our national history, but let it bo
recorded in letters of gold how the Acadian people

"Mh H .
Thie time, however, bore up under their trials, how they still clang.with a
jhe admits that although the Government of which he | wnacity whieh did honor to their nationality and thefs

“urqnestionnble aathovity for saying that his central
_ Office iv Loudon sends out annually more tian three
feidred thousand) pounds’ worth of his medicinea!
"The etatistics of the cures effected hy their means can-

not, of course, be ascertained; but judging from the

facts within ovr limited sphere of observation, we should
_‘eay that no ordimiry quarto volame could contain the

Zz recérd. Surely the discoverer and philanthropist who.

ns accomplished sneh results may, without arroganee,
* be styled a PROVIDENTIAL MAN.—Chicago Times,

AOROSTIC, 7

"Hark! the death-bell now is tolling,
On the alr its mournful wail,
N earer still the peals are rolling
O ver mountain; hill and vale.
R ouipd the hearth-stones of our Island
A ll is sadnoss, gricfand woe,
Bitter pangs our hearts are rending,
so ibérty thas felt the blow.
~ ' E ver green thy memory be,
E ver faithful and sincere,
D earto every son of Freedom
W as he whom we now revere.
oh I who love fair F¥eedom’s standard
3 : Raised by him upon our shore.
os “D oomed, the tyrants fell before him,
P W ¢ hig early loss deplore,
H e is gone, the noble-hearted,
E very one his death bewail,
> Leong the pride of our fair island,
“A ndits prop when tyrants railed ”
N ow in death lies cold and pale,

Rolle Bay, Dec, 20th 1967.

dil

UNA.

te

oo tN ews by Delegraph,
a af .. London, Dec. 19ti—even. |
The explosion of nitro glycerine ‘at’ Neweastle on
Tyne was more eerione than at first reported.
+. The Sheriff and town Surveyor, who Were badly. in-

joved, have since died of their wounds,

neti

if poriows ot ceive wos
| » ‘The veport of the, revival of negotiations hotween
Pruavia and Denmark.in regard to Sehleewig ia duubt-
ved, but itis now sald that active negotiations will be
eresnined in Jananry, i j
_ © Jt iereported that a paper has been found at Wolver-
ee hampton whieh shows that the Fenians iv England had
organized! a plot to plander all the armorics of the
m forees in Eogland,
' Phe bullion in. the Bavk of England increased

£277,000.
Qs ANG Pavia, Dee, 20.
* — Moniteur has ater details of recent battle in Pacina
“Lopez, by neglect, vot only loet reeults of his victory
Ef bnt was turned on by his vanquished enemy and badly
4) beaten. Loss of Paraguayaus very heavy.
| : New York, Deo. 20.
" The Times:contains an account of a swindie perpe-
i ~ trated on Judge Bernard, of thie city, by which a bogus
SMiimond broker obtained $40,000 from the Judge.

“8! “Gold Hi. * i
BT ALA ' London, Dee. 20, even.
A bill for the re-organization of the army is now un-
“Wer Gircueriin‘in the French Senate, [ts adoption is
“urged ‘on the tye that etch a measure is necessary
* on oécount of the German sitnation, and of the revolu-
: ‘pepect, of affaire in Italy, ;
apportionment of the quotas of taxes, the pro-
de ich are to be apphed to the payment of the
tistrinn atitionn! debt, among the provinecs of the
ive and tht eee of Heungare, has been form-
nonneced and ustablished by a deerce whieh lias
the Rievbrath, “
en who ire thelr namer os English, Mutrani,
W. Deemond, were arrested in this city
‘00 worpicion of being counected’ with the re-

ye etlan outrager:

The -wlarm caueed by thore ontrages hero continues.
Ais strates are all eweating in epecial policemen,
The, # aroun oe have beewstrengthen-

ond warelionscs it the city are eurefally watched

ko wad de iy sttefva to Portemouth to day:
weola) train Epa

*

Pi RES

pinge? “dn the Bodies of tore who
ihe explosion at Clerkenwell prison, was’

hear

18th.

LF i

ight, were broughi

lice for exarwinatia
reve to show th

a »

conspicuous part in the Fenian processions.

» Bight pereows all told lost their lives by the ex-/ morrow. ‘The Commander-in-Chief in Ireland is active-

Tpowder. “No ewe to the perpetrators of the act. .The

pals The: cde that n'fe of flour,
Od testimony | wheat or rye, would wot ouly pay au immense profit,
something to) bu

‘eerste a

ge of two.

