A GERMAN VIEW OF THE FALL Olt‘ SI'2IlAS‘l‘OPOL.

The Augsburg Gazelle, which is more or leg; open to Austrian impressions, and which, in all events, expresses the opinions of a lar‘e class in Germany, makes the following comment; on the fall of Sebai-topol;-— “Sepastopol hag fail;-n_ fallen aftera struggle which has not its equal in the history of wars-but yet, fallen, and we have to consider the importance of this event, its cer- tain and probable consequences, for it might happen that a more earnest and pressing warning than ever might be given to Germany to exchange its pre- lent neutrality for a position which, if it does not place the decision in its hands, would at least make it participate therein.

“The Russians have—aiid the Russians tliem- selves put emphasis upon the ann0uncement—vol- tsntarily evacuated the south side of Scbistopol. As if they had any other choice than to withdraw or bury themselves under the ruins? Since Prince Gortscliakotfs despatcli,concluding with the words ‘our fortificationssufli-r,’ the catastrophe was only a quesion of time, and the attack at Traktir-bridge was the last desperate attempt to avert it The at- tempt tailed. Sebasiopol fell as it was doomed to fall,and when the Nora’ endeavours to deznonstrate that it is only now, that the army is coiicencrated in the northern forts, that there is unity in its ac- gion and movements, it is comically absurd.

“ We do not wish to overrate the event oftlie 8th of September, but we must not underrate it. The northern fortress may be a stronger. a much stronger fortress;but the south part contained every thing which Sebastopol had to defend—the whole of Russia’s Black Sea nest, and all the resources of that fleet. All this is annihilated; and for at least

Iialf a century to come, even witliont the stipulati- ons ofa peace, through tliesimple force ofcircum- stances. the limitation of the naval power of Rus- sia is an accomplished fact. The third guarantee point no longer exists. But there is a point of still greater importance. The prestige of Russia's in-

~violabi|ity is i.-one—gone in the East as in the West; her whole power is shaken to its centre. and this especially because Sebastopol did not fall at once, and because it has only fallen now.

“It would be superfluous tiow to investigate whether it was possible or impossible to have taken the fortress by a coup de main immediately after the landing in the Crimea; but then Sebastopolonly would have been taken,.and Sebastopol is not the Crimea, still less Russia. But since then every nerve has been strained to keep the place. A large army, always as numerous, often more nuinerons than the forces of the allies, has fought with bra-

Vciy ' _‘ '' ‘ " ‘and nature have been employed, and yet the Russianshave fou_-_-ht in vain,!and an incongruous host, with no other retreat than the sea, has beaten their army on its own ground, with an immense empire behind it and when the highest stake was played for the position of Russia in the East. Russia,s military honour is safe; for in her retreat she has left nothing but ruins and corpses, but her power has not the less re- ceived a mortal wound.

“Will the new phases of the war, will the fall of Sebastopol lead to a successful renewal of the peace negotiation ? ‘Russia will never make peace after ti. disaster’ is the haughty sentence attributed

' to Alexander II. We will not touch upon it. If the Western Powers entertain tho same idea. sacs would never be possible, Russia will still be willing to negotiate. But there are reasons to induce the esiern Powers to be reasonable in their deiiiiinds. They cannot seize npoii the heart of Russia, as long as Central Europe reintiins in- active, and perhaps they may now obtain an indem-

nification for war expenses; afterwards, when.

