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from an Irishman—a Connaught Ranger :— sought destruction in its grasp. «88th Regiment, Camp of Sebastopol, ; 2 Fundreds destroyed themselves, and showed, in their September 13, 1855. various modes of suicide, the characteristic Chinese ingenuity. : : . . a, | Sume deliberately lighted their pipes, and sat themselves down | My Drar =-—- :—Having now some leisure after the fall | upon the shore of the sea, and awaited the rising of the tide | of this mighty fortress to send you and my former companions | _—srimly resolved to die—and sat and sat, silent and unmoyed jaf the Ordnance Survey some slight account of the taking as a storm-boaten rock, as wave rose upon wave, until they | thereof, I will commence by stating that on the 5th, a tre-|

mendous cannonade commenced ; 2,000 large pieces of ordnance, ‘companions for death—giving 200,000 men on both sides, made a dreadful noise. It was a which, with a kindly touch of the trigger, would seatter their grand combat, which continued until about noon on the 8th, | brains, and hasten their doom. Some hung themselves to the when the French darted like lightning upon the Malakoff, and | taj] trees by their hair, and some twisted their queues about in about ten minutes the tri-color floated on itssummit. Then | their necks, with # deliberate coil after coil, until their faces we were ordered to goatit. We jumped from our lairs with | blackened, their eyeballs started out, their tongues protraded, the-spring of tigers, and had about nine chains to go in the) and deat relieved their agony. Some cut ugly, eruteh- face of the Russian guns, vomiting death upon us. Many a- shaped sticks, sharpened the ends to a point, and thrust their hero was sent before his Maker in that distance ; but nothing | necks upon them until fhey were piefced through and througt, daunted, we crossed the trench, though it will ever remain @ | and thus mangled, yielded up life in a torrent of blood. Somo mystery to me how I got over, I found myself upon the par- took great stones into their hands, and leaped into the depths apet with my comrades falling in scores around me. Oh!) of the nearest river and clung, with resolute hold, to the the sonsatiens I felt Ishall never forget. My brain was on! weight which sunk them, gurgling in the agonies of drowning, fire. I felt as if I was made of India rubber, and was bullet | to the bottom, until death inemenell:'thele grasp, and floated

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| Theve’s not a heart in England ean feel a pang more keen, That day and night her own loved troops are thought of by their Queen.”’ ( |

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Then rose a shout through England, from chem ‘twas wafted |

| proof. On we rolled, like a torrent swollen with rain, driving

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them to the surface, lifeless bodies. Some starved themselves

j : 5 : “ogy roe « ne , «© > . »1 | a . . . . . the foe before us, until oe career was stopp od by an intrencn- to death—refusing either to eat or drink. Some impaled at , Ae . wien: aF oly . > a . . . . iment in the tear of the Redan; at the back of which there! themsolyos upon their instraments of Jabour—and thus, in

was a forest of bayonets and mountains of cannon, and we

than a dozen of us returning to the apex of the Redan, where

: \few weeks after their arrival, there were but searce two ‘ c > ? were cruelly decimated by volleys of grape, &e., not more |

hundred Chinese left of the whole namber. This misorabioe emnant of poor, heart-sick exiles, prostrate from the effvets

on, AGAR ESOr + alam ded F h eal k to . : . we were again added to a few of the 97th and 23rd, and| of the climate, and bent on death, being useless for labour, ° ? . . ‘9 , YE. sa siols > « . j . ve » . “ - — ute les elt Wei i ANE, Agent. | — “hoe » Wounded soldiers, and it rang from shore to} headed hy ‘the gellant Colonel Windham, to whom might! were sent to Jamaica, where they have ever since lingered out ‘ ~- LANE, Agent. | Ss 5

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Agency. September 10.

Valuable Farm fer Sale. A* ‘excellent FARM, consisting of 75 acres of Freehold 4 ‘Land, on ‘the Emy Vale Road, Lot 65, twelve miles from Char- lottetown, (40 acres of which are clear,) with a large DWELLING HOUSE, newly erected ahd completely finished, is aow offered for sale, with immediate possetsion. For particulars apply to May 28. J@UN KENNY, Centra! Academy.

