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I thought of Ais haughty sister, . No matter to be proud of Leva Grant. ‘That same month, coasin Leonard ond I took a leng walk one evening; when we returned, L wight have said t@ Lena Grant the very words sh: had used to me.
« When did yoa commence loving me, Leonard ?” I asked,
before we wemt into the house. Ile smiled.
“One morning, ¢ight years ago, under the old oak tree! it thus, think you, that your mothers, ‘that stands iu the lare, buck of the school-bouse, did [ com-| would requite tne ?
mence loving you, Magsie White?” |
1 Iaughed.
“Ob, L know all about it!” And then I told him what) she never issued save to serve you, and taught her to helieve | net,
had never before crossed my lips.
“ Well,” said he, “there isone woman that cau keep a se-| once took as personal xaffronts to hersel!, that they are jus
cret. I believe it now, Maggie.”
“ Are you not ashamed Leouard ? I have a good will not to have you, because you eMertaia suck a contemptible opin- ion of my sex.” “ °
“No, you haven't; you couldu't refuse me now if you
tried” said the egutistiea J ouhg Syjlowse, as he pout on my lips with a kiss. . Lt was the truth, reader—though, of course, I didu’t tell
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Fon the Martins of Cro’ Martin. —By Charles Lever. A COURAGEOUS IRISH GrRL IN A DILEMMA,
A servant rushing io at the instant, summoned the artist with all speed to Miss Martin's presence. Ile found her, as he entered, with flushed cheeks aud eyes flashing angrily, in one of the deep recesses of a window that look out upon the lawn. ‘
‘Come here, sir,’ cried she hurridly—‘ come here, and behold a sizht such as you scarcely ever thoughg to look upon from these widows. Look here.’ Arfd sh@pointed to an assemblage of about 2 hundred people, many of whom were rudely armed with stakes, gathered round the chigf entrance ofthe castle. Inthe midst was atall man, mounted upon a wretched horse, who seemed from his gestures to be haranguing the mob, and whom Crow speedily recognised to
be Mageunis of Burnagheela. *‘ What dees ail this, mean ?’ asked he, in astonishment.
* It means this, sir,’ said she, grasping his arm, and speaking
in a voiee thick from passionate eagerness, ‘ that these people whom we see there have demanded the right to* enter the house and search it from basement to roof. They are in quest cf one that is missing, and although [ have given my word of honour that none such is concealed here, they have dared to disbelieve me, and declare they will see for them- selves. They might know me better,’ added she with a bitter smile—‘they mizht know me better, and that L_wonltes more utter a falschogd {tho uid’ yield to a menace. see !’ exclaimed she, ‘they are passing through the flower- garden—they are approaching the lower windows. Take a horse, Mr. Crow, and ride for Kiltimmon ; there isa police station there, bring up the force with you, lose no time, 1 entreat you’
‘ But how—leave you here all alone ?
* Have no fearson that score, sir,’ said she proudly ; ‘they may insult the roof that shelters me—to myself they will offer no outrage. But be quick; away at once, and with speed.’
Had Mr. Crow been, what it must be owned had been difficult, a worse borseman thar he was, he would never have
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,| look ef scorn on the meu who followed him-—* for you, who has | lared to come here to iusult me-—lI, that if you had the Jcast spark of honest manhood in your natures, you had rather ) tied (han have offended? Is this’ your requital for the part /4 lave borne amongst 3 Is it thus that you repay the devotion by which | have squandered al} that 1 possessea, and would have given my life, too, for you and yours ? Is and wives, and sisters Or will they welcome you back from your day's work, and say: ‘Bravely done? You have insulted a lone girl in ber home, outraged the rooi whence
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and true, and as less than you merited.’ Go back mon,” added she, in a voice trembling with emotion—‘ go back, while it ‘is time. Go back in shame, and Jet men ever know who has ' daved to offer me this insult!’ Aud she hid her face between her hands, and beat down her head upon her lap, For
i by intensely painful emotion, and when she hified up ber head, and looked around, they were gone! reigned on every side; not a word, nor a footfall, could be heard, She \rushed to the window just in time to see a} number of men slowly entering the wood, amidst whom she | reeognized Magennis, leading his horse by the bridle and’ following the otbers, with bent-down head and sorrowful | mien.
‘Oh, thank heaven for this!’ evied she passionately, as | ‘Thank |
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Correspondence.
CANADIAN POLITICS. ;
Cuarnam, Canapa Wase~]ith June, 1856. ‘ Dear Ex soxere-Phe present session of our Canadian Legis- lature appears now to be drawing to a close. Indeed we have | rumours to the effect, that as soon as the necessary arrange- |
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pect a dissolution of the present House: and then for the} excitement of a general election. The opposition, numbering | now half the members of the House, have intimated that, if}
of the session and cal! an early general election, they will ) throw no obstacles in the way of having the absolutely neces- |
ments carried inte effect. And here [ may venture te remark, | that never, since the days ot Colbourne and Bond ilead, has | this province witnessed such parliamentary scenes as have | transpired during the session now about to close. The death-! p with which the late coulition has held on to the treasury xes is truly astonishing. We, in the back-woods here, are
hesitated to obey this behest. Ere many minutes, therefore, he was in the saddle and flying across the country at a pace | such as he never imagined any energy could have exacted | trom him. ' ‘ They have got a laddar up to the windows of the large drawing room, Miss Mary,’ said a servant ; “ they'll be in before many winutes.’ |
Taking down two splendidly ornamented pistols from the | chimney-piece, Mary examined the priming, and odering the servant away, she descended by a small private stair to the | drawing-room beneath. Searcely, however, had she crossed | the threshold than she was met by 4 man eagerly hurrying | away. Stepping back in astonishment, and with a face pale | as death, he exclaimed, ‘ Is it Miss Martin ?”
