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from Courts now established, the seid amend- ment WRe agreed to.

Phe Bill relating to tle rules and limits of | Pay You handsomely for doing a little seribble-

Jeila wae then read a third time and passed. House adiourned. A. McNaitt, Reporter.

petitioners were situated at long distances will you not show a little more respect for| NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL. gentlemen, who will, no doubt,

ithe werthy

j scrabble at the Reporter's desk, which, wh

}not, afterall, we venture to assert, be recog-

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THE PROGRESS TO WAR.

A Temple of Peace has been opened in Paria,

C8) and nations are invited to it in ordet that a jelahorated in the columns of the Patriot, will) confidential intercourse may take place,

| friendly relations may be confirmed

aid

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ae |benefactor, at | Savoy and Nice

j tance rendered to the Prussian Cuuse.

proposed alliauce,

mouth.” «The syret votce of Berlin,

id is promised the recovery of d i ag a compensation for assis- | the transition to the Pr Some ;cnouzh. The public voice now calls out of the Anstrian papes Warmly advocate the| chanye, awadical change,

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Overnment; for remonstrauces

they s.y * would place Anstria iu the lion's | sees the storm lowering about him, and iustead | this bargain and sale has been going @n, and is “eh thas} oc maxing all suug ike @ skilful sailor, and prudeutly silent now tue transaction is discles- |

degrees slipped into Moderados, and from that ‘garded in England with surprise certainly, but ogressista Camp is easy |nothing else. We disbelieve the reports that : fur a are cixculating of remoustrances having been inevery sense of the | made by our whist others writein violent) word—nothing short of actual cautery or ampu- | would be nnavaiting to ulter an accomplished | terfus against it, repudiating a policy which | tation will save the body corporate. Narvaez jfact. Fagland has bees hoodwipked whilst |

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Constantly on Hand.

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juised as a “wonderful triumph of genius su your part.

The Gxraminer.

LLL LO LAO Mm |

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siieaiecn ili tatainaiainilnaiva, MISREPORTING.

| Strengthened ; also that there may be nu moe jwar. Nevertheless, there has not beeu a tine within the last fifty years when so much appre | hension of a general European war pievaiied.

to each other, and yet ail the world knows the

weites the Vienna Jfesse, “cannot fascinate seudding before the storm, he believes in th: led: but vbserving the malice thew‘is init, we e r i t a ae a fin . ° “ : e , : ;

us. We love Austria, and shail not allow onr-| capability of his erazy old ship, and in his | wait with open eyes for what will come next. |

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SUGAR,

iu Hhde and Bobls.

The two great continental military powers }are profuse in their courtesies and professions

selves to be misled. Ve are far from wishing to enter a Germany whose violent unification 3i Wedo

has been effected by Count Bismarck.

not like to make a irafc of the destinies of the |

| abuities as a practised political pilot, to weather it; instead of putting down his heim and ranning before the storm, he amuses Limself at the dangerous game of breasting the billows.

Rice tirenstotaal an theadinaiiesinas gem Tue Colonial papers, received by the last Mail, contain some European telegrams,

* Charlottetown, April 29,

It appears by the reports of the House of|

mm Assembly that the case of the Queen’s Printer. |

turn of a straw mizht bring them into resolute | monarchy.

‘would acquire in Cowt Bismarck only a very |

action as implacable foes. Aud behind them

PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS.

Nor having been in the House this Session, noz, perhaps, likely to visit it much, as our own | Benj

i

jthat body. In the course of the debate on the

nffairs require all our attention — we have no

ship has been honored with especial notice in

lanswer to the Governor's Speech, the Hon. |

the wily Russian stealthily renews his ap- ,; proaches to the couch of the Eastern volup- jtuary, the “sick man,’’ in the hope of grasp-

ing aad securing possession of his goods, The

Davies is reported to have spoken as complimeuts aad the professions of the Court of

i ° . ated ie |doubttul friend, and that by such an unskilful ichange she would drawapou herself dangerous | .* °9 7 > is aw j chmties. lu watever Way Lux mbury ib ag } yuired by France the jealousy and suspicion its | possession must excite will be unfavourable to

s . . . We know, moreover, that Austria} Kach day brings with it some wanton act of No journa! is allowed

intolerable oppression.