Freehold for Sale. _ ;

rpuAT well known Freehold, of 55.acres, “ EGLANTINE

POINT,” Fortune Bay, formerly owned by Epwarp Abe t, is

now offered fur sale, of which a goud and valid title can be given. For further particulars apply to W. Bb. DEAN. Registered book 24, page 878. tf July 23.

From Auwa, Banakntaya, and from INKkermann it eame—— ** God bless the Queen of England! Again we'd do-the same!”

| « Pel ‘TELL ME YE WINGED WINDS.

Tell me ye winged winds, That round my pathway roar, Do you not know some spot, Where mortals weep no more ? Some lone and pleasant dell, Some valley in the west, Where, free from toil or pain, The weary soul may rest?

The loud wind seftened to a whisper low,

And sighed fer pity as it answered ** No!”

Tell me thou mighty deep, W hose billows round me play, Know st thou some fayored spot, Some island far away, Where weary man may find The bliss for which he sighs, Where sorrow never lives, And friendship never dies ? The loud waves rolling in perpetual flow, Stopped for a while, and sighed to answer ‘* No!”

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And thou, serenest moon,

| That with such holy face

Dost lock upon the earth,

| Asleep in night’s embrace,

Tell me, in all thy round

Ilast thou not seen some spot, Where miserable man

May find a happier lot!

| Behind the cloud the moon withdrew in wea, And a voiee, sweet but sad, responded—** No !”’

Tell me,-my seeret soul,

©! tell me ffope and Faith,

Is there no resting place

From sorrow, sin and death?

Is there no happy spot,

Where mortals may be blessed,

Whose grief may find a balm,

And weariness a rest !

, Faith, Hope and Love—best boons to mortals given,

| Wayed their bright wings, and whispered—* Yes ! in Heaven!”

Stliscellancous,

arenes tte ee

The following letter was written by Frederick Lucas 2 short

justly be applied the epithet, ‘ bravest of the brave.’ Before, } however, we had advanced twenty yards, there was scarcely isix of us left. Returning, we joined our brethren, and kept jup the unequal contest until two o'clock, without supports. | We then clearly saw that it was madness to remain longer. ‘I believe I was the last man who left the Redan, and I may |thank the practice I had on the Ordnance Survey in topping \ hedges and crossing ditches for my safety. | made a bound land crossed the ditch at a spring. 1 have sinee measured it and it is six yards wide. 1 had then to ran a distance of 240 yards, with bullets flying about ime as thick as hail. Thanks | be. to God, I reached the trench without a scratch, but minus |iny cap and one boot. At present there is great grumbling jincamp. Some regiments tell us that had they been there, they would have been able to stand their ground. Now, I | boldly affirm that it weald have been as great a piece of in- | sanity to haye remained as it was of the 300 Spartans who Peta, tomy at the pass of Thermopyle. Oh! but the night scene it is impossible to describe. Conceive something similar | to Bulwer Lytton’s description of ‘the destruction of Pompeii, jor, to quote the words of Napoleon on the burning of fos- cow :—* It was a spectacle of red rolling flames like immense jwaves of the sea, alternately bursting forth and elevating | themselves to skies of fire, and then sinking into flame below.

| It was the most grand, the most rublime, and the most terrific |

sight the world ever beheld.’ 2 was among the ruins yester- day, and you know I am fond of curiosities. I had two large | antique vases under my arm, when J was accosted by a French- iman, and taxed with cowardice. 1 dashed the vases to the | ground, and hurled the Frenchman and his locking glass after _them. Jomy wrath I certainly should have injured him had

it not been for the interference of an English gentleman. In

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who were discussing the merits or demerits of the assault. A Scetchman gaye it as his cpinion that if the Highland brigade had been selected as the storming party, the fate of the day would haye been different. He also hinted, in the subtile way of the Scotch, something that amounted to the charge brought by the Frenchman. I burst into tears and re- plied to his argument by a mgular knock down. I had the | satisfaction of thrashing him right well. The fact of the ‘matter, is, that the Highland brigade have hardly fired a shot during the campaign. They were off at Balaklava in snug quarters during the winter, Through the kindness ef a noble young Englishmen who has seen better days, I have had an opportunity of sceing the Times all along, gpd [perceived

