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New Series. No. 129.

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Iaszas-d’e Gazette. GEORGE T. HASZ HID. _Proprletor and Publisher. lshed eve Tuesday evening and Saturday morning. 0§cs,Boethsl a Queen Square, P. E.lelnarl. 'I‘ssiss—AaasaI Subscription, lbs. Discount. for cash in advanes. runes or anvaarrsiiro. r‘ '_ Tor the Gut insertion, occup iug the space o incs, including|iead,ls.—6linse.II.‘l.—9liues.3I-f-nllflfilr Ie.Od.—I6lines,4s.—20 lines. Is. 6d.—2§ lrnes,_ _ . Sfllises, Be. Gd.-5 ' ,Oe.—eod Id. lbrsgch nlldlllonll line. Onssfuu-tli of the above for each continuance. “ ' " " ‘ ' -illhseontlmavl

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LAND ASSESSMENT. Treessror's Ofice.Cherlo:tetewn, P. 3. Island, noar M 1554. IN rrrsnaooe of the Act of the General Assembly o this Island. made and passed in the Eleventh year of the re‘ a of Her present Majesty, intiiuled “Jls let for eoyingfnrther on Assessment on all Leads in this colony, and for encouragement -Education." and of an Act made in amendment t , and passed in the Twelfth year of Her said Iaiuty’a Reign, istitnled Jn Act to explain and erased the present let for His Assessors»! of Land, eridtlie encouragement of Education, and also e an Act made and passed in the Fifteenth year of Her ‘ ' ' n, intitnlsd Jo Act for the ucotion, and to raise Flimle purpose by tsepeeiag on additional Amu- sunt on Land in Ilia raid I and and on Real Estate is Charlottetown and Common, and George- toies osd Cosrsrorr :

I do hereby give Public Notice that I have made Proclearetion'.acoordin to the terms of the said Acts, of the under-mantis Town Lots, Conraien Lois. Water Lots. Pasture Lots. Islands, and parts of Townships in this Ihland. in nrrears for the non- payment the several some so a win thereon to Her Majesty. under and by virtue of the int mentioned Act, viz:

At: a as A ac as Township No. I, 457 Township No.49, 238 -- s. sees -- ea, iioo " 3. -H72 " 53. I000 -- , ooo '- 54, 12735 " II, 8253 ‘ 55. 765 -- rs, rooo -- 51. 481 " I7. I0} " 58. 600 -- is, sass; -- so, 1900 “ 80, I306‘ " 02. S871 " I8, 88 “ 65, I228‘ " 84 I l Gser-gs'e Island, 8 " 25, I061; Gev_evsor'e Island 800 " 26, 2 vrrge Is , I50 " I8, 4 Kildare Island. 250 " II, 790} Cavendish Send " I2, 2985] Island, " 88, I288 Cascnrnpsc sand " I8, 1068 Island, 500- “ 89, 800 Fish Island, 150 “ 40. 985 Bsdford Bey Island, 40 " st, 984 Savage Island, 25 “ 42, 442} Prim Islands, 66 " 48, 24 I6 al Island, 45 “ 44, 2809 Goose Island. 12 " 46, 850 York River Island. 4 " 41, I817 Sandy Island, 80 " 48. 921 Enmove In nd, 10 First Ildirndred of Town Lots in Charlottetown.-I-I e No. ‘

41. Second Hundred,-1-‘eth of No. 58. Fourth Hrrndred,—No. 40, I-4 ofNo.- 80. Pasture lots in Charlottetown loyalty,-I-I of Ne. 12, and 1-8 ofNo. 288. Town Lots in Georgetown:

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I5, . Water I.ote'iri Georgetown,—No. I0. Pasture Lots in Georgetown Royalty,—No.' 85. ISO, ise, res. no of ass, and zoo. Town Lots in Princetpwn:

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:1. o ‘I, o 1, o . Pastors Lots ‘in Princetowa Royalty -8-4 of No. IS], No. 240, and 1-2 cfNo. 451. And the owners ofttrs said Leta and Tracts of band so in‘erresre and proelaimsd ‘as aforesaid. are hereby ' -J aL a ' AL L .4] L 5

said, to other with the costs which have been incur- red, ‘she litot be paid before the nest Easter Term of the Supreme than of Iedicsters, to be held at Char- lottetown,‘-which will cemrnssse on Teeedey the Id day of lay asst, application will be rnadsto the SI- yrerss C_oart, during the said Torin, for Judgment against the said Lots end Tracts of Land. respec-

tirely. ITBPHIN RICE. 'hsaeersr.

