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. .' ,” N we . . losic f° be auswered, derisively, “J aw supe vou-can have | fo rna Eprror or tue Examiner, to nmbition to be ieformed.” | 6 J. B. Cooper bas been displaytag lis superior sagiciy and th + : ’ ‘ . . — . : . 3 . . . ? rT , Pray sels, i Siitre@at a, * pr 1y teil; ] num ly spol Wises | learal g hy itor wing his read rs lu the bast No of the Mon

- ’ I h 1 Very ® urls ro'ved UNVsGil 4 f a must interestiog coe Vorsation throug' niy own iil-Rumouwr. cf at is very true that Lhave a number of Scotch notes in th place you tmeniion, Wich my passe would not hold; but what on eurth huwie You dracever it 2” ~ dt was very sinmple reasoning,” he replied, “ and seareely

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neals exvlanation; stiffeners are seldom worn now, and yet your neckerchef had something in it; you were auxious aboutthat something, end put your fingers to it jave'untarily 8 dozen tis - it was not iarougnu soliciiude for your beat aopearance, for you uever toache! the bow of it;

nor did

TL ei 5 — sec tom oe 4. _— . neta .¢ “a . . ie ae i tho (iit wisfit you. or tickie your meck, because instead of deed, if after having tanght Mathematies and the classies for

suratching., vor simply tanned i

it, 28 a man taps his fob to be : :

assu'Od-=there, you're doing it now—of wie safety of his water.”

“ What a fool Lam!" [ exclaimed, testily.

“ Nay,” said he, “it would be more civil to compliment me upon my powers of observation.”

* {do comphment you,” | replied, with eandour. “ 1 think you an exceedingly clever feilow.”’

* Wel,” said he, * it is mot for me to speak about that; ’ .

I know a thing or two, doubtless, that may be out of your sespeetable beat, and I daresay | could put you up to the time of day ia several matters.”

* Put fre ap te it,” L eried, with enthusiasm, and parting with my Jast ray of superciliousne-s ; “ L aim as ignorant us a pexcock, L feel; do, 1 eatreat you, put me up to it.”

Waereepon Lam bound to say that my companion com- younicated tu me such an array of interesting facts rezarding his calling as would haveshamed a parliamentary blue book, und beguiled the way for hours with couversation, or rather monologue, of the most exciting kind. Lord Byvoo states that one of the pleasantest persous he ever met in lis life was a pickpocket, and L hasten to esdorse his lord-hip's opinion with my own. I felt ail that satisfaction in listening fo my nefarious acquaintance which belongs to au intercourse with an enemy during a temporary truce; the delight which & schvol-boy feels in playing at cricket with his pediagozue;

or the pleasure which is experience! when a bistiop happens |

10 joi i for once, ia the chorus of one’s owa comie sung, So ; . . , : . ’ ,

affable, so almost frieudly, an air pervaded his remarks that

the most perfect sense of security was engeudered within me.

: . ° A A ° i 1 could-scarcely imasine that my agreeable companion could | |

ever have been in reality coneerue! ia @ frauduleat transue- | tion. nnd far Jess in any deed of violence.

, . . : : , | We had jyst left Preston, and he was ecneluding a highly ’

interesting account of how bad money Was circulated iu the | . : 5 ° j provinces, when a sudden thougit struck me, to which

nevertheless L scarcely lixed to give utterance. I feit exeeelingly desirous to kuow exactly how gurrotting was

effected. set how was I to put such a questions to so moffen-!) J I j

' At last [ mustered | i

D.d he happen to have heard from any, acquaiutanee who, through misfortune or otherwis’, bad!

e\ve a id gentlemaniike a scoundrel ? sesoivtion enough,

f.ited in the intelectual brauciés of his profession, how the | garrotie was effected? I trem !ed for his answer, and hali repented of havieg said anytbing so rule as soon as the question had left my lips, He, however, did but blusi:| siighiiy ani becomingly, snilei with the eonfilenee of a| tuustec In some art who js igudrantly interrozated us to bis | kuow! Ize of its first prine pies, puli d uj} DB false collar i with iT 5

« Why, singularly enough, sir, the garutte is my particular | hine,”

rea! hands, and thas delivered bisuseil :

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My satisfaction at th's avowal was, as may be imagined, coujpdete. Lt was like the ques‘ion aout Liagoumiont mooted amoug the owuibus passengers, being referred to the strange | gentieiuen in the corner with a Houan pose, who turned out 10 be the Duke of Wellington.

