poe art -—_—— a

CORRESPONDENCE, = NEW BRUNSWICK AFPA missioners of the Small Debt

NEW BRUNSWICK AFPALRS. ( Prow ovr oun ( ‘orrespondent )

Court are shore- |. a " tg sah thal tas

u Tols ire a target, § sinay lholders themselves, gad consequently interested ing pistols to fire daily at a target. so ) { part ies. ‘The ‘Islander’ is blamed for putting up| } the Ine” ia her trip to Recky Port.

This is 9 gala day ia New Branewick. Ai least | it ix intended for such, and all may mingle in the | common sports provided for the oecasion. The weather, however, is nut a little anpropitions from | the ominous hovering of thick mist and heavy fog {= in the upper neighbourheed of the city. To me, personally, it matters little whether saow, rain, | sunshine, or wiet usurp the upper regions. L have little in harweny with the yelling and mean- | ingless shouts of a tumultuous crowd, and less | conviction that any geed will result from the events that will engage the minds and sway the | feelings ot these whe have been let loose frou | their comfinement. I intend not to moralise here, ee ee ated my good reader, so you must not conelude that 1 | a ees oe aoe ~ am a stoic in my ideas of wherein consists true | GRIEP | pleasure, and { claim a share ja the universal pri- vilege ot indiwidwal judgment. No person can en- | =? ; oe ee tectain a mere tnshaken respect for the long- | Assembiy in Mareh last, Mr. Seeretary Pope | beller that was aver known in this Island; and established precedents and customs of our glorious | quietly tramps down to Georgetown, in company , When, it his application were allowed to take ef- forefathers than I do; but this sentiment, most laudable as it ix. is quite consistent with the noble ; : aa ia ed tiek aot rae and sserriag privilege of private opinion, conse- | Mr. Palmer—and, the Supreme Court then 7; prove the charge s which were alleged to constitute erated as it has been with the blood of the hervie jing at Georgetown, the laat named gentleman | the libel? Is if the part of an honoarable man ~~ of the Stee ee transmitted to us | makes one of his usually brilliant and animated | who pretends to possess a great deal of physical me oak = rere 3 4 e here: bat di speeches to the Court, in a case of deeply injured | and moral courage te attempt to seek shelter un-

ave digresaed fo some extent here; DUE di- | gression aud myself are not entirestrangera. Let ame endeavor te atone for it by resuming my main a I believe ee a rm A ful neceessity devolved upon him of bringing to} ¢ upper regions, but a further edition mus eh wilered in order to comply with the reader's re- quisition. Now knew ye that by Executive pro- elamation this the anniversary of tie accession of (dneen Victoria has been substituted as a public holiday throughout the Province, iustead ef the) : more usually observed anniversary of Her Majes- snid, @id net intend to ask a jury for damages —| ty’s natal twenty-fourth wee oe aster oe he was willing to admit that his character had | vour: we could net bring ferward one solitary

dreds of persons have seized the opportunity to! sutpend their regular arocations, as to proceed ty some favorite country spot.there to breathe the atmosphere of health aud treedom not experienced ‘ - . es ° ‘ret ande oe ; : ; a oo tee tenia 4 Sioned oo at! very grave one, and should not be allowed to pass | following netice was handed to us by a writer li

The Examiner.

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Charlottetown, 30th June, 1862.

* , y . . INJU RED INNOCENCE! | ment, In THE COLONIAL SECRETARY GORS INTO COURT |

FOR A CERTIFICATE OF CHARACTER BY han '

MEANS OF AN ACTION POR Lipet! — FAILS | ledge of their designs?

journalist, many miles away, who has ne know-

with his friend the Leade

innocence. He regretted—-(aceording to the re- | der the eagis of the Supreme Court, and fire upon

port furnished to us by a listener)—that the pain- | his adversary, while he seeks to deny to that ad- versary the very weapons which he employs bim- self?

» notice of their Lordships a very grievous hbel Such, in fact, would be ihe effect of his ap-

which had been published in Tye EXAMINER of plication te the Supreme Court for a eriminal in-

the 34 Febrnuary, 1862, en the character of his witnesses he pleased to give testimony in his fa- not been injured by the libel— (are should think | W itness if the Rule Nisi were made absolute, and

ie ° ‘ ie ile Bi kt al si the admission might be made in safety) — but the | & crimininal information filed against us.

imputation upon his character was nevertheless a) When the Georgetown Court was closed, the '

fined taste, the unpolished manners of the hardy without judicial censure and punishment. Mr- | the office of tue Hon. Edward Palmer:— rustics who tremble in the presence of external Pope, be reminded the Court, held the high and eer we ae ee we eT Ge ee ey excellence. To Fredericton a steamer load ot : cil tprem ,

ro wit: § ture, March Term, in the twenty

respon sible office of Secretary to the Colony and 1 / fifth yeur of the Keigu of Queen Vietoria.

