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HASZAruJ'b (i;\lIt'iI'll‘:. APAELL 30

HISGELLANEOUQ. .

Ousucr or Euasu urge!“ {mm ANCIENT Tmus.-5 It lfdi istﬁ‘.

Jules Fontenells, in a’ ur§"pt‘onou'nJ.

ced on occasioIi'6(the'o[IﬁingoiulIlE ' I tian mummy the am healroidfgibti 8orHQe\at"P'at§, has ered an op- inidl‘, ' p‘ ting lb cause of embalning in Egyﬁftﬁt the"Egyptians were Id _ it from p ' necessity. Duringfour months o _ '3! year, theinandattous of the Nile ﬂier almost entirely the whole aurface of Egypt which is under cultivat- ion. Under the reign of Sesostris, for an extent of territory for about 2250

a . then? would be a population of 6222 per- uns per square league, which would pre- ient 250,000 deaths per annutn. These corpses must be gotten rid of either by 'htrning or by interment. lfby the latter, they mustbe buried around the inhabited (pots, or in those which were mandated -by the Nile, and then the decomposition vflthoae bodies would hnvebuen a. source -vofdestrwction; and for burning, there was on insufﬁciency of wood. Butthe soil of

Egypt abounds in springs of ﬂalmll ‘(super-carbonate of soda); and as this ‘substance is perfectly antise'ptic,'the in- Ilabitants were naturally led to preserve with it the corpses of the dead. In sup-

port of the opinion, that sanitary views"

Inre the cause of.enibal'ming dawn to the ﬂiird century betbre the Christian era, when the practice was abandoned, M. Fontenclh observes, that during the

whole orum periodythe plague was Am-' ' "‘ inc-wnin Egypt, whoreit isnowondonie...

‘Tm: Sooner or Gauss Acqmsrpsoas. --The chief art of learning,”-Joye-Socks, “is ioauempt battiule at a. time. The wsvidestacuvsionsof the mind are made; bystiortaigins frequently repeated-, the most lofty fatn-in of xieneeuve fumed

by the continued aueuinulationszot’ single- 'propositions.” ‘

CDi:r.uct»: IN rut: Passer S'A'runn.—In 1 recent work entitled “ The New The- -ory of Creation and“Dcluge,” among other startling predictionsiit is stated, that it is

probable the rings which surround Saturn are composed of wa.ter,snow, orice, which at some future time may descend and del- .qe.the planet, income was deluged in. the -ﬁys of Noah. It now appears, that this event '3 likely to take place a little sooner ﬂan‘ was anticipated,-‘for Sir David Brow- ster says :-—“ Mr. Otto Srruve‘ and Mr. Bond have lately ctudied wins tticgseat Munich telescope at the Observatory of =Pul|ioway,_tfre third ring of Saturn, which: ‘Mr. '['.assel's and’ Mr. Bone discovered to tie ﬂuid. These irstronomers are of the opinion, that this‘ ﬂuid ring‘ is not ofvery «recent formation, and (last it is not sub- ~ ' t tor ',i‘d champ’; an" they have come‘ roiithe exqtaraordinary ooncIus'ion,'that' the hour border ofthebing haskiqfve the line of Ii-nyoenli a an , Ir ,..,.,-.-,i.;.,. in. body of Saturn, andtbat ‘sun may oapeet, sooner or btor,—, 'uI=ssmu'douuu of years, to see the rings .,m.4:utrhi1lasbody of ihcphast."

Ei-veers or Fisinrrsisea 3omts.'n‘.—-~

an eminent‘ medical gentleman in‘ Lon- don, writing to a ‘friend’ in‘ Brisuil, lays :, --“Ihavo tohment the great iucreasc, amongst the female partof my practice, of tlo‘-doloruun in the forehuant loss of night, and great suﬂering in en, -'I1- duced, I ﬁrmly believe, from the present ‘hgh|ﬂ' feuhion oﬂ dﬂﬁlgﬂlﬂ neck in-

nerd‘ an the head! During an mrgg

timid: I’ have ‘been: in: attendance mph’ ,,,,ni,,.,i, glow; with tlol-dﬂereua law an!

forehead, and several others with-dldlar,

“in. 1;: '3. high-tiule, thdﬁ the fri-

cisuvsoaisoeta .uho.p--I-I dos the-Mi hilolsrawqv win".-

To the lesson of the Firstﬂstrllt Of

ﬂllhvill be some time, beforud fall

can be publishe , I shall

Govoruldt filled in their ltlmresywiﬂut . aossssavy thaﬂhe people should see, tlmflhay"

