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from Madrid state that a crisis nbs taken |
ee in the Spanish Government. Tho Minister of |
ar has withdrawn from the Cabinet, and the Captain |

Generals of Madrid and Barevlona have resigned. |

c ae from Calentt , j
% to 23nd of July have been |
veouk : They state that Matton in the North Weet-

ern districts of India has saffered from heavy rains, and
the yield in that pert of the country will fall below the
estimate of the planters,

_ Advices from Hong Kong to July 10th, have reached
Englapd via Caleutta at long Kong. The commission
Appointed to gonsider the subject reported against
g ag licenses by the Colonial Government for
8 ing, ta this the Government of Hong Kong made
hostile reply, which gave offence to the merchants of
~ Colony. Gold 4338.

ave L, Aug. 18.—-Provieions and Breadstuffs
are generally firm; Wheat declining, The patch Ger-
mania Ww

nto the North pole wig seen on the 23rd of
une, in lat 749. Sho was steering due North. The
sea waa clear of ice.

Loxnox, dug, 19—Cansols 94). It is officially _an-
nounced that Switzerland will reject any proposal of
France looking to an Alliance,

Panis, iy 2 18.—The following are among the Pro-
motions and Honorary Appointmenta deereed by the
Emperor on his fete Day: Count DeSartiges. formerly
Minister of the’ United States; M. Charles Etienne.

left Bergen, Norway, on an exploring ex- | ye

arseniacnonagdeinn i pu

To@nx Eorron or rar He ,

Sin,--In the Summerside Journal of the 6th inst., there
appeared a contemptible communication, signed * F. M.

-«" purporting to be a defence of the conduct of the
Magistrates of Summerside. The assertions of “ F, M.
N.” would, no doubt, be treated with sovereign contempt
and deemed beneath the dignity of a reply. did they not
wantonly aud maliciously defame the moral character of
one of the most peaceful localities of which our Island
can boast. The delicate feelings of this would be cham-
pion of injured innocence were deeply, wounded, and big
plous-soul extremely troubled becange of the disgrace
broaght on the tair fone of Sammerside by the uncharit-
able strictures of the Progress. But, in his over zeal to
reprove the Progresd TOF the injustnéss of Its censures,
he appears to have wholly forgotten what he affected to
have iu view and. proves himself to be, inatead of a re-
dresser of wrongs. a mischievous and vile slanderer,
That he is such a character, there cannot for a moment
the least doubt, whén we refer to his unjastifiable
slander of the noble people of ‘Tiguish. The following
are his words; let them speak trumpet-tongued aiainst
him:—* At Tignish Tea Party, it is said, they fought
wntil the vanquished were d-iven into the sea, all the en-
deavors of the Clergy, Sheriff and Justices to stop the con-
teuding factions being of no avail.” Was there ever a
more unblushing and malignant He? Could the prince of
liars, with all lila ingenuity, devise anything better eal-
ulated to blacken and destroy the character of a people
so long and justly admired for their moral and. religious

Conneiliog of State, and Private Secretary of Emperor.
and Ms, Auguste ation. were made Senators, Mr,
Boudillon, and Mr. Leon DeGirard, View Consul of
France at New York. were decreed Chevaliers of the
Legion of Honor. The election for a member of she
Corps Legislatiffin the departmeot of Jura, resulted
in the success of M. Grevy, the candidate of the O ppo-
sition, by a majority of eleven thousand votes over Mr.
Hoot, tho offiviabeandidate of the Government.
Loxvon, Aug. 19, p. m.—-Consola 94, U. S. 5 20's
71h. Representatives of France, Holland, Belgium,
Prussia and England, are now assembled at the 1 ague
(Holland), tor the purpose of holding Confe rerice look-
my Fog equalization of Sugax duties. On “eriday next
a friendly Yacht Race willtake place betveen the Ame-
ri¢an Yacht Sapko and a namber of noted Enghah
Yachts, for a Sweepstake of twenty peunds; distance
75 or 80 miles. ‘The event had made considerable stir
in sporting circles, and afine race is looked for. At
Liverpogl, Breadstuffs dull; other articles unchanged,
on th year Aug. 18.—Two thous and Volunteers will
becalled out fog three weeks and br igaded with regulars.
The Commlesariat Department b ave received orders to
ola supplics, Sir John A. McDonald and party
ave artived at Quehee, and wi 1) proveed West.

Touro, Aug. 19.—The Tobe professes to have

ositive information that e tensive preparations are

‘ing wade on the other side, for a Fenian raid, It
also states that farloughs have been withdrawn from
regular officers in garrison,

New York, Ang. 19.—Advicos by the Gulf Cable
from Haytistate that Salnave ia proparing to leave, and
intends to sail forthe United States. The insurgents
captured one of his war vessels, on board of which
were his mother and his ministerof war. Salnave had
imprisoned the Prnseian Consul and threatened the life
of the British Miuister, for which insolence the British
man-of-war Favorite was preparing to bombard Port
au Prince.