Those aeekers for pleasure proceeded on last night, to witness a grand review of the troops in that tity, and te stroll anongst the beautiful prome nades and lanes and bowers and gardens that give to the eapital an almost unrivalled prounncace anoagst the handsome ejties of America.

Chief Clerk of the Executive Council. A gentle- | ~~" : eit ae ‘ ao one a Upon reading the sev ral affidavits of Willi man oceupying his position should have and main-

tain a character free from blemish — otherwise :

pt

tan £1 s he cantinned him in 2 abl; Ext miner,’ and published Monday, the this » Government whe tinued him ia the public . . , '

ait evernment Who Conunued Tam 1a tie pion ot February, in the vear of ovr ord one the

‘ arinyy

Iu St. Jobn, gotwitkstanding the unfavourable service would be seriously compromised, Atter et ane e ed mixty-twu, rr a 2 a t] condition ef the day, seme attempts have been | Uliering 2 great deal of nonsense about the relue- i sh sot a a ih oie os “at. a. waade te produce merriment aad dissipation tance he felt in taking such a case in hand, he! that Tuesday, the sixth day of May next canjng through the idle iwhabitants. A few companies | 4.) said. ina flow of generons enthusiasm, which Easter ‘Term of the said Court, at Charlotvetown, i

of the militarymarehed threagh the puble streets, Queen's Cognty, be given to Edward Whelan t

avd presented a very fine ap of music, cricket matches,

spondent, the gloomy er morose,

cnaeadis eaiatinies of Revd. gentlemen of the Wesleyan Church has been with us for some days past, and their nee no doubt con- tributes to transport the reflections of poor aub- lunary mortals to the world beyond the sky, to

re while bands | udicrous processions assist fo infuse a spirit of liveliness into the de-

auditory of this superbly eloquent map—~that nei- ther he nor his eljeyt wished to deal harahly with , the editor of Tue Examiner. If that person ) would retract all that he had written in the Ex- | AMINER of the 3d February against Mr. Pope, and make a humble apology to that gentleman, he

must have been very refreshing to the extranced |

| hibited against ‘him for certain misdemeanors in | printiag and publishing certain seandatona Hbels, jupon notice ef this rule to be given to him jn the uwan time. Oumotion of Mr. Edward Palmer. By the Court, (Signed) D. HODGSON, Prothonetary.

It is amusing to observe the way in which this

the ot which their pious Inbours are | had ne doubt that, in the exereise of w kindly dis- | legal document refers to the alleged libellous mat- Aciicated. Thave not the eee Know-| position, the Colonial Secretary would not pro-| ter: “ Beginning,” it says, “ with -J, B. Cooper - . . j . : ’

pas he omen ny Chrtation ane t ceed to trian], In the meantime he moved the | and ending with the words hypoerisy and hum- an unable to conununicate any intelligence in re | Court to grant the Rule Nigi, and based his mo- bug.” gard to the deliberaGone of tiemen.

‘The at the Theatre this evening; and as I have prac-' ticed enough of self-denial to-day, J think my | having obtained a copy for that purpose,

nce at the play this evening is uet improbable ; |

tw fact, I am pretty certain Pll be there; and oh!) Prinee Edward Isiand : if I only had some one to accompany me, how In the Supreme Coart of Judicature,

much happiness would T not enjoy im the brief William Henry Pope, of Charlottetown, in | solute. He stated that he had not been furnished space of a couple of hours, mois ga reevir. Now ;

oonl Queen’s County, in the said Iskund, Colonial Se-| with a copy of Mr. Pope’s affidavit, which he bangh aaa a 1862 Yr. EI cretary of the said Isiand, maketh oath and saith, i St. q ‘ ; . E. :

that Edward Whelan, of Charlottetown, is the! : : ne oe sroprietor and publisherof a certain weekly News- | im; he had, however, an opportunity of perusing To ras Eptror of tus Exanisen ? P )

paper, printed and published in Charlotietewn | it through the kindness of an officer of the Court, Dear Str—On the road from Charlottetown, on

| day of “ Cooleen Bawn”™ is to be performed

| seta forth the cause of action, we insert it here, | article commenced.

