« Bedlam, madam !” quoth f, “ I bring intelligence from

diam, I arrived last week.

Bedlam, jl awkward young gentleman stared, and the

br if eaid, have shrieked, “ What in the name of out? are you?” “Mad, madam! very particularly

a : ad as a hare ir March.” “ Do you mean to

oat a2” said the old lady. “ Ay! do you mean to

igen my aunt ?—really !” said the tall awkward young mentfetn. «[ shall call to my servants,” Vs on old 6“ the humblest of them,” said [, bowing.

w] iL sellh you @ different tune,” said the tall awkward young gentleman.” “ Very well, my dear sir; here is my instrument,” said I, holding outa snuiff- pox, bearing @ preity close resemblance to a pocket. pistol. The sight was enough. Vanish the tall awk- ward young gentleman, and vanish the old lady in the twinkling of an eye. I locked the door, and found Margaret in ® paroxysm of Jaughter. “I wish you had shot him,” she said, when she recovered, “I wish you had shot him: he is a sad fool.” ;

Do not talk of him ; 1 am speaking to you, beautiful Margaret, possibly for the last time! Will you ever think of me?—perhaps you will. But let me recieve Campo lg reopbony tare Bip y-nfhct woe

: n may be

— a Spuaolation in calamity. Something— nay! I never could talk romance; but give me one lock of your hair, and 1 will leave England with resig-

con. me You have earned it like a true knight,” said Mar-

t; and she severed from her head a long glossy ringlet. “Look,” she continued, “you must to horse, the country has risen for your apprehension.” I turned towards the window. The country had indeed risen. Nothing was to be seen but gossoons in the van, and

ips in the rear, red — - white jackets, gal- jants in smockfrocks, and gay damsels in grogram. Biudgeons were waving, and torches were flashing, as faras the gaze could reach. All the chivalry of the place were arming and chafing, and loading for a Wiley of pebbles and oaths together.

[kneeled down and kissed her hand. It was the happiest moment of my life! “Now,” said I, “ adieu, my sweet Margaret,” and ina moment [was in the fane.

This. was my first folly, which is perhaps not unlike the juvenile follies of nine out of every ten persons in this foolish world of ours. Need I say, that 1 looked at the lock of hair often, but I never saw Margaret again. Bhe has become the wife of a young clergyman, and resides with him on a small living in Stafferdshire. I a = is very happy, and i have forgotten the colour of her eyes.

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Che ECxaminer.

SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1850.

LATER FROM EUROPE,

On Thursday evening the Steamer Rose arrived here with another English Mail, received at Halifax on Wed- nesday last per Steamship Hibernia. The intelligence furnished is very unimportant, and may be summed up 19 @ Short space.

The Ministry, it is said, is daily becoming weaker, ind giving symptoms ofa speedy dissolutions. They were left in a minority of nineteen ona motion made bY Sir F. Thesiger relative to attorneys, cert ificates.— “Another financial fight,” says the European Times, “took place on ‘I'uesday evening, which brought out Sir Robert Peel as the defender of the Government, and placed Mr, Disraeli and Mr. Cobden in antagonistic Msition. The subject was that of public sa!cries, in which the Conservative leader again appeared to indiff- tent advantage in his new character as a stickler for economy. Mr. Cobden showed the hallowness of this fwancial device, and did good service by the common-

| suse view which he took of the motion and its sot-dis- , at supporters.”

The general aspect of commercial affairs has not un-

. dergone any change of importance since we last ud-

d our friends ; a want of animation continues to

be the characteristic of business in 1850, and money is

| many instances lying idle both here and elsewhere,

g for more tempting opportunities of investment luon the present moment seems to offer.

The Marquis of Londonderry has avowed his hostility

oe and his determination to oppose it ve-

lement y in the House of Lords.

a Nee continues in a very unsettled state. The So-

lists have gained a signa) triumph in the election of

C Sete Sue, the celebrated novelist, in oppositiun to a

vith ative candidate—an event which is arded

tlarm and dismay by the friends of the present Go- ett, aS it marks the increasing power of the So thee ey. be Five per cents. have fallen to £86 50, but