Lucrenr, Ang. 21.—It having become known to the
Swiss authoritivs that an a(teuspt was intended upon
the life of the Queen of England, during her recent so-
joare in this place, a strict search was made by the po-

ice for parties concerned in this diabotical plot. To-
day a man whose name {s not given, but who, it is as-
serted, ia a Fenian, was arrested and apon an exami-
nation wiade such statements ag to leave no doubt that
it was his deliberate design to assassinate Queon Vic-
toria. He has been committed to prisoa to await a
requisition from the British authorities.

VERPOOL, Aug 20.—A despatch from Paris saya
that at the review of the troeps at Marseilles yesterday,
which attracted an immense crowd of citizens, a popn-
Jar demonstration was made for peace, and against war,
The crowd was orderlv, and there was no inteference
on the part of the police.

Vienna, Aug. 19.—Apprehensions are entertained
that the recent attempts at a rising against the Turkish
authorities in Bulgaria, will ‘be renewed. Accounts
received from that quarter, represent that the country
remains in an ansettled condition, and though the in-
eurrectionary bands have dieappeared, or been dis-
pessed, the indications are that secret preparations of a
serious character are being made for an outbraek. The
attention of the Austrian Government has been called
to the threatening state of affairs by the unusual do-
mand for fire arms from the other side of the Danube,
and orders have been issued, prohibiting the exporta-
tion of arma or ammunitiun, from Austrian Territory,
into the Danubian Principalities.

New York, Aug, 22.—The disease among cattle
continues to create alarm, 18 head infected with dai-
e.se reached here yesterday, and many of the same
herd died on the way. Gold opened at 444.

New York, Aug. 21.—The tide at San Pedro, onthe
coast of Lower California, recently rose sixty feet above
high water mark and then fell the same distance below
low water mark. The strange phenomenon was several
times repeated. Collyer and Edwards have arranged
a prize fight to come Off on Virginia soil next Monday,
A gang of Adam's express robbers are on trial in To-
wronto.

New York, Ang. 21.—Yellow fever is reported as
“prevailing to a considerable extent on the Island of

uba. Gold Steady—1444.

Loxpon. Aug. 20 (eve)—Advicea from Rio Janerio
rare te the Bist. An attack on the Paraguayan fortress
+t Humaita took place on the 16th of, Joly in the
‘meorting. The combined Brazilian and Argentine
{ferees.ainder Marqus De Caxais, advanced to the as-
raaalbin 3 columns numbering 10,000. At the same
ttime,a'heavy fire was opened upon the port from the
(feet 6f,the rhe clads pon land gece 9 ane des-
wpetateand prolonged fighting at the foot of the in-
Vrapebsones. the allies retired without effecting a lodg-
mert:in the enemy's work. Reported loss of the allies
ig 3000.,.kt led and wounded. Nothing ie known of
the loss.of-the Paraguayans, hut as they fonght most
of the'time<under cover of their entrenchments, it is
-supposed that their losses were far lese than the allies.
The. allied ferce in Gran Cham also advanced with the

; of ootting off the communications of Lopez in
evhe forest, but ther found them defended = a large
body. of Pargguayane protected by breastworks, After
On Obstinate engagement the allies withdrew. The
| loes inthe battle is not stated. The hopes of the war
, party in Brazil rested upon the success of the enter-
, prise, and ite failure will give a great impetus to the

, peace movement,

Lonnon,.22nd Aung.—A rate of a — jge eeory
contain @ passengers and mails from Ireland.
Shickiwes joven riders Liverpool at the veval
rate of speed, met with a bad accident to-day at the
little town of -Abergelie, in the county of Denbigh. A
long train of loaded petroleam trucks had just been
_ewitched off on the siding to make way for the Irish
mail, bat the ewitchman had neglected to replace the
-awiteh, A ous noses i“ the mareyerene.s
Seven persons, all passengers in the mail train, were
killed outright, oak neag vibers were badly injured,

cars an, both trains were reduced to a shapeless
mass. produced an explosion of the
ion a atasan oe enveloped both trains in
flames. Before the-fire could be sabdded eighteen per-
sone had been literally burned to ashes.
‘New Yoru, Ang. 22—In Nov., 1867, U.S. Consul
‘Dobney, at Fayal, chartered a Portugneso brig and
‘dipeet 87 American seamen, mostly deserters from
‘Wining veescls, for Boeton. s nothing has been
Paco the brig. she. is ew to be lost with all on

