cinema SUMMERSIDE JOURNAL, T ER 31, 1868. Very Latest Telegrams. Great Britain. Loxpon, Dee. 19. —Consols 92}. Liverpool markets are without quotable ‘change. The utter inability of the Great Powers ot Europe to control the action of Groree | in the pending troubles with Turkey. ¢x- cites distrust in financial ciicles in Lou- “don, and there is general falling off in all monied values, “Lhis distrust is only increased by the reassurance of the Freneb press, and even it Russia is not 40 earnest in her demonstration it is the geners! opinion that she will net be able to give Grecee any material aid. The press of London geucrally unitesin urging the Great Powers to a final remonstrane with Greece to prevent the occurrence of cantin point of nasiers that it has had Ineny encounters with the Spanish troops in which it inflicted quite as much, if net more, damage than it suffered, uml that the best informed amony the disinterested or unprejudiced, are already beginning to calculate on the ullimate sucecess which Shall leave the Cubans tree and independ- ent, lvices from Hong Kong are to Nov- py 16th. The ish fleet including Rodney Rinaldo and Icarus veachea h. On the next day w British Counsel Medburst witha guard and dee e 4 t Nankin November th of marines, called on the Viceroy bmanded full rey feredto the Mis ionaries at Hang Chow, The Viceroy, proposing to delay the dis- cussion, Was informed that if he didi not comply ly lock, M., that day. the Chinese gunboat anchored off Nankin hwould be seized, whereupon ie inme- aration for the insults of-: COL iss wv ALY PONDEIENCE. the dev.l would do if rau sturk aad. Mn. Epitar :— - A correspendent of the THalifix Acadien Recorder lias lately favored the world with a leuer. The alove line. which we tremblirgly filch trom his tremendous effusion, will, ifour presumptuous opinion, give your redders an i’ea of what Nova Scotia would do in the way of Annexation. if he were all Nova Scotia—which he isn’t, just waked up. He has been out of town for suime twenty years, and has just got back, * Yunkee Doodle enme to town ag OT ak pou Hie stuck ts feathe And outed it 2 iu his crown, SParulii ‘unanswerable arguinents in favor of Anne tion,” (as your contemporary over the ¥ jas it) may be judged of by the follow He has evidertly} atuni, | Some of his ** very cogent, and to our mind . Lut rather let us endeavor to im- snuth to at by securing an efficient staffet Teachers. If our youtiure unable to spell the plural of * moaareh.” and give the why and wherefore of at, the obloqny, un- doubtedly, attaches itself to the Teachers and not to the System. It is in vain fur would! eplilanthrophists to hold up with derision our prese stem of Education, for the people are wide enough awake to read their machinitions. your valuable columns. I am, Yours truly, A TUTOR. Cascumpec, Dee. 17, 1858. mare | Sunnevside Sournal. | Tid Sos ee |—that standing reproach to Britain—is ‘a doomed institution, It is somewhat singular that the English Tories, after ‘having given way on the subject of the | franchise—after, in fact, making greater | concessions than were demanded of them lon that point—should have made a de- jtermined and even an obstinate stand on ithe Irish Church question. Very few, Again thanking you for so much space in} comparatively, were anxious to give every householder in England a vote, while all the world considered it a crying injustice that the millions of Irish Roman Catholics | should be forced to support the Church of a few thousands of Episcopalians. Had they abolished the Iris Church,and |\ithheld the franchise from the working hmen, they would have been much more RSDAY, M328 81, 1338. No notice can be taken of annonymous com- /munications. We must know the names and Astonishing discov« It is w) addresses of our correspondents as a guaranty we were not swallowed up at one! of their good taith, We cannot undertake to Russian Bear, during tie years) return communications that are not used, war, and it that is rejected to leave Greece to her fate. ‘Lonpvoy, Dec. 20.—The foreboding al |respected by enlightened men, both at ‘home and abroad, The Anyssin1an Dispute was settled during this yee manner possible. King Theodore found to his cost tat he could not imprison and ill-use British subjects wita impunity. The Abyssinian Expedition was perhaps as bloodless an invasion of a foreign country as there is uponrecord, All the “ While we remain a dependanc d, we liable to be involved | diately complica with all demands, » Morning Telegraph to-day ‘onto the Eastern question, mate by telegram fiom Berlin announcing that guarrei.” }, Prussia has called a Conference of the Lord Stanley on the 13th vt November, in) 10° Teo GE Bue SB aaie his speech to his cuustituents, at Livin ei deal td oe aabulesl We Ay ace Hick! Regis, is regarded as onc of the secondary 20!Y the questions at issue between Tu : i : A ; es Phe | key and Greece. anid our seaboard towns were