per the Cable, of a later date than those given in our present No., but there is not a particle

to be published or circulated until two eopies have respectively received the approving | si gngtures of the civil and military governors. And these gentlemen do not like te be dis- turbed; they never give their verdict until within half an hour before or after the depar-

of news in them that would be interesting to

the majority of readers in this Island. -—_——_____~o <> o—

Bae One of Her Majesty's Ships of War, said to be the Woleerine, was coming up Char-

knowledge of the parliamentary transactions | ' but sech as we may gather from the printed

seports. The debate on the answer to the Go yernor's Speech was not concluded day ‘ast. connected with the Land Question, were — as

time.

resulted from reviving these old stories; and | former opinions in favor of Confederation, and |

we take it, that the wisdom of their js now much more than questionable. — The

House has heen in Committee of S pply and

nti! Mon-| Whelan’s appointment as

Some of the old and worn-out tapies |

Experience proves that uo good has|

| follows :—

| «Hoy. Mr. Davies.—The bon. member who has just spoken considers that [ cannot, with fany degree of consistency, approve of Mr. Queen's Printer, and vet condemn the Opposition for choosing the hon. member for Georgetown (Mr. Haviland) their Leader. It is well-known that Mr.

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ithen applied for the Printership; but, before that office was given him, he renounced his

revival | promised to oppose the measure in the House, | high spiritand couraze of Napoleon, must have I

if again elected. his returning to his constituents, they were not } satisfied with his promise, and rejected him;

’ 3 , extensive . ”

| Berl are accepted by the Emperor of the the world’s peace; and a extensive prepara.

French at their worth, and failing to reconcile tions that are being made he | him to the anifieation whichehis rival Bismarck | up Vor distant time, ” OW, ld |} has accomplished in Germany, and the deceit use.—London News of the Wortd. ithat was practised upor himself whilst the : Fae vn ¢ lwork was aoe on, the design of another alli THE PARIS EXHIBITION. | ance of equal force and importance to what the } Considerable progress has heen made in | minister of the King of Prussia bas disclosed | getting the Exhibition building and its contents | will, we may be sure, be

| next week there will be very few stalls unopened, lItaly excepted, about vhom no predications | burg is the Grst point to which the will of the {Ww hatever can be made. The grounds will be

Emperor is directed, and the negotiations with | Holland for its disposal whilst they indicate the | will see a great change there also. Jn a few

.| days the water of the Seine will be let in round

reconsider his position, if he be really gifted | in directing the stranger in Paris in his en-

with the qualities of a prudent statesman. The | deavour to find tie Exhibition, it being the

also ia Committee of Ways and Means since! and, I am proud, as a politician, they did so, | desire for the acquisition of Luxemburg brings| only portion which mugh, if at all, overtops , ’ : rie} raalf oa ‘ ; > Whelar r 1 . ° ‘ y ¢ ; * : i Monday. In the former Committee the usual! | though I Invse If believe that, had Mr. Whelan Napoleon out from the quiet seat in his cabinet the surrounding houses. A part of the French

salaries and allowances provided by Statute were voted without any discussion. A sum of £9,000 for roads, brid zes and wharfs was voted, and £2,500 for military purposes, also received £600-—n most in-

jnadequate sum, we think—was voted to encour-

the sanction of the House.

age steam navigation to connect the eastern and southern ports with the capital; £700 for the Model Farm and the encouragement of agri- ealture: and some other grants, we believe, have been msde, but of which we have yet seen no printed record.

Not being in a position to enjoy the confi- dence of the party in power, we are uuable to say what legislation of a special and original characier will be attempted; but we imagine it must be of a very meagre description, as the

Spring season is so far advanced, and “hon. | think that he would sell himself and his opin-|

mewbers’’ will naturally enough fee! a most} It would be! premature and unfair to speculate on the sup-|

eainest desire to return home.

pesed character of the pew weasures, if any jhireling. Ihave never seen his abandonment |

are to be introduced. before the country we shall review them in a/ just and candid spirit.