’ | |town, Mr. Whelan appeared in his own person to

| thought Mr. Pope's Attorney should have given

Friday evening June 20th, | was overtaken by a party of the Volunteers, headed by two of the oti- cers. Now, there was nothing remarkable in thus meeting with the eallant defenders of “ Happy homes and altars free,’ nor would I have troubled wou with this, did not their semi-barburons condnet deserve fo be shown up to the men who granted tour hundred pounds for the * more efficient oryani- zation of the Volunteer corps,” and who, perbaps, had not the plesaare of witnessing the use to which Her Majesty's gunpowder was applied. The party of Volunteers, numbering eight or nine, who re juiced in a suit of yrey clothes, striped with red and & neat grey cap with a red bal], a fa militaire, lond- od thelr villes with the coolness of “ veterans of a juandred betwes.”’ and after tie words ‘ Keady, Pre- sent, Fire, discharged theis pisess either simula. ncously or in divisions, The firma was continued for several miles along the road, and while loadiax soine of them savy in a thjc musical voice :

“ We'll hang Jeif, Davis to a sour apple tree.” ‘This tended to yaxy the monotony of the firing and Jikeevise to give vous to their playfal inclination in regard ty the Vresident of the Southern Confede- sgcy. Mad the Volunteers been driving along sonie ** fovest diaie,”” far from the “ noisy haunts of busy wen,” their condnet might have n excnsable ; lust what must we think of them, when in pocsing aeart, in which there were two women for eac Volunteer, When alongside of the cart, to discharge their rifes, and rend the air with coarse Bacchus Jian hhouts, and to

“Play such fantastic tricks before high heaven

As make the angels weep,” thereby compelling the fair occupants of the eart to = them with exys, which emijied an odour any- hing but agreeable. As they neared * Milton Inu” | raised a regular feu-de-joje, and in file far from military they drove up to the dour to refresh them- relves with

“ Horns of mead, the blessed mead,

That can anpuck the jaden heart of care ; That climbs «a heated reveller to the brain, And site there singing songs.”

Sach conduct on the pagt of any persons ia to say | there js po kuowing what |

the least disyracefql. combequences might have happened from this reek- leas firing. What « ol t have prompted men to so

expert at firing against the time they are called npon to repel “insolentinvaders.” ‘This isihe only | renaon which ean be given for the profligate nse of the Government gaupowder. Hoping the Volun- | teers will never aguin repeat their conduct of June | uth, Tam yours truly, Queen's County, June 25, 1502, ae + oo — CAPTURE OF JACK This individual, egaiast whom a writ has been | in the Sheriil’s hands for the last six mouths, was! caught on the Ith inst,, and lodged in King’s | County dail. MeGwigyin lives on Brown's oad, |

Pe

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MceGWiIGGIN.

to the ex-Sheriff John Smith, Esq., in 1859, who there narrowly eseaped with his life, having had} his horse killed, and his bat knocked off by inus-! ket shots. |

_ MeGwigzin is a native of the County Monaghan, | is ® tuiek set powerfyl built man, and about 55! years of age. At the time of Coiner Hughes’ rebeliion, which cost the country £500, Me- 4owiggin was second in command to the Coiner, and oa = chief in erganizing «nd carrying on the resisting and evading the tition 04 Bharidl Sanith laat winter he paid a visit to his. Agent iu Charlottetown, aud made soe overtures of a settlement, laying a consider- able sum of money on the table, After some pe.r- » MeG taunted the agent for having

cent the after him, and the futility of his attemptiag te take him. “ You d-a-m-n #e-ou-ndr- el, bi-l ha-ve a goo-d mi-i-v-d to take you now, b-be-fore you gu,” says the agent, when Jack coully goes to ihe table, scoops off the moncy,and walks out. His capture, after repeated attempts, was effected by Sheriff McFarlane, accompanied by Kiely, « pusilict, from Guysborough, and Tom Newman, a Devonshire Orangeman, MeGwiggw | was working at a lime-kiln in eompany with two | or three others, his son, a lad about 12, stationed Se ee was sent ia advance, dis- gvientl es a countryman, carrying a bundle in his hand, the Sheriff and Kiely advancing in an oppe- site ditection. The sentry on seeing them gave the alarm to his father,whe looked up and around. Ou they come, when Metiwigzin draws -2 long