The British: us. from New York for
area with isions, was wrecked on

Five of the erew and

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sentiments,

“FF. M. N.” speaks of the people of Tignish in the most
disrespectfl terms—speaks of them as being divided in-
to hostile factions, and as being engaged In deadly strife,
which no influence, civil or religious, Is capable of miti-
gating. This atrocious slander can, however, be easily
confuted. ‘That there existed contending factions at the
Tignish Tea Party. every one who was there knows to be
simply untrue, What‘ F. M,N.” has magnified into a
shocking scene of bloodshed and drowning, was simply
the fact of two or three intemperate and rash young men
getting into # fight. It must, too, be understood that
these young men were not belonging to Tienish, and that
they arrived at the grounds on which the‘Tea Party was
held in a state of Intoxication; consequently this fact ex-
onerates the people of Tignish from the perpetration of
the dishonorable actions with which “IF. M. N.” has
basely and falsely charged them. That the violent con-
duct of the two or three disorderly men did, to some ex-
tent, mar the harmony and good feeling which pervaded
that vast assemblage, I am prepared to admit, and that
the determination of these same drunken men to fight
was unyielding, is also trae; but that the people of Tig-
nish should be held responsible. vilitied and misrepre-
sented for their disgraceful conduct, few. I think, will
admit. If‘ F, M. N.” requires an ocular demonstration
of the noble spirit of enlightenment, unity and progres-
sion with which the people of Tignish are actuated, he has
only to visit that rich and beautiful locality, and view
with admiration and astonishment the magniticent chapel
which they have erected aud dedicated to the honor and
glory of God, and also the handsome, commodions and
costly Literary Institution they have recently completed,
to afford their fair daughters an opportonity of acquiring
a superior education.. These are monuments of the peo-
ple of Tignish, which will render testimony to posterity
of the greatness of their forefathers, when the foul asper-
sions of such slavderers as ‘IF, M. N.” have sunk Into

oblivion. .
I am. Sir,
Yours. very respectfully
VERITAS.

Wixrer Waeat.—The following letter has been addres-
sed to the local papers by the Hon. D, Davies :-—
Sir,—Having heard that some Canadian farmers, settled
at Tigmsh, had succeeded in growing some fine ples of
winter wheat last year, and as it struck me that my fields
were well adapted for their growth, I imported two varieties
from Canada, which were sown in September last, with the
following resulty :~

Four bushels of large grain, midge proof wheat. were
sown on a piece of land—about two acres—well sheltered
trom west to east, and having a nice southern aspect, ‘The
land was in excellent condition, It had been sown down to
grave after barley on the previous year. Upon viewing the
field in June last year, I found it covered with daisies,
These were mown down aad burnt, the land salted to the
extent of five bushels to the acre, and then plowed up.
The seed wheat was sown about the 10th of September, the
land haviug been previously top dressed with compost,
The centre of the field is rather hollow, and ice formed en
itafter the heavy thaw jn March last, which killed about
one-third of an acre of the wheat. With this exception it
has turned out well, The wheat has been housed, and is
estimated at 20 bushels to the acre.

The other field—about three and three quarter acres—
was an old meadow, well sheltered, which had been broken
up in September, 1866. It appeared to have been lately
limec. This field was sown down with oats in the spring
of 1867, and produced a fair crop with a large yield of straw
As soon as the oats were housed, the field was plowed up,
top dressed and compost, and about the 15th of September
sown witheight bnehels of white bald wheat. This ficld is
rather level, and the lower part retains the water in some
places after the water thaws, Wherevc? the ice formed on
the field the wheat was killed. I estima’ three quarters of
an acre to have been so killed; the rest of ve field has pro-
diiced a luxuriant erop of wheat, which {s now being reaped
and estimated at twenty to twenty-five bushels to the acre
for the entire field. Many persons who have viewed both
fields, consider the white bald wheat much the most pro-
ductive, some ears producing sixty grains of well filled
wheat, Apologizing for occupying so much of your space,
but with matter which I hope may prove interesting to far-
mers,

I remain yours truly,
DANIEL DAVIES,

Ch'town, Aug, 18, 1868,

Mr. A. H. Str. Germain, Proprietor of the Canadian
Advertising Agency, Toronto, Ont., is our Sore
Agent for procuring American Advertisements, and
is authorized also to receive Canadian Advertisements
Sor this paper.