When they are fairly

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THE ELECTION IN THE SECOND DIS-| statement pretty nearly the same as it was— | the peace of Ryswick.

TRICT OF KING’S COUNTY. We have yet no reliable acec unt of the exact | The Sheriff ex. | amiaes his poll hooks at Georgetown to-day, wad we cannot possibly see them before to- morrow. From al! we can learn, Mr. Whelan, it appears, lost his electica by the smail num- ber of about thirty votes. He and his friends were too sanguine of success, and made searce-

return for the above District.

ly any effort to secure his election, wiile his opponents were labouring day and night —and,

{heen again returned, he would have opposed | Confederation.”

Mr. Whelan

| ** did not renounce his former opinions in favor '

This report is not correct.

| of Confederation."’ As to his constituents not

| heing ‘* satisfied ”’

on this question, we have every reason to be- lieve they were quite satisfied, for the question

was not once mooted at or about the time of | posts of Luxemburg

| the late election. Mr. Brecken very kindly, and, we under- | stand, in his usual warm way, took up the de- | fence of the absent Queen's Printer, and spoke

as follows—(we copy merely an extract from | his speech) :—

| Mr. Brecken.—I am sorry, Mr. Chairman, that Mr. Whelan is not present.

| had too high an opinion of that gentleman to

I have always |

| where he has warched the progress of events | territory is laid out asa garden, with extensive }and learned at last that he has been duped ;| Conservatories and palm-houses, and this will

| and he now appears face to face with Bismarck | be the only really pretty portion of the grounds. | without the abatement of one jot of imperial | lhe rest is a wild jumbleof incongruous build | dignity, to assert his right of supremacy, and if| (ngs, jostling each other without play or object,

| necessary to take revenge. He has found out} The Mexican Temple of Xochicaleo faces a

with the pledge he did give the Prussian difficulty, and having the oppor- | tract society’s cottage, the French lighthouse | extended in the spring, and

tunity he will turn it to his account, calmly, if} stands hard by a church, the Tunisian Palace others are willing; otherwise by force.|'8 next to the agricultural machiuery shed. Prussia insisted upon garrisoning the military! There is no sort of regulsrity or arrangemeut after the dissolution of the |i" any way, and the conseyuence is that, as far |Germanic Conft deracy, which had also des-| 48 regards effect, the who is a failure. |troyed ber right to daso; and Napoleon, saga |the gardens been properly laid out, and the | ciously perceiving the Duchies falling avain| Duildings, to a certain extent, hidden from launder the old arrangements of the Treaty of | each other, so that the visitor, as he wandered | Prague, refuses to acknowledyve the Prussian | through the grounds, mizit come sometimes fauthority, and to allow the strong barrier to} Upon an Ezyptian temple, surrounded by exist in the hands of Prussia, between France | tropical plants, anon upon a Norwegian and the Rhine. Count Bismarck is anable to | cottage, nestled among fir trees; had every | give up the Prussian claim after strongly as-| building ereeted by the british Commission serting it when it was disputed by no stronger | been elmwinated altogether, the grounds might | Government than the Dutch, without allowing | have been made charming, As it is they | his action to assume the character of wu retreat. |

war are likely, at turned to actual

; ¥ pursued with all the! into order, and it is thoaght that by the end of we leara from the Patriot—prominent features| Whelan hud strong elaims upon the Liberal | civility of taat minister’s example, and quite as |

jn the debate, a’ the expenditure of much} party. He ran his ejection, was returned, and | determinately. The Grand Duchy of Luxem

Had |

j ever made.”