threaten- eanses of the crisis in the East. The *° : i Suave bedahh | 7 4 ‘ ; ye ' ‘Phe recent eruption of Mount Zina has. ed, and in what continual state of rin we} Times in commenting on President's John- Uae led , ceiphints ein Woda Hoeable ilirowel ba eon'a message refers to the President's | spilly subsided and the voleano has, Were in, weare notable, through some strange | de : ig repudiation ;sHown little sign of activity for the past Weakness of memory. to remember. Burana) 3} stubborness, sone nneee Ma Penguin tivo weeks . richer joke, which the Recorder's factious: ing its departure. pioposition and approves the actlun of the fs of] : u ne prints & war with any power with whom she mi { nuirvel that With what dangers our com- THE YEAR 1368, Tur year 1868 is on the pint of tak- In a few hours it will . in at : corresponient perpetrates, will be found in| have joined the innumerable company of; arrangements seem to have been admir- Senate and the house, iu their disposal of Mapnip, Dec. 22.—The elections for tye question and answer— s aha yaa It has brought i men Rey : ftl y the decument the Cortes in this city passed off with AV ld fi A done | buried ye t has brought to ' ably adapted to the state of the country, ‘ i si : eee i uM het would we yuan by Annexadon? Lea wact hn | At ti le sure and! a+ eS Peet : wy 1 . ‘ ossrg COMparatively § Histurpance he : everywhere joy and sorrow, pleasure and General Napier has proved that for Loxvon, Dec. 21. (even.)—-Messrs at ay A CUED O CG Of Ine lst. We would gain absolute security from f Jo5 : Ie l ] jpain. In aitez years some willdelight to | once the right man has been found for lrecall its scenes to memory—by others) the right place, without any previous Cat-ochism will cause a enchinnation atnong | they will be remem vered with blushes of! disastrous misfittings. ‘The Abyssinian allthe eats ot P. E. Island. You must ex) shame and with shuddetings of horror. | invasion has resulted in no accession of cuse us, Lutit is really too good. No doubt It is somewhat singular to reflect that) territory to Great Britain. General Na- butin case of war with England or France, bur nen Vane ned soa ulart woul 2 be per- 41.4 earth's inhabitants, no two of them! tectly sate under the protection of the grid- | inever abandon a colony of Spain, iron. No Alabama fitted out under the aus-| are likely to form the same estimate of the; New York, Dee, 23.-—The feature of pieces of mere *+rebels,” could ever threaten year that is just passing away, 80 Many ‘This is som TStreet to day was the great stringen- | us, much less any of the great Europe | present state ol his health, and also be-{cy in money, which it almost equal to fleets. Washington and Baltimore, and New cause he thought the views of the country anything ever known, ‘The miminum | York never had any panies from rebel crut- in regard to the Indian policy were not rate Was 7 percent. in gold. This strin- | $¢FS lhe oe ere Sue oll sufficiently advanced. He argued that gency had a marked eflect on values, and HCE DY enemy, however powerfal.— | the late parliamentary clections, offered stocks generally show a decline. tresh evidence in favor of the adoption of Gold 1545. the ballot, he denounced the protligate | tory party, and closed with promising on | the part of the Cabin :t an economical re and Lowe have beon le order, aN ie a ae es aie , aites Were elected, ae se puulic: Are Siulitone | have carried the citivs of Seville and B: feelona, Itis stated on official authority ‘that; pto the present moment six thou- and troops have been sent to re-intorce ithe army in Cnba and more will soon i tollow, Government announces thatit will Gladstone, Bright re-elected to Parliament. iu # speech at the hustings in Greenwich, said he was not yet wholly in favor of ballot, but if free voting was impossible without such a safeguard, then he was tor the ballot. Mr. Bright also made aspeech before his re-election in Birmingham, in which he expluined as his refusal of Se- eretary for India beeause the labor of) that office was too severe for him in the \ ck by any encmy however powerful.” Wie Ifeld there, Mr. Annexationist, or your Oty But we did not sit down with the intention |try by the traops of a cix of philosophizing lized jsut ; But, ‘fwe would forma part of the mot year, | powerful nation in the world—our ships might | tyayerse any seas, our commerce might seck ime, Secure from outrage and cinsuit, We now address ourselves to the be found in the face that t! The year “68, like the year "32 WHELAN TO BE HANGED, tusk. = y form in the administration of the Govern [ rday evening worceeived tho fol- | one woul dare. molest us? This comes) people of the fatherland for the passage) mon to be already quite as many as she | c wy aa Are Gavlcall wa 110M eee fr mh iat refr ine. soulness es Abe a rent” of the great Reform Bill, aan has! cun afford to keep, Indeed, it is much nNbon, Dec. —Ar. Carawe VAS! « Jadgment was given