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26, 1868

Stee

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

Tus organization appears to be ina shaky condition.
Established previous to the Detroit Convention, the ad-
mission fee was fixed at £3 per annum. The funds
were augmented by a grant from the Government,
Delegates were appointed to proceed to the DetroitCon-
vention to represent the commercial interests of this
Island. On the return of those gentlemen, one meeting
was held to receive their report, and then the Chambor
collapsed. When it was announced a few weeks ago,
that an important Commercial Convention was to be
holden at Portland, an inquiry was made as to the con-
dition and whereabouts of oor Chamber of Commerce.
Tt appeared to be buried as completely as Pompeii and
Herculaneum; but after considerable exploration the
fossil remains were dug up. and appearantly reanimated,
The admission fee was now reduced to ten shillings per
annom, The subscriptions were paid in, a successful
application wa» made to the Government for an ang-
mentation of the funde, and delegates were appointed
and despatched to the Portland Convention. The dele-
gates diecharged their duties, and on their return, 4
meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was convened
to receive a report, of their mission. ‘The Hon. Mr.
Brenan was in the chair, and the delegates gavean oral
report of their proceedings, Their reception was very
gratifying ; they received the courtesy and hospitality
of the Portlanders; and earriages and steamers wero
placed at their disposal to enjoy themselves to the best
oftheir ability. A unanimous desire prevaded the con.
vention to renew reciprocal relations in trade with the

% | British North Amorican Colonies ; bat no allasion wae

h irre- :
some ebay made to Geveral Butler's propositions with reference
a the afair, tone that peer aal gy to a separnte commercial arrangement with this Island
Bs : from which olroumstanee the delegates inferred that any

heme having reference only to one/and that the small-
st of these Colonies, would mot receive the sanction of
the Amcricans(overament, Gongress or people.
available faformation, with _ bearing upon the
value and importance! our fisheries, and the exten-
sion of trade between this Island and the United States,
was furnished to members of the Conventiou with the

left Portland well pleased with their trip, and confident
from what they saw and heard, thatreciprocity between
the United States and the whole of the Colonies was bat
A question of time, and not far distanteither. The dele-
gates having received a vote of thanks, the Chamber
adjourned until last Monday evening tor the purpose of
considering what terms ta’ propose, ‘and what terms to
accept from the Americans, Important and necessary
as the consideration of this subject was, we regret to say
that neither the officers nor a quorum of the Chamber
met. For ourselves, we regard the Chamber of Com-
merce as a farve which is all but played out. Forta-
nately for this Colony, the Government and people are
fully alive to the importance of Mr.*Butler’s mission,
and are determined that no effort will be wanting upon
their part to bring about any commercial arrangement
ealculated to benefit our fishing, agricultural, and other
material interests. An indicatien of this is to be found
in the fact, that a County meeting, attended by the
members of the Government, of both branches of the
Legislature, some of the more enterprising: city mer-
chante,and a fair eprinkling of the tarmers of theCounty,
was held in the Market Hall on Friday last, at which
first-rate practical speeches were made by Mesers.
Heard, Brecken, Beer, Hall and others, and by Hons
Messrs, Hensley, MeDonald, Haythorne, Coles and
Palmer. The Sheriff occupied the chair, and J. B.
Cooper, Eeq., acted.as Seoretary. A full and authen-
tic report of the meeting is being furnished to the Ar-
aminer by the Seeretary.. The following Resolutions,
which may be taken as a fair expression of opinion on
the part of the Coanty, were proposed and unanimously
adopted :—

Wuenras, the subject of Reciprocal Free Trade be-
tween the United States of America and the British
North American Colonies, has been recéntly discusssed at
Portland. in the State of Maine, by a Convention of De,
legates, representing the principal. commercial interests of
the said States and Colonies ; and wheres, there has been
lately submitted to the United States Congress, by an
influential member thereof, certain Resolutions contaming
A proposition for the establishment of reciprocal Free
Trade with Prince Edward Island in certain productions
of both countries, including fish, and the modification of
the present regulations for granting licenses to American
fishermen to fish on the shores of this Island, which re-
solutions are likely to be entertained with consideration
by the American Congress and Government; and «where.
as, there appears to be an almost universal desire as e-
nunciated at the said Portland Convention, for the estab.
lishment of reciprocal Free Trade between the United
States and the North American Colonies; and wherens
the Treaty respecting Free Trade, and the extension of the
Fishery nghts, entered into betwen Her Majesty the Queen
and the United States of America, on the 5th June, one
thousand eight hundred and fifty-four. proved to be o° great
advantage to the people of this Colony,

Resolved theref.re, that the re-establishment of Recipro-
cal Free Trade hetween the British North American Colo.
nies and the United States of America upon 4 similar, but
more extended basis, with respect to enumerated articles,
and also a similar extension of the Fishery rights, more es-
pecially if connected with the rights of registration and the
coasting trade for our vessels in the United States, would
be to the mutual advantage of both countries.

Resolved, That the conditions of extending to the fisher-
men of the United States, the mght of fishing within three
miles of the shores of this Island, and the privileges of ac-
cess to the ports and harbors thereof ought to he such con-
ditions as shall be preseribed and fixed by the Government
and Legislature of this Colony, in all respects, so far as
the same shall not be opposed to any existing constitu-
tional principle of the Laws of the Umted Kingdom.

Resolved, That the Secretary of this meeting do furnish
te’ the several members of the Legislatur®, representing
Queen's County and Charlottetown, a copy of the Re-
solutions passed at this meeting, and respectfully request
them to give the subject theit cordial support in the
Legislature, in order to attain the object and wishes of
this meeting, as understood by the said resolutions.

