& € { ! ! '

ae ————

: = , : this motley throng, and at length were riveted | system of government. This message was

gure, wrapped in a long! read to the Chamber of Deputies on W ednes-| . which bent) day, and the House was told thgt the Par-|

on a kneeling white mantl ind bare-head beside the altar in attitude of deyosion or sorrow Sor iw toid t thie was he whom we aght. Caroline was ferward, when ft cat f r wrist.

* Hist!’ said 1, * do you hear nothing?’

, ’ ; sna}; petea

‘N thing,’ T listened ; t ids had ceased. Then the kneeling figure in white arose, and in the dying light of the five we caught a glimpse

} Boul

of Basil Olgoil’s face, pale and distorted with | ing speech. lle gave a cheerful yiew of the, Laying}

suppressed but passionate emotion

his a

aad on the young man’s head, Stephen

commenced speaking, and so profound was) meat of the destiny of Italy.’’ Referring to | the silence, that every note of his sonorous) Poland, he gaid that the voice of Italy would | fhe language! make itself heard amongst those of other!

voice reached us distinctly. was guaint and mystical, but through its ob- seuritics I thought | could discern that Basil | Vigot, in pengace with the * impious’ chugch of the orthodox, for his fault in plighting his troth toa foreign

maiden, and ay he on whom had fallen by!

the duty of atoning for the offences of the} . : jot the da vol atoning fot e offences of ‘ey ee with the Greek Church ‘have hee n|

| diseoyered, directing them to extirpate the)

congregation, was to abandon property, rank, and earthly happiness, and devote ‘hinise!f beneefrih to * the work of the Lord.’ And Stephen, solemnly and slowly, dictated the words of a terzible vow.

But before Basil's trembling lips had framed the first sylinbles, Caroline uttered a shriek that rang over the forest, and bounding tiirough the trees, cried aloud; * Husband, Tiasil | they are robbing you of hope and happiness. You are duped by these wild mtn ; do not speak the words.

A dead silence tollowed, and then fifty outstretched arms pointed us out, as we stood on the edge of the dell, and a heagee roar of fury and terror arose, while we saw Basil forcibly held back by the priest and others, and twenty erim forms came & unding to- wards Us, Armed with hatchet or pike.

* Fly, Cérétine—we are lost?’ 1 cried, trying to drag her away; but just then a shout of didmay arose from the crowd below, and wyth it blended the thundeying tramp of mar, Resta, and the clash of weapons, and the Cossack hurrah. The tanaties fell back aud hadiled together, hia lencers cau ond recklessly urged t!

» the

footed steeds

erar? - wprtas tii ‘

eir sur

over the ippery and broken ground. What followed was a confused scene of} Lorrers. IL remember the summons to yield,

the crackling vol.cy from carbine and pistol ;; report is revived that the Emperor himeelf) the !

the yells, scree

ms, and imprecations, floundering of the v |

mses as they

JUNUeCU

rolled down the bank, crushing the riders in| sirive to control and guide the electoral ex-| their death-agony ; and the dreadful struggle |} citement. that went on, hard to hand, man to man.| The Provincial Government at Warsaw

Some recollection, too, d have of seeing Olgef| ia the thickest of the fray. unarmséd, but

for his sins of compliance |

as Coant Galitzin and |

lade glade, |

_——_— _—— ——— ee

liamentary gession would be closed in the

‘ment will go on spending the public money | without a budget having been voted.

The Italian Chambers have met, after a brief holiday, to commence the session of | 1863. Victor Emmanuel delivered the open-

condition of the kingdom, end anticipated

with confidence ** the hour of the accomplish-

| Powers for the triumph of justice and for the deferes of the principles of liberty.

