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are filled with ladies who wear their old dresses, bat dv not talk through their noses, | end whose veices sound “low and sweet.’

do not beleive there is one who would not ivel insulted by a propossi co exchange places with Mrs. President Lincoln, albeit arraved in all her diamonds and paraphernaiia. ‘They ere the same lacdios who for three years

olin it should not have been, and in the presence

The proclamation of Jefferson Davis, the of those whose little Judgment could not de- energetue measures of the Southern Congress, ter them from circulating the foul and de- and the activity in all the Confederate armies, | grading report. A slander is soon propagated show that the Spring eampaign will be the @nd the smallest thing derogatory to a wo- most important of the war. A sweeping | man’s character will fly on the wings of the

| subjoined, written to his wile, immediately before |

ia F firmed, and in full operation betore now. his death, by Colonel Stanislao Bechi, a Florentine |

—_ * * That you, Sir, gave it your. most determined

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len tat Of fire. the weary hour of the invalid? What ralist like him has held up the bj

FO LE TITY IT " J PERT Te * rae : ee. ee ee ee on i very Sight years’ shi yer 7 Proprietors were bitterly opposed to ‘ness omong thousands of 4} : TOUCHING LETTER. Fight years’ purchase of average re- That the ” of thoy ruined and ber heart broken by a lie, mana-! A TOUCHING L : : wil t 0 0 ©) the confirmation of the Award, I presuwe none sides? What physician ik faetured by some villain, and Fehthed where! We translate from L’£co ditalia the lette | ceipts, LO... .---------+-+----- 4 will now deny, otherwise it would have been con- : } wi

past have ministered at the hospitals upon the wounded or dying soldier, and brought emtort by their thougitial care even to the bed of death. — Corr spondence of London Telegraph.

conscription bas already e»mmenced in South | Wind, and magnify as it circulates until its Carolina, Georgia, Alabaaa, and Mississippi, | monstrous weight crushes the poor victim. and will soon be enforced in North Caroiima | Respect the name of a woman, tur your mo- and Virginia, which places in the army every ther and sisters are women; and as you

“ When you receive this letter your unhappy Lao will have Ceased to live, for he will have been shot by the Russians. 1 bless you, together with my beloved children. Death inspires ine with no fear ; I weep only that I die ina oreign land, far trom

. | Four years’ back rent due previous to

vont. an 6, . cvew. ..-+ bance £40 6 O

That you cau aad do rejoice because no great good has yet been achieved in behalf of the tenants by the Delegation, itis only necessary to read your

jmale between the ages of sixteen and fifty- on ; re ‘five capable of military service. Ia the first _ The coal discovered near the Annagance jour States the State authorities are co-ope- Station (European and North American ratiag with the Richmond officials in advance Railway), bas been pronounced “a good of the final action of the Cénfederate Con- heuse coal’’ by those who have burned it. grees. In North Carolina the conscription J. B. Key, Fsq., 20 Negli#h mining Begi- jas pot commenced, and will not be until the neer and mineral surveyor, has examined the existing difficulties between the State and Con-

ground, und declares his opinion that the faderare governments are amicably adjusted ; mines will be prodavtrve. The Breast | strong efforts to that end are now being in- thickness of the veins of coal yet reached, is

augurated ; while in Virginia the operation about thirty inches ; but Mr. Key says :— of raising new levies will not be commenced ** The seams, at present view, being thin, i8| angi) it is ascertained how many fighting by no means a guide, as they have been found | males are left, the object being not to enforce in coal mines co swell from mere noth:ng, the conscription so sweepingly within her t) sixty-five feet in thickness ; and there is boundaries, in consideration of the large le- every reasen to suppose that similar results| vies she has already devoted to the war, and will be found in the developement of this |»). sucrifices she hae made to che cause.

