er 6 ae CORRESPONDENCE. LATE BUNOPEAN NEWS. ‘ng SDL LOL LLIN BA PRIMM OO acai Ay on ae eau yANCr TTY Nepere oe an -\ & TUK EASTERN GURSTION. FRANCE AND NORTH GERMANY. - a Tn the audience given by the Emperor Na- CIRCULAR OF TRE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT. poleon on Tuesday to Cou.t Von der Goltz, A species af B ue-beek has just been published the gap cred te J repre entative of by the KNussian Geeerament, containing @ series North bab — Coutederation, the KE gag 4 aiitin md ’ >. | Speke as follows - “In notifying to me the . ' _ menents Spon the Eastern new functions with which you are invested. us Question. The earlier of these go back as far ae (he represeniative of the Confederation of the ces of the fi i the begining et Is66, and among the latest isa North, you renew Che assurat lewd ; circelar addressed to te Riu«dag embassies and Sbip of the King of Prussia. [thank you for it. ; Iega rome abroad by Prinee Gertechakolf On my prart, Lembrace the opportunity with 7 : pleasure to confirm the g vod nuderstanding as the [Sih October last hia circular is fellows; gecenthy yt fof you to be the interpreter of my sentiments to the King. Having been able to appreciate ithe high qualities which distinguish you, I do eXisting between the two Governments “Sr. Perensnrae, Oct. 18.—You are ac- quainted with the course followed by the Imperial cabinet in the afluireotthe Bast. You are aware . that, ae far back as 863, it called the attention |" t poser ar you “on continue as_ rn tesa . . : }to exert all your efforts to maintain between daily. In facet, epon the one band the Christian which is the pledge of theit prom army and a 4 populations, seeing the collective action of the | guarantee of the peace ot Europe” Count Von 4 great powers, which had become therr sole guaran. | d Goltz was afterwards received by the tee, paralyzed by the waut eft ogreement, gradua'- > nypress. i ly levmt thet: peo an ameloratian in th tate Paris. Taveaspay Nicur.—Upon reeeiving gad thete confidence in the suppert of l irape ep sehen ay eel ibe car Upon the ether hand, their desires were raised “hat Cie Med Wkkdst deeede bi wetriues they saw | 8X okes of the D io omane 8 “iv at the tree wh elsew heer, 2 1by accomplished facts in! Luileries yesterday ythe Emperor replied ; i neighborimg countries fhis tweteld current,| 4™ happy to beyiu the vew Vear as lsu il, sur whieh acted apon these popalations, could net rounded by the represeutatives Of ail the Powers. fail to reuder their position more paintul and} Ll am abie to ailirm vuce more my constant theig resignation mere difficult. Partial aed) desire to maintain the best relations with them. suceessive outbreaks tn Syria, the Lebanon, | [ thank you iur the wishes you have been good Servia, Bosnia, the Heraegovima, Montenegro, | enowzh na express in their naiwne for France, dud witiwately ia Candia, had acourred to con-| yy family, and myself.”’ In answer to the firm eur previsions, and lo altest the tmeninenee | rvs hbishop of Paris, the Emperor replied nih of a ertate which became po ahh trope by tO ther | of The prayers you address tu heaven for the more geveral, Nevertheless, our warnings have! ., . i ; rematmed truitless. When recently the rising in| impress, the Prince Tiny rial, and myselt Candia revealed the progress of thie movement, affect me deeply. They Spring trom a noble the Lmperial cabinets repented ite efforts with | eart. I know that you do not separate | the Purktes) Geeernment and the Great Powers. | eligious interests trom those ot the country Ir addressed te the cabinets tae invitation te join | and of civilization.” it iu exhertiag the Porte net to allow that teur- rection te tuerease, which wight be re-vehoed | FENIAN ALARMS AT WOOWLICH. throughout the whole of the Chriatian East, and nie Oe b ‘olind the first apark ef a general conflagration i. At the oul wick vay 8 4 a ol In anticipating an explosion by wise concessions | UNS prevails 4s ust reported. rom it : te the complaints ef the Cretans, by granting | formation rece ived by the G vernment, there 1s : be equitable sufistaction te the demands of the | not the shadow vt au dvubt Dut that tor the Serviana, reftorms whteh weald assure bearable! prompt action takea on Friday se nuight, a conditions ut existence te the Sultan's Christian | pizht attack would have been made upon the subjects, it wae permitted to lope fer an appease-| Arsenal, Round house and East Store, contain- meut of wen's minds which would leave to time, | ing rifles and Armstrong guns. The intelli- te the progress of idea, and to the develapment | rence received since shows an increased de- of tuppgrets the peaceful solution of the social and) toemination oa the part of the Fenians to make ietiins bis aaa ong Basen lraids on the Government stores in all parts of | ef the cabinets bas remained inemnplete, and the country where arms and ammunition are their Ianguage