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. that their notes were in wy hands, and Phey thought test old Mr. Dawson had pat them into my

is, in my capacity of

¢ them When old Mr

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e very crusty about it

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town and country, whom T bad notited of | t! votes being ia my bands had taken it. 1} had written a formal notice to each of them j 1 the ki man that they were very crusts | ‘ tit H sa i to me, De th notly a mie®t tin te j ait } iP te you bher P said wha ‘ W I | \ ta vaus he wants u swer Was \ i et I ! ‘ ‘ ‘ tne ‘ ‘ v ! ‘ oa tha . rf c . 1 sa 1 ake ’ ¥ who e your stot s New } ] ) =e e 7 sth) has potikow tedo with notes down at the Tannery ! at I see * But,’ said he, ‘* don’t give hr monev } i}. te « VerTVv @Xe« tra i fron’t let him faveary money but wat I} said [ would not; and, from | ' t this moment, he hows not hud one f mremey trot e except in the way at lee He has come into amy -hK te x. , &2<9 take up & Hinde, cared DP heave said, No, T wou't ‘ d uaan said to mie it b neede wiiuiad Wists iit ! hk ew bli HiskaAts> net. for he would look out tor i ihat nothing went at tie Jun w wut S Kiewieduec. lsaidit be ea notes d would advance tue money. | mii! Be Uuersivged wl 1 hud said t id Waals vy hole aid j coenhlncal,; i ttur ess ani t K vel HOLE ¢ resctiat tira Ciba and & ice | | she Weal mt y G said Lhe! “3 ss } a ‘ = } i tims he i ile hei iol @ i yu s My { Palau ul { et i i i ivak Gf the notes stucu for ] tile y were ‘ ste ‘ J ‘ cume i me witheuul tha ‘ se : i Sem then “uA Oa } al al we senity me j eo ‘ i jmau lw 1 ch bac Jin ik i wa tisteul Lhe ant Phev want iid " v} 4 i, iat i 4 a's Das i sole t ‘ Bay stiledd Ove ut 4 \ W lie was represented by the notes. Ji ihat way ] cou I x Pe ii 4 j hail Wa an 1 ke pe @ NL} Gna Ltcld him tha Was wi liberty to Inspect M hetieve he ‘ ™“ aie that Uy when he cuise tu dy &e, | \ ea de May vlice, vue ol buy ierks would shew it tu him. I have seen hiro inspect it ble tuanked me fer tue li erty, sigie vyota the edhe@s Wiote Lhe Viive. | dice ¥ & ay cupy of it, Ar. C. Palmer.—How came it that hie wot that iist ? VW idness.— He ame severai

He bad > afterwards ld me abuut nu. After William left he was vlice; Mr. Ricbara Heariz was there Bios Ube ab LOles ol hand. Ji was, 1 think, n Uctover or November. It must huve bees in Vet He then said Willian: had forged | s bame tu. hotles to the amount of £3, 100, on | yer mathe Bank of P.E.1., which he bad! oe 1 paid it then, he said; but! wil pay none Of these forgeries any longer. 1} suid Lo lina, How could you leud your name to uielluw whe would act in that m snner ? He suid, “1 was deceived in bim. 1 thought he was duing weil.’ Whatdo you think of him ] suid. “Mr. Hodgson,” he said, ** he | vreatest scoundrel that ever God put ** He “such a scoundiel that 1 cannot believe one word be! suave, Willes, oF swears.”’ That wis the lirst iu- timutou Ll had that he (W. B. Dawson) had

times to amy office, and asked for it. itv @ Scrape with the Bauk :

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we

Ww py.

bow, ios bhae

;

Hiei ite, Is, said he,

ever lured wuy paper Mr. C. i adiner.— Lid youu sdvance moneys under Lhe arrangement ” h you made with vid Mc. Dassou? Wit

—I did. I advanced by cheque on the Bank ot i Kelward Island. I have the cheques ; tiey are all here. They were payabie to W. L.. Dawseu—seme to vid Mr. Daw sun or bear-

