on his side when we came im, with wet clothes, after adrwe through the rain. in fact, | played my part admirably, ja my own opinion, but I could not deceive a woman's instinet, and my seater laid her Land va wy arm with—

* bhash, tieorge, pr 1. dear, for | see that you are alraid for Ag. Oh, it iw all my fault; U should have begged him, arged him to stay with us, and if he, if be should ,

Just chen the eldest of the English school hows who had raced past us some time before with his noisy crew vi young comrades, cape tearing bick with bis pony in @ lather of foam and heat

“VO, Captain Lethbridge,’ said the boy, “we have seen a gentleavan on horseback trying to escape from the sea, and I'm sure it's Mr. titlton, and the poor horse seemed so tired, aud the Gde’s coming in dreadfully fast, like a millrace.”’ :

1 tried to stop the bey

@ream so piercing and heart-broken in its agonized accents, that it hauats me to this hour, aad will haunt me to my dying day lashing the vigorvus littic naz into a gallop. im an westent | gained the point whence our youag talocmant hed come, sad there i aprang out, and assisted kmma to scramble up 4 step ridge of sxod that overlooked the whole of the desviate Hat, now terribly en- eroached on by the advancing ude. A few drops of rai fell, and the wind whistled shriily by. and the sea-guils and gannets flew hoarsely sereaming around, and fluttered off inland on their white wings. The mut- tering growl of distant thunder resounded,

Our eyes were riveted on a horseman who was making hie way, slowly and painfully, through deep aad emt sand in which his weary steed sank fetlock deep at every bound | Hitton' there was ne mistaking him; but how came he there, and how had be lingered wo long among those dangerous wastes ? No! doubt he had missed the sule way, hardly to | be found, even by watives of the country, and had wandered Jong among the treacherous quacmires and pools of sullen waters, for 1) could see that his noble horse flagged wearily, | and that there were stams of mud and sand | upon his heaving flanks, as if he foundered through more than one of the dises | as they are locally cailed. The sea was be- hind him, swift and pitiless, like a low wall | otf dark blue water, crested with foam, aod seeming to devour the shore as it swept on- wards. Worse stil, the coming tide was . quickening’ the sands aa it advanced, for we saw pools appear where dry banks had lately | been, and the suriace heaved and ghistened, and the borse bad te make desperate efforts to advance shore wards. I showted loudly to encourage the poor feiluw, bet the wind drowoed my roice; and | now the thander rolled, and the lightning flushed redly over the sea, and it seemed suddenly to grow dark, while torrents of rar | came dashing down; but we did not heed | them. If my own ‘if had beea trewhliag | in the balance, | could seareely have felt) more cracl anxiety; afd as for Emma, | hardi; dared to steal one glance at her pale wid asoguish-wrang features, a8 she stoud on the highest point of the rock, clinging to me

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_~ ment Pees ~ eee reacted Avranches and would have the laagh had died away in sobs, and sh

You frighten me, |

It was of no use. | The words were spoken, and Emma pave a!

j * bave Bs “ se in but we cared nothing for ram or thunder | peians whom the lava stre am arpr ed ’ their fight, and whose forms and features are |

ha .

anand eck ée had sunk at jmy feet, and lay there, crouching. But when | saw that the grave had closed over ites vietim, | bent to raise Emma, and , thought at first that she was in a swoon, but

a cry of dismay from one of the party arous- | lifted Kavma.

ed me to a new fear. We tenderly, aud by the light of the carriage- jlamp saw the signs of the mischief I had dreaded, only tov plainly.

with crumson drops that ran heavily down,

sand lett a dark stam on the light muslin she |

wore, and on the small white wrist that lay passive between my hands.

Why lager on that sad story ? ithat Kmma’‘s frail health had not been adle ‘to endure the anguish of that hideous seene. | A blood-vessel had given wayYand she never spoke more, and belure we reached Avranches she was dead. o

We buried poor Emma on the very day that she was to have witnessed her union with Lim whom she had loyved—loved too well to survive bis fearial end.

tHE LAST POMPELAN DISCOVERIES.