Pe gas prodecing qualities have This conseription, though exhaustive to the wen wsted, and it was found w yield eight)

: very last, is not as unpopular with those tuoasaed four hurdred cubic feet per ton. | wim it affects, as represented by the North

‘Lais is said to be @ greater yreld than that While a spirit of dissatisfaction is often dis, of any other cual ia Now Brunswick except | played, the mass come up, as a general rule- the Albertine. }most willingly.—The patriotic men of the

| would have their fair name untarnished, and

those I love, and unable to embrace them for the

TBDE .- 2200 -oeorecercceerecs--- 20 0 0) ions during the last mouth to be pertectly £60 0 0 satisfied af.

their lives unembittered by the slanderer’s ‘biting tongue, heed the ill that your words may bring upon the moutver, the sisters, or

lust time. | pr. squire freeiold of * You are now a widow ; buat I would counsel you | Being the amount required for the freei

hot to marry again, unless you should consider it} 100 acres with four years’ rent due,

ithe wife, of sume fellow creature.”’ necessury for the interests of our children - to do. | IL. | . nas one And my littl ones now are orphans, and by my | Sureerincs at Sea.—The barque Alma, | fault! “May God have merey oo my soul! I forgive Fight years’ parc hase of res rved : Halifi ed by Jobn | MY cuemies with all my heart. eS pees Sam ek BuRe sea ee £40 0 0 | Burchell, master, of Halifux,own by Jubn | My Giulietta, my Guido, my dear Elisa, I shall

| Lithgow, Esq., and for the safety of which /neversee youagain! Adieu! adieu! Embrace for | Eight years’ baek reut due previous to serious fears were entertained, was spoken | me Fanny, Mamma, Arthur, Massimo, and Fanny's | 1858, and for which no payment

Jan. 12, in lat 44 N, lon 45 W, with loss of | children. Bid farewell to your father and all any ad 000 j we ” 7 7 Was Wlade, ..---- -- 20-4 eee eee eee wain-top-gallant-mast, boats, *bulwarks, | nde. : ea

: : to hadi * Ldie for having stood firm at my post, when all, galley, &e., and sails split, AV ILS been or nearly all, the other leaders lad fled to foreign

. : : oo ad es oe Pp dae k struck by a a three days previous t conpieria x, bate nen say elon septelnnts ) |The is the only amount which, the Duke aye, a being fallen in with ; she was short of pro-| Poland not abandon my family in its v! 3 j visions, and was supplied. The “LT send you a lock of my bair, damp with the tenant should be required to pay for the freehold , iv 1 for Lalif | d jee ee ote eee on ore oe Soe f his 100 acres when his rent was allowed to go from Liverpool for Hal aX, Galt la as and jay ring, andthe locket with your hair. Tbequeath | Of 21s C ' ' has now been out about &5 days. The sur- | these as an inheritance to my dear Guido, together | in arrears for eight years previous to 1552. Now, vivors of crew of the barque Hiiza Ann, of | wines desamsions.; are A London, from 5t.John’s, Nad., for Plymouth, |“! bave no wore than three hours to hve. Vow” : G. Bi timber laden, samen nineenedl oe the j rage, my beloved Ginlietta, we shall meet again in | just published, between the Delegates aud the

| Heaven! Pray for my soul! My lust thoughts are |“, 4 ey : : ee wreck of that vessel by the steamship Edin-| upon God, and upou you who I bless. May the Colonial Office, (and it must be admitted that the

burgh, after being exposed to the elements) blessing of one at the point of death bring you | whuie Goverament of this Island are fully respon-

thirteen days, during which ten of the | happiness. ys ed | * Farewell, farewell!

| 7 Alma is}

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sible for all that emanated from their Delegates |

| That ter some time past you have been clad | with the cast off mantle of the venerable “ apostle |ot Esecheat,” and have, with cousiderable ability, j advocated the dvctrine that poor old Cuoper las | almost ridden to death during the last 30 or 40 years, your editorials for the last two months abundantly testify.

That when, on the Government Benches, some

then with severe coutempt, is aisy become mat- ter of history.

Now, Sir, J think it is not fair that I should be ‘uunted or misrepresented because my bepes, wishes and earnest expectations in behalf of the tepantry have not as yet been realized, while you yourself have been siding with their opponents, and are now inconsistently advocating what you before ridiculed. | Should you, at the coming meeting of the Le- | gislature, propound some teasible scheme calcu- ‘lated te couler more benefit upon the Tenantry | than anything that shall be brought forward by

lithe Goverument; and at the same tine show

good reusons for believing that if adopted by tue

ecnelineanes ell: tat nil Necrors.— 50th feel the urgency of the crisis, and are | vriginal number had died from exhaustion.