Lie notes will opeos lor them-

= ves

at

These cheques were all delivered by me |

t

te W. LB. Dawses, and charged to me in my | Lavk account. They were given cither direct-

iy iwote W. KB Dawson's hands, or sent unde)

coverto bim at the Tannery, in pursuauce otf

tbe wudtorly giveu to ive by the eui man to do! ao. Whee taking a waik wm the morning, [| sumelanes wert into the Tannery, but never Wiihvut busmess. It would be at al out half past

wine ur ten in the morning. At such mes | have seeu old Mr. Dawson in the cilice. | have kK people. | vw ollice. I bave seen Witham brenk the cuvelopes of let |

ety seen juin Oudiside Wilh lie wo

Lise s€@eu: Nita endvoisiies neles mi t tors, take Owt what 1 believed to

desk, ti

€ lwles, lay downwards, sud thea suy tu. bis dather, * bather, | waut your siz- matures and, unless old Mr. Dawson possessed the power te see through the paper, | saw bin

bites On, Lia ce

itp the notes without lovkmwyg et their tace. | lle sizued wt whew tubie. The desk was wo lug tor bim to, write at. He sivued without

iueong Up the paper; wad leaving tlie paper on je justas be had sizued ut, walked out | treet with me. He took no memor- | wuwicim ol the wetes, only eudorsed therm, left | them on the table, and walked p the street His tatk was always how well they weitiug one William, be said, was a little €itravagett about the cottage tbe had buiit, bewi the could stamd that, J may | btete that the Lease of the Tamnery was spoken Olu @ prool that everything was jn lis own

lewuda L have seeu hiuw write several times m | “a i tad

mia -— - mee-- one ~—4 tures On the notes sued for throuy hw powerful | magither, and could see no evide:.ce of traemig | ] velieve they wre not forgeries. I think they | wiv old Me. Dawson's signatures. The old mau | isa better writer than his sun William. [don’t! think William could forge his tather’s name die could not torm the letiers as they are forn: | ect iv his father’s siguature. J believed the ew- | duisements to be old Mr. Daweot, 5 at the time | } twouk the notes, and I believe them to- be his |

Chie La

lieiw | lie

Were

Dusiness

now. Now}! looks @ little ditferent from the | ethers, bel these 8 noesign of tracing in Me |

fdid Me. Dawseu told me he endorsed all their | costumers paper, but that he kept no list of |

the votes he eudomed, and that was the reason | why he cumeto me fora list. Had I never seen eld Mr. Dawson write, | should have said,

on comparny the endorsements on the notes With the siguaiures proved to be bis, that the | @iudursemenis were his. Crors-examined by Mr. Thom) son : Me. T. Lites as & suit comumneed by you against Thomas Dawson for money lent by you to hiw. Lave you an account made out aguinst lim? or is there an account stated against him in your book? Wadtness In my book the notes are entered ia the names of the wakera, and credit given as moneys were paid Om account of them. | made no charge in my books against Thomas Dawson-—only against the makers of the wotes. Against Thomas Daweou, when be gave me his own note, or when W. B. Dawson gave me his note, I did the same. | looked upon the dather and the sou as carry- ing on business together. | have uo account in my bovks against Teomas Dawevn alone, unless when be was the waker of a note given to me. The discount | charged was az percent. Mr Thompsoa. 4 think you said the notes brought to you by W. b. Dawson were endorsed by his tather with | tie words ** presentation, Cowaad, and motice waived,’ and that, i any were brought to you without those words written upon them, you sent them back to have the ouicsion supplied. | think there is ope Lere without Luu words, and you said there Wer notene watluutthem VWe/uess. Yes, there is ope Jor 4501. Lt is @ now of George Nicolls, over due sace January, i867, Mr. Them sun. You eaid you Dever tuvk & nute Without the words ** waiwing, preseutment, demand, and notice ’’ upon it, und you were Wrong ib saying Be? Was Thomas Dawson fic only person you looked tt}? Witness, ‘the travsactiops were entively between Thomas Dawson and me. i only claims | nyainet W.b. Dawson asean endorser, j koew he (W. 1B DD.) was not worth a straw. i dv bot thimk that any other person was present wheo old Mr, Dawsun explained to |

p we toe pature of the business connection |

wluich exwted between bum and bis

BUM W ilwm.

‘To some extent, | believe, W. B.

