SS ae eh re — ae liters * shadow of « grievance or quarre!. or Spain with its substantial justice, The effect powsbly dee to obscuration in the mid-, priseners voluntardy withdrew hremselves die of Ws course by matter thrown off [row from the protection of the Americcn Gowern- tt. Toe meteors seemed alsu tu lose volucity ment when they entered a forego country as they went, but this might have bow the | with criminal intewtives. Alc Seward hopes Pesultof perspective tu those passing through | that the English Government" willexawine the geqith. Ve the jadicial proceedings afurestrd with a care : One singuiar feature in these celestial ful regard te the raghts of the Lnted States, fireworks was the rapidity with whieh the mar and te the maintenance of goed telatiuns be- gave of trequenny came ooand went vagain. tween the two ceuntries 4 ict Ta possi Gic About 2 c’eoek the aeceors mace tu buve to anderstand how a friendly Government becouie as feqree ns ticy were at [2, though can hate & right oF Mterest in an outtage they continnea in euler naiubers at the committed in a nenghbourng province, verge of tg pte : rom yes me oo bag . 7" ; are ; eward quarter tuo until about a& Quarter-past The Times is less severe upon Sir. Seward, preset = da ced a calaahis but its views qaite counctde with these whieh | alive with stare rushing w many parts uf the we have more than once expressed : sky. in groups of two or three together, oF Ic isan ordinary pare ot Chre er nity of na- (0 ttumediate succession op each cs si —" tions mot to iateriere with the admomatration | mg as though taciag over the Dive wauls, it justice in duch other's dominions, Mercy | except that their courses su Tap diy diverged is thre excel asive precogutive of the Sovereign Lie cloudiess beauty of toe bight bear and it scant Courtesy tm gee crowned head, London was a happy circumstance, on whiel to appear to doubs whether his k yal neigh | We tay colprutalat® every ** ements hve weit tet per jasciee with comm patsston Ai skis,” Dot only us uliowing ¢ ve a oh little while age the Kiag of Perussra gave just! the astronomers tu be thus sipnaily ond splen- of nee ia this country by intereeding tor ‘didly veritied, bac stul more as having, we the life of @ man who had committed mar. Crust, enabled them to take such a stere vu! der with every circumstance of atrocity | Vics regurding the nature of the give and Tre application wus disreg uded, and the of the mutton ul meteors, and so many ores i etiurmmal suffered deatii-witu the unanimous) ultancuus observaceus ul them mn a thevent asa-ntof the publi. te is very diffivalt to) parte of our Wands, as may lead to sume ac: | imagete @ more aygyravated offetee than that curate knowedge of their laws aod their nae) committed by the Peniane who recently in. ture, and add one more chupter to the sub- vaded Canaday [Tt re a meenom cr to call | heme volume of astronomical physics, political, Were such an excuse allowed. ne - e iddie ayes. ieoehieh * geueri which they did nut precend te have 9 thee cedidiii reves uay Well be gauged by the Se cde: iat of the two well known geutlemen whe were nadian settlers, whose property they seized sat tae Uleavine and doubtless trom po-t- pit i tions with @ purer atmoxphere, and a wider’ Epixpurcu, Dee. 8 horizon, the spectacle must have been one ot | ; Wi aiesitiaiaas i surpassing spleadour. Ludeed. froma window | la spite at repeated denials whici have been at Highgate louking NON EK. bat with a! made ou all sides, the Seolsman to-day reiter- | cireumseribed view, an observer counted 1g) Mtes Cae statement tht tuere lad been some | m-tenee inthe four minutes between 13:32 trouble me the British Cabimet, and tmsists that | sud 1236, and no lew than 200 in the two! DP lsracti, Chaucetior of the Exchequer, | minates between 12 57 and 12 4) threatewed to resica bis post umness the Governe | As the constellation Leo rose over the!) meut aceeptod a reform bid, tiberal in its pro. | houses north of Paddington green and cleared | YO'¥)- Phe Scotsman, however, adds, that itself of hawt, the divergenes of the meteor: | Ld Derby pieided to the urgent demauds thus paths trom & pomt within it become vbvious, | waddle ford more itheral poligy vn the payt of | mut meeete’ tte the Wrevetsons af the ‘eteadio! bes wdaninistratio i, and by this action a minis- that shot from or through the z-nith, but in! terial evisis is averted. trode that left their ph splrorescent-seeming | Loxpox, Dee, § (noon). trails in the sky towards every 0 int of the} The Fenian troables in Lveiund are evideutiys coupase. Sometimes these rocket iike Litvers | assuiiing stil wore alarunas proportions ; us| of inght would glee out like sparks Gy ing | it is repe.ted hove to-day, in addition to the | from af theand-scentmass of inva ander tne j hows of w Titanic hanw-r, but with tue dis tinetive features. first. of those lingering lines of laminated haze mm ther track, and! laa a : ; ; Prats, Dee. 8. | » condly, of their rarely appearing asif they | : ; " P i originated in the regio of the sky trou The la France this morning asserts that whet their courses evidently diverged. ) Maximilian has tele sripjrliosd to some of the Sometimes the meteor «ae orange and! /Mysicieis atteudins the Euxnoress Carlotta, to alost ted om its gvlour, woereas thee lamin. | Meet him ar Gibrater, by the midd.e of Ne- ous trail seemed alasust aiwaye. probubly by comber. euntrast with the «.rrvunding by t, of a) biatth tae. in ope splend.d onwcance the) Another one of the Freach reyiments left: Seok, alter having nearly disappeared | this erty yesterday vu its return to France, i together with the rocket-head that bead pre Pants, Dec. 9. dueed it, became again lit up and visible’ The Patric of this mornin s announces that) enperdentiy with g sort of Feu seitation of the Conveution on the subject of the Papal | brightness in the body of tie meteor Now joi. che provisions of whielx have been for a! and then « litte lan ipated pull-batl would joy ¢ tithe ander dineussion— bas been fortialiv appear in the guddle of tue constellation | . Laan qpeevelly syed os ge Setaae “ane et Berne, Dee. 9 | the same tae Convergent frag ony imagw, Yo Pormero has heen choseu President of ary Pont thet seems shout a ger S hy Eo thie Deiss Comlederation, the wtar Leon: ond one, as pear ase ald be estimated ty such @ point, was sinply « star thee waned, and waned. apd dinappeared as one