The revolution of Poland is fast becoming }@ religious as well as a civil war. Secret instructions of the Russian Goyernment to the peasants in those parts of Poland in com-

| Cavcholies (Poles) ; and the Poles in eell- ’ ' . . j element into this terrible strife.

| National Government bag issued ldecree. [tis dated ** Warsaw, lth May,’ fand is sealed with the official Polish seal

| The preamble of this decree sets forth, first.

an tmportant

ithat the Russian Government m Poland is!

| making various argangements with regard to ithe finances of she country which are at va- lriance with its interests ; second, that these arrangements are calculated to create difli- culties to the finances of the country when it

| becomes independent; and third, that any!

lussistanee given to the Russian Government in carrying out their arrangements should be regarded as a criminal act.

| Im Paris, some of the friends of the North

| { i

South has established its claim to European recognition.--lhe Northerners themselves say that the Washington Government will still go on with the struggle. *

Swarms of Opposition candidates are making their appearance in France; but some of them frankly avow that they ‘have little hope of succeeding. The Government, it is said, is not at all satisfied with the way and the

|

i

jin which the elections are going on ;

will shortly appear on the scene, and by

means of a proclamation in the

have it is said, declined the service of Gari- baldi, not wishing to give offenes to Austria

i defence are compelled to import the religious | The Polish | 'dered by his fleet to the army of Gen.Grant,! Kast, and apreads lon the occasion uf the attack upon the sorti- plain, over which we moved rapidly. His veasels| were no commanding bills whence they could) ** but there | Pabernacle.

=

i ao

us.

M Ly 23rd.

requires that he should remain ashore and nition with them, b recruit, after passing throug) two years of | flames rather than it shou! intense exciteiaent, first as commander of the | hands. afternoon. The prorogation will in all prob-' privateer Jefferson Davis, and afterwards in| and to-morrow move upon t springing} ability be followed hy @ dissolution, and "the steamers Antonica (Herald) and Beau-|the Big Black river.

. funtil the new Chamhet meets the Govern-| regard (Havelock). — Charleslon Mercury,

Liis health, ‘which has been indifferent, | Station the rebels could not take this amma-

ut consigned it to the d fall into our We biyoue in line of battle to-night, he bridge across

THE BATTLE OF BIG BLACK BRIDGE. The battle of Big Black Lridge was fought

New York, June 3.—The Richmond £2-| oy Sunday the 17th, the day after the battle

aminer of the 29th Bays :

** Last evening's of Champion’s Hill.

In this spirited engage-

train trom Fredericksburg brought the ramor| ment only tle Thirteenth Army Coyps was

| that Hooker was preparing to ieaye the Rap-| engaged. pahannock and establish a new base some- | troops comprising these corps fought as they where on the York peninsula. What were | always do, exceedingly well. In the morn-| the indications on the part of the enemy that) ing, after a night’s biyouae overlooking the} gave rise to this report we were unable tO village of Edwards’ Station, the column, | % Dove

The monotonous guict of OUT) with MeClerpand at ite bead, moved towards | procee

ascertain.

crossing. The Yankees,

excited demonstrativus.’’ {From the Boston Courier.]

ment an account of the ioportant aid ren

' fications of Vicksbarg, 22d inst.

‘advanced t@ within 440 yards of the water! pour a deadly fire into our ranks ;

batteries, and returned the enemy’s fire for! were numerous patches of forest,

two hours. Finding that the hill batteries; coygr and from the edge '

army wasagrecably broken off on Wednesday | Black River Bridge. . by a review and dress parade in honor of the | questivned on the subject said the position | arrival of General Elwell, of the second divi- /was most strongly fortified at the crossing, sion, on the plain south-east of Hamilton 8| and we naturally thought thé enemy would becoming aWaTe} wake a stubborn resistance there. j that something unusual was going on, sent | vot surprised, therefore, fo legra that qur jup their balloons to reeconnoitre, beat the

It iv superfluous to add that the

The citizens who were

We were

advance guard was fired upon by the rebel

long roll, fired signal guns and made other pickets as the column moved towards the

| river. The country between Edwards’ Station and

Admiral Porter sends to the Navy Depart- | the bridge loses that hilly and broken charac-

distinguistues the region further out into a broad and fertile There

ter which

of which they could

, vasily entils fields t : were silenced, he ordered up the Tuscumbia easily enfilade the open fields by the roadside.

to within 200 yards of the water batteries,

| {here was such a one a mile east of the in- selve

but her turret was soon made untenable.| treachments where the main’ picket guard

} d resistance | seven ladie:

Having been engaged already an hour longer) was stationed. Here determine

were ordered to drop vut of fire.

the aim of the enemy was not very good.

| but fighting bow on, they | damage. few wour ied.

by their own firing the naval oificers did not armies were hotly engaged, while batterie sce or hear thé attack on the enemy's works | of artillery planted on the righta by the army, and it was only after the bat-| road poured shot and shell into t tle was over that they were informed the | furiously. The guns in the e

|

assault had taken place.