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the honour of the day. In point of fact, they were hardly engaged at all. Whether hy accident or design J know not, but the 88th and other Irish regiments arc always placed in front. The S&8th were the first to eress the river at the Alma. We fought like heroes at Inkermann, and we worked like horses all the winter in the trenches. You will recollecé in i840, the night you and L wero detained on the top of Slieve- ramen hy the mist. We then deploréd out hard fate ; but i¢ was nothing in comparison to 8 night in the trenchesgbere.

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} about two hours after this incident [ jomed a group in camp!

after the battle of the’ Alma that the. Highlanders got all |

a miscrable heggar’s life.”’

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Ayvrrican Senyice ro Russian Betiicerents.—It will bo recollected that the Schooner Caroline L. Fonte, from Hono= i lulu, bound to Hakadodi the way of Simoda. changed her routa |on arriving at the latter place for the purpose of conveying to | Petropaulowski a Russian Admiral and sailors who had been wrecked on the coast of Japan, near Simoda.

The Captain, who was also the owner, got a bonus of $2,000 for the voyage, and offered his seamen 6 a month increase in their wages, but they refused to work for that; and re- quired also, as the vessel took arms and ammunition as well usmen, that the captain should give them a written instru- ment holding them harmless in case ef capture. This being denied, they refused to work the ship, when they were put on bread and water, and the yessel manned by the sailors of the Russian Admiral. On their arriyal at Petropaulowski they were taken into custody by Russian soldiers at the in- stigation of their own captain, and confined in a damp and unhealthy prison, without bedding for the space of four or five days. The alternative was finaliy presented them of being sent into the interior er going to duty on the vessel. They ac- cepted the latter alternative, returning with the vessel to Japan, and thence to Sen Francisco.

Upon their arrival at the latter port, they brought an action without delay in the United States Court against ike Schooner for an increase of wages ; and the Court decided in their favor, viviug them $100 per month from the time of deviation in the voyage.

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Lirrrany Prorrrs or Mr. Dicxens.—The proceeds of Mr. Dickons’ last serial, Bleak House, are understood to have fallen i little short of £13,000; and large as that amount assuredly is, it is, probably, not over the mark. The sale is assumed to haye varied from thirty to forty, averaging thirty-five thoasand per month, which, at half the selling price, leaving the other half to defray expenses, would be, in round numbers, £10,000 for the twelve months, on the monthly parts alone; and the parts extend to twenty. Then the advertisements were charged at from six to ten guineas the page, according to the position ; and the best proof that the monthly edition exceeded thirty 'thousand, is the circumstance that the advertisements would | often be found emitted in circulation, the agreement with the adyertiser being that when that issue was reached, his an- nouncement should be withdrawn. The reason for this is ob- i vious, as no very elaborate ealeulation of the price of paper, ite. is requisite to show that there must be a point at which {profit on the advertisement would be aborbed in the cost of | production. Next comes the sale of the work in yolumes, the | price of which keeps up prodigiously. Of noauthor are thors | fewer bargains to be met with on the old book-stalls than Boz. | Bound or unbound, piece-meal or entire, if you want him you ‘must pay properly for him, and age deteriorates Tittle from his {market value. This is the true test of a genuine popularity,

land, applied to most others, is a fatal one indecd. Yow muy

time before his death to Father Tom O'Shea. It is so beauti-| We have had a priest attached to our regiment since it landed, | meet with ‘Harry Lorrequer,” and the like, by tre hundrod 1

ful, breathing throughout the sentiments of a Christian

and I am proud te record that ng bigotry has been manifested

i weight, handeomly bound, uncut, letiered, piates, and all the j ‘ eat

gentleman and true Patriot, that we make room for it, although | towards the priests. It could not, however, be otherwise, for| rest of it, at po great adyance on waste paper price; but (it has already appeared in several of the papers on this side ef) their love and care for the poor Trish have been superior to

the Atlantic :-—

i Srames, September 28.

