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band as | promised to hecome ?’

«L will, Robert,’ answered Fanny. ‘ My heart hae never wandered, and my trust has) never failed.’

[hers was a minute of perfect silence while the long-parted lovers tuok in the ver- tainty of their bappinoss, and then Miss Wil- eon dropped her eye-lids, straightened her igure, put ov e@ rigid eepect, and rang the bull.

‘Can it be possible,’ cried Mr Vernon * that Madam Colcord and Fuany \Vilson ere | the same? | aon scarcely believe it, and yet | felt when | first saw you « strange con- teat sad heme became home to me as it had never been before. 1 had resolved to driak | this evening to the long continuance ol | our relations; now | will drink to their; speedy change.”’ }

Five years have passed since that eventful | Christmas, and Mr. Vernon bas been reborn | iate a life of love and happiness, ap. of useful. | vesa. All his haughty reticence, all hie bit- terness have vanwhed. With his Fanny at hie side, and her image on his knee, looking with gleeful eyes inty bis own and trying | to syliable the word * father,’ he almost be- | liewes that the blighted, barren years whieh | closed bis youth and yshered in his manhood | wore a dream, and that his wandermgs be-| gen end ended with the evening twilights| and the rising of the morning star. reen- slope is itself again—smi‘ing and verdurous in its master’s smile. ‘Che broad ring ol stone has been replaced by a low iron fence, throwgh the fagciful paterrs of which the veriest child cgn ecan the treasures within its round. Tie smoothly shaven lawn is bril- hantly greee yoder the spray of the showery fountains, and the conservatory rivals the tropics in hues and fragrance. The house is filled for half the year with guests from abroad, but they are no more welcome than the villagers who are invited as {reely as they. The poor student finds there book- fur his library aod woney fur his purse, and the artist struggling with penury sees his eanwass torn to gold by the magic of his host aud hosteas. There the hangry are fed and | the bomeless provided with shelter

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‘Yur Rawway Disasrer ty CANADA.—The Montreal Gezette has seme particulars of the dreadiid accident on the Grand Trunk Railway in Camada. The drawbridge through which the ewigrant train fell is described as #>our fiity feet high, seventy feet wide, and twelve hundred feet hong. The signal at the bridge is visible for over five hundred teet beyond the furthest abutment ot the bridge, making the distance at which it could be seen tully one thousand seven hundred fect The rules of the company make iC lupera- tive os all trains te come toa dea! stop on ap- proaching the place. Had this rule been observed the catasuwphe would have been prevented. One wiuute aud w half, in poiut of time, would have prevented it; for a steamer with sa barges in tow was ju the act of passing through. Four ot the ex barges had passed through, the train bcing precipitated on the filth barge, which was euok. Had this barge not broken the fall and kept the cars out of the water, many more hives would assuredly have been lost.

It is said that the entire responsibility of the disaster resta with the engine driver, William | Harney. He could not fail, if he had beeu dving | hus duty, to have seen the sigual when 1700 feet | off, giving him ample space to have stopped thie | trai ia aceurdance with the company's fixed) tule. The night was aweoligut oad perfectly clear, aud the whele face of the country such aa cvuld pot be mistaken. He had, in tact, stopped at the st. Hilaire station cluse by, and could not fail to have known that danger was immediately | besend. He had been employed i) this section | of the coad for eleven years, so he cannot plead iweapesience. He had commenced as a firewan ou the line, and in cousequence of hia steadiness, industry and ability has been promoted in the usual way. Instead of stopping be had run the train right inte the abyss; the engiwe plunged jute the water alongside the barge, and is out of sight; the eleven cars were piled on the tep of each other in the utmost confusion. They were all « pertcet wreek, and Tome of them were susaehed to atoms.

The passengers were Austrians, Prussians. Swedes, Danes, Bohemians, Poles, aad, in one or two cases, Italians. They were bound for Wis- consin via Chicago—most of them tv meet friends already settled in that region.

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A terrible accident occurred lately on the Grand Trunk Railroad at St. Hilaire, about nine- teen miles from Montreal. An imeigrant train of cara, with 354 German emigrants went through the Belayd Bridge ito ter teet of water. At latest accounts 45 dead bodies, and 30 or 40 badly injured, had been taken from the wreck. The engineer has been arrested and sent to jail.