haa net pradeced the desired im.) XCPG and it has been deemed necessary to in pression pen the Turkiek Governusent. It has) crease rather than ee the precautionary parsued a course of repression with a rige } measures. Phe Roya! Arsenai continues to be whieh has only rendered the struggle more ardent, | guarded day and night with troops, with sizuals pistens mere augry, agreement more difficult.; to be in operation for communicating with the aud ite partial attempts at conciliation, taking | diderent barracks, where additional reserve piace at the eleventh beur, ave lost their op) troops are kept armed and accoutred through portuneness aud eficacy. a ider these circum: | jut ‘the night. The progress of the special pe aye Bo ag fe atl ne a Tae | constable movement in Woolwich is extraordi- course was marked out for il by the views go-| “YS and unprecedented. lhe entire civilian versing the policy of eur august master, of the adalt male population have manirested a un- traditions of Russia, ber iuterests aaa neighboring | MIMous determination to enrol themselves for power. ae an European great power, bound up| the maintenance of law and order, and it Is be- With the repose of the East and the mainteuance | coming an extremely diflicult matter to find a| the geweral peace. In her opinion, it there | man in Woolwich, Piumstead, or Chariton who were stil any chawee avertiog imminent com |is not either a special constable or a soldier. | _ 4 plications by cowusel addressed to the Turkish | Oy Wednesday the Roval Arsenal presented an Govergment. that task belonged exclusively to) extraordinary and animated scene on the vc Lurepe, interpesing its collective suthority be casion of the swearing in of the whole of the tween the parties at vanaree, and speaking to employees, 9,000 in number, as special con- them with firmness in unanimous terme It the ee Boe : 7 , chance were lost, and the evisia become mevit. | 8O!€s- In addition to the above 3,000 of the | able, the duty and interest of all were then bownd Woolwich Dockyard workmen have been t+ cireumscribe it by abstzining from all inter. | Sworn in. “ veution and presenting it from comprounsing the | general peace. It was this the Imperial cabinet) THE CLERKENWELL EXPLOSION, * proposed under date of Now 16, 1566. Some) At the Mansion House, on Wednesday, the ; woong the Great Powers have adhered to its Lord Maror said that the Clerkenwell Rehef views, the first perven ef thie programme was fulfilled. The result ia known, The pressing) ~ age ; ine! eulievinan of and reiterated steps of the Linperial cabimet, and, “4° alleviating ve ep en er dian Ann : of the government associated with it, fated in the people injured by the explosion, and £3, the face of the resulutions of the Porte. The| 000 towards repairing the loss and damage ot private ‘attempte at persuasion exerted by our | furniture and tools owned by persons who august master during the mission of Fuad Pasha! could but very ill afford to suffer such juss and tu Livadia met with no greater success. Henee-| inconveninence. The committee had a balance forth the imperial cabinet considered that nething| of £1,500 in hand. after providing for those remained save to aequit iteeif of the seeond | oousualties, but fresh claims were being made portion ef the task reserved to the Powers. This , was the ehject of the declaration bad proposed, | aod which, with these slight verbal alterations augaested by the cabinet of the Tuileries, and a sees -. wa eroe ogreed te by the eabinete of Berlin and Florence, POWDER AT FAVERSHAM. has just been banded te the Porte by their re} The coroner of East Kent bas held an in- presertatives at Constantiouple. While forward-| quest at Messrs. Hall's oilice, Faversham, mg the text aw aunexed (already published), I touching the death of eleven unfortunate men think mt necessary to point out the sense we! wig were literally blown to pieces by the ex- attaes tov . | plosion which occurred at the powder mills on “@Wur anguest master desires te release him |) pt ; fos , Saturday. The relatives of the deceased men from responsibility tor a eituation of whieh hin) ee e and identify, if linperial Majesty torsees the perti«, and which ne | “8V® Deen anxious $0 See Sng Wentiny, pos- has done everything tu avert. He desires to pre- “ : vent political rivalries trew adding te the already | duthorities, knowing that it would be utterly serious complications of the Easters question that useless for them to attempt to do so, in kind- whieh the present situation of Larope affords. It, ness to them refused to allow any to enter the is Wil this intention bis Imperial Majesty bas sbed in which the remains were deposited, for laid down the principle ef nenoatervention, which nothing could ever obliterate from their minds Committee had already dispensed £1,500 to- ee upon them daily. THE TERRIBLE EXPLOSION OF GUN- 7 ice ai each ae we nie seen aie ar