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1 Correspondence Imperial Parliament, and adopted ia other QGplonied The Ls ree Q : § nomination had invariably m infested | ee SSC

themselves in the constant appointment to the Gouncil ofsup- | (vow TUR EXAMINER. | porters of the party 1a power fur the time)eing ; and when | » a

evils of the &ystenm «

that party Jost its position. the members of a Popular G8vern- | ORANGE ASSOCIATIONS. ment, supported by the Assembly, were impeded by a branch | ;

. a ‘ 73% i ° j it -_ of the Legislature composed of their olitical opponents. It Nec pluribus imiper.

* i had been.uwrgeds thatthe Coungil would net pasg the Bill. | yy His ExcrtLency Crorge Dunpas, Esgn., LigvrTENAstT ‘They might nog, bus they had go vested right to their seats, Governor, &c. which they beld merely during the pleasage of the Crown, : — ; which could at any time remoye them, and would do so if| May it please your Excellency— auch werd the deliberate wish of the pe yple — Executive action | T again. as promised in my former latter, return to the fo erpordgace yn th whieh a “ ae ng - i « Brethren of thé loyal order.” Belore, however, advancing Socal tate Je ee craae Barty oF be - ‘any farther proof of what Judge Moore has pronounced the age ite a bodyto the policy of the other. Under thé Bill, * exclusive disloyalty ¥ und * rebellious character ” of the the members of the Council would oceupy a much higher and | lawless and rufian banditti_ known by the name of Orange- HOre oHstitutional position than at present. As to the con-} men, [ may observe ex passant that a worthless and men- fusion which wo ld arise from the election of a Council, con} dagious scribbler has, over the world renowned signature of sistingventirely of members without Parliamentary experience, | « Juniys,” attempted what his arrogance and folly no doubt

the same objection might be urged to every general election| , | - - as . :

: tna bth ce dealin Ga te kuéW should ba'the result, | 2e¢e™ & reply tomy ener to your aati © . . \ » 1 £ s _ >

jt would afford the strongest proof of the dissatisiaction fait) Phe fulsome style of pis harmless epistie, quite destitute o

