HASZARD’S Gszgrrn. FEBRUARY 16.

NEWS BY THE CANADA

A U BTIA L l A . By the overland mail we have received ad- vices bai Elbourae to die l2th of November, and Sydney to the 8th, being one ontli l-aw advices than those brought by the Marco Polo. The following is an exkact from the SI/4115?] Ems of November 8 :-- _ general condition of these colonies ‘re- lis mrly uuslte . e specific condition ofa locality is affected by tlii-, qiiiility and niiiii- borl of its arrivals and departures. 'l‘lic ‘au- thentica accounts of \'ictoria_, and rheu- larly of Melbourne, are most distress ng,_aiid they are confirmed by all the private tI‘sl.lIll0- IIu'we receive. The Government is destitute ur and wisdom. The arrivals are _ too rapi and too numerous to he suddenly pi-uvnlml with homes and employment. 'l‘ln- golden llll'll has excited eupidity to a pitch so extreme. that there is the utmost insecurity both ol _-rson and . The more respectable i v rare and ealers are swamped by the vast crow s of disreputable adventurers who have no stake in the colon ,no interest in its welfare, no concern with it ‘ml success, nor any moral principle to beep them from the most atrocious outrages. But the general state is best indicated by the ' es of high ices in every

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universal _ . _ . branch, showing that neither po itical economy

'nor moral discretion _at resent obtains, in any appreciable degree, in e mass of the pie co ected in that colony to profit by the go d ex- citement. .

The case, although very fiI.0ClI0l'Wl.lG than as it should be, is still exceedingly different In New South Wales. What it might. have been, had we been inundated with so sudden and so reckless a throng as that which has for ii time inundated Victoria, it is hard to say. The mo- ney spent in drunkenness is enormous. The largest wages create the worst habits. Men were far more steady and prosperous generally at lnlf their present wages than they are now.

The wealth aoqpirod at every handicraft does not so much fill c urches and reading-rooms as

blic houses. Little in int 0 morals hrs yet been derived from the immigration that is going on. The ship generally proves a bad place or moral traiiiing,_and on arrivin , the inbtod minds of the immigrants are rare y ca- pable of settling down to the sober duties of in-

ustrious and orderly life. Such is c_crtai_nly the general state of the cpse, albeit distinguish- ed by honorable exceptions. The gold fe\'0l' must be allayed, or the number ofopersons not aficted by it must be largely increa =.b°fi1|'° the ordinary course of industry will oflsr so much the stronger inducements as they furnish the t means of securing a good moral and reli- gious state of mind. . _

The religious denominations are not wanting in efiirt to keep ce with the extension of our

ld fields. Various partjes are exerting them- selves to suppl religious instruction at the ma- nifold spots w ere gold _has called together any a reoiable number of di rs. The remark the

o,however, is, that itis little more than fu - filling a profitless duty. The nature of the em- ployment and the Sunday habits it engenders, to tlier with the reckless and vagrant ractice o nearly all gold seekers, render fixe. ness of religious labours and ordinances impossible. It is scattering truth b the way side, and only a fiw grains here an there can be . riiiinate. There is a remarkable _difl’ei_'en_ce gtween New South Wales and Victoria in respect to the gold ii_elds,. and their direct moral influence. In Victoria, the (ii n M9 ed to two or three singular pr uctive lo- calities, which therefore sttract_and concentrate an immense concourse.’ There is G K"°‘°°" f3‘ oility n) condense religious efiirt at such places, aecoiapuied, however, by the disadvantage that the hr the mass at such places, more lawless, the more reckless of all reli ious res- cuing, the more marked by whatever is vile and villanous. On the contrary, In “lh Wales the gold is distributed into so many por- tions, and so widely scattered, that at no one place a very large pop_ulaticn assembles. The iiculty is corrsspon iagly grant in 3“ Pl)’ "9' - - ,, uwungto tlminall; and et_t ere is this advantage, that vice has a loss orcible con- densation, and, therefore,_ is not so able to ren- der nutgator the instructions of sealolll mell-

On e w ole, it is entirely to the future we

look for the moral advantages of the gold disco- . The assuredly have uot_yet 50!“ l‘°_b° ‘sod. t is in no respect owms W ''l“’'_‘’ 51"’ oovories, that the voluntary support of religion» iunidedb the state, is now gainin the“ _ o inion o a vcry large number of co oiliqis ,“pi. e uding some in_the highest quarters. o o .1: support of religion than a voluntary one coll ed as a moral _tsst at A 7000!!‘ 130' duo in council for an increase,out of the revenue. to cler en's salaries was thrown Olt WI sontem t, and very just ar cuts were em- or its re tion.