The announcement of the result was received by the
opposition with loud cheering. ~ i

Gold 133. ae
Charlottetown, Dee. 30th.

The expected rising of Fenians in Ragland and Mon-
treal yesterday, did not come off. —Reported scheme to
vlow ap English Cathedral, Water Works guarded,
Troops ready to move.—Revolution in Yucatan as-
suming large proporticns, - Santa Anna prectuimed
Dietutor.— Indications that English Government have
information that a general attempt will be made by
Fenians to rescue the Fenians in various parts for com-
plicity in late ontrages. Precautionary measures are
being taken by the Government to meet emergencies.
—The Times’ editorially fears Abyssinian War will be
protracted till next year.—Gold 184.

Sr. Jouy, N, B., Dee. 80.

Fiendish outrages characterized Fenians in Dublin;
large number of letters received at Post Office, directed
to prominent officials loaded with explosive materials de-
{signed to kill the recipients, No one yet killed. Po-
licemman horribly mangled with opening one,—Napier
gone to Abyssinia.—Gold 1834.

Dec. 31.—Fenians stormed Martello Tower, near
Cork, overpowered guaril ahd éscaped with considerable
amount.of arms and, anwunition.—Believed the true
culprit who fired fuee at Clerkenwall prison has been

regaptured, 5
oe Sr Jony. N. B,, Jan. 2,

Reported that men who stormed the tower near Cork,
all cameé fromthe United Statey—sent-over by Fenian
Brotherhood 'there.—'T'wo Head) Centres ani five Cap-
tains have been arrested in South Wales.—Government
determined to proceed with prosecutions againgt Sul-
livan, of the Dublin Nation, and others, who took a

St. Joon, Jan 3.
Arrangements made by which half a million dollars in
Gove¥nment notes, redvemagble in specie in St. Jobn, be
issued for this Province through Bank of Montreal. » No
cable or other news of the dlightest interest. Gold 334.

«j ., St. Jonn, Jan. 4.
Positive advices just received, from Alrica leave no
doubt that Dr. Livingtsone is alive and well.—Fearful
explosion of powder took place at Wychang, ‘opposite
Hankow, (Cliina,) attended with great loss of'life and
property, Viceroy’s palace blown into the airi—rGold

1333. ‘
, j , Str. Jouy. Jan'y. 6,
The late Collector, H. B. Smith, to be tt AY to-

ly engaged in disposing troops ‘to meet possible out-
break, particularly in the counties Cork aud Tipperary,
Hopes general Conterente on Romati’ question abav-
doned by France,

Gold 1334.

Boats left for Cape Tormentine at 9 o'clock.

More boats. left Cape Tormentine this morning at

half past 7 o'clock.
St. Jobn, N. B., Jan. 7.

magazine at Cork and carried away ha ton of

Clergy of Limerick have affixéd: their signatures to

nuless treated jike hamanity.

Boat left Cape Tormentine at 7 o'clock, with maile
and eight passengers, :

Havanna, Dee, 26.

Yucatan, is aveaming large proportions. Santa Anna
had been proclaimed Dictator by the Revolationiets,

men and a million of dollars.—The fort and town of
Sisal wore in the hands of the rebels, but the port wae
blockaded by two Mexican gunboats. A number ot

enqenen took’ place between the Mexican gonbuate
and the batteries on shore. en

Mexican steamer Tobasco was ready to sail for Sisal on
the next day, with an expedition to establish the aa-
thority of the

on heard 50) or 600

este co ge arrived here, They all seem to
husily engaged.

The Austrian steam Frigate Novara waa appointed
to eailfiem Flavana, for Private on Wednesday, the 4th

having thus inotilated the re
and he bas been imprisoned at the capital 6f Mexico,

A private letter hat the suff

t woald bo received with gratitude.

sessed of
by which.

local Parliament under the British Crown,
segulate their own internal affuirs, Fouian-
ism will have its active supporters and sympatbisers, | Ment than the original cost and expenses; yet, that the
‘The authorities’ tay create a wilderness and call ic| terme of the Land Purchase Act, which refer to the
peace; they may erect gibets throughout the length | *¢!f-suetainment of all Estates purchased thereunder,
and-breadub of the land, and they may sacrifice heva-| admit of a different donsoruction to that given by the
tombs to the offended majesty of the law; but we sol- | 4sander. The language of the Act ie, that the prices
emnly repeat tke conviction that so long as the first
causes—legitimate cadses, we emphatically say—of dis-
affection exist, so long will illegal combinations exist;
so long will suspensions of Haveas Corpus take place; | and management of the lands, . . . . it being
and so long will the miserable spectacle of banging | intended that this Act shall, if possible, be sel/-sus-

