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. a isa a Jove good fight for that cause at the) ~~ “da 4] Election : the politics of the latter we have, west et ascertaining. We hope the electors will be} nO eet andshow that they are not behind other, ong F the Island in their appreciation of good go- parts cE as will be evinced by the selection they) Tones One half of the District has been rescued from

the Tories in the person of Mr. Davies; why should’nt the other half follow suit ?

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> ' Hen Masesty’s Brera Day.— Yesterday, being the

snmversary of Her Majesty’s Birth day, a feu de joie was fired in honour cf it, and a Ball was given at Go- yernment House in the evening.

Tne Batt.—We regret to say that no bulletins have vet been issued, informing us of the state of the health of the parties who figured on the“ light fantastic toe” last evening, at Government House. It is asserted, but

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jlearn from Mr. Simmons, of the “ Nevata Ranch,” that

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being unsettled by the golden visions constantly seizing on the imagination, and directing it towards this won- derful land!

Not the least important and profitable business in California is that of Agriculture, if we are to rely upon the following statement :—

Acricutture tn Canrronnta.—We are pleased to

he has entered extensively into Agriculture, and that, his crops are looking remarkably well. His. ranch is situated near Sonoma, and he has upwards of sixty) acres of corn, potatoes, peas, onions, &c., under culti- vation.

He brought to market a large quantity of radishes, which went off briskly at 6s. a bunch, each bunch con- taining four radishes. His salad brought four shillings abunch. The fair average yield per acre for potatoes and onions is five hundred bushels, and he estimates

not with any degree of credibility, that his Excellency that the crop which he will gather would be worth at

was uncommonly polite to the members of the majority of the Assembly, whom he took especial! care to invite, and that more than one was singularly happy in dancing t his Exeellency’s entire satisfaction his favorite reel of Tullochgorum! We will not believe the story till we are further informed, as we may be by Wednesday.

LATEST NEWS FROM CALIFORNIA.

The Pacific News, a California paper, furnishing dates to the Ist April, contains many interesting notices of the progress of that country in wealth and popula- tion, and of the successful operations of the miners. The foliowing paragraphs are selected from a leading editorial on the progress of immigration, and the future prospects of the country :—

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the present market price, $70,000. Surely agriculture is the best mining in California.

The paper from which we make the above extracts is ‘not so large as the double sheet Examiner, which we issue for 10s. a year, and the cost of subscription to it is $25 for twelve mentis, or $16 dollars for six months ! O Printers, and Patrons of Newspapers, think of that! We will, perhaps, give further extracts in our next.

Sreampoat Accipwentr on Laxe Exte.—The To- rénto Globe, May 9th, has the following painful an- nouncement :—

We were informed by Telegraph, on Tuesday even- ing, of the loss of the steamboat Commerce, vwned by McPherson, Crane, & Co., on her voyage, with troops,

Marters on THE PaciFic Sive.—Since our last is- soe for the Steamer, many changes have occurred, show- ing the rapid onward progress of California. The rains have ceased, and everything betokens a revival of the accustomed activity in business circles.

The immigration from the States is beginning to pour i Upon our shores in one unbroken current, and the seamers plying upon our rivers are crowded to their utmost in the conveyance of passengers and freight to the various cities and towns in the great interior valleys, and to the different mines,

Qur accounts from the mines are reliable, and all concur in stating the inexhaustible quantity of the pre- cious metal. In fact it is the opinion of the oldest miners,—those who have spent the past winter in the’ mountains,—that the same ground worked over last year will be found far more productive this; while at the same time additional and extensive districts are being opened, which will give profitable employment to hun- dreds of thousands for a generation to come.

San Francisco is still increasing in extent, though jess rapidly than last fail. Rents are less, and will still

from Montreal to Port Stanley. She came in collision, near Port Maitland, with the steamer Despatch, shortly

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is dead for Responsible Govern-| No wonder that the intellects of half the world are/tomahawked after the most ferocious fashion, ‘in suc-

ceeding numbers of the Islander, for daring to oppoe the wishes of the Governor and the Compact. Though quite willing to give “ An Elector” credit for the most villainous intentions, yet, we perceive by last night's paper, that he is not such a fierce and terrible dog as he appeared at first sight; and though capable of raising

‘the most savage whoop, he has not the arm to wield the

tomahawk,

‘The public having given little attention to his billings- gate on the subject of the Members’ pay. he, Jike a!/ adepts in blackguardism, repeats his abuse, or like a dog, having. nearly dislocated his Jaws in barking, sti)! barks on, because nobody minds him, ,