le in. ncaa easel tama nla em ARE ts A at speeted by the other Powers. This principle, } however, can in ne case imply ind:ff-rence. We are wnable, any more than the cabinets which have assectated themeelves with us, to renounce the generous umiscien their mn- pose upon the Great Powers upen occasions . . : where humanity tenders ita law. For the same!) been In the enjoyment of the full ur reaen, while abstaining tram all isolated action | manhood and the sole support of as many which would aggravate the complications existing wives and families. Of these only one re in the East, the Imperial cabmet will always be! tained the resemblance of humanity, and that ready te concur in an European agreement for! body w as so blackenedand disfi sureil that even the object of setting them It \s firmly convinced | the men who had worked in the factory for thas such an agreement could oniy have tor its | years, and knew all the unfortunate fellows aim & work of jusuee, worthy of Christan powers, | well, could not form the least idea to whom the coutormmable te lke general interests of peace and , iy lend uaa TheC op daid that ‘the civiligstion, befure which all political rivalry and | 20CF D@monged.—*he Norone had c " “ all exetasive views ought to disappear | names of the eleven men who had come to so itself. In aheap in the centre ef the shed lay a mangled heap of human flesh, so charred ind shattered as to render it almost impossible aoteciones tu bring the mind to believe that it represented eieveln menu, vie ol Fie © You will be good enough to express yourself witimely on end ware John Young, aged 425 bi in this sedse toward the Government to which | Edward Young, 455 George Taylor, 67; | you ave averedited. Receive, &e | William Sole, 41; Christopher John Cole, 30; cg “ GoRTSCHAKOFF.” | Thomas Bladock, 27; William Austin, 35; A! a oe - | William Eley, 37; John Payne, 39; Thomas ie SufPwWReck AND Loss of Lire.—The Sehr.) Back, 29; and Tiomas Amos, 40. The cause Susan, Capt’ MeKeane, fren Little Glace Bay,! of the explosion is not known, nor 1s it likely &. B, for Halifax with a cargo of coal, wae totai j any information on the subject ean be obtained, ly weeeke d at Louisburg, oo the night of Satur. but there is no doubt of it being an accident. day, the 2eth ult, and, sad to relate, all hands periehed. The names ot the crew are as tollows: | : rQQINTAN RYPRENIT = 3 Albert McKeaiie, of St. Mary's, captain; Jobn | THE ABY SSINIAN vine yt - ; Drisecll, Halilas. wate: L ideay Susith, ot | Api Ny Dec. 20.—The i vead of the secon¢ we Chester, Henry Eleenhaur, of Ship Harbor, and| brigade is expected to arrive here to morrow fy | Samuel Maloue, of Halifax, seamen; Thomas Phe Seinde horse and the Bengal brigade will eee hh Lewhy, Newfoundland, cook ‘The Susan was 74/ arrive between the end of December and the a tons register, was built at Sheet Harver in 15845,/ middle of January. Transports with the postal ; and owned by Capt. Lang of this city. On the and telegraph staff, the commissnriat, the ~“ fame night the schooner Julia, Capt. Edward ordnanee, and other stores are passing daily Fenton, from Sydury ter Halttax with & cargo ot) en route for Abyssinia. H M.S. Star is en- ie coal, was wreeked at Liscomb, Guysborough Co , | 4 y. crew saved, The Julia was 99 tune register.| Cit Tie survey is approaching completion. belt at Clementeport in e514, and owned by Messrs. Ro Noble & Sous and Capt. Fenton. The cargo was fully insured, but there was ouly $1,- 000 on Ue vessel. | The report that the Ezyptian authorities there | had received a letter announcing that the cap- tives chains had been taken off, and that there was every chance of their speedy release, are considered probabie here. Intelligence from Senafe to the 11th inst., states that the health and spirits of the troops were excelient. The mortality among the horses continued. Tne 3rd Cavalry regiment had lost upwards of 150 horses. The weather was very cold. The ad- vance brigade was to remain at Senafe until the arrival of Sir Robert Napier. It is report- ed that the chief of Shoa had surrendered Magdala. —_ ——<—Po —- — Tue OFLy ALTERNATIVE.— Lord Stanley in- A fiste upon it that the late ee-called Coniederate States were entitled to the belligerect right of a separate nationality and there he stands. Mr. Seward jusiets that said states were nothing wore than a deagee of insurgents, and that they had no shadow of right de avy belligerent mghts under ' the daw of tations, aod there Le stands. What, thom, is te be done? Clearly, the only alterna tive left our government ie te cut the Gordion hoot in the Jacksonian titweatum of indemutty | * - oo grits cash or the Canadas.—N. Y.| Bomuar, Dee. 14, via Taresre.