;

| published, ed, viz. :

than Gen. Grant had requested, thé vessels; was first made. This was | the hottest fire the gunboats have ever been! vance of the column, and opened ‘and ended under, but owing to the water batteries being | the engazement. more ou a level with them than usual, the; line of skirmishers to the ri ‘he have now arrived at the conclusion that the | gunboats threw in -their shells so fast that| backed up by the two brigades of Carr’s, + Che enémy bit our vessels a number of times, | Osterhaus’ division on the Teft of the ? received bot little | similurly disposed, Gen. Not 4 man’ was killed, and only a/ the orders to adyanea., Soon in the depths|

lu the noise and smoke eauvsed! of the thick furest the skirmishers of both ak 8 | onke

| expedition to Yazoo City, accompanied by the | Foster's Wisconsin batt

Gen. Carr's division had the extre

Hastily deploying a heavy

‘division in line of battle behind it, with Gen. road

plied with vigor and spirit.

Admiral Porter's detailed report of the) shot dropped into the cassion belonging to ery, and exploded its| 2! : Monilezr , Peport of Lieut. Com. Walker, adds but few| contents, slightly wounding Gen. Osterbaus| Eastern ladies, toral ex-| facts of interest tu the statement already | and Capt. Foster of the battery, and very | demeanour,

Three powerful rams were burn-| seriously injaring two gunners, the Mobile, a screw vessel ready | haus being thus disabled, the command 0! for plating ; the Republic, being fitted for a) his division was temporarily given t Brig-

‘ram, with railroad iron plating, and a vessel | adier Gen. A. L. Lee.

on the stocks, a monster 310 feet long and |

Alter skirmishing had continued for an

: : i rete t +s he ‘ ’ tad eUppesing LM Geiencejesg breast t > Stade on . . D . 7 | : : 7 5 : . aed = _— ne t oa Che Revolutionary Government of Poland!75 feet beam. ‘This vessel was to have been | hour, during whieh the enemy gave wey and tbh uve Ss BYIUIC « ¥S UHC ' Seca . ‘ e . . ! - - towel 8 Attias . ‘nd t : n [ remem 'has issued a decree requesting all the in-! covered with 44 inch iron plating, and to re-| sought the cover of his intrenchment, the Heath ae Ges Ve HCe. #ehu tiie cuat 7

ber a glare of red ligist flushing up suddenly, with the rour of burning wood, and showers

5 |the insurrection, which already has from) have obtained pilots be would have sacceed-| the enemy's works.

of sparks falling throuch the eddying smoke, and dark forws looming through tue blaze, | like actual demons.

I seeyed te be holding Caroline back by | maiy force, while she wildly away aod plunge into the curtain of s emoke and flime. Then a riderless horse, dashing by in its blind terror, bore me down! and burled me nst a pine-trunk; and} when } regained my senses after the stunning

i ifling | aga

from hig sword, «nd giving dged tone, while the trumpet ing a shrill note Cosiack came to the muster.

* Ah, my friend,’ eaid the Rassian officer. more seriously than usual,

2rs were suund- |

surgent chiefs to organize a general levy in| ceive six engines, four side wheels, and two/| order was given to the several brigade com-

as ; ; their respect:ve districts, in order to extend propellers, If Lieut. Com. Walker could | anders on the right to advance and charge)

The order was received

180.0. 0 to 200,000 combatants resolved to ed in getting possesgivn of ull the rebel rams,/ with cheers and shouts, and the 21st, 22d,

couquer or die.

Details of seyeral batiles between the Poles! pitals at Yazoo City he found and parolied | brigade, were the first to announge themse

strove to break |}2nd Russiang are given, which show the, He had one man killed and) in readiness. The order * forward” was given,

bravery und determination of the former,

jaud the cruelty of the latter, particularly to

the wounded, after battle.

| instead of Jeaving them bebind. In the hos-| 23d Iowa and 11th Wiseonsin, Gen. Lawlor’s| were not laughing at their own sex. lyes | large platform berng filled with the mummers,

1,500 soldiers.

