csiteneieeetl

MISCELLANEOUS.
A Lewxoon Newsrarsx.—The newspaper [he whole igure is six times the le
buving the widest circulation ia London is the foot. Whether the form be slender or

the Daily Telegraph, a peony paper. owned piump, the rule holds good; any deviativn|
by Mr. Levy, a Hebrew. vtee private

telegraph wires, says a visitor, Lelong to its of proportiun.
pe correspunds with the Louse of Commons, statutes according to this rule

The face,

wnotber with Mr. Reuter’s telegraph-office, | from the highest point on the forehead. |

the third with the private resilience of the| where the hair begins, to the chin, is one
conductor, who is thus made acquainted with) tenth of the statare. The hand, from the
any important news which may transpire) wrist to the middle finger, is the same.
before he arrives at, or after he leaves, the| From the top of the chest to the highest
office. The machine room is » vast white-| point of the forehead is a seventh. It the
washed hall, with three enormous clanging. | length of the face, from the roots of the hair
plunging, whirling metal demons in the midst) gy the chin, be dividedfinto three equal parts,
of 1t—-Hoe's most powerful printing machines! the rst division determines where the eyes
contamming, together twenty-sx cylinder.) weet, and the second the place of the nostrils.
and in attendance upon themureeighty MeD| Phe height from the feet to the top of the
and boys. The cylinders in these machines head ig the sume as the distance from the
make one million four hundred and five thou-| extremity uf the fingers wheu the arms are
sand revolutions in the course of one night,| oxcended.

aud, for a single day's cirowlation, travel at
the rate of pearly nime bundred and eighty
five miles, eight hundred and eighty-four
fail per minute. The length of paper used
in one day will make @ path one yard wide,
and nearly one huodred and sixteen miles
long; one day's circulation, placed edge to
edge. would clusely cover a piece of land o!
nearly forty-three acres; one weeks’ circula-
tion, place one on top of the other, would
make a column three bundred and nineteen
feet high. The weight of paper ured in one
day's cerculativn is seven tons thirteen hun i.

om

Harvey's theory of tae circulation of the blood,
ov rather the cause of the circulation, is begiun-
ing to be diaputed ; for blushing, sudden paleness
if the face, dushings and chiliness of the body
trequently occur without any distarbanee or mo
dification of the bearts action. The stead)
wovement of the blood in the capillaries, the cir-
culation threagh the liver without the interventien
f any propulsive force, the fact that after death
the arteries are usually found empty, among other
things, canaot be accounted for on the hypothesis
that the heart is the sole moverot the blood. Th

new theory is that the action is a chemical ove.
J —-

from it is departure from the highest beauty |
The Greeks make all thelr |

red weight two quarters and twenty pounds,
there are also three hundred and nimety sis
pounds of ink consumed in one night's print-
reg; and the length of tape used pon the

machines is a little over four & ules.

ll

A foolish Frenebman, who used to be

rival of Blondin, undertook to wade, by the for the act.

aid of iron stilts, across the rapids above th
Awerican Falls at Niagara on Monday last

eurly in the morning, by way of rehesrsing

a publie exhibition to take pluce this week

He exoveeded in getting more than half way
acruss.at a point between the Falls and thie

‘ioat Island bridge, when one of bie stilt
broke or gave way, and he was instantly in
the rapids. Fortunately the piace of this ac
edent was directly above Rob:ason's island
a small piece of wooded Jand which lies t
the right of Lana isiand and
briok of the American Fall. Ue suceeedec
in struggling to the shoce of tuis land, an:
d himself from the water. He hac
apparently sustained a painful injury in one
of bie links, sod was seen, up to Tuesday
sitting on a log. No effort hav been made &
rescue him. He has made no » chal for relief
although his predicament ts evnsidered +
frightfui one.

Waar Suatt we bar ?—Dr.

late ouwber of the Journal of Health —govc
authority by the way—says the cheapest ar
ticles ut foood, at present pric -s, are bread
(especially corn meal) batter, mol asses
bexos and rice. He shows
worth of foer, at & cents per pound, contain
as wuch nourishment as $2 25 worth of reas:
beef at 25 cents per pound ; and that a pin
of white beans costing 7 cents, bas the sam:
amount of vutriment as 24 pounds of beef a
25 cents per pound, or, in ether words, shi
roast beet diet 1s fcelve Lames as eX pensive a
the teans. Furthermore, a p and of Indiat
weal will go as far asa poun! of fine four
costing pearly twice as mnuc. Here ar
eve vt the common articles o! food, showing
the amount of nutriment contained, and th
time required for digestion.

very near the

Hall, in a

that 25 cent

The suicide season has commenced in Paris
quite briskly, and the mania is extending to the
country. lu many cases no cause can be dis-
covered for the voluntary resignation of life, aud
it ix suid that in the mouth of July the mania for
suicide 1s a prevailing malady in Pariv, it being

This year, the greater number eo!
this class of criminals have avoided the Seme
and have taken other means of wakiug away
with themselves. Oue gentieman, a retired met
chant of large tortune, baving made all necessary
arrangements for the transfer of his preperty t
an ouly son, walked caluily to the top of the co-
jumn on the Place Vendome, and threw himesel:
down, striking first on the eagle at one corner ot
the pedestal, then, rebounding, beeare lpaled
on ove of the spikes of the iron railing.
oo

According to Carlyle, it was the old Prus-
sian General Dessaner’s wont to pray befor:
,| engaging in battle, and thus deseribes his
prayer. A grim fervor of prayer is in his
heart doubtless, the words as reported are no
very regular or orthodox: ** O Herr Gott
help me yet this once; let me not be disgraced
momy old davs! Or if thou wilt nut bel;
me, don’t help those Hundsvogte,”’ (damnew
scoundrels, 80 to speak,) but leave us ty try

t out ourselves !’

NEWS GLEANINGS.

WAR MATTERS.

The Confederates seem to be operating exten
<i¥ely in the region of country in Sherman's rear
A severe engagement took place on the bith be
ween the Federal General Steadman anda Con
ederate force under Wheeler at Gangsville, I>
niles from Chattanooga, in which Steadman wa-
wverely wounded. The Federal loss is not stated
\ Confederate force is reported at Cleaveland
Cennessee. A Federal brigade bas lett Chatta
woga for that place

The Contederate cavalry has divided into smal
parties, which are demonstrating in the towns o
Northern Georgia and Tennessee.