fwwked att. Sopetiows a jyjnate point ot leght, tke a firey, woetd dure with an! angoler jerking motuwn and aga coarse bother apd thither, but weil] av ii weesy from Lov’ ' Loxpox, Dee. 9: Qnty ahvet thre: meteors were seen during: The E syptian € oaneil has passed an address ' én haus end» Walt wo tuke « direeuon wans- | CMoegizins the officials of the Viceroy ot Egypt | featiy oppaned to Chat of thes diverging wut | for taeir éeal, Coura ce and ability in subduing! tudes. The weteurs which shop towards| tie Candian revolt. Despatches from Candia’ the western burmon seemed pore bpiflianc! State that the Orerans are submitting to the! and larger in their euurt-s than thus whieh pow of thee Turks, all means of further re-| Apapped inte the eastern ; indecd, very few, stance having bepn exhemsted. The report! eonped even ty reach the rusia of the hougeg) that the Cretans had blown up a Convent yar. row pehind whieh Lew bad atuwen Toi! tisvned by _Parkish peoops is couticmed, but was previtly only an etleet of Porepective, ot the lows vl life among tle furks was small, = { bE hy have arien Nrom the curtailment of | “toxwos, Dee. 10. | the qwew. long lines of light that! Many Delerates from the British North? biogered ip Pete gf tue meteors it seemed Aneriean Provinces, havin in view the finetl | that genepally they were more dense and settlement of the Contederation Scheme, have: bri hteas tysurde the middle of the vieible| arrived. They have formed | themselves into’ paceel the meteor, while the weteor itmelf a Confereuce, and selected Mr. MeDunald te’ aaoate Seo vie i extinetiva, em pteside over their deliberations, =. troops already despatched to that isiand, two cavalry recnueuts have been ordered ty leave | lmgediately for the secue of disturbance. i Rawr, Dee. 9. | signed. Or. Perenserae, Dee. 9. An Imperial whiise has been issued, declaring | all the relations af Russia with the Pope ot} Rome abrogated, and annuiling ail secu Haws | ot the Einpire which have sevetatuce been | nade in weccordance with said retation. rf . od ) Zounves. lsavys Surratt told him that Me. Lincoln's asaus-| little indubrence, pass muster; but when he . | day a letter from the late Confederate avent in| w hiefly fi . »—-there wi: erieeabie"* Vie ‘ we who were chiefly from the country—-there was It Montgomery and Conover and the other! risked their souls salvation for a; He stated that inasmuch.as no such govern: | ing, our fellow citizens taking, apparently, as The Awerican Government paid many thou- | | Lincein’s assasstuation ; it need nut appear tas ly, with the atrocious plot. Hthey tuvest a little money aud clemency to pro-| | CORRESPONDENCE. a shuuld be held by the Pemany throughout treating Davis as au assassin. Judge Holt, whe | other Seuthervers, can doubtless be secured | to manage any ew piece of infamy for the} is in the least) of-erual remedy ever offered to the public tor the | llowever, tull of courage in the: | face of the evemy, be did uot loss bis presence ot | witd, and ramwed the barrel of the gun vewn the | po - | jaws o) the ligress, but ibe beast with ove move-| ‘Y forced, There was no real hearty enthusiasm arrived ; one of them fired and the beast feil, but | Gme exeited their euvy and incurred their ill- ,well as the Attorney General's silk gown By Telegraph Per Atlantic Cable. hon the Isiand —thoush the question has, by jthe almost unanimous voice of the comuitry, | Hon, John Golf, acknowledging the indenenudence of the South-| isly Corney did not think that any one in the jauttter What its seneral policy may be? Will ideration on the basis of the Quebee Scheme, Paris, Dec. 10, | pretty kettie of fish they will make of it. The ‘bring us under bondage to them.’ It is again rumored that Mons. Fould, the} country will then suffer the inetfubic disgrace eminent Breoch Minister will soon resigps... . -j of having Cornelius Howat ia the Government, Serious difficuliy ts apprehendel fu Rome,! It the present Goverument deserve credit for |"? : , atter the Withdrawal of Preach troopa. It isi nothing else, they have a claim on our yrati- of a response in the way of a cheer froma said pr@parations ave miskiag by the authorities tu meet the worst. " Wild and | throwing a le>ze portion of the schoolmasters? ! JHE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE, ' He said he did not. hesitate to declare himself a Liberal, when he! sidewt’s Message and a nember of other pubhe extravagant assertions like this, unsupported satares upon the people. i by a particle of proof, evoked not the shadow United States papers durnish us with the Vre contrasted the poliey of the former Goveru-| documents connected with the eevereh depart ment with tha: of the present one. He thew | The seewbhing In faci, dull-| spoke at considerable leagth on the Contede- | of Congresson the 3rd inst , cabled together au inne rosed to! metas Concourse of people, and the attendance of The New York | Herald provounces the Presidemt’s Mesenge, ae tude for having resisted the temptation Of! crowd amongst whom the anti-coufederate feel- wents of Slate in the Republi making C. Howat an Exeeutive Councillor. Had they given him the right to be addressed Rye Seca as the Hom Cornelius Howat, M. BR. C., they (269s aud indifference seemed to have possesset ‘ration question, might have twisted him pound their fingers. {the audience from the time Mr. Goff com-!j),. Quebec scheme ; He would not only have vone in for Contede-| ration, but he would have proclaimed his will lusness to declare war against the United : ; * | States, or to gonunit any equally insane act dn jsaved at any time to encourage him in his | improvemenis would be made on. the Quebec bath ss ctvd lok vind saddaetaael o. . ! ' . . } uw. . “8 ; e order to shew his gratitude to those who had | mental throes, aud when his wreat deliverance | ucheme as tu. render it acveptuble tu the evsn-| , , ss of . oan sean fee gale ly ¢ sired | al * . ' : i | per perilen « t would be madness on their part to attempt re-| rar ed him to the long and ardently desir jwasat anend, not the faintest whisper of a itey. © However, the people had a right tO FOJECE 4 cusavat relating te beltion. Cardnat Cullen his issaed a pastoral, ; diemity, : { sad that the Hon. Donald Ramsay was peanienain’ ita urzing the Irish people — eshedicnee to the a: . . méay § iin ili hiaitiad tie edi : \ law, aud the avoidance @ & secret societies, the only Candidate who pled sed hunselt to ful effort. Speaking of the Liberals and Con- | Quebee Scheine, and he did not believe the Go- The reselmion of Congress protesting agaist Arrests still and more} Pursue the Howat policy. Phis geutlemon Was jservatives, he said he could have been a mem- lvernment of Great Britain would coerce them | pardons by toseign goverinents of persons cone an Wh . ' ‘ acotaites | . 