~PAstovb appeared the heed nan im the pubbe |

eye. Lknew he was the manager. i do mat kuow that the public generally thought how Use proprietor, Mr 1 hompson. The betes Whieh you hold in your band are driwn payable to W. B. Dawson, as the proprietor. Did you never think, or to say ty vid Mr. Dawsen, that, if he was the pro-

lawyer, without! Dawson came | up to me, | told him how ill the parties, both |

h

prietor, ag you have said he teld you he was, it was strange his son shoald take notes in his own name? Wainess, Wher Thowas Dawson told we so, | believed he was telling me the truth : he was, by repu- tation, an honest wan [ believe here was

some very queer work about the Tannery, |

and it was, therefore, perhaps, not generally understood whe was the real owner, At the time it raised my suspicions that all was woh Vawit tuharrit at, frat ihey } mscd oul ol Ojhivr

raw tated. Dawson told me all was

i Mig 5 » well aval Par ety Me T }

son. These notés, according to your state- ment, were merely orders far money W hat Was your ohjcct in requiring the waiver to be written upon them Was old Mr Dawson to be liable for them, ether with or Without the waiver upon them? Wetness, Ye “he Wale to tne liable I sent buek potes Which were withoutit (the waiver) because

I would rather lave the waiver apon them- 1 tad« x} Iniacd to him that when he en dorsed with the waiver, be put himself in the position of the maker of the note i then louked upon him as the maker of the note of borrower the toney, as my pri mary debtor. the note, in enen case, being ¥ lrabality. Mr. Now, if that was the case, was so Without the words of the Wiiness It was

ol

werely the evidenee of hoes I hompson it net as mueh

whiver with Mi

which

as them? J Aomvson. were not so endorsed, to have those words put on”? Woiadness Beeanuse | pre- ferred having them, aud bad told him (old Mr Dawson) that ft should always require him to endorse in that way. L swear that the never put on - SS Dawson in my ollice. Now, ull the conversati wm Which you lave detailed ws having passed between you and old Mr

waiver Was by

Mr. Lhompson

Dawson, Was it not with W. B. Dawson? liave you not con! med the one with the other in your mind? Wefness. The ecen- |

vereaution was with ould Mr Dawson, Wher the transaction was simply with W. B. Dawson, | wos to give netice > bat not when

l told old Mr.

he

it was witheld Mr. Dawson

Dawson } was not going to be bothered in that wav. | had no iden of forgeries until atter W.B Dawson left. ‘The first time | heard of them, Mr. Richard teartz was present, and, on that occasion, he said to old Mr. Dawson, ** Uncle, | do not tt.ink William would ferge your mame: be is vot so bad as that?’ Ail the notes on which | had made sdvanees were brought to my lhuuse, from my oflice, ny Mr. breartz and in Mr. Lleartas presence shewn to and ex- amid by vid Mr Dawson. As respects two uf thearm—one given by W. Finlay, the oblier yy Prowse— he said the endorsements were very hike his handwriting, but he cvuld not recetiect that he had enmlorsed them, hie said that he knew ue owed we a large eamount—L£150). | said it was

Ai Sv0 of nutes xiven by Nicol!, and endorsed by him. tle said it was 21800, if it was riglit that the £560 should be accounted a art of it. Mr Thompson. Alter W B sland went away, did you mot try to get

a bend aod Warrant,or Judgment Bond, | hae te

hs at

peuple of Neva Scotia, whe had uever in a} |

|

trom old Mr. Dawson for the amount which you said he owed you ? and did you not ewploy Mr. Heartz to try and arrange with | old Mr. Dawson for you? Waitress | | never employed Mr. |t.eartz for any such | purpose, either directly or indirectly. Old |

Mr. Dawson said be could not pay me thie | L150, but le would pay the £1500 vut of | the proceeds of Nicuil s estate. | swear he! did not tell me that any of the nutes in my hands were turgeries. ile spoke of suuie notes in the bank as being tourgeries. tle suid he had no recollection of signing Prowee’s pute, and that he was afraid the nutes in the Bank were torgeries. One day i met Lim in the street, and he told me he had Leen looking over the list of notes in my olice. There was a large amount, be said, but that, although Willimw was rather i | clined to be extravagant, and bad spent a good deal upon his house, be was doing a | you! business, and could afford it Mr. Lhompsun. After W. Bo Dawson bad lett, did you net say the Tannery ought to be carried on, or vtherwise Douwald MeKinnon