' seven wounded by field piecesfrum theenemy’s| and steadily and splendidly the brave boys

| batteries, going up the river.

j ee a ~

Letters received at Toulon from Japan,|GEN. GRANT'S RECENT VICTORIES.

dated the 4th of March, state that the empire | full, Galitzin Was near me, wiping the blood | of Japan is at present traversing &@ political |

dangerous to foreigners. The French min s-,

corvette liryade any longer in the port of! arrive at this decision, |

BATTLE OF CHAMPION'S HILL

decided to evacuate the position. There were

4 recall, and Cossack after) ter did not deem it pradent to leave the/ several reasons wiich induced Gen. Grant te

thanisial the wind blows from this quarter. | stroyed the English factory the night previous | Gen. Jolnstun—who was known to be hover-

The conflagration bas volled c& the other} Way. She Wii CoBSuING Many a square verst of woodiand helvureitdiesyut. Had it taken,

this course, we should heve fo snd you burne t) 2 cinder.’ - } De hee hia Fac } » 9? * But Olgoff—but the fanaties below ? *Phe poor wretehes! in their despair, |

they fired the pile ef wood which they al-{

wys rajsed beside their altars, said Gulitzin, | oF e

pb ap involuntary shudder, ‘and most of 1 i

to its heing opened. A horrible case of piracy had occurred in| the Chinese sexs, in whieh, after a desperate |

‘ board.

‘The following letter was posted on “Change be evenjng of the 25rd :

PERNAMBUCO, May 18, 1853

them rasiied into the flames, as if the hot, Gentlemen: J write to inform you that the

enapets had been a bed of roses, sooner than hips Nora ‘and Charles Hill, weinig in COMPRA |

be taken. Sach is their idea of winning) ’® 2™ Maréeh, in lat: 1 23, lon. 26 30 W., were} $ - och Is th ’ 0 Zz

Paradise, asf have oftenheard? Pab! & sight disgusts one with soldiering

Oligo and Stephen throwgh

such I saw }

Bat what is thac—a women?

28) days on board the Alabama, and then landed at} placed his army in camp early in the evening the thick of the: Pernando De Noronha, where we remained 5 days,! and by daylight the following day each divi- fames, where my wounded men perished too.! and balf starved.

Ove hundred persons iu all

Behind the tree, poor Careline was lying | where we arrived on the 26th of April, more dead F ,

. ' bMSeNSi vie, Al

bright hair and pale brow. We

° lireet i: home, end she lived, but her reason was! pool direet in

wtterly gone. To this day. she speaks of| Basil Olgod as absent on a journey, and soon |

to reappearandeclaim her us bis bride; and) ry yfessrs, E. J. Crocker & Co., I

she twives Lowers and wreaths them in her} hair belure the mirror, and then weeps, she knows not why. The ghastly story was hushed up, according to the invariable policy of the Russian government ; nor was it untd}

d with a staia of blood on her! than alive. Ot bere her) this steamer, but shall sail in four days for Liver-

We could not get ready to come by |

the English barkantine Edith.

Respectiully yours,

(Signed) CHaries E. Apams, Master ship Nora.

aiverpool.

| | }

AMERICAN NEWS. omen / @ papers received lately contain lengthy |

my unc’e’s death that | myzelfeared to break) and prosy accounts of the late battles/

silence on the sulject |

NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL, An She

n-airt meeting was reeently held at to consider the Américan question.

. y 16 . Mr. Roebuck attended, and arged that it was| man, commanding at Camp Douglas, that if | forced to retire.

the duty of England to recognize ihe Con- | federacy as an independent power. rity of those present endorsed this conclusion,

Majesty's Goveromentto enter into commusi- éafions with }rance and ether powers to secure a general recognition of the South. A} Sheffield journal of independent views re- marks—‘* The absence frou the meeting of many gentlemen whoare generally foremost * . ;

m crept J litical movements suggests serious doubts as to the wisdom of iting, in the . tage of the American conflict. the! present stage of the American conflict, the recognition of Southern Independence.”