| “My Dear Farner Tox—I don’t know whether Iam glad or ‘sorry that your notion of my disorder is so mistaken. The

| > i as A janything that I can describe. [I anticipate glorious results

\from this war. Jn the first place, that wretched race, the

\with *‘Pickwicks,’’ ‘“‘Dombeys,’’ and ‘*Chuzzlewits”’ neyer; while such is the @harm of the illustrations, always from tho same pencil, that large numbers of the London edition Continue

| Mahometans, will be ebtiterated out of Burope ; and, in the | to be sold in the United States, notwithstumding the len

,second, the English and Scotch officers will have seen enough

thousand specimens of home manufacture in that model repul-

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. © ww . . % 3 ne Or o. ara” we. 3 ss Trove? BPG a we ir P oh pave af P truth is, that it is pretty fairly spread over most of the organs of the French army, who, to a man nearly, profess the old | lic of reprinters. That brings us to speak of prior ity of pub- - . iz 3 i ° ’ %. ° ° ¥ e i ieat) ya - -oanemi > +5 sh salivatce ° ha of my body - that I am now suffering under enlar ed heart, i faith. They hay e likewise witnessed how we (the Irish) have lication the re, by transmitting portions UUVAICe of bir

bronchitis, congestive liver, inert kidneys, a stomach that re- | fought, and if they should still consider that our fathers and | period of yending here, a privilege that constitutes a fruirful

‘fuses food, asthma that forbids sleep, and, to crown all, the | brothers should be insulted on account of their faith, gratitude lsource of revenue to the author, despite the dexterity of his

Bweiling House and Land near Cherlotte- town for Sale: For SALE, the newly built and commodiows Dwelling

House in Charlottetown Royalty, lite the residence of ‘the Hon. Charles Hensley, together with eighteen acres of Land adjoining. The Dwelling House contains—Dining Room, Drawing Room and Study; two

cj ith § ij : . : ; : re ; ; iat te miei aod . romewhore about what has becr Kiteheus, with Store-rooms, &c.; and Nine Bed-rooms. There ivalso | to make the best PreReetee [ can for the Judgment Seat of | entitled ‘* Panama in 1855,” from which we extract the fol- | thitt the ager gate suould bes vu rere - 2 — = a ; . ) tables, Conas-boese, yon rey ae The dis- | the Aimighty, and to request all the prayers of my friends to | lowing passage, Cee of the awful waste of life among | Somat + adn po See Pehal ae} i . “wea Sancti “a j nee from rlotteto 1¢r lees than one ; 4 re . =f the manel hinade ‘whith caneki Panam: ailway :-— | india, when the expemsos o: tuat mahog: y-coioure nelicn- iE: Aids to fet Sheed’ yons tofear, or for b term of. years, 1 Sgreed epon, | 8: me through the fearful passage, which I hope may be the poor Chinese, while working on the Panama Railway : ae cen tientdnted . cavier mathine of the atwene in Dicken 7

: ; ‘ R ac the above Dwelling | {rom death to hife. ‘ A ship arrived, and landed on the Isthmus some eight | 2@TY @re tiquidatoc, siyiny ee ; eae » k

eeveral Pasture Lots in Charlottetown Royalty, near the above Dwelling 1 : : a | favour in respect to his liver.—Cerrespondent of the Liverpool i: Moase. | Thank God, I have no wish to live. I ask for no prayers | hundred, after a fair voyage from Hong Kong, where agne 150 Des. ER Maw en Beare ri 'y i iF Por Terms of Sale and Lease apply to the subscriber at the Attorney | fur restoration to health. I haye never valued life very much, | poor devilsof the Flowery Kingdom had unwittingly sold them- | Albion. i a i Genera!’s Office, Colonial Building, Charlottetown. | aed now less than ever. Dear Father Tom, it would be aj selyes to the service of the Railroad, perfectly ignorant of the : f ae : JOSEPH HENSLEY. | great pleasure to me to see you again before I die. We have | country whither they were going, and of the trials which} Tue zrrecr or War on Literavrre.—lIt has been observed 4