The Federal Pickets have been fired upon at
various points between Chattanooga and ridge
port. A eavalry force has lett Chattanooga

The Tribune’s Baltimore despateh of the Teth
states that it was reported at Harper's Ferry

i~—-<

not at all requisite that there should be a reason |

ew

-~'* [ will at once ayow my own conviction,
which is shared by every one worth listening
to in Secessia, that not one of Grant's prede-
cessors in Virginia bas shewn one tithe of the
tenacity, energy, celerity, and resolution
which tie recent campaign has set down to
Grant's credit. McClellan, Hooker, Pope,
or Burnside would have gone back after the
battle of the Wilderness, and would never
have got such an effort as was made at Spotts-
ylvania Court-house out of a beaten army.
But, alter giving Grant due credit for vigour
in handling his men, and keeping them com-
pactly together, (which is the greatest dif-
ficulty a Federal General encoanters,) I am
unable to see that his conception of the cam-
paign was able, though it mast be confessed
that the strange incompetency of Butler made
half of Grant’s plan a fiasco before it was
commenced. Certain it is that if in the first
instance he had leaded 200,000 men on the
York River or James River, and had pot
sucrificed the bone and sinew of his army in
fighting his way to the White House, which
he wight have reached by water without los
ing a man, his position now would be very
different. Weeks and weeks will probably
pass without amending his prospect before
Petersburg. In the
which will distract him terribly, will be
pretty sure to change the aspeet of civil and
military affairs in the North before September
has passed.
hammers of war of the same stamp as Suwar-
row, whose spirits rise with danger, and
whose courage borders on brutality. Lee is
his equal in celerity and endurance, his
superior in foresight, prudence, and sa-
gacity.’’

The manner in which the war is conducted
by the North is referred to in the lollowing
terms :—** Thee are many passages of war-
like history which reveal such excesses of
systematic and callous brutality towards
non-combatants as have drawn down apon
them the common exeeration of mankind
Che merciless ferocity of Tilly in the Palatin
ate, the dragonnades of Louis XIV., the con-
duet of war by Cromweil in treland, of the
Duke of Cumberland after the battle of Cul-
loden, are among the instances which oceut
to everybody. ‘The military student will
perhaps recall & more modern instance in the
retreat of the baffled Massena from before
the lines of Torres Vedras, and wi)) remem-
ber the ruthlessness towards peasants, vil-
lages and convents, which wrung from Wel
lington the remark that * it has seldom been
equalled and never surpassed.” I do not
believe, however—and I say :t advisedly—
that any ol these infamous passages, in re-
gard to which lapse of time serves but to in-
crease the asperity of our indignation, sur-
passes in atrocity the system of Federal
warfare in the Southern States, and notibly
in Virginia. In burning words of eloquent
censure Mr. Motley has held up to our loath-
ing the horrible cruelty of Alva and the
bigoted tyranny of his master. Yet Mr.
Motley is the complacent and contented ser
vant of a Republic, which, in the name ol
liberty, encourages enormities as repugnant
to the eciviliged warfare of the nineteenth
centary as were Phillip I1.’s outrages, in the
name of religion, to the moral sense of the
sixteenth. I do not mean that throats are
eat indiscriminately as they were by Alva,
ilthough many a dark tale of cupidity and
issussination bas issued from the turests and
byways of Virginia. 1 could, were it not as
distasteful to me to write as to your read-

Time Amount | that the Gth corps was attacked last night. The} &™ 60 learn such gloomy borrors, aecumu-
of digestion of nutrient rebels are said to be destroying the railroad near late evidence substantiating the occurrence

Apples, raw, Ph. 50m 1) per cent | Winchester. On the retreat of our army, orders| of many such murders of civilians in cold

Beaus, boiled, 2b. JU m. . Soe were issued to destrey all hay and live stock.| blood beyond refutation, nor, again, do I as

Beef. roasted, oD, 2m jo e which was dene. “Thas neels confirmation. sert that women are stript and foreed to ran

Bread, baked, o> =e ae “ Tue Herald's Harper's Ferry despatch of the | races in the presence of a licentious soldiery

Butter, ’ ~ Me ‘'. a i9th states that eur army is se disposed as tel agin the days of the Brutal Dake of Cum-

Cabbage, boiled, 4h. 30m aaa cover all the fords of the upper Potomac, als: | berland. But 1 do mean to assert—and |

Cucumbers, raw, = -—— ~ Snicker’s, Ashby’s and Manassas Gaps. eer tradicti po ay cS Cl

Fish, builed, 2h. UO m. ” The Philadeiphia Age says:—* Lbe recent Fe-| cnemangy- Coptrncesnee fe, [ora supreme

Milk, tresh, 2h. 15 m. 7 leral move to the bank vt the James river has! that outrages such as my pen must seek a pe-
Muttou, roasted, 3h 15 m . etiam sccomplished but litthe On Sunday might, the riphras to describe, ond OF Shope wee Se

Pork, coasted, Sh. 15 m. SOs 1% Contederates were largely reinfurced, and | Men are the objects, have repeatedly occurred;

Poultry, reasted, 2b. 45 w. 27 “ Birney'e position upon theadvanced ground where that in a special degree the country called

Potatoes, builed, 2 h. 30 uw. ie he fougut the battle, became preearimus. The | the northern neck of Virginia (/ying between

! Rice, boiled, 1b. 00 m. af Confederates made an advance, aud it was with | the Potomae and Rappah snouck rivers) bas
Sugar, 3h. au ut. ed is dithiculty that Birvey could rescue his wounded | witnessed thew agaim and again, that the

: pat pan aiae® te po “ m4 “ During ——— mo! a serene to os rrr African gavage, stimulated by these white

cal, reasted, . ne sition, northeast of Foster's eartkhwor Pont. i ie a p's :
Veuisva, boiled, 1b Sum. wv a iieaaes on Richmond was intended by Grrantu ee oe gol meet 6 ee, Cpneer® Ser

eB

According to the above tables, cacumber=
are of very little value, wad apples, cabbages,
turnips, and even potatues, af present prices
are eXpensive eating. Some vegetables and
fruite should, however, enter into the tamily
consumption, ev a if purchas 1 for sanitary
reasons. Among those whiel contain the
most sacharine matter, sweet potatoes, purs-
nips, beets and carruts, ure the must nourish
ing.—Roast pork, besides being an expensiv:
dish, requires tov lengthy a drain upon the

t

furees ot the stomach to Se a healthy article
of diet.
_ —_-__-~>o———— —

FPaeankine Paanks.— Lhe Treasury warrant
of tuat day (early part of last century)
franked the strangest comme lities—articles
which certainly cocld nut be dropped inte
any letter-box. and which would neither be
stamped nor surted in the orth. dox way. The
following list of a few franked commodities
is culled from a still larger nuinber of such in
the packet ‘agent's svvk,”” [vund awongst
the old records t) which reference has already
been made :-—

“ Imprimis. Fifteen couple of hounds, going te
the King of the Romans with a fre pass

“Item, “Two waid servauis, goig as lauudresse
to my Lord Awbassador Methuen.

* Kem. Dr. Crichton, carrying with him a cor
aud divers necessaries.

* ftea. Two bales of stockings, for the use of
the Aubassader to the CroWa o! Portugal.

* tem. A deal case, with four Hitches of bacon,
fur Mr. Pennington of Rotterdan:”

Whilst referring to the subject of letter-
franking we may as well notiwe here, that
before the contrul of the packet-service pass-
ed out of the bandsof thePust-Office authori-
ties, and when the right of {ranking letter
became the subject of legislative enactments,
we hear no wore of this curious consignment
of goods. The franking system was henceforth
confined to passing free through the pust any

letter whieh should be endursed on the cover
with the signature of a member of either
Majesty s

House cf 1 arliament. —** Her

Maiis."’