1 Lae

Jt is gtated that the Prince and Princess of | Weles will vosit Balmoral in July. Prince Altred will reside in Edinburgh next winter, and pursue his studies there. Prince Arthur | w waking 4 tour of the lake district. |

The Prince of Wales accompanied hy the | Princess, reyiew2 the Queen's Westminster Voluatecrs on the 2ith.

i

ever with the Times office.

before Vieksburg, but nothing definite as to the position of affairs there. We clip the following itews of general news :—

Suppression oy Tux Cuicaco Tings. —Chi-| but Gen. McPherson brought his forces into! rush had subsided in that scene of speculation | purpose.

»

| opened,

force estimated at from fifteen to twenty thousand men—would attack his rear. The

“| resistange, the Capt.and five of the crew of aj force which we encuuniered just before we ; British ship were killed and thrown over- reached Jackson, under Gen. Gregg, had|

divided, one portion going to Canton from the north, and the cther from the south. Jubnston and Gregg altogether too formidable.

Vicksburg.

jing in the regio rth of Jacks a! ; ing in the region north of Jackson with » upon the enemy with fixed bayonets.

combined might prove | lt was therefore} | decided to return to Clinton and move upon

j

: <a ee ' Early on the morning of the day following | orders in a sub-/ and socia) revolution, which is excessively | the oceupation of the eity of Jackson it was |

' ) rominent among} Yokvama, and had seot ber to Shanghai.) whith was the difficulty of keeping intact his | ‘you may be! Phe natives had set fire to and totally de-| jong line of communication, and the fear that

}

. : 5s tetteen tes anh MMi Males |waded the bayou, delivering their fire ag | intervais ut tie fair creatures

| moved up tu the assault. ‘he enemy crouched | on 4

down behind the breastworks. <A portion of them stationed in a cumain on the right of the fort, whence they were able to get a fire upon the colama, reserved their volley until we were withineasy musket range of the intrenchments, when they swept the advancing line with their terrible fire. The nrave boys lost in that fearful volley one hundred and fifty men; yet they faltered not nor turned their steps backward. They

they reached the other bank, and rushed

ght of the road I McClernand gave |

nd Jeft of the : ; 7 he fort most) present women in Eastern costume were utreachments re- |greeted with shouts of Jaughter, renewed | Almost the first | again and again when the audience saw Mr. | death”—~—I ain certainly at a lees to understand. But this great orator did not confine bimeeflf, it appears, to any such limite as f have indicated.

; | He told them that the age in which the Wesieys gave rise to a suspicion that they | : Gen. Oster-| Were bot women at all, and long before the | were bore was, as a consequence, * the dugustan

lecture was over there were many murmurs age of Great Britain”; that, while Whig and that they were only ‘ men dressed up." The | Tory were fighting fiercely, Methodist preachers

; 4 age Ac ’ i; . . : . audience could not bat recollect that the}... “consolidating our constitution and elevating

——— ! . . .

| [Tue following description ot a fu London, from a good Protestant

“ pious per- | formance” | paper, will be highly interesting to our readers | Spurgeon has many imitaters in the world who prate incessantly about biblical knowledge, and are wonderfully zealous in their patronage otf i prayer meetings; bat the titators are not 80 fragk and open in the exhibition of their hypocrisy ; 'and they are not near so diverting in their “ pious

performances.” | > ‘MR. SPURGEON AND THE HOWLING DERVISHES.

A few evenings ago, Mr. Spurgeon provided ] entertaimment for hjs followeis. ‘The dings were as succesefu] as they were extraordinary. It js found that, however the stimalus of a Jittle excitement, and when 'a prohibition is lgid on all pablic places of

difficulty is increasing by the fact that Mr. |

Spurgeon himself bay abandoned the comic) On reading the report, which lately appeared vm i ; . 2 . 7 . ° .

element to which, in the first mstance, be |), some of the journals, of the proceedings on the

No chief likes | oecasion of the laying of the corner stone of the

| partly owed his popularity. — ehi

to appoint a successor, bat in this instance i necessity overcomes inclination. Mr. Spur- |geon looked roudd for a comic man, and | having fuand one likely te uit,

the crowd, some of s for whatever might happen by bring- ling their hyma-books.

servant, or cunugh, to attend upon tuem,

me ad-| number of whirling and howling der vishes,

‘some donkey boys of Egypt, and a quantity

ladies’ girdles, and other dimilar curiosities.