by the people at the present constitution of the Upper Branch. facts, and abounding in reckless assertions, unsupported by ‘The Dili, however, provided that candidates should be men of/ even one single authority, becuuse he had none to offer, proves such position, thatsach inconvenience need not be anticipated ; to every man, even of the most ordinary capacity, that an besides it was probable that some of the present members, if) abler advocate than ‘ Junius” is required by the Orange popular, woukt be returned; avd it might be that some) ¢ ction to defend them from the pen of Mentor. Lis reply, members of the Assembly would seek a seat in the Council) iy cknowledged weakness must convinee him that his avo- under the new system. soc bn wild th cation is not the championship of a disreputale and disloyal Hon. Mr. POPE was amused at the minority, with the | cinse, whose merited unpopularity is sufficient to make even exception of oie hon. member, the Hon. Mr. Whelan, now | trye. gems shrink appulled from its defence. He must feel supporting the elective principle, after having so strenuously | a\4s, vour Excellency, that it is much easier to write senseless opposed at on former Oveasious. T hey now contented them- dogzerel, obtain the ephemeral reputation of a j ogtaster, than selves by characterising its application to the whole body consult the facts of history, and deduce therefrom rational simultaneously as unconstitational, but were in favor of its}. ny legitimate conclfsions. Any partially, mentally diseased. partial adoption. —_ If it were unconstitutional to apply the) moon-strack maniac, affected with the rodies of rhyming, can change to the whole, it was equally so to a portion on the | go the former. It is only men of sound judgment. industry, occurrence of vacancies. Ifthe people are to govern through | eyjemt and perseverance who can accomplish the latter. A their representatives in the House, aud they have declared | few words, your Excellency, with reference to Junius, and the alteration necessary, it must be considered s0. One I pledge myself to have doue with him for ever. proof of its necessity was to be found in the fact that in Byron has said ‘‘the man who cannot reason is a fool, the vheit address to the Queen the Council had stated a falsehood | 4° who will not reason is a bigot, and the man who dare concerning the Government and the House, They had stated | not reason is a slave.” Junius appears in the threefold that the Government had but “a small majority, Now, | character described by the noble poet, a bigot, fool and slave. the majority comprised 18 to 12 of the minority. He had) 4 fool, in not being able to reason that the testimony of uo wish to say anything personal of any individual member, Grattan, Gosford, Palmerston, Derby, &c., would prove mere but. when-be reflected that sacha statemert had been put convincing to the publie mind in rendering odious and con- forth by a man who was not a freeholder— who had no pro- temptible the blood-stained system of Orangeism, than any perty iu the country— thing one of the asuamep could say in support of its damdblike Who, when he puts his hat upon his pate, ennocence and saintly demeanour,—a bigot who, in his Doth pyt s ring fepce round bis whole estate, blind zeal for Urangeism, came forward to defend it, although he could pot but think that the cooner the change took place} he must know, if he knows any thing, that its banner is the better. The party he referred to was possessed of 12 or s-ained with blood, and its badge disloyal, —bear witness ye 13 offices, and although it might be svid that he was not in} myriads of innocent victims of Orange assassination—attest receipt of pay from one.or two of the most trifling, yet he the trath the Orange conspiracy to prevent cur gracious was paid as Registrar of Leeds or Commissioner of Public | Sovereign from ascending the throue of her royal predecessors. Lands, of Small Debts, as Adjutant General of Militia, as Aud he is the slave of all systems the most bebasing —the Legislative Coaneillor, Member of Board ef Edueation, &e.|slave.of religious prejudice and rancorous political hate—a Mr. Hutebinson’s appoinunent had been justified on the wretch whose character hes been drawn to the very life in eround that he had been twice clected Mayor of Charlotte- the following lines by Ben Jonson, but a little altered :— town. Why then had he not. been appointed to the Council while he was Mayor? It was ouly when the people had re-| jected him that be obtained a tle to a seat in the Council. | L2 was opposed to the pian proposed by the Hon. Mr. Thore- | ton, to increase the number of Councillors under the Bill to} 14. “It was quite large enough, perhaps too large already. | ra And the same might be said of the House. It was ridiculoas} Pardon me, your Exeelleney, for taking up so much space, to have such a nymber as thirty members. It was altogether and oceapying so much time with the braiule-s epistle o! tog much. He was in fayor of diminishing the numbers of longer

** Ifo talks as he is wont, not as we merit:

Traduces by custom, as most dogs bark; 4 ste : :

Dues nothing out of judginent, but disease;

Speaks ill because he never eculd Speak well.

And who’d be angry with such a wretched creature.””

both branches. If she Liouse should wait until the present members of the Council died out, they might wait a long time, for they would be foand to be pretty tough. — Whev

“Who knows him well, must loath him with diszust, Degraded mass of ani:nated dust.’’ 7 alle | Aud I, your Exeelleney, quit him with the leep discus the Bill went to the Council, if that body rejected it, let) pat K,4 5 , , fp nS a - a“ ae deep disgust, i a : . : . and-feel assure] that ! hilo- Ment 3 rhe ne application be made tothe Sovereign. and let no time bej™ | dt re lt yt aoe ty Gen hee Se ' » hale } published, be qnalife “8sis * pres ‘eanon lost. The sooner the battle began the better. i pire. Y ; 7 ee ae oahana i ve )in Uhe same ratio as FblO-8 Unlus sent Dis powerlu aid to the r NTON o t the subject could : oe : | ; Hon. Mr. THORN PON ere - the suhject COu's | real Junius, the counterfeit Junius of the Monitor will be so scusse alities CATS hoi it] ' snd : ; not be discus: od erivont persone ities. “For ¥ rs wont © tortured witl the la-h ef an indignant pen pouring forth the nileged sins of the Vouncil had oe fathered on one inaivt- jinspiration of impassioned thougat, as will make him. pray 7 . ~wlionate riangvuave ut ence lmMprone : To , , “ dual. He had been desiguated by language at ence unproper | his tabernacle dissolved, yet not before the last ray of his

