or = Wea To a aactioretion of the peonle, and the advance- JAMES WHALEN. ment ard pr sperity of the whole Island. Phe Bill was then read a third time and passe i. jtouse adjourned The following is a detailed account of) It is from the columns of | | the Montreal Telegraph, and is the most cum. | Tovrsnay. April 23. prehensive we have met :— i , Whaien’s history. The greatest porrion of the day was ocan- pied m Comerences wih te Lezeatwe Coane, relative: to the »menrdmen's made by} wears a./0. that beds to the aufortonate D beore’ Act.) of bin, wid isabout 28 years of age. Tre House in Committee rageived tae report) ther or not he g ‘ ot a Committes on Contingent Exnenses the say. Itis very evident de) eon on which took place with closed | nay be stvied an ignorant man, and does not doors | want at ali for In due time he was} Fripey, Apri! 24. | apy renticed to a tailor in Dubiiu, and seems to! Ow Friday, at half paet three o'clock, Hie! have served out his time faithfully and well Excellency the Lieutenant Governor came) When he became his own master he showed | diwn to the Coune! Chamber, and afer | a disposition to wander about a good deal : | giving bie assent to 25 bills prorogued the) went over te Enziand, and when there never Whelan has not been long in this country, | ving arrived in Quebee ouly some three! Whe much education we cannet what | | that he is not st ewdness. Lezielature. jremained very jong in one place. Now he A. MeNetrt, Revorter. | was in Londou, now in Manchester, and some - short time after at other places. Altozether he ah t » apoker ot a8 or he yas re tle THE RBRILLIAN r EXPLOITS OF GEN A e .| others as the cause of his troubles, rather than . . oe na a | wt NAPIER AND THE BRITISH TROOPS ty ascribe them either to his own fully or his IN ABYSSINIA. own lucompetencs be better if ta a position different trom what he actually occupied, and always ready tu blame ment in his own line of business wih Valliere and afterwards with McKeuzie, and seems to have continued about that city for some tine. It was during his residence in Quebec that he jvined a volunteer troop of cavairy, and for a while behaved so weil as to attain the rank of corporal. This was in 1366. Bye-and-bye, however, he seems not to have been able t One of the marvela of modern times is the rapidity with which the d-tai's of rreat events are made known all over the civilized world. Seidom have we had a better example of thi« than in the ease of the war in Abyssinia. The N.Y. Merald of the 27 has two columns of Cable tele rrams containing all the news known | restrain himself, either while sober or when in i . The | esecups, from saving very strong things against | the British Government; and coming out very jdecidedly with Feniau notions and Femas icurses. For this he Was put under arrest, and | it was only from the clemeucy of the authorities that he was not dealt with in a severe and }summary manner. He was, however, set free posed :— jand speedily left the city. The next On» the Mth instant. news was received at! place where he turned up was Hamilton, and head jnartess from army anies, to the effect that of a tull-tledzed Fenian on the subject, in London on the 26th. following are the princinal particulars, not already mentioned, and they are of great in- terest. The vietors is far more brilliant, be- cause involving greater efforts than was sup- very }nowin the character Theodorus inte: ded movins immediately on the! feom Butalo, who eould and would do terrible . . . | . 1 } > be British, Gen. Napier instantly crossed the | things; to whom the whole British Empire was Judts River to the nlain of T inta, which he conmenced to traverse, many animals were leet in crossing a terrible ravine. It is eirht miles wide having a descent ef three thousand five fundred feet, and an ascent extending four| thousand five handred fret on the other side. | ' ! a pour, miserable, worn-out thing, easily knock ed to pleers ike a child's eastle of cards. was, as misht be eapected, ayain arrested, burt for some reason or another, possibly from his very insizuificance,silowed ouce more to get off. The Q en's army havir marched over the «K wide, onward reeonr accomplished both.| ing snip misht very naturally not be regarded as it very. formidable British authority, and prosecution, it misht he r a road,”’ thirty feet then halted and at Mardala in person. pany way a enemy itred the positi thousht, would simpiy entail expense, and sive II> sav the King’s camo, with intrenched de im a little noturety, ; fences * hic! anneared more sna! le On the the ngwis Fenianism to an end, Sth of Anril Mr. Rassam, forwarfed a letter to Gen. Napier, dated Mardala, Gth, in which he said:—** Beware, | Wialen bold. Like poor Train, | the King is At this date King!sibly have zot into the idea that Theodorus had 28 guns mounted inside the! Gover without having auy in- jenee in bri one of the eaptives,| Eseaping in this way, once and again, from the hands of the authorities, seew to have made l he may pos- the British ment, or at leist the Canadia moving. He was bornin the neighbour hood | evionia! Coal Mining Co., of Cape Breton, on } He A notvery sober talking, swaggering, bluster: ; to] in Govern: ! ~~ COLONIAL, PAA EOL LOL LD LOLA AANA A NANA NAA the correspondence of 4 Montreal paper :— We clip the following from Sevecal influential geutiemen from Nova Scot ave about to have an interview with the | Minister of Finaice with the