’ invokes an imprecation on the blo«

bounds approaching, starts off like a stag rapidly for the forest. On, un he bounds, leaving his pur- aners far behind, the Sheriff first, then Kiely and Newman following the whole. dietiwiegurs courage revives, and a a a a ne : wes ‘ Unally behind, and ae he. thinks of old Ireland Waa it for this he cleared the forest for Larry Sullivan of London?) What did Sullivan give for the tebd? Kiely, a tall powerful man, with a sviee of thunder,eommands hl to stop. On they run. Newman's long aris aud legs rapidly in iam, passers tos at last gains slowly

on Jack, who, tarning rougd, sees his position be- coming critieal. Stijl be runs, bounding along,

;

his head drooped crouched, aud ‘Tom, with

head ereet, swiftly pursuing and gradually gain-

ing on him J ree oan ones tae eee

on, at last finding his foe advancing, he turns hke th

j tended to cause it to be believed that this depo-

aforesaid, iutituled “The Examiner, a weekly ' Journal of Polities, Literature and News ;” and this deponent saith that on or about ‘Tuesday, the tourth day of February, One thousand eight haa- dred and sixty-two, this deponent read in a pum- jber of the said Examiner Newspaper, bearing ; date the third day of February last past, the fol- | lowing words, namely :—** James

| William H. Pope are

certainly a fancy lot to be regarded as preackers on stich a subject. | forget their antecedents woefully. ‘The one has evidently lost all recollection of having diddled | the — out of a large sum of money, besides lexhibiting such conduct towards an aged parent }as renders more than donbtiul } ; possession of one honest or honorable principle. \"tus other, who regrets that the Editor of the | Rxaminer cannot be arraigned for an alleged in- tringement ef moral law, ought to remember that he was arraigned, tzid and censured for an im- mora] and disgraeefy] aet; and that he owes it to | the clemency of a few friends that he was not alse | arraigned, tried and couvieted of gomething which | bears a very ugly name in canncetwn with money | matters. These are brave 4elk@is certainly to write short serieas on morality. They fairly il- lustrate sone of their masters in the Government, who, it must be confessed, always give a generous a not only to the taking qualities whieci Messrs. Pope and Cooper possess, but to those other traits by which they are both distinguished —hypecrisy and humbug.” And this deponent saith that he hath inspected one other number or copy of the said Examiner Newspaper, bearing date the third day of February last past,and which contains the above recited paragraph, aud which copy of the said Examiner Newspaper is herewhto jannexed, marked A. And thix deponent saith | that the name William H, Pope, in the said para-

ent. And this deponent saith that the said ; | graph contains a wicked and malignant libel on the character of this deponent, and was published, as this depouent believes, from 2 corrupt motive, jand for the purpose

name in connection with money matters,” relates

to this deponent; and to certain business matters | of # pecuniary nature which this deponent had |

| theretofore transacted with the Bank of Prince | quently induce the Court to refuse their sanction to| as k Prin 4 y fuse their sanction t | indignant at this unexpected decision. Ho fully

Edward Island —and whieh yecited words are in

‘ nent had been guilty of crimes or offences, or! of some crime or offenee for which this deponent | was liable to be arraigned, tried and convicted, and for which he would have been arraigned, tried and convieted, bad it not been for the clemency | of his triends.

ragraph hereinbefore recited, with reference te

the said transactions of this dsponent with the | said Dank of Prince Edward lsiand, are talse,

and without any foundation, Aud this depouent | further saith that he did wot do, comrsit, or per-

petrate, or participate in dviag, committing, or | perpetrating any crime, misdeieanor or oitenee, | im counection with money matters, and in relation to his transactions with the said Bank of Prince Edward Island, or with any other Bank, or per- son, oF persons whomsvever, which would render him liable to be either couvi: ted, tried or arraign- ed; nor dees heowe it, uurdd he ever oweitto the clemency of a fow or any other number of friends, or of any person or persons that he,deponent, was not arraigned, tried, and couvieted of something or anything which bears a very ugly name In cole nection with money matters. “Aud this deponent farther saith that the words coutained in the pa- ragraph published in the said Examiner News paper, first hereinbetore recited, eatery that, he i this deponent, was “arraigned, tried and censi on

foc an unmora! and disgraceful act, haa retqreee to a complaint laid against this deponen t, when a youth, before a Magistrate or Magistrates, for an

Both | \ ; . ee | he had published the matter complained of from | awaited Mr. Pope in the event of an advers:

lis elaiims to the}

| graplt, as he verily believes, refers to this depos

namely: “ He owes it to the clemency of a few!