Legislature it will receive the sanction of Her

in the Polish Naticnal army. He wae takeu Being the amount which a tenant owing no beck opposition in the Legislature and out, and there- hm lh se soas py dt oewutifully the | peisouer by the Russians in one of the many ¢n-' vont would be required to pay for his freehold. | by took sides with the Proprietors against the | . ie b we 7 fine, whe has gagements, and shot. His wife, or widow rather, Il | tenants, and against members of the Liberal as | ™OTe ; e to teach men to love |i

is an Italian: i ; é well as the Covservative side of the House ot and t> hate intolerance ? Amongst a)j - “My Poor Gitiictra— Eight years’ purchase of reserved Assembly, is now avatter of history. improvements, inventions, and q

*-works of brick, mortar and iron flo a, muslin, damasked aik, and tenpenny Baile | manulactured by steam,—statues hewn is, tachinery—ships impelled agaist wing tide by fire—men walking on the bottom the sea, and women flying in the ceomme inventions of Skakespeare are still wonderful.” Ail honor w the Watts, 4a" wrights, Fultons, Rennies, Telf others who have bestowed upon us the read dreds of the Tr realities of existence, bey the

it required the mightier mind of Shakespear,

7,8 and 9 years since you used te treat the doe-| to feed the unagination, to create for us trines you bow advocate and the parties espousing gentle, coufiding Desdemona, the

ate Cordelia, and the loving Juliet, beg a hundred other characters whom we ta welcome and always meet with delight ang admiration. me

It is proper, then, that Prince Ed ‘ land cbpald, ta some suitarie way, ou to the memory of Shakespeare, The only thing of which this Colony can boast in ity high and noble effurts to promote amongst all classes. These efforts some day will make this Colony distinguished jy the world. Let no one sneer at this : our Dig trict schools are sending out iy youths, and who wili deny that

A letter from Cairo says :—At Island Num- bor Ten there are about eight hundred con- trabands whe were sent there last Summer to be educated to the level of waite people.

| determined to stand by the Coniederate Go- - _--- ~ : }all my other relations. : vernment to the very end. Such is the be-| Prips Resukep.—Those very stiffnecked| * Wloclaweek, }ith December, 1863, lief ot a writer in a Northern paper, who | sweils, the Austrian nobility, (says the Lilus- * Ata quarter before seven in the morning.

* Thy husbaud o2 the verge of death,

‘evidently possesses some superior means of trated Limes), have recently received a heavy | “ Been.”

| kisses to you, my Giulietta, to my Little enes, and to | during the negotiations,) we find the following | statement relative to the couditioo of the tenauts (on Lots 63 and 64—(Murray Harbour):—* On Sir Samuel Cunard’s towuships 63 and 64 there

Majesty, | pledge myself te support it.

in conclusion, Siu, L trust you will not content yourself with finding fault with every action vf | the Goverument, but honestly step terward and

not send outa poet, a phil.sopher, an atte a statesman, or a hero tiat will make thy Island fa:ous amongst the sons of men ? cannot celebrate the Tri-centenary of speare too grandiy. It would, while boner.

gaining accurate information of matters in| rap upon their noble knuckles from no less a

are 173 tenants holding 11,010 acres, and they

propound someth ng betier,—you will thereby get

These have suffered terribly within the past we k, ten having frozen to death in one nizht, and about forty are expected to die. Chaplain Thomas has charge of these poor wretches, and has beer, so busy in delivering abolition harangues to them and telling them how they are tu be as good as white people, that they have had no time to gather wood for the winter. When Cylonel Shaw went down to the island, a duy or two ago, to ex-

amine into matcers, be found the negroes heddied tegether in miverable shanties, with-

the South. | It is expected that very considerably over one hundred thousand new recruits will be added to the Southern armies, by the energe- tic measures of the War Department. One hundred and twenty-five thousand will make ‘the total forces of the rebellion on this side the Mississippi an aggregate of two hundred tand seventy-live thousand troops-——an extra. ordinary vamber under the circumstances ;

but the following estimate of troops in the

field at this time will show it is not exagger-

| personage than the Emperor Francis Joseph. |

| Atone of the court balis a young offiver oi | pathetic.

jartillery, of — birth, asked wa ludy of |

| high rank to dance with him.

blue blood flushed into her face as she refused | pub.ic lecturers in America!—N. Y. Albion.