object of present iny aed supporting & petition teom the Luter the subject of a ralway. Dt appears the Com pany owns some extensive and valuable beds on the Island, twelve to fourteen miles from Sydnev, to which fine harbor they desire to ruild a railway for the purpose of openmy up the interior resources of Cape Breton; thei: own, of course, included. They represent that the harbor newr their mines at which vessels now load, is too exposed and unsafe for ship- ping; and that in the present depressed state of the wmoney market, it will be impossible tor them to raise the money required, unless ata | iof $400,000 at 6 per cent; a sum which wil j put them in a position to buiid the road, stock hat with three joeomotives and 150 cars; as also to erect piers and slides, and such other accom inodation as will enable them to ioad six large | vessels ata time. The requestis not unreason f the present conciliatory policy, and cousider that the raiwag will be used by the othe: Mining Companies oa the island: that it wil! enable them to lay down coal at $1.50 to $1.75 |per ton; and that the Company's request is fhacked by all the clerzyinen and leading mes of Cape Breton; and not less than 1,300 tax- | pavers, who state,in a supplementary petition, | | } When he got to Quehec, he found employ | able when you come to retiect on the tendency | } ' | that owing to the present lack of employment, | they are frequent!: ina great state of destitu- ftion, and will likely continue so, unless the |Dominion Goverumest vives this suarantee, jand incidentally furnishes them with perma lnent employment. Should the Dominion Gov lernment grant their request, the Company wil lyive ita first lien on the whole of its property | as security for gwarantee. | THe Lave Me. McGer.—We extract the | folliowtag trom a letter addressed by the late IMs. MeGee to MJ. HL Dales, the Emigrae jtion Avent at this city, principally in answer | to enquiries as to the formula to be observed the inteaded presentation of a porteait to the deceased statesman on. his | fia connection with funera! The letter melanchoiy possesses a iiterest as bein amony the last he ever wrote: } My Dean Dar gy,—The Mayor would be th \ ery Dest I think sul weriber peisou to make the preseutation, hui a preliminary meeting of the ‘ss augsht to he held, more otf them, and taey oushtt iuvite Aim to ee FB Babies, Anril 13th, is) my hirth-day, the presentation mizht be left. til then. * * © [Tam vlad our friends are s You prineipa sav twelve « ‘tas their Spoxesman, T shall be sure to be devn, leased with the Patrick’s Day speeches. works, and mostly in frontef his camn, bearing} ment waa afraid ot him, and had not the! mayt a!-e teleyraphic rumours about mv aecept en the Enclish advanee. Gen. Nanier for-| couraze to take that 2ourse azainst his freedom | tng office with some grains of salt: when [ 20 warded « letter to the kK wr, officially dem wd | or his lite, which they were onty too anxious} down at Easter it there is anything to be told ing te release of the cantives. The Evglish to pursue. The deusions under which very army was concentrated on the Besnelo River, sai men sometimeslabouraieo thest aizest, the troons were furnishe 1] with sealins-ladders, and it is tornedses and other engines of assault, and) stances as possible trat this tailor and Fenian were held in reatiness for an attack on the | shou!d persuade himself that tear, abject fear, fortress of Mazdala. was at the bottom of all this clemency. From Hameton just as likey a thing inthe circume : | he seems to have zone to I shall then and there subnut to my friends first . . 7 + + “* Yours always, J. H. Darey, Esq. — Montreal News. George Etienne Cartier. Minister of Militia, THE ATTACK. Montreal and worked there for some time with and leader aud representative man of the A despatch fro:n the /eral{'s correspondent, | Gibbs and others. His Fenian proclivities |Prene® or Lower Canadian element in the . ° . * : | ' 7 " ' sali ' hy. sles —_ ae in : ‘ dated before the fortress on Good Friday, re | pecame more and more de ‘ided, and his de- Dominion, bas heen cievated to the aisnity ot Pp grted that th Br tish army had arrived there and and Ihngiish rule still in f ont of the Kin ¢’s stron shold, expected, aud nunciation of Eng The troons more violent As wis tO he uS were six miles distant from the fortress. The! ig the case with only too many, he was never more appropriate, More wortay, or in Kin:’s cam» was situated on a great hei cht, in} more eloquent apon the wrongs of Ireland than | °¥*'S 8euse more just and politic. Ts is an ac fall view. The third despaten of the 13th of | whee he was more or less intoxicated ee ee ee SS Te a ae A vil said a truce which had been ag eed on} When Whalen was in Mo treal, he joined BOTT o! the recijnent, buta recoznition of the between (reveral Napier and Theodorus termine the St. Patrick’s Society, and became a rather | 4/8 Gue 7 a name which is both wationa ated early that morvi Immediately after) active ; He|* id historieal, the proudest name in fact which | ‘. , Oustling member of that fraternity. the termination the Kinz not having sarrend 4/30 married one, who, froin all accounts, seems ed the tives, General Navier placed him al d second b irades va to bea respectable person, and continued selfat the head Moutreal bis home till the morth of Ht the hist make of his army and moved ap the hill towards the! Qetober or November last, when he removed