ions for an office, and, if he were now in the! ill he ret eat before Napoleon? ; : House, he would not, I think, thank the hon. 7 ee eee eee of ven enbeatad’ ‘ete tins just sat down for the cha- Pe dew, ea It was a part ot the | racter which he has given him, that of a politieal | ~ ustrian Netherlands in the middie ayes, and | fell before the arms of the Spaniards in 1542. | | In the following year it was captured by Fran- cis the First of France, but shortly afterwards was recovered hy Spain. in 1684 France a sain | The Hon. Mr. Davies, in replying to the} became its possessor, it having been ceded to| above in the course of the debate, * explains” | Louis the Fourteenth at Ratisbon,and it remain. | follows: but bie explanation leaves his first |°" *" appendage to that country for a period of asfullows; Dut his exy | thirteen years, when it was avain surrendered at The French under General Hatey, captured the place in 1795, but | : }in 1813 the Allied Powers became its masters, | “ Hon. Mr. Davies.—I think {maybe allowed and at the treaty of Paris it was ceded to the to explain my statement in regard to Mr.) King of Holland with the stipulation that it Whelan’s appointment as Queen’s Printer. 1) should form part of the Germanic Contedera- would have heen opposed to his appointment, | tion, The Belgian revolution produced ano- had I not been aware that, before his first! ther alteration in the fortunes of Luxemburg, Election, he publicly renounced his opinions 0”) and in 1831 a division took place, one portion, Confederation. When I said that] was glad) released from all German connexion, being | that the people had now rejected him, I merely | given to Belgium and tke other to Holland, | meant that I was glad they had done so, if they| with its relation to the German anion undisturb- |

of his opinions, and I du uot think such was

not correct :—

Luxemburg |

did not cousider bim sincere in the pledges | whick he had given.”

Mr. Laird, who is Reporter of the House, | and who is, of course, guided by the lights of|

what is greatly to their dissrace, freely used names which ought to have been kept from the Add to this the intimidatio was used at two polling places especial! y—the |

public ear. which illegal voting at all of the divisions— and the | absence of «a vigorous check upou illegal! voters by Mr. Whelan’s reprvsentatives, it is ovly suar- prising that he polled so weli and so lurgel; sult. the flattering unction to his soul that obtained the free suifrages of anything like a najority of the electors.

Although there may be some little ir tation | in defeat at an election contest, Mr. Whelan |

his own report, commenting on this part of the|

| debate, makes the following remark :—

‘(Mr. Davies, a member of the Government, declared that before being appointed Mr. Whe-| lan renounced his Confederate opinions, pro- nised to oppose Confederation, and on the | strength of that promise he was made Printer

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{to the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty. As a/ dable a position, and they would have indulged ‘{ politician, however, he was proud that that} ¢he «nother contest would show @ far differwut ve-) officer was defeated at the recent partial elec-| f],)Jund that remonstrated : In the meantime Mr. Reilly need not lay ition. If the statement of Mr. Whelan grecan- | of the Emperor of the French obtain more e has| tation be true, and we presume it is, it places | consideration; and his Imperial Majesty shows joue of our leading Confederates in a most | incontestabiy that Prussia having dissolved the unenviahle position before the people of British | German Confederation by virtue of which her

North America.” Now, the best authority to shew that Mr.) Davies has been strangely misunderstood and |

ed. The German Confederation considered | Luxemburg one of their most important out- | posts, and taxed their genius to improve its| natural advantages so as to make it almost im- | pregnable. The upper town is constructed | upon a rock rising two hundred feet from the | plain and isolated on three sides; another rock, } in the centre of the lower town commands the

valley ot the river above and below, and such | on the right is the Empress s drawing-room, a} of the : ; : : : la Louis XVI, and on the left a salon in the | W4Y of ordinary traflic; but five-sixths of the |

exteusive engineering works have been com-

| pleted there as to produce something of a re-

semblauce to Gibraltar. The Prussians would, of course, like to retain possession of so formi-

ir desires if it had been only the King of

but the sentiments

soldiers garrisoned Luxemburg, the right of oe- cupation is gone, and it is not agreeable to France it should be renewed.