The whole was to be introduced by a travelle | from the Kast by the name of Gadsby.

jot the audience; while the persons who re-

| grip op his countenance.

Surrey Theatre was hard by, and even the \the nation”; that “God cemented the union (of | very pious had heard of supernumeraricsata) | : :

j No doubt. whether they | 2ugland and Scotland) with the grace of the Me- ) a j

jshilling a night.

were ladies or pot, they served to show off | thodistic revival”; that, in effect, while great |the peculiarities of Eastern costume; but, Generals were distinguishing themselves on the ’ half the |iand, and great Admirals oa the water; while pleasure was gone when they fowad they |, The |-

with the women of the audience,

Directly this was over, the biack

prayer.

|

‘and the audience relaxed the rigidity of their | countenances produced by the pastor's ex- vercise. ‘ben Mr. Spurgeon sat down by the iside of the ladies, and laughed Le*rtily

| sequious servant. When he langhed, the

jenemy had not time toreload their guns, and before his charge, making uncouth bows in

At nine in the morning Gen. Osterhaus tan) /

mail and several prisoners.

The enewy’s first demonstration. was upon our éxtreme left, which they attempted tu turn. This attempt was mugt gallantly re- pulsed by Gen Smith, commanding the left wing. At 7 o'clock the skirmishers were actively engaged ; and as the enemy sought the cover of the forest eur artillery fre was! which continued without inter-| mission fop two hours. At this time Gen. | Rensom's brigade marched on che field and touk up & position as reserye behind Gen. Carr. Now the battle raged fearfully along the) entire line, the evident intention of the enemy being to mass his forces upon Hovey in the | centre.

. nth aoe ~anturi a rebel | captgred by the Alabama, and both burved on the took possession of Bolton, capturing a rebel ; th

27th March. We were held as prisoners for 21} Gen, M’Clernard |

|

| body of his army

; jand it became evident that we should capture i sion vecupied the ground selected, and pre-| j then sailed ina schooner of 50 tons for this port, pared to offer battle.

were forced to surrender. Tie battle was ended, and the fort, with three th »usand

selves, aud bearing appropriate inscriptions

|} —several thousand stand of arms, and a larg:

supply of corn and commissary stores fell into vur hands.

bridge, over which heshad passed the main

j the position, they burned this bridge and aleo

5S

{the railroad bridge across the river just

, cess of construction by Gneral Lee.

cago, Ill., June 2.— The proprietors of the | the field, and afcer four hours bard fighting | and adventure.

above.

In the afternoon Several attempts were mad» to cross the river, but the sharpshoo'ers lined the blaffs beyond and entirely prevent- edit. Later, the main body of sharpshooters were dispersed by our artillery.

| order to increase tle merriment.

placed in a postion where bis anties could be well seen by the audience. A thin man, who eyed the troupe as & manager eyes his

.|the reyerend pastor,

good men and women may be, they require |

rates te anew Rod bat rod: thems? The address of the orator of tae day wag a gem hap ‘of a certain sort, wet! worth preserving, It oaght There ‘were to be} +) be filed as the tatest contribution to “ Curiosi- in the Eastern costume, a black | ties of Literature.” He informed the wondemng ” | crowd that what they liad come to witness was a Now, what the nation has te do ‘of live stock, such as the hands and feet of | with the laying of the corner stone of a Methodist

igy plan jJadies, gold bonnets, stomachers, | Chapel in Charlottctown, in the little island of

| Spurgeon surveying the group with a broad | The stride of the} their height and their general |

again, till th their faces. ‘The Eastern ladies b began to show signs of distress. away in an apparently gasping cor and the lecturer cut hia story short.

: vir long hair hung wildly about THE CLYIL WAR IN THE STATES,

this time They went) dition, There

NEWS BY TELEGRAPH, SANGOR, June G. | ‘Phe Post's Washington despatch says the Cog.

was less difficulty in doing this as he had federates haye removed their entire foree from

‘nothing to tell from the firat. ? |

‘bis pious pexyformapee wag concladed by | burg iu Hooker's possession. as it had been began, lecturer packed ap his)

with prayer. The

| lrelies, and received the thanks of the com- Mr. Spur- |

pany for hisinteresting narrative.

geon seemed contented with what has been | ~ done, and even told the people thet they must have spent a pleasant apd profitable evening.

| |—Saturday Review.