lonly a few hours previous to the opening of the ) i

Term; and, with the assistance of Counsel, had did not seem to think that Mr. Pope's expulsion | 0 tiaued for the few days yet allotted te the Go- | Tf CHARGE OF THE IRISH AND OTHER RRIGADES.

| from offiee, on account of his bad character,would

| prepared an affidavit in repiy to it. Defore read-

ling the

| catory affidavit would be found to set fort

a malignant feeling or corrupt motive.

| ber of the * Islander,’ and the publication contained

whole community. One of these facts. was ad-

denied ; but he (Mr. W.) said he was prepared to prove every word he had written on that subject.

! . . . . . particular circumstances, to grant an information |

;

j Ratgre.

the allegations of corrupt design, which will fre-| tie severer course, and leave the proscenter to t, if he thinks proper ”—(1b. p. 259.) The | 3 ioritier,

indic iearned Judges having noted these antl

Mr. Whelan said he had acted in strict conformity |

only a brief recital of two facts well known to the |

, _— : The Shareholders refuse to pay their iistal-| ity, oeent to our mind. But what must we think } wents,and the direcfors ennuot sie, 2s the Com! of the bravery of aman—a man! who keeps duell-

attain te an unerring aia in mortal combat—what

| shall we say of (dim when we tind him sneaking off wa ty a distant County to ask for the interposition of | the Supreme Court, in a very unusual way, against (an adversary who is engaged in his parliamentary | dutics, and who has no knowledge of his designs ? \Ishe the man of spiFit and pluck who usea the {money which he gets from the people for doing lnothing, to subsidise the Leader of the Govern- order that Ae, too, may use his GREAT | INFLUENCE, to perplex and oppress a public

is it a courageous act tor one edjter to ask the Gourt to file a criminal in- en furmation against another, when the applicant, as Wate attending to our duties in the House of | can be easily proved, is the most outrageous li-

rof the Government, ! feet, his antagonist could not bring witnesses to

formation against the editor of THe EXAMINER. |

} ¢ “ . 4 friend the Coloma] Sceretary. That officer, he | Mr. Pope might bring forward any number of}

, motive,

' zm | , ot

jtienry Pope and Joseph Hertram, sain part of a} times, that his cases were notte the point. Phe | plainly stated that they regarded the eontemplat inted Newspaper thereto annexed, called ** Phe ‘learned Leader of the (

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yarn |

0] iuterrupted by the Court.

; The connection was certainly very close, imumeated te their Lordships the notable faet — ose evangelic gen tion on an affidavit made by Mr. Pope, which he | and nothing could be more suggestive of “ iypo-| aynounced by him in the Murch Court at George- | then handed te the Clerk of the Crown; and as it! crisy and humbug” than the name with which the | town—that Mr. I

At the Easter Term of the Court, in Charlotte- | that it was of the first consequence not only to

show cause why the Rule should not be made ab-|

published it in self defence, because Mr. Pope had) Palmer sat dow grossly attacked him (Mr. W.) in a previons wum- | that ¢!

| convieted of something which beurs a very ugly | open to the party against whom it is made to al-| id

| the issne.

ae. * ane rao .

— - : we si : Jow. He And deponent further saith that he humbly sub=| friend Mr. Palmer told in the reom below

. : . ‘i ' corieved or injured mits this case should net be met by filing an Infor- | said he did not teel a reonally negra : : be A - mation, 28 songht for, but that said William Henry | by the article which formed the subj

: , , » of » Gove ont Pope should be left to the more ordinary and less) complaint; but the honour of the Governnie oul

rot

we tribenals and modes of proceeding, if t se alana oppressive tribunals and modes of proceeding, vas affects - retaining an officer again owe has eause for complaint ; but this depouent we affected by re iaica ge doth say that if said William Henry Pope hath) serious charges were pr : ache . ™ . . s ’ . . oo . a) e t y sustained any da nage by said ae nas bring his own private fee lings 19 oa lained oo dopant a be i. Theashig the tne! he asked the Jury to regard the article compli . eee eae re ‘ . , » Gove ent, ane rite + th : wo proots and pleadings in the | of, as an attack upon the whee ¢ - rnm ord sey and usual -— require by their verdict | 9 yisit it with their high oe asure, adil that this depmnent should pay. " ‘ The Jury were not lupulsive men, D ain, } ei SPWARD WHELAN. : ; : : wnee dd eat s emg’ : Low Canadiens for | practical sens of Adam pre Eve. oe a " worn before int, J. Low, - ‘ sdheioh. ey gave taking Affidavits in the Supreme ¢ ourt. intend to hnfry on their a , The article referred to in the above affidavit,