The price offered by France for Luxemburg |

does not regret being out of the House at pre-| misreperted by the Reporter, is the honour-|is a hundred million of franes, and the two!

sent. Aiter twenty-one years’ membership, daring which time he had a pretty good share of | work ai the ‘‘ labouring gar,” it is only iust| for a while; sud he trusts that others will do more bravely and more satisfactori'y for the interests of the country the labour which fell to his lot iu working the little shallop of State. ——

An article in the Patriot of the 25th inst. is #omewhat remarkable in its tone, inasmuch as that the Editor, who is the chief Reporter of the faouse—(for his services in which capacity he will, no doubt, be well paid)—does not en- tertain:a very exalted opinion of the august

and reasonable that he should be relieve

asseiably whose wise and unwise sayings alike he bas been appeinted tu record. Alluding to the intellectual calibre of the House, Mr. Laird observes :-—

“The regular business of the Session fairly commenced on Monday gfternoen, whea the auswer to the Speech—which, in a literary pont of view, is not a very wonderful triumph of genius—was taken up. The debates, so far, though well sustained, are not the slashing Vigorous debates of furmer years. The alsence from the Legislature of so many of the old| party chiefs, whose private aud peisonal dif- fereaces often added (urce and piquancy t their periiamentary utterances, aud the almost total obiiteration of old party lines by the reciprocal adoption of each other's measures, have toned down extreme opinious on both sides. The Colonial Secretary was very much missed from the ministerial benches, aud lad the Attorney General's reelection been opposed the G vern- ment would have been placed in an awkward prsdicament eu the tloor of the House.”’

We will not comment upon this further than to say, in reference to the literary style of the address, that although it is not a gem—and such things ought not to be of too dazzling a brizht- ness—it speaks good plain common sense, which the duliest brain cannot fail to compre- hend; and we must confess we have often seen staie documents of a like character, emanating from larger aisemblies, not much better, and often worse. We think it waa Cobbett

able member himself, who addressed the follow-

ing letter to the editor of the Patriot, and it) | i “« To the Editor of the Patriot. “Sin :—Under the leading article contained im your paper of 25th iust., you made it appear | that I stated on the floor of the House of As. sembly, that the Hon. Edward Whelan, before | being appointed to office, had renounced his | Confederate opinions, and promised the Go-| vernment to oppose that Scheme, as the cou- | dition of his apprintment. I thought I made | iayself clear to the understanding of every | person. It was in consequence of the an- nouncement put forward by Mr. Whelan in the | Examiner some time ago, to the effect that he would not support Confederate views, that [, us a member of the Government, azreed to his appointment; and I felt certain if he had been returned he would have acted in good faith to- wards his colleagues; but, Sir, you made it} appear I said the Government, not satisfied | with Mr. Whelan’s voluatary renunciation of | the revolutionary scheme, also recuired a fur- ther aud direct pledge to them of his recanta- tion. Such is not the case. “T have to request you will be pleased to

publish this communication, and oblige yours, &c., &c.,

appears in that journal of Saturday evening :—

‘‘ Bensamin Davies,

Ch’town, April 27, 1867.”

In this letter Mr. Davies has come nearer the truth than his reported speeches do. Mr. | Whelan certainly promised not to ‘support’ | Coufederation in opposition to the will of the people. In a’No. of the Examiner, previous to the general election, he expressed his opin- ion that so great a change should not be forced upon the people, without their consent to it being first freely indicated at the hustings. This

is precisely the same kind of a pledze that the Hon. Mr. Haviland gave to his constituents.

so was Mr. Whelan by a majority of 185 votes over his opponent, who piped to no other music throughout the public canvass but anti- Confederation ; and this result, we think, shows | that Mr. Haviland’s aud Mr, Whelan’s pledges were readily accepted by their constituents. We wil! only add, that on Mr. Whelan’s part

who used to refer to the Royal Speeches at the opening and closing of Parliament as the surest places wherein to discover inelegant com posi-

ten aud bad grammar ; and the London Puncd, |

we know, has frequently made them the butt of ita ridicule, on account of their defective style. The Reporter, in his capacity of editor, might legitimately eritieise the matter of the add ess ; het we think it was ungracious for that oficial to sneer and carp at its style. Why, we know that the learned Reporter himself bas written |

the pledze he yave was a very diferent thing | ii ods wail from ® renuuciation of his convictions on the

We have this moment before

great question.

us a private letter, written to Mr. Whelan about

the time to which Mr. Davies alludes in his

letter, approving highly of the course then

taken by Mr. W. on the Confederation question. mere) aes ea

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL.

