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~ THIS IS TRUE LIBERTY WHEN FREE-BORN MEN—HAVING TO ADVISE THE PUBLIC_MAY SPEAK FREE.”—Mirron's Euparipxs.
yew SSRIZS. CLEAHINGS FROM PAPERS,
By the last British, Foreign, and Colonitl Maile.
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British. tws Bonegt.—The Chancellor of the Exchequer’s Jodget was delivered on the ASth inet., and, consider- ng the number of conflicting interests which have long siompated relief from the exactions of the Custome and Bsowe, the financia) expose cannot fail to provoke a » mile of contempt. Indeed, the number of Her Mrjesty’s lieges to whor the Budget will impart satis- facion are, we'apprehend, few anc far between. The sre upon._Downing-street, since it was known that Chancellor had a surplus,—a rare circumstance with s Whig official,—has been incessant, and must have ed not a little annoying; for, while the courtesies ¢f oficia! life compel a patient rehearsul of all imagin- sole sources, the. reserve. in which our Ministers of ‘Rate enshroud themselves for the time, makes the pang ad “hope deferred” sicken the unhappy expectants. 4 remission of the duty of tea is quietly shelved, on fe plea that the state of the revenue cinnot afford it. The tax on timber, which demanded the prompt syin- pihy of the (Fovernment, seeing the struggle to which we ssnow exposed from the comparitively untaxed foreigi- g,scems likely, by itscontinuance, to throw the making dour * wooden walls” into other hands. Even the ity on soap, which, in these days of sanatory refori, aight be compen to ‘have shocked the nerves of al] vo think thkt cleanliness is next in the category of the mines to vodliness itself, is rudely pushed aside, sthout a word of condolence for the outrage. As to he taxes on knowledge,” the lips‘of the damty repre- gatative of the Exchequer, like the false lover in the Ballad, are “forb ’ to speak that once familar word.” Previous Chancellors have earned funny subriguets, ac- erding to the merits or otherwise of their budgets. Qne of the Barings, when he filled the post, provoked ie ponderous plessai'ry of Sir Robert Peel for the re- gision of the duty on foreign asses; but of Sir Chartes Wood it wil! be said that he is eniphancally a © Brick” ~seompliment thot wall live when lie 1s traustiuted to
f “hich, then, (he Chancellor atates that he has only ‘mrphus of a militon and a half, and the process dy tech he arrives at this arithimeteal problem well be aby a reicrence to the report. He proposes to re- face the duty on mortsge and other stamps £30,600, witeabelsh the dutyon bricks, amounting to £450,- D, By tua orocess he wheorbs half his surptus, The matining hali he applies to ‘he reduction of the nation- ddedt, and to the advancement ot agriculture improve- Matin the way of drainage,&c, This, in substance, Bhiercleme, and it realises the plilosophy of the Breeds) chonceilor who desired his von to go forth me the world and see how easily it was governed. Te wotable project of reducing the national debt by ha paltry instal:inent—a thimbleful of water to an wena of }iquid—will remind the reader of the equally wipnl idea of Mrs. Partington, who hoped to empty MAUanic with that mighty utensi]—a Jadie!
Tae Great Extisitiox.—The Royal Commission ihe exiribition of Industry of all Nations have issued ‘Miement containing, among othera, the subjoined Went notices: The Commissioners have fixed athe Ist day of May, 1851, for opening the exhibi- %& The Cosamssioners will be prepared to receive Wake charge of, at the expense of the Commission- “Vall articles which inay be sent tothem, and déliver- tua place to be named by the Commissioners in vadon, on or after the Ist of January, 1851, and will Winge go to receive goods until the Ist of March ex- Mire; after which day no further goods will be "wed. Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to
“a sie for this purpoee on the south side of Livde ‘’t, lying between the Lensington drive and the ride
“anonly called Rotten row. From the approximate “ate which the Commissioners have been able to
*, Wey beleive that the building ought to cover a
Me of from JG to 20 acres, or about one million of
we feet. ‘Ihe productions of al! nations will be ex-
ed together, under one general clasaification.