Public Lands. mpue Commissioner of Public Lands gives notice that per-

sons who have given bonds for the purchase of lands—having had favorable terms offered them—should they mot speedily settle their accounts, by calling at the Commissioner’s Office, and agreeing to the balance thereon in the terms offered by the Government—render them- Selves liable to any alteration in these terms which may be thought advisable. September 17, 1855.

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Notice. A™M persons are hereby cautioned against trespassing on those lands situate on Lot or Township No. 46, the property of

Captain Byrne, the beirs of Mrs. Taylor and of Miss Gun Cunningham, |

and lying between the western boundary of Major Crooke’s Jand, and the eastern boundary of Lot 45. Amy person or persons so found trespassing, will be prosecuted with the utmost tigo%r of the law.

* ROBERT STEWART,

Agent for Captain Byrne, the heirs of Mrs. Taylor ; yice to selfish personal considerations.

~ and Miss Gun Cunningham. ‘Charlottetown, April 23.

; your hand once more, and to reecive your bless Make my | which, however, was no inconsiderable item, since the daily | tests in the Mediterranean and in Hungary, against the Otto- L

Notice to Tenants. Liedest adieus te all our friends, particularly to Father Keefte, | quota of each Chineso amounted to fifteen grains, at the cost|inan invader, had tended to excit . English literature, is

HE subscribe ii indebted to bim for |°"" good brother, the Archdeacon, Father Aylward—our | of at least Jo cents. Whether it was owing to the deprivation | besides sharing these influences with the rest of the world, re- on 4 subscriber requests ali persons indebted fo bim Jor i of their habitual stimulus, or the malignant effects ef the spended nobly to every serious demand upon the yalour of ve

Rent, or arrears of Kent, on his part of balf Lot or Townshjp No. 37, to pay the same forthwith. He is also prepared to lease or sell any part of the above property-—his titles Seing now duly recorded; and

takes this opportunity of notifying that any person or persons found ng on the above property, will be prosecuted to the utmost

trespaasi rigour of the law. Also, the Tenants on the Estates under the manage-| the best account what I have been able to do. If I dic you

meut of the subseriber, viz:~on Lot or ‘Township No. 26—the property of Messrs. Thomsons; on Lot or Township No. 36—the property of the

Rev. Jub Macdonald; and on Lot or Township No. 49—the property of at present | = My den a i lam, ’ Most affectionately yours, * E. Lecas.

the first of January, 1556.

Mil View, Noy. 13, 1838, JOHN R, BOURKE.

E. 1. H's: G.—1ta.

Messrs. Haythorne:—as no arrears will be allowed to remain due after |

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‘and when your last hour comes, you will all feel what con- 7 4 yu 9 : | colation it gives a man ‘ever to have flinched in the worst of

| friends in Tipperary, and my most worthy and venerated

dropsy. As Sidney Smith says in one of hie letters—* I have seven or eight complaints, but in all other respects I am per- ‘feetly well.”’ In plain and scher seriousness, my dear Father Tom, I have given up all hope of life, have received the last ‘sacraments, and though, perhaps, not immediately to die, for | this is in God’s hand, yet I have now no other. business than

fought many a battle together at your immediate peril, and 1 have never found in you less than the courage of a hero, per-

God and the poor, which it will be dificult to surpass. Now, when, perhaps, 1 am presently to stand face te face with my Creator and Redeemer, I esteem it an honour to have fought so often by your side, and, though I do not regret for a mo- ment that exertions haye tended to shorten my life, I do most bitterly regret that your nobleness and heroism have brought on you so sad a persecution. However, my dear

your diocese, not to be downcast or disheartened. As sure as God is in Heaven, yourtause is the cause of truth and honour,

times—as I may say of youor given way in the public ser-

My dear Father Tom, I would give a little world to press

friend, the Archdeacon of Rathkeale.