Your petition, to have the Legislative Council. elected, was the principal ¢_)lp.o;'o.u v ', ’ ” .‘ I to 1’ ‘Mme’ gtititious on thalsubjoct sent: to Members ; but the signatures were attached to printed fo

petitions cannot be received; and_ therefore it was a good excuse, that the wishes of the people (because they were not written) should not be attended to or complied with. According t.oResponsible Government, who- ny for their services, ought to be by the people, or made responsi- ble, that is removable by the peoples represen- tstives To take the public money to pay a. body of men, who artvuo way responsible, is a great encroachment on the liberties of the

But the public may well feel alarmed, when they‘ find their petitions disregarded; and inroa:ds' making on ‘their liberties. Not only witltoutany petition from the people, but be-

of the measures intended, so as to have time to ldke their objections, a Bill is brought in, in the latter part of the session, hurried through both-branches of the La isla- ture, and passed into" dn" ’A

ssu:o=soa~a.-ﬁrm so~tIe_om_ of the Div/_uss of

_ w sense, persovu, when ll paid, to require more hands

Ivrepltsctﬁ (hour; dud it could seldom hop‘- eleosaru, would be left without- enbersto take care of his late- hen every Member felt it his duty to attend to the interest of the whole County ; but when the Counties are divided into small districts, and the Electors having only two votes, there‘a1‘e' many’ of t.lie'Eleetor lott: unre- presented. Therefore tio divide the Counties- into districts, and then again to make those districts smaller, is to curtail‘ and not to extend lo.

he now the same as when the first division of the Counties were made; viz., to out out districts for certain persons, where _ upneil, who would nogimcn who perpetrated that fraud. were some 110080 On B bmldisgtot I- have been returned for the County. The Kingnelecléd. and t11l]‘paid', to protect the public

‘uvo'ug]ibel-ﬁeg_ “dtthoso who ml-9 oho5en'I'lgIlIS on behalf of tho sovereign. But as _ to fatten them- ‘ neither government nor Landlords, have shown G300-VlW0l'Ii 3 friend came nlon

gm makes the ~ a disposition to do Justice to settle the tenant- most: unfceliug and tyrannical driver, and b ,1‘). W0 only |'0“|9dG' i5 I0 bring them ‘O “I31 that rule the self-styled liberals _ _

this people, but keep all the liberty to them-' When the property of ntennut is distraiued 6 V83.

toprescrve them, eat them u

s Your petition, to have the Landlords, Titles

wed to go into Committee tobe enquired into,

was, that _the peope in other parts 0 the

Island, had not p‘etit.i'o'ued. and couseque

graucsd, they are satisl Is‘.-

he opluuloy ‘see’ now; if they could not: _ _ _ y _. case, have itvvrrttep and read |lI'?p0II Con . _ ‘ bers of the Government that they would so that the Judge shall hear of the orfelttire of ‘Wm! Ill‘! 3* IN. ' .purclnse theiflfownsbipa, and settle the 'I'euaut- U7 “I03 rice, not elceedln‘ 7! 6tI‘_per acre WI

ry ﬂu with and the purchase of In Worrell Estate, with- tlug the Isles, nu tb-conﬁrm ry on the Worrell Ectute, have had to

nttlecrby mi piiionumu the cost of £34,000

‘to the Colony, otyobout£80.for each‘ settler,

he £60 or £70 which the Tenant

y. The reasons‘ for thts Ioss, appears *

Estate was put.-rchased purposely, to hen ’

.0 -l "hilt ﬁbers]

people‘, shouldbe tent to England. But at

Meeting at Sent‘iue't"s me at case

".7 . which might accrue, to w ich I gave £20 u some dispute about "land, In which only ground for such a trial, is the forfeiture

people _to believe and attain« to them, and (the

it is necessary, that! should state the case

batdas lost by fear than ever were won b valor.

voi and of no’ cﬂh

ants were not for. the setlﬂamcuf of ntees,

soul; Olen thcgovorumeudrefun to‘ euforob

Int, would settle the tenauﬂy“l:y.i;:ili':oh::Isl; do er ,

it svuaossusry, that I shou ys ti sud give the Government full ﬂpporta‘ u tlﬂ lhir chance for the people to see, ‘It the b0

t auycnrtc blame but themldlfls, as tnvss _

hu‘v&'::& 'dscbivpd,h befpre hanythilngf else to dis

can prapeﬂwyt cm orteir reie. an

'6 -‘II‘ml'lsd.to Ir. Hume, l\l. P. when I was should come.‘§C.J

II on for advictl, when Lord John Russell rz .