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The Halifax papers state that the Archbishop, on last Sanday week, proposed to the Catholic Congregation to raise £2,500 for the erection of a School House for the poorer classes in the com- munity, and a dwelling for the Christain Brothers, whe have promised to undertake the management ef the Schooul, A meeting was held in the Cathe- dral after Mass, and £1,000 was subseribed, six or sexes gentlemen putting down their names for LK each. Bequests of the Arebbishop, and ot Rev. Me Geary, will also be applied to tuis purpose.

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Accounts from Buenos Ayres represent affairs therein avery bad condition. Mei are murdered fur meney, and for very small sume; from re- venge, from jealousy, and from the passion of a moment. ln open day, in the early evening, in the public thoreughtares, in the thronged streets, anti the parks, murders have averaged for a long time mere than one a day. he police are sadly deficient in preserving order, and there is the mest alarming state of things. 1h is asserted that uive-tenths of the people go ariued constantly.

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A letter from Alexandria, Egyp!, to an English paper eays:—* The Maharajah Dhuleep Singh, re through Cairo, on bis way to India with Bis mother’s body, saw and tell in love with a girl at the Presbyterian Mission School, the daughter .ot one of the partners in a leading Eng- lish weceantile house, and alter some hesitation oa her part the matter ia settled, and they are to be margied in a few weeks. The Avaerican mis- simary tells me that she is one of the most beautiful girls, both in person and character, that he bas ever seen or known; and, like the Maha- rajab himself, is a devout Christina.

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‘The & Eugenia has decreed the down- tall.of high bonnets. She has adopted a suall, ruuod siape, encireling the oval of the face, and slawst always garnished with a fringe, either of jot. white beads, or siraw, which falls upon the haw.

a The Reyad caatle of Stolzenfe's in Germany, where Queen V.etoria was so oplendedly enter- tained sume years since, was yisited by bur- giars receoWy. Ubey carried off with them. among other valuable prizes, the state sword which the city of Paris gave Napoleon on the birth of the King of Rome (it came into the Prussians’ possession on the fiei\do! Waterloo, where it was found in Napoleon's carriage). and a state sword which once belonged to Murat. The hilt and seabbarid of both these swords were of pure gold, highly ornamented with precious stones. The steci blades were jound near the castle. ae - 4 California correspondent of the Rockland Gagette thys speaks of the wants of Calitor- nia -—* What Cglitornia needs most to-day, « rain. — Mbat she wants toemorrow is seventy-five (ugueand feygales ; which would equal the male population, according to the Jeet cepsus.”?

——— Pe ————~ An aceount of an enormous aseale, the Jargest perhaps in the cougtry,’’ bas been ging the rounds of the papers, as having ‘n reoantly finished at Cidelund, for the Fort Pitt Works, Its capagity is equal to ae Enormous a8 éhis scale | small in comparison with many of Vairbanks Weigh leas Scales, used ad Wis Mile Canal, which weigh five hundred tuns, Senet hooey kick readily ifs bucket is on ths platform when ba- lgnced. At Boston there be Railroad Track Beales.) 0 feet long. of the save. wake, which weigh one bugdred and thirty tons, and so

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LATEST NEWS FROM EUROPE.

Tue R. M. Steamship Asia arrived at Halifax oo last Tuesday night, ia 10 days from Liver- povl. The Mail tor thie Island arrived here about 12 o'clock on Thursday night. The news is important as regards the aspect of Muropean affairs. The Conference on the Dano-German qvestiva appears to have ended in nothing, and

preparations were in progress tur renewing hos- tilities. There seems te be little duubt now that England will be drawn into the war on the side of Denmark. We learn from the United Service Gazette that orders have been issued to prepare and hold in readiness for mediate use the ne- cessary warlike equipments for 30,000 troops It is stated ia other journala that the Cabinet are unanimous in the course Which they intend to pursue, and that it will be such as will prove highly acceptable to the temper and disposition of the people ut England, which clearly means arwed,hostility ty Austria and Prussia. We give in our present No. elaborate accounts of the Dano-German question, fur comments upon which we have no space.