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uman sus usnoe. Let the Endlsli pllbllc for the want of this, we srrgtpeylgg ‘v£40s ton for diiur, that b_ is 11,, jgaf, and vegetables are rstatijpld “pt £1; . ' _ pg ,, $3235 high, nuo'ii_ higher than most rsoas on Is *0 P‘-£3 ‘ '’‘’.'”''3' "3 , u. of”, .Mf_bO.d in igh expenditure. The chief cause of this :0 '_|-||l5 0‘, l3b°‘“-, ° ‘dunks. d by Q” prices is limited tive few,t.he dis‘NlVl|l“8° l‘ l’ ' e is indie usable to flu; weflfirgozf 0 T “:33. iifpoi l'.'?a«i'°¢l’-'ai who in- , it should not be «played ls diqsjpg ‘on, no in pplyiag the neossssriss o commerce. The Na Sputh Wales gpld ficldsAIi:°.?l:- W '0 || fl. plug lie ds on has taken place "on nest 'sxpr:rimIexn: have shown that tlid tion has bewi unfounded. _ New 100!-

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‘Rig: 251:‘? 2. i ‘i.-ii ilgi‘

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it were better that the matter should be revoked at once,and that we should fall back on riva_te ships. The Sydney will be at least l00 ys in reaching us, come when she may, and the Aus- halian was 95. Surely are

progress. We are looki_ug with great ty for the o ning of other lines, more sspec ly that by it is now denionstra ly cer- tain that notliin short of this will do for New South Wales. here is likely to_bsa great hek of ooastin steamers in our co l tralc; and this want is the more severely felt on account of the state of our roads. and is another result of the want of labour.

Riioisvusim Lu-rrns or ran Aus-rni.isti_Msii.. The extraordinary number of d&l0 registered letters seed through the London chief post- oliici-, in St. Martin's-le-(iraiid. 0“ "10 dly 0‘ the arrival of the Australian steamer. Host of those letters, undoubtedly, contained l'OllllIhlI- ces; and several of them were so weighty, that

to the sum of2i's. per letter, the single rats being ls. onl , The mail itself was the heaviest yet receive in London from that interesting portion of the globe. Tux Fs cu N.ivv.—No less than twent shi

of the line are new building in the Frenc doc -

rds, and for the tar number of them crews lyifive been order . In addition to these there are 18 fri Ins and 15 other vessels of dihrent

classes bui ding, which are to be all propelled with screws.

A CLYDE SIHPBUILDII um 1-in hxitcii Go- VKI.‘\'ll.\'T.—-ll is reported that Napier, the eminent sliipbuilder, recently received an order for six first-class steam-frigates, which he found emanated from the French Government. He at once communicated with the Admiralty, leaving it with them to decide the course he shou take. lie was advised not to execute the order, at the same time bein commissioned wi ‘an order to build six simiEir vessels for the British

‘ovcrnment.

Tun Srruiui Siiir Gun Bai-rsis.—'l‘lie screw steam-ship Great Britain, Capmin Mathews, which sai ed from Liverpool with the mails, lo. for the Cape of Good Ho and Australia,reach- ed Melbourne on the 0th of November last, having made the run from the Cape to Mel- bourne in 2.4; days. The whole voyage hoin Liverpool to Melbourne, including detention oc- cupied 8l days. She was to leave Melbourne on her return voyage the lat of January.

M. Kossuth is, it is understood, about to an early visit to America, where the election of a democratic President has given many o his admirers new inliuence.

The report of the death of Francisco Madiai, at Florence, has been contradicted.

The lar nu t of ld, wei hin 28lbs., found in {glib Aiiifieraliango ldlieldg, an sentto this country in the Austra steamer, has been sent to the Colonial-oflice, and will be presented to her Majesty by his Grace the duke of New- castle, Secretary of Shte for the Colonies.