/with marked disdain. Poor young officer! | For a moment he must have felt every inch a|

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| to bear.

je.me up aud said, ** Captain, my mother)

; | customers. The baronet redeemed this valuabl |wishes to dance with you !’’ and a minute | “U* Ours cbse re :

In the Gae compositions of fine writers we | remember nothing more exquisitely simple and

All the la ly’s | Bechi, tind their glib-tongued apologists among |

Tue OriGinaL MaGna Cuartra.—Sir Robert democrat ; the contempt of a woman is hard | Cotton, bappening te call at bis tailor’s, discovered The Emperor, who bad seen the in-| that the mau held in bis haad the ideutical Magna Mt sult offered to s guest and his anitorm, | Charta, with all its seals and appeudages, which | have purchased the freehold of them, according to | he was just going te cut inte measures for his | the Duke of Newcastle’s plan, for £45 each, and Sir :-—

: -h more credit tor sincerity. are indebled in arrears £5,451 10., which allow- ee er .

} and in every year since, would leave the arrears | your next paper, upwards of seven shillings an acre, supposing ever) tenant to be alike indebted.”

Now supposing these tenants had their farms | at #5 the 100 acres, being Is. an acre, they could

1 remain, Sir, Yours respectfully, GEORGE SEER.

Hon. F. Wurray. Charluttetown, 3d March, 1864. aiatiall iia sitii teal

To Tue Epiror of tHe EXAMINER.

the very serious discoutent by which, I under-

‘}rusting that you will conceive it due te me Yet the ruffians, who relentlessly hunt | ing the annual rent to have been paid in 1860,| that those few remarks should be published in }to death thousands of such men as this Colonel |

‘The thorough hollow-heartedness and hardem d

ing the Bard of Avon, reflect honor upon ourselves. It would make many i about the man, and induce them to and study his writings, and it has been truly said that & knowledge of the works of Shakespeare comprises a fair education, Th celebration of the event would give 4p imp. tus to the spread amongst us tor the love of l:teratore.

For the above reasons and others whiek j might enumerate, | think the G should take the management of the Shak

eat a suck of wood to Keep them warm, and

ation, provided the ultimate results of the | after the gunner was clasping the hand, and | the thermometer indicating a temperature shige ; , B me

conseription Gre correct. General Lee has| perhaps the waist, of her Imperial Hizhoess |

curiosity at the price of old parchment, and thus | ; sii ty eee recovered what was supposed to be irretrievably | stand, they are now agitated would be unknown, lost. It is now preserved in the British Museum. But to convince them that the Goveroufent had

| deceptions ot the Tory varty to the interests of | the tenantry and these of the Colony generally,

sperean Celebration in this Colony, so *

ol from ten to fifteen degrees below zero. Tiese comtrabands have been leading an idle life since the vecupancy of the island, at

muniememith, Gis o eegameet: ent eoalé |" thousand seattered throughout the State. q ’ A ° a 4 * . . . Fe *I 77 ; . \In North Carolina there are five thousand

' be »>p ( , elves with | ’ rave been made to provide themselve th State troops, anda few thousand Vonfederate.

‘ nd plenty of fuel just as well ; : on houses and plenty ¢ fac ¢ as well ** | Beauregard has fourteen thousand at Char- wot; bat Mr. Tuomas evidently thought that | an Mudie Wheels 0

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. | lestoun and Savannah. ” On t oY, a > delu- | - , i lustlo esnsequene od deemed the delu force of three thousand. All the commands sion of their minds, that they are better then | é . ; : io Mississippi and Alabama amount to fifteen white people, of iar greater consequence.