Tue English Mail, per Steamship Cuba to

Many things which could hardly be regarded | Halifax, arrived here on Thursday morning.

a“ wonderful triumphs of genius.”

Our latest dates ure to the 14th just.

For want

There is another statement in the article! of time aud space to comment upoy the news,

hundred thousand people to be so purchased are not pieased at the prospect of being made objects of barzain andsale. The persisteat re- ports are said to have occasioned “the most profound emotion.” Persons connected with the Government go backward and forward from Luxemburg to Hazue and thence to Paris, whose movements give a colouring to the re-| ports of what is going on in Cabinets. The arrival of functionaries from the neighbouring | department is also noticed as signifying prepa rations for a general vote of the people, that | ingenious expedient for consummating a govern- ment project with the plausibility of public opinion. ‘These gentlemen,” it is stated, ‘pay visits to famiiies of distinction, inform themselves as to the disposition of the popula- tion in respect to the French Government, and as to the chances which the vote of a plebisci- tum for the annexation would have in its favor.”’ But “ public opinion” in Geri_any, it is alleged, will not admit of France extending ber frontiers. This is very like a Bismarckian plea. Itis not the Berliu Cabinet that rejects the French proposal; for the Berlin Cabinet | desires above all things to be at peace and live in friendship with France, it is the “ people” who object to the French acquisition of Lux- emburg. And what is Bismarck to do, if ‘the | people’’ forbid the gratification of his friendly desire to acquiesce in Napoleon's desizn ?

This is plausable ; but Napoleon, exchanging smiles with Bismarck, goes ou. He has a great | respect for the German people, still more for | the King of Prussia, and more again for Bis- marek; but he wishes to go to Luxemburg, nevertheless; and he will zo there.

Is war to arise out of this? The Belgian | minister lately directed attention to the signit- | cant fact that France is manufacturing half.a- | million Chassepot rifles, all of which will be | completed within a year from this time, whilst |

jearpets, &c., having been designed expressly.

| lodsings has gone up throughout Paris.

| versal

| to prevent any of their friends from patronising

resemble nothing so much asa collection of cockney villas in the courseof erection by some | builder who is his own architect, and has a fancy for the. fantastic. There are ten times too many of them, and nine out of ten are positively ugly. Some five or six out of the whole ave all which could be cited as really rood in their way. ( teniple, the Swedish cottage, the Swiss chalet, und the palace of the Bey of Tunis, are all ex cellent. The Spanish and Russian houses are too ornamental, and remind one of nothing Spanish or Russian. The five buildings ‘first named are by far the best of those erected, and, had there been no others, would have al! looked extremely well. The palace of the Sey is a remarkable building, ix the forid Moorish Byzantine style. The arches over the @ptrance are filled with a delicate fretwork tracery,

The Ezyptian house and}

ture of the morning mails. been adverse for three days out of the last four,

ali the pains and cost of composition, printing,

they are subject to heavy fines and imprison

| denned.

| The Senate has rejected, by 97 against 69 on ger getting into orde’, and yet another week | votes, the motion brought forward expressing

| regret at measures that were adopted by the | Government against Marsiaak Serravo, its late

It appears, however, that, on) the effect of inducing Bismarck to pause and | the base ot the lofty lighthouse, which is useful | President.

| sangeet THE EXPECTED WAR.

The Berlin papers state that in case of the

recurrence of war, the equipment of the troops |would be unchanged from that in last year’s leampaign. The North German army would | be completely furnished with needle guas, 28 well as the new Federal corps formed “Dy the Saxon troops. The fortifications of Kiel Bay, | Alsen, and Sundewitt, are to be considerably rapidly carried on

| to provisional completion.

TURKEY’S MENACE TO GREECE | The Porte has addressed an energetic note to the Greek Government threatening to in- vade the latter's territory if it persisted in ithe hostile proceedings against the Porte. | An extraordinary Council of Ministers has been held under the presidency of the Sultan, when the propositions of the Powers in refer- ence to Crete and the future condition of the Christians in Turkey were again considered.

