to asteike to clear

. : ; The French and English fleets have

pr sous ; , New York, 24

Head letter dated 30th, mentions report

i ‘ nat Pulaski had been evac uated by the Confed that —_ erales i. ail viet at the Upper Potomac. Confederates ‘ at Rowling Green suffering terribly for money . 1 er i ed Ww have re signed his com Gen wha mies " b CY OF THE NORTH We ar what is the condition of the <uthern States in money matters, but here is whai she New York World says of the North “It is tne - .

nropowed to suffer the national credit to sink out of yr’

the worid ® reepe et before ny treasure is Ado} ted to

pres rve it { ertainly, every person of commer . }}

sagucity OF Sanity Must confess, that iu weld

vastty more disercet and becoming to impose the tax on the people now, while the public eredit ia fer, that 2 fortnight hence, when, to all appearances it may hewnortifyingly impaired. With'the present | len of Congress resta the very fute of the repub c. We fear nothing from the army of trutor# who}

* } HN

menace the en} ital not resist the temptation which be ix seducing the nation

is lees to be dreaded

not cast out the devil which Ther pital than from what it

to ita financial ruin , ~ foom what surrounds the ¢

contains

Faaups rros Tae Feorrat Goverswest.~

] ta sOn ws Y 4. The follewiag ™ markable statement wus made fr < ig

Congress lately by one of the Representatives fron Massachusetts

pr. Dawes, of Mass., from the Committee on Gevernment Contracts, spoke, giving instances of immensely prodactive contracts. One of the very first, made in Apri! last, for furtiehing 2,200 eattle,

the receivers of the contract made $32,000 without

moving from their seats, while those whom they |

wid it to made $20,000

There were a million dollars worth of shoes worn oat and a million more to be manufactured; to each of these there had been a waste of 75 cents. Many of the cavalry horses brought here are literally

garved to death. Four hundred and eighty-five of

h just re ached Louieville

a thousand horses whic were found atterly worthless, while others were pot worth $20 a piece

These 485 horses cost the Government $55,000

He referred to a contract for delivering, six months |

hence, one million and ninety two thousand mus kets, at $21 a piece, while the same kind of arma

were nanufactured at Springfield for $13.50.

There are contfacts for 272,00 Enfield rifles, and} We do not place a very high estimate on Mr. Da- | pout nearly two milfion carbines, at extravagart profits, | Vies’s opinion regarding this matter; andit seems | Meir Midast

foon after the breaking out of hostilities, there waa organised in New York acorpsof plunderers. Two uillious of dollars were placed in the hands of an

ipcompetent editor of & newspaper for disburse-| | iberal Party to de a thing which he says would |

Me went straightway into the purchase

pantaluous, straw hata,.London

of linen porter, and dried

Serrings, antl he spent, $24,000, then got scared |

and quet. r. Dawes, in conclusivn, argued against

paying for printing the Treasury notes, on the

grouad that the contract was improperiy obtained. +—..2<ibo—— —-

Forty two persons were killed by the city rail

road cars in Philadelphia during tie year 1361. nannies tee

Ex-Presipent Trien.—Ex-President Tyler died at Richmond on the 17th inst., after a very brief ilinese, in bis seventy-second year, having been born in 1790. county, Virginia. On reaching his majority, he was

elected to the Legislature of that State, and five | years subsequently tothe House-of Representatives. | la 186-he wae chosen Governor; but served only |

ayearand a half, having been sent to the United Bates Senate w filla vacancy. This epring-tide of Promotion continued until 1540, when he received the nomination for Viee President from the Whig party. The death of General Harrison opened the White House to Mr. Tyler. The great events of his Administration were the vetoing of the United States bank bill, and the making of preparations for admitting Texas—a measure which was brought about shortly after his retirement in 1845. Since that date Mr. Tyler lived on his plantation, near tlie village of Hampton.