by the Judgesin Outrege, when the “most powertul Cor, in] Given the privilege of the franchise (or! fe th ieaahas ae Pty ‘ to-dy re-elected to Parliament from the! « \Whelin's case to-day (Monday) at noon, | tee American phrascology, the ‘universa? Bac ! A (or more than hinted by some of them, that ; . . but at a a led the right—which you please) to| forcitja posse everlasting Yankee’) nation” was mads to lick | the dust and eat humble pie hy dreathot lish vengeance on such an outrage asapeople enjoyed it. So liberal a mea truly cowardly and democratic would alone been, and so sweeping, that som City OF Ox lory: “Chief Justice Richards and Julge Loxios, Dec. 2! —Tho latest news « Wilson sustained the previous Judge- from the Eust is more pacilic. The Gov-|siyentot the Court. Ju AMomeon ernment at Athens. which has hitherto’ Wiel hem, anid suries, they are intended for show e has Tei try which owns econtend | other It Ne among the many hundreds of millions of | pier eutered thé country, beat the Abys- siniaa army, released the captives, and eft the country as free as he found it. sing new in the history of and so varied have been its influences. | successful invasions of a barbarious coun- nation. orof moralizing; our! In the great majority of iastances such y purpose Was, or is, to give our readers a) invasion has proved, sooner or later, the gent and to our mind unanswerable rea-' hasty account of some of the principal) death blow of native independence. The : events which have taken place during the | oxuse of this unvonted furbearanee may outlying de- | pendencics of G:eat Britain are consider- will be principally remembered by the ed hy a large proportion of her public been swept along by the popular cage ness for war with the Turks is now dis-| posed to listen to the protests of the Euro- pean powers. This dispositicn, streng- thened by arapid growing sentiment in Javor of peace, may avert her, it the sub- lime Porte will grant time tor further ne- gotiations. Despatches from the east say that many Russians are volunteering for the Greek service, A letter from Athens Dee. 17th says the Ministerial Budget had been submitted to the Chambers and notwithstanding the ex- pectation of war with turkey the militar estimates are not increasing. The Chamber of Commerce of Syria have petitioned the Athenian Government tw pronounce against war, France. Lozpos, Dee. 19.—The despatel from Paris Just evening announces that the ru- mored sinking of the Greek steamer L sis at Syria by Hotart Pasha, the Turkish Aduniral, is not officially confirmed. Lonpon, Dec. 29—The ramor whieh prevailed in Paris yesterday, that Russia had sent an unfavorable note to France on the Eastern question, proves to have been invented to depress the Paris market. Panis, Dec. 29.—Ex Queen Isabella of 8 ain has made a vist to the Emperor at the Tullier The Moniicur says the powers which signed the treaty of 1356, continue to urge conciliation on beth the Greek and Turkish Government. ‘Vhe Patrie asserts that the Torte w submit to the great powers provi that the Grecks intend to incite insurrection in the Turkish Islands, wud then take posse of them, $219u Turkey, Lonpos, Dee, 19.—It is officially an- nounced that the Sultan has resolved to entorce his demand on Greece, The latest despatch trom Constantinop dated yesterday mentions that Hobart 2’ rha at the request of the French Adinir in the Archipelugo., would await orders from the ‘Turkish Government before using coersion with the Hrosis el London Dee. 20,—It is understood that the Western Powers sustain the Sultan's ultimatum to Greece, while Russia in the interest of the Greeks, will suek to mod dy its terms. ConstANTINoPLE, Dee. 20 —The Su Hme Porte approves of the conduct of the Admiral Hobart Pasha at the harbor of Syria.—The Ambass dors of the Western powers decline to excercise protection over the affuirs of the Greek residents after their expulsion from the Turkish Do minion. The Greek subjects of the Sul- tan have sent memmorials to Athens prsy ing the Government to avoid war with Turkey, Spain. Maprip, Dee. 20.—A riot broke ont at Toro, in the Province Zamora, caused by the hostility of some of the people to the organizution of a National Guard in that town, authorities. ‘Lhe Correspondent asserts that the Carlists have formed a deep and wide-spread conspiracy tor the possession of the Government, and they only await the breaking out of the strife between the Liberal parties of the country to develope their designe. Greece, Lospox, Dee. 19.—Late advices from Athens state that the government hy called out the military reserves of the tione] militia has been ordered. talion of students is forming at Athens, jeets of the Sultan are to be enrolled. ribaldi. loudly urged, was shown against the admiral of the Freneh fleet in the Pireus, who was ex tremely unpopular on account of the ene getic demand he has made on the Greek. government to preserve pence, The! Greek government bas despatched two} men-of-war to Syria, to demand of Hobart) Pasha that he shall not obstruct the ‘fre entrance of the -harbor. Three forei war vessels are at Sy belonging re spectively to the Freneb, the British, and the Russian nav ice. Cuba. New Yorn, Dec. 21.