HAILS. Tl'Il.IMl\l.S for the neighbour-Isa.Provireee, fie. will he ferwardeden gods r the [lib December instant via Caps Traverse and Cape

Tcrmentras. Thsy'wlll he reads mp orrlhet day, and fel- lowrsg -Friday. at II'O'lIbOk‘IOI|ll. and a are fee

Eaglend will hswmsds up seery week at the some Itlrris. sadf r ‘or ed to Halifax. 1:13.51 3 OWBN.Yutmntsr General.

General Post Olloe. Dec. 5. I058.

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AN ARCTIC WAI.K- '

The following is from Dr. Kane’s inte- resting narrative of the Grinnel Exploring Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin:

"Now let us start out upon a walk, clothed in well-fashioned Arctic costume. The thermometer is, say 95 degrees, not lower, end the wind blowing it royal breeze, but entl .

“Close the lips for the first minute or two , end admit the air suspiciously through

nostril and moustache. Presently you breathe in a dry, pungent, but gracious and agreeable atmosphere. The beard, eye- brows, eyelashes, and the downy pubescence ofthe ears, acquire a delicate, white, and

erfectly-enveloping cover of venerable

oar frost. The moustache and under lip form penduloue beads of dangling ice. Put

‘out your tongue, and it instantly freezes to

this icy crusting, and a rapid effort and some hand-aid will be required to liberate it. The less you talk, the better. Yogr chin has a trick of freezing to your upper jaw by the luting aid ofyour beard; even my eyes have otten been no glued. 88 *0 show that even awink may be unsafe. As you walk on, on find that the iron-work of your gun begins to penetrate through two coats of woollen mittens, with a. sensation like hot water.

“ But we have been supposing your back to the the wind; and if you are a good Arcticieed subject, a warm glow has already been followed by a refuse sweat. ow turn about and face the wind; what a change! how the atmospheres are watled off! how pcnetrutingly the cold trickles down your neck and in at your pockets! Whew! a jack-knife heretofore, like Bob Sawryer's apple, ‘ unpleasantly warm’ in the breaches pocket, has changed to something as cold as ice and hot as fire; make your way back to the ship! I was once caught three miles off with it freshening wind, and at one time feared that I would hardly see the brig again. Morton, who accompanied me, had his cheeks frozen, and I felt that lethargic numbness mentioned in the story books.

“ I will tell ybu what this feels like, for I have been twice ‘ can ht out.’ Sleepincss is not the sensation. ave you ever re- ceived tho shocks of a magneto-electric machine, and had the peculiar benumbing sensation of 'can’t let 0,’ extending up to your elbow joints? eprive this of its paroxysmal character; subdue, but difi'use it over every part ofthe system, and you have the so-called leneurable feelings of incipient freezing. t seems even to extend to your brain. Its inertia is augmented; everything about you seems ofa ponderous sort; and the whole amount of pleasure is in gratifying the disposition to remain at rest, and spare yourself an encounter with these latent resistances. This is, I suppose, the pleasurable sleepiness of the story boo s.

“I could fill page after page with the ludicrous miseries of our ship-board life.

We have two climates, hygrometrically as well as thermctrically at opposite ends of the scale. A pocket-handkerchief, pocket- ed below in the region of stoves, comes up unchanged. Go below again, and it be- comes moist, flaccid, and almost wet. Go on deck again, and it resembles a shingle covered with linen. I could pick my teeth with it.

" You are anxious to know how I mane e to stand this remorseless temperature. t is ashort story, and, perhaps, worth the telling. ‘The Doctor still retains three luxuries, remnants of better times-—silk next his skin, a tooth-brush for his teeth, and white linen for his nose. Everything else is Arctic and hairy—fur, fur, fur. The silk is light and washable, needing neither the clean dirt of starch nor the uncomforta- ble trouble of flat-irons. It secures to me a clean screen between my epidermoid and seal-skin integuments.”

GENERAL _I1_'I'II.I.IGEl'Ol.

The intelligence from Englandvio New York is to the 226 ult..

The question of peace or war is still trembling in the balance, The oficial answer of the Russian Emperor to the peremptory demand of England and France, that his troops shell evacuate the Daaubran principalities by the let May, had not been received up to the 92d ult.,slthough it was then hourl expected, In the mean time a variety reports are in circulation. It is confidently stated on the one hand, that the Czar refuses the demand, and that as soon as etliolal notice of this refusal is received, war will be fcrrnelly declared by Great Britain; on the other head again, that‘ new ‘pro oeale for no otistion _vs been brought rward then the medium of Austria and Prussis‘."‘A I r pr-ohebl by the-nest vs rain we ehelyl learn which of these reports is

correct. P ' ‘ for war are still being so-

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re-enter the Black Sea. The first division ofFreuch troops had sailed for Turkey.