The worst feature in the character of “an Elector” is, that he is one of the most brazen and unblushing of thieves, for he has positively purloinod from the last six years volumes of the Islander the substanee of al) the lies and filth which have been flung at the character of Mr. Whelan, without showing the least aptitude for in- vention, or the least spark of wit in dressing up afresh the oft-told tales. Mr. Whelan has the happiness to in- form ‘*an Elector” that he has not slept the less sound- ly, por ate the less heartily, since the. Islander of yesterday appeared, than he did on any previous occa- sion ; he is provokingly insensible to personal attacks in the columns ‘of the Jslander, especially when those attacks have been refuted a ecore of times over, and when they are based upon falselood, and propagated by cowards, who dare not put their names to them. If “an Elector” was not as base a wretch, as he is stupid and uninteresting, Mr. Whelan might take the trouble of tearing his letter to ribbons; but there can be no honour in parleying witha Jiar,a blackguard, and a coward, more particularly when that coward, blackguard, and liar steals his falsehoods from previous numbers of the Islander.

THE REAL PENNY-PICKPOCKET.

Professor Numskull—Boss to D. Maclean—tinding that the Islander would not pass at a 100 per cent dis-

after 12 o’clock on Monday night, and sank in eight'count, he haying offered the Slander sheet to country fathoms of water. She had on board 150 men of the people for 7s. Gd. per annum, but meeting few who 23rd Regiment, and we deeply grieve to say that 38, were so hard up for news or so prodigal of cash—has persons met a watery grave. Of these, one was an offi-|hit upon the notable project of hashing up the faise- cer, 22 privates, and 13 women and children connected | hoods of the Islander, and re-ejecting them through the with the Regiment ; of the remaining two, one belonged | medium of a little sheet he styles “The Express”: #0 to the steamer, and the other was a Jad of 14 years of that what sold yesterday for fourpence may be pur-

age, the son of a gentleman residing in Montreal. As to who was to blame in the matter, we have, as yet, no information.

Recrprocity.—From the best information we can United States is at present to extend to Canada only,

ified dissatisfaction here, and should be resisted by

every possible means. New Brunswiek and the other

obtain, we believe it is settled among the leading men| at Washington, that the measure of reciprocity with the

and will not include these Lower Colonies at all. Such a partia} proceeding as this will create the most unqual-; — ~

‘chased for a penny to-day! Whether the spec is tried 'to raise the needful for Duncan, is a fact of which the | prospectus does not inform us; but we think it decided- ‘ly a bad spec to give’a penny for either the Islander or

‘the bantling begotten of it.

To Corresponpents.—* A ‘Sax-payer” and “ Tor Moon” will be inserted in our next.

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| ~ BIRTH. - | On the 20th inst., the lady of Dr. Hobkirk of a son.

North American colonies ought not to be neglected and} ~-—- =

sacrificed to propitiate the restlessness and turbulence

farther decline, which will prove beneficial to the sub- stantial prosperity of the city. In short, the future of San Francisco and California is full of promise, which) can only be overshadowed by the passing clouds.

Discoveries of new mines are being constantly made, | which transfers the excitement and the tide of adven- turers from one place to another, before any diligent operations can be sustained in either. We select two notices of such discoveries from several which appear mthe Pacific Netes :-—

Gory os Tur Eastegs Siore or tue Sierra Ne- vada.—The existence of gold on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, although not serjously questioned fince its discovery on the numerous streams heading on lhe western side of the same chain, has never been authenticated in a form as to leave the matter free from doubt. A gentleman who has just arrived in this city fom the east by way of the Great Salt Lake and Los Angelos informs us that the question is settled. Jn What quantities the gold exists, he is wnable to say, as ‘want of provisions precluded his party from halting|

g enough to test the richness of the discovery, The Metal was found on the surface of rotten granite, and to ‘certain depth intermigled with it, forming the bed of ‘stream then dry. Its locality is about two hundred miles from Los Angelos, on the old Spanish trail be- Ween that place and Santa Fe, in the neighbourhood of the Little Salt Lake. A party has left Los Angelos

the spot, prepared to test the availability of this new’

cer,

Hicuty mrortaxt Discovery—Gotp Mines NEAR

AnerLos.—We, learn, on respectable authority, iat there is great excitement at the present time in the, ‘ity of Los Angelos. Our informant has just received, iletter from one of his friends, which states that rich.

fold mines have been discovered in Sovth California.| find the following significant paragraph :—‘ Canadian,

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ey are inthe same range of hills from which fiows: ¥¢ tributaries of the Sacramento and San Joaquin.! Vrowds are going up to the new mines, among whom: "e gentlemen from the first commercial houses of the |

Pace. We sincerely trust that this report will prove, One would have imagined from the yell of a savage, : rue, Since it will be a start to the southern portion of our Who, over the signature of “ An Elector,” printed twoj

of Canada, and any attempt to do so, will we doubt not, be most sturdily resisted. We trustthe Executive of the

iProvince will send some one member of the Govern-

ment to Washington to remonstrate against any such proceeding, and point out its injustice and impropriety. — St. John (MV. B.)\—“ Courier.”