We clip the following interesting article from 4 late Loudun (C. W.) paper, relating tu the most remarkab!e discoveries yet made by those who have lor years boea engaged in exhuming the lovg buried city of Pompeii i italy.

**M. Mare Monnier supplies the Revue des Deux Mondes with a highly interesting ac- count of the last great discovery made at Pompeii, during the excavations undertaken by Cavaher Fioretli—the corpses of the Pom-

preserved 1a the attitude in which death over took them. The bodies, or rather the lava | mould which covers them, are now to be seen at the Museum, and striking photographs of | them have been transmitted to Paris ; they | give, however, by nu means so effective a des eription as the account of M. Mare Monmer ile says :— One day in a little street under a heap o! stones snd rubbish, a vacant space was dis- covered, at the bottom of which appeared | something like bones. M = Fiorelli was sum- din baste, and he eoneerved a luminous | idea. Ue poured in some liquid plaster, aad | the same operation was periotiwed at other points, where bones had likewise been dis- covered ; aad as soon as the plaster hardened the mould was lifted with tve greatest preeau- |

‘tions, and on the hardened ashes and lava

being removed four corpses appeared They | are now at the Museam, and bo more striking | sight is it posable to behold. They are not! statues, but human bodies muulded by Vesuvius, and preserved from deeay by that, great envelope of lava which reproduces the | clothes, and flesh, nay even the appearance | of life. The bones protrude here aud there where the molten liquid did not completely cover the limbs.

Nowhere does anything like this exist.

Che Egyptian mamuiws are naked, black, hideous. They appear to have mothing io

common With hamanity ; they are drossed out by the Ky ptian uudertaker for their | eternal repose—the exhumed Pompeians are human beings in the act of dying. One of the bodies is that of a woman, near whom

nh ing be ' srebiel : Yor support, and wesing Ler handkerchief, wus funnd 91 silver Goins, two silver. vases,

poor thing, while her eyes pierced the twilight, rivetted on the figure of that lonely borveman on whow the sea was gaining with | fearful rapidity.

* Why does he not head straight fur the shore? Ah, now he takes the right course ; fut the horse can. searcely answer to the | spur,” I muttered between my set teeth. | “Oh, push on, tor Heaven's sake, press on!’ | I shouted with the full strength of my lungs. using my outspread bands as a trumpet, and Hiiten beard the call, sturted, and knew us, fur he gave au soswering hail which only | reached us as an inarticulate ery. But the | voicé of hawan sympathy, ur the sight of her, he loved, seemed to revive him, forhe lifted | the steed with the rein, and pressed on more | steadily, while immediately afterwards the | horse seemed to find sarer fvoting, for he no fenger sank beneath the surfate, and as be broke inte a quicker pace he shook his head ~ with along neigh of tramph. he carriages had hy thes time arrived, and had come to a halt, but the horses were alarmed by the lightaing, whieh was now ulmost incessant, and they wero with diffeulty kept under) ecoutrol, while two or three of the party cam- | scrambiiag on fout ap the bank, uctering ex clamations of diamay and compas ton.

«He is dearer, nearer now. The horse |

oce fast. He will be saved, he ts sate! | fiery ' Harry!’ cried Emma, taking hope as the firmer ground was reached ; then as) the storm gathered, she turned wildly to me : * dieorge, brother, suy that he is safe '

1 said something, { do not remember what, to e Eunma’s despair,perhaps, should | her hopes be disappyinted, bat t meant it for the best, and the boys who were excitedly watching the struggle, set up a cheer.

« Well done! he can gallop now. He is on | firm ground. Mr. Hilton is safe, papa ; be) is out of reach of the sea! Harrat!

But the joyous shout died uway on their young lips as, with an awfal plunge, the good horse sunk to thesaddie-girths, snorting,

anging, resting wildly, but in vain, for oe ehoes served but ts bury bim deeper | and deeper in the tenacious quick-sand, and | bie neigh of distress changed to that horrid - scream, seldom heard but on the battle-field, | which nothing but extremity of pain or fear | can elicit.