Since writing the foregoing, the Chamber of Com-
merce again met, and appointed two important com-
mittecs—one to prepare statistics for the information of
Mr. Butler, and the other, to entertain him at a public
dinner, or a dejeuner, notice of which will be duly an-
nounced,

RESIGNATION OF THE HON. MR. COLES AS
LEADER OF THE GOVERNMENT.

We know that it will be with feelings of sorrow our
readers will learn that, owing to ill-health, the Hon, Mr.
Coles has been forced to resign his position as Leader
of the Government, and to seck relieffrom the duties
and responsibilties of his office by a six-months’ leave of
ubsence. It is bis intention to proceed to Europe tn the
course of a few days. We wish the Honorable gentle-
man a pleasant vo;age, and trust he will return ere the
lapse of many months. with perfectly restored health,
to resume his public duties. At the last meeting of
Council, the Honorable Mv. Hensley was chosen Leader
in the place of the Honorabic Mr. Coles. ‘The selection
will give satisfaction to the country at large.

Bear Huntixe.—The people of Sonth West, or Somer.
set, have an Interesting time of it just 20 bear hanting.
A Mrs. McBride was driving home her cows « few even-
ings ago, when she missed one from the herd. On go-
ing in search of the missing animal, she discovered it in
the corner of a field, whitlfer it had been driven by 4
large bear. Bruin was evidently hungry, and was at-
tacking the cow with great fury, with the object, no
doubt, of making a feast upon the poor beast. Mrs.
McBride returned home immediately, and told her hus-
band what she had seen; but he would not believe that
a bear would venture so near a dwelling, and insisted
that she had been decelyed. Mrs, McBride persisted,
however, in her statement, and went to procure the as-
sistance of some of her nearest neighbors to rescue the
cow. The men were all away from home, so that at last,
her husband (still doubting) and herself started, in the
gloom of evening, to the spot where the bear and cow
were secn. On coming near the locality, McBride light-
ed a birch-bark, and his wife armed herself with a stout
stick. In a few moments the lighted birch revealed the
bear and his victim. sure enough. Bruin became seared
at the light and retreated, whilst Mrs McBride drove
the cow home. The poor beast was fearfully laccrated,
and is not expected to live. Since then, the whole Set-
tlement has been up in arms, but up to the present time

Bruin has eluded their vigilance and eseaped their
wrath.

Postaar.—The postage on letters from the United
States to the Dominion of Canada is only six cents;
whilst the postage on letters to this Island is ten cents.
Many American correspondents make the mistake of
inclading us in the Dominion, and hence only pay six
cents on their lotters to this Island. According to our
Post Office regulations, all unsnfficiently paid lytters
from abroad are taxed to the full amount as if nothing
had been paid on them—consequently those of as who
receive letters from the United States, on which only six
conts have been paid. have to pay the full tax of ten
cents oreix-pence before they can be redeemed.
only remedy in the matter is either for the Government

‘to equalise the postage with that of the Dominion—to

the great loss of the Island revenne—or for correspon-
_ to inform their friends in the States to pay the
full rate or none at all.

Fing.—A small building in Summerside, occupted by
Mr. J, Grady as a piace wherein to spin onkum, was con-

sumed by fire on the morning of the 18th ‘nat.