Estate a price which would yield more to the Govern-

fixed upon and determined shall be regalated “so that
a sufficient prioe be charged in the aggregate to cover
all costs and expenses of the purchase, transfer, survey

was 4 confidential adviser. charged the settlers on that | age, 10 their old faith and theirold language, and how

they cheerfully subanited to the rule of their new mas-
ters, who, Weare happy to admit, have since donea great
deal tomake them contented and happy. And bere [
tuust express my disapprobation of the course pursued
by a certain class of writers, who may well be denom-
inated as flippant, who do all in their power to place all
the sufferings of the Acadian population to the score of
Old England. Without wishing to exculpate the Bri-
tish Government of that day from the larger share of
the blame, I must say that, in my opinion, much of theso
sufferings might have been prevented, or at least alle-
viated, by the French Government, for it can scarcely
be believed that such persecutions as the Acadians une
derwent long after the re-establishment of peace,
would be allowed to continue, were a proper represen-

London, 4th.— Fenians’ weit tascam A ‘ entered | scheme denied inthe most positive terms that taxation

doeuments declaring there cain be ono peace ia Ireland | dicted, with anerring certainty, the increase of Govern.

A despateh from Mexico states that the revolution in| at all events, were ridiculed in unmeasured terms,

and was expected hourly to arvive f om Havanna with as we bate shown in # previous No, of this paper, has

officers who formerly served under the Emperor, had ar- | pegeived out of it in the way of a capitation grant, &.,
rived at Sisal from Matamoras, On the 16th ‘an en. $1,000 per day ! Under the new and increased Tariff,

The coart of Yooatan, in the vicinity of Sisal, was| which both Confederates and Auntie in the Maritime
diligently watched, to prevent the landing of troops! Provinces exclaim, as well they might, this loss will
coming from any foreign country to aidin the rebellion, | he mach increased, Aw to New Bronswick, we will
Line. .tna, eaamer “lett Vere Cres ge the 20th, the jet the Ottawa correspondent of the Halifax Chronicle
speak. Writing of the debate upon the Tariff in the
Mexicati Government at Sieal. She had| Dominion Hoose of Commons, this correspondent
‘imen and several pieces of artillery. | saya :—"* The interests of New Branewick did not euf-
Santa Anna is in the city of Havanna. Many ex-Im- fer‘at the hands of Mr. Anglin. No man could have and Proprietors of the most arbitrary power a fow ry re-
excelled him in minute accuracy. comprehensive know-
ledge, and engent reasoning. He proved beyond the
possibility of cavil the effect of the new tariff upen the

inat., with the remains of Maximilian on board, The) tevenae of New Brongwick, Tilley did not venture to
special correspondent: of the New York Herald tcle-| question the correctness of Anglin's figures, by which
grave that he bas ecen the remains, and that the eyee,| he showed that the New Brunswick revenue vould
hair ond heard are wanting, The ng) accused of | sieid an i
mains iv the embalmer, pand doll
Nova Scotia and New. Bronewick, it is only the firet}| — ' compere Ob Naat
| snetalmént of what is tocome.”? We thoroughly-agree| Ir has been remarkod by:an English writer who has|fan amazingly, It has been ovcasi
given at least one book of merit to the world, thas there | Acadians are not so ready to adopt improvemonts:as
are scarcely any feelings at all.
which aro,experienced by a sanguine country youth on | 5.4,
the evo of his first visit to London, Iam not going to America in the highest and most ennob
make such a hasty descent from the sublime to tho ridi-| civilization.

there is inconceivable, rearcity and high! with this correspondent that, disastrous as the new

inetalment of what ieto come. When the Hodson Bay
Territory comes to be paid for,and other immense pub-
Ne works provided for, the stamp daty aud an increased

and quartering which has been presented to view | faining.” The editor of the Islander is not altogether | (tion made by France to England of the sufferings en-
for centuries past, be repeated, + Man's inhumanity to | positive whether this applies to each Estate singly, or | dured by the Aéadians of the Maratime Provinces, who,

man makes countless thousands mourn,” wrote the | to all in the aggregate, purchased under its provisions.

