To THE EEITOR or Hssvsaifs Gszsrrs.

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people, nqt

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abused as follows, viz :

Sll; .a..,,,. . '- The People that live in the Country will be astonished b learn throu h the medium of your valuable Journal, has been run in Debt almost needlessly ﬁguce the last General Election, equivalent to (£67,08l.) ixty seven thousand and eighty one Pounds, wliie ‘debt will make the Government that contracted it, and t-i,'_‘hC majority in the House of Assembly that made and -x,'.,' .'supported the Government, to be remembered by the for one year only, but for many a long year lain facts and ﬁgures will "ishew, no matter how cunpin y they have attempted tot

An Account shewing increase of Salaries and debt since the last General Election, when the present majo- tity came into power and office, which power they have

HASZA1tD'S G.-\ZE'l"l'I5, DECEMBER 29.

quit yourselves like freemen, and strike a blow for your Country's freedom, and make a new Party to be called the Reform party, who will not waste the funds of the Country on persons and property in and about Cliarlotte- town, for the present circumstances of the Country re- quire neither Tories nor Liberals, for'l‘ory it is said means Robber, and Liberal with other peoples money against their will, and to their injury, means “as the Indians say, all same brother to robbers.” Therefore the names 'l‘or_v and Liberal must give way and cease, and Waster and Reformer take their place. Yours, die, A REX-‘()ltl\‘lElt.

St. Peter's Dec. 13, l855. [riiis PETITION is 1'0 RID us or THE \VAS’I'l-2ItS.] To His Ezcellelzy the Lieutenant Gozrcrnor t§°c. May it please your Excellency;

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if and llaiiger of Woods and Forests Salary to C. Little—not known

Total per year, £3,354 1 0

.-\ll of the above Salaries and debts were contracted within a year after the last General Election, and are spent on persons and property in and about Charlottetown, except part of the following three items,_ viz: wliatis paid to Members of the Legislative Council that live in the Country; and Morton and Pope senior’s share of

W'orri~Ei I-Istate. and the Country's share of Patriotic Fuu:l 'l‘.i:'t-o tliousaiid three liuuilrecl and fifty-four, Poun.L.—. ml.‘ siiilling a year, will pay the iiifvi‘csl Uh "ml

is l‘.1lll\'all(!lll to a funded debt of sixty-seven tliousaiid and eiglity-one Pounds, (£67,081) Wlllcll. sum would have been suflicient to make the whole of Kings County .Ir‘rcehol<l, at the same rate as the Worrell Estste. Poor Prince Edward Island, how deeply thou art wounded, and how freely thou art bleeding for the beneﬁt of thy Servants and Trustees; some say, perhaps the Country has been sunk in debt to prevent the passing ofa prohi- bitory Liquor Law, in order to secure the trade in whis- key to the Premier, when the trade in pohtigs fails him, by putting it out of the power of any future (xovernment, to be able to do without the duty on Spirituous Liquors; if faith is to be kept with the public creditor, and every honest man will say it must be kept, be that as it may, the above are set before the people to open their eyes, to the doings of their servants. But some may say, how are we to get rid of the wasters? it can be done thus, let the people rise and ptition his Excellency for a‘ Dissolu- tion as under, (and it will be granted, for a refusal will be received, viewed and adjudged as tantamount to a lenial of safety and protection to the people,) and_ a najority of signatures for a dissolution, and a majority if votes at the hustings. will deal a death blow to‘ the masters, and is. the price to pay for liberty; and if the pople regard their own interests, and have care and ove for their kindred and Cou_nt_ry, they will pay the

rice cheerfully, and the sooner it is paid the better, mid

I” when they do aytjt, they must not forget, tliatilie “. ‘waste, squaiide ng"and mismanaging of the majority,

' cry aloud for Economy, Retrenchniciit and Reform; and

formen that live in the Country to be represeiitativcs, U do the business of the Country, and not to have men -. t live in the City for Members who waste the public . 9 on persoris and property in and about (Jliarlottc- . To conclude, I. have set before you the bane and . in plain figures and facts,that touch e_very nian’s