Hove eloquent did my fraudulent friend become about this his favuurite topie! What spirit he threw into his deserip- tions! What bairbreadch es ‘apes from the police and other |

jutrusive persons, juterrupiing him in the pursuit of his | yocation, he had at various times ex erienced! Jett aloue| with his nian, be bad rarely indeed been unsuccessful. Quee, | however, With a gymnastic geatleman—a harlequin, io plain | clothes, returning home from the theatre—who had thrown | & Suiliuersauil c.ean cover bis head; and ouce with a stout | party (com a city dinner, whe had uo neck—positively none | —to afford the operator a chance, aud who bit my poor | fiieod's arm ip such a mauuer that it was usele-s fur weeks wiierwaurds,

“Aad you did these feats of yourself an] without any assistance f? | inquired, with some incre luiity.

’ sy° *? = q 4it@ “@ione, sir,

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parotl ss Were severul ine tes Sorter than mysel > with a man of your sze, for instance,” and he laughed guod- humoured! P

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7", it would be almost an im: ossibiiity.’ |

I juaghed very begrtily at this votion too, Wou'd he bey so wool us to shuw me, just to give me an eXampie how the thing was done ?

“i throw my @:m from the back of your neck, like this,” | fajd ie, Suiting the action to the word. but with the very} greatest dellvacy of touch, + You are sere [ am not ingon- yeniencing you?” ‘

« Not at all,” said I, “ Go on.”

| then close the fore arm tightly. Stoop a little lower, please ; thauk you, and compress the windpipe with ......”

Wiecre was l? Why L was lying on the floor of the, carriave instead of sitting on the corner seat? Why was my | neckeloth unfastened, and where were the bank notes which | it had contained ? These questions, in company with many otbers, presented themselves to my miad as tie train glided jnto Carlisle station, Above all, where was my agreeable companion? | kuew by the unerring Bradshaw that the train stopped nowhere between Preston and =e’ 8 but it did though, just for ene minute, at the junction of the! Wiadecmere hue, to drop passcogera, although not to take wiem Uv».

“Guard! guard!”

“+ Ys, str; Carlisle, sir,

for refreshments ”

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A quarter of an hour alluwe

, wearled, and fisaily learns it but in theory.

ttor, tuat 8 I Ving, the recent.¥ ap otuted School \ isitor, hts totally wofit for that cffee. The reason assygued for this

“assertion ts, that be (Mr. 1.) has newer yet qualified even as

a Second Cass Teacher, J.B Uooper, fuity convinced of

lhix own trauscendent abilities, considers himself, no doubt, | perfeetly competeut to judge of the attainments of every pub- lie man in tue Colony. pared to acknowledye hia: a literary censor, And I can only informa d. B. C., that [ feel rather disposed to question his competency to judge of Mr, Irving's attainments, than Mr. Irving's compeicncy forthe School Visitorship, Strange la- a good part of his life in this city, he should now prove inca- jpable of examining any District School in this Island!

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|} Although there are a fow second class teachers throughout the couatry, the art of imparting kaowledge has not yet ar- rived at such perfection as to lead to the result that all the | pupils under their tuition are eituer Mathematicians or Chas- j@ical scholars, Mr. Cooper, and those who agree with him, mast be first able to prove that Mr. Irving does uot know how to demonstrate a proposition in the Ist or 21 book of Baciid, aud to solve an equation i a'gebra—which is about the amouut of mathematical kuowledze required—before their i bare wssertion is entitied t» any e sideration, | Lf it would not be out Bf place here, | would remark that [consider the tuition of Mathematics in the Distriet Schoo!s jus almo-t useless. My reasou for thinking so is, that it is taught io theory only. Of what use is it to a boy to be able to so.ve an algebraic equation or demonstrate a problem in Wuciid? It does not in any way tend to qualify him for a

u calling in hfe. Every one will admit that it has been little

better than a waste of time in acquiring branches which re- | ° ‘ " on ° | quire to be practically ilustrated before they can be of any |

serviee, Greek and Litin instead of Hindoo, to qualify himself as a smmssiouury for India. Kven in the higher schools in this Island, if a boy wishes to learn Land Sarveying—a very use- ‘ul bianeb of Mathem ities —he is kept plo ling at Geometry, |Analytical Trigonometry, &e., until the mind becomes Consequently, When he leaves school, he is as pefectly incapable of survey- ing a prece of ground as a cluld. Whereas, if the necessary ustruments had been procured, and au hoar devoted two or three times a week in practising with them, he would have learned it practically and in reality in a short time. .Aud so ou with the otser parts of Mathematics.