An English Company have contracted to sup- ly Berlin with water, erect two fountains,and clean the streets. The great niilitar activity in Poland in- creases ever day. be number of soldiers in oland at t is moment is not less than 80,000. The cholera has not disappeared. A negro from the United States, Ipa Aldrige, made his debut at Berlin, on the 14th inshnt, in the character of Othello. he house was crowd- ed, und gave him a brilliant reception.

A lucifer-match manuihcturer, at Mai-sail_les, M. Roche, at whose house a clandestine print- ing-press was lately discovered, been sen- tenccd to six months‘ imprisonment, and a Inc of l0,000f., besides the confiscation of the press.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Duchess of Sutherland to be mistress of the robes, in the room of the Duchess of Athole, re-

signed.

A Tsuopsiiu in run Psciric.—A iusinorisl was granted to Congress a few days ago, asking for a grant of 1,500,000 acres of land, (0.50 lo- cated along the line of s_ telegraph. which the meinorulists propose to build between BI. Louis and San Francisco, by the way'of Salt Lake City. The ineniorislisis propose to give to the Govern- ment in return for the grant, the right for ever, to Irsusuiit, free of charge, c_vsr_ the line, all odi- cial despsichss and communications, with a pre- ference ovei all others.

Bane S-rurrs.—'l‘hs number of barrels of Wheat Flour im ried into this port from the United States an Canada, during_tlis last ear, was lll,3l7 ; nearly all this uantity was sas- disn Flour. As coin s wit the revious year, the importation of l 2 shcwss sr s increase over that of 185]. The quantity of heat ini- ported in 1852, was l80,589 bushels, and in I869. was l70,097 bushels, which shows a slight increase last year. The quantity of Corn cal and liye Flour imported last year, was 1899 _barrsls. being much less than what was imported in IBM.

II will be seen from ihe shove statement of the importation of bread studs, into this port , that with all the agricultural resources of our Pro- vince, we are still in a great iueasurs ndeat upon our neighbours for a supply of the aid’ of liI‘s.—St. John Courier. ,

Non Sco-ris limis-i-uni. Ex_uisIrieiI.—Ise- tings in behalf of the above object. a siiendsd. have io.i,_ been issued by Il- Dssbrissy, Esq.. -i Pinion. Rim John‘ N" Gl-~ cw,TsIsinsgouchs, Wsllscs,Pugwus . Amherst, Guysboro’ and Autigonishs. t ssvsnl Of meetings, the ladies_by their attendance, the interest they felt in the undertaking. A good workingooininitiee was appointed at such some of these committees are slrsldy vig _ y at work, and the rest will inset for bsdusus un- .p¢jisisly.—Libersl ccuinbuuess have been pre- mjgd in the funds, and mspyah vs- lusbls articles will be forws to the Exhibition from the Essllrli potllnll 0‘ “O h°'l|0'--0"

Buicus-r -ro I-us Aussies! MINII1'II--

. J. R. Vho. ' _

Mr. Abbot I.¢_iyr-use. in Amman , was .

iidid Moods ' . at ssplsi aubsnqnsfagogoul gm ‘gentlemen. including Ills mf

y and Sssioii, sat down to dlsssr.

"1; ""' ......""....""‘.';"."‘.';.:°.'.': ......°""' used in . - -s 5.,.i..'.?uygg|s 'llsui's Cobb.”

Dig-.,.,,¢ nus. navel with ilfird velocity: to ,. .|'::K0';l‘u':

in u inowsnt

agpiiiinons toreturlitowofk ioelglitllllllfllt

the postages amounted, in not a few instances, 4 fin

nsslannil cages":-n. Vsdussday,!eh-mryld.lI68.

“ In ,bs. X hr 3: lasslthessdstbouuliiflsiss. bsIbyeosiary's. yrs, God's, sad run-.."—su.p~..