Tue Islander’ refers to x conmmunieation whieh red in our last paper, signed “ Dreamer,” tising it as “ indecent,” “obscene,” &c. vice the remarks of the ‘Islander’ not for of defending ourselves from any attacks emanate from the “ abandoned creature”

it— but merely to say, that we should 'y to pubiish any thiag that would be nod morals, if we knew it to be such. Being in ill communication, w te attend to all the observing that it was in a to ws, we sent the letter to Without giving it a very elose se

rally doall original articles. On rfeading the proof sheet of it, which waa hastily dafhe, we failed to | disowver Uuat there was any thing§ so grossly offen. | sive in it as the * Islander’ wou

appeur— certainly our mind with any impurity from i we had been, like the «

rendered it difficult for us ils of our business, and | which, was familiar |

printing office | tiny, as we gene-| |

wish to make it} as not impressed | yrried perusal. If| r of the Islander, = tion of offensive matter, immodest construction on

rhich—however, it may be from

failed,todo, We, indeed, would | rased, had we had time for reflec-| passage in reference to a certain | because it seemed immodest, but | aceedingly severe. What makes | savage is, that this person exer-| nee over the Islander office and | «iid saw that there was too much

wugh truth intitle allusions to him. If“ Dreamer” bad adopted a @lifferent style—whieh we bope he | will do the nex

’ tune he wrives—and wrapped up | @alken phrasef facie relating to strange oceur- been ringing in every one’s ears for the last twofor three years, the Islander would daddtnat ite inQerest lay in observing a discreet | tter. When it is so horrified at | the use of languge calculated to awaken impure ouglits, how would it find words to express its Westation of actions which can only be charne-| “ted ax essentially beastly? A lighter hand |

M Dreamer’s” cvuld—and may if provoked—_| tow picture ef depravity without shoeking the | Bat delicate sense —a picture that would open | Re eyes of many, but would be likely to shut the | Souths of the ‘Islander’ people.

We are rewiuded that the ‘ Monitor’ has also “We remarks oo “ Dreamer’s” letter, and makes | 4 the text of a short homily on morality. |

ites B. Cooper and William H. Pope

are cer- |

We do fear that Congress may | sete it, that it will]

He was s native of Charles City |

that journal, or the intensely stupid ove |

th at the time we received the |

| advantages are not all on one side.

rassment in fraitiing a suitable answer to them,

;

provided we come to the conclusion that they re

SN ks quire any answet. But Mr. Davias has taken ten

ing date 30th

days to prepare them--they bearing

Jamary. and iniended as a set off to an article in therefore, think that

our paper of the 20th; we,

it is just aa well for us to iet ten day# pass I ’

we say anything more about them--though we

. half an honr’s thought don’t promise to give them bait an hom thought

in Lhe interim, En passant, we may observe that the i ’

Daviea—

the ‘ Islander’ 18 in ecstacies V ith Mr praises him up rky-h gh—-holds him up t d ration as the o ly real fri lof the te autry, be- cause he has consistently advocated escheat, which the ‘lelander’ cCeelare lto be a dishonest v¢ : with every one else- the Col tin) Secretary pats Mr. Da ko vigorously op the back as to thr if be } bot to the

patter and the patted. No wonder the editor) |

iecould think of nothing else as a subject tor edi-

In his excitement he has allow- | ‘tel

torial comment. ed himeeif to ut | ders and falsehoods, which we shall notice when his new protege shall

Meanwhile,

receive “our distinguished

consideration.” we must say, that! }we have so much i

I thot however flattered he may be for the moment } ful prais

' by the fulsome and deceitful organ, we hope he will not suffer inthe estin

lof the public who have Intherto believed that he

had no sympathy for, or affinity with, Toryism.

In case we should nsider it unnecessary to

} rese Wiis 80 intolerable that New York and Massa | . ‘ ‘ alt 2 3s . ‘ . - answer Mr. Davies's “ in portant quenes™ in de-| chusetts agitated the question of seceding from the | | tail, we may ask him this very plain question: If| more obstinate States, for the sake of peace, and

he believes what he himself has said, what use is there in talking about a further agitation of | Land Question, in any form, escbe\t er anything lelse? Mr. Davies has said in his letter of the | 17th Jany.:—" I would also add that the confir- mation of the award by the Legislature in the coming session, (whieh those bedies, honour, are boucd to do), will, in my opinion, set |} the Land Question at rest forever.” And he adds | that the question cannot be “legitimately agitated,” j after the award shall be confirmed, which he is se

confident will be done by the “ men of honour’

| who contre] our public affairs. We may say that

| that he himself does not pnt much value upon it, tor he would not propose such strange questions respecting future agitation. Does he want the | not be legitimate—would be coutrary to law? | Let him answer that question.