Nfuldd to see me‘ and when he had made we Hutﬂlf‘ ' with the ‘Land question: stltute, “ Tlzut the pret He‘ said, 0 HI! I system of fraud and the peudiu or tiliifncllﬁlll run was at‘I4s.-, and that i case should be Ilitlo

tried the Island, and if it went against the m

was commenced, todsfra lessor apogee as in full force, to remove

ut. r I learned afterwards, that the money was spent Ilia ' ' ' ' the lords whose teuuutry were in no way interested. but the Landlords vv c have no _ Every deception, wliic avarice and dishones- of the Grants and the false representations of ty can invent, has been and will be practised the Landlords that they had ti. right to sell tolesd the country pee lo astray, wdopme’ and lease forfelte'd Laud, which induced the them of their rights, as

_ prepcre.- It is only plea which theteaant could plead against titles; but the the Landlord) was never’ stated totho Court, 1839, said,.it was not too late then, for every and as this failure frightened the tehantry at application of the ' that time, and some were‘ ruined by their fear ; renewed their claims afresh

It: in docluredoa the face of the" ‘_rltu't’s'; was too‘ ltl.te', fhttt-dst3:'ttPon" that unless foreigners are settle ,wi_t ‘ "four the Government,-wh 'are bound to protect the years from its date; the wholeo the ' owu'- poo ' sbi shallbe forfeited and the grant shill be cou

at‘. The auto! had no law in ower in the gran_t"riow b w, tosell or dojustice, or slide laud tb a Dritiﬂi mlgocﬁ. aﬂl as the or guild?

iexpiusslyfa the attleileut of c or psr- xgsﬁﬁiﬁhgroly w I

to lpraet ce a fraud on a« British public. or t. indulgence wsodtl '

_ t ﬁt lit ects in the foreigners‘ ltl"$lllu* '

be obtained to an Act of such iniquity. Therefore these and all sayings of tho Laud- lords, and-their agents, to induce a belief that they had njust and lawful right to sell, and lease forfeited lands to British subjects, are equally false, and are uttered with a fraudu- lent intent, to acquire money by thlse reten- ces. But the purcliasc of the Vorrell state, is a fraud ofa far deeper dye. Because the

i in the‘ Supreme‘ Court’.

, his case to the Attorney Genera

the ﬂnarttfmushstoh his case to the

'1 so u

the laud',«u1ttI1t

of dis’ 'r_owsnn land or to any other! ' ts ute wi‘tll‘thc'Lzt’d ordoonsei-sin she-lalud.‘

forfeiture, but suspend jud ent,

Court will: try the thud, aud-

muges to the Injured pdrty, or points ofeuder. The same course i m u) ‘this pt} all: on till!‘ Woﬂdll DID’. _ Indie not

fact! on the public, as much as the sale II a fraud ou_tl_ie individual tenautry.

.C;’:1.:7§;.i;:._;‘;.;.’.l::::;.““.:;:‘;m::'“° in lung

o "1; widiou

he Landlords to,Iay, that they had i'tt\t‘t'ltv€':lon‘y ‘ ie

uof om: fiat: nothing less E ‘ than an Act. of l»’arl_iameut. witb_,t.|Ia royal O_ Ifof

unseat, cou- ant riss__ such an i ulgyucc

Ivudloowdeonti cluoadog sin ects who are dpulpli newspapers, that all e ectors‘ its } cits pr vs‘ 0» r ustrious iaeuo t eir ‘ma‘“k'rIovI'm o lui see . birthright. But the Royal assent could not their inter-eels. P 0“, on an N. uhhas to

Wt City of Charlottetown, April

of em kudlbrd, and‘ Wtremrselvs-=. om: it will then remalh"wll:|I'tlth Judge to direct I l°°5'°f 959' the case. The" same defence may be made 0 against the demands of my writ, note, or “N _ LBoud given for re\It',"c\‘ hr the price of nnytlos {qr my‘ exceedm is 1 no '

I 3 ‘Build!’ I)‘ tcious-much‘ of the Straotau In

‘ a Supreme Couvt"#ill- noc~iitiely' up the '||_h cbuwdtencs without atolestation or vs‘ .

do ttlb

revested in the Crown; and that purclinseis I‘ SIP‘

, a My rniomrure notdepeudiug on the advice ya! *0

tons E the rights of pe _ , vol_. I

,3; $'.‘.'f’l'.’s.. subjsaffhi be doing ol slug have his relt;edy at t . V ‘"2-""""""’e""" "" “'5'” "* I mas. um.