A deputation of Bulgarians has presented a petition to the Sultan, asking for certain privi- leves referring to the autonomy of Bulgaria. Prince Michael has been received with great houors by the Sultan and the Porte.

THE SALE OF RUSSIAN AMERICA.

A transaction has been arranged between the two Governments of Russia and the United States, which both, no doubt, considered would be vexatious and hurtful to Great Britain. The Russian territories in America have been sold to the United States fur seven millions ot dollars (something less than a million and a half sterling) asum so utterly disproportionate to the extent ofthe territory, that it might be said to he no price at all. Russian America has really been made a present of to the Gov. ernment which has for the last few years made elaborate professions of friendship and shown avery earnest desire to strengthen its alliance

painted white over them, and round the build. ing are sentences from the Koran in gold characters upon a blue ground, and the build- ing is surmounted by flat gilled cupolas. The entrance is by a high flight of steps, which are suarded by six lions of singularly forbidding

with Russia. The area of the cedea territory is three times that of the British Islands, and although its-value to its Russian possessors was not considerable, in the hands of the Govern- ment of the United States it is capable of being turned to great account for purposes of ag-

aud irritable aspect. The Emperor's pavilion has been built on the plans of MM. Lehmann and Duval, with the aid of several of the French | exhibitors. When not occapied by any of the | Imperial family, visitors are permitted to walk | round it by means of the cirrular gallery which | runs round the edifice. The vestibule is}

style of the Alhambra. The central salon

\(Louis XIV.) is furnished with tapestries | Tans ;

manufactured at Neuilly, the panels, curtains, | For beauty of colouring and artistie execution | the manufactory of Neuilly has proved a worthy | rivai of the Gobelins. The prices are absolutely |

jalarming. As to lodyings, it wovld be cheaper | jto take a whole house in a good quarter in|

London.

bed-rooms,

For asitting-room and three or four upon the first or second floor,

| prices vary from 1,000 to 2,000f. a-month, and ithis without attendance. Bed-rooms in the|

principal hotels vary from $f. to 15f., or even | 20f. a-night. Living is not proportionally | dear, although that is expeasive enough ; but, | considering the enormous prices charged in the | markets for food of all kinds, it is really sur-| prising how such elaborate and various meals | at the table d’hote at the good hotels ean be | furnished for the six or seven francs charged | for them. How Parisians with a mederate | income manage to live we are at a loss to| imagine; for not only have the prices of pro- | visions risen excessively, but the rent of

THE FLEECING LODGING HOUSE KEEP- ERS OF PARIS.

The students of Paris at a meeting at the Ecole de Medecine passed a series of raost gallant resolutions, which must serious!y em- barrass the lodsing-house keepers who had} proposed to fleece them under the pretext of the general rise of prices caused by the Uni Exhibition. It was yoted nat every student whose laudlord attempted to raise his rent shall leave immediately and apply to the | committee to find him another residence. That the names of such lodging house keepers in the quarter as maintain their old rates shall be favourably promulgated ; that on the contrary, a black list shall be made of those who raise their prices, aud the studen’s will do their best

their houses.

SPAIN

There is no country inthe wide world so capable as Spain of produang all that is reqni-| site for contributing to the material happiness and prosperity of its people; nor are there any people in the wide world who are so easily amused aud satisfied as Spaniards. It was at one time the granary of Europe, and by the unparalleled fertility of its soil would be eapa- ble of pouriag forth into the lap of plenty all

He was returned at the general election, and) jee and ina gentle spirit, admitting that the

all the gun factories in Prussia are occupied in | the luxurious produce of tropical climes. But completing the armament of the arseuals. Up-| Byron was right in reproaching nature fur wards of a million steel breech-loading cannune | showering her blessings apon those who are have been ordered since the war. When the | powerless to appreciate them. When the P ussian minister was questioned the other day | thoughtful CAilde Haroldrambied through the on the subject, he spoke with much forbear-| Iberian Peninsula he cried aloud, “Why, Nature, waste thy worders on such men?” fate of Laxemburg was undecided, but without | The swil is calcined by the sun’s biazing rays, expressing anything like a disposition to see it| for the Spanish azriculturist holds trees in pass into the possession of another. We! horror; they encourage lirds, who would eat have neither demanded that Luxemburg nor|up the torn; and thus hes the deforestisation Lemburg should be preserved for Germany, nor| gone on for years. The ground has become have we resigned the right of claiming them. We | calcined, almost vitrified, for want of shade;