>_>

Brigham Young says the devil is much of

this movement, it bas failed. In front of Peters
burg the Federal seuthern flank has been drawn
in so mueh that it is extremely duubttul if Grau:
now has a canned Within range of the town.

Tie Valley of the Shenandoah has been com
pletely stripped of its wheat crop, aud as cattle,
sheep and hogs have disappeared long ago, it is
now wore difficult to advauce through it with an
army than ever before. As it is unpossible to
glean any subsistance from the country, the sup-
ply question has already become a great vex-
ation.

ln Kentacky the gnerillas are very active.
There are reports of various contests with them
at different points in the Western Sectiou of the

raid into Ilhneis. The invading party has most
probably withdrawn to the South bank of the Ohio
with his plunder.

Phe Times’ Washington despatch says the re-
cent simultanecus encoucters with the rebels on
beth banks of the James river, and also in the
Valley, prove that Lee has in Virginia a larger
teree than had been supposed, and the reports oi

believed.
secret service at 70,000

deval soldiers in bospital near Washington.

enrolled. and a live of block houses erected
around the city. Provisions of any kind are very
igh aud rapidty rising, and unless communication
with the States is speedly resumed, there will be |
mueh sufferiog, if vot actual starvation The In-

from the city. ‘The settlers are fleeing to the city
for protection.

st. Louts, Mo. Ang. 19 —Informatien from
Fort Riley, Gen. Blunt's headquarters, says three
ranches eear Little Blue River have been burned
by the Ludiaus, stock run off, and inhabitants
killed.

The Indians left behind them nething but the
bones of the wurdered victius, The citizens ot
Washington, Republic and Clay counties have
bven armed by Gen. Blunt.

Between 60 and 70 bodies of white men were
wen becween Milesburg aud Littl Blues.

No ranches are lett standing between Biss Sandy

State. Nothing more bas been sent us about ant

bis having seut detachwents to Georgia are not)
Lee’s total force estimated by our |

There are ten thousand sick and wounded Fe-!

Mr. Beecher Stowe's theortes, is the perpe-
trator of them, that [ am in a position to
mention pot less than ten

| during the last three months, have eccurred

in the county of Westmorland alone, and
which are unsurpassed in atrocity by the
most louthsome records cf modern or ancient
wurfare.’’
sili ak inc pligilliltaiagls enlace
VOLUNTEER RESIGNATIONS.

The following, which we copy from an
English paper, will, we have no doubt, be
interesting to our Vuluuteer forces in this
Province :—

Every Gazetie published within the last
month or six weeks has been occupied with
the acceptance of resignations of vast nam

bers ot volunteer officers, and when officers |

resign, the men quit the service im a very
much larger proportion. Oaly se recently as
in the Gazette of Friday is an announcement
that her Majesty has been graciously pleased
to accept the resignation of oa» of the oldest
captains of a metropolitan volunteer corps,
and ander the bead of the ** Lancashire Volun-
teers.’ In the same Gazefie, there is a
‘* Memoranda,’ announcing that the Ist

Martial law is being enterced in Denver City,) administrative Battalion of Lancashire Volan-
aud all places ef business have been closed, i) teers is dissolved, and that the services of the
consequence of the Indian troubles in Colorado. | jjegrenant colonel, the major, the surgeon. |
All able bodied males over 16 years old have been! 244 officers, have been dispensed with. let

the metropulitan corps, more especially, the

| number of resignations of effectives have been

very great, whilst the new enrolments ore
comparatively insignificant. The question,

dians have murdered several families and burved | therefore, atises— W hat are the circumstan-
a vumber of bouses on Cherry Creek—25 miles| ces which have led to such a result?
first place, the course adopted by certain | Weed or converted inte barracks and hospitals
commanding officers, and the dictation as- | lu the towns one is struck with the abseuce of

sumed by the Gvernment adjutants, have
much to do with the falling off in the effee-

tive strength in our volunteer regiments. |
How ean it be expected that men of indepen- |
dent spirit or manly feeling will subunit to be | was charged at the Castle of Exeter, on Mondey,

treated like mere militia, when fourteen
days’ notiee and the payment of their liabi-

lities to the corps to which they may happen | of the Rev. J. Pluewellin, of Mouut Radtord, and

to belong, will relieve them from coercion or
indignity? Moreover, example on the part
of commandants themselves huve much to do

—— = = —— _ -——-

| Tus Licwan Piours —The proportions of| In asking whether, after a review of the tiring exertions were made by the police of
the human figure are strictly mathematical. late campaign, it is reasonable to place Grant | ,
th of on the same platfurm as Lee, the writer says: Ilroy wus recently arrested in Montreal,

meantime diversions

Grant is one of those sledge-

horrors which, |

In the | not escaped.

through the ingeouity of @ certain detective

‘in gaining the confidence of u female styling
herself ‘* Madame Rochelie,’’ and with whom
Meliroy domesticated. ;

The purpose of this notice is to disclose the
eading points of a sketch of the career of
Mellroy, which has been put in our posses-
gion from a reliable souree, and its trathfal-
ners is beyond doubt. Capt. Mcllroy, so
styled, has figured with innumerable aliases
in different sections of the United States
und Canada, as the purpose of his erratic
life required, and his career has been marked
with tne blackest crimes encompassed in hu-
wan wickedness, embracing murdeis, robber-
ies and seductions. [he true name of the
villain is Weatherby, and he originally came
from a small town in the State of Pennsyl-
vania, first commencing to do for himself as
a professional gambler. This business “he
followed for several years upon the Western
rivers. At Louisville, Ky., he married a
widow lady of fortune, a Mrs. Black, whom
he was shortly alterwords compelied to de-
sert in consequence of a gambling affray in
whieh he killed a young man and wounded
the father of his victim with a pistol shot.
ie was arrested for this offence but escaped
from durance, aod compelled a blacksmith
to file off bis irons while holding a pistol to
his head. Since the commencement of the
war this accomplished rascal has operated
extensively as a * bounty jamper.’? He was
once taken to the seat of war, and in effect-
ing his escape he killed an officer ard serious-
ly wounded a sentinel. His catalogue oi
robberies and promiscuous crimes is innumer-
able. Sines his sojourn in Canada his com
panion ha» been the female above alluded to,
who is stili practising her arts in Montreal,
Previous to the arrival of this personage in
Canada she bad paid the penalty for shop-
lifting in one of the cities of New York State.
“Capt Mellroy’’ a few months since gained
the confidence of a religious society in Tor nto,
and was much esteemed for his fervent piety,
and particularly for his temperate views ol
the American war, which had entailed deso-
lation upon himself and high-bred family.
but to such dispensation he bowed in humble
submission to the will of the Almighty.

These facts, although not intended to reach
the pubiic, proceed in a confidential channel
from an associate and friend of the notorious
villain, and in such a manuer that we are in-
clined to fully eredit the trathfalness of the
statements. The authorities of Hamilton
have no doubt secured one of the deepest-dyed
ind most reckless criminals lately at large
and it is to be hoped that justice will now be
meted him for at least the crimes committed
iu this Province.— British American.