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a 1 ee tho late Government removed a fe , be abate In the language of JudgagMifoore, although the| neg * si a W petty Ora i are the very *‘ scum of society ” and that no loyal who had shown an active opposition to the party then in : 1g 3 y 4 , é $ { : : <i nes yectable man would unite with sueh an upchristian | « furious outery wis raised throughout the Colony, But» banditti tiger-like panting for the blood of their fellow’ every week’s Gazet/e brings us the intelligence of Cistaiegy ’ 5 ; p aaal s | ; creatures. still unfortunately young and unreflecting persons | petty officers, against whom no fault can be alle » but

are made the dupes of —s and eee ee go | whose removal from office not a word of explanation is i 2 instituti urpose ¢t organize these institutions for the Pp

later of embezzling the funds. safed, Newetiates, there is very pittle murmuring heap) The advocates of Orangeisp assert that they have no hatred | no complaint made, and no publie opinion aroused by &

to Roman Qatholies as fellow citizens, but that they detest despotic acts of the Government. :

theie creed. Let, your Excellency, the College riots iD} Jy short, there is no public, opinion in the, eountyy. é

Dublin Jast year give the lie to. this bare-faced assertion. | i1,.241 Party appears to be without # leader, has ui

‘e . i Fe The studentsof Trinity College are Protestants, the majority | a is thoroughly cowed: Orangemen. The City force is Catholic. The Protestant omy

; ange Boys) many.of them the , ! rene eons an ptt ae rae training for | to such a candid expression " opmion onthe part of the ministry, urged op by infuriated bigotry, attacked on | Baamenaes butas we have, done our diet y faithfully masse the Catholic constabulary under Ool. Brown, and the | Liberal Party—as we owe them nothing, while we belieys riot of the Orange blackguards was of such a serious nature Party owe us a great deal more than we should be di that the peace of the Lrish metropolis was disturbed for two | claim from them, ye think Twe|havana iffght t0 expees days and nights, and the peaceable inhabitants subjected 7 scans eee cok hott Maleneatalitatess cae t all the disquietude which results from the horrors of civil) P s I y oun at right a war. ‘The matter was investigated, and Qol. Brown, to use long as there - a press at our command, with regard 0 thy the language of the Evening Packet, » Protestant journal, services of which. we fear, some of our intended friends ay, with his moral, religious and well disciplined Catholic civil | little oblivious

force, were accorded due praise ; while the scions of the Irish ne es aristocracy, the educated Protestant youth of Ireland, were) Tuy English Mail, received here on Friday last, wine

roved to have raised the standard of civil commotion, set}, 41. 07¢h ult., did not bring much important a law at defiance, and made a combined and mendacious oo ast oe é3 8 fs portant news. Lit, aitack upon the guardians of the public peace. The decision 8 own of the proceedings of the Conference g

of the [rish metropolis was afterwards endorsed by the| Zurich; and, with the exception of some continued marmy, unanimous approval of the British Parliament ; and the Irish| ing on the part of the Italian revolutionists and their ayy. Protestant College has flung around ber, by the Orange | pathisers in England and on the continent, on account of the

blackguardism of her bigoted brood, a mantle of dark dis- abrupt termainktitin OF the With: $a Blid hb OUURG wan ns

5 aatatala ait . j ich © i nius has : aaa _ “ct with which Catholic ge engaged with any of the circumstances connected with thy ten flas g :