"€ tallied a little, whilst the men of order seem para- |

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lysed, and are quite at a loss how to apply a remedy to the increasing evils of Socialism. It seems to be the universal opinion that some serious steps must be taken to arrest the actual progress of the Democratic party, but the disorganised state of the Monarchists precludes any well concerted plan of operations. We were told before the election that the Socialists were divided amongst themselves, and would infallibly be beaten ; but the result proves that their leaders contrive to make the whole body of Parisians vote as one man. * * * Time only will disclose whether the President will have recourse to some effective policy of repression, or whe- ther, finding it impossible to resist the progress of the revolution, he will frankly embrace its principles, call to his councils M. Lamartine, M. Marrast, and a few heroes of the Mountain, and attempt a Government on principles of “ progress.” In either case the destiny of France must undergo a violent crisis. Inthe former alternative, the Democrats will take up arms and fight their battle in the streets; in the latter capital will fly from the country, and a system of open or covert pillage will inévitably ensue.

The Greek dispute remains unsettled, and itis be- lieved that the danger of a blockade. is most imminent.

The Palace of Madrid has again exhibited one of those curious Sones peg set to that Court. The King, taking umbrage at Narvaez, and determined to remove him, threatened to leave Madrid at the approaching ac- couchement of the Queen of Spain. He also threaten- ed to publish certain facts impeaching the legitimacy of the Queen’s issue: and his menaces went to such an extent that Narvaez sent a body of soldiers and made him a prisoner in the Palace, until he could be brought to reason. The King, thus imprisoned, was compelled to capitulate, and at last a reconciliation took place and the whole matter was hushed up. ‘ Rome.—No division of a French army was ever more elevated than Baraguay d’Hilliers’. The feeling of every soldier is, not that the whole military force’ brought back the Pope, but that he, éach in his own person, performed the great fact. “ L’etat c’est moi,” exclaimed Louis XIV. “La benediction ec’est pour moi,” is the impression of every private in the ranks, Strange it cannot be considered, but it is a very pecu- liar instance of the effect produced by authority and mora] conviction—before the arrival of his Holiness, the army were.very little impressed with the solemnity of the ceremonial in which they were to play so prominent a part; but since they have had an opportunity of observ- ing the respect, amounting to awe, with which the Poftiff was received by the Prelates, the Ministers, and great officers of State, there has been a visible reaction. The men used to pass the carriages of the Cardinals without any sign of respect; now every one salutes as they pass, and pass they do in numbers; the streets are alive with the old-fashioned, massive Gothic structures in which the Princes of the Church take the air. Out- side the Porta Pici—the causeway is blocked up with

side by a secretary and a chaplain, and followed by two servants in time-hallowed liveries and tarnisaed cocked hats, Certainly the number of arrests is very much to be lamented, but in the face of these facts what is to be done? The people will not be free; that is, they will not permit other people to enjoy a rational amount of freedom. In this way the happiness of the masses is interfered with, It was the knowledge of these conspi- racies which prevented the grand illumination of the cupola of St. Peter’s, the high mass on Sunday, at which his Holiness was to have assisted, and, some people assert, the blessing of the people. All this has been put off sine die, and it is evidently the intention of the Go- vernment to prevent as much as possible, all public festivities and rejoicings.

We have been highly amused by the perusal of “two jetters which appeared in yesterday’s Islander, signed “An Elector.” Our amusement is owing to this fact, that the position of the majority of the House of Assem- bly must be a very strong one indeed, when it can be assai!cd by no other weapons than those of angry inyec- tive—paltry, petty insinuations—deliberate lies, and low, poltroony biackguardism. It gives us infinite plea- sure to see our enemies in a passion, and we beg to tender ‘dur acknowledgments to “ An Elector,” as one of those, for having worked himself into such a terrible fury, and thereby giving us an opportunity to indulge in a hearty Javgh at his expense. All his scolding— swelling out over two columns of the Islander—amounts to just this, “the majority of the House are a selfish and avaricious set of fellows for voting their own pay, and refusing the usual appropriations for Roads and Bridges.” Fools if they didn’t vote their own pay, say we, thus preventing the Governor from making cats-paws of them whenever he pleased; and it must be highly gratifying to the majority of the Assembly to know that that vote has given so much dissatisfaction to their ene- mies. We are not, we believe, inherently pugnacious and quarrelsome ; but we must confess there is nothing in this world which we dread swore, which we would sooner make any sacrifice to avoid, than any thought,

venerable men in red stockings, supported on either}.