4 A he ae of ws om ‘4 aie as ; a " _— * . ; dene aitiiiery wall teave tov dveland soon, als » Line only speak ( yng atten pled to liscuss her of the Assembly for twenty years, if hel), 4, otherwise. THe alluded then to the reso." bedel didasieme tence on comdilien ob emi- ¢ p 1) LO } Confederation. He is evidently not “the size” | ’ 1 r ARIS, Dec. e | sf ~ j gration toons comniry Was been eomanmdeuted te ae | tor this complicated subject. He hay picked | would only he a Liberal; but he was proud, lutions introduced last session, on this question, b toe States with Whiel we nadia Wieloourse, The new wins ve to the haa i Lites, Han | up somewhere or other a few isolated facts and | he said, **to belony to the Conservative party, and the practice, se} inthy the reg ot ron plaing retean, sanued tor Nassau on Saturday, { ; oe 5 - ~ . . } ; Sake " en en pactt, bas heb been rene weal, . . the tay end of two or three used-up arzuments, ‘ a vas i ee ih 5 : Hogar . *) }and the proudest time of his fife was that in fovea. ‘legate 4 Rome, Dec. 10. | which he delivers himself of in his pecubiar | ; i 1834, 1 itl po er a Lem peror Some of the Freneb troops are still nere, and) style of oratory, without order and without | Which, by his vetey in 1854, he turn r bi oe awh me tec enanan ud : a . . i. re ; . . ae. ve on CUrse ’ . : : . nnhienh, ive beew preset om ms will remain watsi tae end of December. He limseif evidentiy does not} Liberals out of office, They were a curse to) iike Confederation a Goverament YMestions | eltened ruler a veevised by bin ea ok Rome, Dee. 11. | see there bearias me the question, _ on ‘the country,” (such was the emphatic language and thus allow the Cabinet to be divided ujron | pressions of gruteiul appreciation. The man who’ gave information, which led} hearers om ae bat . the ei - | he used), ‘which they had brought te ruin, | it Nine-tenths of the people, he said, ave | ba Flay hae wl a og hy ake the preat majority Of those | . Higa Pattie flied | Spauieh-Aimerican adventurers te induce the emi- nutiied St. Matic. why was fUrmerly w Union | who cram theawelves tor the purpose of making land 80 deplorable was the state of affairs under | opposed tu Confederation, and yet a consider- | ciation ob trerdmen ofthe Baited Mates te a So.dier, aud atterwards served in the Papat | an exiubition of their knéwiedye, he made a {their rule that a man could not travel in safety juble section of the Government favour tifat | foreign country, protested against the prejeet ue | ‘ing inizht be supposed to prevail. Tovrox, Dee. 10. soft Bil \ It was supposed that the transports to being home the French troops from Mexico, woutd He was stvonzly op; but the whole question members was alee very large. Srest, but they are now vertins ready Phereds great actvity here. sul from in this harbor. meneed to speak until he closed. Not a cheer, was under the consideration of the Imperial ) he detail! k } : , ‘ } ; a \ favias Ho relates fe the details oft the wy kis ‘heralded his coming—not a cheer was vouel-| Government, and it might be found that such | rang of | Loxpox, Dec. 10. the State Departuecnis tor the pat year, * an ine ‘Lhe Times in an editorial this morning, the Fenians have been cheekmated, and that it saves | 7 Phe following is that cheer was heard to reward him for his wonder- |... jueasure of Confederation as well as the continue, to be made, by the Leader of the Government, aiid he commented in-strong terms on the sigular in cousistency of the Executive in declining to ; } connection, to the arrest of Surratt, is a Freneh Canadian, | would be at. Both he aud Surratt: were in Jove! terrible mess of his facts aud dates. If Mr. inenaure.. Mr... Heveheme . coududed «ith wo whieh, 1 consununated, would reduce then . . . . ine . . ay , * with the same lady i Washingten, and St. t Ramsay would content himself wah talking | te f 1 his vote turning the a jt Marie betrayed Sarratt throueh yealousy. Hel} about what he understands, he would, with a contemptible boast about Ais vote "@ along the hizhway. We will pass over the i bondage eve wore oppressive Chan that from vew other usimportant remarks, and ia retiring | which they had just been telieved. Asstranee It was evident that he | #8 beeu received trom the government of the } Slate in Whiche lose plan was maiured, that the ) preceeding will meet neither its ehconrager ent House at which he sat to effect the overthrow | dience, who gave unmistakable proof of their! wor approval Jt ie a question worthy of your }comideration Whether our laws upon thie Fubject are adequate to the preveotion or punishment of the crime thus meditated, THE MEXICAN DIFFICULTY, ied to believe, we understand, that he would) weary way for half an hour without one, and{| In the month of April last, as Congress is rT i aware, a foend!ly arrangement was made between a ‘ ‘ Koay { the Eiaperer ot Prance and the President of the Sir Alexander Bannerman | was really very dreary. W e listened attentive: | United States tor the Withdrawal trea Mexico of Liberals out of office, with this remark, that! was loudly cheered. sitation Was a preconcerted plot, that lie, Sur holds forth ou a subject that he dues net and ratt, carvied trom Jet Davis's Cabinet at) caunot understand he makes himself ridiculous. Richmond the princypal details of the plot to Pheve wil be w pretty sharp contest for the | ee eae elled a Toor! Tey : Washington, avd that the assassination was | strict which he has represeutedand, he stands lof the Liberals if he had never travelled a foot | regard for him over his opponent. Mr. Goff was elected in 1853 for! Phe Hon. K. Henderson spoke last. He . . ‘ Fi :. 