—The second ’ as | iat ‘ | brigade of the field force leave Bombay imme- In a lecture on newspapers, delivered in Phila-|‘liately, under Brigadier Welly. The deiphia, by Rev. Dew iit Talmadge, be said: brigade consisting of H. M) 45th and the 2ud “LT now declare that L consider the Dewepaper Native Infantry Regimer fs, follow in the te be the grand agency by whieh the gospel ix) Course of the week, A transport is now under preached, guerance east out, oppression dethron-| orders to sail for Vingorla to embark 518 ‘ime extirpated, the woild raieed, heaven | native infantry, congtituting part of the Sth rejoiced, and God glorified [lu the elauking of | brigade. the printing prese. as sheete fly out, I hear the! of the 3rd and 4th brigades from Bengal are Lord Almighty praelsiming to all the dead na-theing rapidly pushed forward. Sir Robert tons of the earth, ‘Lazarus come forth, aud te!) Napier and his staff sail in afew days. Twenty be aa surges of darkness ‘let there be}. io hans were embarked on the 7th inst., for ight! ed, ¢ —— i Cte Mr. Spurgeon recently tuld his hearers that if| some of them stayed at home on week days! ty uaind the ' to perecuin: bankrupt. Ho also advised hin female devotees to stay at home “darnivg” their husband's} ly, instead of tho king to! ua ¢XcuMement. eo F See te it, all ve nice young W ben Corns sour feet corrode, That Grace's Salve yor surely get Aud take to your abod ’ If well applied, there ae ne -diwht But what it will the owisance reut. The latest news received here con cerning the expedition is of a very cheering business, instead of running abou | character. The dificalties in the way of an ladvance were gradually disappearisy, and it had been decided that the expeditionary force should enter Abyssinia by she Sooros Pass to Senafe. Netwithetanding the number of mules sent from Arabia, Persia, the Mediterranea jand elsewhere, there not available more than one-third of the number actually required — It 8 beliewed that efforts will consequently he made to find them in Abyssinia iteeif. Not withstanding the efficiency of the Sappers, it is doubtfal whether any wheeled carriages ean be taken up the torrent beds, which are the only on | highways into Abyssinia. Johnston's Anodyne Liniment ie the most de-| | 5 4 servedly popular medicine of the present day. Its! teefulloess ie net hunted te ay People or eeet .— but tis used alike by the rich and the poor, the educated aud the iguorant. ' | follow. ite chappels, fe wer would become stockings occasions tudulge iu a little rv ory “, Catcurtra, Dec. 7, cia Trreste.—The 23rd Punjaub Pioneers have embarked for Abyssinia. Prior to their embarkation they were inspected by the Viceroy, who addressed them The . | rest of the Bengal brigade is awaiting otders tu The only thing suved frosm the yeneral des-|embark, The transports are all uearly pre- was the dress of the ghost in “‘ Dou Giovanni.” | 2¥ Steamers. ik ia ates rr 7 | The traces of the late cyclone are fast dis im Stated tual —. a . oo one ° bs a ig Thoroughfare * by Clas. Dicker and Wilkie! is aot so great as was anticipated Ahove i Collins, bave been seid iu bo, anu. o. % sland helped to work se tiuch mischief in India— | sible, the remains of their friends ; but the | 4 ae Oaerve , al . . j he ready to ooserve eo long ae it ahall be re- the shocking spectacle which there presented who had only two days previously | third | The preparations for the departure | | Abyssinia, and an equal number ‘will soon) | “ d i é iduced and vilified the mau 540,000 copies of “ No appearing, and the distress resulting therefrom |, d ‘ ‘it Was notin my pewer to rexch. lincluding the Government grant. The ex- ne iy Of Oude is now endeavouring to investi. and elear off his debts. jot the Siam and Casserim frontier has been leompleted. ‘The treaty concluded by Colonel | prute the | Fyiche, with the Government of Burmah, was | ratified by the Viceroy on the 26th alt. The King of Burmae has assented tu the despatch fanexploring party to Western China via Bharao, and has issued an edict to vive it every sus istanve. of the party. Captain Sladen ts appointed leader FURTHER FROM Tike ABYSSINIAN EXPE DLTION—AN EMBARRASSING ALLY. | '( Army Correspondence of London Times of | Dec. 24.) The Egyptians have vot only mustered 3,000) i fresh troops at Massowah, but have actually taken j upon themselves to send a message to Theodore, | warning bim that if he does net give ap the eap- | tives, they tntend toe join in our expedition, and otherwise give usiall the aid) at their com | Thev are further g te send to this | neighborhboud ten which they itely off ho any uu ber of tre peand g All this ceurtsey trom a beloved ally may mand Ae + frigates, Ost pe r te place at our disposal, wit Nhs t be very gralily- ; If aj notion that the Eeyptians are going to help us, | ne general credeuee in Aby un luckily the muster of treops at Massewah and | the arrival of a naval equadron will give it color. | ‘ing—we may find ourselves engaged ina national | and religious war, as desperate as seml-savage patriots and fanatics can make it, in lieu of the comparatively easy task fo