—A letter from, Havana dated Decen ber 12th, says, “It! js a fuct that a gigantic insurrect on exists | in this Island, Uout it is supported or coun: | fenanced by tho great mass of the native | population, the exceptions being insigniti } Ite as quictly suppressed by the | A bat.) Great bitterness ot teeling | being discussed in mapy quarte found theological learuing. n favor of the App as then returned tothe custody of the Sheriff of Ottawa, und will be executed ‘on Tue y, 20th inst, Dher *texcitement and a fecling of relief at the “result.” feeling ol relict will be as great Jobn as the Upper Provir —_ Whelan committed one of the foulest and most unjustilable murders recorded in the anna ime, and upon a statesman and aleyal man who has seaveely left his equal in the Dominion. The murderer, a man of extraordinary brutality. reecived a singularly patient and fair trial, and was in _delended by the ablest Counsel. Not ‘single individual of any character has come forward to impeach the | the verdi The veal to the bh {Court wa sunds only. jhis life was still further spared to cnab him to reeeiye the fullest advantage of ,every facility known to the Law.” The Court has decided against him, and on ) Poesday next Whelan wills jed at Ot we hope vy He will not be missed and soon be forgotten; but we ; should remember and for long years we | ret the gifted man who. carricc | ein his hand that he might aid in i preserving the Dominion jtacks of Fenianism, and warm his mis- | }guided countrymen against a course lwhich, it justice was done, could only fend as whelan’s car is abuut to end.— IND Teley raph, Dee 22. —— > <— e—— — INTCRIQLONIAL RAILWAY CON- | TRACTS. Oar alvices from Mon date, by special Tele, un are as follo | jehled that the following sections of the In- j ter Colonial should be advertized as open ‘for contract, on Eleventh of January. | Tenders to be reecivable up to Lighth of Pebruary poe On . from River du | Loup easty niles, In New _ Brunswick, Retizouche iver to Dallous {26 miles. In ‘iver Paillip 24 miles. | Hon. Mr. Chandler 1 on Saturday for New Brunswick, The other Com: (mi Sioners will proceed to the Maritime | Provinces in a tew days.” a . | CoumenctaL Bayx.—The despatch an- nouncing the arrest of Geo. P. isancton, the absco nding Cashier of the Commercial Bank, t many who Lelieved that no et: > being taken to bring him to account | aw the statement in the New York papers that Canadian detectives were tracking him, but gave no heed to it as no int jot the fict was given here. Tho question now is, having caught and consigned him to i gaol, what can the Directors do to bring back to St. Jolin. We understand that it: is ithe opinion of some of our leading liwyers jthat the offence charged against him dogs not come under the Extradition Treaty, but must ibe viewed merely as a ‘breach of trust’— UN, B. News, Tun N | Arciunisior or CaNtrnnvry. jie is now being known that the highest porition in the English Church, under the | Queen, isto be tilled by Bishop. T: ot ‘Londoa, Tn common with the whole of )Anglican Bishops. the new Archbishop is jan opponent of Mr. Gladstoue’s disestab- Hichment Bill. In religious matters he is jregarded as 2 moderate brord charchman, | ; ; and in lavor of the fullest religious liberty omy be founded on Denominational princi. | S!Ohaties at | ples. re Church against Dr. Co- | tims at the educ ition of a country, and the mobilization of the ua lenso, as well as condemned the strong | fully succeeded in accomplishing that end,— Lees aeainse| (9 proot of which [adduce the fact, that of | '8 tlmost impossible to find a youth ia the and ten battalions composed of Greck sub- | COhurch and State, and unlike his great jcolony wh It) predecessor, he has no sympathy, with the | js said a command has been offered to Ga- | movement toward sell-government of the The instantinvasion of Epirus is;churebes in watters cecle: to every ¢ the action of ITence he has opposed jteeling exhibited in some pl tthe Ritualists He is a dear love asticul, now} pee ail received a part of his edueation in| and is distinguished tor his pro: / The Halifax Reporter of the 8:h inst., is ouv authority for tie following “itis currently rumored in the efty to- | | j Iy be ling: | That Railway Comuinission has de | J nuch beloved system of Education. Nova Scotia, Amherst to) g hin} I perpetrate, If our ships and commerce need protection, we will scarcely apply to.a, Gov- ernment more hot-headed than y = ritish, gladly hauled down their colors at j the first grow] of the Lion. After this we read the following with the most exquisite pamusement: ‘ For the surplus revenue we might s a sul itial return in the prote