7 a thorougaly Liberal constituency, who were | was received without a cheer—he pursued his there were votes enouzh on the side of the made a most favourable impression on his ao not only in accordance with Jeit. Davis’s Cabi-! but-a very simall chance of being returned. He | fron: home. net, but done by their directions aud orders. | is Opposed by a Couservative and a Liberal, > i . both pupulay men, Mr. Kelly has retired Romer, Dee. LI. |? " Gebd; Whe letetiitea’ il rT) . . »| trom we held. © tntends to carry on the Plus morning the Freueh troops evacuated | ‘ “agua “ies: : ‘ . Oi hae ‘ ha Gaile ‘ . the eatin salt Si hk eueeslay The ree cade tle | Weer “wvainst tories ane forvism for a short time support Liberal principles. He sut for just l he clused his harangue without a cheer. li was run down, aud the Pontitical colours hois- | a cso eat api he Lil 1 jone short Session, ted. The 29th vesiment left tor France, a Anne tndieel Was aaey FAME CO LANeTEY | a Lived the Muuse on a popular petition i |}y to the honorable gentleman. He glorified, |! Freveh expediienny aaitary terces, This will be triumphant in this county at least, it : ° ' withdrawal was te be «feeted am three deta ithey ave united. They have need. of all thei: ments, the first of which, it was understood, men, and it will he foily to play inte the hands /would leave Mexico in Nevember, now past, the of their enemies by taking auto their couusels Wi ae » seeond ju March neat, and the third and last im : . : i we ie “~ ren he finished, such of | \ / Saxon officers refiised to serve under Prus-| shifiy politicians of the Howat stamp. The | BigP yk Sat- Stee : H ; | Nuseanber, 1867. Tavmediately upon the eomnple- sia, aud have resin. Ps 4 jcoust:tucuts then, he would certainly gave pre-| the audience as remained to hear him retired | tien of the evacudtien, the French government tb He knew that was te usstine The wane atiiiude ef wau-isters | ¥eution, in regard te Mexico, as is held by the bgeverniment of tbe United Slates. Repeated ane jsurances have been given by the Ewperor, since that agrecwment, that be would complete the | protideed evacuation Wilkin tie period mentioned, or Sooner. : : ss MISSION OF MINISTER CAMPBELL AND GENLEAL) will, to all appearance, be closely coutested, | SHERMAN. be ' In the first district of Prince County Mr.| Yt was reasonably expected ‘that the proeeed-' prise that a gentleman who is supposed to be | ’ ? | Warburton will, we think, ran Mr. Yeo off the | ngs thus contemplated would produce a crime of 1) givat political interest iu the repubhe of Mexico. j The Pope will stay at Civeta Veechia ten the summer of 1854—two or three months | a, mizcht be expected, the Conservative party, davs. after this famous vote of Mr. Goff was re but we did not hear him make a * point” Darspex, Dec. 11. : corded ; and if he were not a betrayer of his! worthy of notice. juames of the candidates wiil, no dowlt, appear a ; in vur local papers, so there will be no use in | sented himself for re-election. > in solemn silence. And thus ended the pro- Loxpox, Dee. 11, evening. j d " : : jiny setting them down here, A quantity of arms, intended for the use et ” } the Fenians, and all the fittings of a gunshop, were seized to-day at. Cardut, while on their | way to Ireland. Phe steamer Lodicar has been | seized in the Medway, on suspicion of being at Pentan cruiser. .\ lance quaaitity of arms, and aumnunition, and JO tous of guupowder, were | tound on board the steamer, Consuls soy 3 0-203 71. | | ee jhe would be isnominiously defeated, and re- / ceedings on Nomination day. _—— —p- THE COUNCIL ELECTION CONTESTS. mained at home. As fur the Liberals briug- i ee eee Charlottetown, December 17, 1866. curse tu it,’ a wild and extravagant assertion | : u Dak tis ; i : Tur Council elections in the three Counties, ike that might be passed with contemptuous iaushter. Itis, indeed, a matter of great sur- | THE COUNCIL ELECTIONS. vefined by education and intellizence woulk ye Ce ae al ast. 1h he ? . bhai publicly make a statement which he is isons] OOO heat, be ell 'veqmive it, bie SUPPOTTETS | "Phe newly appomted minister of the United The evacuation of Rome, which has been ix} preteny at ii gi ae . 'to be ou the alert. Why Mr. Warburton pre- States, Mr. Campbell, was therelore aent forward progress for several lays gust, will be virtually QUEEN'S COUNTY. | pable of proving, and which is notoriously | f We we Cal cil sis wad taal Whoece | the Yth day wt November duct (é’ sbecnsiese the goer ih 7 ’ ol) Eien ee ; : ers a seat in the Couneil t i > Hows z é : completed to day, The nomination of Candidates to supply the | untrue. , proper Tunctions, as Minister Plenpotentiory of A, Nae We are) the Unrtted States te that republie dt wae alee | thought expedient that be sherld be attended in ithe vicinity of Mexico by the Lientenaut General of the army of the (an depiotes, with the view However, we must believe that he bas, ef ubtaining euch information ae aight be impor- re a aul aed nied ile Can, j tant to determine the course to be pursued be taken @ Wise ena prodeys courne im ~ MNS TOK the United States m re-establishing aed main Mr. Ransay’s chances | taining necessary and proper utercourse with the aig | ‘of election are not encouraging tu him. He is | repubhe of Mexico. Deeply iaterested im the, The gathering in front of | thousands of discontented tenants have been | . 4 4 ; cause of liberty aud humansdy, seemed an ob | opposed by a very energetic an popu ar mem- | vious duty on eur part loeXereme whatever jn- ne i : 5 | ber of his own party—Mr. James Campbell— | fluence we possessed for the restoration and same Bill is now in active operation by Mr. | eo ots h. well-tried ‘Liberal. —Mr. | b°reuret esfablishient me that country of a Then, the free Education |*"* °F ® Stuneh, welbtnied Diveral,—— Sat. | domestic uid republican furhy bf Gdverument, Then. the free’ fran-| James Muirhead—who commands a very large | THE WITHDRAWAL OF FRENCH TROOPS. , d ; ae imeasure of the public confidence. We can} gyeh was thecondifi : chise Act: it may be, in the estimationof a nar- | P |. Such was the condition of affairs in regard to ; ; ; : _scarcely doubt that the latter will be successful. | Mexico, when, on the 22d of Novenrber last, offi- row-minded Tury, ruinous to give too much} r cial tulertiation was received trou Parise that the uiberty to the people; but no Government would | ‘ : Emperor ot France had some tine betore decided (that Mr. Baiderston will beat Mr. Donald) not to withdraw a detachment of hie foseveinthe - He is the nominee of the Tenant) Mouth ef Nevember past, according te ment, but that this decision was made with the Pants, Dee. 11, noon, A part of the ruin” brought upon!) : Beruiy, Dee, 11. of Assembly, we cannot understand. King William of Prussia has coniecred tbe Earle ou the King and Crown Prince of Deumark. The military bug. | Messrs. Henderson and Goff—wok place at | prizes so highly, and dreads that some new sys- ret had been laid before the Chambers. © - two vacancies in the Levislative Couneii,!