: Her Majesty's Commissioners are considering the “88 upon which the prize fund of £20,00 shall be
wOriated, and the best inode of adjudication— Loen- aminer.
aos Statitics.—In London there pre 12,000 *8 Uncor regulertraining to crime, 30000 theses,
, community.
-| complicated network of circumstances which, by my
» Meeivere of tiolea voods, 23,000 persone picked
CHARLOTTETOWN, APRIL 13, 1950.
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up in a etate of drunkennese, £0,000 habitual gia drink- ers, and $50,000 of both sexes leading an avandoned hfe.
New Prrraoes.—The Gozette of Friday last announces the elevation to the peerage of Lord Albert Denison by the title of Baron Londcshorongh, and of Mr. Samual! James Lioyd by the tide of Baron Over- stone.
As an instance ofthe extent to which the London market is supplied with butcher meat from Scotland, we may mention that, within a period of 76 or 80 days, lately, no fewer than 390 tones weight of meat were despatched from our rural station to the North Dritieh Railway.
A boy has been hanged by accident at Breightmet, near Bolton. Having put his neck into the neose of a rope. he was taking from the branch of a tree, he fell, and dislocated his neck.
An inquest was held on Tuesday, in Carey-street, London, on the body of John Drury, a man who tame to his death in a singular manner. Drury was a paint- er; he lived with his wife in a garret; théy Had a qrarrel and a figit, to which another lodger put an end ; the wife then went to the lower part of the house. Drury said he would not meet his wife again by des- cending the stairs, but he would go down by the water- spout on the outside of the building, as he had done many times before. On this occasion He struck against sume obstruction midway in his descent, and was pitched upon the steves in the yard. His skull was fractured, and the brain lacerated.
A‘young officer of the Gaards made a wager tHit he would walk from London 10 Windsor Barracks in seven hours, accoutred ag a private soldier—knapsack, havre- suck, musket, S:c., forming a burden of some sixty pounds. ‘lhe youfig gentleman accomplished the feat in five hours and ahaif. The distance is twenty-one miles and a half. and the efficer performed his task without any previous train:ng in carrying his load.
Mr. Roesuck anp tHe Cotontns.—Mr. Roebuck, in one of his recent speeches tu the House of Commons, give the following descripuon of Colonial communi- ties :—
* He had, for his sins he supposed, lived in a Colonial tie knew what kind of people coimposed those sinal!, narrow communities, where every body knew every body, and almost every body hated every body. (Laughter.) He could not conceive anything tnore horrid to a man who did not wish to be always in hot water, thin to be compelled to live im a small] Co- losial dependency.”
Sin R. Peew on Frencn Pouitcs.—The Patrie says:— One ot our friends received a few days ago a leiter from Sir R. Peel. i contains the following pas- sage:—‘ I have no hesitation in giving my opimon on the present state of things im France. France is a dili- gence full of honest people, stopped of the road by brigands, and which is waiting for the Gendarmes.”
Suppressiow oF THE Lonoon Gamarine Houses. --Last night the numerous gaming houses in the vici- nity of Jerinyn-street, St. James’s, Regent-street, and Leiceater-square, were, by order of the Commissioners of Police, placed under a close surveillance. Two con- stables were stationed at the entrance of each house, to note down and describe the persons entering thereim.— ‘They will be relieved at stated intervals, the surveill- ance to Continue, without intermission, night and day. It is anticipated that this will effectually put a stop to these places, numbers having again sprung Up imto ex- istence.—AMorning Post.