hunt dewn one out-| lawed and hated leader overmatched by power. tul foes. The very name of Egyptian stinks in usty and well ing. but just now itis very embarrassing rains ssinia—and Abyssinian nostrils; and Theodore could wish| motion, I feel fully assured that your inherent | Fenianism does not simply aim at the redress | more nothing werse for ourown, or better for his, than | the assistance our kind ates are offering us, . * * * *. Massowah is full of Abyssinians, some of them | messengers recently arrived from Magdala, Debra Pabor, and other places in the heart of the country, jand their report is that the people have a notion ! ' }—the netion which has given us se much trouble | that the English are commg With an army te} } jmake them proseiytes by the sword, to do by force what the tuissionaries have failed toe do by | persuasion. ‘The nation has not, even after the | lapse of two centuries, forgotten the cruel perse- | leution of the Portugese bigots, and this netion, iow, perhaps, but a vague suspicion, would be at ence converted into certainty of conviction it the fanatical followers of Mehomed came wie the cotntry with us as our fellow soldiers and allies. ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Jan. 9 —Very late ad- i views from Col. Mereweather of the British Abys lsinian expedition have been received here, conveying the rather important intelligence that bands of nalives, supposed to be fHostie, Were] prowling around the English Camp at Senate In conse quence of this manifestation orders were | issued ter all the Eure pean troops temporarily } stationed at Annesley Bay and the different points (along the line of march trow there to the interior | to advance to the trout aud join the headquarter division at Seuape. —e_ | ——s Che =~ Gramier. ON or ee nee | SIREN RN RIN ERR RRR PR EERE | Charlottetown, January 27, 1868. Hast thou killed, and ulso taken possession ? 1 Kings, ch. xxt., v. 19th. THE APPROACHING ELECTION FOR THE SECOND DISTRICT OF KING’S! COUNTY. t | Mr. Edward Reilly having vacated his seat in the Assembly by his acceptance of the office {ot Queen's Printer, is nuw again a candidate | for the suffrages of “the free and independent of the Second District ef King’s County, in the hope that they will again be in- electors’ duced to elect him as their leyisiative repre- sentative in the lower branch of the Legislature; and, until quite recently, as there had been no mention of any intended opposition to * his | claims’? — whatever these may be —io that honor, his hope of } his Own ODS . ! ‘ re-€ieci n, as appears by rvations respec ting it, had grown into certainty. It now seems, however, that, on that head, he bad been reckoning without his host, for many of those who, formerly under the influence of false impressions, | save him their support, having, in consequence | vf a late mournful event, been led seriously to| investigate the grounds on which alone he can base his pretensions to the honor he covets, jhave discovered that these, imstead of being | such as ought to entitle him to it, are in fact! precisely such as should call forth from the whole Qonstituency nothing but feelings of the most indignant conte inpt for his presamption. In consequence of this opening of eyes and revulsion of feeling, a goodly number of the eiectors—— men of substance, of influential positions, and of unquestionable intezrity —| | having cast about them to see whether there uy jeould not be found among themselves any in| |dividual worthy of the honor of representing | | the District inthe Assembly, have pitched upon Mr. James KR. McEwex — one of many resi- (dent within its bounds possessed of these grand | essentials of a parliamentary representative ot the people —integrity of principle, love of | |country and honest indepeudence —- and having j expressed to him their belief that he is a fit| Fietcher, however, for good and sufficient | out the country, be fairly banished from it The settlement | | that there is, | divect crook’d means” ; any | tore } —and and yet with the most bitter and per- ! | called, shtent maliguity, haraased, thwarted, and lit | er- ally hurried into bis grave @ tan whose only| offence against me was his beiug, mi every respect, immeasurably my Superior. after having thus yot id of him, I have | aled triamph, not, inthe momentof my ill-conce through the naked ailectation of eurogium, coupled with foul and insidious detraction, |dared to insult hig memory and outrage the feelings of his bereaved and mourning friends. And neither, as if to attain Che very summit of baseness and wickedness, have I, after having killed, taken possession. I have not been ac- cessory to the death of a husband and a father; and then seized upon what ought to have been t the son. Now, gentlemen, in declaring that I am not a man who has been guilty of such moral « big ‘ities as these, I beg you will ob-| serve that I do not positively