An event which has excited much sensation in Europe, and which will create greater sensation in America, especially in the Northern and Suuth- ern States now at war, is the Naval Fight be- tween the U. States Ship Kearsage and the Cun- tederate cruiser Alabama, sv destructive aud 8e long a terror tu the U. States mercantile wariue. Che engagement, which had been long eagerly sought for by the Kearsage, and which was the result of a challenge from ber, tovk place near Cherbourg, on the coast of France, and ended, after one hour and a half, in the tetal destruction of the Alabama, and the death by battle and by drowning of many of ber men. Commander Semmes and a cousiderable number of his officers and crew, whese bravery is highly extolled, es- caped almost miraculously, aad found refuge on | board of au English yacht which wituessed the | ongagemeut. The other vessel was net much j damaged, and sustained only slight loss of life. But we must refer our readers to the extracts be- low for a full account of the combat. The Eng- lish and French people sympathise with the survi- vores of the Alabama in the loss of their ship; but we have no aympathy for the fate of a vessel which inflicted fearful destruction on weak non- combatants, quietly pursuing the paths of coni- merce; and if she Were net a pirate, as she has been sv often designated, she was very little bet- ter than one. Privateering and piracy ave so nearly related, itis difficult to draw a distiuction between them. The belligerant Powers in the States are now happily the ouly ones amongst uations which recognise the barbarous practice of privateering,

The death of the well known William Smith O'Brien, announced the other day by telegram via New York, is confirmed. Mr. O'Brien died in Wales, whither he had proceeded fur the benefit of his health. The deceased gentleman committed some grievous errors in the course of his political life, but he was amongst the best of Ireland's latter day politicians—he was a shrewd thinker, an able and vigorous writer, a ready des bater.and the most unselfish of nnodern politicians. Ot the Young Ireland party, to which be belonged, and now seattered all over the globe, he was the wisest and most disinterested, though perhaps act the must brilliant.

FRANCE, ITALY, AND THE ROMAN QUESTION,

According to @ letter from Turin, the Marquis Pepoli has left that capital for Paris, charged with a semi-official wission, the object of which is said to be to propose to the Emperor Napoleon a new mode of solving the Roman question, by transferring the provisional capital of Italy from Turin to one of the cities of the Marches or of Um- hria, thas having it as near Rome us ible. The project also involves a system of disurm- ing and financial reform.

THE MEETING OF THE SOVEREIGNS OF AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA AT CARLSBAD. The Emperor of Austria arrived at Carls- bad on Wednesday. The King of Prussia, accompanied by Herr Von Bismark and bis military sué/e, at once paid a visit to the Emperor, which the latter returned, The King of Prussia entertained his Imperial Majesty at diuner at two o clock.

RUSSIA.

The Journal de St. Petersbourg states that the harbour of Sebastopol is being cleared of the bulls of the ships sunk at the entrance of the port at the beginning of the Crimean war. Ihe same journal adds that in three years the ra‘ltoad from Muscow to Koursk will be extended ty Sebastopol.

THE INSURRECTION IN ALGERIA.

Official despatehs from Algeria represant the news as daily becoming more decisive. Genera! Deligny has penetrated tu the centre of the rebellion in the south of the province of Oran, and similar successes bave been achieved in the Tell. It is thought that military operations will terminate in the be- ginning of July.

SPAIN AND PERU.

In Wednesday's sitting of the Congress at Madrid, Senor Pacheco said :-—‘* The squad- ron in the Pacific will be reinforced. The Chincha Islands will be occupied until the assassins of Talambo are punished, and it is proved that the Peruvian Government was foreign to the attempt on the life of Senor Mazarredy, recently Spanish Minister in Peru.”’

REPULSE OF GORDON FROM CUANG- CUOW-FOU.

Suancuagk, May 7.—Major Gordon and the Futae have thrice assaulted Chang-Chow- Foo, and have been each time repulsed with great lors. The city still holds out.

FAILURE OF THE CONFERENCE.

The Conference met at the appointed hour on Saturday, and sat unusually Jate. We are sorry to say that no very pacific infer- ences are to be drawn from this protracted meeting ; but that, ou the contrary, it was owing to the unsutisfactory nature of the proceedings, and to the almost stormy dis- cussions which took place. The principal business of the meeting was the consideration of Lord Rusgejl’s new proposition to refer the future boundary line between Denmark aod Germany to the arbitration of a friendly

wer. ‘To this the representatives of the German Powers and of Denmark alike de- murred, each party fearing that his rights would be compromised by the decisiun of the neutra! Power selected as arbiter; the Ger- mans still insisting upon the line from Apen- rade; the Danes equally firm not te abandon an inch of ground west of the Dannewerke and the Schlei. The representatives of the German Powers were on this occasion more than usually threatening and evtravagant in their demands. ‘The Uonference is adjourned antil Wednesday.

