.,srvicss that have marked the progress, of I I

THE FUTURE GOVEBNOI OP NOVA ICOTI-A.

We are indepted to some kind friend mander-in-Chief of Nova Scotis,-and while the provineials. No spot contains more across the water for g lue numb" ofghmstationed at Halifax became acquainted loyal men than British North America, and

London Daily Telegraph, containing an

interesting and sensible article 1-eepeeting Grace interested himself for the lad, and the existence of her merit than has Great

the heroic conduct of General Willtama —and suggesting to the British Govern- ment, the propriety of conferring upon our gallant countryaian, when Sir Gaspard’s period of service ‘shall expire, the Govern- orship of his NATIVE COUNTRY. The article reads as follows: It is seldom that Her Majesty ’s Ministers avail themselves of any opportunity to give that credit which is due to to our British Colonies. Many opportunities arise, but they are allowed to pass by unheeded and uncured for. We have ever maintained it as a golden rule, that the empire of En- gland, to remain foremost amongst the nations ofthe earth, must retain her mag- nificent qolonial possessions. They are the bulwarlts which protect the mother country, and they form the virgin soil from whence we can recruit our future strength. Once let these possessions slip from our hands, and Great Britain will add another to the examples of the inevitable course of events that are to be found in the history of the great nations of the earth ; she will follow in her fate ancient Rome, whose first symptoms of decay are to be dated from the iod ofher willing relinquislinient ofthe anubian Prineipalities.

During the second Punic war after the destruction of the Cartliagenian power which once possessed innumerable Colonies, and above 300 African cities, extending for above 2,000 miles along the sea coast from the Syrtis Major to the Pillars of Hercules, embracing Sardinia, Malta, Majorca, Minot-ca, along the coasts of Spain, to those of Britain, and south to Senegal and Gambia, Rome rose into posi- tion as, great colonial empire, and estab- lished above sixty colonies extending over Gaul, Germany, Spain, England, and va- rious parts of Asia atid Africa. It is com- puted that, from the establishment of the city to the death of Aucus-rus, above 164 colonies were formed, and in the reign of Ct.AUoiUs her colonies contained l‘,36,000,- 000 people. But Rome ceased to colonise and looked upon her Colonies with coldness and Rome fell. Spain, which once threa- tened England with her invincible Armada

and who possessed the greater portion of

the American continent, even to the halls of MONTBZUMA, let her Colonies, one by one, slip from her grasp ; and where is now Spain, and what position does she hold in the scale ofiiations ? Away then, we ay, with the dangerous doctrine inculcated by the Manchester school, that England will be better without the Colonies. When this country relinquishes her possessions, she will liavo made her first retrograde ste

towards becomeing a second-rate power. Butto possess and to retain those Colonies,

we must regard them as integral portions of

the British Empire—not as insignificant off shoots of the parent stock. VVe must de- light to honour their great men, and glory in their achievements. Fail to do this much longer, and the Colonies will spurn the power who refuses to recognise merit and velour, because embodied in the person ofa Colon:-st.

In both House of Parliment, last week, votes ofthsnlts, pension, and honour, were deservedly conferred upon General Wit.- LIAMI, as an oflicer pre-eminently distin-

uished for that military genius which the British army so _lamentably lacks. But the moverofthose votes in the House of Lords never once considered it necessary to mention the important fact, that the hero of Kara was a Colonist, a native of British North America, and one who, as a Nova Scotian, had conferred upon the land of his birth, an honour our Government should he the first to acknowledge and make known to the world. Lord Palmerston, in the Comtnons, did justice, however, to our Colonies in the following raoeful al- lusion :—“I believe Sir W iuusis is a native of Nova Scotia ; and it must there- fipn, he a matter of satisfaction to the House that our fellow countrymen in North America have been partakers, in the rsen ef General Wintans, in the satisfaction of ‘gain. in the honour of the distinguished

I-lASZA.‘.ii’S GAZETTE, JUNE l8.