- +e

AN OLD MENACE PUT ON NEW GROUND.

Only a few days have past since the discovery

| was made by our nearest neighbours that Canada} out a great deliverance. But then the debt we}

is “ foreign country,” aud not part of the northern | federation. It naturally created a profound sen- | sation among an excitadle population. From the

| threats that were made to cut all connection with |

Canada, one might have supposed that a Chinese |} wall was about to be erected along the entire svuthern frontier of the lakes. Our people who now go to New York and other American cities, to purchase millions of dollars worth of goods, every year, were to be fenced out with passports, made as vexatious as possible; and the accouat between the two countrics was to be closed for ever. It was to be a test of good citizenship, in the Northern States, for a man to be a cordial hater of the very name of Canada.

It is announeed that, since Canada is a “foreign | country,” the Reciprocity Treaty nust be abolished porthwith. A late telegram trom Washington announces that a strong effort is to be made to re- peal the treaty; and the reason given is “ the un- friendly spirit shown by Canada” to the northern half of the Union, which still remains in possession of the govermnent, in the beleaguered city of Washington. There is no novelty in ‘this threat; it has been made every year since into operation; and we have come to as regularly as the meeting of Congress, or the re- |tura of winter. But if the threat is stale, the | foundation on which it stands, at pre Canada, the complaint russ, has shown an wa- friendly spirit towards the North. } neutrality is complained of; no act of the Cana-

dian Government or people is impeached. Our people have not thrown up their hats and hurrahed tor the suceess of an effort which was directed to- wards the destruction of the independence of the

Southern Confederacy. We plead guilty; but we must say it is the strangest reason ever given in justification of a premed:tated violation of a treaty sulemuly ertered into, after the fullest considera- tion. Last year, and the year before, aud the year | before that, the threatened breach of treaty con- tract was to be justified by reference to the tariff legislation of Canada. Not that Canada could be charged with being untrue to her treaty obliga- tious. Then, as now, it was a spiritual affair. The body of the treaty was unscathed, but its ghostly essence had met a_grievous affront. We hardly know what to make of a people who are perpetually seeking pretexts on which to justify | their declared intention to show how utterly re- gardless they are of the most solemn obligations. | If the Northerners are not tired of proclaiming their anxiety to prove to all the world that no | faith can be put in their national honor, even when | bound by the most solemn treaty engagements, we | are quite tired of listening to the everlasting repe- tition of a code ef public mors lity that would stamp with disgrace a tmbe of savages. It is very un- desirable that such loose national morality should become fawiliar to the ears of our people. There is nothing very edifying in the boast of an indi-| vidual that he intends to break his word or rob a} hen roost.

The treaty, of which the violation is thus peri-| odically menaced, is by no means the one-sided arrangement that it is said tobe. It secures to the United States the right of navigating the St.

zawrence, as well as the greater and more protit- able privilege of fishing in the Gulf of St. Law- rence and all the other rich waters of British America. If the agreement could be broken up, in accordance with the scheme yearly set afloat in the State of New York, and agitated at Washing-|

' the treaty went

‘ tt look for it

sent, is new.