The Conterence met on Wednesday at three o'clock. All tue members were pre- sent. It broke up at six o'clock. The pro-

1 of arbitration was rejected by both russia and Denmark. Austria joined with Prussia in declining to accept the English propositions. ‘lhere was, on the part of Prussia and Austria, an offer which in such cigcumstunces can only be looked upon a @ mockery. This was, that any Power that chose might arbitrate on the question of frontier, but that they would reserve to themselves the right of rejecting

sensitive that # bawmer thrown on the plat-|the award. {¢ is needless to say that this form will turs the beaw. absurd » was scouted ty te represen-

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an honour by the attitude he has hitherto held. But Prussia maintains ber view that a safe basis on which to establish a line of demarcation can only be determined by con- sulting the inhabitants. The proposal of England seems to find some support from | Austria, who wishes to prevent her frow tak- ing part in the war. England bas declared that on the renewal of hostilities she will lace herself with her fleet at the sidu of

enmark. Hence @ prolongation of the armistice has this time a special importance, since possibly it may prove u question of the |commencement of a general Kuropean war. | Whilst England insists upon a prolongation of the suspension of hostilities, Prussia wishes to bring about a real armistice for a long period, settled on precise conditions, and with a mutual engagement to give four weeks notice of the cessation.’’ The Correspondenz hopes that the meeting of Count Rechberg and Herr von Bismarck, as also the personal interview of the two Sovereigns, may lead to a closer union on the question of thearmistice. The semi-official Norddeutsch Zeitung of Thursday says: —‘* Advices received here from Schleswig state that the troops are again moving northward to take up their position. ‘Thus we are again on the eve of war. Z the armistice has been rejected, and the line of the Schlei is maintained as the utmost concession.’’

THE APPROACHING CAMPAIGN IN JUTLAND. The semi-official Berlinyske Tidende, a Co- penhagen paper, publishes the following upon the prospects of a resumption of the cam- paign in Jutland :—* We have received in- telligence from Jutland as to the intentions of the enemy of a very discouraging charac- ter. ‘I'be Prussian officers, we are informed, use the same language everywhere, and facts unfortunately only confirm the correct- ness of their warnings. All agree in stating that should war recommence they have orders to conduct it with a rigour which will leave far behind the scenes of pillage and devastation fof which this hardly-tried pro- vince has hitherto been the theatre. Noth- ing less, in fact, is proposed than to carry off the cattle, horses, end all movable property, to cut down the crops and to give the towns and villages to the flames ; in short to renew all the horrors of Mongol or Tartar warfare. The detested name of General Vogel von Falkenstein is only too sure a guarantee of the barbarous manner in which these orders will be carried out. Let it not be believed, either, that these are simply threats meant to intimidate. ‘Those offivers who have not lost every sentiment of humanity themselves advise the inhabitants to profis by the delay which still remains to them before the ex- piration of the armistice, to send their women and children to the island, and to bring their most valuable property into places of safety. The sickles intended to cut down the crops have been served out to the regiments, aod every preparation is already made for the commencement of this unheard of proceeding after the 26th June. The population are avare of these facts and look forward to the appalling prospect with terror; but they remain unalterable in their patriotism and daily forward addresses to the Government. declaring themselves reedy to endure any sufferings rather than see a peace concluded which would compromise the independence and liberty of the country.’’ THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS IN DENMARK. Daybladet contains the following :—** As it was tu be expected, the arrival of Baron Otto Plessen from St. Petersburg gave the signal for fresh disturbances in our political position. We hear that « very serious crisis roke out in the Ministry, oceasioned by a difference of principle in the views of his Majesty the King and his responsible advisers Three days afterwards the difference was settled.

THE CONFERENCE BUBBLE. THE DIE IS Cast.