The Duke of Kent was formerly Com-

with the parents ofyoung Wit.i.uMs. His

secured his admission into the Royal Mili- tary Academy as a cadet. The after career ofGeneral WILLIAMS is now recorded upon the page of history, but let not Nova Scotia be forgotten in the scroll which will en- twine that name amongst the great and the brave. England, in her native chivalry can well afford, from amid the host of gal- lant names who have served her well and faithfully,to spare one niche for the country —Colony though it be—whicli has added a Wit.i.uMs to the illustrious roll of those who have adorned the ranks of her army. ./1 Nova Scolian has proved himself, in the fol: Russian war, to be the only military qf- /icer ti-ho, in point of genius and skill has signnlind Iiimul/' as a general-

As General Sir . Wit.i.uMs has now reached the highest rank of professional pi-eferment in our scrvice- for, as an Ai-- tillery oflicer, he is not eligible for a Coni- iiiand-in Chief, in accordance with the ab- surd regulation of the Britisharmy, framedp in total forgetfulness of the fact, that the great NAP0l.EON himselfwas an Artillery ofl‘icer—it would be a suitable step on the part of our Government towards the indi- vidual, and a most acceptable one to the Colony, here a man of such tried ability and proved administ rative genius, appoint- ed Governor ofhis native Province, Nova Scotia. According to several of the Hali- fax journals, the flcadian Recorder, amongst others, the present Lieutenant ,Governor Sir GASPARD Ls MARCIIANT, is by no means popular.

[Here follows an extract from our con- temporary ofthe 5th of May :]

Let our Government take the above hint and confer upon General \\"illiums, when Sir GAsrii:i»'.~ period of service shall ex-

irc, an appointment he is so ,..c-eminent] ' auited to hold, with credit to liiinselfnnd advantage to his native country. The priii- ciple ofappointing gentlemen, natives ofthe Colonies, as Lieutenant Governors, should be adopted whenever opportunity occurs.

There were other Biiti.-li North Ameri- cans besides General VVi|liams who ofli-.I'ed to sholder the rifle and meet the Russians

Ministerial wisdom the service oftliesc men were refused, and an opportunity was lost to show what a few native Colonial regi- ments and Canadian officers could hate done, side by side, with General VVit.t.uiMs at their head‘ General \’\ ILLIAMS, as ii British officer, has been honoured; but other officers and gentlo,-men, also British North Americans, have never received from the mother country even the approach to a recognition for their putriotisni ; for we have yet to learn that others but Cuna- dians oflcred, at their on-ii expense,‘ organise regiments of Rifles for service in the Crimea.

Out Government prefer:-vd Foreig n Lc- gions clandestinely recruied in the United States, to the gallant services of her Can- adian loyalists ; and we now reap the fruits ofaur preference for Forcgin Legions who in England, are only prevented from open mutiny by drumhead court-martials and a librul distribution ofthe cat-o'nine-tails, us was the case last week at Plymouth. We can promote aGerinan, who pocketed about twenty thousand pounds in the shape of recruiting bounty, to the rank of Brigadier general in the British army, but our Govern- ment hesitates to acknowledge or reward the services of Canadians, countrymen of General Williams, who offered to equip Rifle Regiments at their own expense, not to pocket thousands of pounds in the shape of bounty. But those offers did not proceed from German Barons but from loyal British Colonists, and hence the loyalty ofCanadti remains to the present hour, unrecognised, unrewarded, and uncare for The allant achievements o fsir William Fenwic Williams, ofKars, may perhaps, new direct the attention of the Government a to the claims of others of his provincial countrymen, and Canada may secure a re- cognition, side by side, with her sister Col- ony of Nova Scotia when her ominous. elements new hoverin around our British

as C

the war.