view of promoting a free trade policy. and the delegate: |

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Whatever degree of shame and disgust we fee) in
descending to the level of the writers of the Patriot, we
have the satisfaction of knowing, at all events, that we
have been the means of unearthing as polsonous a brood
of reptiles as ever polluted any country. By the last
issue of their semi-weekly ceaspool, they have exhibited
themselves in their true colors, ‘Their attacks for the
future will full harmless upon those aghinst whom they
are Airectéd. We have placed them ti the position we
wanted to--that of as scurrilous abrace of blackguards
as could he-gcared up in the eommunity—and having at-
tained our object, we would leave them in the mire, were
jt not that our motiyes tn doing so would be miscon-
strued by the scribhbiers Tonalt Hetskin, the principal,
contributor to the Patriot, is well known as one of the
most despicable characters in the community, A noto-
rious pimp and eaves-dropper, people bate thelr breath
in hig presence, and put a guard upon their tongae: We
shall not search among the filth of an obacene heathen
mythology to get up a caricature of him. We will pho-
tograph him to nature. It is only the most, oase-hard-
ened desperadoes, and after a career of infumy, who
take to the’ ptofession of the pald spy antl informer.
But here is a fellow who, from natural depravity, aban-
dons his scratehing-pole at the West River to adopt the
calling of a pald’ spy and Informer,—a wretch who
watches men's mouths to repeat In public thelr private
conversations, and who,worms himself lato people’s con-
fidence only to bétray them. +A disgrace to the only
public efllee into which he could force himself in a gub-
ordinate position,—and the secrets of which he makes
public—he plies his odious voeation from innate love of
it rather than for the miserable pittance which: his ‘ser-
vices as aspy entitle him to, So» well known ts his
character, even in the neighboring colontes, that an
eminent lawyer from New Brunswick would not permit
him to hold the ballot-box whilst a jury was being im-
panneled. If ** Hetskin’* has ‘not figured tn history as a
paid informer and the receiver of * bldod-money,” it is
simply because a fitting fleld has not been opened to h
ambition, and because hé ts too great! & poltroom to
at higher prizes than his pitiful employer of the Patriot
can afford to give him. Te has besiimedr Catholic, and
Protestant Inturn. — Bishops, Priests and Nuns, and ever
the Minister of his own Church, have been successtvel
the objects of his ruthless attack. Neither calling, nor
position, nor age, nor sex, has escaped the venom of his
venal pen. Matters private as well as-public come with-
in the domain of his infamous duties, and beth are im-
yolated ‘at the shrines of Mammon and of RuMfanism.
The meanest criminal ubhung must have some redeem-
ing qualities to be abused by Hetskin. Hay gS gravis
his billingsgate upon Col, Gray and the Rey. Mr. Sather+
land, he has turned his attention to us; but whatever
course others may pursidc, whether they fly the moral
pestilence or treat with contempt ns scurrility, we are
determined to trample under our feet, every timé he
obtrudes himself In our way, this loathsome object,
which, like a foul carease, rises to public view by the
force of its own putrescence,

We now come to our New Glasgow friend, who occu-
pies the position of an elder in a church. He employs
the plap, and ts therefore more culpable tian his dis-
reputable assistant. We are treated to a learned dis-
quisition In Saturday’s Patriot upon the origin’ and
nature of the “harpy.” The “ harpy,” we need scarcely
say. is a fictitious creature, the offspring of prurient
imaginations like iletskin’s; but here is a veritable hang-
man who takes to his yocation as naturally as a duck
does to a dirty gutter. By his zeal in his congenial ¢m-
ployihent, he-hopes to slaughter his way tofame and
fortune; but so far, his labors to that end have resulted
a miserable fillure, and hence we are not surprised
that he hates, with the intensity of an envious and
bigoted nature, all those who have been more success-
ful than himself. He will be a long time wallowing In
his native mire if he hopes to extricate himself from it
by the means which he has employed since issulug from
New Glaszow to take under his charge the political and
moral welfare of this colony, and to sweeten Queen
Square with his presence—that is by bespattering those
who are as far above him in Intellectual eultare and
moral worth as fina knowledge of those amenities and
courtesies by which gentlemen aré actuated. ‘To hear
an uncouth savage like the hangman, who lately emergéd
from the woods, lecturing others upon vulgarity, ts
slightly ridiculous, to say the least of it. He appears to
think the Government is unworthy of eoufidence and
support, because we enjoy the envied. prize of the
Queen's Printing—a prize twice won and once refused—
and won against one whose departed shade even the
hangman, with substantial reason, holds in reverential
dread. When the hangman accomplishes half as much
as we have done, we will admit his claim to rule the
destinies of the colony. We have no fear, however, that
any misfortune—and it would be a calamity indeed—is
ever likely to thrust him upon a government in the ca-
pacity of a champion or exponent. The veriest imbe-
ciles would revolt against the hard condition. Last
week we convicted the Elder of a positive falsehood with
reference to the elty printing. We have now to convict
hima of another. He says that we accepted the office of,
Queen's Printer upon terms such as were never propos-
ed to our predecessors. We tell him he writes an im-
pudent falsehood, as our commission will prove to any
one anxious about the matter. The attempt, therefore,
to injure our reputation on the score of venality and
want of principle, falls to the ground, , The Goyernment
imposed no conditious upon us. We are as free to ad-
voeate a grant to St. Dunstan's College now as ever wo
were, and the hangman well knows that we did so last
winter in eur place Mi ‘the Legislature, without fear,
favor or affection. The gentlemen who compose the
present Executive are: not the slave-drivers to whom the
hangman had to knuckle down when his own father was
sacrificed, If public opinion was not so far educated
as to enable the Government to yield to the views of
their Catholic supporters, neither they nor wé were such
hopeless idiots as to givé way to the ambitious hang-
man and his spy. Whenever that day comes, which
shall witness those worthies exercising an influence in
the courcils of the country, alas, We say, forthis cdtony.
There is one candid admission in the choice article
which the Elder gave his pious readers for Sunday read-
ing in Saturday night's Patriot—unusually candid, were
it not that it escaped from him in his haste to put the
rope around our neck, and immolate us, He-says Cal-
craft made a fortune as a sng oficial,—we wonder
where he got that interesting piece of information?—
und few, he says, are jealous of his suceess. This is
really surprising news. We were altogether unaware
that Gur contemporary had made his “pile ’ by his gib-
beting jAbors. The annowncement must take the com
munity by surprise. Calcraft, however, \# quite right
in his assertiou that there are few who are jealous of
his success. ‘Ie Elder also says that no one ever be-
grudged Judas hic thirty pleces of silvet or Esau his
mess of pottage. Ti:¢ only meaning to bo attached to
this wise-saw is that the application of the Bishop
embraces the cause of jruth, Justice and Christatnity,
against whieh the Eldes has been contending,—whether
for et eee of silver or for some higher consider-
ation is best known to himself. We thank him for the
admission, but we are not surprised at his conduct.
Did we not know the fact from long experience, we
would take him at his word, that a move sordid, grovel-
ling, envions, splenetic, wrangling hypucrite the sun
does not shine on to-day, An individual who is mean
enough to use an official position to covertly abstract
from a young beginver in business, and ropriate to
himself, the patronage which of right belonged to his
jJunior—a person who “blows” about his enterprise in
nee an efficient staffof reporters at the desk of the