England has received the only reward which it was possible for Germans to give, in return for the forbearance now only tu be deplored by every Englishman Germany, not content with having been delivered from destruction by England over and over again,

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perilled ' commodate the feelings of courtly circles; but now the people of Kngland expect Eng-| lish Ministers not only to threaten, but to! dare and da. We are well aware how in- fluence has been brought to bear upon the Government, and it does Lord Palmerston credit that he has exercised so much pa- tience ; but now that every fair suggestion from England bas been received with con- tumely, it becomes the duty of England's Minister tg make a appeal to the Parlia- ment, and if that should fail, to the people, who never failed to support an Englishman ready to do his duty to bis country in spite of the frowns and intrigues of Courts and Crowns.— London News of the World.

A DISASTROUS LITTLE WAR.

The steamship ‘* Gladiator’’ is on her way to Cape Coast Castle, to bring from that pes- tilential spot those of the men who remain alive of sa unfortunate expedition against the King of Ashantee, unheard of in England antil intelligence arrived of the calamities at- tending it. lt was an injudicious proceeding to commence a war againsta barbarous Afri- ean potentate in a deadly climate more des- tructive to European life than barbarian arms can be; and it must have been authorised without the forethought and consideration of the Colonial-office. It is likely enough that greater care will henceforth be observed ; but the present circumstances are serious enough to provoke animadyersion, whilst they also inspire universal regret.

‘The papers just presented to Parliament, enable us to understand the origin and pur- pose of this lamentable expedition. Tney commence with a despatch from the Governor of the Gold Coast—Governor Pine, dated December 10, 1862, wherein, as well as in subsequent communications, the troubles are described, which had been caused by the Gio- vernor’s refusal to deliver up runaway slaves to the King of Ashantee, who had taken re- fuge with a friendly tribe. These troubles inspired an apprehension in the mind of the British Governor that they would lead to “a serious and lingering war.’’ Throughout this country there exists a hamane and right- eous abborreoce of slavery; and as far as moral influence can be benefivially exercised against the unholy traffic, it is desirable el- fect should be given to the national seotiment by functionaries in those parts of the world where the traffic is carried on, But the na- tional sentiment dues not approve Quixotic antagonism, which, while its beneficial ef- fects are doubitul, entails a vast expense uponus. ‘The war against Ashant-e, sudden- ly terminated, now that its calamities are known, 18 said to have cost us a thousand pounds a day, and ** cannoteven on the most moderate estimate be put at less than £12,- 000 or £14,000 a month.’’ The loss of life is still more deplorable than the expenditure of the money. Men have been carried into a swamp of pestilence and fever, and have perished without once beholding the enemy ; tor the King of Ashantee, knowing the effects of the climate, has sat snugly in his palace, with bis warriors, awaiting there for such of the invaders as were able and willing to approach-them. On the 12th May, 1804, Governor Pine, writing again in complaint of the King, says,.*+ { will not conceal the earnest desire | entertain that a great blow shall be struck at Ashantee power, and the question set at rest forever as to whether an arbitrary, cruel, and sanguioary monarch shall be forever permitted to insula the British flag and outrage the laws of civiliza- tion.”’ it is not always prudent to accept an insult, neither 1s it consistent with sound po- licy to be hasty in vindicating the laws of ci- vilization, where those laws are perfectly understood. The Governor of the Guld Coast suggested to the then Culoniai Secretary, the Duke of Neweastle, to ** urge upon her Ma- jesty's Government the policy, the economy and even the werey of transporting to those shores an army of such strength a3 would, | with the allied native forces, enable us to warech to Coomassie, and there plant the British flag.’? ‘The Governor is sensibie that to uw stranger such ® Course may appear & visionary one, but he 1s convinced that ‘even with all the disadvantages of climate the expedition would not be so dangerous, so fatal, or uccompanied with such loss of life as bas attended expeditions in other and ap- parently more genial ¢limes.’? The Duke ot