aii :2 eo ,: aa : fortress as far as Shi'lasst. This portion of th to Ottawa and obtained work with E.cleson, in efrone ’ whose employment, according to Eazleson's evidence, he has heen ever He must surrendered to Genera Napier by the chief in mamand after a brisk attack in which the African troops were defeat-| have joined the Ortawa St. Patricks Society ed. The rthe Euglish advance. | almost immediately for we tind that he was one and it, first fruits,retreated into the centre of the! of the Marstials at the procession on the 17th Mardala works on tl of March fast, avd as such fizures on horseback works Wis srce worns observi iteau, having first rianted five gure at the hase. When Gen |in photozraph taken at the time of the pro- Naver came in sizht with hs izades the Mivent personares in that dispiay. Ki v's @tillery Opened on the advance with} Mrs. Whalen has not removed to Ottawa, these sana inthe presence of Theodorus. The! but aceording to Earleson she meant to do so sritizh vevlied immediately with 12 pounder} very soon, aud had heen up to the city making Armstrong suns and 7 inch ‘ . Mountain mortar} rocket runs, throwing rockets tote the place. | Theo King’s works were carried after a vigor ous resistance. Theodorus lost durins the en-| yagement sixty men killed and two hundred | wounded, he Evzlish had fifteen rank andj peard him refer to McGee, it seems uuquestion- le wounded. After the works were complete able that winle he always used very strong v taken Theodorus was tound dead by the | language against English domination in Ireland, " E.vslish soldiers in the ceutve of bis stron. | whom he rezarded as its great upholder iu this hod. LATER. | Province. It is said that on one oceasion, at Two despatches from Gen. Napier to Sir S.} any rate, his lansuaye was so strony and dis- N etheote have been received. The tirst says! loyal that he was turned out of his boarding tere had been an ensa cement on Good F ides, | vouse, and that on another, after speaking very Lush Agel, when Koug Phesdorus was defeat-| harshiy of the deceased statesman, he pulled ed with hesvy uss. QO. the English side Capt. | out his pistol, shook it, and clenched his asser- Roberts, of the 4ta Tufantry, and 16 men,| tons with a ts by G—,” leaving the threat were wounded, None of the British were kill-|to be inferred. Rumor, of course, with its ed Daring the next two days Theodorus sur. | hundred tongues will be busy enou sh in cireula- rendered ali the European captives, but had/ ting, and magnising and distorting everything He | he may have said, and very possibly may be was alioved 24 hours fiom the 12th of Apritin| giving him eredit for some thinss ke never the morning either thournt or uttered; but enough is un questionable to show that ins antecedents wot made itunhkely that he would such a desrerate ente prise. arian fements. 5 ay vod character, SiV3 he was well liked hy his shop-mates, and could earn from $12 to S14 a week, Aithougit neither Eazleson nor his brother, according to their own account, ever Whalen’s employer gives him ‘ ' he was peculiariy bitter against that sentleman sot surrend=red himself aus beates in war. tu decide us tu lis course. | is dated the L4th. Tt} v ; Pae second despatel Was then sreatiy dis- | amy wartleued is Ceise puence of ts severe luss, a. d t hare eugage in He is upon the | whole, not illooking, as may be seen from the | avcompanying portrait, is vain, reckless, daring SAVS sue lug g§ tliat the Cmets hed su: endered the most for- midable position on the approach to Mazdala “ oilied. Gialouen wid many. thuanend native! 4 excitable; not very well able to manaze aed tad down theic arma. Theodurus his owu weekly income to any £ood account 5 retived to Mardata with the troops which bad but entirely persuaded that if he were put in Se taithtul An assault was ordered o1 | charge of Ireland for a week ov two he would tae b3ih, under cover of the Armstiong stee! a right the wionzs of panne oe he guns rucket battery. ‘The ascent to the gates hac = jy torte cane with Mr. McGee is vf Macdala was of the most formidable deg- | 0b 88td. Indeed it dues not apvear that they ever came in contact with each other at all. eription. The Keig was kilied inside, defend ing bimself and ois position to the last. The| But that he bitterly hated the murdered man as a traitor to what he was pleased to think the tus ofthe British was small, and the army Gini tlh a oo in eines ote eh. * | best interests of Leeland and Irishmen seems unquestionable. LATEST. We have already referred to the chain of Later advices, duied Zoula, the 18th, estate | evidence which connects him with the nwurder that 14,900 native troops had surrendered to | tor which he will in due time tried. His Ger, Napwr, Theod» us had 300 killed and| trial, of course, will be a fair one, and every 1500 wounded. The European captives, num | opportunity will be alforded tor clearing Lim. beriag $4, iuciudieg men, women aad children | Self from the odicus charge. While, as we Were alvewly au taeir way to Zoula for hume. | have suid, we do not wish to prejud se the case, pee ee we must say that matters at present look very 4 —— | | } Artal 1 eG he } badly for the prisoner, and hig whoie course of ‘ one life since he caine to this country seems rather 2 Pie ope veh of Munazer Buut {to confirm than to weaken the likelihoed of his Wer, Which was read f r the Must part, from guilt. Noone, however, convinced of Whaleu’s printed