} + an 2 ne

a

CORRESPONDENCE,

EXAMINER. )

| (FOR THE

OF THE NEW WESLEYAN CHAPEL.

‘

jand piined.

lot its exponents.

national event !

| Prince Edward; or what connexion there is or : has been between “the dawn of British glory”

|

| feigned astonishment.

{

Phe Siate and Chureh of England are mest elosely

j Pilar of the Constitution. Now, how a system |

amasement except the Tabernacle it hecomes THE LAYING OF THE CORNER STONE somewhat hard to satisfy this necessity. The |

jnew Wesleyan Chapel, f was by turns amused Let me, however, say, a8 80me pre- an a#otual | parative joy what follows, that any one who ‘soup de theatre’ was attempted wt the knows anything of the genius of Wesleyan Me- |

The programme proyed sul oa: will aot be surprised at the pretensions | under the} ficiently attractive to surround the doors of |

The entrance of a procesyion of deacons and j and “the rise vf the great Mothedistic mind - or elders did not awaken the usual enthusiasm. | bat peculiar credit to Methodism cau arise from ‘Lhe black eunuch, the dervishes, and the jthe fact that the birth of the Wesleys was con- y-boys were much more ty the tyste , temmporanveus wilh * good Queen Ann's weeping ‘in maternal grief over babe after babe which

passed away in untimely birth and premature

ddison, Steele, and others were enriebing our | language—a language, as he says, “as nellifluent and the eountenances of the audience re-|as that of Homer and Euripides!’ Wesleyan Me- sembling the well-known picture of a theatre | thetism was the grand secret of success, that boxing night, Mr. Spurgeon advanced | Methodist preachers were all the time behind the

|to the front, and said they had better begin |. on pulling the wires, and were after all the

ej rel bh alw did with} : | Seece exqrersen. Se tery Senay jonly people who were really doing any good. ‘man, who appeared to think thas a little of | How some of the educated and respected geuile- | ‘that serious work would go a great way,} wen, mentioned in the Report, could bring them- | waved before each muffled lady a huge fan, | selves to countenance, even by their presence,

jsuch statements as these, is to me matter of un-

|‘ loyalty to our sovervign is @ great integral part | Ozxange party. Mr. Secretary P. So/| people laughed also; and the black, or per- lof Methodism.” But how is this to be made out? piece of thet nana devounces tie petition as quickly was all this accomplished that the | haps the biackened, man walked up and down | it

| the line of the Rappahannock, leaving Frederickg. No indication of ithe dixeetiog Lee has taken. The Time's despatch says the enemy's columng i were moving in the direction af Gordoneyille, | Fierce fighting vecurred at Port Hudson o> thg (27th; Federals assquiting works and repulsed. Gen. Weitzel captured one battery. Negro rege. ment fought like demons, ebarging on the enemy’ batteries, losing GLU oat of 900. Federal losg re. ' ported at 4090. Brig. Gen. Sherman sergus) |woundeé. Cole, Clark and Cowles killed. E Grant's Sespatches trom Vicksburg coutinue of confident nature. ; Bragg’s army, about 20,000 infantry, flarked

eran’s army ready in advance. Flour declined five cents. BanGor, June 8. Fredericksburg is not evaenated. VFederalg. crossed Rappahannock to recopnoitre in force and ascertain position and intentions of Lee. Pontoous were laid in tace of sha who were driven from rifle pita. 100 Cynfede. rates capbured.

Lee marched ,two corps back to front,

in holding Vicksburg and Port :

Kirby Smith crossed over to latter place wi his forte but Federal gunboats sunk vanes, drowning 700 troops.

Federal reports from Vicksburg uy w square was burut or Mouday from Federal a

Reported forage sli gone in the city, and mea on quarter rations.

Reported that a review took place at Culpep.

r of Fitzhugh Lee's and Wade Hamp:on's vrces numbering about 15,000. ,

Herald’s despateh says Confederates returned | in large numbers to fortifications rear and below Fredevicksburg. Object of Federal recomois-

sance fully accomplished.

forve Grant.