powerful Government, proverbi jealous of the rights of its hamblest citizen.” Now the jealousy of the Yunkee omewhat bet- ter undersiood by some individuals than it is _by our green Nova Scotian. It is ‘proverbi- ‘aly synonymous with bully-ragging rowd jistn, and instead of partal of the j soli sliown by dignified nations for their Ifure, it is mostly composed of a a: ld forget *} what a bully I did grow.” n national jealousy always reminds ‘us of a boy who hus just assumed coat and ground ta rue and amusement of his suprriees, “Take care, do you see my new pant i the pl crying « jelotl nad who parades the pl zt, ! Seotia, is preparing to send its **surplus re- venue to Washington, and then perhaps it i might receive the immortal honor of becom- ling the fag endand tail of Yankeeland. A @ at- tow coats of whitewash, made out of the) measure, an Acadians’ “anhydrous gypsum,” and judi- ciously applied—a few more Yankee songs. tsuch as * Tramp. Tramp, Tramp,” fo upon the country—a few more spoony delexzr- ‘uons, and we will no doubt become complete- ly Americanized; nay, more, + il out-Herod ; Herod, and speak with the most refined or Tnasal tw ings, Yours truly, BRITON, To tue Eoitor oF Tun JournNnan Sir i— | Agcording to promis iply to #A Teacher's” New London, ws Sala LT shall ‘The > I now resume my te- ommunication trom ting Fennle Teacher's as brict as possible. pe be uljeet, more especially under con- sideration, is his sneer at our present and Ilis i words are :— “In the Provinces female teachers, if not ona par with the males have advantages far superior to their sisters of the Islind, to ‘which, no doubt, may be attributed the fact that they are better educated, although we jhave a * noble system of education.” ublime logic!! We tells us that female teac ersin the Provinces have advantages | superior to their sisters in’ thi which in his honesty and simplicity, he gives ns the reason—/hat they are better educated. Now, Mr. Peacher, how fur have you ad vanced in your argument in support of you ‘position—that females are entitled to th equivalent remuneration with the males—hy treating us to the above cited parageaph? ta step. You rather keep our female teachers in their present position. You tell ‘them that their Provincial Sisters possess greater priviliges than they, because they are jbetter cducated, from which, consequently | must be inferred that before our female tedch ers can expect to partake of siiiilar privi- | | leges, they must be better educated. | point we will not dispute. | { | pists, ‘* A Teacher’ is doubtless laboring un- erthe delusion that because some of our jteachers prove recreant to their trusts, our | present System of Iducation, is an * rotten jone." T do not presume to say that our | present System is perfect, yet with all its de | , it must be admitted that it approaches | er to that state, than any system which nes Our present ree and Secular System | and has wonder. it ycannot read. write, &e, be denied that a deno: iteannot jfysten isadapted to embrace only the Few, | t | and that too at an additional exp nse to the volony, While Tam thus writing, I hare my eye on a locality in which are a denominational | School and a Gove:nment district Schyol, that perstasion, prefer sending their children! to the denominational School, while the mi.) fority not willing to send their children to a ion of a ious fear, lest the whole crea- | re hope that P. E, Island, as welias Novaj tion, but of eve Onthis | ;are | The greater portion of the people, being of! thaf that it extends the privilege of votivs £0 rather than for use which, | females as well as males, In Mancuester wo more than half believe that they take | is great after feting Wilkes because he insulted the a strong minded lady insisted upon hav-) ing her name resi in Dublin another of the sex’ actually went to the poll and vore ito Washington, we shouldreceive So delighted were the Dublin ladies with | re and ind-pendence in thus tp ights of woman, that they did not chair her, to her Men talk and think | her con asserting the rig cheered, if they place of residence, | differently of this strong infusion of tt democratic element into the British Con- | re Radical, stitution, acco | Liberal, or C tendencies. jjabalant. ;Yeurds the destruction of cinstitutions, and the tri ilicanism in Great Britain. To are tending, say they—this is the fest destiny, not only of the I ing as they a servative in their politic: The Radi monarchi man under the sun. | they come at last. they never cordially approved of d would not certainly hav in q@ ng common—“accept the situation,’ and | arc it. de R ikn { cal allies. and quite as enthusiastic in former years tand havo seon their wild theerics an | wil 1 ti jleave not a wreck > the baseless fabric of a vision, an behind. The Torie their own handiwork. —have bil istered as a voter, and ty—or the of course ‘They see in it another step to- mph of Repul-| this we sh na- | other