We shouted to Hilton to throw himself) from the saddl.—to fling biasell flac apon | the treacheroas surface as the vnly chance | of life; bat L do not think we were heard, s» hoarsely did the thander roar overhead, while the darkness deepene! so much that it was only when a flash of lightning showed | every detail of the seene that we could dis- tinguish the suff rer.

Emma's despair was fearful to witness, and in her i grief she upbraided as for allowing, the victim to perish, anhelped, be- | fore our eyes; but human aid was uselese there, and we could hut remain spectators of | what we were to prevent. Ac every tresh flash we eonld see, by the vivid | though momentary Vg the horse sinking dee and deeper. ist sand was u to tie withers ue, a ‘ow Mines moments ot it reached his neck; now the horse was

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wholly lost to sight, and the rider was waist deep in the quagunre, sinking, still sinking, if down by some viewless monster |

below into a living grave. And the sea cume |

on, triumphant, relentless, its blue wail

curling frothing as it ran, arrow-swilt,

over the strand, aad aiready a foamy line of

shallow water had reached to within a few

= of the spot where Harry rewained, el

nother flash. The line of foamy water crept snake like on, reached Harry, passed fii, and rolled on far to landward, and line after jine, streak after streak, came in the | deepening water, and then rolled on the low blue wall, and still the quicksand gaped, insatiate, for ita prey. [t wasup tohisarm- pita now, the water, and presently another flush showed the poor wretch, his head alone above the sult food, with a face deadly pale, and-eyes that glared, white and ghastly, iu the lurid glow of the lightning, while the lips see to move, but whether in anes to Heaven or a hopeless ery for aid, can never be known. No sound reached as. She rain was blindingly thick, and the wind raved as it swept the hurrying clouds before it. There was a longer pause than usual be- tween the flushes. To our impatience it) - wwemed as if the dreadful darkness endured | tor At last it came, broad and bright, | the Gerce flare of the white light, but nothing | was visible; nothing but grey sea and white foam, where the little waves began to toss | and curl, and the curving wall of blue ran | far shoreward, We strainet our eyes but could see nothing more. Unwilling tw trust, our senses, anxiously we waited for the next

flash, and it came ;

ment day.

| vie ithe delicate hand convulsively shut, the | sppear to have catered the desh. The whol

pain. Ler attitude is that of agony not death.

| fallen.

had. | wondrous distinctness—the sleeves coming

_ | shoes.

| hitted ber dress over her bead. | her face to the ground. | half open, as though she had uved it to keep iher veil over ber face, The bones of her | fingers protrude through the java. She ap-

| s#ua—he is stretched on his back, as though |he meant to meet his fate bravely ; his arins and his legs clutches are very distinetly marked ; the bracee

sules studded with thick nails ; on one finger

eyes aod bair are obliterated, but his thick

t we saw nothing but) a waste of sea aod sky. Larry Hilton was. lost forever to man's sight until the Judg-|

some keys and a lew jewels. She was fviny,

carrying her most valuable commodities with | her, when she tell in the little warrow street.

She may be seen lying on ber leit side. Her head-dress, the tissue of her clothes, and two

silver rings on her finger, ean be easily de- |

tected. One of her hands is broken, and the cellular structure of the bones exposed %o wi the leit arm is rarsed, and writhing, aiasls e body appears swollen and contracted ; the

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Poor girl, the) white handkerchief she had waved so long | was pressed to her lips now, and stained |