;

j ton, not oue of the fishery rights that were pre-

viously in dispute would now be yielded to the | Nortwern federation. If these assailants could! suceeed in demolishing the treaty, they would, at | the same time, have to make up their minds to | forego everything beyond their bare legal claim to | the fisheries, as it existed prior to 1054. They would drive the Upper Canada trade frem New York to the St. Lawrence and Halifax. The com- meree of British America, thus transferred te our cities, the Atlantic cities of the Northern States would suffer a serious declension of trade. We should not long remain without a winter sea-port. British America would obtain a virtual monoply of the rich sea fisheries on its interminable sea coasts; and a commercial marine second to that of | one or two of the principal nations of the world, | would, in a few years, spring up. We do not affect to undervalue the advantages whieh the Reciprocity Treaty confers. But these | i - If the object of the Northerners in desiring to break up the | treaty ix to injure Canada, they could not attain | it without injuring themselves in at least an equal | degree, This is what we desire them to under-| stand. In British America, there is no wish to terminate the agreement; though perhaps not one

Mainly a fancy lot to be regarded | of the Lower Provinces would have the least ob-|

a preachers on | Web a subject. Both forget their antecedents Wofully. The one has evidently lost all recvilec- au of having diddled the publie out of a large sum “money, besides exhibiting such conduct towards aged parent as renders more than doubtful his | im to the possession of Prneipte,

of the Examiner cannot be

ber : po mane Was arraigued, tried and censured for | Tal and disgraceful act; and that he it to the clemeuey also ‘“arraigr ao which aad tried and convicted of something 4 Very uyiv »% : ith money matters A “ly name in conneetion with to write short ser

‘ese are brave fellows certain|; it

| jection to see it swept away to-morrow. | has faithfully carried it ont; | she might have | the obligations of New York on the score of tariff | | legislation.

of a few friends that he was not | @ new excuse was suggested, | could be found, in shape of to last, ghostly reasons aave been given. friendliness of Canada had been measured by nets, |

ito and has not, when done it with some effect, echoed |

It is amusing to hear the complaint |

repeated, even now, that the Canadian tariff does | ; , ; violence to the spirit of the treaty. If the objec-| THE CONQUEST OF CANADA BY THE) one hovest or honourable | tion be worth anything, it tells terribly against the |

The other—who regrets that the editor objections with Morrell tariffs in their hands, and | | Worse to come.

' arraigned for an al-| the t “gement uf inoral law—ought to remem-| have

But we have not complained of | ariff legislation adopted at Washington; we | only contended that it took from these who |

is no wonder that the necessity of| As nothing tangible | a complaint, from first | If the |

here would have been nothing to complain of on

Editor of | “hi

ter the mostarrant nonsense, blun-! ,

ation }

the tne |:

as men of

No breach of!

jof her Royal offspring.

he eavirons and obtain fresh | certainly we apprehend not the slightest embar- nothing more, eagerly seized upon by certain local |

interests which faney they would profit by te ab- | rogation of the treaty.

Since tl North have been taught the necessity of reflecting and the New York organ of the Federal Government points out that there is no!

more common eanse ¢!

before acting ;

war than a disregard of! The Reciprocity Treaty was racted for a period of ten years; and is then

treaty obligations

ont

erminable only upen one of theparties to it giving a year’s notice. Exeept in case of war, which by universal practice terminates all treaties, this]

arrangement must continue till 1864; and then the ( ces are that something will have eectirred to put our neighbours into a better mood, and the

menace of to-day will have Al

been forgotten. }

he same thoe, British Amerien sheuld prepare to

eet a contingency which mey not impossibly hapy ‘n.— Toronto Leader

—— > ae - !

THE FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES OF THE

NORTHERN STATES,

It has for some

; tine past been foreseen in Eng land, that the enormous expenses of carrying on | e Civil War would be such as to bring ruin and | bankrauptey upon the Federal Government.

The cool audacity of President Lincoln's assertion

nae. * the expenses made necessary by the re bel i

lion are not b« yond the resources of a loyal people,” has startled the British public somewhat. But what! do we find in the history of the jast great war in|

. : Dass ci aiiied fn Me Mais . Pitt, Se | that war with England had lasted less than three} ]! selvetion, in the departments of Music, Reci-|

Were oceupied against more important enemies, and

wien fo serious demeonst

quest were made, the eredit of the United States became so shattered, that two-thirds of the commer

cial class of New York became bankrupt ;

actually met in Convention to complain of the dis- isters brought upon them by an unjust war. menting upon thes. Listorical facts and the present alarming Siates, the London ‘ Times’ says