although French Colonists, or their descendants, ap-
pear to have been left, after the fall ot Louisburg to their

poet Cowren; and perhaps some centuries after this, | If it applies singly to each Estate, then, of course, the hard fate. Oa whom the responsibility rests, 1 shall
English statesmen, who are proverbially slow to learn, | purchasers of the Selkirk property ought not to be made | not, however, further enquire, but ¢ werfully record
and constitutionally averse to being driven to do what 1s pay more than the original cost and expenses; but if) Y conviction that, in all the soem! and Christian vir

right, May come to the conclusion that the employment of | the intention of the Act is, that one Estate shall be

tues, the Acadians of the present day are not one whis
bebiod their ancestors of one hundred and fifty years

the bayonet and its accompaniments, to secure good go- | taken with another so as to make the whole sel/-eus- ago, as we find them pictured by Longfellow and Hali-
vernment in Ireland, is, after all, somewhat more expen. | faining, then the late Government were right in fixing | burton. The latter, indeed, gives us a picture of their
Sive and troublesome than removing grievances which | the value of the Selkirk Estate at the rates which they | ##ppiness and innocence which we, living in the latter

half of this bustling and not mode! nineteenth century,

are patent to everybody but themselves. We leave the }did. Now, our own individual opinion is, that the | cay scarcely recognize as combatable with the follias
melancholy subject with the grim satisfaction that, as | Land Parchase Act was intended to be a self-eustain- | and foibles of buman nature. From that picture, I
we are not responsible lor the wrongs and crying evils | ing measure, and that if one estate purchased ander | Venture to make the following extract :—*'Before bloody

of freland, so we are not responsible for the irrepressible | its provisions were bought ata high rate and avother

war bad devastated the fair Province of Acadia,” real
misery was wholly unknown, and benevolence antici-

though intagaiaed and foolish Fenian thovement, which at a low one, an average price should be strick witl pated’ the demands of poverty. Every misfortune
oveupies so large a share of public attention at the pre-| the view of preventing a loss to the revenue and thas | WAS relieved as it were before it could be felt, without
sent moment; but before convluding we would warn entailing an unfair tax upon freeholders. It appears to | Stentation on the one hard, and without meanners on

our readers to beware of the many sensational telegrams | yg that Mr. Pope himself, when confidential adviser to

the other. It Was, in short, a society of brethren;
every individual of which was equally ready to g ve

with which they are inundated, as to the atrocities of | thy Jate Government, held this view, as also did the | and to receive what he thought the common right of

the Fenians. In a time of public excitement, it Is na- membére of the late Gévernment.

tural to suppose that whatever of an extraordinary or!
criminal mavure may take place, should be Inid at the
door of an inflammable association like the Fenians. It
niust be borne in mind, however, that desigumg men
are only too ready to seize upon the credulity of the
public, and magnify even the most trivial circumstance
or accident capable of a rational interpretation, into
** stratagems and spoils” of the most sombre hue and the
direst significance, With this proviso, we shall give
the telegrams and news from England and Ireland just
as We receive them, '

THE DOMINION TARIFF.

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Tr will be rememtered that when Confederation
was first mooted in this Ieland, those who favored the

would be increased thereby, The Hon. Messrs. Coles,
Palmer, Beer, aud other anti-Confederates, who pre-

iment expenditure and taxation under the new coneti-
tation and who fortified their position by figures
which were fixed upon a. reasonable probability

Well, the Dominion has been in existence since June

eult.

Otherwieo their | M20kind. So perfect aharmony naturally preven «d
all these connexions of gallantry which are so Often