word, or deed, at all likely to please our adversaries. We are delighted to see them in hot water, as their splashin + is surer to raise blisters on their own skins than to hurt us. Respecting the non-appropriation of money for loads and Bridges, we need only say, that when the time shall come for the repairs to be done on Roads an’ Bridges, which is usually in July, it will be soon enoug:. to make an outery on that subject. If no such appro- priation be then, or previously made, who is to blame? Not the House of Assembly. ‘The members of thax Body were anxious to vote the supplies for that purpose, and for every other, if the Governor would reconstruc: his Council, which he could and ought to have done, having the resignations of the members of the Council in his pocket. But the Governor has thought fit to dis- regard the feelings and opinions of the people, to gratitv his own love of arbitrary power, and to perpetuate an oligarchy that has been borne too patiently and too long » and if there be no appropriation of money for Roads and Bridges, Sir Donald Campbell, and not the House of Assembly, is to blame.

LECTURES.

TremPeraNnce.—Dr. Dow, lately arrived from Boston, delivered a highly entertaining and instructive Lecture on Temperance, at the Baptist Chapel, on Friday even- ing the 10th instant.

Anatomy AND Puysronocy.—We listened with great pleasure last evening tothe first of a series of Lectures to be delivered in this town, by Dr. Dow, on the above Science. His delivery was pleasing, his matter elo- quent, and his knowledge of the subject he discussed, extensive and profound.

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Music.—Mr. Kiely’s Band gave a Concert, according to announcement, on Thursday evening last. The audi- ence, though small, owing to the arrival of an English Mail that evening, and to the very unpleasant state of the weather, included many persons of exquisite taste and discernment in the art, who expressed themselves, we ere informed, highly pleased with the performance, and considered it the best which has yet been given by the Band. We learn, with pleasure, that Mr. Kiely will again shortly appear before the public.

We are obliged to defer the publication of several editorial articles until Wednesday : one in reply to the Gazette on the subject of the Signal Telegraph—-au article under the title of “Christian Politics,” called forth by the sermon in the last Gazetle ; and some ob- servations in reference to Duncan Maclean’s praises 0% himself in last night’s Islander.

By the Rev. Dr. Jenkins, on the 17th inst., Mr. Ronald M‘Donald, of East Point, to Een Pendergrast of Charlottetown.

At Cape Tormentine, N. B., on Thursday the 2c May, by the Rev. Mr. Smithson, Mr. Horatio M. Wright, of Bedeque, to Margaret Rebecca, secone daugiiter of Mr. William Wells. ;

At Charlottetown on Tuesday evening last, by the Rev. Dr. Jenkins, Mr. George ‘I’. Haszard, Bookselle~ end Stationer, to Mergaret, eldest daughter of Thomas Owen, Esq., Deputy Postmaster General of this Island.

DIED. On board the Schr. Peri, of this port, on his passage from New Orleans to St. Thomas, on the 11th Mareh last, after a few days illness, Mr. Robert Gray Nelson, youngest son of Samuel Nelson, Esq., of this town, 11 the 2%h year of his age. At Cherry Valley,on the 6th instant, after four days illness, of Paralysis, Mr. Thomas Irving, aged 16 years, leaving a family of eleven childrer. .o mourn his loss.

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aPASSSUGERS.

In the Steamer Rose from Pictou, on Thursday last, Messrs. Bland, John Fraser, Thos. M‘Keen, Archibald, Stewart, Evans, John Lyall and Lady. 11 steerage passengers. ‘

In the Prince Edward, from London, Mr. and Miss Haviland, Messrs. Robert Hensley, Hales, Broad, Johnston, L. Agazis, and two sons; Captains Nowlar, Hogan, M‘Kay, Lickis and wife. 10 steerage pas- sengers., :

In the Brigt. Hornet, from Liverpool, Hon, Charles W arrell, Capt. Michael Walsh, Lieut. Lane, Capt. Jones. Messrs. David Mutch, Chas. M‘Donald, Baxter. One in the steerage.

| SHIP NEWS. Enxrrrep, May 15.—Sehr. Isabella, Pictou, molasses : Schr. Pink, Cunningham, Liverpool, G. B., goods. 16th. —Olive Branch, Goodin, Tatamagouche, lumber; May- flower, Weatherbe, ‘T'atamagouche, Jumber. 17¢th.— Barque Civility, Ball, Bideford, G. B., 23 days, goods ; Prince Edward, London, goods. 18th.—Brigantine

Hormet, 31 days, from Liverpoo!, Capt. Rutter, goods.