civilized state, 'o this complexion mst/* Except in Spain, matters in Europe | The Barn of Mr J. Welrton, of Shediac, N. The Liberals, though | have, during the year, been in a more | B-, was destroyed by fire on the Oth. Loss ated it—to use a phrase now becom- | cach other ; and to tell the trutl e right view of the subject. This par 1 i 1.) found—is again in the ascendency.. iro origin of the Tories. But they ne al. vs all accounts the compositicn of the pre sent Parliamont, ele 1c al| ments, jstrong, and though Mr. Bright oceupi }a seat on the Treasury benches, the U tra Liberals are ‘t nowhere.” ie than ordinarily quiescent state. e feelings. d | powers. dj dependent Tartary is in the pro s| becoming a Russian Province. in the most conclusive | whit the (ances to complain of. The Irish Church | absorbing interest to the Americans, The Democratic party appeared at one time to have some chance of success, but whether they chose the wrong man, whe- ther theiy organization was not good, or whether their principles were disapproved of by a majority of the people, they are a very badly beaten party. Grant seems to be -popuiur rather as a soldier than as a politician. His reputation as a states- man he has yet to make. He is. one of the silent men, ard, we learn effects to despise the gilt of eloquence. He has a dificult work to pertorm, and it bis*ad- ministration for the next four yearsbesuc- cesslul, he will, whether Jucky or gble, be considered one of the first men which ‘the’ Republic has produced. The Alabama dificulty, which looked so threatening in: the beginning of the year, seemed a few days ago on a tair way to be amicably: justed. The negotiations have aguin'been: impeded. but we baye no doubt bat that the: hitch will be successfully got over, andé that the matter will be settled without “a wil, 7 Gen Butler's visit to the Isiand last. sumer has as yet been followed with no: beneficial results, and the prospect of ® general Reciprocity Treaty appears, at ther present writing, to be as distunt as ever. The Dominion of Canada has pursued’ the even tenor of its way. The Conteda= ration ol the Provinees has not as yet, been attended with all the bevefits pre- dicted. by its friends and advocates ; neither has it been followed by the dread~ iul evils predicted by its opponents, No- va Scotian’s talked at one time in a rather independent and even av threatening tone, but that tone has considerably lowered of late. and Mr. Howe, the great apostle of. Repeal, appears to h ve abandoned the: cause as desperate. Petitions, delegations: land hifalution protests, have failed to procure repeal tor the people, and now nothing remains tor them but quietly to accept the situation. ‘Chis is the common sense course. Further agitation’ would most likely be fruitless, and where people — are evidently powerless, nothing tukes them look more ridiculous than to threaten todo de ite deeds. Annexation is, » ad A ons and distant colouies handreds of thousards who never belore | are yery expensive luxuries to the coun- that, like’ yarty in which the greatest suppressed number of such politicians are to be The late elections have proved disas- | cle od sin the extreme to the party which; present ind. ations of a storm at the hori ated the Retorin Bill. The people, | 20%. but itis ty by hoped that they will it seems, have little faith in the sincerit; have been equally disastrous to the working-mens candidates, not one of whom, we belicve, | has found his way into Parliament, From ted by the Demo- constituencies, is pretty much the ame as that of all former British Parlia- | nov already been received through the Cable- ‘The aristocratic element is very | fa another column will be found the latest under existing cireumstances, simply ar. impossibility, ‘The fate of one of these | British North American Provinces, must, be the fate of the whole, . Tae year 1863 will be rem om'pered & scientilie men chielly for, its dread- rthquakes, ‘The vole?nie disturb- Fances in South America hav y oven tearful to contemplate. There has indeed been ba warin South Americ? Lut it has exited ‘but little interest in th eve latitudes. | At home we have lund a. bountirl har- ~ iyest. Peace and plenty have found their jabode with us, and tor these gilts we ean- ‘not be sufficiently thauktal to the Giver of all Good. ‘Lhe political atmosphere has been with the ¢ coption of one lively gust, r and Uailisturbed. ‘There are at | | ! | vlow over, We now conclude our discursive and | very bastily written article by wishing each | of our readers A Happy New Year ! We have had an English and two or three | Colonial Mails during the past week. ‘The English papers contain little news that has telegrams. Ifthe despatches from Canada ‘ave to be relied on, Whelan, the murderer of -|'Thomas D’Arcy Magee, has by this time ex~ France nd Prussia, both fully armed, regard | with anything but friendly | An open rupture appeared besides daing their