Suffice it

‘in ordering American Men-of-War out of our

| beneficial to the North ? }done to a people who have always treated us

| Bait while L feel it would be mere folly in| Lord Melville ner the ee a elaiahe the present lanatical feeling of the country to | their rent, that t shaakdforce ee = Sian stay this tacontrollable torrent which sweeps | pemety oon extend buliores then to pay sooner ull before it, | would nevertheless offer a few ae seen by others that I distrained upon remarks on the folly Of giving way to shat) igusly; when they came and paid me part, | old spirit of Toryism in cultivating in its, at satisfied, and gave them more time. [have various under-handed ways that spirit of an- | aeen every tenant repeatedly, and not an unecivil tagonism .uotonly towards tie coastitation but) word was ever spoken to me since I became also towards the eitizefta of the United States. | their Agent. Some of the tenants who were dis- However strong our sympathies may have | trained upon, and who assembled to. heen cowards the Southern Statea in their | bailitf, came Co me tew ~— aa ane _ shilling strusvle for separation at the commencement | — some of whom sever paid me é of the rebellion, no reasyn now exists for its | pelore maintenance. oathreak our opinions were formed from the |, Tenant League, country or polities will pre- writings of those who held strong antipathies towards republican Institations, _with the opinion that @ separation of the in- ‘tereats of the North and South would be | sist ‘matually advantageous and generally con- | £0 on, ducive to the best interests of mankind. | best they can; Under such representations, the sympathetic | Ft oy feeling for the South may have been excas- | vf Gye lew. uble; but now when we know better— when ‘we bave learned from the most reliable sources of information that the struggle for | ‘seperation is merely for the purpose of ex-| ‘tending the interest and influence of the, |slaveholder, by introducing a more despotic | | system of government on the Awerican con- | ‘ tipent than exists even in Europe, to the end ) that Slavery shall not ouly be waintained | throughout the Southern States, but be coun- |

In conclusion, 1 would say that the ringle

coupled | bearing in mind to adiwinister justice with merey f when Lsee it may be deserved; bat if they per- and to use your own words, let the screws and let them get out of their troubles as they beszing m mind Hughes, of

JR. BOURKE, Agent to Lon» MELVILLE Melville, Dee. 16, 1863.

Che Examiner,

Charlottetown, Decembe

r 21, 1863.

: We publish in another place a Letter from J. tenunced over all the territory which may | R. Bourke, Esqr., Agent for the Estate of Lord

come under its control: L say, with sach | ! : . . Me : +h Mr. Bourke deuies the correct- ucts bstore us, we ought at least to coufine Melville, in which Mr, Bourke wess of the whole of our statement about a

‘ourselves to a respeetiul silence, espeerally |

when in company with gentlemen of the |“ Tenant Outoveak” on Lord Melville’s property, Northern States. [ ask, has the Government | published last week. Our readers will remember pot shown a spirit of unbecoming Hb-feeling ist we did not vouch tor the correctuess of the ports? and was that order not issued hetore | A an a Lnnsiane oe — Government knew the ships were of the U. | stance of common report; but the Agents letter

S Navy? And have not the subordinates of | confirms the most material part of it: the Government, and the whole Tory party | that distraints were made for arrears of rent—

namely,

\yeacrally, kept ap at least for the lust (WO! that the distraints Were resisted by an organized

m4 it of nisui to every interest | ; ie par eae Soe. a | party of the tenantry ; and if the refractory peo- And this has been | : | ple were not the supporters of the Govermment, io a kindly spirit, and on whose good teeling, in a great measure, the trade ahd saterest of | whom, at least, is said to be a promine this tsland depends Editor, oe ae Folly of indalgeng in thie | refrain from: any lengthy remarks, at present, on spirit of antayontem, and the ills that are | , not unlikely to lollow. Lt appears to me 50 | t be the iuteation of these men who uphold so} payment of old arrears of rent

he policy of Lord Melville's Agent enforcing the OF course he

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have passed away, aad every one obstruct the "able not only te write ina f areas | make a fair speech. \abilities regard if as an honor to occupy the aders |jecture stand to set forth their faverite views on In the early stages of the lehall be dealt with ax the low directs ; wud that ISeence and Literature. Every one in respect

‘vent me from doing my duty as an agent, always |

Mary's Road, who is yet paying the penalty j

it is admitted that the ringleaders were—one of avidits at and @f Bulwer, Dumas, or Victor Hugo, or the | pon is so bright an ornament. 1 wish to shew. Mr. | soaious supporter of the party in power. We | romauees which are designated truly as “ trashy |