* Carefully examining the America of the present day, we can see nothmg in the social or political recutunre that an enduring civil war can be sustained by her

iow, With less disastrous effects than those which were brought about by a foreign war fifty yearsago. If we saw her citizens submitting cheerfully to heavy taxation, and coming forward, not to take well-paid service in half-disciplined armies, but to their wealth, their savings, and the produce of ry into the public Treasury, we might, of

For

perhaps, think differently. Nothing, however, this kind is to be seen in the Federal States. the first time in the history of the world, we have the spectacle ofga people plunging into fathomless expenditure, and prosecuting a passionate war of conquest, entirely upon borrowed money. Their ouly reliance for all these millions of present and prospective expenditure is npon the credulity of the present generation of mankind. | we ourselves 2re egregious among the number, have | cast up a mountain of debt while they were working '

cast upon posterity was only for that surplus -whieh |

|we knew posterity weuld accept, because it was

discharge. We borrowed only when we had strained every effort, and had exhausted cur own present re sources. But when the President of the United | States reckons up his revenues “ from all sources, including loans,” it is found that the sources other than those from loans are almost unappreciable ; that the whole foundation of the present system rests upon promises that posterity shall pay ; that | the present generation is growing nominally rich, | by pledging their posterity to pay them exorbitantly for gratifying their own passions; and that a people jwho will not tax themselves, even for a canse which they profe ss to have at heart, eX pec t foreign- ers to believe that their posterity selves, to make good the unjustiliable pre mises of their fathers. | This cannot go

on. We may think what we

may of the chances of the North, of the discipline

of their armies, and of the efliciency of their fleet ; but there can be only One OF inion as to the financial system upon which the Federal Government is now sottiiy

x out

be bounded resources, and unstrained eredit. probably soon have an opportunity of judging by expe rience, how long

can be sustained by a country whose resources are not yet developed,and whose national credit has not

yet been favourably tested. The national course Of

financial sequences must bring this civil warto an}

end; but we cannot believe but that even the very prospect of a foreign war, being superadded to the other difficulties, must produce an immediate ce Napae, and the peace which ensues upon utter exhaustion.’”’

These foreshadowings seem in a fair way of being

speedily fuifilled. Without an enormous war tax,

instantly levied, the Civil war must soon come te an | 8tt+ Oyster Cove, to Ann, third daughter of Mr. |

}it by giving

ih COUSIslLehCy j

Com |

aspect of financial affairs in the Northern |

of the country which can induce us to believe |

Other nations, and |

obviously greater than we eould possibly ourselves |

will tax them- |

A hundred millions a-year are not to | obtained easily, even by ® country with un- |

We shall }

an expenditure to that amount |

=:

(rom the N. Y. Worid.} THE RECIPROCITY TREATY.

i ‘Trent affair, the politicians of thy “> legram from Washington announces that a SF et eon ort will be made to induce Congress to rc- |

one ef! ye al the reciprocity uct, in retaliation for the un- friendly spirit shown by Canada.”

“Tt must be borne ia mind that what is here spoken of as the ‘reciprocity net,” is a treaty

j regularly entered into by the Government of Great

Britain, and that of the United States, and ratitied on our side by the Senate. Thongh it is true that Canada, by her tariff passed two years ago, bus vio-

| luted the spirit of this treaty, there bax not been anv

Violation of ite

Re

Xpress provisions. If England is eking some colorable pretext of war, she could hardly finda better one tian disregard for treaty obligations. The re« iprocity treaty was negotiated in@iso4, and ia terminable by either party at the ex

piravion of ten yeurs, by giving one year’s notice

We nist not have a war with Great Britain while

| the Southern rebellion lasts, if it can be henorably

avoided. Down with the reciprocity treaty, imme y, if England should force a war upon us, but ntherwise, it is better to wait ull 1864, and terminate

{ notice. It should not be sist a single day after we can annul it, with the national faith.’’