Foreign. UNITED STATES.--THE PARKMAN MURDER.
in our last paper we gave a notice of the trial and coeviction of Professor Webster for the above murder. At the close of the tris} the unfortunate crimias: de- livered the following speech :--
Professor Webster rose, and in a very distinct roice, spoke nearly as follows:
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lips during the period of my confinement, trusting ay- self entirely tothem. They have not deemed # neces. sary, in their superior wisdom, to bring forward the: evidence which was to exonerate me from a veriety of these acts. The government have brought whatever consummate ingenuity could suggest againet me, and [ hope it will not have an undue influence upon my jury. I will not allude to many of the charges, but there ia one waich touches ime, and that is the letier which has beeo produced. Jt is not the firet I have read in the deily prints which have been distributed in mya oy and various publications which have been made respect ing them. One statement was that I had, after the dis- appearance of Doctor Parkman, purchased a quantity of oxatic acid te rerhove the stains of blood. and it instantly occurred to me that this parcel might be saved and pro- duced when necessary. For several] days Mrs, W. had requested me to purchase some acid for domestic vse, and as my wife had’ repeatedly laughed at me because I had not purchased it, Thad borne it in my: mind that afternoon, and hrsd gone into Thayer's store, under the Revere House, and made the purchase, and waited tJ the Cambridge hourly came along and then jumped inte the omnibus with the bundle. I went hoine and gave the bundle to my wife; and when afterward I heard ¢o much said about the bundle, it flashed on my mind ina moment that this must be the bundle. It was to this bundle, and not to amy document, that I referred in the direction to my wife ‘The Jetter had no referrence to the notes which were found and placed in the trunk of Mr. Cunningham. In regard to the Rev. Dr. Parkman, I think he did “not do me justice, In my conversation with him he certainly spoke to me of his brother’s abe» ration of mind, and other circumstances which he did not mention. As regards the nitrate of copper fh the uthal lecture preceding my arrest, | had occasion to bse the influence of chemical! agents in producing changes ‘of various subjects. Among others on gases, | preparéd « large quantity of oxalic aciw eas. A gallow jar was filled with gas in order to produce the changes from dark color to orange, and also in air. On great heat being Bpphied to the jar the was was drawn through water. Astothe nitrate of copper spilled on the Boor of the laboratory, it was spilled accidently from a qQuan- tity and by me, in my lectures between the day of Dy. Parkman's disappearance and my own arrest Bo F right go on explaining a variety of carcumstances which have been distorted. My counsel have presged: me te keep calm. My very calmness has been made te beer againat me; but my trust has been in my God and iu my own innocence. In regard to money, I must say a word, The money which T paid to Dr. Parkman on the afternoon of Friday, Nov. 23, I had saved up from time to time and kept it ina trunk in my house in Cambridge; but, unfortunately, no one ever saw me take it out~- therefore, J can only give my word that such ia the fact Several years ago [ had students who were in the habit of being in my laboratory and who injured my apparatee; therefore, I prepared every thing for my own use in my lectures with my own hands. and that is the reason why [ excluded persons from my Jaborstory. As regards my whereabouts from the hour of Dr. Parkinan’s disap- pearance, | have put into my counse’s hands satisfae~- tory information, which will account for every day I had spent during that week—for every day and every hout L never was absent from home. As to being seen by Mr. Sanderson, | was at home every evening. One thing that has been omitted by my counee! was, thet of the Friday on which the alleged murder was said to have been committed, I had purchased Humboldi’s new work “Cosmos,” and while writing for an omnibus stepped into Brigham’s to take a mutton chop, and in coming out to take the omnibus had forgotten my book, but after my arrest remembered the place where T bud left it, and mentioned it to my counse}. ‘They had sent to Brigham’s, and the book had been found.
The Profeesér here sat down, but aimest insfantly arose and said—
i will say one word mora. I have felt very mach di» tressed by the production of those anonymots betters, more so than By any thing that hse occurred during the trial. call my God to witness, thet if it was the last hour of my life, I never wrote those letters. Since the trial commenced a jetter has been received from the
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peculiar position, the government has thrown around je, | and which, in nine cages out of ten, are completely dis- | torted, and probably nine tenths of which could be satis- i factorily explained. All the points of the teatimony have becn placed in the hands of my counsel, by whom My innoncence could have been fircnty ‘established.
| Acting cntipely waaler their directica, 1 bave seated my |
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