Russia's finances shall have sunk to exhaustion, they will not. Are they to seek for an indemnifica- tion in Russian territory? But where is the Russian territorp . eyes? ' ‘be Crimea may be a valuable pledge, but neither France nor England can wish to place it among the jewels of their Crown! And Germany? Whoever has calmly studied the position of Ger- many throughout the struggle must inevitably be convinced, that in the leading circles there has existed a secret sympathy for Russia, a secret ha- tred for the Napoleon dynasty. ‘rom reasons caused by the unmistakable feeling of the whole people, the causeofltussia was not openly espoused but a tacit support was given to it by inaction, and no idea was entertained of acting against Russia. The invulnerability oftlie Russian army was helio- ied in Germany as long as the Western Powers were alone in the field, and the quiet linpe was en- tertained that Napoleon Ill., like Napoleon I. would knock his head to pieces against his power- ful adversary, and Germany reap where she hail riot sown; but the fall of Sebastopol has destroyed that belief and deceived that hope. Germany, it is true has spared some millions,because she resol- ved to look on as a passive spectator ofilic struggle but let us beware lest we have ultimately to pay the piper with far morethan tliose millions. More than ones Russia and France have met on bloody battle- fields as enemies, and yet one year sfterwards.Na- poleon and Alexander were discussing the partition

of Europe; and on the throne of Frtnoe there is old, who, on being lifted up to see the corpse of now another Napoleon, and on the throne of a little playmate, kissed the pale. cold cheek,

.Russia a second Alexander." gpntly whispered, " Please give my low. to

that can have an equivalent value in their 1

HASZARDS oazn

NOTES oat SCIENCES mo ART.

Goon ix_'rui: Aitrs.—It has been ascertained that in Biriuiiigliam, Biigluml, not less than ‘I18 thousand ounces of line old are used weekly, cqiiiyuleiit to some $t'i0tl,ttU0 unnuully; iind that the consuiuptpm of gold-lcuf in eight manufacturing towns is equal to five hundred and eighty-four ounces wcckly. For gilding metals by clcctrotypo and the wiitcr-gilding process, not less than ten thousand ounces of gold are required annually. A recent English writer states the consumption of gold and sil- ver at Paris at over 18,000,030 of francs. At the present time the coiisuiuption of line gold and silver in Europe and the United States is‘ estimated at $50,000,000 annually.

RETURN or run Giu-:.i-r Coll-Z‘I'.—Tl)8 eminent astronomer, M. Babinct, member of the Acn- dciny of Sciences, andM. Bouiiiie, of Middle- burg, llollund, have been making some into- l'('.Bllng investigations in respect to the return of the great coiuet which appeared in the years 104. 393.1382, ‘J75, 1204, and 1551}. M. Bouiuic hits gone over all the previous calculations, iind made it new estimate of the scpiiriitc iind coni- bined action of all the planets upon this comet of three hundred years, the result of which severe Iiibor gives the arrival of this rare visiter in August, 1858. with an uncertainty of two years, more or less.

RIICROSCOPIC PiiorcciisPiis.—Some microscopic photographs exhibited at Manchester, England, li_a.ve excited iuucli admiration. One of the size of it .pin’s head, when uiagnilicd several hundred timcs, was seen to contain a group of seven portraits of members of the artist's fami- ly. the likenesses being admirably distinct. Another microscopic photograph, of still less size, represented a mural tiiblet, ereted to the memor of William Stur con, the electrician. by his Manchester frien s. This little table covered only 1-900th port of a superficial inch and contained 680 letters, every one of which could be distinctly seen by the aid of the mi- croscope.

' Tun Rnsnixc BRICKS OI" Bsiivi.ort.—Accord- ipg to the Leeds (English) Mercury, Col. I't:itv- lins_on has just discovered among the ruins of ancient Iialiylon an extensive librii.ry—not, in- deed. printed on paper, but impressed on baked b_ricks—-coniniiiing many and voluiuinous trea- tises on ll.SlI't'ltJllly, niatliciu-.itics, ethnology. and several other most iiiip-irianr hrzinclics of knowledge. These treatises contain facts and arguments, which, in his opinion, will have no small elfoct on the study of the sciences to which they relate, iind, inilcctl, on ulmost cvcry branch of learning, and whicli throw gt-cut light upon Biblical liistury and criticism, iind the history of our mco,