There is nothing decisive from the Da- nube. The troops on the two sides of the river are preparing for active operations, varying the monotony of camp life by petty skirmishes, in which each party claim the advantage. A report had reached Con- stantinople of the capture of a Russian treasure convoy. _

Amon the latest inventions of imple- ments o war is s new‘ cannon, which its inventor asserts may be worked by two men. “The employment-of this new gun,” says the Birmi ham Journal, “ will effect a sav- ing to the ‘nglish army of between one and two millions sterling per annum, and, in case of invasion, would enable England to defend her country against all Europe.”

Experiments are beiu made, at Wool- wich, with this new engine of destruction, by command of the Manor General of the Ordnance. ,

One-third of the Russian army is a bun- dred days march from St. Petereburgh. The allied powers are within four days march from the same city, which is four hundred miles from Moscow, and the latter is the some distance from Odessa. At both points puissant legions may land, advance to Moscow, and unite with German forces direct from the Vistula. Aided by steam, Nnpoleonhad conquered Russia, and his spirit reigns in Napier. The phrenzy of Nicholas increases. 1,400,000 troops are opposed to 600,000 Russians. Austria is in a state of bankruptcy.

TBMPERANCE IN ST. JOHN, N. B.

The Civic Election took place on Tues- day. The result which will appear from the snbjoined table, is highly gralifying to the friends of Temperance, there being no less than ten pled ed Temperance men at the Council Boar . -Although Tempe- rance was the test, more or less in every VVard, the rand battle was fought out in Quem’s. A I that could be done was done by the rum party to return their favourite candidate. Notwithstanding which, the Election passed off without the least disor- der or apparent ill-feeling on either side.

The excellence of the Ballot system was perhaps never more apparent than at this election. At the close of the Poll in Queen's Ward, Mr. Foster, being under the impression that he had been defeated, obser- ved that although unsuccessful, lie was yet under obligation for the support he had reason to believe he had received. and hoped that the some friendly relations would continue to exist between himself and those who had voted against as well as for him, and then retired. VVhereupori Mr. Smith addressed the byestanders observing that he was satisfied that he had been returned by ahaudsome majority. But mark the se- quel. When the votes were counted, it was found that Mr. Foster was the success- ful candidatc .' The latter gentleman was, then sent for, and shortly after his return to the Court House, the result was publicly announced.

Mr. Foster then briefly addressed the crowd outside, assuring them that he would exert himself for the benefit of the commu- nity genernlly. He never, be said, he- longed to any party but the one of which he now felt proud to be an adhcrent—the Temperance party, and he hoped they would always be successful.

Mr. Smith appeared a good deal mortified at the unlocked for change in the position of the Candidates. He denounced the ballot system. He said it afforded persons an opportunity to stab their friends in the dark, and that it had operated in that way in this instance. ‘

Now, so far from coming to the same conclusion with respect to the merits of the Ballot,fi-om its 0 oration on this occasion,we arrive at entire y the opposite opinion. It proved that, with all his vigilance and sharpvsightednose, Mr. Smith was deceived in the vote. It proved who his friends and supporters really were. It must have gone to convince him that his success, heretofore, depended more upon fear than affection, more upon a reluctance to offend or diso- bligs him than upon an approval of his

uhlic conduct. Itprovee to us, beyond all doubt, that secret vote is the only true and proper way to get at the real opinions and wishes o the constituency. t may not suit some parties, who, like Mr. Smith, have depended on over-swing the poo Is, for their elevation to oflice; but no man as a right or ought to enjoy situation of trust is the gift of the people, without free unbi- seeed ‘choice of the constituency.

Personally we bear no ill-will agpinet Mr. Smith; and,.had he acted different a year a o, he ,might now have been a wad to to e his seat without opposition; but we rejoice to think that his defeat willbe I lesson to these whmemiet to despise the Tdnpersnce _men, and league themselves with the irettietiereih liquor, to ‘ 'tle' __et, one

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theirhesd, with the same entire reliance

Tn: 'TEMl’EItLNcl: Ac-r.—'l‘he bill for the Suppression of Intern rrince has passed both Houses, to takce ect on thclst of Decenher next. VV-e infer from the lan- guage of the Executive organ that Gover- nor Seymour will not veto this measure, though he may favor its friends with an exhi- bition of his teeth in the shape ofa Message setting forth the reasons whichalroost per- suaded him to return it without bus signa- ture. But, even if he were to eav Veto, we should not apprehend the loseof the bill. A change ofone vote in the Senate and two in the House would have secured a vote of two-thirds in the aflirmative on its origi- nal passage, and we believe these would be forth coming on the question of overriding a Veto. So we trust the establishment of the principle of Prohibition is at length secured. New York Tribune. _

UNION OF THE PROVINCES.