the stipulates allowed to su

—_~<+<>»—___—- tev We beg to direct the attention of our readers to the advertisement whieh appears in another co-

lum, announcing a Musical and Literary Enter-

| fainment under the direction and for the benefit lof the Charlottetown Debating Club, whieh will jtake place at the Temperance Hall to-morrew

good will towards Mr. Davies,| which the United States were engaged? When | ©V@™s- The programme exhibits a very attrac.) Music. Valse Maria

ws of the Tory | Years, at a time when England's principal forees | ation and eriginal addresses; and we have no}

doubt that the occasion will be extensively “ im-

rations of invasion or con-| proved” by all whe love rational and highly elevat- |

ed entertainments sue¢h as that which the Club |

| has announced.

the dis- |

Oe

| ON Saturday evening last there was a Mail from Nova Scotiamnone, we believe, from New Bruns- | Wick or the States—but it furnished no intelli- | genee,

—————_——

| Carnonte Youxe Men’s Lirenany Institute. —On Thursday evening last Mr. J. J. Daly, late of

Halifax, and law student of W. A. Johnston, Esq.,

-, read a lecture before the Institute to a very large

jand respectable audience. The sabject of the lecture dé was a brief bui

| .

| cloquent exposition of some of the important events

wis the “ Nineteenth Century.”

{and leading characteristics of the present age. The lecturer, in showing the state of literature, gave a description of the works and genius of Charles Dickens and Gerald Griflin, who, he said, were at the houd of the department of letters which they have

; emplified in the various brauches of art, which the

cultivated. The progress of science was ex- | lecturer said were chiefly of a practical nature, cal- | culated to benefit mankind. The lecturer next gave i ‘ i x . in

a sketch of the revolutions of the age, which served Mr. Daly

his interesting subjéet, which we con- So ,

to promote the spread of civil liberty.

| concluded

| sidered to. be rather short—a rere fault with lectu- -by alluding to the Civil War in the United

rers | States, and to the

‘Trent atlir. The lecture was | read in a distinct and tasteful manner, and was written in a chaste and elegant style.

The discussion turned chiefly on American affairs, | and was sustained with considerable animation and

some warmth, until the hour for adjournment.

i % ° >

| On Thursday evening next Mr. Edward Roche

will lecture on “The Physical Changes of the

Earth.”

ne

| Cuartottetown Desating Ciun.—On Friday

} evening, dist inst., the members of this institution met and discussed the question, “‘ Is the character of Oliver Cromwell worthy of our admiration.” Mr. J.P. Tanton opened the subject. On division it Was carried almost unanimously in the affirmative,

| there being but one dissenting veice.

| Onnext Friday evening the question for discussion is as follows: * Whether has lreland or Scotland

produced the best songs.’’ A good discussion is an-

ticipated.

* * *

Louis H, Davigs, Sec’y.

February 1, 1862. a

Penisurp.—A Mr.Dugald Campbell, Tailor, of Big | Point, perished from exposure to cold on the night of Saturday the llth inst., while on his way from j}town. On Thursday foliowing a general ‘sexreh ; Was instituted by the neighbors, and his body was discovered near Ferguson’s Creek, south of Elliot River, up which he had wandered, apparently mis-

king it for Goose Creek, His limbs were terribly l, and had to be dislocated in placing his in the cofin.—WeEErEKLY¥.

}

; vOCY

~ Bitth.

At Charlottetown, on Wednesday, 15th inst., Mrs. Simon Davis, of a danghter. 098

filarricd,

| At Georgetown, on the 22nd inst., by D. Gordon, Fsq., J. P., Mr. John McLeod, to Mias Mary Ann Rielly, beth of Dundas, Grand River. On the 23d inst., by C. Barker, Bible Christian | Minister, Mr. William MeMiulan, Alberry Plains, to Ann, eldest daughter of James L. Hayden, Esq , of Vernon River. | On the 15th inst., by Rev. Robert Laird, Mr. | Jolin Rielly, of Malpeque, to Mary, eldest daughter jot Mr. William Bearisto, of the same place. | By the same, on the 23dinst.. Mr. Charles Stew-

anit | John Ramsay, of the same place. : <-> a ~- “2 960g —-——— THE RIGHT REV. DR. GILLIS—THE Died, QUEEN. | At Coventry House, Melton Moubray, on the Ist