Bis, & d whieh occupies sixteen | Zuiit, helieves him to be alone responsible fur € petien is of the Boston Journal, was an extra-! the deed of blood which has made his nuime so ordinary eifFort. It dea't with the evidence and | promineut the world over. The authoritics it with the law—alao with early constitutional | i, said, have evidence which goes to show that h story i “& very masterly manner. It cuu- | he is but one of a larze number handed tove- cieded a follows: I ther for this purpose, and that it havpens that Senators, as far as Tam concerned, the ease | he now stands in the positiou he now oc uples is now in your hands, and it is syon to be! sunpiy because it was so determived by lot. hh ciused by MY assuciaic. presentatives hrve presevted ths c.iminal at PAM are mora ly guilty of the murder, and the your bar with equal coutidence in hig guilt an J! owe who kills is simply the iustrument detailed iu your dispositivu to administer exact justice | acco ding to a prea anged plan for the work. between him and the people of the United | Such then are mere prominent facts in the States. | histury of dames Whalen. The following few) His conviction is the tiumph of law, of or-j weeks will supply more for bis history than al! der, of justice. I do not contemplate his ac | the past year. The Impeachment ot President draws Hear 4 Civse. It remains to be seen whether} The House of Re-j such conspiracies this is generally the plan.| ; > ' ub Baro et of the t mat distinction has been couferred, which could be eould be borne by a Some three hund ed vears ago Jacques Cartier discovered the St Canada, Canadian. Lawrence and the eountry kuown as has alter ihis wide interval of time, made to himself a distin ruished position m that colony b rreal vizgouro his twents. Every Freael: Canadian Is justly proud of lim, partly On his Own ac count, but largely ou account of the honoured Of what other discoverer, a: this side the Atlantic, can it be said that ever the name survives ? ‘ bua has been lon: name he bewrs. The posicrity ot Colum extinet, nat any descendant could be traced ot Sebastian Cabot, of Cortez, of Henry Hudson, or indeed of a: y ot the dariu.s explore adveniurers of tue nor have we eve heard, Ss anc ifteenth and sixteenth cen turies, wit the single exception of Jacques Cartier who discovered Camwada. How tittine then an every Way the honor, how appropriate | the time and the sceasion! The first Baronet created, belongins to the Dominion of Canada, is George Exieune Cartier, descendant of the first European who set eves upon the land, and whose pinnace first broke the waters of th m ghty St. Lawrence. Long may ke wear the title su hunurabiy earned ! and we trust he may be spared to add additional iustre tu the houvur ed same he bears.— Hz. Express. Me:axcnoty Occurrencs.—A sad, and in| his case We must say mysterious eccurrence, tuck piace in town on Monday last. A man tamed Allan McDonald, trom the Gulf, came to town on Sabbath. Ta the evening he went tu West Acadin Mines, and on Monday morn- ing returned to New Glasgow. At about ts o'clock he went out in company with M Thomas Smith to Smith's house. When in the nenzgnhborhocd of Mr. Roche's house he sudden ly exclaimed “Tam deunk,’’ and on reaenin Sinith’s house he fell to the ground. Mr Sunth endeavored to get him into the bouse but the ma: violently resistins, he desisted, wliowing bm to lie on the ground supposing that he woud become sober in a sho:t time — Two young men laid bin on a piatform, placed a buidie under his head and left him. M: Smith passed him several times, and seeing th: Wan apparentiy asleep, be concluded not t disturb him. About 11 c’ clock it was diseuve: ed that the man was dead. He was immediate ly carried mto Smith's house, and iwedicai at called, and after a long and careful examin ation it was found that life was extiner. Ed ‘ward Rach, E3j., Corover. suminoned a ju ¥, and Dis. Mitche) acd Murray were calied i to make a post mortem examination. The jus ealied in ou Monday night failed tu arree on ; verdci, and a new jury was summoned o Luesday mormug. The post mortem examu.- ation proved that there were nu signs of th: manu having suifered violence. It was proves that he had diunk no liquor at Acadia Mines, but that be had drunk two glasses of gin at MecKraracher’s, one at eisht, and the other at Th medical men stated that there was no food in his stomach, that it contained nearly a pint of Lqud, which emitted strony fumes of alcohol, It was fousd that his brain was completely con gested, and also emitted a strong smell o! aleohol. The man’s heart, liver, and lunes were in a very healthy condition, and it was evident that the mana death was caused by in tuxicatiniz lquors. The Jury, theretore, ave ina verdict, that in their opinion, “the de- ceased came to his death from couvestion ot the brain, superinduced by the use of intox:- Tiis agreed with the opinion at about ten o'clock, Mouday forenoon, callus i guors. eXpresse d by Dis Murray and Mitchell, whi | conducted the post mortem examination.