P" Year We beg to inform you, that the squaudering and mis- _‘ 5 imanagiiig of the Public Funds by the majority ofour '1‘ 0 the Uﬂelet‘-led Legislative C0“"'-‘lb 400 0 iR8pl‘§S8lllﬂlIVCS, since the last General Election, is un- - ,' dded to C0108 ’ 01508 53250 3 Yea?» ! paralleled in the history of the Island, and we are con- -» for Road Correspoiideiit, 190 0 . viiiced that it would be very unwise, to allow the strings Deputy Secretary, 1-'30 0 07of the Public Purse to remain any longer in their hands, Private Secretary, 100 0 as we consider the Public Funds are not in safe keeping -lgbdded to Warburtoii’s office for Deputy’, 50 U 0i whilst in their possession. We therefore pray your Ex- S Do. to Mooney’s oﬂice for Deputy 50 0 0 celleiicy will be pleased to grant the petition, we now pre- D0- t0 C1a|'k'8 Office 5320" 3 Yea’: f°" lfer. to dissolve the House of Assembly, and by so doing, Controller, 100 0 0,you will not only convince your Petitioners, but every Assistant, _ _ j 100 0 ,one else (except the recipients of the squandering,) that “O. I0 Whelml’8 Oﬂice for Pllbllc Prlmlllg 100 P ,it is your desire and intention to give safety and protec- Soliciior General, the 1st with a Salary I00 0 0,tion to the people, and for giving us tlierequisite safety Librarian 30 0 0 and protection we require from you, we as in duty bound -£300 for Land to Col. Lane’s heirs interest of 15 0' 0’ win eve, pray, ,5,.c_, gm, gm £100 to Sir A Banrierman, for Mr. Stark‘s | , Horse and Gig, 5 0 0‘ _""‘“ Pensioners in Barracks. say 1:000 0 0 News by the last English Mail. ‘-Reporter, and Printing Debates, (Whelan uj_::iiii) say 0 0 ,‘comi,,q.=,ucics, 100 0 0 THE i-Unsuir or coonmo UNDER DIFFICULTIES. ‘ -£13a0”0 *“'°0l'dl“% ‘O C°°P" 3"‘! M‘I“‘°sh’ Fine well-biiilt cooklioiises are constructed’ from the ‘ lit!’ W0|'l‘0ll I-‘islﬂlﬁ. D101“? "'3" w°"°" cut stone of Sebastopol, which lies in large blocks around 1-is 8"!» 10 make few VIC“ and "“"'Y P°°'v _ unﬁnished houses or is taken from the ruined ediﬁces -||“9|‘l-‘S1 Of 690 0 0 and walls about the place. Mechanical ingenuity has 3.000 Patriotic fuutl—iiiterest of 10” 0 ll been largely developed in the use of resources. Uiic 5¢~15ltl .\s3'l|HIl—iIIlcI‘0Sl Of 20 9 9 officer converts the funnel of a small steamer into a chim- "‘-‘JIWU ~-inverllmem H0058, f0!‘ (335 53¢-i 55 0 0 uey———auother uses one of the pipes of an engine as a hot 53331 I.'0l0"iill Building G113 510-, 19 1 " air apparatus to beat his liut—a third has arranged a ‘ 1-l'l\a"l0lI4‘-l0\VIl Mecllnllics’ In-Willie 10 0 0 portion of machinery so that he can commimicatc from

his salon, sleeping-room, and diiiiiig-rooin (three single gentlemen rolled into oiie)witli his cook in the adjacent kitchen. and dinner is handed through direct from the fire to the table, after the fashion of those mysterious apparatus which obey the bclicsts of Loiidoii waiters iii the matter of roast meats, atid their satellites. Many officers have distinguished themselves by the trouble they have taken in showing the iiieu Iiow to make them- selves comfortable.

CARPENTEIHNG

Wtmtl ivass. little bits of;;l::.~.~, tar and pilcli, and ‘above al ‘ails and tacks, are c:i_;crly sought after. At the head-quarters’ sale, on (iencral .\'iinpsou‘s departure, a haninicr, hatchet, and saw sold for £2 l5s. A bag of nails was disposed of by aiictiou the same week for 40s, and on counting the coiitcuts, it was foiuid there were only 130 nails in the bag. Friendly little felonicsofplaiiking and such tliiugs are not uiilieard-of, and the greatest favour

on can do a friend is “to let him have a piece of board about 6 feet long by a foot wide ;” or, “ The Ca itaiii says, Sir, as how he’d be very grateful if you could give him .a bit of glass about three inches square, for his winder.” The heart soon grows hardened under such constant pres- sure, and one is obliged at last to refuse“ acouplc of ten- penny nails” or, “the loan oftlie hammer for an hour” with the sterniiess ofa Brutus. Pictures of saints, the erotic scripture pieces in which the Miiscovitcs delight fat Potipliar’s wives and garmentless Josephs, vcry plump Susaniialis and very withered elders, and “suhj'ects” of the kind, as well as straight-backed uncomfortable arm- chairs of walnut, heavy tables, and cliesls of drawers are not uncomuioii in the oflicers’ huts.

visirs FROM THE noes AND cars.

Cats from Sebastopol nboiid in the camp, and are very useful, inasmuch as the huts are _over-riiii with rats and mice, not to speak of other small deer ,iiow dissappearing before the march of King Frost. Dogs have come in from the deserted city, and domesticated themselves whether you will or not. There are always an odd lialf-dozcii about my but and tent which make night hideous with their quarrels——greylioiinds, mastiffs, and sheep-dogs, and their descendants, of very mixed and iiidisticl types; and for two whole days, our peace was niciiaced by a huge double liiiiiiped Iiactrian camel, which took a fancy to the space before our door, and lay there cotistsntly. so tliatoiir legs as we went out and in were within easyvreach of his prodigious teeth, But

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he was a good-natured brute, and never attempted to

bite unless one tried to mount him, when he disgorgcd his food, and spat it out at the assailant, or snapped his jaws at him in terrorcm. However, no one was sorry when he heard that the “ship of the desert” had got under way in the night, and had sailed oil‘ on a piraticnl excursion against other inﬁdel habitations.