Would bave the whole business m lis lands ? Witness. No: bo asked old Mr. Dawson what was the value of the Cannery, aud he said between £4000 and L500, awd, ratier than it sheuld wo for less, be would hary it in hineselt, work it, and pay olf the debos

here Mr I fat] <on observed Cat Clie witness anewered evasively and heyoud the questian,

apd tuat he Would be obliged to request the Court w restrain him = Did you mot, at that tune, propowe that the old man should give

you a Judgment and assign to lieartz, and ety tiat that would be @ proteetion to him

(the old nein) against uuknown elaine ? Wiilness WwW hiedi tie Betas hie would pRaVv te,

I suygve-ted that be rliculd vive meu dudy- ment for what owed me. bo tedld tes jomt note against the old man. Mr. Thomp son Yuu say you knew William was worth bething, is i net curivus then that you should get im tu joi bis fitber in joint nutes ty yuu fiow many such joint notes did you take? Witn-ss. bkive but only twu were original, and charged to W. is. Dawson and his father. Mr TL Did you | not, atter the £113 transaction, when W. LB. Dawson browgit you a batch of notes, denis bios with tue amount of the money you give him tor the notes and the discount, and gave hia credit for the motes ? Watness

Yer, ut lust butnotattiret. Mr. Thompson

Was not the mode such that one bahiuced W. 1 did not give him credic

he

the atber

lor the notes, and charge him with the cash |

and discount. Mr 7. Now, Sir, this mw your book? W. it iw. Mr 7. Here is the amount of the notes ; here the discount ; bere the makers’ names: and w not the stufement balanced? W tt iv: it must be so of necessity. W. Bo Dawson's Book was then shewa to Mr Hodgson. He looked

at it, and said sumething im it had been |

altcred. Mr. T. Vie book sliews the amount of cash which you gave W. B Daweon, and the diseount you bin? W. Yes; down to 1806, it shews how | kept the account Mr. 1. Alter this you had another book? (shewed it to Mr. ddodgeom.) ts the system the same in this buvuk? WL No: it is w diferent one. When my presenc elors, Mr. teliin, came ty me, be did not like my system. 1 opened a separate account ter each note. Le shorteaed it by adding all the notes together, and entering them ail in one sum, taking ® memorandum of the particulars of each hele. ‘This book is net my book : itis W. B. Dawson's book. Mr. 7. Uhe notes, in March, 1807, were entered in a batch, and, on such oceasions, you took W.B. Dawson’s note fur the whole amount of the une entry, sey LOD. —hulding the emaller uetes them- seives as collateral security? W. The other nutes Were Bot held merely as collateral se- curty. The arrauzement made was to siwmplity the uccounis, aud it was wade be tween my clerk and W., B Dawson. Mr. Bie eo given, shall be produced Mr. /udysun. They belong w another suit; and, there- fore, | will not produce them, [TLese nutes were bot produced |

Mr. Hodgson, reeranuned by Mr. C

Palmer: Mer. Bellin, my clerk, asked me if |

[ would allow bim to mass the notes, as! an appearauce of controversy was vaialy wat bome to share the perils of our native land

dummy sv would be a saving of time and labour | in writing ; and ! liberty to doas be pleased about it

Phen why send buek notes

charged |

I demand that W. B Dawson's nutes, |

| How

T. | The undersigned, Delegntes from the 1’ro- | vinee of Nova Seotia, before returning to their | homes, deem it a duty, alike to those they re- | present and to the people of this country, to | pootest in the most solemn and emphatic mav- | ner against the decision of the Honse of Com- (mons on the motion made by Mr, Bright on the nicht of the L6th of June last As th nay allect the lovalty of @ roble provinces ' sboricab me portanece, the vu ide 1 wd, au piel swe reuids, Meare to shak@eith mscives clear sibility which one House of Par- ider the wuidance of Her Ma biesty ’s Government, tae ass imac