In conclusion, | hope to hear o>» more from Mr. Cooper about Mr. Irving's elucational incompetencys Neither do | agree with his other reason,

|) iaults branded on our forelicads, we would have oceasion to be

less urrogaut. If a man has at aue period of his life been diieted to intemperance, that is n> reason he should be de- sarred from a situation forever after. Mr. Irving perfectly qualided for the ofhes to which he ha- ween appotuted, god will eoatiaus to do so until Mr. C OPO? zives # belier reuson than le bas yet assizued to the contra-

jry. Loire, &*.,

FACR-PLAY,

She Examiner.

CMUARLOTPTETOWN, PLE. OCTOBER 18, 1858,

ON ae Ne el tl al Nae tt all aN al a tal NN a. ALLS Nt Natt ag el ai i,

CANADIAN POLITICS.

Tit last Jslanéer devotes nearly a column to a review of some of the difficulties whieh lately aroze in Canada between

the Governor General and Mr. Brown, leader of the present

Opposition, and who was entrusted with the formation of a!

new Minisiry when the McDonald Cabinet was defeated on the Seat of Government Question. Our contemporary has grossly misstated the whole case, and has, most unnecessarily, inter-

larded his narrative with remarks in reference to local affairs,

which have no.connection whatever. Weare spared, however,

the trouble of correcting the misstatements, by having at hand an admirable article from the London Times, of the 15th ult., which we readily transfer to our columns. We commend to the serious attention of the Js’ander the passages we have italicised in the article given below. Seareely a week passes

but the editor of that paper assurcsus that the practice which

from the Legislature, is infinitely superior to the opposite British practice which requires that all such functionaries

should hold seats in either branch of the L vislature. For

‘eight years we have been almost constantly told that the!

Colonies, one after another, were hastening to adopt the re- publican principle ; but not one of them has done so yet, nor is likely to duit. In fact, it did not require the greatest news- paper authority in the world to inform British Americans, that they are mainly indebted for the freedom they enjoy to ‘the distinguishing characteristic of the Constitation of England’ which consists in ‘* the responsibility of Ministers ’

to the Legislature ;’’ and the only groand on which we can

account for the opposition of the petty Tory press to this

glorious principle, is, that its patrons and masters hate free- | dom, for the experience of long years of misrule tezehes them, |

that ¢hey can only prosper whilo the rest of the community is in bondage.

But to return to the dispute bgtween the Governor General and the Brown Ministry. The s/ander says :—** The Governor General, Sir Edmund Head, sent for Mr. Brown to form a new Ministry, but cautionéd him, in writing, that he would dis-

4 solve the Assembly. But Brown, elated with his position, and | “nothing daunted by His Excellency’s intimation, accepted of

O hers, however, are not yet pre-)

Learnias theoretically is like a man goin to study |

undertaken to improve on the ancient model. Weeannothelp the routine of their offices, for the reason We havestated—thas ‘suspecting, however, that those States are likely to succeed the heads of departments have administrative duties to

best which adiere most closely to the original. Zhe dis- tinguishing characteristic of the Constitution of England we

tube to be the responsibility of Ministers to the Legisiature It and attention, Butwhen the Legislature of this Colony fizeg x ‘

is on this that the freedom we enjoy mainly hinges, and the €2- the scale of salaries, the fact just noticed was either overlouked

le of ‘nited S arr in pre i will : sa °

ample of the United States warrants Us in y redicting that it “ “or not duly considered, for in providing fur the Ass nts 9 be un Liat side that the fabric will be finally overthrowa, Aweri “ee insta

ca bas been unable to preserve it, and has ii consequence viten considerable sum was taken from the salary heretofore asgj

been obliged tu submit to a Government possessing the confi- to each Principal ; and the allowances now established ate el dence of neither branch of the Legislature. In this respect our North American Colones possess and feel a marked superi- ,