| |

diners for three * of the 31st; °

hick j the ‘Islander wo nights, and had jolly re rse of onK Winch appeared in 6 Bie « c is sy decided. n the course 0 » I: ~ and which called forth the remarks of} days before they dock _ > they asked January, and wimen Ce heir interviews with Mr. Pope they ®

i ‘ , ere ined lof t ‘ f rt eaplene: fn tk, at eam em hiss it he had wriiten the editorial article im the 3yst January, which had called

fullows:— ‘Islander’ of the : ami-

“Inpecescy or THE “ Examinen.”’—The inst | h the objectionable remarks in the ‘Ex number of the Examiner ’’ contains wae * a athe :

' ° - February » admitted th communication, signed a Dreamer, which we) yer,’ of the 3rd of February. He ad , notice only in order to express our reprobation of) | | 4. hat admission established two mnpor- ) i he did. ‘That ¢

» conduct o editor of that paper, in cireula " » edi c . + ipa + ad indecent, wilthy, obscene, and| tant facts—first. that he was the editor of the ‘ Islande

isyusting oti ever printed; a production, tee alieetioa of which, were Lord Campbell editor of the ‘ Examiner ;’— Act in force in this Island, would render V helan leus attacks on the ito 4 ce liable to severe punishment. As Law eegeelt's| sad, second, that he was really the aggressor in Act fox the suppression of obscene publications ie) «sale ian The Jury then not in force aa and the ABANDONED CREATURE,| the affair under consideration, he Jury ' who publishes the ‘Exnininer,’ cannot, ns presume, | 1) inte one of their profound cogitatious—they

» pnnished i yomary wn : the outrage ~ be panished in» summary manner, for th % probably indulged a glauce at Mr. Pope's digital

which be has offered to the moral sensibilities of the | :

community, we trust the subscribers of that paper extremities. They began to think that the Judges will express thejr disgust by discontinuing se tilthy

1 production, and return the last munber to the

Honornapire Bowarp WHecay.”

at

not clean; and that he should be sent out of the

Mr. Palmer then rose to reply. He professed | Grand Jury Reem as speedily as possible to per- to be very much astonished at the affidavit just ! form a‘ woral ablution, and mend bis manners Mr. Whelan, he said, had taken a eourse | generally. In yery plain words, the Grand Jury entirely oppoSte to anything he expected. It was} dismissed the case, without one solitary dissenting true Mr. W. had denied corrupt motive and de-| poice, Jn doing so, they have given a high proof sign in publishing the matter complained of, but! of theiy independence aud impartiality, for w hich

| ;

read.

he was not satisfied with the denial; and he pro-| we sineerely thank then.

| ceeded te read several law authorities, in the rein |

We have dwelt, perhaps, longer on this subject

cation | th

existence of a malignant and corrupt) oo jsut the public importance whieh Messrs.

attempt to prove tliat the mere fet of publi an we should, on account of its personal charac-

i proved the I

ree ’ . i. -ary diem | ° - eget]

The learned Judges took a very different | Palner and Pope attached to it has very greatly

view of the matter, and told Mr. Palmer, seveial

Those gentlemen ed

| diminished the personality.

coutinued to flounder on—to read and argue—but | and influence of the Government—both said that

the more he read, and the more he argued, the} s¢,. Pope could not warthily hold the office of

ot ame. ¢ he alte _wresl ° } ‘ S rg ana i It is ordered | more coufused he became, and the ofteuer he was | Colonia! Secretary, unless the Court first, and |

Hinalty, the Chief thea che Grand Jury acceded to lis application

»| Justice addressed him in words nearly as follows : lfor a criminal Informatian against us. Ho has show eine Why au iufermaiion should uot be ex-|_« My Palmer, you should remember that you) p00. most signally defeated. in the two attempt

are applying to the Court for a very extraordinary | exercise of its authority, aud before making the application, you should have been prepared with proof so clear and positive as to leave no doubt on the minds of the Court as to the propriety of ac- ceding te your request.” This rebuff seemed to

he has made to obtain it.