\\ th

NOVA SCOTIA'S: PROTES

at decision

ol the res sted, act t chronic tasurree

Lieiand iu a state of

tion, with a miliion of FMenians hovering upou @ OU aud exposed Prouth ry annually reeruptled by hundreds of thousands of discontented men riven Crom their somes in utter despair of the resourée’s of British statesinanship, it did not to the undersized but reasonable to

Imperial Parliament not Co enue

43 the aen of discontent, or to vive a wew iit

1y ‘ise to these elements of disturbance.

a N wa Scotia trouts the populous, eduented, warlike, and prosperous New Knyland Stites,

that take all theu

is no marketin Canada. The arsenals and id wkvards of Boston and Portsmouth are with

. y ’ ° >» te in thirty hours’ sail of Halifax, xad behind

} these stretches a Ww hole continent, fre trude oth which woul ‘factories upon all he: lying capital for all ° i prises 5 , thoursh the thirty-four

vreat country

) streams, ente

political associations

with milhous of tnihalbit this ‘ solve high taxation, it would open a career for

might fora time in

i her « hildren and ensure to them ade puate pro- jtection for ever by land and sea True to their old traditions, preferring their |

old ag aud their old forms of administration,

the peopre ol Nova Scotia, whiie cherisnins the ‘ °

delusion that they were En slishmen, entitled

; : to the richt, as they were skiiful im the practice n b

self poverument, were Content, with all these temptations beside them, to follow the fortunes ind share in the glories and the vicissitudes o!

ayreat british boaajire. Sout when asked by Lord Mouck to form part of a uew nation, la

lation with a few milions of peo

>

erLlOUs mAs te who offer no markets for thei productions, | W idem Upon Colonimi aifarrs, ousht to be © have no capital tospare, W ho havea lOng, temas d and viazed, ’ ail bel less tronter, without a warship upou On the second reading of the Bill in the h an or an arsenal wpon the seaboard, it] House of Commons, the hon. weinber ior Stock wus that the N as olians sh id ew,) |) wt deciared that ial the Cigueral Bile tion s they 185, "6, a 7, such wu proj ij whieb tuck place th Nova Svotia wa Lobo, ti thon wit] ‘ leit distrust, st cion and alaru juestion Contederation bad been p escuted and it Was most unnal unus , and un jaad discussed at every poliing-booth in the toutional fer Brit ernors ini pre vuntry. This declaration was wiltueut Lhe enter ts r Sov ivns to ¢uga a Muli; Shadow ot loundaliou W hea pubosted hat infrisucs, ft suer d tu persounml soucthitions, 5 Nova Scotia, it was received la every part of wig tO Carré cniel cover of reckless charzes| Wie cou itry With maltiie d shouts ot iauzhter and “disloyalty and by vross co ruption, a mea jumdigaaiion, isut what thea % |t served its}

| sure w meh the uatural instincts of seit preser-

their populations to resist.

It was natural, also, Wheu betrayed by a few | rash and unscrupulous men, who came over jhere toask the lmpertal Parliageat to embody in # Statute the most flagrant breach of trust in our Colonial Annals, that the ceatury sent a Petinow to Parliament before, should claim to be heard before its final sanc tion was given to machinations sv astounding

What did they ask? That the bill should be thrown out? That a scheme of govera ment, al best but an experiment, secreuy pre- | pared ina Loudon hotel, and never submitted | to either of the Culunial Leyislatures, should) be abrust! They might in all rea son bave asked this, but they did aot. preamble to the Bill it was assumed that the peuple of Nova Scotia desired the revolution- ary chauzes proposed. lu the summer of 1866, oveifili of the popu ation of the Provinces,

wie their ordinary a vcations, and known

y rejected ?