five wiles further, even if victor (From the New York Herald) risking annihilation; mor will the Gaal thon : ; ; _, | subjugated by the loss of one battle States |, East Tennessee is free from rebel invasion. | patiles, unless they ace inhal ited Gen. Foster's official despatch from Tazewell, | ferent breed from that which peoples g , ‘Tenn., yesterday, confirms the report that the ‘The papers print a description of ad ylang » rebel Gen. Longstreet is in fall retreat op the | fight as follows :— Kony, valley, en route to Virginia. The Union cav-| "Phe great rebel blow, anxiously antiq: : alry followed him closely, and drove him step) long, was struck thie forenoon.” Rein aE by step through the passes of the Clinch the troops of Sam Jones, Jackson ang Wart wi Mountains. Other despatches which come | Longstreet sought to anuihilate the Arey ones from Chattanooga state that Gen. Sherman's by ove blow, for whieh purpose he — cavalry had arrived at Kaoxville on the 3rd te ger a omer on commenced last igh. . 4 aleo joined in the pursuit of | *° eCwck, an continued sharply Until near a instant, and a i | light on our left and front, before Port ty. commanded by Gen. Ferrer, doteadectby hon

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CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN'S LITERARY | TRE CLVIL WAR IN THE STATES. INSTITUTE.

Lectures, before popular assemblages, has be- come one of the leading institutions of the present age in every iutelligent community, It was ouce considered in Kaglaud a disgrace for members of the nobility to write a face hand, but such notions wishes to be

‘air hand but also to

Menof the first positions aud

Longstreet along the north side of the Holsten river, while General Fuster’s forces were pur- New York, Benjamin's 3rd United suing him on the south side. It was reported | and Buckley's Rhode Island eaneys ae that Gen Sherman had the enemy hemmed | were driven in, and the enemy had in, and that his chances of escape were very | themselves of some rifle pite, but the ph small. It is evident thas the rebel force im|setis boys drove them back. Suddeuly 4

able circumstances, at present, affects, at least SS | Hast Tennesse is utterly broken, ‘The rebel | storming party led by the J6th aud 17th gaat RR

to be a patron and lover of learning. The public gives its high places to those only who are dis it is true that some-

times a very illiterate person may be placed even | ascounts admit the retreat of Longstreet to and 1th Miasissipp? oe cover of oup in the Executive Government of a country, but) wards Virginia. The President, upon the treating meu, cawe to the assault, and y

: ; ; : | te within 100 yards of the fort such happens but seldom, and then the individual receipt of this news yesterday, has issued a ae ; ink 2 dcapornte dag

receives his appointinent through great proprietor) | proclamation aga eta a a ed resistance, death, carnage, and horror influence. great family connections, or it may be is clear of the ‘insurgent forces, and Te) wauyatted during the war. These men, Veter 8 or , - commending that the people shall, upon) the Potomac andthe flower of Longatreeg! through great raseality. But, besides qualitying receipt of this intelligence, assemble at their | eontident of promised victory, plunged arty one for the gifts of the capricious public, Litera: | places of worship, ** and render special hom- |* hailing bell” of lead. Wires had been ture bas advantages innumerable to conter upon | age and gratitude to Sinan nw lor vr ete ere f rd front an " . . \ iO ’ oF over these the etremy in conta tepse whe eosk am. The pat - paring. | Oy casa cap- | the killed aud wonmned around them wae errs is beset with many didieuttica, and no- tured, since his campaign in the West com- lery wpe ptoube inh: Fy eae thing is better calculated to remove them than ‘menced, no less than four huudred and | fallen au a aan sea a public lectures. They awaken the curiosity of | seventy-two cannon and ninety thousand, . eas sntgebed with the ee those whe attend them, on some branch of! prisoners from the enemy. was filled with the dead, wounded oad a The cavalry of the Army of the Potomac | Not ue on their side faltered, vot & score

f stud at least create an interest in reading | ave ke t busy looking after the guerillas of | yallaut stormers escaped. The sun risi i CRN OF AS MOPS Tey or *\ the indomitable Mosby. Stewart's rebel ca-| down through the cold mist and thrill the | vember morning apon the remains of | One thousand killed, wounded and | the cost of the assault ou Fort 8 has it sustained the reputation of jig tearfully reveuging its full.”