Lo Canadian introduces with some re- marks, apparently favourable, it proposal to unite the three Lower Provinces in one great Province with the restitution of the ancient name ACADIA. The reason which primer-ily induced the existing division of territory was the difficulty of inter-commu- nication. “That difliculty no longer ex- ists.”

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The extent and population of the three provinces are:

Acres. Souls. 20,000,000 193.800 ll,58-l,l96 276,009

1.360.000 62,078

New Brunswick, Nova Scotia 6; C. Breton, Prince Edward Island,

Totals, ' ss,se4,ros 533,433 “ The advantage of the union of these three small provinces is inferred from that of the union of the two Canadas, whose ex- tent and population are then given and. .m- pared with the three provincial dep..»r.u'.,;r- cies, which taken nltogether llltlc ax-.-~ -d the extent of Western Canada, and Ctllilrllfl les than hnlfite population; while of Uni’ .' Canada, they form but a fifth in ext. rm, and less than a third ofits population."

New Brunswick and Nova Scotin Rail- way Bill negatived in the House of Ccmir mons without a division on the second reading.

(From the Nova Scolto Royal Gazelle.)

At three o’clock this day, His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor came to the Council Chamber, attended as usual, and, being seated, commanded the attendance of the House ofAssembly, who being come, with their Speaker, His Excellency was pleased, in Her Majesty’s name, to give his assent to several Bills, and closed the Session with the following Speech:

Mr. President, and Honorable Gentlemen of the Legislative Council:

Jllr. Speballrar, and Gentlemen oftlie House 9/‘ Jr- SCIII '

The great number of valuable Laws, matured by your joint labors, and to which I have given the Queen’s assent, honorably distinguish the Session that it is now my duty to close.

For the unexampled liberality with which you have provided for every branch of the Public Service, I thank you in Her Ma- jcsty’s name.

The great Public Works which you have authorized the Government to construct, shall be commenced without delay, and carried forward in a spirit that I trust will enable us all to forget, in view of their vast utility, conflicts of opinion, which, in a free country, always preceded sound and bone- ficial Legislation.

The elevated views ofNational obligation, —the just appreciation of the nature of the struggle in which the Mother Country is engaged,—the devoted loyalty to our Sove- reign,—and the chivalrous disregard of consequences in the performance of duty, evinced by the Addresses which you have desired me to convey to the foot of the Throne, will challenge the admiration and respect of your fellow Subjects in every part oftho Empire.

Though I trust in God that this.Continent may be reserved from the scourge of War, yet it be ves us to be prepared for any emergencies; and of this you may be assured, that it i my determination soto organize the Militia of this Proxince as to make defence easy, I shall not hesitate, if occasion should arise, to place myself at

upon their gallantry and self-devotion that [have upon your wisdom, liberality, and public spirit.

axscurivn cninoss in nova scorn.

The euccessfirl passing of the Railway Bills, has given rise to a sweeping change ‘in the Executive Council. Mr. Hows having resigned the ofics of Provincial Secretary, and the Attorney General, as it is understood, wishing to retire from the Executive, on eccoapt of his health, the

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Provincial Secrets: , I.. II. W be, Receiver General, as at resent) J_emeehI'Nab. Financial secretary,(es present) 3. lines, Solicitor General. - “elf!- I.'I’obln, J I'lrsod. . Islton. . Campbell.

Messrs Young, Wilkins, and Henry, will have to return to their constituencies to be i-e-ler:ted- In addition to the above Executive charges, the following appoint- ments are about to be, or have been, made,

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Hon. Joesph How, let Comm'r of Railways, on. J. B. Unieclis, Crown odd" 8 ,

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INVASION OI’ CANADA.

It is reported in the States that the Eli- peror of Russia has his emieearios here, as well as in Greece and European Turkey, and that the Irish population of this country are favorably disposed towards him and anxious to second his views by helping on an invasion of Canada. It is also stat that there is an organization in Ireland, the obiect of which is to enlist men for the Car and join him if he should thiukof giving poor old Granu Wails a lift in the world. John Mitchell has issued a proclamation to his countrymen in Ireland and elsewhere cautioning them not to enlist or aid En land in her military movements, the New ‘ark Times talks of the invasion of Canada by the l0,000 Irish militia men in New York; and the New York Herold considers Cana- da as good as lost to England. This is all very well for newspaper excitement; but we can assure Mitchell 8:. Co., that the gentry beyond the St. Lawrence are about the last people from which they will receive aid in any attempt against England and her in- terests. We should like to see the editor of the Citizen go to Quebec, Montreal, To- ronto, Hamilton or any section of Canada to stir up his corrntr-yum. to disloyalty. Al- though they are u law—:1nd-order people over the lakes, there would he a demand for tar and feathers simultaneously with his on- trance into their cities. There is '--at one fceldiug throughout Canada towards En‘.

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