best to profit by | more than ever to be imminent—aut le ast steel plate isa touching picture of an event They smile while they witness the so the newspapers represent it—but for ht and hear the predictions of their|some reason or other the evil day was They or their fathers have !put off. ‘The school-boy’s phrase, ‘* one's vn people to be quite as confident | afraid and the other dursen't,” Persia e amazed, bewildered and perplexed at will be the next to be gobbled up, and To retain power | then t.e Russian Empire in Asia will be} ‘they have done violence to their principles so nearly conterminous with the British | ar | piated his fearful crime upon the seaffokl. $l, Govev's Lapy'’s Boos; for Januayx, 1869- has been received. Th.e contents for the be- ginning of the New Year are warth the price ofa year's subscription to the book. The | | of the French Revolution, ‘Tbe presentation. jtidle plate is all that act can make it. Tho |tinted fashion plate, farge extension sheet, patterns, and excel tent reading matter, make very well this number all that the Ladies could desire | describes the relative situation of the two! ina fashion book ind magazine. Now is the tussia is quietly but effectually time to subscribe. der prophesies dissolve and dissipate vextending her deminions Iadiaward. In- c 4 1 ss of connection with Mr, Jamieson’s Cloth Mitt, We regret to learn that the drying houre m |New Annan, was destroyed by tire on Tharae jday night last. A cjuantity of clo%a was also (destroyed, , Gangs of thieves infest Morigoal. Theyy e mostly compysed of bo'ys ander Zl. cars,, higher than the Radicals; Empire in Asia that the neighborhood/ but it is said Uuat their oud gcity and skill. ara. themselves for popular favors, and now, | may lead to unpleasant disputes, and who | equal to New York burg ays, when it is too late, repent them bitter] consequences. It is | consequences of the pa Reform Bill in and. | to the Br Island, for, from that extension, but we find the peo- | ple of England, after the lapse of nearly | forty years, just as strongly, if not muct } more strongly attached to their institu ions thai were when the first Re form Bill was passed. Republicans have not been realized, no | have the fears of the T | firmed. | dred years to come. Tenianism, whicl presented a rather formidable appearance In comnion with many of our fellow colo-/ at the beginning of this year, is now, at] unwonted d ithe end of it, ina very languishing con-| ties were sick and In Ircland the crawling, venom- | and wer. $ no symptoms of life, and} th a few feeble, convulsive kicks | delay. dition, ous ting sho. in Amer prove it to be on the very point of ¢ pining. with m Who but mad men or s heir own? lawful which in their perverted view ap- s to have a tendency to further their day, that propositions have been received | Secturian Institution, are almost deprived (lore The Bermondsey ¢xplosion, the donald, with a statement prepared by Hon, | Mr, Rose ot such financial modifieations as the Ministry are prepared to recommend to Parliament in favor of Nova Scotia, | McLellan, IL. MeDonald. and Savary Dominion members, are in town, and sai- | emo consults itis said, are being held Neither the Local Government nor any of the Union party are admitted to any con. fidence, so far ns we kuow ia Uiis iiditer, upto the preset.” © | by Hon, Mr. owe, from Sir J. A, Mac. | te privileges afforded them by oar present! 3 Hdueationsl Laws, by being unable to keep up the district school. Verily, Dexomutwa-| Tloxat Scnoo.s aut ror Tun Epvcatios or, THE HUT BECULAR ScuooLs axe ror. Sut to return tomy subject. Would «A/ Teacher” denounce any organization, based on equitable pringiples, because some of its | officiaix, throuvh inattention, had failed to | carry out the intention of that organization? (Surely not. j Present equitable System of education, Les) having no o:her than sentimental griev- | Then let us not denounce our chester murder, the attempted as. sassination of Prince Alfred, and the ac- complished assassination of D'Arcy M’Gee, all go tashow Fenians would i seruple at no crime, no outrage, however | dreadful, to further their nefarious pur- poses. It is to be hoped that the world has heard the last of this folly of the nincteenth century. There is every pros- pect of the Irish, ia avery short time, The hopes of the complete,and,in its first sca been con- | prepared for the dethr aneme: We have mach reason to hope | Isabella. None werr, go pour as to do her | Churches presented their pastor, j that even though the ladies are permitted j reverence, and D5 one thought it worth to vote, true and rational liberty is safe; while to strike a ‘glow in defence of her in the ** Old Country” for at leastahun- rights, The ocantry w Never befora did political vi- | mpt to achieve a great end | periodicals cans so ridiculously inadequate. Saamelessiy windlers would ; reticence o jset about destroying one of the strongest ; nations