Another outrageous onslaught was made by the Orange- great struggle. Some English journals continue to speculay men of the County Antrim on the wnoffending Catholics, at} about the French Emperor’s supposed intentions with regard a place called Partglenone. The case was tried before the) to an invasion of England ; but orders have been given for

i William Joh , : g the Hon. Justice Ball, and among the rioters was illiam ° 9} dtenrremesit:,ol: tho arcsy! of Ttaly |: shdsbhe-Predch Gesell McClelland, Esqr., son of the Rev. Mr. McClelland, a 70> | ne vital’ 40 aetay” ebbanay Gabe ora testant clergyman, The circumstances of the riot were of . Pp ny oa y a rT On all sides, Raye a such an agvravated character, and displayed so much of the | yet given no indications of a disposition again to disturb the bigotry and intolerance of Orangeism, that the Crown refused | pesce of Europe. : an application o@the part of the prisoners aan ae eee ithe of the case. On the cross examination of another son of the ‘ | | Rey. Mr. McClelland, he admitred “ that his father’s borses NEWS BY TI ENGLISH MAIL. were dressed with orange and blue when drawing a vehicle Sontciendapaie

to church ;” and st the Ovange procession where the THE FRENCH DISARMAMENT.

unoffending Catholics were attacked, * he wore an Orange sent.” - The Emperor having ordered that the army be reduced

In the same paper from which the above is copied, the from a war to @ peace footing, the Minister of War has Banner of Ulster—the organ of Presbyterianism—is the | given orders that from the 20th September those men should trial of another batch of Orange rioters. The riot took ; return to their homes whose term of gervive expired in 1859, place at Newtoweromwellin. A gentleman of the name | Moreover, furloughs of three months will be allowed to those ot Kirk, a student of Trinity College, was awongst the pri-| who are in that class of exceptional cases provided for by soners charged with the unprovoked attack on the Catholics. the statute of 1832, and the same has also been granted to “He admitted he was an Orangeman, was a supporter of the men who can prove that they are indispensable for the Protestant ascendancy, and anxious to suppress Popery.” | support of their families.

The Banner says, with reference to the above trials : : |« (Jomment is unnecessary, when a Minister of God’s gospel | THE ZURICH CON PERENCE.— SETTLEMENT OF is drawn to church by borses decked with orange, and that LOMBARDY.

his son joins a mob of low and drunken Orangemen, wearing : pi : an orange searf, what is to be expected but a breach of the On Wednesday the Plenipotentiaries of France and Aus neaee when those miscreants of disorder chance to meet an tria held ad Corferenee, which lasted two hours. Accordi unoflensive Catholic. ‘There never hus been peace in Ireland to intelligence received from Zarich, the French and Aus since Orangeism raised its hydra head. ‘There never ean | tran Plenipotentiaries have regulated he settlement of the be peace in Ireland till Orangeism is constituted felony by affuirs of eee Sead SORE of the Sardinian jlaw, and some thousands of the handitti forced to leave their | Plemtpotentiary, " aR prrangeaant is expected to be con- country, for their country’s good.” firmed by the different Sovereigns. The affairs of the Sept. 2 1859. MENTOR. — | Duchies will be treated ef directly between the Courts of , sy 30 ' ’ . . Paris and Vienna. {The conclusion of the above letter, which will occupy about} 1 is impossible not to perceive that the grand pational as much more space as that already given to it, will appear | ovement in Tuscany xnd Modena hus nothing demagogical in our pext No., afier which we shall close our columns in its character and spirit. The oldest, most powerful, and against further correspondence on this unpleasant subject.-— wealthiest families are at its head, and it would be absurdte Ko. Ex ] aceuse them of entertaining revolutionary pridciples, There oa is no hope for anarchy or disorder. Kyverything is done quietly, nor is there any-vielenee in language even. People