forgetiul of the toleration we have shown tu her proceedings in Llungary, Poland, and Italy, uomindful of the subsidies se received in days past fur services tardily rendered in tields fought for her preservation, and ready also to ignore the many alliances made with our Royal House, now comes to prove her base ingratitude and her utter selfisliness in pretending to give to Schleswigers that which she denies to Hungarians, Poles, and [talians. The lesson will never be lost upon us, in all coming time, that we bave nothing to hope, and nothing tu fear, from the race of people capable of the atrocities of Sonder- burg and Jutland. We were deserted by Austria and Prussia once before, and now we have had proved the ** huge ingratitude "’ which has been suspected in England as the tuling motive in German policy. In the Conference, the Eno:lish Plenipotentiaries made the reasonable proposal to submit the exact line of demarcation in Schleswig to the arbitrawent of a foreign Power. The Kings of Holland and Italy could have easily deter- mined the wail of partition between tle Ger- mans and the Danes, but the German Pleni potentiaries would not agree to a proposal su reasonable, because it seemed to them to es- tablish a law which the German mind is not now in the mood to observe. Prussia and Austria coolly proposed, indeed, that the line of separation might be arbitrated, but that they should reserve tu themselves the power to set the award aside if it did not meet the views of Germ oy. Audacity and selfishness could noé go further, for the object of this suggestion was to waste the summer, during which only the Danish fleet can effectually blockade the Baltic ports, in order that Prussia in the winter may overrun and con- Tt tne whole of the Duchies and also utland, which she covets 80 much.

The Danes were not so easily caught, and therefore they refrained from dving more in the Conference than giving a simple assent to the —, of a territorial concession. They declined to assent to an arbitration until their antagonists promised to bind themselves by the award. It is true that next week Prussia will overrun the whole of Jutland, but then the Baltic ports will be blockaded, and this is just the season when Prussia will feel the effect of the biockade most acutely. The advantages of the posi- tion are decidedly with the Danes, for if Jutland is now nearly, and really whoily lost, the German Ports are open. Next week the German ports will be closed, and it depends upon the neutral powers what course events must take. England is bound by the treaty of 1852, and equally bound by all her acts, despatches, and the declarations of her Government to go, not to the aid of Den- mark, but in her own vindication as a Great Power. Unless treaties are to be reduced to the value of the paper on which they are written, the Treaty of 1852 must be upheld as between ourselves and Prussia and Aus- tria, or else we must hold ourselves released from all our obligations with these Powers. But in @ case like this, the boldest course may be the best. Earl Grey months ago suggested the appearance of the British fleet. with a due proportion of our army ,at Venice. If Austria is suv anxious to give liberty to Schleswig-Holsteiners, she surely cannot ob- ject to England doing the sume for Venetians. A shot fired in the Adriatic would light the meeting of the members of the Conference to sign the protucols ; but there is no proposal now before the Conference, nor has any sub- ject been referred. Virtually, the Confer- ence only meets again formally to recurd its failure.

A telegram from Copenhagen states that Englaad had asked the Danish Government whether the port of Korsoer on the Great Beit could, in case uf necessity, supply pro- visivns for twelve British vessel of war.

IMPORTANT DECLAKATLION BY ENGLAND. Bertin, June 25.—The semi-oflicial Pro- vinzial Correspondenz of to-day publishes an article headed ** War or Peace,’’ which con- cludes thus :—** If the proposals of England in reference to the line of demarcation were at all acceptable, the Emperor of the French flame of revolution, and if Denmark is des- iled, Hungary and Italy would gain. A kade of the German ports, at least, is the necessary measure to be first taken by our Government. They have endured much,and

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| Neweastle received this suggestion untavour- jably. The proposal of a regalar invasion to be wade upon that oetion, his Grace observ- ed in reply, ** and of & waren upon their ca- pital, is tuo serious to admit of any encou- ragement.’? Subsequéntly, however, a more favourable view appedrs to have been taken by the home authorities for the proposed ex- pedition, fur we find Sir. F. Rogers, in the absence and by authority of the Secretary of State, informing the Governor that his re- quest will be complied with ; and ** it is hop- ed that should the King of Ashantee take the initiative a severe punishment will be in- flicted upon him.”? Thus bad began, and worse was to follow. ‘Tbe origin of all this trouble is traced to the escape of two of the King of Ashantee’s subjects, who, it was al- leged, had stulen some gold belonging to the King. They had taken refuge among the tribe called Fantees, who occupy some por- tion of the territory between the B itish set- tlement and the frontier of Ashantee proper. The Fantees, in reply to the King’s demand for the extradition of the culprits, behead- ed the Royal messenger. Without condes-

the matter short at once. His Majesty was exasperated by this treatment of his envoy ; and his anger was not diminished by the ex- ecutioners thereupon claiming the protection of their British allies. Forthwith the terri- tory of the Pantees was invaded, and some of their boats and yillages were burned. A sad misfortune and grievance, bet not one requiring a demonstration of British power to redress. The Fantee people ought not to have struck off the Ashantee herald’s head