, ; ia the

‘ ' Uae

lo

sea. ln

be hostile to Confederation, were pon the : their absence, 31,900 men, a uumder equal to three-fifths of the cutire militia force of the country, sigued a Petition, which was | presented by Admiral Erskine to the House of | Commous. All that these nen asked was a! week's de ayy that they mizht have an oppor

tunity, i due ewurse of law, aud without wuy

extraordina y exercise of the prer igutive of

dissolution in their favor, to express then dei

berate convictions. The General elections were to come offin June. If the people of Nova

ided ayainst the Bill, it is clear that the entitled to the benelit of the ex-

Scotia dex

ue’ wok emption made in favor of the peu le of Prince mdward tsiand and Newfoundlaed. Uf they

cousernted to aecept it, as Parliament would sit t Aacust, there was ample time to pe feet the tugusure aad to prociaiin the New Dominion lous belare the close of the year. The [ f this petition, so modest and so reasonable, vids Peps d, and the undersigned caunol re- | vali,

bation, the manner in which the subject was

ywruyel

willout @ Sense of deep surrow aud humi-

b treated lust year in both Eases of Parlament

lu the Commons the petition was never read, aad scarcely referred to. Iu the Lords its exisiciuce was bardiy recognised, theirexercise |

of the right of Petition was sneered at, and the wile ince and affection of a high-spirited aud loyur people were iveated with Supreme lin

© se eiee,

A tew nizhts since the claims of 700,000 per-

'sous, Wlw claim an ascendancy over three or

four aullions of their fellow-subjects, reyarded | Hivuse of Commens as perilous to the | iutegrity of the Empire, came up for | discussion in the House of keeds There was a fuci atteodanee. Tue Chamber was crowded, There were royal Princes on the Cross benches, a goodly array of Bishops in lawn sleeves around the woolsack, aud of nobie ladies, richly attired, raming influence from the gal-| ees Contrast this scene with that which 'suine of the undersigned witnessed with a sad i revalsion of feeling in the same Chamber in| }the winter of L867. 370,000 Englishmen, as) ‘ioyal and as intelligent as the Protestants of | lreland, stood for the first time inthe presence | of the Peers of Kayland, claiming wo ascend, | ancy, asking ho lavors They could point to) }a century of successtul leyisiation, to thirty years of culightened self}goverument, to their] public works constructed without fraud, to their ‘hiee roads aed free schouls, to their loyal | Militia, their well drilled Volunteers, and to the sin, aod the dead who have shed their bloud liu defence of the Einpire. by thriit they had lmaistained their civil yoveranent, and illus

by Lie peuce wud

ltvated, Ou # Content Where protectionist levislaties: Was much favored, the free trade policy of Bagland Was if tou much for such : people, dragged for the first time before the | LLouse of Lords, to expect that ina CUULPOVErSsS linwolving vested interests of the greatest masuitude—constitulionadl priveiples demand. jing the most subtle investi ration — tuucning and so honorable, and national considerations of the very highest | jmoment, they would be protected bY ab .eust! the semblance of serious consideration, Had \this been # case touching the honcer or the estate of w single noble Lord, it would have | (been heard aud re-head with exemplary |

teelings so sacred

| patience —months, nay years, would have been |

erauted fur the production uf a piece of evi- }deuce on which it was appareat the whole case | turned,

the treatment which | At no time while the)

differeut was Nova Seotia received.

| Bill was under discussion were there lifty Peers |

in their seats, and oa the only occasion when |

tempted te be provoked hy one or twu noble |

notes, witch, ow the vecasions of the lesser | till there were but tea menibers preseut, when

holes being maseed, be (Mr. Bellin) teok for the whole amounts from W.B Dawson, | have never suugit to enturce, and they never will be enforced. i swear | always beld old Mer Dawson liable. WB, Dawson's notes Were not given tu alter the liability.

K. B. levine, Reporter,

Ths Norte Buirian Review for Jone has re-

cently beex issued by the Leounrd Seott Publieh- ing Company, und completes their series of pecnseines for the qnurter just closed This teview js a yrest fuvorite with many readers; the editor has of lute years shown good jadgemant in the selection of subjects, and it bas ceuked to be the organ of more local interests Of the eight articles in the present number, those on the History of Writing, ou Sleep, and on Lovie IX: of Franc (Sting Louie), will be acceptable to all chisses of readers. Lhe first wawmed articic vives aa xecouut of face swiles of uational madseripte lately pub- lished by wuthority in England, and is fall of anti Qiarian luformation of the most readable kind, and the paper om bomte LX, is ef murked biograph ieal und historical interest, ier articles wie Mistral’ s Mircio (a review, With many extracts, vi @ Very pleasing Provencal poem), The Greek fdyllie Poets, Memoirs of Baron Bunsen, Schools and Universities, Charches and Creede Ile miust be hard W please wiw finds tuis number dull seuulg

the Bill finally passed. A youd many historic | delusions were dissipated on that day. Frank- | ring standing before the Privy Council, and en | during the sarcastic insults of Wedderburn, | did not, itis fair to assume, retire uiore grieved | and indigeanut than did the yventlemen who | represented the people ol Nova Scotia on that | occasion. i