American frontiers, it behaves England not

upon their own soil, but in the plentitude of

to treat as beneath notice the service of

no nation has ever more thoroughly ignored

Britian. In the confusion, of the exigencies, and the uncertainty at the commencement of the late war with Russia, some allowance must be made to the Government for those things which they left undone. Our military de- partments were rusty and out of order, the Secretary at war and the Secretary Q/'VVar, had not settled down into their respective * offices ; and hence one offer of a thousand . men froui Canada was kicked about from the Horse Guards to Whitehall Gardens, like a foot-ball, for six weary months, no one knowing, in the complexity of routine, who should break the seal and another offer of a Rifle Regiment, to be recruited, drilled and equipped free of all expense to the Government, made by another Canadian, found its way into the Home Office, was duly received, the offer acknowledged, and promptly declined, because “ the troops of the Sultan, and Her Majesty's regular army, then embarked, were quite sufficient to cope with the legions ofthe Czar, without the aid of volunteer regiments. Mark, this was before our army had broken ground froui Verna '.’ \Vell we suppose the “ Home Oflice, thought they were wise in their own generation, and the country in consequence lost the service of two volunteer regiments of British Colonists. A few months after- wards, we raised our,Foreign Legions at an enormous expense, and actually went to the United States, in open defiance of the Neutrality Laws ofthe Union, to kidnap recruits, formed a depot at Halifax to re- ceive these worthies, whose services were bought up at an enormous expense, and yet all the while refused to accept the free ofl'ei-s of regiments by Canadian gentlemen many of whom had served as officers in tin British army. VVe raised German, Italian, and Swiss Legions of mercenaries and gave tens of tlionsends in the shape of bounty to otir German Barons, and promo- ted theui to be Brigadier-generals, but all this while Canada and her offers weie for-

otton ! As we before intimated the Govern- ment, whilo they may claim some excuse forinexperience at the commencement of the war, can offer no excuse for not recog- nising the clniins ofthose who patriotically offered their services as volunteers to fight side by side, with their gallant countryman, General Wii.i.iuvis, in Turkey.

The Fishery Commission and their as- sistant, were to Incct at Boston on the 27th inst, and would immediately pro- coed to examine the Rivers between Ca pc May and York River in Maine. During the summer it is probable they will amuse themselves in the Colonial Rivers--and in Autumn will work from New York to the Soutliwcst. The British and American Governments, it is said, are about to en- gage in the purchase and equipnit-nt of a fit vessel for this service in future years. —llalifax Times.

Huou Mii.i.r.ii LEC’l‘URlNG on Tl£Ml‘lill- .tNcs.—Uii Saturday night (sans n lzitc

livt-red the concluding lecture of the course which has been given under the auspices of the Half-Holiday Associa- tion, in John Knox’s church. Bailic Hilloccupicd the chair. The lecturer chose for his stilijcct, “Alistiiiein-.e, its Place and Power,” and delivered one of these powerful and fascinating discou men on this theme for which he is so famous, defining with admirable cxactitude, and, at the same time in a highly felicitous and popular manner, the position that question of abstinance holds amongst the great questions of the day, and the rela- tions and the harmony which subsist between it and the gospel. It is liardily necessary to say, that this lecture was well received by a large audience. Bailie lark moved a vote of thanks to the lecturer at the close, and, in doing so. re- marked that nlne-tenths qf..tlie crime that came before the Police Court arose-

lizliuburgh paper) Professor illillei'de- H

Gunp- B0”, Go 0. B.’ W d

the Otlt Hay, IMO:

Souitaiis or sin 48d, 79th andH93d!