A pastoral address has been issued by Dr. Gillis, Catholic Bishop of the eastern distriet of Scotland, in Which he refers, in the most feeling terms, to

the heavy affliction which has befallen her Majesty. |

After alluding to the peaceful and prosperous tenor

of her earlier life, the Bishop proceeds as follows : |

“But a cloud has come to overshadow the brightness of her long and prosperous reign; for the guards that watch the regal rights of earthly palaces cannot defend their threshold against

| human grief, when, like a veiled and imysterious |

stranger, sorrow obtrudes her ominous presence upon kings, and seats herself beside the bed on which they know that they shall die. O! now | then, more fervently, more lovingly than ever, let | our common prayer be heard; no longer, for a} time, as the shout of joy or of triumph, but as the | chastened utterance of a whole nation’s mourning. | God save the Queen! God save her in her bitter | trial; for, ‘weeping she has wept at night, and

her tears are upon her cheeks,’ and she has ‘ be- come asa widow!’ But we feel,beloved brethren, | we may not remove the pali that sereens the sacredness of her afiliction, nor profane its hal- lowed nature by venturing here to dwell unneces- sarily upon its depth. She has lost the distinguished

Prince who waa the faithful companion of her | life, the fond husband of ber choice, aud the father | Well micht she be to:

given if, while standing beside his yet unclosed

grave, she had forgotten for the time that she was

still a Queen. Let it be written then, as the

proudest record of Victoria’s reign, as well as her undying claim te England’s gratitude, that, after

| moving so long amongst us, the perfect pattern of |

a happy wife and mother, her first prayer as a| widow was that heroic petition put up for a ealm | of mind under her all-crushing bereavement ; for | that she had still many and urgent duties to per- form, as the parent of her people! May the long | years that mellow affliction and soften the asperi- | ties of grief be yet vouchsafed to our beloved So-| vereign; and may she still be mercifully spared to | come forth on festival days. in all the glory of another Judith, the joy of her kingdom and the honour of her people! May there be peace within | her cities, and abundance within her towers; and | may her last earthly song of praise be like to that}

of the widow of Bethulia: ‘Begin unto my Ged |

| }

Canada | with timbrels, sing ye to the Lord with cymbals, | py,

tune Him a new psali, exalt and call upon His name. The Lord putteth an end to wars, the Lord is His name!’ ” ‘

|

Sl

UNITED STATES. Whilst the New York press is bullying and be-| littling Canada by turns, the Boston Traveller goes | straight to the mark. Hear it on the probable |

enacted it the right to complain. ‘The force of Tesult of an attempt on the part of the North to|

| this argument must have been felt in the Northern | sconquer Canada: owes | States; and it j

| “ We might conquer Canada, but that is by no! means to be depended wpon, and if we judge by | the events of history, we ought not to take a Ca- nadian conquest into the account at all. We) have repeateely failed in attempts on that country, |

| and we see no reason for supposing that we should | Cod

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nous On morality. They finely the part ol ry mee Last spring, our Gevern- of their master oe ny | mew refused to sell its steamers, at double the ers in the Government, | price paid for them, simply because it could not always give a generous | get an assurance that they were not to be used in Ree 9 taking qualities which | ‘he service of the Confederates; and much mor an * Pope and Cooper pm AE te teen! eer special leave was given by the Canadian r traits by which ¢} —e sul Ministry to pass the American revenue cutters

i ’ they are both distingushed—| from the Uppe kes, tf! anal YPoeriny and oe | from the Upper La ces, through our canals to the mbug. | ocean, though very little alteration would convert

illustrate some

Who, it must be confers d, Patronage not only to the

| be more successful there now than we were in former days. We have not better commanders | |and better soldiers than we had in 1775 and 1212, | jand we broke down utterly in those vears. We | | are much stronger than we were, but the capacity of Canada to resist us has increased as much as / | our capacity to attack her. We should not delude | ourselves with wild folk abont foreign conquest at ‘atime when we cannot drive a domestic army!