—_———=D 000

Leases For 999 Years.—We copy the fol
lowing from a jate Knglish paper, showing
that property leased in 868 for 999 years will
expire in 1807 and revert to the original
mwners with aa increased rental of nearly
double :—

‘* The Farm or Manorof the Prebend of Fins
bury, which originally consisted of five fieids,
and the site of which is now oecupied by
Fusbury-square, part of the City-road, Bun-
hiifiela’s Burial Ground, and surrounding
neighbourbood, was leased for 999 years, a
p. 868, by the Dean and canons of Sr. Paul's
to the Corporation of the City of London,
and the term of the lease will, consequently,
expire in the year L867, when the property
willrevert to the Keclesiastical Commissioners
Che jand was originally worth but little, ite
value, however, within the last (ew hundred
years, has greatly increased, along with the
| progress of the metropolis, by being let on
building leases, and nuw produces about 42,-
0002. per annaw ; but when the leases exp re
and the property comes into the hands of the
Ecelesiastical Commissioners, and it is let at
higher retails, wod it is estimated to prodace
trom 75 000/, to 80,0002 per annum, and a
still larger amount, ot Bunhili-fieid’s Buria!
Ground; as contemplated, is let on the build-
ing leases. Lt is decided to erreet a spacious

dence-row, by taking a considerable slice
from the gardens in the rear of the houses of
finsbury-square. It is to be hoped that the
upper portions of these houses or shops will
he especially designed for the poorer and
|working classes. la this way the chureh
| property as originally designed would ad-
minister to the physical as well as the spi-
jritual wants of the poor. No better site
leould be seleeted for the purpose, inasmuch
jasitis only ten minutes’ walk from the Bank
juf England.

= =e
Tur Desonation oF War.—A_ correspon-

“From Chattanooga to Marietta there is preseat-
ed to the eye one vast sheet of misery. The fu

several cities to secure hie apprehension. Mec. and had entered into another

row of houses on the south side of the Provi-|

dent ot the Nashville Union, who tas explored the |
region passed over by Sherman's aray, says: — | number of vessels and ameunt of tonnage arriving

he believed that he had passed the portals of death
but not a better
world. He stood in a sulphur caveru where the
air was pure, the ascending vapors being condeus-
ed at the top of the crater. Giving @ preconcert-
ed signal tu the guides, he was rapidly drawn to
the surface. He had made a great discovery,
and instantly pereeived that it might be made @
source of incalculable wealth The sulphur mine
thus singularly found, speedily restored his for-
tunes, and he became one of the richest wer-
chants in Mexico.

j
}

—o- --—

The Dublin Evening Mail thus refers to the
manner in which the toast of the “ Press” is given
at public dinners :—" The toasting of the Press
according to the present mode is an insult, and
the leading men of the Press ought not to respond
to it. But in our opinion it would be better and
more consistent with the true dignity of the Press,
if its representatiwes never did respond to any
toast supposed to be a merely formal compliment
to the great national institution of whieh they
are the workers. ‘The ancient aud better custom
was to propose and driuk the toast of the. Press
as an expression of the public confidence in the
constitutional freedom it represents, just as the
sewiment of public confidence in constitutional
monarchy wasexpressed by the toast of the Queen.
Every one should feel a loyal interest in both in-
stitutions ; bo one was supposed te be called upon
to acknowledge a special and peculiar gratitude
for compliments paid to either. To drink to the
Queen or the Press, is, when rightly understood,
wut another form of drinking to our Noble Selves
The settlement of this question of convivial pre-
cedence is, however, a sinall part of what unight
be dewe to support the self-respect of the press,
if ‘ihe leading men would put away their internal
jealousies,’ and serve the public and themselves
ina spirit of enlightened selfishness, which is the
opposite of a huxtering competition, Under the
operation of the latter influence there is a great
risk of the public being taught to forget that
vewspapers cannot exist in usefulness without a
sufficiney of legitimate profit to maiutain their ip-
dependence. Every day brings demands upon
the funds of the daily press for the gratification
of the vanity, the satisfaction ef the fancies, the
promotion of the interests, nay, the filling of the
pockets, of persons whe are taught by the foolish
rivalry of journalists to think that they confer a
compliment by their gratuitous favors. Scarecely
a newspaper appears without a string of an-
youncements of events in fashionable lite, inter-
esting to ne one but the actors in them : of intend.
ed feats of grand and lofty tumbling of protessiona!
artists or amateurs; of bidding for entrance inte
lite by real young wen, or efforts to delay thei
exit from it by ci-decant jeunes hommes ; of private
mercantile reports of railway and other such en-
terprises, with a host of miscellaneous appeals to
the public notice, all of which should be paid for
as advertisements ; and, in tact, would be so dealt
with if the press respected itself.”’

~ COLONIAL.

The following extract we clip from the To-
ronto Globe :—

‘+ Meetings of the Cabinet are held daily.
and I hear that much business is being dis-
posed of, All the members of the Govern-
ment are present except Mr. McGee, who has
gone to New Brunswick and Nova Seotia

has gone to New York on public business. It
is rumoured that despatches have been re-
ceived from all three of the Maratime Pro-
vinces, expressing the gratificatien which it
will afford them to meet unofficially a depu-
tation trom the Canadian Goyernment for
the purpose of discussing the question of a
federation of the Briish American Provinees.
[tis also rumoured that the whole question
has engaged the serious attention of the Ca-
nadian Cabinet since it assembled last week
with more satis factory resalts, and that Mr
Cartier, Mr Brown, Mr. Jolin A. Macdonald
and Mr. Galt have been deputed to represent
Canada at the approaching conference at
Charlottetown.’’
———----30e- —-
Coat TrRape or Picrou.-——Pictou is nnques-
iiouably the seeond commercial town in. this
pre-eitoinently maritime Province. A vast impe-
tis is being given to the business relations of the
good town of Picton, The subjoined statistics
of shipping arriving abt and clearmg trom that
thriving port, together with the assumed quantity
of coals shipped, prove couchusively that there
| bas been no diminution of enterprise and activity
lin the works of the General Mining Association
| Io view of Che increased and ever increasing im-
portance of the coal fields of Pictou, and the de.
velopement ef the trade of the Gulf of St. Law-
renee, it is not surprising that se much anxiety
has been manifested to counect these prolitic
sources of wealth with the metropolis of Nova
i eotia. That Picton will be the gainer, inunes-
surably, by the construction of the read in ques
tion dees not admit of a doubt.
as that enterprising town 1s daring five or six
months of the year by icy barricrs, the construc-
tion of the railway connecting with Halitax Har-
bour will be equivalent te a commercial emanei-
pation, which the Pictonians will not be slow in
iurmug to good account. ‘The Standard says:—
“Upto the present date, a large increase in the

at this pert over previous years, 1s apparent to all
observers. Lyi the latter part of June of the pre-

lyitives trois ruined villages or deserted fields
seek shelter in the mountains. Cities sacked,
towns burnt, population decimated, are 86 Many |
evidences of the feartul guilt that rests upon the |
cliefs of this most wicked aud causeless rebellion
All along the roads are great wheat fields in
{which no sickle will enter; crops sufficient to
feed all New England are te be lost for want ot
labourers. The owners have been driven into
ithe rebel army by a merciless conscription; and
| the blacks have been sent further South. I saw

enough of this country toe get a most vivid and
paintul impression uf the horrors of war. ‘ This
jis a beautiful country,’ exclaimed a friend, as his
eves for the first time looked upon the gentle un
| dulations of the valleys, terminating in the wind-
lings of the rivers, flanked by the majestic bar-
}riers of the mountains. The entire country, in|
almost every rood of it, isa battle field, trodden
over by both armies. Ih every town the more |
| public buildings and the more conspicuous resi- |
i devices have been devoured by fire o riddled with |
| sort and shell, used as headquarters, or for |
irebel commissary stores; or occupied by promi |
nent rebels, such buildings bave been singled out
'fordestruction. In some instances churches have
They have been stripped for fire-

young men and ineu in middle life. Fences are
demolished, and here aud there a lordly mansion
stands an unsightly ruin.”