/the country by the Liberals was to give us : Cae : ‘il a : ‘ Ls + Mii dey “oh } a Sets quite satisfied that he could easily secure his Oded af the Biabk caused by the retirement, according to law, of | Responsible Government, which Mr. Goff now } : ’ ri, a Tote oe 4 ! reelection tor the third House of Assembly : va 4 shih i : district. the old Court House on (W eduesday last. At|tem may take its place under Confederation. ‘ bis? GANg arta five minutes tu one ocloek the Shei ap- | Another part of the “ ruin’? came to us in the FROM THE STATES. 4 ' New Your, Dec. 12... |! ; Tre Jribune’s Washington despateh says | his Curt was opeu, | that the United States Treasurer received to-| the hustings consisted of about 130 persons, | converted into independent frecholders, and the . i . , | ward for the Council. peared upon the hustings, aud announced that { shape of the Land Purchase Bill, under which | ; ' lurope enclosing 2 certificate of deposit of the | “a ; Groff’s own party. late Confederate goverument of 400 pounds. | Pie scarcely two dozen towns-people in the gather- Act—was that ruinous ? ment was in existence the money belonged to Mittle interest in the | the United States ; Phi Pre aurOr gave orders | ulection of a City Councillor. | to-day to have it sold aud the proceeds turned | The fi di : over to the treasury. ie first candidate proposed was Donald W. | Wasuixerox, Dee. 12. His proposer was } a 4) . | Palmer, of Crapaud, Esqr. It * understood in semi-oilicial circles that) Mr. Douald Scott, of North River; aud his the criminal, Surratt, wili be offered his pardon | jen condition.that he will testify as a faithful witness asaiust all the parties with whom he| Beth these geutlemen said a few words ) had communication, either directly or indirect-| in performing the task assigned them: but affair as they do in the In Queen's County, every one seems to think | ] dare to repeal the fianchise law, althouzh the Pa! | awimer, party in power have somewhat erippled itt 7a : Bl Mee el he Ren elie by the regulation respecting statute labour | sneer ee Pp enarereren: Rarer am wee 2 | pp wpfcae eis enning pi. “eg ger terere ; j that in which the League appeared to be most) ™ the eusuing spring OF this defermimation, however, the United States had net received any betice or intimation; and, eo seen as the infure very little faith in the influence of the League. | mation was received by the goverunient, care was taken to make known its disseut to the Ewperer of Franee 1 cannot forego the hope that France will reeon- : jaider the subject, aod adept seme reselution im ee ’ We hope ar. | whatever kind of a thing that is; but this he! vn - err A eign wr ot Mextew which will Goff will be rewarded for the slander by having | par pcentorn as nearly as practicable with the exist 4 Nef ©" made very clear to his heare:s, that he is, and) ing engagement, wud thes meet the just expeeta- ay ‘i e |} would be opposed to the Government, if 2 eet-| Hous ef the Catted States The papers relating the statement, that no one could travel in satety | ais ni . , | te the subjeet will be faid betere you. Tt is bee “fed. The general Opposition require very uttle | jieveg that, with the evacwation of Mexico by the To defeat the present Go- | expediuenary ferers, ne sulject for serious dif Hterenees between Frioce avd the United States would remain, “Phe expressions of the Emperor strenzthen the hands of the Liberal Party, and| and people of Pianes warrant a hope that the {traditionary freudship bel ween the twe countries might ia that casy be revewed aud perumnently may.—With respect to the ,contest between | resigned. | Mr. Golf and Mr. Haythorne, we think it will} A clann by a citizen of the United States for ' indemnity tor spoliations cotmmutted on the high Always Wey | seas by the Freneh aulboriies, in the exereise of much respected for his talents, his hizh social | a beihgereut power against Mexico, hasbeen met by the government of France with @ proposition i : : lo deter settlement volil a mutual convention fer Oe RE A aE with the people, he has made himself very | the adjastinent-of all claius of citizens and aube , . ; Fania a “jhe a ... | popular, within the last two years, by the trans-/jcet* ef both countries, arising aut of the recens wuvering of eertain parties on and around the. It is evident that Mr. Balderson is brought for- | Goff on Wednesday next the man who gives it, agi vitesse nll dat “8 the continent, shall be agreed upon be hustings. There is an evident attempt on the will be not only recreant to his prineiples, but ‘ug rag amamemenne tiene - vivaaten daated ~ — aS" the lwo countries Tie suggestion is not deemed part of some scheming gentlemen to yet Up aN! the Tenant Les or, ‘vind A jing terms, and by his numerous writings for the | bureasonable, but it Delonge to Congress te diseet Anti Confederate-panic. Their aim is to split| the euant aague. He made a tolerably good a ‘newspapers, in all of which he has echoed the the manner in which claims for midkewsnaty up parties, and to go in and win, “Divide | speech, of which we did not take exact notes at | of that candidate, all San wt : | foreigners, as well ax by citizens of the United PF ¢ g i : | popular sentiment against Confederation. He) stat tot ihe | i and conquer,” is their motto. Some of our the time. Mr. Robert Stewart, of Lot 48, next addressed | Ih; ., : : é la dj dic uae 4 dtepeieah ft eae very ambitious small politic: fans taal Medak , a has declared himselfa thorough Liberal, and adjudicated and deteruived. J have ne doubt ery nall politicians, who have been the audience. | that the subject of all such claims wilh en hitherto overshadowed by the able men of both | ema he ' your attention at a convenient and proper time, prties, fancy they see a gronnd opening ahend | . : | the electors are most decidedly libers ‘they | ussere (ONDITION of them to erush those who have Tor so longa! What sharply. twitted by some of the other! ceived with cheers—(the first heard on that } nett rude uae wen . he beaten cat ede OS a Soar, itl. fs eakers for thus declarin himself he |dall day.) He expressed