—.Vew Glasgow Chronicle. Uuawa | jyreat loss, aud they therefore ask the Dominion | Government to gua antee the interest of aloan | bith-day—Easter Monday—the day of his} he foree of his character, and the ; quittal—it ig impossible. Therefore I do not jook beyoud. But, Senators, the people of A:qeriesa will never permit an usurping Exe- cutive to break dows the securities for liberty | provided by the Constitution. The cause of the country is in your bends. Your verdict of est of midnizht murderers, or as one who with! he will live in the history of Canadian ciiminal | trials a great offeader, who pursuaded himselt ihat he was playing the pact of a hero, when he simply proved that he was one of the mean- much cireumstantial evidence azainst him, was guiity is peace to our beloved land, on the eve of securing a permanent thouzh far) Judge Nelson was next heard on behalf of from honorable, niche in Canadian history, | } { the President. His arcument eceupied neariy j from which, through his own innocence, he iwodara, aid wae mainly of a hard legal kind, | after ali made good his escape. Fo-r or iive more Counsel are to he peard.| Tue prejudee excited arainst Chief Justice} Activity Amoxno THE Fenians. — The (we, seems to he susiding. The Bosto: | Washinton corre spondent of a Boston paper | A lvertiser aad its correspondents at Washiog- | writes that great activily prevalis amony the toy state that nothing move dignified nor more} Fenians, and that there 1s reason to tear a for hike what justice ourht to he has ever been | midable attack woon British America durin, wituessed in a# Coustof Justice than the culings| the coming summer, He says O'Neil, the | —_——_——_—_-—2 o ap -+ oe -—— ———_ 4:1 Dea ings of the Chief Justive. It is alleg-| present Fenian President, is a brave and dar-| { that Gen. Butler—who ie not mach tin favo: ing man, and theagh he has little adiminist:a hore or in New Ocleans—has distin suished him. | tive power, would not hesitate ty stoke a blow! & fuece than any ofthe other eounsgel. Ih dows} if there were the shohtest chance of success u tangeae what the result will he. That the! [t seems probable thar the attack will be made | P-vsident acted ao offe sively ag to chiflenge|on more than one point. At Buffalo, for in-| hooeachuent trece is no duubt. also that he! stanee, there isa larze quantity of Fenian arma. | bofriazed the letter of a law which he held waal which were sered by the Washinzton Govern j Ht constitutional or binding. That he ie) ame ¢ in 1465, but were restored to the Fenians iish'e to impeachwent fy the sense of the con-|a few mouths ago. Ia California there is} sutatioa #@ more than dwht. E.anthe result) creat activity among the Fenicus, and much) of the trial will wat settie this point, History| apnrehension prevailed at Victoria, the capital may yet do so. —3i. of Vuucusver's Leland, | : tthe 25th ult. 'Lodse of Ensland at A man named James T. Shand, an employee lin the Saw Millof George McLeod, Esq., on ithe Kouchtbonguae River, was accidentally | kiliea mm the Mil on Thursday evening last, funder very distressinz circunistances, having lheen struck by the connecting rod, knocked uuder the crank, and his head and body horribly bruised and manzled. Decease: was about 30 years of aze, and a native o! | Seotiand, aud leaves a family of four smal! children. A terrible aceident oecurred in Montreal, o: An eXperiment was bein s mau at the Re-ervoir with a new explosive sub stangs, when a premature explosion oceurred, killing one man instantly — fiterally blowing his head 20 pieces—-and seriously injuring six or seven more Sir John A. Maedonald. K. C. B., has hee appotuted the vias d represeutative of the Grand Cannda, which sits in Lo eudan on the 14th) Jody vwext. fiis said that there will be ahout fom hand ed and Uifty dele cates from ali parts of the Dominion; aud further, that in is the intention of the Free Masons of Loudon to e@.tertain the wrand lode at a banquet. the Grand nesent Colane! Kelly, one of the Fenians reseved frem athe Manchester Police, has arrived at New York, and Mi K Get i | day =. Sod Comedie oak a ee aunt of destitution in some parts of Nova Scotia, aud especially im the Island of (Cape Breton, is great, almost beyond pre- cedent. ‘The mere fact that such i the case oucht to call forth the eifurts ul the benevolent, ous dt to Command the alteation of the govern ment at vace, without stopping to enquire lr tu the cause. Jt is enough that such is) the jeagse, and our dury now is to give relief hivst hand institute enquiry afterwards. The tacts istuted are at once alarming and depiorabie. | We ave told that in a part of the county vf Ta i veruess, the cattle will be nea ly all lost) from want of fuud, thatindeed they are already goue, that the people have consumed all their seed outs and potatoes, and that dire necessity is | | | ' i] compelling them to feed upon their horses. Surely this is a state of things which bas oniy tu be made known, in order to obtaia instant i consideration aad relet in a civilized Not a day should be lost in ascertaining the tacts of the case, and acling itt accor dance country. with its requirements. Lt nothings etse can be done, let the Road |money, fur the year, go for this i purpose. I ' . ° }vur pevple are sullering as represented, anoim | ve ulive duty is upon the Goverument to pro vide the remedy without delay. Let not the epoach be upon us that aay of our fein w icreatutes ins this Province died from = actus iwaut, or that whoie districts are famine stiica- en and unrelieved, white we and those about us ace Coguisunt of the fact. The past winte has been the longest ard most severe tor iiss years. It set is euwny du Uctuber, and hi been now liogerng tai iate in Apri. Ther is uot yeteven # sign of vegetation, aud ti will probably be six weeks betore the cattic fean find a mouthful