They did not, however, follow Franklin's examp'e, They were reluctant to throw over board the traditions of thew fathers The! | seutiment of loyalty. They used this lan- guage; -* The Government, Parliament, and | the People of Kagland have been deceived,

wrong Was intended. have erred with the best uiteations, but punish | those who have deceived them. Prove that the evidence upon which the whole case turned was worthless, and trust to the honor of the Imperial Parliament to relieve |dom, as wounding to your pri jtrous to your itterests,”’

a from thral- |

produced, proof more overwhelimins than can Loe gathered frow the pylidica! aurals of Ruy.

and be tolluwed by events of

creat staples for which there | - i

? i ic ritiinate

freemen who}

| ed

e us it is disas- |

ftaken, and at the elections, without a disloy | word spoke or a blow struck, the evidence was |

‘land in the versies. ws

With this evideuce in their hands the uiller- signed came to England instructed to ask for

[imperial Statute | | the repeal of eo much of she oe Desved their lawless puuishment,

f travelling on foot over the Rocky Mountain? to the Secetwater mines, is reported in one of |

as related to Nowa Scotia. They instructions, bat yeilding to the Opimiva © their best friends bere, who thoaght (har Par- ‘liwment might fairly reqaire, as condition pprecedent to repeal, aa in lapeudent iw sti 'gotion ity the real state of tbe fests and of the fihe subject should be agate preseuted with every security agulust the possible evils vo Fn wise precipilaucy, aud iu the full reliance that any fair Vaquiry evuld be followed by but ene rresalt, Uhe House of Commous have thousht proper to reject Mr. Bri It was Clear that no ether result could be ex pect- ed after the promulgation ot the Colonial Seeretary’s despatch livision list that, with few exceptions, the sup- | porters of the Government raltied to sustain its policy, and the aid of Me. Cardwell made a triumph over justice and common sense ex-

‘bt’s resvlution.

tremely casyv

- ’ ; > tacharmre hej | The undersigned having discharged then | ] . te

dutv—they trust with courtesy aud indepen dance—-will return to their homes i a lew

davs. His Grace, the Colonial Secretary, and Mr. Adderly, acting upon the representations of the Governor Gene ral and of the Canadian avent in this country, have uid d the House

t Comimeous to a positien which, re sarded leither with reference to Limperial interests or to tie mutual co-operation und xood netrhbor l hood of the British American Provinces valy, the undersizned cannot but consider as must junwise. The people of Nova Seotia hardly prepared to believe that the Imperial meut and Parliament would refuse re- though done

were

re er dvess for a yreat wrong, even juadvertently aud with the best intentions. They certainly could not have imagined that in a case involving the honor of the Empire, ; the Parjiament, and all the rishis and revenues Of au ancient and noble Provinee, they be denied the most obvious fort of inde pendent Investiration Nor will their feelings be much suothed by

the style of argument pursued towards them

good name ot

would

} 1A tew specimens ol the accuracy of wembers

ot Paraament, Clauning to spe ak with orneutar

fturn, and the House of Cummuns, led the Confederation Bill without a division. | port, whom we always charitably assumed ta lthe Provinces had beeu grossly deceived, was | thrown over altogether,

and Mr. Cardwell flatly contradicted Mr. Wat kin, and admitted that at the elections of 1563.

husliuzs. established beyoud dispute, but stranze to say that botn those gentlemen mised the House

Most momentuous of her eantro. |

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ee ee soo

“CRIMB AND VENGEANCE.

CRURL MUuDeE AND PM CUT PUL RETRIBUTLON.