: "7 . | Be TT errr pact into fanaa. If England had been ex-| from the vicinity whagweme _— per | Timothy Seed, per bashel.................+-mone Conspnpem, mee. 2 aoe ven. 2 Wanted to Purchase. NJ. Davies, ¢ : _ | aetng i her treaty requirements, the very con-| al capital is virtually beseiged by land, and block-| Glover Seed, per Ib........ 0... cess cece eee hhne : HES, Enq., has published a letter in | struction of these cutte : mjcht easily have been | aded by water. H, instead of wasting precious, Wool, per ries PSIUEAE o'0f pt 8h PNAS none FOR IMMEDIATE SALE, OR the Excelsior Cloth Company and some ot Friday, in which he propounds prevected. If Canada has to reproach herself | time, every sand in the glass of which was of gold,) Bay, per ton............-+ dt Sid, aS nks tte 752 to 80s HAY DESIRABLE WATER LOT. in. Tannery of Tryon, WOOL, SHEEP- Xtraordinary questions to the editor of Tue! with anything thet- might be corwirued into a | we had done something to impress foreigners with | Straw, per ewb,. 2.6... eee ee ee eens le fd to ls 9d GEORGETOWN, ‘containin halt wd SKINS, and HIDBS, for which Cush will AMINER, whieh he thiaks a il breach of the strict principles of neutrality, it is|a sense of our capacity to tight, we should not} Homespun, per yard...... tu tin decid .3s Gd to Gs coré'uk UAND: with tala iv & ous | be paid in delivery. O08, wad abies : ; are “ important | for her indulgence towards the North in allowing | have been threatened by other powers; but our Apples, DOP GRINS «ose anne 50+ cn cdeanesnneneens N a fs a Lor. p Con. aoe ul J. CALBECK, Agent. et enteitintee.. slander’ says “ will prove | these cutters to pass through ow canals. But the | forbearance, our timidity, our fear to strike lest Calfsiins, per Ib........6,++ ++: coor aes efid to 7d) as NO. 2,0r Forxr Lor. Lerme Cash or shurt| . Ts" able ‘rassing.” We confvss we have not truth is the alleged unfrieudliness of Canada to-| the Uniow shontd be endangered, have caused the | Hides, per lb... see eee sce ee eee we vees ores 34d | time on security. Apply to the yn, Joseru; ggr On sale, CALF and NEA

Wards the northerg federation is not pretended to English to believe that we can be dealt with at no

yet to discoy ie i ver their importapee, aud | have taken a tangible shape.” Itis a pretext, and! great hazards.” \

| January, the Honorable Mrs. Coventry. ceased Lady was a sister of His Excellency the Lieut Governor of this Island. ]

On Friday, the 24th instant, Samuel Frederick, son of Mr. Samuel Batt, of this city, aged 14 years and 4 months.

On Sabbath evening, the 12th inst., after a ling- ering illness, borne with remarkable patience, Catharine, the beloved wife of Mr. Daniel McCarron, of Murray Harbor, North, aged 52 years.

bereavemeut. At Cavendish, on the 14th inst., after a lingering

[The de-|

She has | left a husband and four children to mourn their sad

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WHEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

DEBATING CLUB

Musical and Literary

ENTERTAINMENT,

AT TEMPERANCE HALL,

On TUESDAY EVENING, | Feb. 4th, 1862,

Under the Patronage of His Worship the Mayor.

| i ; PROGRAMME, | Opening Address,

President. | Gallop from

| Musie. Io

| Beniosky.—Balfe, ¢ Gentlemen Amateurs | Recitation. Pollock on Byron, | Address. Life in ot

| Baronial Castle in | the olden times,

Music. Farewell Waltz, Lowden,

Lord Mansfield’s

Barrister.

| Recitation. | Speech on the privileges of > L. H. Davies. Parliament, Music. Duke of Cam- bridge’s Marci—Holden , Address. Burns and his Poetry,

}

: Gent. Amateurs.

Wm. McGill, Esqr. | | Louise—Musard, Reading. ‘¢ The Exe- eution.’’—Baham, Music. Valse Duke