in the helds. If assist aics {is not atforded to thuse Who are utterly dest- itute now, what wiil become of them betor Tm jis a Sort of thing tou which mere private be | nevoience is ailogether unequai, however wil. | ine Mo may be. Under ordinary Circumstances, | we would be the last to advucate Goverament jbounty in this way, but from the accouni: |which reach us, itis evident that the preset is an emergency, sv pressing and exceptional, that all hesitation shouid be thrown aside. We say then, to the Goverument, vive what is really needed, to tide over the present severe triai,—give road moaey, school money—it ab lsolutely necessary—borrow if you have nut got unouey ; but turn wot away from the cry ot fanumsbing women aud cuidren, tu say uvthin, ;O. Strong Men, jeveu that short time wiil bave elapsed ? Tue Fraser Crax.—A meeting was held i: Fraser Haiti, New Uilas sow, On Mouday, tne | 27th dav of April, 1565, at 11 o'clock, ‘a. it... hiv organize the * Cian Fraser’ for tine County lof Pictou. ! Joon McI’ Fraser, Es }-. Chairman, Johu A. Fraser, Secretary, Hon. Jaines VP raser ‘ | bei called upon ad | dress d the meeting, and eXplained its import, ius la Commnection with a similar movement ce ol Quebec. It was moved by Hon. James Fraser. secoud- led by Donaid A. Fraser, Exq } “2 | aleiy taken place in the P:ovi wid passer t Frasers do orsanize themselves into a Cla vith a benevolent and socal object, and d and accordauce with eT ‘ hee. It was moved by James Fraser, Esq., (Dow nie) seconded by My. Archibald Fraser, (ory) aiid passed Unanimous. y, that the Hi. he Jai 5 Fraser be the Cinef of the Clan for the Counts f Pictou, and also be a deleyate to the Cun vention to be holden at Ottawa on the ]4th | day ot May next. It was inoved by Hon. James Fraser, second ed by Mr. Murdock Fraser, and passed aeani- Inousiy, that Juhu McP. Fraser Esq., be a Chief tor the Eastern District, and Donald A. i‘raser, Esq., for the Western Disinet of the County ot Pictou.— Pictou Standard. lhe late movement at A Parliamentary return shows that expenses of the Fenian prosecutions in Canada to have been $86,620. | ond one of his collateral descendants, | The miil-steamer Verlin arrived on Sunday from St. John’s, N. F. The Ge: eral Assem- bly of the Province was prorogued « day the 29th ult. The total avriva trom the ice, to date, are as follows: n Wedaes of sealers | St. John’s, 30 vessels with 134.150 seats. | H. Grace, 21 si ‘¢. 100,240. * ! ! Total 69 vessels with 254,370 “ | —Halifax payer. Monday last an the recention of the wood news trom Abyssiwin. out the city; the chimes of S. James’ Cau eh rang forth a merry peal, and the reyorciag was universal. | There was great rejoicing in Toronto on | | | The Government schr. La Canadienne is to | sail this week for the protection of the fisberes, fand the enforcemest of shins regulations in | tie lower St. Lawrence. She is sow command- ed by Mr) Teta, who has been detinitiveiy ap- pointed in the room uf Capt. Fortin, vow M. 'P. for Gaspe. Gotp Discovery.—We learn that a valuable gold discovery bas been made at Sutherland’. River, in this County, and a right of seareh haa been taken out by Mr. WS. Copeland Some DrOMIgihy Appearance, jomt steck Company with 50,000 «iares, at $1 00 per abare, and test the wuciterours character ot the locality in which the specimens hace been tound From all we ean learn we think the dis coveryis an important ove — Pictou Chronicle His ejaborate aad Ciephantine Lis very evident that the “ Observer {stander is wo Syduey South. nol his torte have had buta very faint notiom of the foss ithe world had Pat the | perusal ot the newspapers alluded to above sustained. attempt ut pleasaniry is chiefly amusing ou ac- cuuut of its extreme Clumstiess and its ridicu ——there are but three of them—has made us fuus MAP PPOpPliAleness. When even a witty manis vulbot temper, he very seidom says or writes a good thing; but ** Observer’? is not a | witty mau, and he as very muca cut of temper. fi is nu wonder thea that his solitary Joke Is isme and far tetcbed, and uttered with such a very bad ziace. But if “Observer” fails as a He is deterimiued nistake about that. H | quite familiar with Natal, and hae ¢reated in us a lively interest in every thing connected with that valuable part of the British Dominions. | We are new very anxions to see its splendid ja rricultural and minera! | devela-wd, resources nrore fully Wil, fe Suiues aS @ woralist. we wish to hear ot its infant that there Cau be no — — , . ne | manufactres receivins juTicioas eneourazemem, takes a great deal of trouble to convince tis | | we deplore the disadvantages under which the mate. Betig such w iizid umeraiist, he wiil, ot }eolony labours, we yo in for a union wth ! course, aduut that a inanis bound at aij times io speak the truth of his neizhbour j Feuders that he, at least, is the purest of the { ithe neighbouring petty states, and we feel ! - | : ene that!. i. pe i. Re ' indisnant at the treatment of tts Dele rates hy lwheu @ CUnristiuu asserts any thine likeiy tu | ' } ’ : 1 : a ae Pg . linjuce w feliow-Choistian, in reputation or s-|'e hizh and mighty authorvies of Downing a treet, tate, he shouid first have spared no pains to | | Culis ice Hiaisell ut the truth of what he utu rs. * Observer’ uow states that Mr. Coles. amon: others, voted avanis. the Well, if Mr. Cowes did We will for the edification sod amxsement shai notes our renders, and@ to remied them not