ouse of Assembly, and afterwards servilely canvasses
among a majority whom he had abused, for pecuniary
assistance to pay those reporters to complete their
work, and when the money was generously paid, falled
to publish another line of the debates ~such a character,
we say, is fit for any act of hypocrisy or mjustiee, and
his allusion to the thirty pleces of silver has a personal
interest to the Eider which is not new to him nor sur-
prising tous. The concluding sentence of his brilliant
essay shows the inordinate opinion which the hangman
and spy entertain of themselves, They, modest fellows,

The | Consider it an * outrage” on public decency ” to skelp

them out of our road every time they make themeelyes
particularly obnoxious! We dismiss the worthtes by
exp the opinion that the last tribute they will
pay tot ic decency’ will be, that after having wearied
themselves in hanging thelr opponents, they will finish -
laying violent on selves—a result whic
wouldn't be much regretted by the community. The
inventor of the guillotine, we know, perished by his own
terrible engine of death; and why not the hangman by a
compression of the windpipe?

«Manrnep, Act i, scenn 4, | POS

Tux following facts have been communicated to the
Examiner :--

‘In thirteen fathoms of water off the Kast Point Reef,
is to be seen every day, the spar of a sunken vessel, sup.
d to be the schooner ‘' Fashion,’ of Gloucester,
Mass. The spar is broken off at the deck, reversing it,
and in that shape it appears to us, a mark, as it were, to
point out the last resting place of some poor fellows, as
they slumber in * death's cold embrace,” deep beneath
the waves of the merciless ocean, In twenty fathoms
near her, lies another which would remain unobserved,
no doubt, were it not that some French Fishermen, who
frequent that spot annually to fish, came this July as
usual, and in fishing there became fastened futo some-
thing on the bottom, which caused them some trouble to
get clear of, and did not sueceed _— had away
a good deal of thelr gear. They, howevef, dréw several
fathoms of the sunken vessel's rigging over the surface
of the water. ‘They report that, to all appearance, it was
sound and in good condition, and would appear as if not
long under water, . Av opinion preyalls that those two
vessels collided, and san Th ogee now Tie = the
bottom. Thespotw ee abated es can
yet be Yount ue titoes Juuschtore mi marks,

by which the spot could be pointed out if sought for.”

Tur Ocp ALLEauaNtaNns.CominG, Monpay Eventing
next.—Relurn from, Kurope.-—The. celebrated troupe of
Alleghanians, Vocalists and: Bell Players, returned from
Europe a‘ few days since, where they have been very
successful,

In January last, while in England, they appeared before
Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, the Prince and Princess of
hoo and the whele ef the Royal Family, at Windsor

“astle,

They will appear at Market Mall on Monday evening
next, Aug, 31st. : :

The Presbyterian Witness, (Halifax, N, 8.,) says :—
« Their entertainment Is interesting and novel, as well as
high toned and refined.”

The Baptist Register, says :—\ Everything Is good, in
excellent taste, and leans to virtue’s side.”