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aud unparliamentary. . Ue had been termed. a busybody, u mischief-maker, as the very head anJ frout of a!] offenders. Hon. Mr. POPE—Who is he? Tlon. Mr. THORNTON—The reference to the 12 or 18 offices proves who was the individual alluded to. members should confine their remarks to the whole body of

the Council, and not select one individual as though he ruled} has no head, and cannot think ; she has no heart, and cannot

the Gounci!. (Hon. Mr. Pope, yes!) He did not beliove any such thing. As to the hon. member's declaration of aed with the Council, and his aspiration for its speedy commence-| ment, he could not consider such expression of opinion as calculated to facilitate the passage of the Bill. The Council had a right to the same degree of courtesy that the House claimed for themselves. Suppose the Council should pass a bill declaring that 30 members of Assembly were too many, and that 18 were sufficient, would not the House resent such interferenee with the constitution. He believed himself that the business was better done when the House consisted but of 18.

Mr. OWEN—The hon. member, Mr. Whelan, had last night stated that the majority bad been obtained by fraud sud ehicanery; he could assure him that he had secured his seat in spite of a partizan Sheriff. The principle of the Bill ad been tested and approved at public meetings. If the vhange was necessary, they should have it at once. They should pass the Hill as suon as possible, anc send it to the Council. If twey rejected it, then other measures could be résorted to.

Hon. Mr. HAVILAND had hoped that when the principle of the Bill had been debated and settled, the discussion in Committee would have been limited to the details; but | members had chosen to go @er the grounds they had pre- | viously travelled.

As to the effeet ot the Council rejecting | the Bill, suppose they did, and passed an Address to the | Queen against being dissolved, it would be an easy matter for a Colonial Minister to authorize the Lieutenant Governor to nominate to that body an additioual number of members, to give effect to the wishes of the pegple. At present, the | number of Councillors is restricted ‘to twelve. In Nova Scotia the number was so increased, and in Canada Liord Elgin, oa assuming the Goverament, found a Legislative Council of twenty members holding seats for life under an’ limperial Statute. When the new party came into power, and found those irresponsible Councillors arrayed in opposi- tion, Lord Elgin, by 2 stroke of his pen, increased the onmber by more than double. A similar course could be adopted hore, if necessary, The necessity of the change was admitted by every member, but Messrs. Whelan and Kelly. The only difference of opinion was as to the immediate and total or ‘gradual and partial adoption of i. As to the objection, that new members would be inexperienced, it seemed strange to hear that argument from those who eulogised the present in- cumbents as so highly respected and independent. If such were the case, there could be nodoubt that some of them | would be elected by the people, but the inference was, that. they were afraid to risk the result of au appeal to a con-| stituency. Besides, it was probable that many members of | Assembly would seek seats in an elective Council, dceming | the representation of a whole County a higher honour than | they dw enjoyed.

‘Lhe question having been put, the clause was agreed to. | ‘The remaining clauses, after brief re-assertions of arguments | already published, were agreed to, and the Rill ordered to bo | Priated, and to lie over till next Soesion.

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Hon. { Vocabulary of a gifted Lrish orator.

|i8 not quite satisfied with the evidence already adduced

= i os : e tabermele di Che Examiner. expiring poetical light will have enabled him to write his jown epitaph, Bat as he. basime power: of ‘invention, the |S ee ree highest proot of genius, and as he is also a paltry plagiarist, | CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.L, SEPPTEMPVER 13, 1859. | L here supply the ideas from the giorious mind and strong | ~~~ Junius has only to} A rew months ago, when the reins of Government were change the sex and tenses to make it literally true: “ Bigotry | about droppiing from the enfeebled hands of the party then

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in power, some wag of the Political Alliance commissioned Mr. Crier Hatch to offer a reward for the discovery of the gentlemen who had, up to that time, and for some short period

eel; when she moves it is in wrath, when she pauses it is amid ruin; her prayers are curses, her communion is death, her. vengeance is etervity, her decalogue is written in the plood of yietims; if she stoops for a moment from her infernal | afterwards, been left in charge of the ship of state, who, during flight, it is upon some kindred rack to whet her fang for|the existence of the memorable Three-days-Parliament of keener rapine, and replume her wiag for a more sanguinary | February last, were supposed to have deserted their posts. desperation.” , i. oe : Now, the joke was a very silly one, because the Liberal Go- ann Fa A ee a See vernment really had a tangible existence at that time; and