under notice which we cannot but regard ss an| we must refer our reuders to other evlumus, *zazgeraticn. It is to this effect, that “ th: Go.| wherein they will find leugthy extracts from late Vvernment would have beeu placed in an awk ward | papers, and their attention will, no doubt, be predicament o tbe floor of the House,” it thefespecially given to those which refer tothe state Attoraey Geueral had been absent from his ; lace | of Europe, wherein it will be seen thata Euro- “swell as the Colonig) Secretary. There is| pean war will, in all human probability, be one i no denying that these officers gre very iropor-| of the great events of this year.

tant and useful persona in the mapegemeit of _ és Affairs; but surely the Government, so weil TO CORRESPONDENTS. * *ustained as the present one is, shonid pot be) “An Old Liberal,” complaining of cer- esusidered so weak as to be unable to work tain appointments io Prince County—has beea the “ State machine” jin the texgporary ubsunce | received, but it requires some consideration of two of ite members. O, Mr, Laird, why) before we cap give insertiog to it.

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have no interest in adding to the combusibie ma- terial threatening a Furopean contlagration. We have never menaced Holland, nor exposed the Dutch Government to petty molestation.” This may seein generous aud seli-denying; but it is capable of another interpretanon. The power that has forced some States and wheedled others into the new German combination may also have conceived the possibility of inducing Holland, with all her navy and her colonies, to zo into it alse. The consideration of this pos- sibility may have determined the Emperor to declare bis own will,and brave a rupture with the Coufederation to accomplish it. A remarkable sight would be afforded if the Prussian troops were to march quietly out of Luxembourg in or- der that the army of France might march in ; and it is one we can scarcely expect Count Bis- marck will agree to.

There are rumours arising out of the French desire for Luxemburg, of Austria and Prussia becoming earnest friends and forming an al- liance offensive and defensive ; the Austrian Minister, Baron von Beust, who hasa reputation for profound statesmanship, being strongly in- clined to it. The Courier du Bas Rhine says, ‘the proposal of France to buy Luxemhurg of Holland has produced an excitement among all Austrian-Germans which may have the etlect of changing an Austro French alliance into an Austro-Prussian one.”” The fact ia, on the testi- mony of this French border paper, that all Ger many looks npon Laxemburyg as an intezral part of Fatherlan¢ and the vanquished of Sad- owa is urged by his own subjects to save Luxem- burg from Napoleon’s hands. Italy alone is urged to ap act af jugratitude to ita imperial

the torrents rush down from the mountains and inundate the valleys because there is no foliage to arrest their course or to stay the melting of the snows, and a numerous progeny of insects devour the corn and fruit, since there are no birds to devour them. Thus whole provinces are barren wastes, dreary wildernesses ; and as in Franee during the glorious reign of the Grand Monarque Louis Quatorze, two-thirds of the soil is without culture. The capital is zradually subsiding into the same sterility. The shops are closed, and those which remain open expose only wares which would be unsaleable even in the remote provincial towns of other nations—the sweepings of London, Paris, Manchester, and Mulhovse. As for native produce, non est. The traveller searches in vain for something to take home with him, to remind him of the country waich he has seen and the miseries which he has endured during his travels. The clubs and cats are also being closed in obedience to the “exceptional regime,’ the nobility and burghers are desert- i-g aeity where there is nether amusement nor business, and all is drearyand dispiriting.

the young King and Queen of Portuzal wonld infuse some guiety into the eity, and make the people forget their woes for a vhile; but these hopes are now dispelled. TheKing first wrote to postpone his visit, and his Ambassador now informs the Queen that he changed his mind. The change produced in men’s minds by the continuance of this syaem of miszov- ernment has been remarkable. Monurchical institutions were move cherishet here than in any other country, but Reactionists