say either that, there is such aman, or that, even admitting he have or are likely to have any immediate con- is one with whom you eithe . nexion. But this I will say, that, should any such man—you having full knowledge of his being so—peresume in his eager desire for the emoluments of office and the outward honor of position to solicit your suifrages for his pro-| they have, however, had no just conception, | Land Questions both happily settled, son love of honor, justice,and integrity, your natural | abhorrence of falsehood, meanness, and maligni ty, would induce youto give him such evidence of your detestation of his principles and practices as, though it might fail to eradicate | jhis natural depravity, would yet render him, for the future, less confident of the efficiency lof wicked machinations, however cunningly devised and speciously practis d: and force upon his mind the conviction, however slow is unquestionably at altimes, the best policy, andunwilling he might be to adinit it, that honesty and the surest means of obtaining permanent life. success and elevation in Now, gentle- men, I have done. You have a full know- ledze of my worth, if in your estimation I have | any, as well as of my defects; and if, ito the one, in despite of the drawback of the ’ ’ other, you choose to do me the houor toe elect me, I can confidently promise you that I shall | ever be foaud faithful to your interests aud those of the people at large. With the peculiar resources of Mr. Rielly’s| As respects that majority, it is justly observed | disappear; abuses would be corrected ; wrongs And, | he dower of the widow and the patrimony of | trusting | ‘community any individuals who sympathize | with the perpetrators of the recent most dia- bolical Fenian outrages which have occurred There is not, we are certain, honest- lin England. at either home or abroad, a single hearted Irishman who has heard of these ew ormities that does not feel the utmost abhor of What we the greater part of the Irish amongst us, rence them. meau is this: that having as immigrants, brought with them, or ‘as having been born here of Irish parents, having inherited, not only a strong and tender | l attachment to the soil of Old Ireland, but an } lalmost inextinguishable aversion to the Gov-| leruament which they believe, and not without) abundant reason, to have ruled through cen- ! turies, disastrously tor their Father Land, on becoming aware that preparations otf a most imposing character were being made for the liberation of their native soil from the domin of | the | ion 4“ stranver’’ have, as under such circumstances is most natural, rejoiced in heart at the new-born hope of the r alization of their | country’s independence; and have, perhaps, | jsecretly, but earnestly, prayed that success might crown the enterprise. | Or the real objects of the Fenian organiza- |tion and of the true characters of its leaders, | of grievances; it contemplates the subversion of all existing institutions; it aims at the over- | throw of public order and the peace of society. | There is a wide dillerence between their desizns and that which was the aim of the great agitator, Daniel O'Connell. He was loyal to the throne, | steadfast in his attachment to the Coustitution, | and the material instrument or mere physical | - “ > rf j ‘force he held in abhorrence. What he sought to accom and jan Trish Parliament, whereby it was his belie! plish was a repeal of the umn, | all the wrongs of Lreland would be redressed }and the couutry raised to an exalted deyree of | prosperity. What the Fenians wish is to es-| tablish a Republic after the American fashion | in the place of the existing monarchy, get rid 4] Mui te of the Church as a costly super y, and ‘divide the land in such a manner as might seem good to themselves. Agreeable, howerer, | as all this might be to the individuals engag: d| lin effecting it, there is a vast majority of the! [rish people to whom it would not be agreeable. are those who will te!! us that it way, and there qd, for my part, heliere is hostile to religion. t th i” rer was, or eer will be, hostilk ta : _'. that no me bi but let me | *Wore that the package containing the religion which is agre cable to justice , coummend this subject to your deep, earnest, and serious reflection, for, rely upou it, you have yot |} \ this betore you; itfa es You, B Cour its YOUs | that he delivered the M stops you ia the way, it wil pursue you 4 her you Ireland is ut videuce has piace d ier there; law and jeyisia ture have madi evel vo youl must face these obligations, you naust dea! with | ther aud discharge them, : viving effect to this principle, I don’t enter | I am of opinion they should be | dictated, asa general rule, by that which may appear to be the mature, well-cousidered, and | but, us to} upon them, yeneral sense of the Irish people. the principe itsell, J entertain a depth of con- viction in regard