—- 208 - ——

ELOPEMENT.—A man named John Mutters

with stealing 13 silver spoons, twe pairs of Sugar
tongs, a box and a silver watch, the property

also with eloping with his wite. The case has
created great excitement in the district, and a
large concourse of people assembled to hear the
examination of the ecurt.

sent year, our harbour presented a most magni-
ficent appearanee, studded, as it was, with haud-
some cratts of every size, displaying an amount
of bunting not offen seen at any one time on these
waters The first arrival in 1563 was on the
26th of April; and from that period to the 15th
of August of the same year, there were entered
at the ettice of the General Mining Association
425 vessels, all of which, of course, made appli-
cation fer, and received, a cargo of coal. ‘This
fleet consisted of 33 barques, 130 brigs, and 212
schooners. ‘Trade commenced this year on the
lith of May, and trom that date tu the present,
there have been entered at the same place, in all,
612 vessels, of the tollowing classes: Barques, 50;
brigs, 154; schooners, 365--F rom this statement,
it will appear that while there has been a de-
crease of 26 brigs, au increase is exhibited of 17
Larques and 96 schooners this year over the eor-
responding period of 1863—the whole showing a
total imerease of 87 vessels. This, iv will be seen,
does vot include several steamers that have alse
ecoaled at the Loading Ground.

tORRESPODENCE. |
eee ee en nnn
[FOR THE EXAMINER. ]
FRAGMENTARY NOTES OF A TRAVELLER
( Continued.)

Look yonder, said Mr. Birch, at that

weather-beaten looking old gentleman with |jacent thereto which wants ‘* sidewalks”’ ;

his leg straight out before him: that. sir, is
one of the members for Murray Harbour, the
presiding genius and commauder-in-chief of
the Grand Orange Lodge of this Colony, and
theological director of its nocturnal orgies
He was once a decent man, and well respected
by all classes of the people; but in an evil

with the exeursionists, and Mr. Galt, who

‘sir,
Shut up by sea |

——— permet eae

L believe about the Orange Bill, when be) There isan incident or two of
shewed great sigos of bis might, lor he threat-| oceurring during the lite of the
ened them if they did not agree with Ae, be will not require the aid of **th
would go to the Council and get them to do) bitant’’ to treshen his memory
it, and if that failed that he would go to be to the point:
Downing Street, to the Duke of Newcastle,
AND MAKE WIM DOIT!! Here, said Mr Bireh,
{ wust, with your kind permission. digress a
little, to relate an aneedote which J Acard,
(for | wish you to understand | make a
distinction between what | know from my
own parliamentary knowledge, and what |
stute as a matter of hearsay, even though |
may myself believe it asafact ) Well, itis
reported that when the Duke of Newcastle
heard that the dg member for Murray Har-
bour, the colleague of the ** Grand Master ”’
of the Orange Lodges, intended paying
Downing Street a visit, to make His Grace do
something which he believed to be wicked and
unlawful, the poor Duke gto so nervous and
alarmed that he at once went to Her Majesty
the Queen, and told her the great peril his
situation placed him in if that big bully from
Marray Harbour should fall savagely on him
in his office, and therefore wished to resign
before that mighty man would arrive in Eng
land. Oh, my good Duke, said the Qacen,
you need not be so alarmed. 1 don’t think
your danger can be so great as you say, for
{ have heard something very interesting
from un old correspondent in Prince Edward
Island concerning that very big gentleman
it must be in your recuilection, dear Duke,
that when my ever-to-be lamented husband.
the late Prince Albert. was having erected
the great Exhibition Building in 1851, a
great flock of sparrows took up their resi-
dence therein, and became so troublesome
that I had to send for the great Duke of
Wellington to hold a council of war on the
dislodgement of the sparrows, when the
yreat Field Marslal advised me to send a
sparrow-hawk into the building, and the
very mention of the sparrow-hawk was quite
enuugh: the spurruws at once * cleared
out.’? Now, I have been informed by ar
vld parliamentary correspondent at P. £
Island that this mighty big gentleman oi
whom you speak has as great a dislike to
the word ‘‘cow-hide’’ as the little feathered
tribe in the building had to the word *+spar-
row-hawk,’’ in consequence of a terrible
cow-hiding (thatis, you know, Duke, fogging
with a whip made of cow-hide) which a little
Doctor somebody gave him, which alarmed
him 80 that he at once placed himself for
protection under the Speaker's chair! Now,
L think, my faithful Duke that your safest
pian will be to give instructions to a boy at
Downing Street, whenever that big gentle-
man makes bis appearance, to exhibit a good
whip and sing out **ecow-bide,’’ and you will
see he will be in * Pell Mell’? direetly, in-
stead of Downing Street.

Now, said my friend Mr. Birch, as | am
the oldest parliamentary man in this Island.
{ fear | may be suspected of having informed
her Majesty about the *cow-hiding”’ affair ;
and I therefore most positively declare that
| never wrote a letter to the Queen of Eng-
land or the Duke of Neweastle in my life.
To be continued,

Erratum.—lIn the “ Pragmentary Notes of a
Traveller,” in our last, twentieth line from top of
coluinn, read—the Agent gave no move than £10,
stead of “iore than £10.”

SeREEENE de at, ema
Mr. Wuaewan ;

Sir :—For the unbounded honor of having
my communication on the ** City Landings”
copied into so respectable and widely circu-
lated a journal as the Is/ander, and for the
absence, in the editor's :emarks thereon, ol
disrespect and seurrility, so extremely un-
common in that gentleman's writings, | mast
certainly make my best bow, and for ever
after this, if permitted tu enter the Is/ander s
sanetam, doff my chapeau. Meantime, | ean-
not help returniog tue left-handed compli-
ment, and say ‘i bisremarks were all true’
they would show that he had not used them
to ** blind the eyes of the flats,’’ but even
their antrathfulness belps to prove what |