CAUCHKS. Vole atatust the Phat ur. C ; i short sketch of Natal—its pohi tieedt and socia misht have fuued | eutil he had taken the trouble to enqure. || ain Ietoi died on good uulhority, that whew tie pot jvaluable things mewspapers ace, vive them a Staub in CauClis, Wihiat then? Hes did net su vote, * Observer” . . er dq thon, a id ws netoral TCROU SEs, clenned ccatianiem ne soley from the ournals bef r- us. juestivon Of the grant was discussed in caucus, The climate of Mr. Coles vecapied the ch: ir. Lhe division | people wou Pall te hoe weitlagninstthe giant, and itonly remained for || : ge Ae Me. Cole, | Ot complained of as uihealthy-. Natal is, we find, wari, some hh is not moist, and | | Mr. Coles tu deciare the resuit. j ; ‘ wid nut vote azainst the yrant, ether in the | re ommend ce nsumotive | Liouse of Assembiy or in caucus, any arcument | } 1 wounded on such an assumption is necessarily | | } patients fo vo bo Natal, assarins them thet they stand a better " . chance of being cured there, than anywhen- wituuul welsht. Che imposing steucture | — fo 4 . | | which * Observer’? has erected with so muc!: }else. Perhans they are right. When we jl.geuuity, bel 4 thus shewn to be Wilihout j Sameeon, topples to the zeound, we hardly expect to believed. Nearly a’l the pro- * Observer ; Coles’ morality, which he pronounces to be funjust, uuchrsuan ad [ kuow not what ese. Mt d kuow mysell 1 would be very sorry indeed itu approve in any way of doctrines, either in politics or in religion, which I beiieved t.. be idishonest or unchristian. One of the doe- jtrimes attributed to Mr. Coles i * Observer's ” /own words, is, “A thing is right and just in itselt, vut because there is a certain number agaist if, it becuracs wrous.”” i, tur one, subserihe t no such doctrine, aud I believe that Mr. Cules would be about the last man in the feouutry to give his asseut to it. The (Cathoiics of this [stand have good reason }to know that be is not the man to desert | la cause merely because numerous and powerty land pears, there are ATAapes, enemies are arrayed against it. What I do say | is, that it is sumetimes most UnWise, Lat, the iy Some Cases It is even Criminal, percistentiy to urge claims about the justice of which there cau be nu doubt. | have no wish to evter int a theviosieal Controversey with ihe learned + Observer,’ but I don’t think that iat would be very ditticu ttu prove tiom the Sacred Ws itines lthat forbearance ts a christian virtue, and that jit 13 not always expedicut to insist upon ou iawful rights. sistiug on a right, we can see no tai prosper of success; if it can be shewn that. by i sisting, we would on Vv raise strife aid du ou accuses me of end Orsing M: Disseienads altiei ‘lie tienen okiceaten Manele Pear, beans, cabba se, turnips, potatoes, curwne- hers, lettuce, &¢., zrow in the vardens of the of the colonists, and their fa ms produce,wieas, harley—we are not clear as to outs—maize, dho land other sram not known in these paris,te vhich ave te be added the surar enue, the to jhacco and cotton plants, and the cuTee and the linulbervy trees. Somethin, too, is said of the cullivation of tea. that grow and flourish in Natal is enough to Jesides apples, plums inake Our mouths water. ple apples, | pyran res, naartjes, whatever they may be— | shaddocks, cusia d appies, iemons, citrons, suavas, peaches, apricots, baananas, plantains aud melons, A Country that can raise its own bread, its heef, its cotton, its tea, its coltee, iS suzal, its tobaces, its sik, its wool, and nearly every other necessary and luxury used sige. hy civilised men, without being unhealthy or It, in pursing a claim, or in i j necessaiily badly goverred, must indeed be a i Measant pliuce to live in—almost a H awradige One | ree . . ° uit would thisk. Then for minerals, there are | seiVes serious lijury, and, afterall, notsucce ' ‘i i Sedans fi 3 as is val and iren, and indications of conper ¢ in accomplishing our ends, woud it not b — oe ow * ee apyper and }yur duty, ty postpone our exertions until a mb lead, to say nothing of the vod elds lately! r W hat ie possessed of Common sense, would enter acu test ju which he would be sure to receive haid blows aud incur much obloquy, with the mora certainty that the struscle weuld be in vain? i Mr. Coles acd tis Catholic supporters were i Great niuce. the roid Beide are abut precisely such a situation dusing part of the is ; j propitious season shoud arrive To teil the toute, the , | discovered, eX ily in the colony, aud there are som sisht Pelore the ecter obstacles tu be surmounted © d S titi | Int «| SOO miles | ne nee, the coun prisins colonists can make it their awn, Sessiow ol the Le risiature, Tiey Saw cleasari\ from — i i pa’ tne secu a , " | that there woud be au overs heuning uw open tryvi) their iminecdate viemnuity is oceuried by ta hou ean fring 40 000 | | fed and the other 10 | | one of w lin the House of Assembly arainst endowis gavase chiefs denominational seco s, and they were mora thet the P t poputstion of t Colony, almost tu a mats, strousiy disapproce j 4 ‘ . a jarmed warriors int) the certain testa " , } O00. Oue iacty) dicative of the dis; csition cf the of such a potiey, Under these ciccumstances. ; atoreswid savarces towards prospecting Slranzers | what course was left them to pursue except th one thy tulosed? The usual comme places ebout doing justice and about carrvii vith white faces, struck us as peculiarly signifi The discove er, a German, Herr, Mauch yname, had to diz out his s ecimens with his "amt. jou priucipies at aii haszards, are what or Yankee neighbors very pra ce ly denominat ‘tail talk.” Those omy Can do justice wk have the power to do “a and iw one deservin : the uae of politician woud use means to ca: ‘ners ora pocket kyife, we forget which, not daring to use a pick or a erowhar, Se jealou- tad susptcious were the native inbalstants Ts what } Dretors| come to speak of the productions of its soil,.