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some work upou the subject. When this is ac-| valry also keep up a constant raid on complished, the first difficulty in making progress | north side of the Rapidan, oceasionally pick- What is it but curiosity | ing up some of the stragylers of the Untun jarmy. ‘The enemy, however, do not make dts dalaht on ubcisuse ecluntiic aeticle’t _\ any attempt to eross the river in force, or to with delight an a cnnieees Be mentite article in on tatastege oith the quiet progress of the Valen | of the Quarterly Reviews, which another person army in settling down into winter quarters. would tura from with disgest? The man who | The probability of Gen. Pleasanton saceeed- takes an interest in seientifieal themes reads a! ing Gen. Meade in command for the present new treatise on his favorite study with the same | WS discussed in te army, in us mach as the | winter cperations will be most likely confined tu the cavalry service, of which Gen. Pleasau-

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in learping is overcome, in the subject, that enables one person to peruse sialic THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE — PROCLAMATION TU THE SOUTHERN

The Bosten papers received yerterday bingy President Lincoln's Message to Congress ™ docvment fills between three and four columus of those papers, aud if wot a very

‘The condition of our imprisoned soldiers in | Y°FY Umpertaut document, ix certainly tale,

as another would read ene of the novels

well written and is somewhat interestiy following suumanary of the Message is offered y our readers who would not take the trouble y

| Richmond is considerably improved by the receipt of the provisions forwarded to them. During the past week three hundred and

yellow covered light reading.” We observe that the lecture season commences |

earlier in other places thau it does in this colony. | chitey Seb pubkecne,’ Qvacisting “haialh of Tiis year our different Literary Societies have | y I = - y read it in full,

undesirable a poliey to cultivate the under- | has the right to do se, as well as the other Land standing, that loyalty te aur ts loved fgunee |} Agents whe have lately prosecuted the clans ef

and the Constitution and hatred to every principle of the Great Republic, are synony- | mous; Whereas it ba; pens that oo two Giv- vernments or Clonstitutions afte so nearly all constitutivn as those of Great Britam and | the United States —both wesnowledging that | all power is derived frou the people.

lt is with thes view of showing the pre-| posterous fully of cultivating a misunder- | standing betweva this people our best friends, | and ourselves, that | uttempt to show we should rather ealtivate not only a friendly | but a social feeling towards them. | would, therefore, direct your uttention to the state of trade existing i bis Country belore the Reciprocity Act came inte operation. That. Act the country oaght to know opened to as) the ports aud markets of Uhe United States, and trom that time to the present the Country has made extraordinary progress when compared with previous years.

Agricultural products are the staple com-

ment and prosperity we depeud therefore, be the first duty of the Government to endeavour by every ia ans to keep open | for export the ports ol those countries whete

) prices can be realwed We know there is no ‘ether’ country that offers the same advantages tu us as the United States It was the policy lof the Liberal Government to direct its at-

legs alune—the round and delieate outline of | tention towards this attainment. and alter a

| which has not suffered—are stretched out

You can teel that she struggled long in fearful Behind her a woman aod a young girl had | The former, the mother possibly, | was of humble extraction. to judge from the | size of her ears. On her finger is a single | iron ring. fler teft leg, raised and bent, denotes that she also strugyled and suffered Near her reciines the young giri—abmost a ‘The tissue of her dress is seen with

jown to the waist, and embroidrey on her She bad through fear, probably, She fell with One of ber hands is

urs to have died easily. The fourth body is that of a man—a Colos-

show no sign of struggling ; hie (trowsers) clo-ely fitting ; lived sandles. the |

an iron ring ; @ few teeth are broken ; his moustache 1s clearly apparent, aod it is im- possible not to be struck with the martial and resolute appearance of his features. After the women convulsively clinging to life, we ae here, the man calmly meeting his fate in the midst of the great convulsiun—emnpacedum fe-teul rnuinie.

Notsipg yet discovered at Pompeii offers | us anything to be compared with this palpi- | tating drama. It is violent death with its extreme tortures, its convalsions and agonies, brought clearly before as, and as it were, taken in the uct after the lapse of eighteen centuries.”’

CORRESPONDENCE. To roe Evrror or Tue Examtner.