sincerely hope therr own moderation and good sense and the of England or the United States, would be ashamed to offer tg . . ‘ 2 5 2 ace { i * ° ne, . ° wisdom of their Governors wall enable them to preserve. Mecent’ 4) inferior clerk the miserable pittance which is paid to some events in Canada render it more than ever necessary for our | f teatsal oficial | fellow-subjects to consider these things—tv remember that the 0! OUF principal obersis, half’ is often more than the whole, and that when a country is | When the IJslander’s friends and patrons were in office jn” 1854, the duties of the publie employments were discharged by

so democratically governed that it is obliged to effect a final | separation between the Legislature and the Executive, it has lust one of the most valuable attribates of freedom. ‘Tie re-) . : : a i cent chang? of Ministry in Canada lias called vur attention to uttered against the practice, but now itisa gricvance of the suing matters In which the precedents of the mother country | Gret magnitude. have been departed from, but certainly, as we think, without) improving upon them, The Ministry ot Mr. Macdonald, being | : ! dvieated in the Louse of Assew'ly on the question of tie @ man swears to perform certain duties he should not delegate choice of a capital, tendered their resignations ¥ the er them to others. But, to take one example out of many that General, wuich he accepted, and announced that they hek se 1 ; cs) : ; ‘ might be adduced, how has the ofiee of High Sh loilive vuly til their successors were appointed, Mr. Brown, © oe , - os eriff been ad. Was sent fur and commissioned to furm a new Government ; be ministered in all parts of the British dominions, from time undertook the task, and succeeded in filling up tie cmon of immemorial ? In most cares, this officer knows nothing of the i ‘ i i ary , i ses 2 XK ifide se f ne ° ’ : °

his Cabinet. Mr. Brown did not possess the qunfidence of the duties, and performs none of them, to the faithful discharge Leyisiature. Matters being in this state, the Governor-General | ae 7 seut & memorandum to Mr. Brown, in which he stated, in| of which he has bound himself by the solemnity of an oath ; substance, that he would reserve his Opinion as to exercising) but he is nevertheless responsible for any maf :

: } aheniiaal ‘ltl Stas eels I y versation or the prerogative Of dissululion until the advice to Gissolve was ce way . . ae neglect. And 89 it is with our political depar : formally tendered to him by the Cabinet ; that he was ready | > - ; sr. p partinents: should to prorogue Parliament if the Ministry wished ; but thought; wrong-doing be practised in any of them, the parliament and the prorogation should only be till November next, or at latest | people will not be siow in visiting the consequences of it on

j Ge oe ‘ tye here ! eg axpre aye | : ba until Dee sana by r, and that there should be an express under- | the head of the principal. standing to that effect; that the business in the meanwhile “ts ; : : ought to be confined to matters necessary for the ordinary| With regard to the remark attributed to Mr. Coles, it is adiministration of the province ; that the Bill for the Registra-| almost too absurdly false for notice. But the editor of the tion oi Voters and the Bill for the Prohibition of Fraudulent | Islander has frequently told us that he is always prepared to Assignments by Traders should be proceeded with ; that a vote | oe ; |of credit should be taken for necessary supply, and money for | substantiate every stviement he makes, Now, we will help the repairs of the canals, which could not be deferred, should | him to give a& wile publicity as possible to proof so datening, be voted, : , ‘ Let him produce the exact words uttered by Mr. Coles — the We do not at all question the wisdom ofany of these recom- -

mendations, or doubt that the course suggested by the able date and occasion of their utterance — and if they convey any

The Islander would fain impress apon its readers that when

and upright Governor-General of Canada was one best caleu- thing like the meanin ys of the passig? we have quoted from the

ated to serve the blie interest, bat we confess we do lament } . : . lated to serve the public interest, but we confess we do la nt) Islander, we shall re-pudlish them in oar most conspicuous

form, apart from their oflices, sufficient to oceupy all their time

a scale of the most rigid economy. The head of a mercantile ority over their Republican rivals—a_ superiority which we establishment of any pretensions, in some of the larger Cities

| Assistants as well as now. Not a word of complaint was then

If the whole of us bad our!