The vegro troops at Fort Halleck, as well as ousand.

forty-five thousand troops in the army of Northern Virginia, te which must be added

plenty almost within a stone's throw, and emid have gathered it if their professed triends had paid any attention to their wants.

ameunting to about one hundred and fifty | thousand veteran troops. This force is relied

A Desrerapo.—At a small village of Lau- trach, in the T'yrol. a few days since, a man and his wife quarrelied and fought, and on @& neighbour rushing to the assis- tance of the woman he was shot dead by the hushand. Oj two gendarmes who attempted |

(in their d-sperate extremity, and it alone

paign. Ali detached commands of veterans will be sent to the main weakest regiments alone will be held back and filled up with conseripts to guard the

Johnston has thirty thousand in|

' : | Northera (ivorgia, and Longstreet tweuty- | the arabaads on the island, had wood in eight thousand in Kast Tennessee—the whole |

upon as the last resource of the Southerners | will be employed in fighting the spring cam- |

armies, and the |

the Arciduchess Frederick Sophia Dorothea | | Wilhelmina, mother of his luperial M 2

Francis Joseph. ee UT | cial GORRESPONDENCE,

| A Paris correspondent of the Chicago | T Times says that there is in that city at this, 0 time avery lovely, very charming young lady, | who is destined by an extraordinary iate to | /go through the world without being married. She isa dark beauty with magnificent eyes, a glowing cheek, a lively expression, a grace- fal Sgure—in fect altugethor endowed with theirinterest and under their control are employed ceeded, £35 per 100 acres more than they would in making excuses for them — I think we should have to pay under the scheme proposed by the enquire how far their proceedings have been cliar- | Duke of Newcastle, supposing them to be seven acterised by earnestuess and honest mtentions. years in arrears, us Mr. Pope says they are, and supposing the rent reserved in their leases is ove

i | ~ and at the expense of the | TUE TENANTRY OF PRINCE| ants as well as others, to offer the proprietors EDWAKD ISLAND. | sixteen years’ purchase, or £80 for every 100 FeLLow CoLonists,— | acres at te. The Government aud the Delegates having | according to a higher rate of rent. Thus, tor

/every attraction, even to that of having in | her right a fortune of $300,000, and, being an vnly daaghter, with a prospect of inherit- jing millions. The tair lady is now about wenty-six years old, and hus been engaged tu be married twelve times. Hach time the }seemingly fortunate lover has died within a lew weeks ol the time appointed for the nup- tial ceremony. Yet no suspicion of dagger

‘Lo be very plain, I do not hesitate to say that the question appears to me to be further removed | shilling an acre. from settlement thau it was five years ago, and| I notice that the Colonial Seeretary—acting, no that, in proportion te the influeuce which the doubt, with the coneurreace of the Government —

en | are now like the morning light on creation shed- ———— 0 intention to settle them in freehold, two Dele- | ding its rays on the misty minds of their support- gates were sent to England, at the public expense, jes. Now they are beginning to feel the steel

Murray Harbour ten- | teeth of their iron-trappers. The poor, deluded,

untoriuuate creatures, relying on the false pro-

mises of a party whe ever look on the working classes as beings born to Jabour for their support, au acre, anda higher sum than £50 | a8 instruments created by Providence to be skill-

fully used fur their udvautage, realise, when I

fear it is tow late, who are their real friends, and completely failed in all their attempts at settling example, the Murray Harbour people would be which is the political parly that made a great sa- . . apers in | required to pay, if the Government scheme suc- | Crifice fur Ur recovery to the tenants and the

the Land Question, and seeing that the papers in | require vey public of their and its mghts as free men and in- All hearts are in duty bound

best efforts to elevate them to at

| teiligeut creatures, to use thei least independence.

The advantages of Responsible Government

|} Were won tor the Colony by the sturdy leaders of It placed in the bands of the people the power which world, before this time, liberated them from the thraldom ef pro-

the Liberal party.

| have | prietary oppression, had they only regulated their ;actious in accordance with the well-understood It was a

’ = ae ' ee * forts, railrouds, &e., and to oceupy positions | OF bowl cau be cast upoo the fair one; a

the affair may be as public 2 d Jy Moen

amore especially as it ss proba’ are not a sufficient number of adwirers in this place to carry the properly if left to do so from their private means. if the Government take the eubjes up, we might celebiate the day by—

1. A Publie Holiday. i

2. A Public Breakfast or Dinner in the

Colonial Building.