tnud protection of the ‘ that no commands or N . uﬂsr the great seal, the privy _seal

ts ¢.Mispatche.v zdéyﬁase ago ‘ It on

tute, it being deusred.tvy.ss6ie J -powllld ﬂl. 'La=Il_ 1'6 al i For is- And from the mine authority, Vol. III. page on rate, a case sbouldho tried in the Island, 260. “If a grant from the Crown to one party be are petitioning the Imperial Parliament. is iujuirous tcother parties, they will be allow. 0n n return to the Island, it was agreed at n ed. on proper application, “ to use the name _,.ef.tbe Sovereign to have the grant repealed.”

tried, and I thou ht’ It was understood, how it Now as per ies can pruned against a ' ought to be con noted, when a contribution by due course of Law, to repeal a_ grant which an injury or an op. s Colony have a far inst impostor Land. and of no étlect, or

nt whatovsr.

for which they must too late to try the Landlords’ Earl of Durham in the your

wlol of title

; and Earl Grey t' ti more fully, that one neighbour may safely settledliu the year 1851. lihiﬂiviiii it"'i‘t;.wldiie contribute to assist auother_to' try the question too late, which it is not, that should not be or at Law, and bear in mind there have been more taken on hear-say, but decided by it court of w~ And if it sbouldbe so do idcd, that it vr ~. spinal

la in their rig ts. For‘ the‘ Go ernmeut . eatrs, put the force, and the_u'sil.y, um-too" lug go be people for the neglect

r botiter,if tbe"'1'.snd ‘ ‘$531 bfgzfovinrument. tthe‘for&»iOure". ﬁiey corruptly lllcw lmpostcfs male lrouddssltt unhailgsiw ,,:'.§”"”° " ‘ proveiae new and more in as: ‘ o cbhiu’ the ddsised settlements ' re‘ stutter before‘ the Supreme

‘ of this toleioh of iv o t.a!’e n'pavpc

wig ' 3 H‘ C

d . hi

ability

ful servant,

LLIAI Coorn. 28, 1856.-

_ or I.Iisz.um’s Gszsrru. Sir,——I am about'to erect a small Dwelling lately purchased, and it few days ago while I was ineasuriu and marking oil‘ the dimensions of my Cellar For the and said I had measured in too much of the treet, and that"I would have the Mayor and Corporation over- hauling me if I dug out‘ so far. Now, sir, I declare to you that I had only taken in eigh- for rent, the tenant ought to rcplevy, nip: scam tees] ihqhes of the $tr3et,_ vlv‘bich I 00l|lII(I not do V , vs. - at e W1 0“ r M require erg teen inc es in m

1- disc proval of the . land is forfeited, and the grant void, or that‘ IBM‘ llollﬁlke “P l'00}n 1'01‘ my “$1319. ind I hag lglgtare ; wag not 31-] there is no gi-nut on record, (us the case may 0.01] ,,l1°3|||l'°d 05 8,1! feet square of the Street be) that the landlord assumed to be the _lnw- fol‘ my COW!“ 55795. E by n0‘m¢ﬂllf_IthI‘GaIoIt‘- ful owner of the land, by false representations, llfll-5 3119 "01’ "10 PUPPOIG. as I explained to my and consequently had no right, to give 3 [gage friend: he, however, insisted very ofliciously as or demand rent, and if the Attorney General‘ Uh00Ql1t.¢bBF I ltadexceeded what is custo- refuse to defend the tenant on those grqlttuds, fury ' '

u inn, IVE opeu Court, or if the tenaufcunnot sﬂttegohis’ gin foriltbe Mo‘ 05 llldim

ctr cnors‘, ' new

grunt’ bore‘t9o

lllg‘with one’; business. Corporation. God’ bless e will not3 Interfere

uwiroso so'itt'ereiass-s_|is gm, d’; is is only COMDIIOII’ pldees of sy troubleethemselves shout: and is customary; why, 0

its

forfeiture isiuvestigated in u‘ rfoflsttlthtsi "5!""b°l3¢ H‘ “H” °f "55 0°15’ 5'55“: “But when the rorrenurs--is tbuud, the su-. old or nevnbeiné-I male h of ct h ll 4 c ever a pen to has the ofﬂandvaa to ~ ; ohlirhdtts &t$l'1l“',OI‘RG weal be‘ I OI I n'dw‘.’Ib to ﬁllowthe

thttgoodold u

(re so‘ N 1 d ,lou'§l to ﬁfths II

it ﬁns‘

I o£as'ﬁuch o til!

uI'= uu

' a, servant sitt-

”i’?e“3mn