lilsciiisisrs IN CuuA.—Duriiig the sugar cane “W30” "1 Cub“, say from .\'ovcmbcr to April, there are usually employed on the various plantations about twelve hundred machinists asengincers and repairers. Few of these ma- chinists are Cubans, and few of them remain the whole year on the Island. A large number are Scotchmen, a few I-English, while the United States furnish a large share. These iiiachir ists repair to the Island during the iuonth of Octo- ber, and secure situations usually at most. ex- cellent wages, and then l't.‘llI:|In until May, when they leave the Island and spend the warmest weather in ii. more healthy cliiniitc Not: a few have fitmilic.-t who remain ' tho U_ni_tcd States. For years the demand for machinists in our countr has bccn so great, arid the prices paid for luli-ir so good, that the higher rates paid in Cuba have not been stilli- cicnt to entice very many to so wiirm and un- licftltliy a climate. There are soino twenty or thirty residing in South Boston, liotvcvcr, who have every year for several years visited Cuba, and spent the working soason.——llo3lon Travel- cr.

COAL IN Ti:iuu:r.—At Ileraclea, a distance of ttvclvo hour’s sailing from Constantinoplmtlioro is an abundance of good cool, but owing to the supincness of the Turks, it has not been made availitblo until the past ear. An English company has made it contract with the 'I‘urki.-th government, and has to pay about two iind it half dollars as in rent u on every ton riiiscd It is calculatted that ('i’J,0lI0 tons will be raised this year, a line market for its siilc'being the supply of the stcamsliips in the Black Sea.

Vatuirrii-zs or Srici:n.—'I‘lio velocity of ll ship is from 8 to 18 miles an hour; ol' it race-liorsc. 20 to 33 miles; of ii. bird, 50 to 00 miles; of the clouds in -.i. violent hurricanc, 80 to 110 miles ; of sound, 823 miles; of a cannon ball (as found by experience.) frotn 600 to 1000 miles; of the earth round the sun, 08,000 inilcs—more than 100 times quicker than it cannon ball; of Mercury, l0t,(ltl0 miles; of light, about 8,000,000 miles, pa-sing from the sun to the earth in about 8 minutes, or about in million times swifter than a cannon ball.

Some one tells a story of a child. three years

'I"I‘l3‘., OCTOBER 24.

CORRESPONDENCE. ‘ Mr. Editor ; soiiio time since troubled you with ii. few reiuiirlis on the doings of the self-styled libe- i--.il government, with ('oles as its leader; I did not see any reply for some time, but on falling in with ll No. ol' the Eramincr a short time since. when but-til occupied with iuy furm,I noticed. that Co es dz Co. had hccii at last enabled to patch up what, no doubt, they con- sidered an unanswernblo reply. My letter seems to have nflorded them soiue amusement, but, I iinitgine, they or Colcs would have given something could they have silenced me, but, Sir, I am not to be silenced until the country is rid of such impostors as the present government is composed o , and the e es of the reniainin few who support the mem crs tlicrcofbe opene to see liotv completely they are lioodwinkcd into supporting so unprinciplcd ii pack. The letter iurporting to be no answer to my former otter, is signed by some twenty-six persons, some of them minors; it was carried about l'roin place to place for signatures, iind. if I am correctly informed, lay at Colo-s’s Whiskey Shop for some time. and, no doubt, every man who signed it got is treat, and after all, only twenty-six niinies were scraped together, and, in some instances, the names of the father and all his sons are iillixcd toit. Some are resident in Cliiirlottctown and elsewhere, one it servant, I believe, of Coles himself. I an oso the prime movers in getting up this master-pieco ofii let- tor would have it supposed, that they are the writers, am] at the saute tiiiie, tiiunt me with not being the writer ofmy letter; Sir, I know well who wrote their letter : but one man among them is able to do anything of the kind, and be, poor mnn,I do not believe, took the trouble. I am not ii. scholar, but, whatever I run he, I am able to understand couiinon sense, this I know, that tho twenty-six names attached to the letter are not all residents of 03 34. nor are they all Irish as they would