3. A Grand Concert of the Songs of Shakespeare. ; 4. A general illumination in the City. —

Hoping that our Gevernment will take this matter up, and that they will not allew the burthen of celebrating the Sha Tri-centenary to fall upon private individuals, { remain for the present, with you, an ad mirer of the gentle Bard of Avan,

ROMEO, Ch. Town, Feb. 29th, 1864.

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(THE following communication was intended

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tu seeare the marderer, one was also shot by hita and the other seriously wounded by two A peighbour

shots in she veck and arm. tien sadertouk to waich the residence of the

ip the rear of the troops engaged in active warfare. Two very important measares, jast passed

}dark, mysterious power has carried them away. —Several died of typhoid fever; one was killed in a duel ; one was thrown froma

proprietors have gained througi the policy of the | is labouring at bis old trick of exciting the pre- | policy of Mr. Coles’s Administration.

S saiaren . : . , it — frees Protestaut tevantry against their | 5¥'e policy, calculated to wreneb, step by step, Government, the chances of abolishing the lease- | judices of the Protestant teu y agains ‘100i | use 'the! poet ‘Gethp of the eames se} hold tenure have been lessened. The first great Catholic fellow Colonists on the score of religion.

by Congress, ufford evidence of the spirit that now obtains in the South. One bill prohibits | the exportation of cotton, tobacco, naval and military stores, molasses, sugar or rice, under the penalty of forfeiture of any vessel er ve-

villain, and. in order to do so anpereceived, raised a tile on his roof, from which he peered out, but while doing so was shot through the eye by the scoundrel, who thus completed his third murder. The man was then. barricaded in hie house, but he coolly proceeded with watering Lis cow, and nodded ty the crowd surrounding his dwelling. As Seiibdineiatnee hemaaielt aaa ete prohibits the sending of any of the above Lrought and two shots were sent against the heamvagrriemnene edie A goacCsenginenttest joel hemse, followed by « volley from small arms. | Facy in possessiun of theenemy. A violation icuiadietes Gece ater tt cefens in the chime. ora jaw comes within the category of high ney, aher 4s ‘ me) sniiiiieninn misdemeanor, and is punishable by fine and a . a eed anol the Sc | Wpprisonment, at the discretion of the Con pe lili a atied Sen nba 0s a ade federste States courts. The other bill pro- aralathaiees of nies “*" | hibits the importation of luxaries, of which : \® _ list is enumerated, after the first day

Ce a of Mareh next. A provision in the bill em-

< en . ba : y os ” °

ting inthe = Aesbae Riga’ noe’ ane |owete the Seretry ofthe Treury tf prising than the value of land in the great ie pagar s agit rr ee eal oF Gentess of evrsmeres of England. The littic —_- which all goods made wholly or part- table-cloth area ut the south-east curner of tt re flax, nee or silk may be imported dt. Paul's, which gives the fureigner the best erncn y Asai penn ae coup d ail of our architectural masterpiece, : _"' ere is worth £60,000. The value of land around the Bank and the Royal Exchange is Son!

transportation thereof. Permits w export may Se granted under rules which may be prescribed by the President. This bill also

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The attention of the South is being parti- cularly directed to the defences oi Nashville, One o: the most important pusitious they have. |Atlanta is sume one hundred and thirty

greater. When New Oxford street was made, the land cost £57,000 an acre. In the improvement of Charlotte-street the land

borse ; two were drowned ; two were killed by railroad accidents, and one--hang him- self! ‘The lady has survived all these shocks —Thirteen may be tor her the tortunate, and

chase Act and Loan Bill. Tue fiest is still in | of the Government than this circumstance affords, It was too good and faic a measure to be | Tio Government want you, wy fellow Colonists,

sacrificed by intrigue aud misrepresentation, al- | to forget your grievances in connection with the

foree.