A shoeking story of brutal murder and swift uinougs & party of ininers

our Westers exchanges. Hess, a Frenchman,

aud Armstrony, a Nova Scotian,

| but apparently become reconciled, wheu Arne

low ling of the Proviuee, they were coutent that |

It is evident from the ,

1 | 5

1 with this |

‘ vation in all tue Maritime Provinces, prompted | statement raging tn the ears of memivers, pass: |

In the reeent debate the member tor Stock: |

Both Mr. Adderley |

stronmreopened the disayreement and threat- ened Hess for taking sume of bis tobacey. During that Gay the party entefed a daugerons and ditticult ¢ wvern, throuch which they wound alony a narrow ledre of rock, several hundred feet above the bed of the siveam which vay along at the foot of that fearful prec ipice. At the point of the greatest danzer, where the party had to travel in single file, and several vards apwt, Armstrang watched his opportu- nity to dedze behind a ledge of rock unobser- ved, and thus fell behind the others. — [Less was the last mar in the file. .As he drew near to the place where Arinstrong was seereted, the latter stepped outand follows d his COMPAltons without seeming ‘te notice him. Presently he knelt down as if to tie his shoe, and Hess, un- able to pass, stopped within a few feet of him. The next moment, turning about to te up his bundle, which had been thrown aside upen the ground by a sudden change of movement, he seized the unsuspected Frenchmen hurled him over the ede of the terrible abyss. Some twenty or thirty feet down from the face of the preeipice the wretched man lod zed in the branches of a seragzy hemlock tree, which grew out of a crevice in the rocks, and micht from thence bave been rescued if assist- ance had been nigh. But there was none. How the murderer could summon the hardi- houd to stoop down and wateh the fall of his i victim from that dizzy height, we cannot ima-

vine. Yet Armstrong did look down the cliff,

work was well done, and saw peor Hess still desperately maintaining his hold upon lite, in- stead of lying a shapeless muss ut the bottom lof the The fiendish spirit manifested itself further. He vot f ayrraents of rock and cast them down upon the poer man, until his lite hody dee pped the

t ayss Hel

CANON, still over

Less yuwt if

ow; then Armstrong arose and pur- sued his journey, from a di

wee other ef the party, who was apart hunting

rame; and after they

isht he told the x wnd charged with the inerder, and he did net deny it. A part in favor of taking him with them through to the

j Phe wieole net seen had get into cain) at

nm’ Was

‘ - } 4 , siory, when Armstrong

f the company were

setiicments, to be tried by the civil authorities:

the maj determined to allow the no chance for escape, and so, about before miduisht, Armstyor jucted to the top of a eliff which rose like a wall to the height of 180 or 200 feet, half a mile in the rear of the camp. Having bound | his hands and feet they cast bim over into the black abyss, Gut of which no ery returued.

THE FPENLANS.

rity wert mnderer Fl

in nh y Was COl-

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| We trust that the foolish utterances of their |

| journals will not cause the Government to re-

the question had not been discussed at the) inguish their attitude of watchtalness in view Fae fact may now be regacded as} of y Feniaa raid.

There are fewer outward | Signs of preparation than there were in 1866,

7 m j aud less sympathy is manifested by the Ameri-

i . ’ es : i Ps way . ‘ jof Commons by drawing an taferrmce toot tt} oan press and people: but there is no reason

of the most vital import insuch a controversy, |to believe that the intention of the Feniau

not only unsupported by, but utterly at variance | jeaders to make a raid this summer has been | Both assured toe House that | abanduned the subject was not imentigoed only because ail | it, and if they fail to keep their promises, will the public men were in favor of Confederation, ||. ge their i .

with, the facts.

They lave collected money for

influence over the Presidential

and the people fully instructed and prepared for jslection, from which they hope so much.

it. inen of high character on tlouse,

v'clock in the mu.ning, wheu nobody could

This argument, coming tro two geutie- Hprposite sides of the

Was assumed to be accurate, aud at one

correct their statements, had a decisive influ |

ence upon the division.

Now what are the facts? Some months be fore the election of Lsu3, Mc. Howe aud Me. Tilley, accompanied by six other delegates from Nova Scotia and New Breuuswick, went Quebec and there discussed with the Execu tive Council of Canada tht geuera! policy of a political union of tae Provinces. At thst cou ference it was decided, without a dissenting voiee, that uutil the Tsterculoniai Railway had