sorrow for having} true to their principles they should return | AGAINST GREAT BRETALN. speakers titts deelarin: himself on the | ay. xpressed a Tt is a matier of regret that no coastderaple advance bas been made towards an adjust aent of the differences between the United States and Great Brtam, arising ent of the depredations secouder, William Euman, Esqr., of Crapaud, certificates. We might name several other measures besides these — the Oue-ninth Bill | amongst the number—as part of the policy Raa a nage | senee p ‘ | Mr. Ballerston does not profess to belong to of that Liberal administration which is foully H ‘ e under what they eall the “independent flag,” predominant. If he be defeated, we shall —_ ] ° ° . ithey said nothing notice — Mr. aliner’s speech did not impress his au- worthy of T=? remembrance, uothing worthy o | sails! , , ; either the Liberal or Tory party. slandered as having been ruinous to the eoun- \NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES FoR! ‘eve? with a very high opiniva of his ability | ty; but we will let them pass. PRINCE COUNTY. for speaking; yet it was. characterized by Mr. Eprror:—It is very likely that your | readers would like to-hear how we vot on here i jin Prince County, on Wednesday jast. I will | view. juot pretend to vive them a fuil, true modesty, goud temper, and apparend truthful- | every Liberal vote polled against him. | ness, as facts were seen from his own point oi He denounced Contide aud} dues uot, and declared hi particular account of all that was said and done | vative, as every one knows he is. He referred, |as a most foul and infamous slander on the jin St. Eleanor’s on that day. Such an account! | ‘ 2 : |} would’ be very tiresome for me to write, and jin terms of praise, to the action of the Govern- ation, as who | along the highway during the Liberal rule, we more thaw this. self to be a Conser- | cannot characterise it in any other terms than | vernment in the Council, will, of course, ’ , whole Colony. It is no use to discuss the (then let the Tudependents come en when they When a falsehood can be shown to be | | very tedious for them to read. The dneeches! ment iu the purchase of proprietary estates, point. eee rather he _— “lla a the hele or but he forget to tell his hearers that the very 1usMngs Orations. ndeed, the whole of the! ara } | i : Act under which the -hases were effected |ecration and coutempt. proceedings, with one exception, seemed to! Act und hich the pfirchases were effected | | iné to be rathertame. Whatever of animatiou | ¥43 Vivlently opposed by his own party. ae and hear a man ogeupying the hizh position that did oceasionally manifest itself was evident. | isuch, it is suffi¢ient to leave it to public ex-| We were amazed to | |be an easy one for the latter. which Mr. Goff does thus wantonly and deli-| , . ‘ js ' | Position, his affable intercourse at all times Mr. Juhn Balderson, of Lot 31, was then "we »rroposed by Mr. W. Beer, of De Sable. and se. | Derately insulting the whole community. exhibited bythe men on either side of pelitics. Prok : i id ism ‘ at b $ But still, it was amusing to watch the man.| COUded by Me. James Laird, of New Glasgow, | there be one ward in the interest, and as the exponent, of must be considered as endorsing the slanders He declared himself opposed to the wesent Government, but said he was ‘ He came forward to propose R. | 4 ge lA? ; ie : ! Cas pet at Py | he offers for a district in which the majority of tached to any party. Mr. Balderson was some. | P; Haythorne, Esq., whose nomination was re- FP ae ae » ened. hed iets t am i : the new Liberal candidate with a triuinphant | will, Of this cla ot ng red mabtabie c prnelins fence: but if he be elected, and should oppose ! supported the Government four years ago, for, | ginal . ; ot Howat, Es > M.P2P. Howat is evidently a} i | : : : ep ; Majority. soured and disappointed man. He finds that} the present Goverument, he ceases to be on the | he said, they had given the country four years | . - parties are constituted, he and his friends) tence. He has then clearly taken one of the jot misrule since, and made the very nate oni the two vacant seats will be sharply eon.) “Pe! eer national coomerce, and other tres- will never attain to the profits and honors they | two sides intu which the Leyisliture is divided. Government a reproach wherever British iusti- | * he vag m - passes comimilted duriag our civil war by British covet, aud which would become them about as | Ae ea ee suppose there can be three par. | tested there. Mr. Hamilton, of New 1} erth, subjects, int crolation uf intcrmational law and | } ithe Road Commisyioner, opposes the Hon, A. | {reety obligations “Tue delay, however, may be \. McD id believed to have resulted im ae small degree trom ie cionaid. the deasestic siuation of Great Britain. An en- T" | Sioncrs — who Hire change of eitastry evewrred in that country he | re yor] duriig the hast sessing of Parliament. The at- Drake spoke for | ple have been crushed under ledzer and rent | ; i tention of the wew gsinistry was calied te the ) are fluttered at the bare prospect of the Govern- | subject at an early dey, and there is some reason Ther } | ment being left in a minority in the upper|t expect that it wal now be considered im a be. hey have | ; coming and friewdly spirit, The importance of . j a! . : . ° anew P Learn Siig | Houne '] Mr. McDonald is worth a score of | 4), carly diepusition of the, question eanpot de Do Big Hamiltons of the stamp of the new Candidate, | exagyerated Whatever ungut be the withed of ae ee : : , ° | He has long experience in parliamentary life | the (wo governments, if bs muakiitest tht ygoud wall The intimation of his nation. | that time that had a tendency to promote the, dhe i ti : ids *) and triemdsbip between the two gosemunents eau ‘ie P . | and he Is most ingenious ar rsevering ; “sty j +] i ; ’ Phey sere bru tht fito office | Ss most inge a s nen PETSOVEING aS 4) not be established until @ ree Iprevity, in the H. did not positively | on the strensth of a relizious ery, when it w debater, Mr. Hamilton, if not Road Com. dase . we ter tegen Ee Tee I ¢ v missioner, would be nobody: but he evidently |" nee eee ar See See : { IF TRE PENtANS. After a few further remarks Mr. Stew | Pes Upon the patronage—(whether it is of 8} ” On the 6th June last, in Sielation of our mem jor, COrrapting nature or not, we Will not say)— | traliry laws, asilitary expedvion and culerprise Ps i i sas “ae | ugaivet the Beinsl Necth American enlones was : ade ‘ j y ‘ ; iwhich he dispenses from , e ne . nbnertes weR define the principles on which Coygervatiyes | Whose name will be found in the summary re-| : n ve his little ablice, te projected and athempted to he carried on within | bring him a large number of votes, His own! the territory awd jurisdiction of the United Siates. / . ° ees ae ‘ , | personal merits could never do any thing of the | 1! Gbedietee (6 tue ootigation imposed pon the We regret we have not space to give Mr. | P Ee Pp eee } > 8 tt _ | Exeertive by the eoustitution, tusee that the laws | Kil.