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be signed by 19 out of every 20 of the Electors in this, and I think, every other 'l‘owrisliip. We are also informed in tho fuiiious 26-sigriatured letter, that Mr. IIoll's government did not niiicnd the School Act: the Statute Book, Sir, gives the lie to this, and fortunately for the country that they’ did do so, for iftliey had not, it would have cen far better for the people that the said Act had never passed. And as for Mr. IIoll's government having given the public money to (Ihiirch Societ ’s Schools, it is the first I liciird of it, and I be have it is an un- truth. I will, .-.i my loi.-iurc, expose this self. styled governzzii-nt tl. lit.lc _fui-thor: I have yet plenty more of thcii-_ doings to make known. reuiain, Your 0bed't Servant, l’s'rnicx Biiiiimsr,

P. S. Ilacklcmouth,theinlbrmer, Coles’s hire-

lin . will sliortl

October 21st, 1855.

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Wednesday, October 24, 1855. I‘ \ were rather astonished, and, truth to tell,

rather gricvcd to lienr an intelligent farmer say, that an opinion liiid got ground among the country people, that in the new market house to be built by the Ciirporiition, they (the coun- try pcoplc), were to be excluded, as the market was intended for the use of the people of the town, and for tliciu alone. Wlictlier tho iiiimc- diato building it new market house he a part of tho contemplated improvements of the City, is more than we can tell ; certain it is, that one is much wanted. The present market house is small and inconvenient, and seems as if it were expressly built so as to exclude people from the country, and many have given some countenance to the report, that the some narrow olic was

have the public believe. Some are Scotch, and some are English, one, as I before stated, is, I believe, ti. servant to Coles; iinothcris, I believe, it joiiier, and another, an apprentice to tl trade, all of whom reside in town. There is another name to it; tho titan I believe, resides at Fort Augustus :'I notice iinotlicr name, not known in the district, and there is another name. that ofa hid, who, since it was iillixcd, struck it out, he being ashamed ofit. And in nnothcr case, when I spoke to it man whose name it peared to it, he denied lutviiig sigiicd it, and wlien this inan went to the I’rintcr's with iuc, dcinnnding to see the paper which had been sent them with

iis mime to it, he was told by the Liberal prin- ter, that lie was not bound to let him sec it, or give liiiu nriy information. But what do we see iifterwnrds ! This Liberal printer comes out with the inforiiiiition, that ho had made tt mistake! it won senior. not junior. However, the public c.in judge. after till the trouble that was taken in travelling over the 'I'ownslii , twenty-six niiincs only could be got in the who a of'I‘ownsliip 34, many of them spurious, us I have before shown, and this in tho Totvnsliip that Colcs relied on for his support next to the French. It is well known, out of the persons that were asked. for over one who signed, twenty refused; whiit, then, has hccoino ofitll the supporters of the Grant Gcorgc Colts? who boasted of his supporters on Lot 254. ltia true, he never had iiiuiiy of the res icctnble, intelli- gent people on the Townsliip, but he managed

,, to get soiuo 150; but it appears they linve now

dwindled down to 26! he might, perhn s, get it few more-—tlio Messrs. Lawson iind .lc.\lil- lane, and their sons, and some two or three on the St.I’etcr’s llo:i.d,wlio hold some oflit-e—but do his best, lic cannot get fifty supporters on the whole Towiisliip. This, Mr. Editor, is it great falling oll, particularly after the trouble that was taken. the paper was carried iibout in every direction by an unfortunate Iiclr-spilllc, who tried hard to get a berth, which has been for a long period held by an honest, faithful old servant, and I suppose, as ho was then disappointed, he now makes sure of some more lucrative post.