Orange associations.

classes of politicians, since the appearance of my first letter, of their way, by the mishaps arising out of the then previous

will His Excellenoy issue a proclamation against Orangeism, | general election, the affairs of Government were as faithfully or will he suffer the system to contiuue ? Will the present | and as regularly administered as at any previous period. But Executive co-operate with him in putting down the ustitU- | we do not think it would be any joke for Mr. Crier Hatch tion ? and if not, will he take tke responsibility upon himself, i

and as the representative of the Sovereiga, crush the unholy now to offer a reward for the discovery of the great piberal and disloyal fraternity? And it has also been asked, has Party upon whom that Government leaned fur suppert. We His Exeeilency the power delegated to him of acting in a| are painfully constrained to admit, that, according to all ap-

manner hostile to the intentions aud the interests of the Home | pearances, our party is shivered into fragments, or gone to Government? He knows that Her Majesty and the Royal sicep family repudiate and denounce an institution which endea- |

voured to set aside her legitimate right to the Crown; and|" 7°" Thicy Cotarnenoed theit Paros Dy Guitly overtursing

will His Excellency foster a system which rose in rebellion | the constitution which was granted to this Colony after great against his Mistress? and will be not prove his loyalty to | Struggles and sacritices, and under which the people enjoyed the Throne and his affection to the WHOLE PEOPLE over whom |a larger measure of liberty than ever they did before, or since ne 18 appoisten' to zue. by putting dora . system calculated its overthrow. It was the means of securing to usmany valu- a oe on Me ol to Ot are tid mes cece ‘able reforme, to propose which was denounced as seditious and tions, your Excelleucy, and ones which require very grave utopian under the ancient regime of the Family Compact. The

answers. But they will not, 1 assure your Excellency, end | (pponents of the new system assailed it with the most shame-

The present Government have been in office about half

jhere. The Orange association in P. K. Island, if sot pro- | ful misrepresentations—described it as the nurse of political

claimed down by your Exceliency’s Government, shall in due | profligacy and corruption of the darkest dye—laboured inces-

course be brought before the consideration of the Imperial santly to instil into the public mind the belief that the Parli-

Parliament. Questions asked here, but not attended to b the Government, will find willing listeners in the House of RR en ee eee oe

Commons, and some independent English member—a Bright Executive and of the Proprietary faction; and they assured or a Cobden—will draw the attention of the British public | those who gave too ready an ear to their misrepresentations, to the Government of this Coloay—enquire if your Excel-| that if they were placed in authority, they would speedily Jency has informed the Government at home of the danger to emancipate the Legislature from the trammels of the Crown,

Jife and property by the organization of Orange Lodges? : i or if your Excellency has taken any, and what steps, ocak ALY LESS aN eEen ae

down the rebellious institution? Perhaps 1 am wrong in the active promoters of popular interests.’ By dint of perse- anticipating such result. 1 hope so, and shall feel rejoiced | Verance and untiring calumny aided by bigotry and fanaticism, to learn that you are devising with your Exceative the best | they secured their covetted position at the head of affairs ; Deke of er ee re teurful and dangerous conspiracy. | and as soon as they destroyed the free constitution established

erhaps, as a cool, caleulating Seotchman, your Excellency | by the Liberals, instead of making the House of Assembly an

against the Orangemen to convjuce you that they are d angers independent body, as they promised to do, they degraded the ous to the peace of society. I assure your Excellency, in all | @8jority into the position of understrappers and slayes of Sincerity, if the institation is, suffered to continue muar Executive authority—subsidising an unusual number of its arenes Aaya e how FORCE WILL BE ORGANIZED, | members with seats in the Executive Council, and thereby e CC - 3 i a ‘ . re colisiou of which with Oraugeism will here, as in Lrelund, enabling them to dispense the patronage of the Government

dye the verdare of this beautiful Island a crimson hue Orangeism, your Excellency, will not acknowledge equality pnert, Hipis, SORRAHIOM PA PARTTIME FB CYA) Aare