—-With respect to the other district in| ure fathivlly executed, all cingeus were by proclamation agaist taking part ia or abding suet wp puacetiouts and ~~ oe gd aoe a bh titans god saval ofieers were direet te ta Piis gentleman has al ail necessary weasures for the ruboterment of wonderfully high opinion of his own intl? the laws, ‘Ehe eapedition tailed, vat 2 uaa. pot i * been without as paiatal consequences. Some of. cat jour citizens whe, it Was alk ged, were engaged ‘do for this Candidate and asaiust the other, |i the expalitiow. were eoptared ad bave been | brought io tial. as tor a captial effeneer, in the : Province of Cgnada. | Sadyment aid sentence That he is not ajot death hate beet proneuneed ogainet rule, | Liberal, must be clear to every ove, otherwise] while others hare Leen acquitted. Turning to King’s County, we rezret to learn tutions are known. It misht have been tole- would the graceful person of William Byers, of | Hes there. rated, he said, a hundred years ago, when des- ; wane in Chimuey Sweep, &e., &ke., A Mr. Samuel firake then presented himself i e| are js 5 arty fi 7 ede rst i . . . i: ? ; ouch there is now no party for Confede ratION! t6 the admiring audience, as proposer for the |is altogether unsuited to our times. Mr. been elfectually shelved—yet these ventlemen | about ten minutes, and sueceeded in saying no. jroll influence, while the Government seemed to most disinterested|y, no doubr, pretend to be | desperately alavined, and attempt to extort the | most absurd pledges from the Candidates for| legislative honours, At was most amusing to! see Cornelius strutting about, as vain and self.) Enylishman. important asa turkey cock in June, He had; a1, a new idea, and, he cackled over it as neisily | though not so musically as a hen ever a new | laid egg. He has not had a new idea in his! head since he formed that notable scheme tor | {How those Road Commis the “pickings,” and not the salary of their office— poti¢ and arbitrary measures prevailed, but it have grown rich upon thing worthy of notice. There was much glo-| be indifferent to their conditian. - i rification in bis discourse at the fact of his been eight years in office, and they eannot wing, as he said, a Conservative and an point to a measure they have passed ality was rendered supertluons by the peculiar | publie welfare. style of his eloquence. say that all Englishmen were Conservatives, | clear to every one they had no religion them. | althourh his boast would seem to imply that | selves. eru Confederacy. Cornelius should beware of he belidved they were; nor did he ventpre to jart gave place to Mr. fHiaythorne’s secon new ideas ; theyll be thedeath of him yet) politicaily [ mean, Your readers must know | ditered from Liberals, and in what regnect the | port. that Cornelius and some other wiseacres came furmer were superior to the latter 4 toyst. Eleanor’s, charged with a set of questions, | inl ove ; to be let off at each eaudidate who presented | himself for the sufflagzes of the peuple, With a somewhat osteutatious impartiality. It is im- possible to con vey to paper the sWay rer of the, tellow, as he came forward with his catechism, vr to give your readers an. iden of bis con sequential look aad pompous tones as he, pro-; cept the Government, who gave him a salary pounded his set of stunning questions. The and pickings thi gs. Mr. John Seott McLeod, (a salayjed Road | Haythorne’s speech, of which we took some- | Kine’s C ; 4 = a ie > uw s ‘ ‘J oo P| oe 8 - nyse ‘ enr « Commissioner) seconded Mr. Goff's nomina-| what ample notes. We have already extended | ings County, we are surprised to Jearn that He was severe upon the Tenant League—severg | the Hon. Mr. Dingweil is opposed by Mr. | : ’ | Michael and must conclude with a very brief notice of oe ‘Mr. Haythorne’s speech, tion, ina speech full cf frantic nonsense. this sketch beyond the limits assigned for it Campion. upon the Liberals—severe upon every one ex- Alter alluding to his } s i . ener, and is always buasting ef wh: . want of preparation, and to an understanding ; 2 img of what fi He declared himself a Conger- vative, and implored all his party to come fir alleged to have been entered into some years . ; : i He has now a fair oppo ity of testiny the azo with respect io the choice of candidates jy | se fair opportunity of testing tle trowd saw what he was driving at wien he | extent of his influence : , i v . asked fiest one candidate and then another-—_ ‘Ifyou are returned, will You associate with Cnion men? Wiil you support a Government that coutains a sinzle Confederationist, no ward and show their eolours, and support Mr, | the eastern and western sections of the district : Goff, who, he said, would be returned by a .—the latter, it appears, claims a rizht to choose ; Br nt a | he would mot oppose one of tre truest, oldest! Ou the general policy enunerated in the mens lew we da sday will the second candidate, while Mr. Bee: represents VE peda Barna Mb Se A Tel at bage, the Herald thus comments :— witness the fulliiment or the failure of this | the eastern end of the district, and the western |” i. sagt p Tr yO | tua district where seven-eighths of the electoygs | majority of jundreds, Mr Jolovén devotes two tedious newspaper ’ ; columus loa @etenee ol lisdest year’s measures Mr. Dingwell is a man) and general weas os Senthern restoration, in- Cinding some beawtituleatracts trow Washington's lel Farewell Address aud trom Jeflerson and Jack- wu Character. | gon, jus 7 wy : hits and json, Jn sappertot bis theory of State myhts as He is well known to the country, which he has! the powers of Congress, and then he drepa the _jsubject. Et is an argument ty the court attet the : pap MANY! jury Lad