MURDER OF AN ENGLISII SAILOR.

A very sclioclciiig niurdcr lias been coininittcd near Kasatcli. 'l‘lic body of an liiiglisli sailor, covered with

tabs to the iiuiiiber of 18, many of them in the belly, and sonic apparently inflicted by a bayonet, was found, The soldiers knew iiolliiiig about the affair, and as the body had not yet been identified, no one can tell whether the murder was committed for the sake of plunder. A short time pre- vioiislyl was digusted and horrified by seeing one of the Maltese boats towing out the body of a sailor frotii Bala Clava harbour, as if it was the carcass of a dog, a rope tied round the waist and a stone fastened to the other end, which lay in the boat, in order to sink the remains at sea. I was told there were marks of violence on the throat, but no one could tell anything about the man, except that his body had started front the bottom and was ﬂoating about till disposed ofin this disgraceful and revolting manner. They might, at all events, have put the corpse into a sac . -

THE RUSSIANS \VF.LI. SUPPLIED WITH PROVISIONS.

Adeserter states that the Russians are not sliortof pj'_c:y1::iroi:s; gliid alﬁogettlierwtljere is no one lprobable sign -pee y re rea_. i. cannot, wit_ out the very greatest difliculty, owing to a want of roads, turn their left lplyla secojid atgvance frat; Baidar ; knop canfwc, with nine iope o sii cieiit sii ss attac ' t iein roni Bala Clava in front, so that a niovement~froni Eupatoria upon lll(‘II‘ right and rear (difliciilt to its for want of water), N.‘t‘ll]S the only alternative. But their! rear may be as strong as their front by this time, and, if so, we ought at once to stop ilieir receiving further supplies (of wliich ()ll03IS('l if yet lqtul'tcfI_1Il), or't‘lie siege ofSebastopol may equa iii cugt i t It! siege 0 lroy. They can and do yet receive daily supplies on the north side.

'I‘HI-I RUSSIANS I-2XI’ECTl'Zl) AT KERTCH.

A Marseilles dcspatch mciitioiis the report that Gene- ral Viviau had asked and had obtained from the Otto- man govrnineut a reinforcement of 12,000 Turkish sol- diers. 'I‘lic reason assigned for this augu1entation—tIic expectation that the Russians will act against Kertch as soon as the Sea of Aioff is frozen tip-"—ma have more- reality about it than the pretended fact. ‘he despatch of ahotly of cavalry from the Bosphorus to I\'ertcIi was announced from Trieste and Marseilles as having taken place, in compliance with the urgent entreatics of Gette- ral Vivian, who was said to be apprenlieiisive of an attack. Letters from (‘onstantiiiople state that so far from this being the case, the cavalry were on arriving at Kertcli sent back, and arrived once more in Ilie Bos- plioriis.

Adiuiral Lyons continues to cruise near the shore of the (.'l'll‘ll(‘a, to survey the point of Kcrtcli, against which the Riissiaiis seem to be preparing an attack dur- ing the winter. 'I‘lu-y are fortifyiug Arahat, and are concentrating in its environs 30,000 men, whilst l.-7.000 more are sent towzirds Ueiiitclie, in order to re-cstablisli coniniuiiicatioiis betwt-eii the mass of the army of Prince lliortscliofl, and the interior of Russia by the road over the Spit of Arabat. The guns of the boats and steamers of the Allies, and of their floating batteries, can reach the Russian convoys along the whole route, and across the whole breadth of the Spit, unless iiiaratime operations are suspended by the freezing of the Sea of Azoff. Ac- oouiits from Kertch state that the Russian cavalry, which had been iii the ueiglihourliood of that place, have retir-

into the interior. Five gun-boats are still crusing in the Sea ol'Azofl'. 'l‘lirec hiiiidcred sail of inerchaiitmeii are lying \viiid—boutid in theSuliiia mouth of the I)aniibc.

Pncr Lnouss.—It is said that a gentleman recently de- ceased has testified his approbation of peace principles, al- though neither ii Quaker nor a member of ..he Peace Society, by bequesthing to Mr. Cobden and Mr. Bright £1,500 each, and 15 I00 each to three gentlemen who went as messengers ofpeuce to the-Czar Nicholas.

Flux dressers, in large lllllllhera, are leaving Arhoath and Kirkaldy, for Laiidcrnau, in France. An agent is in For- ftirsliir ‘for the purpose of engaging female power-loom weave ‘and spinners for Alblssssrbon, in Holland, but in consequence oftlie character given of flip Dutch factories by lhose who lately returned from them, his success has been very limited. -

The London papers speak of a ball ofﬁre which, on the evening of the 30th ult., appearedjin mid air, and darted along in a straight line over about is third of the s here, leaving behind it D. comet-like truil. It then hurt like a rocket, but without noise, falling in a shower of sparks,

wliich, however, instantly disappeared.

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