His l‘.xcxu.uIcr run ' Govaasox's

Srlucu, attheopeningofthopreseutliegir lative Session. Wu have not, at present, time to analyse the Speech with which His Excellency opened the iuwtnltgislative Session.‘ We; it 2:: deter- ni rpose “ is us! ' g oppose. (Avert, «cue! the ' ' sexism. _ the present administration. we should, ve likely. feel Ihsposed to ive an unfavorable colouring to some part o it,—-and might even succeed in theattenipt. But we houestl dis- claim any such intention; and, as the is lcutee the purpose of the Govern- ment to forward such measures of relief, as are most udly and most justly called for—- such iqicasurr as, we f I , will receive the syn t y an support 0 s classes and rti in tl:0olon s are very glad to be dble Z say, most sincerely, that we think the speech, as a whole, and e ‘n , ut conservative spirit which pervades it, such as ought to aflord -—nay, such as will a , abundant satisfie- tion to every one in the country, who, regard- less of ‘party objects and mere individual opes of pro t and distinction, to accrue to himself, through the overthrow of the resent Govern- ment, has his truly patriotic heart set upon nothing political, so much as the advancement of the gnersl welfare and common intorests of the people at large.

In our politics we are, we believe, both trul liberal and truly conservative. Our object is not to write a cerhin body of men into, and another set out of, power and ofice. But we desire to see brou t into ractical recognition what we esteem to sound and constitutional principles : and the men, be they who they ma , who, when in power, honestiyand energetically endeavor to meet all social wants of the community and “ to keep flteniachine of public life in decent and ‘ tonanbble' re ir,’ shall always have our support, for he attainment of such objects, to the full extent of our humble abilities.

It is, indeed, true that, amongst the men at present in power and oflce, there are some,wi whose chins to the occupancy of their resent position, we are not satisfied - u t is can aflord us no just reason for opposing and decry- ing those measures of the Government, the wis-

snd necessi of which we filly recognise. Such o sition is factions in the extreme—- most dis onest and hateful. have said, we are mania, as well as liberal, in our politics. So ‘are. But our conservatism is not of the sh till, do-nothing school ; and neither is it such aswill ever induce us to advocate the entering on a retrograde and tions course No; never will our politics identify us with those who would repeal and verse the ons which have been made to the poo le. Our conservatism would embrace peace, 0 r and nnanimi : and yet concede, in time, all the demands 0 the poop e which are founded on justice and reason.

Tht conscrvntilli which claims to recognise a certain number of families, who are to consti- tute an aristocracy or nobility in the Island, is none of ours. With such a smte of thing, this

d was lo enough; but, God a in

it Is now , never to be

. When we look back at that shteof

gs, and contain late it in some of its worst features, our blood ils in our veins, and our indi to such a degree, at the bare tion of it, that we dare not trust ourself

witha ion of our sentiments con- cerning its monstrous inius The rinciples which sustained it, and the exclusiveness by which it was surrounded and defend , are, however, at length,‘ “deed, and buried at a cross-road, in u p of inhmy." They were worthy of their doom : so let theiu . But, whilst we thus remorsclessly,and is lolo,censure and condemn 'nci es and exclusiveness which characterised that happily defunct sys- tem, it is due to several of those men who rank- ed under it, to m tint they were not only emi- nentl well qualided° to discharge the duties of the odces which the filled, but that they did so with a punctua ' '

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which were all alike polcasin to the people, and most deservedly won r them, individually, s ve confidence

teem. Suc sunservutinu as we profess, “ sig- nifies the recognition of the sovereignty of the people and the legitimate aspirations of the unprivileged and oppressed;' whilst, at the same time, there is implied in it " the defence of Constitutional laws, which serve to develops and authenticate the germs of liber .” Our conservutisin is the conservation an perfect rec) 'tion and establishment of the natural ant enable ts, privile s, and liberties of wi us or school of

' less liberal,

pol wil to .

We believe Oolon is ve far from being an vldsd with men o rsa out, real virtue. a pa sin ; and.sniongst such, we think tlisrecau now bebut few, if an ,dil‘er- sncss cfoplnlou. Such men-as we said; short

e s to be found, both in power and out of power. botli amongst the men of the new school and aisonpt the men of the old School;

their unlou—a union which, we trust, will be the result of the next general election-—will tsralns of

b the rty obsiructiveness . and. in Ianlfss the onerftil acquiescence of all in the flillniapsratlcn oftbe riaciples of pressahtlve ble verument, siird

periussieu cond toths soclalanduioral progress 0 an iuieollig

t . 'uTh:.qoii,e‘:tioiIstobe dlscuusdbytheln Ila- ,iathe t sessloa,will,iievertheess,

to eases oftlse lidal annogmveina zessounhy; butleyrlreaotofs tedio- severlieliaks whlehblad that

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I operation; and that the Acts “ for raising a Revenue”

d One-ninth Bil would do actually desd.