rendered thay verdict, Jt may be come years, with unswerving fidelity and integrity, | pared to a bistory of France, ountting the a | ; : pe Bee je senninve Lecco, Hon winehoverthrew the Bourbont—as a tris the country, and would be sustaincd by the peo-| if possible, which parts was the stronger one | aud, for a long time, at great peeuniary loss te} Rg a oh bash i palin ther ‘ i himself.) Mr. Campiou’s Oppusition to: him | claims te the throu, iscems to be vexatious and factioux; ‘andj 11 is amdewd remarkable that after deliberately : , aithokiwh’ t at hut Bc. Dike ; j tctotatd ting his Southern policy against the plan of the intellizgenea, the honesty, and the integrity | ponsible Government, Free Lduecation, and a! athough i may put oir. ingweil to some | Coligress to the people im die late eleenous the | ‘ oubte and expense, the result of the contest) President should vot bave a word to say of the All will, we hope, teach Mr. Campion a lesson that or of (be peuple, ws wade watitest in these elec may be useful to him hereafter. There is no.| ~ sell of (ean had been awept away by the late | thing so good for the moral health of conceited | Southern deluge wi five hud bieod, ge st the wat | had changed nothing and as if the recent eleethene © had decided wetting Ina word, Mr. Johnsen jtorgete that we agave passed through the fiery : : : ania jerueabeta mighty revolution, and that the pre- said lie, “ on that question should in-{deing soz but it is very clear that if their | held on Saturday last, before John McNeil! penne order of (hings is gene and can return He dace us to part with our valuable constitu. ‘opposition to the Land Bill had been effectual | Esq., ane of the Coroners tor Quecn’s County, , were as ap wok - me ye is oS j ; ¢ 5 . » » i 7 Vet i F ., ecupe Ht. king , He forgot to tell ps that he was an the purchases referred to could not have ° ad of ¥ body ith Me rere McQuillan, > Spel a hihee aa rane i Na atgue favor of Union, he, no mutter what his nhilities / opponent, as long as he could hp, af the very i been made. He referred to the Land Com- } woo Patient di bee és ele Matte toed wentot the bLxecutive ow ine exploded ard is i : . ; Ce ae i ae oe at a “ia | seed * BOE Raving ‘tun se hades i hehe “a rie ae ao agian may have been, | constitution which he now affeets ij) admire, }mission and the 15 Years Purchase Bill, away, in which she was proceeding to her home janly 0 at 72, sisi owt the we wt 1 in, a . : ” . . . P j wy: . i? ie wiurhihg © . * of the Govivanives py Reve rare Sa themored “When the Canadians,” said he, “refused the | which had sigually failed to effect any im- oa Friday last. Verdict “aceideutial death. "| new ot Congtess. Where it Belongs, we may dis- ' , > m6 . P ia : ; : mie “ ‘ s paltry office “wider it. Then Corner and his! paltry sum of $800,000 for the settlement of ‘provement in the condition of the country. | rhe Jury added — we’ eawinlion the oa Uiiss = branch of the Message without further apy ot Age we hy ' Ines lg , - ss : : n the crossing of Pownal an rafton street, | remark. 5 oe ’ friends will have the whole @f thé loaves and our land question, what could be expected | He passed in review the Education Act, which. into which the wheel of the tuck was driven, js) Passing over hit emmmuary et the departavental suas onward amoug ‘themsewves— and a from them? They were eager to tax us and the Conservatives had greatly impaired by dangerous to travellers. j reports and the recoutmendations iv eyMMecloR, you support a Government that appoiluts to office a single advocate for Union?’ It would not, do for the candidate to say that he would not) support a Goyernment that advocated Conte, prophecy. jend have brought Mr. Goff forward as their! : al aii : - 7 . jae : ; zealous Liberals. Hon. Me. Gore then presented himself, His | candidate, in conformity with the understand. |“? ““° Labor , mia Bis ey : 1 ; : of very superior judsment,. of respectable speech, of which we will not pretend to give aj ing:——Mr. Haythorne said be knew nothing ot ; “he F 2 4 ; ’ peas eCOR F : a a | debating powers, aud of hizh soci verbatiny report, was mere rent. He said he that arrangemtnt when he made up bis mind to nc ie ea i abl de “ is: aoe _ nut acing aig On wis a Conservative (ve all kuew that)—and offer—he was no party to it, aud could not ex. ; smfegeration, on any terms whatever. with. 1 ” jserved i bgielutie le io — edie Yh Redite a y siti The pect to he bound by it. H+ was determined to | served in the Legislative Council, for None’ of the answers’ satisfied the astute | Couservative element, he said, was strong in ‘test the feelings of the electors, and to learn, | Cornelius, The Candidates must pled se them. | | selves not ouly arainst principles, hut against persons. Most of the Candidates refused point blank to make any such rid?culons nled ces £ onily one, the Hon D, Ramsay — of whou more fhereufter ~— took ¢hem unhesitatingly and it} of the whole country. The Liberals were ap- Land Purchase Bili—the next most jiportant | “d reservediy. Poor Mr. Ranisay was ready to! ,. sale dirt in hile cea’ | wag ; ‘ble G thay promise austhinne and everything if the pepple’ parent.y dirt in his eyes; Lut we suspect he | measure after Responsible Goverument. would’ only réturn him asain, Cornelius dnd! WOuld be glad to get a few Liberal votes on | these measures were opposed by the Conser- the faction to which he belongs wishes 1p es-| Wednesday afternoon next, which he will be| tablish a new kind of luquisition on this Isignd. | ' ‘always a supporter of Couservatives, ° + r. ', . » ° ple at the hustinzs, heeause the ¢ onservatives, jin the district. He declared himse!f to be one he declared with an gir of triumph, possessed jof that party who had given the countey Res- - vatives. Mr, Goff claimed credit to his party | , ; They: inteiid, “if ther can, by anv means. wee notto get. He denounced Confederation | fr having purchased 300,000 acres of land. | people a brakes 484, $A "YF. accomplish their ciids — to” enquire strietly |) amy Shape, on any terms. “No offer of | He (Me. Haythorne) did not blame them for; Metaxcwoty Accipent.—An Tnquest was iito every politician's sentiments, with re rard | terms,” to a Vaion of the Colonies.’ If there! if the slightest evidence that he, at the time, | holds, orany previous period held, opinions in| tpn. Fe ; ' = = He tolks of © the ancient landmarks,” ge { es ae oe i 6 ie i ee