steps towards this desirable end were the Pur- | Phere could not be a better proof of the weakness |

hiele or any slaves or anima.s engaged in tie |

not tue fatal number. Who will try ? eet > ee One half of Colt’s Pistol factory at Hart- |ford, Cona., was destroyed by fre on the | jmorning of the Sth ult. Seventeen hundred workmen wereew ployed in the establishment, | they used it for political purposes; but deeming i halt of whom are thrown out of work. Sever-| it nv louger necessary in that way, they now ‘it jal lives have deen lost by the faliiny in of the | 5 es thal “. ‘ ‘ ‘ ; | roof of one of the buildings. Tae loss will, | pudiate it. 1 ae Liberal Govegament introduced jit is estumsted, amount to two millions of | te Low Bill, because the Pdrchase Lill could dollars. The establisiment is covered by | oot be made geusrally useful without it. The | ipsurance to the extent of $660,000. | Dory party, by meaus of their intrigues and mis- LE | ™ tie . * i Ture GREATEST oF Rat Hounrs.—Everybods - ae peer ~~ Feu oo has heard of the vast system of sewers which | TCCIMs the eye Seance. Their pretest /uuderles the great city of Paris. Through these | was, that they did not waut to see the Colony in- subterranean intricacies, according to Victor) yylved ina heavy debt, such as the Loan Bill |

Hugo in the Miserables, Jean Valjean carried | _ . a. .

eh on his back for miles, from the barricade | might entail; bat the —_ etree vcber (to the banks of the Seine. It seems that during | did not wish to let the Liberals possess the means | severe frosts, the vast multitudes of rats which | of purchasing proprietary estates at a low price. | abound in Paris take to the sewers as a refuge from the cold. Latterly the weather has beeu | | i : | more than usually severe, aud the conditions being | in 15859. According to them, it was the ouly ef- | favorable, it was resolved to have a great rat | fectual mode of settling the Land Question ever

jhunt. Accordingly the authorities, assisted by “| devised. They represeuted that by the Award

though the present Government opposed it with | Land Question, and also the dupliciiy practised upon you by the party in power; aud this they in vppositiou. They have been glad tu use the hope to accouplish by getting up a religious ex-

Purchase Bill since, in two cases; aud I believe | citemeut. Believe me that the man who thus

all their strength and influsace waile they were |

seeks to couvert the prejudices of the Protestant

tenantry to a political use has but little regard tor their judgment, and less for their religion. He kuows as well as I do that there is net the least fear of Cathvlic ascendancy — that Cathulie ascundancy would be impossible under any cireum- stances, of in the event of any change. my fellow Protestants have sense enough not to allow theniselves to be deceived by the trick of the Colonial Secretary. Let the Government first settle the Land Question, which they under- took to settle five years ago, which they said

I hope

vou Id be settled in cight months, asserting that They brought forward their famous Commission | the Liberals could never settle it, because they had no influence in England to get any measure

passe d—let them settle this question first, whieh

|uumber of men, gamins, and dogs, entered the

they took out of the hands of the Liberal party ; |

| lands of the Colony whic that pariy unlawfully | held, and which by right are public property. that Assembly who obtained self-governuaicut were Liberals of as irue a cast as ever existed, albeit a ditierence of opmivn arose as to the est feasible mauner of proceeding to reeever those public rights whick the proprietary party bad violated, and which we, asa people, are entitled to. A minority of that majority thought the most effce- tual way ot proceeding would be to insist on the vpening of a Court of Escheat, and to let that tribunal decide between the conteuding parties. The public claim on one side aud that ef the pro- prietors on the other, as to Whether or pet the lands of the Colony were forteited te the Crown; and if, as there appeared to be little doubt but that the Court would decide that the lands were ter- feited, it would then follow as a matter of course that all leasehold and wilderness lands smould be suld to the people at about frow zs. Od. to 4s. per acre, with a series of years to pay.

that Assembly, while admitung that the scheme for settlement by Escheat was in fact the proper and the constitutional mode of proceeding, urged the following objections to shew the many and in- supereble difficulties which lay in the way, and uitiat be rémoved betore that mode of proceeding

and would contiue to shew, the strongest predi- | lections in favor of the Grantees — that it could | scarcely be hoped but it would continue tu exer-

| }

The country are aware that the majority of

Ou the other hand, the wajority of Liberals of

sewers at various places, aud began a graud drive | be made by that Commission, all the leaseholds

aud then if there is any encroachmeuts ou Protes- | gise its power to render the setdement through