coudact would be inexcneatls in charging the settlers) fatal tothe peace of families, ‘This evil was prevenied
on the Selkirk Eetate a higher price for the fee simple | by early marriages, for no one passed his youth ia
of their farms thau the law demanded, nor is there any state of celibacy. Aw soon as a young man. alrive | at
doubt upon our mind that had the law Government
secured anew lease of power at the last eleetion, the | necessaries of life tor a twelve-month. There ho recel-
point of law raived by the dsldader would never have | ved the partner whom he bad ehosen, and who brought
been started. The question is as dishcnest as it is un-
furtdnate for onr contemporary ; for ifit be referred to | yicture of these people, as drawn by the Albe Rag-
the Attorney-General for bis opinion, and ho should de-|nal. By man
cide that the ivterpretation now put apon the Act by
the Islander is enrrect, aud that the late Government it is worthy the poct rather than the historian.
were not justified in demanding from the “poor LHigh- | In describing a scene of raral felivity like this, it is not
landers" more than the bare cost and charges of the | mprobable that his narrative has partaken of the
Estate, of course the present Government will rectify
the error of their predevessors and entitle themselves | oq, Tradition is fresh and positive in various parts ot
to the gratitude of the holders of the Selkirk Estate. | the United States, where they were located, respecting
If, however, he ghould read the Act in the same light
as Mr. Pope did when he and hia friends were in offive, | endearing local attachment induced them to return to
and had the power of doing justice to those * poor] the land of their nativity, still deserve the name of
Highlanders" whose condition be now affects to com- | mild, fragal, and gee people.” As might naturally bo
misserate, a very unprofitable agitation will be the re-

That this is what the Jslander desires, there Catt | ambition, he is equally free from its feverish disappoint=
be little doubt; but he may find before the question is| ments, His small farm—for, in general, owing to fre-
settled, that the cheap popularity which he covets will | (uent subdivisions, the farm of the Acadiang are small

the proper age, the community built him a house, broke
up all the land about it, and supplied him. with all the

hin her portion in flocks, In 1745, all together, made
& population of eighteen thousaud souls, Such is the

it thought to represent a

state of social henphesns totally inconsistent with the
frailties and passions of human nature, and that

warmth of feeling for which he was remarkable; but it
comes uel nearer the truth than is generally imagin-

their guileless, peaceable and scrupulous character;
and the descendants of those whose long cherished and

expected, avarice has nothiag to do with sach a charac-
ter. If the Acadian knows not the rewards of grasping

—produces euough for the sustenance of himself and

last, and the result of ite operation upon Nova Scotia, descend upon those whom he does not regard as friends. family, and he never thinks of invoking the cares of

been that, under the old Tariff, that Province has
paid into the Ottawa Treasury, over und above what it

however, which has jast been, imposed, and. against

! Heavily ae the new tariff will press on

landers” and others that may never be realized, failed, any.
according to his own showing, to secate the rights of | bis simplicity, aud his cheerfulness have beea equally
his constituents when he had the power to do so. | endearing.

Dryden, in giving the character of Bolingbroke,
describes him as “everything by turns, and nothing stidenent ‘you travel, oF i wh

' at part of the d
long ;" #0. the editor of the Jslander, from being the | year, you ps saluted on all sides Bet and jeona. iad
champion of the exercise on the part of Government | so L gress f that you can with difficulty believe that
suc

fall for them where»
grief.”

Ao far as we can learn, there is not the slightest agita- | to-morrow to mar the pleasures of to-day. He hae
tion among the holders of the Selkirk Estate ; and we | fur or five cows, and he knows that they should give
think they would be very great fools to allow them- | ik enough for his dozen of pigs, and, instead of tat-

tening two or three of them for market, as an English-

selves to become excited by the deviguing clap-trap of | iy would be sure to do, ho takes the blessings of
the editor of the Jslander, who, however clever he may | Heaven as they are sent, and eats the whole of them.
he in raising expectations in the miads of ** poor Ligh- | Simple, therefore, is his life, but happy in its simplicity.

For generations his character haa scarcely undergone
teeptible change; but happily his gentleness,

One closing word on bis amiable disposition and na-
tive pohteness, [+ matters not through what Acadian

persons could have always lived inthe same. You
enter the house, always scrupulously clean, with flowere,

volving moone"” ago, has now degenerated into a j¢
possible, on the window. and walls well whitewash-
blatant demagogue, againat whom all honest men | ed,and you are received with such se oa you

should be on their guard, Otherwise he will dig a pit- | 8F@ at once taken up with
- they thall aseuredly go execrable Freoskrmeds nglish people unfortunately

entertainer. You speak

Jo—and you make blunders that would provoke the
risibility of any ordinary mortal, yet you never see

of aboatthree hundred and fifty thow:| REFLECTIONS 2 be oo
THE COU

the faintest trace of a smilo on the face of your host,

D BY a TRIP TO} and even the younger members of the family manage,

somehow, to preserve their gravity whilst you are pre-
sent. course, When you away gn the
den. cccastonsiiy eatd thet the

“ other , Aud T believe that there is some truth i
with’ ‘those the re , ben afl that Amaien cools: senen 4 in
rprise, would hot 1 what the teach

ilog feateres of

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