He had come upon a mission of peace. All that he wanted was the delivery of the

thieves who had stolen his master’s gold. and the barbarian potentate, who 1s given to understand that be must bow down to the te rror of civilization, may reasonably wonder why those laws do not respect his own sub- jects’ necks. If he had obtained the fugi- tives he would have taken their lives no doubt ; and no blame can be attached for the protection given them ; but there the matter might have rested. ‘The Governor obtained a conditional authority to make war upon Ashanvee, and so began the tale of misery which the ** Gladiator’? has been sent to make an end of.

Through the habit of delay which seems always to characterise the Government de- partmental proceedings, the troops trom the West Indies that were to enable Governor Pine to ‘strike a blow’’ at the Afrivan King, arrived to late for the season: the rains had ret in, and there was neeessarily a long period of inactivity. The reinforce- ments arrived at Cape Cuast when the weather was extremely severe, every plain having be- come a swamp, and every jungle exhaiing pestilence and death. The result is thus briefly described :—** They could not be pro- vided with even the forlorn accomodation maintained in the Castle for its ordinary gar- rison. The place had only shelter and water for its litte complement of troops, and the new arrivals had to camp out uader canvas, aod do as they could for food. Presently some were marched about 100 miles into the interior. On this duty 400 men and 19 officers were despatched, and from this ad- vanced guard the report sovn returned that 15 officers and 200 mem were dead or ill, and that of the remainder not more than 80 had strength enough to carry their muskets.”’ The human enemy did not appear to disturb them. The King and his warriors amused themselves with the jawbones of enemies slain in battle, with which it is their plea- sure to decurate themselves, as civilised war- riors are decorated with stars and garters. Swamp fever they knew wouid do their busi- ness upon the new enemies. King Fever is more potent than the King of Ashantee. So, life atter lite passed away in the pestilent jungle and steaming mad. On the very edge of the coast, another margin of the sea shore,’’ it is represented as being ** just pos- sible, though by no means easy, to preserve Europeans alive, but the least advance into the interior, or the slightest exposure to the atmosphere means death. In thie part of Atrica even the African negro from the West Indies cannot live, but sickeus on arriving like the white man, and with not much

cending to negotiation or argument they cut)

you ;” to which he replied, “ Never mind me, 1

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their own position, in order to ac-|live, and it is necessary therefore to kill

them when imported, and salt the meat fur consumption, Fresh water is unknown at Cape Coast, and the element must be distil- led for use.’? Onthe 28d of May, after the arrival of the news of what bad transpired, Mr. Cardwell, the new Colonial Secretary, sent out orders for the removal of the Queen’s forces as rapidly as possible to healthier quarters on the Coast; and the conditional permission given by the Duke of Newcastle to Governor Pine, to “strike a blow’’ within the territory of Ashantee, was withdrawn. But permission should have been withheld at first. It is enough for the British Colo- nial authorities to protect their own. The troubles and squabbles of African princes and potentates may be left to the settlement of these sable princes themselves, without our interference on any accuunt or from any consideration whatever. It must be painfal, we know, to observe a traffic in slaves car- ried on before our eyes ; but a worse cala- mity than slayery 1s the useless sacrifice of so many good lives of the Queen's subjects as have been lost in the deadly swamps of Ash- antee in this ill conceived expedition.—Lon- don News of the World.

THE NAVAL ACTION BETWEEN THE ALABAMA AND KEARSAGE. (From the London Times’ Correspondent )

SouTHAMPTON, Monday, June 20.--The Eng- lish steaun yacht Deerhound, arrived bere last night and landed Capt. Semmes (commander of the late Contederate steaner Alabama), 13 officers and 26 men, whom she vescved from drowning after the action off Cherbourg, yesterday, which resulted in the destruction of the world renowned Alabaina.

The Deerhound ia a yacht of 190 tons and 70 horse power, and her owner is a member of the Koyal Yacht Squadron at Cowes, and of the Royal Mersey Yacht Club. By a somewhat singular coincidence she was built by Messrs. Laird & Son, of Birkenhead, Ou arriving at Cherburg at 10 o’cluck on Saturday night, vy railway from Caen, Mr. Laneaster, the owner, was informed by the captain of his yacht, which was lying in the harbor awaiting hie arrival, that it was reported that the Alabama and Kearsage were going out to fight each other in the morning. Mr. Laneaster at once determined to yo out in the morning and ace the combat.