Dear Sir;

I refrained, for a great length of time from passing any opinion on the events of the times, as they fleeted by, partly because public opinion would listen to no other voice than the dissembling cant of the day, that ceaseless whining, sighing pretended remorse- ness for the sins of all who could pot cloak their struightiorwarduess the sel{-sauc- tified wing of a Fitzgerald, a land, or bury their reason ander the bullying fanat- cism of # MeDonald, or the combined influ- enee of the proprietary faction with that of a hearticss Government. Probably no pre- Vious party demeaned themselves hy aban- donung every principle of virtue for the purpose of joining together such a combina- tive of seperate aud distinct interests fur its support as the present railing power. — In summing up these materials, Mr. Keir, ina late letter to the Ezamuner, happily remarks on its component parts being wade up with | political professurs of christianity and infi- | delity together, with the proprietary aod tenant interests blending as it were in bar- mony at the late elections for the support ol Protestantism, William of the Boyne, and the tenantry in a fog. It staggers belef. It is no wonder that the liberals were out heruded oo the land question, when crouked ways were about being made straight, rogues to beeome honest men and {vols wise. Under this centralization of all the virtues, the li- berals were put down under it, and a perfect | jubilee reigns triumphant throughout the | land. The opposition ceases. The demagogucs, as we were termed, ure silenced ; proprietors eusy, the tenantry contented, and the last obstacle to the general peace of tae country about being overcome, through the Delega- | tiun to the Duke of Neweastle, who now feels the displeasure of the triumvirate. Happy day! everlasting honours to their patristian, But while the country labours under these hallucinations, it 18 scarcely worth my while, or that of any other, to en- deavor by rousog to awaken it from so plea- sant » dream, or to convince them of their auisplaced confidence, That the abuse of the Liberals, the rejoicing wt their defeat and the hopes and expectations of the followers of the Governwentt ure a delusion and doomed to bitter disappointment, 1 leave it to time to.

shew the ab rtion, and hail the moment of | shilling rent, though able to do se, and who owed Monday evening last, for New York, having on | nected with the Lustitute.

| persevering stragcle they finally obtained | their desire. viz: Free Trade with the United | States; and with this view towards its) blessiags we enjoy (fom having a Proprietary

modities of this Island and on their encourage- | lt should, | | Bourke says be is determined to “put the

the best markets offer, where the highest)

their masters or employers, with extraordinary

‘rigour; but we deem it ouly right and proper te | draw public attention to this tact; and we leave ied in the dintinguishing featares of their | our renders te contrast that fact with the promise held out vby the present Govern- i the

that

event of

ment to the tenantry generally,

Commission — er in the the

Land failure of that, the Delegatiou—w ould seeure the remission of arvears of rent. We believe that

the tenautry on every Estate were fever se

severely driven as they are now, and have been |

for twoor three years past, te pay up their arrears

—that in nearly all eases where, in the absence

of cash, security could be had, security has been | obtained,—and that, therefore, if ever the tine | comes When the Goveriiwent shall have the power

‘to remit any reuts, their servicers to the teagutry

jiu this respect will be about ax salisiactory as ithese of the Agents generally are to their

remissions will be “exeeedingly small, Mr

iserews” upou these whe may have the hardihood to hold out agaist his demands. He is just the ‘sort of man to keep a promise of this kind; and

we caunot say that we blame hun overmuch ; il all the other Ageuts and resident Proprietors are

ruauing pelltucll to collect Uheir arrears, why ' whould vet he be in the race, and get what he

ean! This worrying of the tevantry w one of the

Principals in’ England — the remitiances or

commenced their course of lectures even later than in precious years. Many persons joins and attend literary institutions because of the novelty of the thing, and when the novelty ends their In what other way can we that the Q@harlottetown

Debating Club, for instance, has not yet opened

patronage erases. account. for the fact

its discussions, because, as we are informed, the This Society may then be said to be in its decline, and yet two

members take no interest in them ?

years ago it was the most flourishing Institution m the place, and with seme show of reason, bousted of possessing “ail the taleut.’” We fear that notwithstanding the great amount of money lexpended upon Education in this colony, there is net a corresponding appreciation of the pure pleasures and real advantages of lilurature by any cousiderable portion of the community. As above stated, lectures in other places are a leading institution amongst the people; with us they ought to be a necessity, inasmuch asin the winter we have no regular communication with the rest of ‘the world; begirt with a circle of ice our Island lik isolated (no pun intended), and its inhabitants | must depend upon themselves tor their intellectual recreation.