Old Highland Brigade! with when 1 seed the early and erileas part of this war, rkava now to take cave of you; in a few hours, I shall be on board shi , never to see you again as a body—a long lhrewel ! I an new old, and shall not be called to serve any more, and nothing will remain to me but the inieinory of my Cam igns, an of the endearing, hardy and geneiéops slpldiers with vdvhqni lalvls be: aesoeiste . w one name an or wi on he t alive in the hearts of iinrycountr msen ! W en you go home asyou aduall ful l our form of‘ service, each to I5‘; fami y a his cotta c, you will tell the story of your immor- tal a vnnce in that victorious echellon up the heights of Alma ! and of the old Brigadier who led you and loved you so well ! Your children, and your children's children, will re at the tale to other eaeratioiis, when only a bit lines of history will remain to record the discipline and enthusiasm which have home you so stout- ly_ to the end of this war ! Onr native land will never forget the name of the Hi hland Bri- ; and in some future war, t at nation will call for another one to equal this, (which it can never surpass; although I be gone, the tliouggt of you will 0 with me whenever I may , _and cheer my 0 (1 age with ii. glorious recollection of dangers elfronted, and hardships endured! A ipe will never sound near me, without carrying me back to those bright days when I was at your head, and wore the Bonnet you gained for me,aad the hono_rable decora- tions on my breast, many of which I owe ‘to

Address of Ialor-General Iir Colin Hlfllan

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your conduct. Biuvs Souiiiuts! KIND Coa- iunsa! Fnswatn! (Signed) C. CAMPBELL, Major-General.

Aitarvit. or was Pamci: or PRUSSIA —-His lloy.l Highness Prince Frederick William of Prussia arrived at Dover at midnight of Tuesday, the 20th, and the following morning started by special train for Portsmouth, and arrived there at 1'2 30. The Fairy, tender, having on board the Queen, Prince Albert, and the lloysl Family, had unexpectedly entered the harbour at ll 45, Prince Albert landed, and proceeded in the royal carriage to the railway station, to welcome the ar. rival of Prince William. lo a few minutes their Royal lliglinsrees returned, and having entered the barge, the Prussian standard was hoisted, and the Prince speedily got on lvo:ud Ilic I-‘airy. The Queen and Princess Royal iininediately saluted Ilie Prince of Prussia. The royal standard was run tip at the main. The Prussian at the fore, andjnclt at the mizen. A double royal salute com- menced from the shore batteries and ships of war in harbour at Spithead. The whole manned yards and cheered. having the Prussian flag at the main. The Prince is an exceedingly fine-looking young man, in height about five feet nine inches, and ap- parently twenty years of size. llia deporimem jg exceedingly dignified and graceful. He scknow. lodged the “)l'lI[llllIIt‘lllI paid him by frequently bowing and taking all" Ilia hat. He has it slight moustache, aubuiii cloured.

Srituisas FUR Run-iA.—Di:iing the past foxt- niglit agents from Russia have visited the Tyne, with the view of purchasing tug steamers to be employed at Cronstatll, and the Baltic. Eight steam vessels have hren disposed of by the Tyne owners for the purpose; and the Royal Alhen, the Wallace, the Powerful, the Volga, and the Alexander. have sailed. The North of Europe Company are :i so building iron vessels of light draft of water upon the Tyne for the Bahia rude, l'liey will be piopt-Ileil by pressure eiigines, and will be filled up with Be-ttie’s patent propeller. These Vcssuls are built with Ilie view of navigat- ing sliailmv wan-r. During the past few dug, a very large nuinln-i of for:-ign vessi-I5 hug re:-ch --l llir 'l'\nv- from various psrtsofthe Bali:-; uoosulvrsliie number of large American ves- sels are in the 'l'yne at Ilic present moment talc. ling in (‘us .

German. journals report that a large piece of wood has been discovered at N[:lVt'll('t‘. by sonic workmen digginga new cellar in their maiisoncalled “ '.um .|inigen,” the first printing house of‘Gut- enberg. The beam seems to have foruied the head of the press. and to contain the socket in which the spindle revolved. 'l'he letters .I. G. and the date 1441 are ctitin one part of it.

A novel instrument has lately been in- vented by a gentleman of Spartensburg. a. He caller it the “ Father of the Fiddles.” It is described as consisting of fifty shells, or viols, with strings similar to a violin, the sound being produced by drawing a hair bow across them. It contains four octaves and is played with

from drunkenness.

lteys like a piano.