, . regularly issued, in a correct and beautiful style of typography, by the eminent publishers, Lao- smiii Sun‘-r & Co.. 79. Fulton-street, New York. from their establishment, we have to acknow- tlte receipt of the t number of Its ooutenh are of a very iiitorestlpg character, psrticulsrl an article on Slavery (A: Slave Power in the rifled &ale-s of America, a Review of tlic and l'l'rsts'ng.i of tlic late Thomas Moore, and II litlcal article on the Defeat of the late Tory tfiildndlffdfivil.

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Anniixss or run Assxiiiinv is Asswxii 10 His Ixcs'.i.i.x.vcv‘s Srascii.—'l‘hc Address, iis usual is, with one exception, is more echo to the s sch; we, therefore, think it needless to pub ish it. The exception con ' e sembly’s dis- sent from His Exollency’s views concerning the scale of olcial salaries. His Excellency thinks that scale too low; but the Assembly reply— "Though the salaries of the public servants may appear small, in comparison with the amounts paid to olhcers performin similar services in the other Dependencies of t e Crown, yet we do not conceive that the circumstances of the Colony, with a due regard to economy, warrant any increace of those salaries.”

HOUSE 01-‘ ASSEMBLY. Fiunar, I-‘eb. ll.

Michael Csnipion, Esq., elecied to represent the First District of Kin ‘a County, in the room of Donald Beston, l“aq.. took I oaths and his seat.

The Hon. Mr. WI-IELAN, from the Committee on Expiring Laws, reported _

‘hat the Act, I0 Vic.. cup. 9. “ fortlie encourage- ment ofEducsI'ion," will expire on the 8d April next; or, if the Act, 15 Vic., cap. 18, being the Free Edu- cation Act, shall go into operation before Iliat day, then so soon as the Act, lb Vic., cup. 8, shall go into

will severally expire on the lat May.

The drull of an Address, in answer to His Excel- lency the Lient. Governor's Speech to both Houses, at the o ning of the present Session, was presented to the ouse by Mr. CLARK, and ordered to be coni- mitted to a Committee of the whole House to-morrow. —Adjosrned.

Ss-ruunsir. Feb. 12.

Mr. Srlslln laid fore the House the Iinpost and Lilghi lluiy Accounts for ihe District of Colville Buy. or the t year. Also, an Account of ihe Moneys expo edunderilie superiniendence of the Commissioners for Prison Discipline for Queen's County. durin the past yeiir.—'l‘he former were referred to iheTIoinniitIes appointed to examine and report on the Public Accounts, and the latter laid on the Isble. snnnuss Ill siuwau -ro nu: nixur. covari-

r«oii’s IPIICI-I.

The House resolved itself inio s Comniiiies of the whole, to take into consideration the draft Address reported from Ihe S eial Committee, replying to ilie Speech of His Exec lency the Lieut. Governor. to bolh Houses, at the opening of the present Sessien—Mr. Yeo in the Chair.

0 3d arsgra , in re I In His Exce|lency’s remarks on ihe On:-hninih gill, in the your 1851, but which has not yet received ller MsjesIy's confirmation, ecu led with the subject of ii uniform Currency for the riiisli North American Provinces, hc' r n —

r. Moorsar said, he did not fully agree with what was slated b His Excellency with reference to the One-ninth ill. He was not willing Io give His Exsellsucy credit for the cause he had ursued with reference to that matter; but he wish to ask the members of the Government, if an answer had been received the A rose of last ion, pi-s - ing that instrusiicus m‘ In Irsnsuftsd to I e Lieut. Governor, signifying Her Majesty's willing- ness to sanction a Bill to compel the registration 0 the original Grunts or Patents of Lots or Townships of Land in this Island. Judging from the tenor of the loyal Instructions, he considered the One-ninth Bill already virtually dsaid—two yssrs having nearly elapsed since it was passed by the Legislature of this Island.