—will ‘not concede civil or political rights. Its motto is neglected «or: failed; tepertovan:iguel nelitary—eyh doWarde ascendancy. Junius calls it ** Protestant supremacy.” It ameliorating the condition:of the tenantry, for whom they 1s a social tyranny which cannot be tolerated in a free | professed so much interest; or doing anything whatever to improve the condition of the country.

country ; it is a religious cursc—a political nuisance, and must

It has been frequently asked by all though somewhat disspirited, and diverted from the even tenor |

calmly express their sincere desires and profound convictions, All seem determined not to take back the fagitive printes,, The stipulations of Villafranca will therefore prove unreali- sable, so far as the Duchies are concerned. But what will be the result? There seem to be only two alternatives, the annexation of the Duchies of Tuscany and Modena to Pied- mont, or the formation of a central Italian kingdow, to include, perhaps, with the two Duchies, the Legations, and the cities of Parma and Piacenza, or at Jeast some portion of the territories forming the hereditary domain cf the Dgke Robert Il. The excessive aggrandisement of Piedmont can neither suit Austria, whieh circumstance is of little conse- quence, nor France, nor Europe. During the wary .the Italian question was very simple, but sivce the peace it has. been getting more and more complicated every day.

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GREAT BRITAIN.

The trial of a medical man named Smethurst, in London, on a charge of poisoning a lady, with whom he went through the ceremony of marriage, although he has a wife living, has: excited great interest.

On her deathbed he persuaded the unhappy woman to:

make a will, leaving the whole of her property to himself. The facts of this distressing case are most harrowing, so much so that the venerable Chief Baron Pollock, in summing up the evidence, was so overcome by his feelings that he could not proceed. It is the most extraordinary trial since the days of Palmer, to whose case it bears, in some respects, a striking resemblance. Palmer, it will be remembered, was executed for poisoning his friend Cooke, to whom he was under strong pecumary obligations ; but the crime imputed to Smethurst is far more horrible, for the woman was his wife in a legal sense, at least, and she was encien/e at the time of her death—a circumstance that added to it additional horror. ‘The medical evidence was, as usual, very conflicting, byt, as regards standing, the chemists and doctors called on the part of the prosecution are men in the very highest walk of their profession. The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and before the sentence was pronounced the murderer made a long speech, occupying nearly av hour, the contradictions 1 which, as compared with the known facts and the evidence, were so apparent and palpable that the learned judge was compelled, in passing sentence, to expose their mcnstrous W- consistency. At the conclusion the culprit exclaimed with reat vehemengg that Dr. Julius was his murderer, and he eclared before the Almighty that he was innocent. It will be remembered that Palmer died denying his guilt, and we have no doubt that this atrocious villain will follow his example. The Great Eastern is announced to leave the Thames on the 3rd of September, on a trial trip, which may possibly cx- tend 500 or 600 miles. She will then proceed to Portland, Dorsetshire. and sail about the 15th for Portland, in, the State of Maine. The Tariff of fares across the Atlantic will range from £18 to £25, and the applications for berths are said to be numcrous. ‘The directors state that they have re- ceived an offer of £20,000 from Mr. Lever to charter the Great Eastern to America and back, but they have declined it, as being incompatible with the views which they had de- liberately formed since the ship caifé into their possession.

It is reported that the Earl of Elgin will be appointed to

succeed Lord Canning, who will shortly retire from the Go- vernor-Generalship of India.

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