| Jaber deaderetip otf Mr. Sumuci N. Earle. Too British in South Atrica has for some years bee Jndeed considerabie terrire | which was at one time under British sway | non-wegressive. been shaken off und the inhabitants have beg | permitted to erect petty kingdoms and repablig: | in theimmediate vicinity of the British coloni | These Lilipytian States,some inhabited by w savazes and others by half suvayes, wre Que oft ; ' | tinustly at war with each other. lthe Bashutos, getsing tied of independence ) begued to be permitted again to enjoy the ivantage of British rule. A considerable pa | i» the colony ure im favour of giving the save | yes another trial, but they see ciearly enc lif the Bashutos become British subjects th | Govermmeut of the cvolony will be heid res; tsihle for any owsrages they may comamit on t ueighbouring Free Sretes, with whiea they lin now a state of chronic warfare. To | this difficulty it is propesed to take both }belligerents under British cule. It seems t | the whole of the Free States are sick and of the burdens, the cares and the disquiet fof independence, ard would g!adly exe |} that state for one, which if leas dignidied, w he more tranquil snd more secure. | We have outs space remaining to makes i } few statemeots relative to the social state of j inhabitants of Natal The farms in. the tnhabi Lsenttered over a wide extent of coautry. 7 by Cattle st Tt is an exce bingiy difieult mxstter to trace out the offende lare very larze, and the white | natives we pretty numerons, Pmeans vente. and net sivilized. haus is a very eormmon crime. bet where thes are found thes meet. wi "Lhe re dy proposed is te bold the whole tribe sponsible for the offence of the individ jsummary aad severe chastisement. rember, and so make it the interest of the” biscks themselves te put astop te the perpe ‘tration of the evwardly and ervel crime” j j i i ] ' } | Out ates of another nature are by no mea infreque t, if we are to judse by the pay Fhe punishment to be detterreni hromst we suppose be very severe. It isin | betore us. it ~oibiy se. A movement has been set on tu educate the biacks, but the example of viciow” whites and the demeorakaing influence of rome A mere list of the frutis| will, we fear, counteract the well meant effoit of pinksnthropests. Ih is somewhat singular that the name of the wan whe i sv mach talked of in every part d the world where the Knziish language is spoker is barely mentioned in these newspapers. The” existance oF Bishop Colenso is almost complete lv ignored by the journalists of Nagal. i -- -------2 ee | THe Dramatic Club, snd the Charlottetown Amateur Christy Minsirels, aceording to am vouncement gate = grand pestormauce at St. Audrew's thatl on Lhomduy evening last for the bem fi ot Mr fh Viesseombe. The mtroductory part of ibe prrio:mancre was, the * Kipling Psiceuwn Galop.” whieh war played mn good style, lby ont disiunguiehed Pianist SN. Karle, and H. Vionieou be, the talented Viehinist, aller which he Diaaate Cinb, gave ue ~ O'Callaghan on is Last legs,” whieb was rendered and adwirably — pecierwed, All the Amateurs sequitted them | scisee Well i this prece * Panrua Ergo” was tir te x! piece of music given,—it wae payed by particular request. by Messrs. Earle aug Vinu- combe 5 alter Whiek, ier the first tine here, “Lhe Cuarlottetown Amateur Choets Minstrels’ come wiward on the Stage, aod gate ute buth Vocal vod Laethomental, whieh echipsed anything of the — kind, by lar, ever auetupied bere betore, The iwurical patlot the poilemmanee was under the raat aa much praise cannel be given to our Minstrels tot tee able maureen io winch they pertonmed on” Miuuuay Mert-. Botes ane Pompey “ f woeriny of particular wentlen, Phe Missirelé ieod ising a gratd Ceneert in the Peuperavce tial, ou Titiesday evening neat; ail lovers of good titieic WOU do Weill lo attend — Com. siiel, ————-3 io We observe in many of our exchange paper ‘olve or resign Parhament until an appeal ean be | outa principle which were calculated to defe the recognition of that principle iodetinitels If “ Observer’ is so indi rnant at some of ou politicians hesitating in the face of a hosti. majovity to press a measure which they be lieve te he good, but know’ to be unponular, sinuch ta be feared that many valuable lives will be fost before the first crushing mill is erected at the Now South Aimean x lddigvi ig-. but Coal aud tron, which are after ail much more necessary to toe development of the new The bosh Chareb gtestion to a debate until he! 3 20's 7U$; Bread. , w at does he think of the morality of the Con ise; Vative statesmen of EKugzland who aetualls ‘adhd what they heleved to be wrony, heeause ithe Parisment and the ¢ vuntry required it? TL: we do not find political morality. among the C vservatives of England, it is rather a hope. le-s besiness to look for it among the Liberais of Prince Edward Island. ] elizious animosities, “ Ohserver"’ rensar':s, are 1ot to last forever, History ands