The Alabama left Cherbourg harbor alfout 10 o'clock on Sunday morning, and the Kearsage was then several miles out to seaward, with her sieam up ready for actioa. The French plated ship of war Courenne followed the Alabama out of harbor and stopped when the vessels were a league off the cvast, her object being tu see that there was no violation of the law of nations by any fight taking place within the legal distance from land. The combat took place about nine miles from Cherbourg, and as there are some slight differences (as uight naturally be expected under the etrcumstances) in relation to the period over which it lasted, and other matters, it may be well here to reproduce from Mr. Laneaster’s letter in the Times of this morbing the subjoined extract from the log kept on board the Deer- hound :—

“ Sunday, June 10, 9 a m.—Got up steam and proceeded out of Cherbourg harbor, 10 30—Ob- served the Alabama steaming out of the harbor tuwards the Federal steamer Kearsage. 11 10 —the Alabama commenced firing with her star- board battery, the distance between the contend- ing vessels being about one mile. The Kearsage immediately replied with her starboard guns; a very sharp, spirited firmmg was then kept up, shot sometimes being varied by shells. In mancuvr- ing both vessels made seven complete circles at a distance of from a quarter to halfamile. At 12 a slight intermission was observed in the Ala- bawa’s firing, the Alabama making head sail, and shaping ber course tur the land, distant about uine miles. At 12 30 observed the Alabama to be disabled and in a sinking state. We im- mediately made towards her, and on passing the Kearsage were requested to assist in saving the Alabama’s crew. At 22 50, when within a distance of 200 yards, the Alabama sank. We then lowered our two beats, aud, with the as- sistance of the Alabaiwa’s whale boat and dingy, succeeded in saving about 40° men, including Captain Semmes and 13 officers. Atl p.m. we steered for Southampton.”

One of the officers of the Alabama names the same hour—viz, 11 10, as the commencement of the action, and 1240 as the period of its cessation, waking its duration an hour and a halt; while the time observed on board the Deerhonnd, whieh

necessarily existed on board the Alabama, linuted the action to an hour, the last shot betng tired at 12.10. The distance between the two contending vessels when the Alabama opeved fire was esti- mated on board the Deerhound at about a mile. while the Alabama’s officer tells me that she was a wile and a half away from the Kearsage when she fired the first shot. Be this as it may, If os certain that the Alabama commenced the firing. aud as it is kuown that her guns were pointed ata range of 2,000 yards, and that the secoud shot she fired, in about half a minute after the first, went right into the Kearsage, that may be taken aa the real distance between the slips. The firing became general from both vessels at the distance of a little under a mile, and was well sustained on both sides, Mr. Laneaster’s impression being that at uo time during the action were they less than a quarter of a mile from each other Sevvn complete circles were made in the period over which the fight lasted. It was estimated on board the Deerhound that the Alabama fired in all about 150 rounds, some single guns, and some in broadsides of three or four, aud the Kearsage about 100, the majority of which were IL inch shells. The Alabama’s were principally Blakeley’s pivet guns. In the early part of the action the relative tiring was about three from the Alabama to one from the Kearsage, but as it progressed the latter gained the advantege, |-aving apparent- ly a mech greater power of steam. She appeared to have an advantage over the Alabama of about three knots an hour, aud steam was seen rashing out of her blowpipe all through the action, while the Alabama seemed to have very little steam on At length the Alabama’s rudder was disabled by one of her opponent’s heavy shells, and they huisted sails; but it was seen reported to Capi. Semmes by one of his officers that his ship was sinking. With great bravery the guns were kept ported til the muzzles were actually under wa er, and the last shot trom the doomed ship was fired as she was settling down. When her stern was completely undet water, Capt. Semmes gave orders for the men to save themselves as best they could, and every one jumped into the sea and swam to the boats which had put off to their rescue. ‘Those of them who were wounded | were ordered by Capt. Semmes to be placed in| the Alabanne’s beats and taken on beard the Kearsage, which was as far as possible obeyed. Capt. Semmes and those above-imeationed