{ 1 therefore consider |

) that he should have thought it his duty in this instance to |

deviate from the course wiich would undoubtedly have been pursued by bis lmperial Mistress uuder similar cireamstances. Nothing has beem mure deserving of admiration in the present reign than the fairness and impartiality with which the tQucen has treated each successive Government, from whatever pulitical party it may have been formed. The Queen has made no conditions or capitulations with her ministers; she his unreservedly placed herself in their bands, and followed the advice they have tendcred to her. By so dving she has both strengthened the foundations of her throne and obtained | See esteem and respect of all who have been brought in con- tact with ber. Surely it would have been hetter for the | Governor-General of Canada to have followed a similar course ito have tuposed no conditions on his Cabinet, to hive left the initiative tu them, and either to have acceded to their advice,

lor, if his sense of duty did not permit him to do so, to have |

i dismissed them from their offices, and sent for another leader ‘a fori the G yvernment? Mr. Brown formed a Government, bat it was immediately defeated by a vote of want of conii- puence dn the Assembly, which was tacked adroitly enough to | the inmotion for new writs for the seats vaeated by the incoming \Cabinet. The Cabinet waited on the Governor-General and requested him to dissuice Parliamen ; he refused to do so, and he Government resigned, .

fu all this we see nothing to object to, but what followed is by ho means equally unexceptionable, There is, it appears, a Canadian Aet by which a ininister resizning one office and accepting another is saved fromthe necessity of seeking a re- election trom bis constituents. This Act is obviously framed with the intentiun of facilitating mere internal changes in the Government, and was not intended to exempt a new Ministry irom the necessity of seeking a re-election. By means of this law, however, or rather, we are inclined to think, by a super- subtle interpretation of it, the incoming Ministry of Mr | Cartier, which was a mere re-adjustment of thatof Mr. Me- | donald, contrived to keep their seats, while the discarded | Ministry of Mr. Brown lost theirs. The matter was managed in this way: Each Minister was appointed to an office differ- | {

ent from that which he held before the dissolution of the Ministry ; that office i. held fora single day, and then resigned, in order tu be re-appuinted to his origmal office. We think j there igs much to regret in this proeceding. We do not pre- sume tu offer an opmion on the legality of the transaction, which is, it appears, likoly to be contested in a court of law, though it is diiicalt to understand how Mr. McDonald and his friends could have so far vacated their offices as to oblige Mr. | Brown and his friends to give up their seats in order to succeed }tiem, and yet all the while have so far retained their offices jas to render them capable of accepting others within the

jmeaning of the Act, wuich applies to transfers from one place

wa ; a | ‘ . tr * is. r Tas dt : ok ‘ fe 2 : replied he,“ but, ia all esses, the | obtainsinthe United States of excluding responsible ministers | to anviser. Be the law, however, what it may, there can be

no doubt that such a transaction was directly contrary to the spirit of the Act, was an indirect means of depriving con- stituencies of their right to be consulted on the accession of their members to office, and, when compared with the hard meusure dealt out to Mr. Brown and his friends, whose seats | were vacated on their acceptance of office by the same vote | which rendered their retention ef office impossible, did not altogether preserve the appearance of a dignified impartiality. Whether the transaction was legal or not, it certainly was not |

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compulsory, and we should have been better pleased to have seen the Governor-General refuse to take any part in it than jallow himself to be enlisted ina proceeding which has not | unnaturally excited much ill-feeling in the coluny. Nobody

}ean deny the dexterity of the tacties by which the victory of } Mr. Macdonald and his friends has been obtained and im-|- }

proved, but such successes, obtained by such means, are seldom

durable, and the time is probaly not far distant when it will be seen that the Ministry has lost both in popularity and | power. and when it will have ample reason tu regret that it did not follow that which, in the affairs of State as in other | Matters, uniformly turns out to be the best policy.—-Lundon | Tames, Sept. 15.

HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS AND THEIR ASSISTANTS.

Ty connection with the subject of Canadian politics, the

Islander travels outof its way to make the following astounding | assertion :—

| ‘The Secretary, the Treasurer, the Registrar, and some

* Don't talk to me of refresiuments.” I cried hoarsely. | office. determined to try his hand at Cabinet making.’’ This' others, have all taken ‘solemn oaths on the Evangelists’ to

“ Dida man from this carriage get cut at Oxenho!me ?”’