am told I was turned out of ollice, by what the self-styled Liberals call Tories; Sir, I was not, but when the government cnllcd “ respon- sible,” came into ollice, thcllond Coiiiinissioncr —onc of the oldest and most rcspcctiiblc gentle- men in the '1'ownsliip—ivns displaced, and when Mr. IIoll's govcriiiiicnt canto into power, tlii-y put. liitii liuck into his plaice, and they did right; and it was no wonder. ‘I he grc-:i.t George Colcs displiiccd him and others rm"/haul a fau’I, because they could see through liitn, Wliicli I confess I did not; but I now do. on see that the wliolo people were deluded, who supported him.‘ All he cared for was sell’, and iflic could obtain it niiijority and get an ollico for himself iin a few iiioro ol his liiingers-on, he cared not for anything or iinybody else, no matter whether he or they were fit to discharge the duties of the oliiccs they for the tinio seized hold of, and no matter what cost it was to the country. Sir,thc people see tlirou b all this now—tliis appointing individuals to ol'co who are not table to do the duty,—and then taking from the Treasury litm- draft to pay Deputies to do the ver dot which the ought, and are incapable oly rliirming;

an _ if aipetition is brought round or a ino- lution o the present House of Asseinbly,i‘t will

to be persevered in when it new one is so stitu- tcd. When that event takes pliicee, we trust illlld hope, that the convenience and comfort of jtlio farmers and others, who have produce to dispose of, will be the main object to be kept in view. It should ever be remembered, that 9 the Island is wholly and solely dependent. upon ,its agriculture. Iftbis be carefu l and sedu- lously attended to, iind it more li crnl policy shown in giving facilities to strangers to settle tlicniselves and faiinilics in the Island, the for- mation of extensive lislicrics, iind the establish- Eriiciit of iiiitnuliictcries of difii.-rent kinds will 5 follow, us it mutter of course. But the success- 'ful prosecution of tltcsc, particiiliirly the latter, ldcpcrids chit.-fly on the chcupness of food. No uuiiiufuctiircii ofuny extent, can be profitably carried on, unless the labourers can he fid at a cheap rnte. 'I'o insure this. the Mother Coun- try lins liccn obliged to repeal its conservative laws. iind take to free trade. It‘, therefore, we would progress, we must liiy the foiiiidntion of our wealth on the opulence ofour farming po- nlntion, iind no liriiier or more enduring basis can be found. lot is market be estiiblislicd with such rules and regulations as shall ensure to both buyer and seller the greatest possible faci- litica. Let the market houso, when uilt, be of such dimen.-ions its to enable those who have ocirasion to frcqucnt. it, to triiiisitct their busi- ncss under cover, and Slll'llL‘I'(.‘(.I from the heat or inclcnicitcy ol the wcntlii-r. In order to do this with clfci-t. it i-piicious and convenient silo is wtiiitiiig. 'I‘licre is it great unxicly ainong it ccrtitin class of icoplc, to have the inti-nded market house on the west end ol'Quccn Square. To this, ho vcr, there are uiuiiy objections. 'l‘lio lirst is, lint there is not sullicicut iq ace, and the 501 ond, that a Market. liouso in that particular locality would be as great ii. nuisance as the present. Squares are intended as inlets for ure nir-—ns ventilators to the adjoining streets. iind liiivo hi-nco been denuiuiiiiitcd the lungs of Cities and 'l'oivns, and we nl know, that unless the lungs he kept in a licaltliy state, disease supcrvgncs. But, say they, the plan of the town shows, that one of these reservations either that occupied by St. Paul's Church, or the old Court House, was set aside for the ex- rcss purpose of at site for it. market house. 'cry true, but be it remembered, that at the time such reservation was made, people were not so well versed in sanitary lore, us they are at resent. Uiir tiiicestors riitlicr loved dirt than otherwise, at least they did not esteem the cleanliness of their Cities and Towns such an all important matter as their posterity vcry pro- perly do. Besides, since that day, the govern- ment have appropriated the centre ol ‘Queen Square to the Colonial Building. Now, it will be butjusticc to Charlottetown, ifin return for the space so injiidiciously taken lrom its liirgcst and best Square, the government should provide a proper site for ti. market liousc._ The Colonial Building. if permitted to be in the Square, should have been erected at the west end where soino people say the market house should be built, the centre of the Square might have been then railed in and planted. Let us in the name of common sense, and as men sensible of the value of fresh air, and not vvliolly insensible to the wish of making our newly created City as ornamental as possible,_ do our utmost to prevent the Square from being further desecra-