Your business as far as it depends on my statement, is not

_yet quite complete. I am sorry for it, but I have done my t, and I have left such instructions as I hepe will turn to

will hear through one of my friends how the matter stands ;

Transatlantic pirates, owing to the absence of international copyright. Another source still is the right of translation; {for which purpose, likewise, the sheets are forwarded in ad- vance to Germany, Prussia, &c., 80 as to keep the publication

as nearly simultaneous as may be thereand here. Putting ail

} will have fled from England.

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THE PANAMA RATLROAD. ITS COST OF LIPE.

r 74. /. peo artic are Hrnthea > * 73] not ¢ pear ery jmcre i! le An American named Tomes has recently published a work | these particulars together, it will not appear very dncrodsy

. ’ ye" Cowtilite 7 1 Ww re aie Poe ie. awaited them. The voyage was tolerably prosperous, and the | that a season of rich and rare fertility In the w orks of imagi- Chinese bore its fatigues and sufferings with great patience, | nation and taste has usually followed immediately on the ter-

fect unselfishness, zeal untiring, and a devotion to the cause of |

Father Tom. det me say to yeu, and to your friends of |

cheered by the prospeet of reaching the foreign land, whither they had been tempted by ‘the glowing deseriptien ef those | tratlickers in human life, who had so liberaliy promised them | wealth and happiness. Sixteen died on the passage, and were thrown into the sea. No sooner had the eight hundred sur- vivors landed, than thirty-two of the number were struck down prostrate by sickness ; and in less than a week after- i wards, eighty more laid by their sides. The interpreters who accompanied them attributed this rapid prostration to the | want of their habitual opium. The drug was then distributed among them, and with the good effect of so far stimulating their energies, that two-thirds of the sick arose again from their beds, and began to labour.

«A Maine Opium taw, however, was soon prouvulgated, on the score ef the immorality of administering to so perni- cious a habit, and without regard, it is hoped, ‘tothe expense ;

climate, or home-sickness, or disappointment, in a few weeks there was hardly one out of the eight hundred Chinese who was not prostrate and unfit to labour. The poor sufferers let the pick and the shevel full from their hands, and yielded themselves up to the agony of despair. They now gladly welcomed death, and impatiently awaited their turn in the ranks which were falling before the pestilence. The havoc of disease went on, and would have done its work in time; bat as it was sometimes merciful and spared a life, and was de-

jiberate, thoueh deadly. the despairing Chinese could wait no ? o vw. } Sc

mination of an important conflict, in which the sentiment of patriotism was energetically called forth. The tremendous struggle of Greece, end in the foremost piace of Athens, to pre- serve its existence from the overwhelming Asiatic despetism, was no sooner decided, than the heroes of Salamis treated the ragic drama, and Aschylus led in a numerous band of poets to the lyric theatre, whose genius was not less remarkable for its fecundity than for the vigour and originality of its produc- tions. In modern times, the city republics of Ttaly and Ger- many were encouraged to use the vernacular tongues of Europe in the strains of inspiration, hy their successful asser- tien of civic freedom against the powerfal monarchies and feudalisms which were near them; and the most florid, although not the most pure and genuine deyelopement of poct- ical talents in Southern Europe, probably owed some of its vitality to the alert and active spirit which the protracted con-

Englishmen, in the political relations of this kingdom. Chau- cer and Gower, the exrliest names in the list of properly English (as distinguished from merely English or Anglo- Saxon) writers, make their appearance in the age of Cressy and Poictiers; the reign of “good Queen Bess,” whore subjects dispersed the armada ot Spain, was eharacteri- tically adorned by Sydney and Spencer, and was rer- dered immortal by one other, one of the greatest and love- liest of human minds ; who was accompanied in his mission hy many other potent artists in the regions of fancy aud of the

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