te it, and a strength of assur- ance that it will come up aud meet us at every »ofeour future progress until we have dealt iin uw presence, but urges me a.ain l iva 110 bey you to lay to heart the considera i tions that are conuects d with the complete and effectual settlement of this great and pressii ! (Quest ey In these sentiments, must heartily do we con- cur; and most sincerely do we wish that they may find such liberal aud enlizhtened accept- the speediiy lead to their practical adoption. ance in Imperial Parliament as may a compact between you; you As to the modes of tte | and addressed to the cashier of the Bank, who reeeived the letter of advice, ithe remittance. Some of the Pitts’ - - ™ but nut w /was caretully Hed up with the Summerside lettent jputintoe the bag tor that office, and kecurely ted and sealed in the presence of Mr Land who eaid ail Bag to Mrs. Crably ag he bad receiwed it. Evidence was alan lo show that the Post Office at Summerside Was conducted generally in a lovw and careless manwer, but we think this part of the case wag bot very stong. A geod deal, too, was made both in the diveet and cross examinations of the tact that the Post Odice was beld in or adj “ining the Bar Room, with the same entrance to both. Be. fore the present loss eceurred, a separate entrances was provided tor the publie, though the Post Master titosell eaters (he office through the bar room as formerly, On the occasion when it was alleged the money was lost, the Steawer reached )Sununerside seme time atter widoight. Jt was in ‘evidence stated that Mrs. Crabb reeeived the Maiistrom Mr, Lund, put them into the office, lock. ed the deur, and look the key up stairs inty her bed room, Where ber sou George found it when coming ,dewn at six in the morning to epen the Maile, On taking up the bag he neticed that it looked as it ithad beew intertered with, and he went at onee aud asked bis mother it she opened it, le Which she replied thet she bad not. The defend. ants counsel ably coutended that when delivered linto the Summerside office, every dilyenee and j precaution which the law required for the tule keeping of the mal bay had been used, and that this being the case if the money reached the office, jand war stolen therefroo: on the nigh? in qvestion, | the detendant was net hable for damages, Jt ” Sill, however, were the Lrish Church and | but justice to Mr. wid Mrs Crabb to eay that ang would be required to give entire satis! ac see it suyyvest- World orld, , the sending oi tion to Iveland; but that, as we } \ ed in a late number of the News of t/ tie Iniy hit e wily be accom pt ihe | IP [reland—to hold th. oy a Royal Price to live in | Court there, as representative of his illustrious parent, bring Protestants and Catholics into happy association, patronise an opera, en couraze the native arts (and there are arts oi exce!) make Ireland, in fact, what England is , : 1 | ! music, oration, in which the —a Royal place; and the agents of sedition: would be at once and for ever discombted. Tu such case, if the Prince (Prince Arthur, the Queen's third son, is meant) should happen t bestow his atfections upon an Irish lady, and whatis there that should cause the banns to be forbidden? The fair ; descendant Of some preat oid irish King would ainount of sympathy and ( ; uf t . 7 nere \l [reland would re- bring a wonderful heart allegiance tu the would be no ery for Separation ; a joice in the Union; v o mind and the extent of his inventive powers— | that they do not want a change in the form of] redressed; and no grim Transatlantic adven ° " ogo 3" | he ¢ » j 2 well as we know * by what bye-paths and in-| Goverment; they are loyal to the throne, | turers would be able to disturb the he «ttained his present position—we have so little acquaintance that it would be wholly in vain for us to attempt, as we anticipatory ‘deliverance of himself’’ be- the electors. the o! matter entirely in his own hands; merely serving that his position on that occasion will bear a striking resemblance to that of| Richard, Duke of York, waen seeking to cajole | the populace of London into a seeming thrust- ing the ill deserved powers aud hover of royal- ty upon him; and whom, we think, we might with but littie impropriety call his prototype. Like Richard, he venturous; and it would by no is subtle, sly, and bold means surprise us if, through the persistent exercise of these qualities, he were to secure his re- But should he do so, it would be well for him to remember election as he first accomplished it. that though craft and malizgnity may prosper and work their will for a season, as they did with Richard of England and Haman the Agagite, yet, as with these preemineutly wicked, and, for a time preeminently success- | ful hypoerites, a period almost invariably ar- rives when signal punishment, although it may have been long delayed, falls upon them with af irresistible power and the moct