public bene fit

editur,whieh

e oldest inha-
on, and

_ On Grafton Street rote |

Brecken and Coilings and the Misses Stewart

were thought to have usurped a portion of

the south sidewalk, when a certam gentle-
man's pious soul was stirred within him at
such iniquity, and he ** moved heaven and
eurth’’ till the above gentlewen moved back
their fences several feet, and allowed a good
sidewalk before their properties. The Misses
St wart consented to do the same, and offer-
ed their property for sale, subject to the con.
tanuation of such sidewalk, On the Opposite
side of that street, however, the property of
Mr. Pope suddenly grew on the sidewalk be.
yond the line of houses, but no notice was
taken of that. Subsequently the demon of
avarice seized the pious soul, and he is said
to have bought and sold a portion of Miss
Stewart's property under the express con.
junction to continue the south sidewalk,
whereas buildings have been erected beyond
the line marked out, making an unsight}
intrusion upon the intended sidewalk, of
which the pioussoul takes no notice,

these innovations will be styled by the Islan-
der editor public benefits, **and ean be

at any time ;’’ butif he were applied to as
an Attorney to have these sidewalks cleared,
he would tell the applicant * possession ig
nine points of the law, and the holders can.
not be snowed !'’ This 1s the sort of logie
used by saeh persons as the editor of the
Islander when they determine to enhance
the value of their own or their friends’ pro-
perties at the public expense, and yet our
Corporation, riage all this, are barteri
away our public landings without even gets
ing a “*mess of pottage’’ in lieu thereof. And
uwust we suffer this—are we forever to sub-
mit to such **time-servers,’’ and show no re-
sentment? Now we have it reiterated that
Mr. Pope's trespass on the east side of Great
George Stree. is a public benefit > Of course
it a be, so long as that gentleman can
keep it covered with piles of deals and other
lumber, because the public will not be able
to fall over the end of bis sidewalk, and so
long as he can keep the balance of the nar-
rowed landing completely covered ap with
sticks of timber, no horse that bas been in
the habit of going to and coming from the
ice at the foot of that street can proceed any
distance on the landwash, if it should take a
notion to rua down there from its owner
with a carriage at its heels. Then who
would not bow down and worship Mr. Pope
for his unspeakable generosity to the public ?
On the other hand, however, would Mr. Pope
allow the heirs of the late Mr. Birnie or
Mesers. Duncan & Co. to build on the east
side of his wharf within the east line of his
voundary for their own aggrandizement ?
Or if they opened a street throagh their pro-
perties down to the water, would he allow
them to take one foot of bis share to make a
sidewalk, eveu if the editor ef the Islander
should say it would be a public benefit, aud
could be ‘*moved at any time’’? No, sir,
every one who knows Mr. Pope, knows he
would be the very first to show his teeth.
Chen why should he take from the pubbe
what he would not grant to the public, or to
others? and why should our City Fathers
allow bim to retain what be has taken ? Has
he not room enough on the east side of his
wharf to erect what abutments be pleases to
pile deal and fencing on, without trespassing on
the City landings? Do not the members of
ihe Corporation know full well that neither
themselves nor the Government of the Islend
have power to grant one inch of the city
landings to any person or persons, no matter
under what pretéxt it may be sougnt? If
they do not, it is high time they were
taught; and if their teaching went through
their peekets, (if they have anything in the
shape of money in them,) the sooner they
would imbibe the lessons, and the City be
less likely to be defrauded. Under an in-
sinuation, the editor drags forth the breast-
stated to be correct. The main object of his work at the foot of Pownal ee and a
copying my communication was to gain pub- tends he does not know bon 7 when it was
he sympathy, and, if possible, cover up the | erected. ena he — . ay ™ nent
iniquity complaned of | bat he has overshot | form him on t vat point, by intimatiog a
the mark. Who tor one moment will believe | U@vernment erected it belore € hurluttetowo
that exther Messrs Gidley, Ings. J.C. Pope, | wer incorporaved, and about the time the
ur the estate of the lute James Peake would | G0veriment weighing machine was ercetrd
expend ove shilling —ainuch less pounds—of wore Poulet ur SSF cow bales
their own funds to benefit the public? Why + on bring a révenve to the City ; but what

the assertion cairies retutavion on Its) be @erieee “f bir. Pesto
jace, us the editur knows and bas actually | "Vous wll we aerive rom Mr. Pope
Yours truly

acknowledged, by stating that the estates of breastwork ? A CITIZEN
the three latter parties did and will actaall , grt &
ie bikes 4 pa 8 did ant actua a) Ch'town, 18th August, 1864.

derive benefi¢ trom the manutacture of szde-| Pron: vit tener Ee
Che Examiner.

walks {') at the toct of Great George Street

}
by using the public landing to do so; and |
even bis deual that Mr. Gidley did not de- |
rive personal benefit by the breastwork at |
the foct of Weymouth Street is not burne |
out by facts, while the very reason given by |
him for the erection of that breastwork, viz:
to “prevent that street being washed away,”’
goes to upset his Cenial, while at confirms my
charge of public property being taken to ag-
grandize private property, which the editor
knows full well is not right, and he would
be among the first tu show upposition to any
person who would dare to take one foot of
Ais land (if he owned any) to improve bis
neighbor’s premises ; then why encourage
public property beimg taken for a similar
purpose? But the editor goes further than
| did, for while 1 only suspected the Ciry
Council of impropriety in this matter, be
openly declares that Gidley closed up that
public landing ‘* under the sanction of the
Corporation!’ If this be true, it clear'y
shows that we pay a Mayor, a Recorder, a
City Clerk, and a batch of Police, an annual
premium to sanction the destruction of our
city landings, whieh it was supposed they
were sworn or had fidelity enough to defend
and protect from trespass and robbery ; but
are there no other streets in that end of the
city which are likely to be ‘-washed away?"’
Luen why so anxiousabout Weymouth street,
and let the others go w destruction? Simply
because Mesers. Gidley, Ings, Pope, and the
estate of James Peake, have nv property ad-

Charlottetown, August 29, 1864.

ied

THE UNION QUESTION.

We have been prevented, by absence from the
Island, during the past week, from preparing &

question; but the following Letter from the Hon.
Mr Coles, being his second on the same question,will
serve to keep the maiter fresh in the minds of our
readers. It aflurds abundant materials for reflee-
tion, and will, no doubt, be very serviceable to
the Provincial Delegates whep they meet in their
Conventiona! capacity this week. | We cannot
say that we agree with Mr. Coles in bis details.
We think that a Federal Union wouid be only
an expensive absurdity so long as British cou
nexion is maintained. The other wode of uniting
the Colonies, that is, under one Legislature,
every one seems to regard as impracticable.
Llowever, we shall have time enough to say our
say on every puint of the question before it can
be settled.

To Tne Epiror or THe EXAMINER.

Sin: —In ony first letter on the Union of the
Provinces, I gave my opinion on the kind of
Union I thought most advisable to establish. I
shall now give concisely the reasons why a Fede-
ral Union is preferable to a, Legislative one, in-
dependent of the great necessity of relieving the
Colonial Office of that multiplicity of correspon-
dence with seven or eight Colonial Governors,

but the Gas Company have property there, |
and are they not tearful of its being washed
away? A few years since they appeared so,
and applied for a grant of the shore out to
the chaunel ; but through the foresight and
indomitable perseverance of our first Mayor
and his Couneil, they did not obtain it, or

continuation of our remarks on the above named ©

a yentieman in comparison with those who
eerve him. In one of hie late sermons Brig-
bum relates the tollowing :-—** A gentlewan
suid to me, * L would like to establish a bil-
liard table and drinking saloon in your city
—you must have such places bere vy and by,
ane how.’ May be we will and may be we
will not; weshali see whether God Almighty
will reign among his people, or whether the
dewil will, IT shall keep sech Christian tn

stitutivus out uf this city as long as | can.”