Reported that Suffolk is evacuated, and greater part of Peck’s forces goue to Hooker.

Blair’s expedition in Yazoo country seoured over SV miles, destroymg much property. Coun- try found teeming with agricultural riches; bun dreds of negroes joined his force.

A lot of small blockade runners captared, mostly bound to Havana.

Sr. Jouy, June 9.

A Federal expedition the Mattapong, River destroyed Foundry, Milla, he, abere Walkertuwn. Gunboats kept the river cleay below and dispersed the Coafederates whilst attewpting domonstration.

While crossing the Rappahaunock on reeon- noissance the Engineer brigade lost 30 killed and wounded.

‘The New Orleans Era says that an momense caravan of six hundred waggous with 6000 ; 3000 mules and horses, 1509 head of cattle, nearly all the troops in Letche County as guardé, have arrived at New Orleans.

A despatch from Mobile speaks of the flourish- ing coudition of the cern crops in Alabama ad Georgia.

Richmond papers report gold 600 premium.

General Osterman is rted ov the west side of the Black River Bridge, watching General Johuston.

Che ECraminer.

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Charlottetown, June 15th, 1863.

THE ANTI-ORANGE PETITION. WE notiee in the Islander of Friday last another

at! Bat there is another point in the address which | proof of the fretfuluess aud alarm with which the and their ob-/I cansot allow to pass unneticed, namely, that | petition agamet the Orange Bilt is regarded by the

, the mouth-

| antrathful,”’ as * grossly libellous” om the Lieu-

The howl- itterwoven, Their interests are identical and one. | tepant Governor: aud the Lishop of Charlottetown ‘ing and whirling dervishes behind gravely | Of the Church the Sovereign ia net enly a visible | is not ewly scoffed and. sueered at for having giver prisoners, eighteen pieces of | inclined their heads, and one whose make-up member, but the visible Head, The interests of | Lis approvalot the petition, but his Lordship is held jartillery—some of them captured from our-| 48 chiefly beard and long red hair, was | the Church are essentially the interests of the | directly responsible for the libellous and untrathfal | Sovereign; and, to say the least, the Church is 4} watter which, it is said, the decumest contains.

Now, we dety the whole fraternity of Orangemen

| company when they assembled on the stage, | Which justifies, and incessantly encourages and | ty prove that there is one antruthtul statement in

As the charge was made, | favour. and after that he strove hard to keep |

| their friendship.

| aneedotes of men who had got divoreed from | of others who bad ‘ licked ’ | is, I ean only say, one of the hidden mysteries that | nawes of persons of all denominations,distinguished

their wives, and

} their spouses, This was Mr. Gadsby’s own | | expression, and the women present seemed | ,to know what it meant perfeetly. This at- |tention to the ladies’ tastes was one great | feature of the lecture. The other was the |

|

Ife made them Jaugh over |

The enemy had, earlier in the day, out of | proved to be Mr. Gadsby. The energetic | promotes, seperation from the Church of England, | the petition.

e hulls of three. steamboats, constructed a| Way in which the women applauded told him | which is a pillar of the British Constitution, and | | that they were already half conciliated tn his |

We have given this challeage befure, —it bas never deen taken vege further than by a

of which the Sovereign is the visible Head, can} mere repetition of the assertion, that the petition possess “ leyalty as a grand integral part,” and! is untruthful. can be eminently “ consolidating our constitution,” >

Between cleven and twelve thou- sand people have signed it—amongst them are the

neither Jogic can reveal nor sophistry make! for their learning, wealth and high social position ;

apparent.

and weare glad to say that amongst the Conserva-

I am far from saying, however, that Methodism tive party not a few were found independent enough

is an unmitigated evil. tis a formof Christianity

It was not,| pains taken tu satisfy any scruples that | that has gained access to certain classes, to which

however, safe to stand upon the bank, or/might be left in the minds of pastor or | it is well suited. Upon the whole, it has been an

cross the open field east of the bridge, until after dark, when the enemy withdrew alto- gether. An excellent bridge is now in pro- We

cross the river to-morrow.

Lasour in Butrisn Corvmpra. — Victoria

There the fight was most earnest ;| resembles Me!bourne before the great gold

A gentleman who once kept

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