« Yos, sir; very gentlemauly young man with fishing rod anda ‘anding-net. A lake tourist. Asked whether there’! was @ trout stream in that neighbourhood,” :

i have not quite s-t:led yet, in my own mind, whether the thing was planned from the very fir iiseli— whiel was not claiimet—a portion of the diabolical plot; cc whether the inteutious of my companion had been really howourable until [ was tool enough to put a temptation ia his way, Wiiech he eould not resist. J Lt was like placing

is altogether incorrect. Sir Edmund Head gave no such caution as that referred to. When he sent for Mr. Brown to form a new Cabinet he imposed no conditions, and administered no caution; but as soon as the new Ministry were sworn in, dissolution, pressed the necessity of this measure upon the Governor General, and it was because His Excellency would not dissolve the Parliament in conformity with the advice of

discharge faithfully the daties of their respective offices, per- fectly aware of their own incompetency. Indeed, Coles the Seeretary--or public Clerk—is reported to have said in the Assembly that such officials were not expected to write.”’

With respect to the alleged ‘* incompetency ”’ of the officials

st, and the lost hat the Premier, instead of being ** daunted’’ by the threat of a named, or any others that could be named, their predecessors

aa

cannot boast of superiority in any respect. Because a con- siderable portion of the’work of the public departments is per- formed by Deputies, is no proof of the incompetency of the

the Bloomer suit of armour in the chamber of Joan of Are, his new Ministers that Mr. Brown and his coHeagnes resigned principals themselves. Itisa part of the responsible system and expecting that she would keep to Crinoline and the smali ofice. The Times very correctly states this fact im the fol- of Goverrment, in England as well as in the Colonies, to con-

Leen so long aveustomed, and in whieh she looked so becowing. Wvevious to the outrage, the man's conduct had beeu eertain! y quite irreproachabie. lie reasoned teo, pethens, that eince he had so fully * pat me up to tre time of day,’ | showid have no further verasion for my gold

vernor General and requested him to dissolve Parliament ; he refused to do so, and the Government resigned.”

supposed not to be affected by political changes. In fact, it

| would be impossible fur the heads of departments — however : > | ‘ % » * —_ Jt would be waste of time to point out all the blunders and» competent they might be — to administer the details of their

type, and join heartily with our contemporary in condemnatisa

of the sentiment. Tue anscrapuloas calumnuiator is, however, wellaware that his a33ertion isa gross and deliberate falsehood rey

ue object of

the Is/ander’s false ass>rtion seems to be te disparage Mr. Coles’s

—almost too vile to challenge serious attention.

attainments ia calography. Now, we are quite sure that thera are not many men in t.e community who write a finer or better hand than the genti>man alluded t»; and it would ba an immense saving of labour and eye-sight to the eompositors of the Jslander office, if tie editor of that paper could wrjte one twentieth 7 or fourteen years ago, before he heeame a literary hack for the

art as clearly and intelligibly. About thirteen

| Tories and Ostractives, and while he was bidding high for popularity as a Liberal, he overwhelmed us with innumerable lueubrations, but so abominable was the scrawl, that ia nine eases out of ten his manuscript required to be transcribed before it could be sent to the compositor. We do not suppose that lapse of years has inuch improved the old gentleman's penmansiip; and we certainly should ofer no remark on the subject, if he bad abstained from hiz unbecoming sneer with regard to the writing of ochers. Isis nv unusaal thing fora man to writs a yery bal bani, aad yet communicate his thoaghits correctly. Mr. Maclean can do the latter, but he is an adept in the former lin; and whilo sach is she ease he ought to have doesney ensagh to abstain from ungracious

allusions tu the penmanship of others.

(From Lie Halifax Morning Sun, October 12.) LATER FROM ENGLAND,

The Galway Steamer, Indica Empire, which arrived om Sunday last, in 104 days from Galway, brought ps pers to the

subjoin the most important items thus furnisiied : ‘

The Chinese Treaty is published in the London papera of the 27th, bat the items of it have been given ia our last issue, taken from the Norih China Hera/d, which are substantially correct. It did not, however, contain the provision for the indemnity to be paid by the Chinese Government, inasmuch as that is secured by a separate article, and is not coniaimed inthe treaty itself. The amount is fixed at two millionsf tacls, between £600,000 and £700,006. This is to be paid as an indemnity for tie losses entailed on British subjects by the | bostilities at Canton, together with a like sum of two million jtacls on account of tue war expenses. Until this cum is paid jin full the British troops will continue in occupation of Canton. | The marriage of the Duke of Malakoff will take place after | the retarn of the Emperor from the Camp of Chalons. It is 'said that several of the Varshal’s old companions In arws in | Sardiuia and England will be present at the ceremony.