tried to have us criminally indicted, and to stagger the learned Counsel— he lost temper for nuzzle our Press. With the foul blotches on his afew axtéments ; ani then he sought to try what) character, Mr. Popo admits that he is not worthy ‘virtue there was in politieal sympathy. He cou-| oF the situation he holda—Mr, Palmer states posi- | tively that the Governor cannot continue him in offige without doing great dishonor to himeelf.

| this Island —a very able and influential officer— | Mr. Pope's coutinuance in office? They will— | ‘they musi—they cannot help it. ‘They were well

_hiinself, as an individual member of the —— aware of Mr. Pape’s antecedents before he took nity, but er fe Con vamee, to have hie eenomigd the office of Colonial Secretary. They knew the | cleaved of the impntations alleged against if; and) | ds upon which Governor Daly positively re- he assured the Court that if = ie awe a ‘fused to appoint him; and by continuing him in aliowed an epportunity to do this, by marans of a office now, the whole Executive Council, from the leriminal information being filed agninst the 8! Governor dewi, become parlies to “ fraud and cused, His ErecHeacy the Lieut. Governor could | deceit,” according to the argument used by the

power of thinking to the matter—slept over it

r,’ which, it was sworn, had made libel-

lerere right—that, in fact, Mr. Pope’s hands were |

fovernment, unabashed, | action for libel as one which affected the honour |

| weainst 1,644,000 in hand on the first of June, | the lack of bridges for crossing the Chickuhomiy hoe ne depressing influence of thik state of | Phe =e = sung pene "pen a new thinge in the manufacturing dire ® #eou in wero dies) Tod eens ‘ce i led tein . oun 2 re re ” , i \the great increase of pauperis and the pressu “The building of this bridge is no ensy work on the rates. jand the approaehing canseways have a zi PRUSSIA. ;

| length of one thousand yards. Every Part of ¢ | The King has reevived a deputation from the | straecture is exposed vo a constant shelling from t ‘Chamber with the Address, and delivered the fol-, j

enemy's batteries, and every workman jg with : : range of the unerring rifles lowing reply—“ I have reeeived with pleasure the % of hundreds of pet lascurance of loyal devotion which has just been) 4

ra Strong parties, generally from eig : , ; een buadred men, are constantly’: ; expressed. While repeating that I still remain | the strueture, being relieved at short iy aa ‘unchangeably upon the ground of the constitution | one-quarter of the party, however, is eran Ito whieh I have sworn, as well as upon that of | the others being posted ax scouts and pickets, | my programme of November, 1858, and that Tam ‘Thix bridge is over a strenm but a hundred fe ‘therein in full aceord with my Ministry, I add “ ide, its _— ae — by the neighhons thereto the firm expectation of seeing the senti-| swamp. [ft rans diagonally across the Chickal, ants you have expressed ratified by deeds. As) "> and for some disiance courses along the bay fae a" 7 —— ~— * nin nn gf] ver the swamp it is a corduroy road, hundreds + |you have selected a sentence of my programme al laticks of timber being ent and trimmed and le 11858, it would be well that you should impress it, | crosswise, until the mire is filled up, and a sol jline by line, upon your minds. You will then | superstructure reared. Over the water timber :

’ for,

\rightly estimate my sentiments.” great strength is laid and securely fastened, Ty

‘ ee jor three days more will finish the work, whey 4

| AUSTRIA. j : Which th

right wing will precipitate itself apon the enem

When completed it will be the work of but af hours to cross a division over, and, wander goger : ght, suecessfully intrench it in front of t enemy, and then you may look for another perhaps, bloodier buttle than the one ® : trified the North on the ist day of Jane.”

After noting the frequent arrival of deserters, correspondent mays :—

| “I firwly believe the report of the anxieyg

A somewhat curious seene has taken place in ithe Austrian Representative Chamber. During | ‘the debate on the budget various telling attacks | ‘ i a oe s ithe ni were made upen the Finance Minister, Von! Diener, and it was annonneed and established that

he had made a great mistake in his calculations, the deficit turning out to be 74 millions of florins | instead of 60 millions as he had originally fixed it. The House was disagreeebly startled by this re- | Velation, and signified its want of confidence in many rebels to desert. The devertions are noi

its Fmance Minister by dechning to take in hand! fined to the North Carolinians. They ate con, the subject of augmented taxation until it should | every State organization in the whole rebel hende, jbe ratistactorily settled wlyt the amouot really | Desperation is the exense of most of them; gi } was requisite te mect the deficiency. hunger, despair, and dissatisfaction ean be

From the moment SPAIN.