on the earth, without revenues, of Spaia isto bea mon whilst) Without a fleet or an army, or a single is not yet decided, ional | foot of territory which they could call! will not be decide: A week's campaign wou! 4} bloodshed. | cxtaust their funds, an 1 a single revirse re } would seatter their undisciplined ona tur- y | this 113 - |internal improvement and refor m, -| has surprised the world by ¢ yea + » bloodless revolution. Dy erythi: } i) Spain, accord.ng to t » | has of late *;cars been prosperous grec grec, sab ella. nt. Whether the future Gov d without agitation and In Cidiz, as will be seen by cent telegrams, there has already been a collision between the monarchists and t > wi PH - ' . bulent legions to the four winds. ‘There _ the republicans, and blood has been shed besides good grounds for coneluding | In « country where nearly ¢ these fanatics considor. ull means is a general, Very politician a peaceful revolution we |look upon as the nest thing to an impos- sibility, Soldicrs are very good and very | masters, } very lively time of it year, The impeachment of President Johuson occupied the attention of the people of the Republic for a considerable portion of tie year, That the impench- ment was not sustained, was a matter of Surprise to many, both inside and out- side of the United States. The Presi- _ dentin! Election was another mattor of Our American neighbors have had a. during the past jot the Wesleyan Charch will be held this jean tell how these disputes may end ?/ ‘of their precipitancy, and tremble for the | Turkey has been little heard of in the| nard to predict the | past year, except in connection with the re of the late rebellion in Candia. ‘The flame of rebel- pout of trouble. The enemies lion in that unfortunate island seems} | of the extensi n of the francliise in 1832 | now to be completely trampled out. Italy | 4 | feared that all sorts ot evil consequences ;has been quict. The Pope has had oy) 4g seemed to le: it of Queen me as not suffering. | te best eecounts, make g ernment the ofliee of D. archy ora republic, | well filied. and we fear that it C:lendar for 1869, published by H.Harvie, eful servants, but they are very bad) | A Slave in Braz) las carved a statue of Cupid, ta return tor which he received his liberty, This is » 1 to be the first instance, ever Known of thy god of love getting a main Iv’s generally the other way. "Tse asret s of the Commercial Bank of New runswich,, as set forth by the Directors are | $765,67°,,00, and the liabilities £630,958,85, ish Constitution would result jalarm or two, but taken altogether ne! ir.g a surplus of $134,712.15. It was’ as been more secure in his possessions |°"' ¢u that there r than he has been tor man: . . . “ Austria is pursuing o wolicy (ela! is no possibility of the Bank rusuming business ‘The notes of the Bask are current in St. John for 83 cents, The Glenfinnan, Lot 35, Scho-l House was n. Sprain destroyed by fire, together with the contents, fecting a on the morning of the 24th instant, es, un almost IIANpsomE Donation.—We are pleased ih that the Congregation of the Sum- ile and Saint Eleanor’s Fulveopal, the Rey. | Mr, Forsythe, with the handsome sum of £53, in gold, on Christmas Day. Where ‘there isi will there is always a way. Let other congregations throughout the Island lad the heart of their ministers by’ in an going and doing likewise, Politicians of all par- | tired of the Queen, | Day determined to get rid of her and | find @ whois of che Bourbon race without 4 tich intellectual treat is promised, and a I There seems hardly to be two jOpMIONS about the character of Queen Many of the most respectable of Europe represent her as a abandoned woman, and the. f others is hardly less. signifi- ta Those who wish to enjoy New Year's specially the afternoon of it, will trong’s Hall the very place to go to. telresh went table covered with everything nice, t* The St. Stephen Bank notes aro eir- culating again on the Island at the faco— Gs, 3d. |. Ge We have received a bound copy of ithe P. KE. Island Calendar for 1869, from Laird, Esq, Itis, as usual, We have also received the tsq. It contains much information, and many valuable tables. Both of them are on saie at ou Bookstore, ty We arv sorry to learn that Thomas /Owen, Esq., Postmaster General, is very iil with fever, Many other persons in Charlottetown are also down with fever. tar We have had a great deal of snow j during the past week. The traveling in “many places is heavy. There has been very little traveling on the ice yet, owing to the depth of snaw thereon, GF The Annual Watchnight Service (Thursday) evening, o'clock, Fined, before whey! commencing at 10. : hTves and Wm. THib- bett, Keqrs., two of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for Prince County, Michael MeIn- nis, of Miscouche, in the sum of ten pounds, with costs, for retaili without license, ng spirituous liquors | weg “ ys Western Mail Boy” will appear next.