The advantages of Literary Tustitutes for af- fording improvement and recreation, were well jset terth in the opening Address before the Ca- tholic Young Men’s Literary Lustitute ou Thursday eveumg last by the President of the Lustitute, Rev. Angus MeDonald. Ele commenced by sketching the proceediugs of the past year, aud cougratalating the members upon the success which had marked the affairs of the Institute The receipts were greater than the expendiiares although some large amounts had te be paid. ‘The fectares were varied, and on highly inper-

(solid tod, delicacies for the sick, clothing,

reading matter and stationery were received by them. rs were conveyed to Libby Prison, Belle Island, Castle Thunder and the tubucco warehouse.

The Richmond papers of the 3d instant contain some interesting news. The Er- anviver says that General Bragg’s saccessor . ‘has not been appointed, but that General | The news that the French Customs aldiiofities flardee remains ip command. The Exam ner | had been told that the Confederate steamer congratulates the Southern public that the | pahannock” should be permitted to procedl toms late disasters in East Tennesse are counter-| 4. her Captain might devine tedu av, hed balanced by the acuvity of the rebels in West ng or ee ‘Tennessee, which is now furmed into 3 new | °°" received by Mr. Lincala, Heinforwe Um.

gress that the Supplemental Treaty for the ap.

military district, including West ‘Tennessee, West Kentucky and Northern Mississippi, | pression of the Atrican Slave Trade has bow ratified aud carried inte execution.

and placed under command of Colonel V. RK. | Richardson. The Richmond Whig says that lle announces his intention to submit to the Be nate a proposal fora convention to be eutered

‘The President opens with an allusion to th fact that the United States remain at peace with j all Foreign Powers, He is not dissatistied with the fact that the British aud French Governments “have exercised their authority to prevent the departure of hostile expeditions ” from their porta.

the tubucco belonging to the Freneti govern- ment is about to be removed from Richmond

within the next few weeks, on French vessels. The Union leeling gains streng sas. The people are taking the oath of a giance by bundreds. At a convention held at Fort Smith, which was most patriotic in the sentiments expressed, Colonel Jotason, of the First Arkansas infantry, was nomi- nated for Congress, and it was voted that Arkansas should be a tree State after the war. We have four days later intelligence from New Orleans. It appears therefrom that the navigation of the Messirsippi four miles abeve and below the mouth ot the Red river ‘is serivusly interrapted by the presence in | turee of rebel bands provided with field ar- | tullery.with which they fire upon all unarmed ‘boats trading to and trom New Orleans. \'Thas force, estimated at four thousand, is | under tommand of Gen Deck Taylor, and 1s

tant subjects; aumngst them he referred to the 4 sort of flying corps, appearing from time

between Gceat Britain aud the United just claiuss to possessions in Washingtos. ‘Territory;

thin Arkan- | and tor an arbitrament between Spain lle- | United States to determine the ovaritine | tion of Spain in the waters that su ;

A portion of the message is devoted to aa age went in tavour of preventing foreigners, peti

in the United States, from claiming ¢

from mihiary duty on the ground of alienage. He has a slap at the “hereditary art “ Japan who prevent the Tycoon trom carry nig at his enlightened policy with respect fo other m- tiens. It is announced that arrangements haw been made with Russia tor building a continuans telegraph line through the empire from the Pacilie shore of Awerica; avd the Atlantic T scheme, and a preject for connecting ullthe States forts on the Gulf of Mexico bye T

are recoumended to the ceusideration of Cat gress. The President says that laborers are still wanted in the States, and he recommends the establishment of a system of Tueigration. He

maintenance, that administration on various | Government.

ways showed their appreciation of the boon | eS oe . by paying that respectial attention bo the THE news received rem the States is not in- vilicers and citizens of its Government which | portant. There appears to have been no battle & great nation had thp right to expect. | fought since the last great affur at Chattanooga. Previous to free trade with the United Staies, | wy give in another plisee, from a New Brunswick