Fre Cusan Exrepition.—Some of the writers for

the press duubt whether any expedition of a hostile cha-'

racter has sailed from this country to Cuba: but the accounts tlt we have received from New Orleans and Baltimore with certain other faets that have come to our knowledge, induce us to believe that the reports concerning this expedition, although they are exaggerat- ed, have yeta basis oftrath. It is pretty certain, at least, that two ship loads of people, with arms in their possession, have recently left Baltimore, and the tele- graph from New Orleans Says that several vesseis simi- larly laden have left that port. A dealer in fire-arms in this city has sold, within the last month, thirty thou- sand stand of muskets, his usual sale for the same sea- ata years past, not having averaged as many hun- eds.

During the past few days considerable quantities of

arms and ammunition have been received, and several vessels have }eft with men, artillery, &&c., ostensibly for Chagres, but supposed bownd for the invasion of Cuba, Yesterday the Spanish Consul offered $6000-for the

charter of a steamer to convey despatches to Cuba, the’

owners, however, refused and the Consul then sent thein in a fast schooner.--New York paper, May 14.

Correr.—A merchant on one of the wharves in Bos- ton, has sold eight thousand casks of peas this season, for the purpose of being burnt and gronnd with coffee ; and they are probably selling as pure Java, Sumatra, &c. Inthe market report ofa New York paper, we

peas are dull, in consequence of the decline in Coffee.”

ANOTHER YELL AGAINST THE * PAY,”

SHIP NEWS. ENTERED,

| Mar 20—Schr. Marie St. Croix Furnier, Quebec: 'do. Conservative, Van Amburgh, Wallace; bal.— Packet, Baban, Pictou; coa). 21—New London, Beers, 'do.; do. Peri, Davies, St. Thomas ; molasses, sugar, ,&e. 23—Fanny, Pine, Pictou; coal. Flora, Hingley, 'do.; salt.

| Crearep, May 13th.—Saacaaban, Green, Boston, produce. i4th.—Resident, Rouagetel!, Boston, produce ; ‘Lady Sale, M‘Neill, St. Johns, N. F., produce; Hero, Landries, Pictou, produce; Ellen, Martellette, Tatama. | rouche, produce ; Galaxy, Pinkney, Pictou, goods; Isa bella, Cantley, Pictou, ballast. t5th.—Elza Hand, Richardson, Boston, produce. ¥7th.—Virgin, Marte’), Halifax, produce ; Shannon, King, St. Johns, N. F, ‘cattle. Gentleman, Babin, Pictou; bal. I8—Jane Ann, Languilt, N.S.; produce. Fly. Campbell. Hali- fax; do. Mary Ann, Campbell]. Pictou; do. Foreign- er, M‘Donald, Boston.

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PASSSNGERS. In the Civility, from Bideford, on Thursday tast, Mrs. ,Hebbes, Mrs. Browne and two children, Rev. Jacob Gaile and lady. ‘Three in the steerage. In the Pink, from Liverpool, Mr. and Mrs. D. Lawson. In the steamer from Pictou, on Sunday evening— (Messrs. J. Dunean, P. Gaul, J. Willams, Stephenson, Quebec ; Mrs. Richardson and child, and 13 in the steerage. |

In the steamer from Pictou, on Thursday evemng— Mr. and Mrs. James Reddin; Messrs. N. Rankin, D. Mcisaac, Hunt, D. Fraser, N. McLean, and othere.

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ne a Seeds! Seeds!! Seeds!!! OR Sale at Sxinnern’s Mepicar WaAnrrnorerk a > Jarge assortment of

Di ot Tae. Pen DAT A . WATTS iS | ro fe * th SAROEN ANB FLOWER SBRWE . JUST ARRIVED, and warranted Fresh, a greater va- ‘riety of

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le, and throw it into the same importance now pos-iJetters in the Islander about a fortnight ago, that thelthan ever hag been offered to the public.

seed by the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys

‘majority of House of the Assembly were ‘to be regularly! May 41. Gaz

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