Orders had been received at Woolwich, from the War Office,

for the immediate transmission of the funeral car of Napoleon iT. to Paris. The ear, with its drapery, feathers, &c., will be encased, and accompanied to Paris by Sir J. T. Burgeyne, who is commanded to deliver the vehicle as a present from Her Majesty to the French Empire.

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} | The Paris correspondent of the London Standard denies that ‘there had been any conflict between Roman and French ‘soldiers; also denies that the French garrison isto be with- 4irawn from Rome. On the other hand, it is said that the garrison will be reinforced by a detachment of cavalry and & battalion of chasseurs. ‘The measare, writes the correspondent |of a contemporary. cannct have been adopted from an appef- ihension of an outbreak at Rome. It can only have reference to eventua! complications with States whose territory borders hon the Paps! States—say Austria or Naples. That the ree | lations between France and Austria have not improved of lait, ‘is a well-known fact. The Danubian Principalities have ‘already proved tvo tempting for their rival diplomacy, and, for aught we know, Italy may prove the same in a short time. | But who, in these bickerings, is the actual aggressor? [tis | thus the question shapes itself for the rest of Europe. France says she is not, and Austria says she is not. Each says that ‘it merely acts from apprehension of the other, and with po | other purpose than to keep what it has.

| A grand meeting of French refugees is about to be held in | Brussels, provided the government give permission. The meet ‘ing is said to be convened merely with a view to cons:}t us to | what steps may be taken to procure work of some kind, for the “great majority of the refugees are now in great distress, having ‘no means of employment, and no means of subsistence with- ‘out it. Nevertheless, charity covering many sins, may be sus pected in France at least of furnishing a cloak for conspiracy. | Double wages are to be paid to seamen belonging to Her Majesty's service employed on the shores of British Columbia.

| The total force despatehed to India since the beginning of

‘ 7. ~~ - . mat’ ; : ; : : . say sisting 0 Lonnet ia preference to that martial co-tume to which she bas lowing short sentence :—* The Cabinet waited on the Go- | fine the discharge of routine duties chiefly to persons who are the year amounts to 56,414 officers and men, consisting

1,205 artillery ; 2,037 cavalry ; 19,238 infantry ; and 3,984 ‘recruits of the Indian army.

| ‘The Bank of England has declared a divident of 44 per cent. fi e half year.

exaggerated statements of the Islander. We shall give at Several offices, because their position requires them to be fora) pp, troops in India will shortly be supplied with an im-

repeater. Atall: eveuts, my teaveiliag acquaintance had once the able article from the Times, as being the most correct great part of their time engaged in the business of legislation,

tukow toat away with lim.

Sr. Jomun, N. B.—A wan by the name of Langril, employed aout tee Post Office in the above named city, has been sen- f@ cod ty Che penitentiary for: five years, for a robbery coin-

potted yp him ia that Offes

and concise version of the Canadian dispute :—

THE “TIMES” ON CANADIAN AFFAIRS. eR Cm eee ’ The Britis! Constitation is no Jonger the s jlitary wonder of

the world. It has many duplicates throughout oar colouial | empire, and there | be ranting , empire, ‘Te Haye not been wanting those who have

jand in Council, as well as in the discharge of multifarious | so | dutie which grow out of proceedings in Council. In all the

other Provigees the salaries of the principal officials — whose work is chiefly done there as well as here by Deputies — are

just as high as if their recipients were all the time engaged in

' proved description of ammunition for the Enfield rifle.

| Twenty-rwo AppiTionaL Scrvivors OF tue AvsTRia — —Quebec, Oct. 4.—The Norwegian ship Catarina, weed Fannemark, from Forney, forty-three days oa a clock yesterday. She reports on the ith Boptombes 28 oa ae ‘A. M., in Jon. 44 40, lat. 41 39, the Catarina fell in ;

27th ult., several days later than previourly reecived. We