--—-o-

The Mexican ladies amony other oddities.
or what seem oddities tu unaccustomed eyes,
have a way of sipping chvcviate during divin
service. [he pious personaze who bas come |
all the way from Austria to play Eu peror
in the halls of Montezuma is said to be greatly
scaudalized wt that proceeding.

PE EES A

Coniosities —There wa tarmer in Putnam
County, N Y¥.. who has a wile and a hal
of childere. His name is Furlong, and be
bas exghtboye and twogiris. Eight furlongs
one mile-—N. Y. Leader.

There is a gentleman in St. Louis, Mo..

and Little Blue. The intabitants between Forts
Kearny and Denver have fled.

Four trains were captured by the Indians on 2
the Litthe ler, ead oll the tuck, 460 head vi P90de ene brep both ofGper: nnd men toge-

cattle, and a large nuwber of mules, driven off. | Sber. whilst one who treats his officers in a
The Judians are well mounted, and most of | supercilious manner, scarcely ever attending
to his own duties, but leaving the command
of his corps to his adjutant (although he
the small feree under his command. ranks as a junior to all the other captains),
and who looks upon the men as mere ma-
THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY. | chines, subserviewt only to bis will or ea-
‘The special correspondent of the Times) price, and without any minds of toeir own,
vends home & very interesting letter from)can scareely expect te find bis regiment im
Richmond. Commencing with the aspect of | any other than a failing and disorganized
the city itself, be says :—** [f a wan were) condition. But however largely these eir-
lunded here from a balloon after six months’ | cumstances may have contributed to a dimi-
absence—il he were taken along Grace or| nation of the volunteer ranks, there are
Fran lin stre ts im this city on a summer) others of a sucral character which have, in all
evenmy, and tuld that two enormous aruiles | probability, as much, if not more, to do
are lying a few miles off and disputing its with the resignations referred to than any
possession, he would deem hig inlormant a : other. It cannot but be a cause for deep re-
lunatic
of gaily attired ladies (1 do not believe that) the volunteer rauvement to know that there
twenty rigorous years of biockade would/ are very large numbers of patriotic men
pale the lustre of ladies’ toilet in an Ameri-| among the working classes who have already
ean town); be would bear many a light been semen’ to ww the service, and that
laugh, many a song issuing from open case-| hosts of others are beginning to feel the ne-
who bas two bushels and a half ol childern oie he aie pas an a in aac _cessity of duing the sume, in consequence of
a Peer tee > na A ane 40d) Gon without being reminded that war is the depressed state of trade, and the great
Tiochatdts I one Daswel — St. Lous) furiously raging, otherwise than by the sug-) expense they are compelled to incur.
pe a : gestive boom of the faintly heard cannon ‘| ee
_ There ie a lady in Boston who was hus-| and, finally, when the couversatma turned CAREER OF A VILLAIN.
band to hee husband beforsShey were mar-! into its well-worn groove, he would find that
* ried, and who has given biur three husbands! Richmond traste and believes in St. Lee as| stances connected with the arrest of James
sinee mariage. Her nawe was Hushand,| much as Meca in Mahomet, or Spain in
—" was unchanged ia warriage.— Boston James of Compostelia.”’ He then goes onto through the Provinces, charged with eow-
oa | €w why such ¢ :nfidence is repo-ed in Gene-| plicity in several daring robberies in Western
There ia atady ia West Liberty O., who "! Lee, and im glancing at the position of | Canada— particularly the robbery ot the Ex-
has favored her husband with tharty wx do-| the armies says, that to * talk of Kichmond! press Office at Woodstok, and the attempted
aon of chaldrer ae theese tir the.
wes Grom, and her childera are Gross re. Petersburg. twenty-two miles uway, is about banker at Hamilton last spring. The villain
copte—Uriaaa Union. | 48 reasonable as to pretend that London waa while in the latter city sojourned at one of
A Citizen of Buffalo was presented by hie O% Short rations when Napoleon's army (the principal hotels, and gained considerable
wife wita a child, some weeks ago. ond he! menaced England from Boulogne in L804. Lt) notoriety frow his gay aud sportive airs, pro-
Ee hee the fathee al une were . every morn.| oe wnmeinse undertaking to starve out a fessing to have been an officer in Morgan's
Yad te f course his vame is Muure. — n, even when it is closely invested by gueriila band. During this time he em-
all @ Cow ier. land and by water. We all koow the his. ployed his ingenuity in planning and chiefly
Phere is a maa in this city with a famil a sieges which Londonderry, Saragossa, aiding in the execution of numerous bold
ie i pte ye Weg tie e-mpored of hienselt, enou, and a hundred other cities have! crimes. Suspicion by some means having
e wo ele : e ,
pater tance a" His name is Foote,

px Barvyora Post. “* make @ yand.—

with the matter.
A vigilant, efficient, and considerate com-

them are armed with long-range guns.
Gen. Blunt is doing every thing possible with

.

| Present condition of Richmond and these
wemoral| of history as between
the lazy Scbeld: aud the rapids of Niagara."*|

ton, and afterwards the arrest and confessions
of une of lis accomplices fastened strongl
upon bia the guilt ut these offences, and u

in every porch he would sce a group! gret to ali who have taken any interest in |

Her name. being besieged because Grant’sarmy environs) robbery and assassioativa of a prominent —

stood ; there is as wuch analogy between the | attached to him, he disappeared from Means |omea: he suddenly felt suppression cease, and

Mr. Fryeer appeared
tor the proseeation, aud Mr. Taby for the prison-
jer, Lt appears that Mrs. Fluewellin was induced
to leave her husband on Thursday morning.
When she was missed a vigorous seareh was com-
jinenced, and a report being circulated that the
juntaithiul woman had been seen with Mutters.
the police were al once communicated with. Con-
| stable Pearce stated that on Saturday he wen to
| the house of Mrs. Slade, Southgate-street, Bath,
jand there found the prisoner and sfrs. Fluewelis.
They were in a bedroom, and were taking re-
treshinenta. He there charged Mutters with the
offence stated above, and the reply was, * L have
not stolen anything; but what Ttook was with
the consent of ter,” meating Mrs. Flaewellin,
who said, “ Yes, I ordered him to get a fly and
take my bex away. I bad a quarrel wiih my
husband the night before, and reselved LT would
not hve with bim any longer.’ Witness left the
jroom for a minute or twe, and, en returning.
| Mrs. Fluewellin opened a box, which contained
jail the plate above mentioned. A wateh was

hatterwards found on the prisoner, which the pro-
}secutor identified as his property. The frail wife
}wus very reluctant te part with her new cow-
jpanion, whe was taken iuto custody, The case
}was remanded iu consequence of witnesses being
required trom Bath, Bail was applied for by the
| prisoner's solicitor and refused.—London Times.
aadeaiael

One of those great lives of voleanic action,
iwhich furrow the surface of the earth on the table
ilands of Mexico, extends fromthe Guif to the Pa- |

cific, to within about sixteen miles of the city vi

ries of extinet or doraant voleanves, through |

St.) Meliroy, after a long search by detectives | Which the internal fires of the globe formly found | to be ashamed of bis

}eent. Popucatepeti, the loftiest mountain in
| Mexivo, beimyg 17.584 feet above the sea, has not |
been in eruption within recorded time, but over
its crater is still frequently suspended a cloud of |
sulphurous vapor, aud sieke is still occasionally |
seen to issue trem itssummit. Within its eavern-
ous recesses are inexhaustible deposits of sulphur, |
j}which have been the seurce of considerable
wealth. Que was discovered by accident. A.
despairing bankrupt merchant, who had deter-
‘ined to put an end te his existence by deseend-
‘ing inte the crater ot Popocatepetl, persuaded his)
j guides to lower him ite at by ropes. He belev-
ed that he had only to breathe the sulphurous
fumes and die. Passing rapully into the dark!