was purchased at £67,000 an acre. When the new thoroughfare was driven through Coventry-street and Long <Aere, the land cost £119,000 an acre. Mr. Cowper, the First Commissioner of Works, bas carried an Act for the construction of a new street from Blackfriars’ Bridge to the Mansion Honse. liaving brought ima bill which gave the street a width of 7U feet, he proposed tu in- crease it to Si) feet. ‘Che street is a very short one, but it was found that the addition of 10 feet would ada £110,000 to the expense, so the right bon. gentleman gave up the pro- posed extension. In some of the great pro- vincial towns prices are still higher. In Manchester, Jand has been sold by the square pan aod as much as 4 200.000 an acre has wen given for sites in the best part of the town. At Liverpool, liad bas been sold at £30 per square yard, ur nearly at the rate of £150,000 per acre. In some situations more than this has been given; in other parts of the town the price ms £100,000 per acre In Birmingham, the land held by the London and North-Western Railway was sold at about £60,000 an acre. Glasgow, Sheffield, Leeds, &e., the same causes are in Operation. The nataral pro-

gress of wealth and population tends to in- |

crease the value of land, especially in towns. Tne great London hospitals and schools en- joy princely revenues, not because their foun- ders left a few hundred pounds in money, but pew covered with house property.

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A Prerure or Cuarteston Unper Fire. — A correspondent of the Augusta (Ga) Con-

etitutionslist, writing from Charleston, gives S°Utherners have abundance of corn, and, a8 other places, a number of lives were lost by the following pietare of that city ander the |* Beneral thing, they raise a vast deal ot ‘breaking throagh the ice. Sixteen are re- bom sardient of the enemy :—Lhe limited S¥eet Dotatoes, with which they prinetpally | ported, but it is supposed there were even destruction of property by the protracted |fed their army during jast summer and rain of shells ie as wonderful as the small | catamne and this winter. | loss of life. I walked through the streets Should succeed in getting into Atlanta, and | ' where the effect of the shelia is most appa- | destroy it before the next season for saving | of a large American order for railway iron

rent. Here a cornice is knockedfuil, there iy | Wheat arrives, it is generally doubted whe- | having been given to a French firm, the

a small round bole through the side of a build- rag, and at remote intervals the earth is torn where a sheli exploded, and looks like the work of a porker im search of some hidden treasure. Vendors of tho staples of the mar- ket sitserenely by their little stores, unmind- ful of the pyrotechnic salutations of their Yankee deliverers. 1 boughs delicious apples and cakes at one fourth the price charged two hundred miles away in the interior, where abundance and extortion scem to go hand in band. In reply to & question if she were not afraid, one uf these cld women re- plied: * Lor maes, we no feered now— we'se usen toem. Dey make big noise and fro trash ell about—dat's all—de good Lord | protects as.’ Thus is the reliant trust of these people exemplified in the epiri: of this simple Alrican. | confese that I could not tee! thus indifferent to these missiles of des- truction, and as they came sereeching across the bay, 1 felt an, instinctive inclination to change my base of observation. Extending my ramble to other portions of the city, the

la Belfast, |

| the Confederacy.

; 2 : i tiles from Chattanooga, the last place being | towards a common ceutre. Just as the beaters in the Island would be couverted iato freeholds

| the pomt from which the Union iorces will jy an Indian jungle, wi ‘an. | . os

i : ot a 3 gle, with tom-tems, gongs, borne, | sia . , afr: : probably move in the coming spring. There | drums, and frightful ae Any ah the cuheatn sedemdeennes ee mn - See wee. fag | are in the city no less than three large fac- from the tiger to the smallest antelope, to the | of the result of the Commnssion, that they delayed tories continually at work by night and day. | hunters, the subterranean drivers sven had mil-| sending home the Bill to give legal effect to the aeneie — ea guns and | lions eae massed Suarther, snemeinescopmee | Award uutil the expiration of fire mouths after it sabres. or eighteen months past this work | ig, and fighting with extraurdinary lerucily. | .

has been going on without cessation. All | length they were driven inte a large sewer er — passed here, when the Denarrators had an the clothing of the Georgia troops is made |'H¢ bridge of Asuires, and forty dogs were let | opportunity of sending to England a Petition in Atlanta. Poor working women often down among them. A battle reyal ensued, which against it, whieh had the effect of destroying the