The Zion's Advocate says :-~—'Their music delights all
who listen to it.” ‘

Tux Topp Prorerry.—We feel assured that the
settlers on this property wil] not be overwhelmed with
pleastire to learn that they are now tho tenants of the
Ilon. J.C. Pope. The Government was willing and
anxious to buy this property, and we suppose the effect
if not the intention of Mr. Pope's going between the
Government and Mr. Todd, will be to raise the price
of the land upon the tenants when it comes to be offer-
ed to the Government, as we have no doubt: it will be
in the course of time, by its new proprietor... We are
sorry that Mr, Pope should have voluntariy placed him-

selfin the position ofa middleman, than which.no char-
acter is more odions to tenants,

Tue Fisurnies.—From the Summerside Progress and
ether sources, we learn that mackerel fishing around the
coasts of this Island has been highly sticcessfil this
month. The catches both in vessels and boats have been
large, and the fish all No. 1. More fish have been taken
up to the presenttime, than during the whole of the past
season. One boat from Kildare, with a man and three
boys, is reported to have caught eleven barrels of mackér-
el in the course of one afternoon the week before last.
The schooners are beginning to arrive with full fares.
The Octavia, built for Messrs Owen & Welsh, by D.
Morrison, Esq., of Grand River, Lot 55, arrived in port
on Sunday night, with over 190 barrels of No. 1 macker-
el. In fuct, the prospects of this important business this
season, are everything that could be desired.’

An Inquest was held by Dr, Beer, one of the Coron-
ere for Queen's County, on Friday, the Qkst inet., on
view of the body -ofa young man named. Hugh Me-

Eachern, (cooper) of Souris, belonging to the fishing
schooner *'Adino * found drowned in the dock between
Perk’s and Queen's Wharves, Verdict, ‘Found drown-
ed!) We understand that the body of the anfortunate
man Was interred in the Catholic Cemetery on the aama

day.

tr Sevenar Island Volunteers proceeded to Nova
Scotia on Saturday last, to take part in the Intercolonial
Shooting-Match, which came off near Halifax, on Mon-
day and Tuesday of this week. At latest accounts,
they were behind at the first range—Sergts. Rodd and
Stewart, only having scored 16 points, whilst several
Nova Seotians scored 18.

rw By advertisement, it will be seen thata Tea
Party, for the benefit of St. Danstan's College, will be
held on the pictaresque grounds of that Institution, on
Wednesday next. As the object is a good one, and
every preparation is being made to render the Tea a
success, let us all gu and patronize it.

EFThe City Firemen held their Annual Pio-nic, at
Southport, on Thursday last. The weather was against
them, and greatly marred the success and pleasure of
the affarr. Last evening. however, they gave ia” very
pleasant ballin the Market Hall. It was largely at-
tended, and afforded every sativfaction to the lovers
of the dance. ’

The Rev. William Morley Panshon, the celebrated
Wesleyan orator, who visited this city afew weeks ago,
was married in Toronto onthe 15th inst., to his deccas-
ed. wife's sister. A marriage of ‘this kind not being
legal under the laws of England, the Rev, gentleman
had to come to America to have the ceremony legally
performed.

Suveiwxa Hay vo Exatavp.—Five steamers, laden
with hay, have left U. S. ports for England, and the
steamers fora fortnight are engaged for all they can
earry. The drought has destroyed the grass. and fifty
millions of sheep are living on “ short commons.”

tar A dangerous lunatic escaped from the Asylum a
few days ago. ‘* Tonalt Iletskin,” the spy, with his
moccassins on, has also been missing. Tue public had
better be on their guard against both thesé characters.

Tne Hon. Benj. F, Butler, accompanied by Collector
Pew, of Gloucester, Mass., and Representatives Poland
and Beck. left Boston on Friday laet, in the steam Cut-
ter McCulloch, for Prince Edward Island.

A salute of one hundred guns were fired at Newcastle,
N. B., upon the announcement of the Northern Route
being finally ratified for the Intercolonial Railway.

When the Str. P. of Wales came to the wharf on Tues-
day night, two men on lending cacstoly walked over
the whart on the opposite ~ Mrv Reilly, Tobaceo-
nist, of this town, being present.imm sprang aft-
er them, seizing one, he swam With him toe vessel near
by, cansed him to lay hold of a rope hanging over the
side, left him there, then went and rescued the other.
There was quite a sea at the time, as the wind and tide

were both high. Mr. palliy’s prompt apotivity, and
manly exertions are worthy of the highest praige. We
have informed that ¢ are hot the only ns

who are under obligation to,him as a means by whom
pes Were saved from a watery grave. All hosorte
sach men.—-8. Journal.

Acowenr at Sunptac.——We learn with regret that
Mr. David saan, © native of Tryon, who has been ab-
sent from the Island nearly twenty-five years, on his re-
turn home, on Wednesday of last week, at Point da
Chene, in « 7 off the train, which was in motion,
stumbled fel] with his head on the rail, when the
wheels ran over him, completely cutting off the upper
portion of the soull, and causing instant death.—Sum-
merside Progress.

In Michigan reoently thirty-five mon went into a har-
vest field to cat grain, About 10 A. M., no lees than
sixteen of them had been sun stricken’ tle majority of
whom died under the exposure. Such an instance of
wholesale onsualty has hardly a parellel in the history
of this country.

The Pall-Mall Gazette ways that nabs ans eee
poe among the Englieh volunteers, owing to the
sufficiency of Government grants for their use.

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