;

tound hi

if ia a spaci hall, oraamented by

_dieative of a wise bead,"’ he 1s certainly the zens lay duwu in the street when such miyhty

: | speaks oat he says §
ated columns of a glassy lustre, and supporting | #PPears to please himself, whether it please and ‘wish the Jovil had the
y adome of glittermg yellow erystals, bt up by Othersor not; and once epon a time tne 2 pomtes VE pm sidewalk oad hs fellows that *e!ves, and readering old Motber i
u-! countless fickering jets of gas. Vor a moment’ some opposition from some of his culleagues, allowed them to sv '”’ ,

hour be so far forgot himself as to become| they would have built oat a wharf, and
the tool of the notorious Secretary, and the | thereby shut up two of our streets, Why,
still more notorious saint G. Sutherland, who| then, does not the present Mayor and his
persuaded the poor tenantry to vote for him, | Council look after the City interests? Las
the better ts enable him wo exterminate Ca-| he bot as much power to do 80 as the first
tholicity by means of his Orange pills and} bai? Most assuredly he has, for the law
plasters and to help the tyrannreal land!ords| bas not been abrogated ; but it would seem
to exact from the poor tenants the highest thut the interests ul the City or its imbhabi-
possible prices for their farms; but the great | tants are among the fast things tor the Cor-
majority of the constituents of that district | poration to trouble themselves about, while
have found out that Orangeism won't pay | 'ts landings are beiwg fritted away under
their rents, and that in order to have the) their eyes Lo improve private property ; and
proper terms trom their landlords they must | they seem ‘to echo the question put by the ‘
first have detfer representatives, or at least | /s/ander man—'t What business have the In the next place, supposing @ war f

such as won't be altogether in favour of the | citizens of Charlottetown ty 8.y of make any break out between Great Britain and the United
proprietors. The once good old gentleman | remarks against the enherent right of the| States, the four million of Colonists, as now dis:
being so badly underpinned, of course could | Giwiey’s, Ings’s, Pope's, estate ot late James |
not have a good undersiandimg, and as all his, Peake,or any other great lolk, tu subvert the
arguments consequently would be Jame, be| public suil or landings to ‘their own benefit
very wisely retrains from any attempt to use | and behovf’’ when and wherever they
any argument; and if **a still tongue be in- | please ?’’ And | ask, why dv not the citi-

aud frequently causing disappointment and bad
feeling in the minds of Colonists, from their Le-
gislative measures being freutrated by the Colouial
Minister, owing chiefly to his want of a correct
knowledge of the question submitted for his con-
sideration, and frequently influenced by the se-
fishness of interested parties who happen to have
easy access to biun—the different Governors having
to be guided by their Despatches, instead of by
their responsible advisers in the Colonies.

united, would have no voice cr opimion iB a great
question, by the contention of which their peae®
would be disturbed, and their lives aud property
sacrificed ; and the Foreign Minister, overt who
they have no power, may call ou the Cole
uists to defend themselves, and that at 3 wowents”
notice, while ne one of the Colonies have & voice
in the councils of the other — no unity of setiet
but all going like a flock of sheep without 2 sbep-
herd. Now, Sir, I consider that the support the
Colonies would be desirous of giving to the mi
ther country in case of war, cannot be sucee*
fully dove under the existing systems of Gover?

wisest man in the Louse, for he never speaks | people us these are passing, and suffer them-
at all; but he never fails to go into the di- | seives to be trodden upon? Bat the editor
Vision against the tenantry on all occasions | says these sidewalks are for the * benefit of
where the claimsof the proprietorsarebrought| the public!’’ Of course they are, when
forward, whether it be m paying up old! Messrs Gidley, Pope, Ings, &c., have no more
arrears or in passing Biils for the fifteen or | use for them, and they rot away. But he
twenty years’ parchase. [T always pity the, goes further, and says an obstruction or nuis-
dear old man whenever | see hin, he looks | ance can be moved off @ street at any time :
se sorrowful and disappointed like ever since then why does not the City Council take
the Duke of Neweastle wrote to the Governor buld of Mr. Pope's recent’ stracture, and

| Most of our readers have read the cireum- | Mexico; and there exists a very rewarkable se-| giving bim such a * blowing up" for having) move it away ct once? The public do not) meut; but a Federal Government would decide

passed the Orange Bill on the wilitary organization required in out sell

defenee, aud undoubtedly would be the weant

preventing inroads on us by auy State or countty-
Aud. my firm opinion is, that the “ ime par
rived ” for the establishment of a comprehensir@
system of Geverviment, and of an effectual omen
between the different Provinees, whieh will give
some seope for leading men beyond the petty
prizes of colonial factien; aud elevate our

, und indeed he appears want it at all. There are no *+ jamping-off
position himself, for you places’’ at the head of our streets—then why
seldum ean get a siraighttorward look at his should there be any at the foot? Public
hig. Yes, the pestueroas breath of Pope | benefi¢, indeed! If the editor of the Islander
and Sutherland would appear to have blasted) were coming off the ice sn a snow storm with
or withered all his former good qualities, and | the determination of himself and horse land-
left him the mere wreck of humanity which ing at the foot of Weymouth street, would
he how cannot coneval. he deem it a benefit to run his horse against
The other member for Murray Harbour is a wooden wali sume 6 or 7 feet high, instead
a oe gress erste: also on the of the natural landing? Or if he should

winisterial side of the Houge. He is decidely take a notion some dark night to take a tri : 2 a
the heaviest man in the House, and yet | in eli and g» vhs tien along the Colonial standing ; hege " fom ae ype
never curries any weight there, unless what) sidewalk. graiuious/y built by Mr. Pope, till with hatred or ill-will the Parent nas , ‘ble
is buttoned up within bisown garments ; and be tumbled off the end of it into the water,/a Minister in Downing Street, yee of

whenever he stands up to speak he is the or sume ten feet into the mud, would he call | to us, controls our affairs. We ave like a lot
ighest authority in the Livuse, acd he never that a public benefit? No, sir, he would be grown up young men,
ething, und it always the very first to use bis ae te for support, when we should

depending ou their fathet
be dving for out
and all the

assistance we can,

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