crushing weizht. | We have now only two additional remarks to make. These, however, respect two points, concerning which, we think, it behoves us to speak out freely and distinctly. The first respects Mr. J. H. Fletc! would have bee iia . . time thought it was at one candidate for the vacancy iestion, and who it we say without the most distant thouvht of inany way de tracting from the worth of Mr. McHwen—as having been, in a con siderable degree inured to the brunt of | political storms, as having thereby acquired | as much ‘cunning in fence’? as can be} possessed by Mr. Rielly and as being a man ** Who, steady to his country’s claim, Has boldly stood in Freedom's name, E’en to the teeth of tyrant Pride, And all its tyraut power delied— | | would have been better armed than Mr. McEwen Mr. | to run the election agaist Mr. Rielly. have done with respect to Mr. McEwen, | We shall, therefore, leave | and | vreally | | across the Atlantic, but to induce him to re- ee | j}and they feel their account in it; the destruc: | jtion of the tie that binds the two islands toze-| ther would produce an annoyavce to England ; | but it would be death to the industry of Ireland. The first to suffer would be the dupes who | are doing the work of unseen Fenian leaders. The next session of the British Parliament, it is believed, will be enturely devoted to the | affairs of Iveland; and it can not but be the | hope of every lover of both Ireland aud Britain that every thing possible to stutesmeuship and | wise and enlightened legislation will speedily | be effected, in order to allay present discontent land hatred, and render the union of mutual) | interest and affection to both countries. The “Irish Diiliculty,” we apprehend, will | be found to be chiefly in the Irish Church, ** as | | fhe English papers express a hope that Lord | I by law established,” and the Laud Tenures. Derby aud his colleagues may hit upon a happy mode of terminating the strife with satisfaction to both sides; but, at the same time, they rest admit there is small ground for hope to upon. Auy proposal, it is said, that would imply the surrender of the land in perpetuity to Ils occupants would be vehemently opposed by the proprietary; and the two millions of Pro-| testants in Ireland would be very much inclined to dispute the correctness of the surrender ot ithe Church Establishment. | - CHARLOTTETOWN DEBATING CLUB. On Friday evening just Mr. A. McNeill opened stion, * Wouldthe Government be jastiied, esent Land Purchase Act, in remitting lue from the tenants on the that the instalments in are sailicient to wake the estate if not, siould a new Act be paseed for the purpose of remitting all moneys paid, or to be paid alter the estate has been made self-sustain ing.’ ‘The subject was ably avd warmly discussed by many present, all of whom awreed that there wus some difficulty in ascertaluing what was the construction wt the Act: whether aceording , aud intention the purchase of each tie que under the | future 1 Selkirk Estate, aiveady paid Lie islaiuecutls “ueSumily legal lo iis wordt estate wet > be self-sustaining, or whether all purchase jetively uuder the Aci, should be so. be sense of the meeting having been taken, it was decided by a majority of two, that ander the pre- ent Act t ment would not be justified in remi.ting ibe future instalments, nor should they P irpose. passa new Act for thea : fhe sut y's debate will be, resent policy of Kigland toward Lreland culeulated to promote the happiness and contentmeut of the Ivish people and secure their att ucut aud leyalty co the British Vrown,’’ to Liat ject lor next evenln 8 ihe j} the bee be opened by the secretary. i kk. FirzGenacn, Sec’y, _ oo - ST. DUNSTAN’S TEMPERANCE SOCIETY DEBATING CLUB. On Monday night last Mr. W. C. Grant opened the subjeet, “™ should imprisoument for Debt be abolished in this Island.” on which a lively de- bate ensued, and although the majority of speak ers were in favor of hoprisonment, etill the great- er nuwber at the meeting were decidedly op- Jury. Verdict, guilty. The Suinmerside Bank | posed to it. ics. Thomas Crabb, was then called on, avd vceu-| On Monday evening next, the 27th inst., the pied the remainder of Monday and the whole of | follewing subject will be debated:—IJs the ua- | Tuesday. This action was tried by a special Jury, | limited taxation proposed by the City Fathers i and breught by the Plaintiffs to recever trom the their Bill as laid beiore the House of Aasembly deiendant £113 odd, which they allege was lost | last session, necessary to the maintenanee of Ui i through dua and neglect as Post-| Corporation. As this is an important question it liuster Our readers will re.|is expected that the meeting will be well atten The usual ice will be charged carelessness at Sammerside. i August last of the lose of a ed by our ¢ Wizetis MWe wailed in Charlottetown to detray cxpeuses. member heart sul vl mouey — nite