| will be ready for the longed-for night on

1 features of all. » | wonnce their intention of deserting by wontly easy ACTORS the river to our picket pot to shoot, ever uid in his power is rendered them by the Feden

soldier.”

| The Correspondencia di Espano states that [Spain will act in America as she has acted at | iNaples and ‘Turin. Jealous of her own indepen. | dence, she will respect that of others. She wili| When the news of the defent of the F recognise accomplished facts if Kurepe shenld corps in Mexico is known in Paris, we rench isanection them. but will never be reconciled to) care it will rouse that most excitable of po may be | actions hurtful to her dignity and interests. ‘in no ordinary degree—whetber they i yr THE BISHOPS IN ROME. prone noe “ cake Ai tor the dishonour of . . i the tri-colour ane + .

| The Bishops in Rome, in their address to the | The Sento Genet — ae | Pope, deplore the oppression of the Church, and | victory which must have 't eet = declare that the temporal power is necessary for} 5 ood 4) bs / Fic, pected, ithe independence of the Pope. They approve all} re oy : = —— preciamation ee ithat the Pope has douwe in defenee of the rights of | | OMPANIONS IN ARMS: Withone day ofeom. the Holy See. They condemn the errers which | iat you have made amends for se wany months have already been condemned by the Pope, and 1 suffering ; victory has crowned your efforts, and

his Holiness to coutime tirm in his resist-| oe : — eagies — crossed tie ocean to come ‘The address is signed by 21 Cardinals and | ty Gown as an offering at the fuut of the Fhexpeaney oe Mexican flag their laurels of Sebastop.i,

;and Solferino. Soldiers ! [thank you beeanse you have We regret to learn that the one oe tas brave men and as good Mexicans; oo ent quaus are 6 LOVES | +, proud of you; the irianph that you have ob i tained will be fertile im its results; andtthanks to

NEW ZEALAND lyon in the name of Mexico will be respected ag j NE LEALAND. . in the ni 2 ok | Otago continues to yield large quantities of | ought. You have fought with the first soldiers of leold, but the severity of the winter has driven ihe age, and you are the first whe have conquered

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exhort hance.

) 214 Bishops. , j BELGIUM. }

jhealih of the King of the Del of fuvorabie.

iback many of the miners to the tields they left in | theta.

We shall now sce | whether Messrs. Paluer and Pope were practis- ing a ruse—or, as the latter defines the word, “ fraud and deceit”—in appealing to the political sympathies of the Court and Jury, when they

” Victoria. been exported from Dunedin, mainly to Me

ainillion and a half sterling.

Up tothe 25th of March there had |

bourne, some 357,091 ounces of gold, worth about Sir George Grey | seems to be gradually winning his way to the os- tablishment of a line of policy which will restore the Queen's supremacy in New Zealand, without

Sons of the Stateof VeraCruz? Soldiers of the |. | State of Mexieo ; nuited you have met the enemy | united you have flown to the enconnter, and un. ted victory has crowned you. Soldiers: You have saved the honor and inde pendence of our country, and it blesses you. Companions in arms: Vera Independence! Vieg

das rae | ‘mel secre > in | | . prises 68,356 acres, anc ‘ of subdi- ope was Provincial Secretary in| yi the Governor and Mr. Paliner consent te | tion comprises 68,356 acres, and that of unsubd

recourse to war being necessary. He to | Liberty! Vira the Supreme Government. have succeeded in creating or bringing out a loyal Feuer Lb. Berntozanar. feeling, and forming a strong Queen's party among | phe Boston Journal sars:—

the natives, by whom his measures for the preper ‘The reported defeat of 4000 French at administration of justice seem to be appreciated. | puebis Mexico appears to be confirmed. | According to official returns published iu the ‘ New nena greatly cutnasboued be tha Mexicans, snd | Zealander of April 5, it appears that in the wd were repulsed with heavy joss. The afair may ivinee of Auckland the area of land open for selee- | prove very disastrous to the rest of the Preneh |army now in Mexico. This event will afford a | turning point to the singular policy of the French | Emperor toward Mexico. It 1s possible that the | disaffection already created on the subject in all branches of the French servies, and the manifest difficulties ahead, may lead him to withdraw from | the project of conquering Mexico, and giving it a ‘new Government. But it is feared that he may | be sitmmulated to renew his exertions on a grand «scale, by pouring in large reinforeements in the autumn, and sweeping all resistance before him. [It would certainly be curious ifoue of those Gevern- neuts of Europe, which seem to have been se cop-