‘ Yes, sir,’ replied she firmly ; ‘ and your name ?
‘Mr. Merl,—Herman Merl,’ said he, with a stealthy | glance towards the windows, on the outside of which two) fellows were now seated, communicating with those below. |
‘ This is not 2 moment for much ceremony, sir,’ said she, prowptly ;*but you are here, opportunely. These people will have it that 1 am harbouring here one that they are in pursuit of. I have assured thew of their error, I have pledged my word of honour upon it, but they are not satisfied. They declare that they will search the house, and IL as firmly declare they shall not.’
‘ But the person is really not here ? broke in Merl.
‘I have said so, sir,’ replied she haughtily.
‘Then why not let them search? Kgad, i'd say, ‘ Look awey to your heart’s content, pry into every hole and corner you please, only don’t do any mischief to the furaitare—don’t let any "—
‘¢ en about to ask your assistance, sir, but ycur council saves me from the false step. ‘To one who profers such wise advice, arguments like these’—and she poiuted to the pistols
—‘ arguments like these would not be most distasteful ; and | Canada—the raodercs of reform and liberalism,—all huddled | months.
cyet Jet us see if others may not be of your mind to? And ‘steadily aiming her weapon for a second or two, she sent a ball through the window, about a foot above the head of one of the fellows without. Scarcely had the report rung out and the spliutering glass fallen, than the two men leaped to the’ ground, while a wild cheer, balf derision, half anger, burst from the mob beneath. ‘ Now, sir,’ continued she, with a smile of a very peculiar meaning, us she turned
accustomed to look up to men filling the high offices aad ocen-
pying the important positions of advisers to Her Majesty’s Re- | presentative, expecting to find them menof unsullied integrity | and spotless fame, removed far above low selfisiness and con-_ siderations of bribery and gain; and associate them with what may have felien aala our notice of the highly honorable ; and keenly alive to the least evil imputation being cast upon their motives; in short, men of ehivalrous independent stamp : go- verning the people not with the view to further their own private and selfish ends, and line their pockets with the people’s money, but, on the contrary, with a desire to carry out the wishes of their constituents—to develope the resources of the country, by projecting and carrying on grand national improvements—to destroy the existing pernicious government patronage, so neutralizing to the effects of representative in- stitutions—to throw overboard all class legislation—and to give the peeple of this province that full measure of liberty and self-government to which their intelligence, enterprise aid perseverance most undoubtedly entitle them. But what do we tind? - A coalition ministry formed and brought into power by the influence of (the now) Sir Francis Ilincks—the ad- ministration of whom was brought to disgrace, ruin and downfall by the money-grasping, speculating proclivities of its members, and the use of their power and patronage—nay, even the provincial and local funds (instance Toronto deben- | | ture joby—to building up for themselves fortunes: thus ne
/a lasting stain upon the very name of reformers. We see, | say, a coalition ministry rising after this Hincks administra- | tion, rendered necessary, not as, say Hincks und the Hincksites,
to forward useful legislation upon the ‘‘ great questions de- | manded by this provinee,’’ but with the view of keeping out | of office the true reformers of Upper and Lower Canada. | The administration is formed of Upper Canada tories, who | |agree to turn their backs upon all their former professions | jand advocacy of conservatism, and give the lie to the speeches | and actions of a whole lifetime; ia short, “ bow to public’! lopinion,”’ as Sir Allan MacNab hath it, of the professedly | | Lower Canada reformers—who are nearly of the same kid-
ney as Upper Canada tories—and the Ilincksites of Upper |
/and bundled together, and all gencralled by Francis himself, | land carrying out the measures he kad intended to complete, | |had net his rotten cabinet tambled about his ears. But Sir 'Francis must leaye. Victoria hath need of Francis at Bar- badoes. No sooner is he out of sight of this ** ere Canada,”’ where he ‘stood up and flourished, and got himself great
ower to reign,’’ than his sheep—the moderes—are scattered. Ves, ‘* reat power!’’ For the tories of Upper Canada, who voted to break down his furmer admmistration, and one of
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| the whole of them resi {who entered that eva ‘decency, when the support of the party that placed them in office is withdrawn ; but they all resign in order to throw Sir Allan overboard. With unprecedented im yudence back the ‘come to the Assembly. Yes down come the same men wit the exception of Sir Allan; sud the leader of the new govern= \ment, (dvhn A. MeDowald, now premier), has just said : We ‘return as we were, with the exception of Sir Allan, with whom ‘the Upper Canadian reformers could not act in the govern- ‘ment. Ob, Hon. John A. MeD., surely thy impudence 1s ‘scurcely equalled in any other way than by thy treachery ! But who comes in in the place oi Sir Allan, said to be so ob- {noxious to Upper Canada reformers? eeeey M. a Toronto tory, a barrister of good abilities, but the rankest tory in Canada, appointed to the Executive without a seat in the Assembly, (so fikco the days of good o/d toryism,) with Colonel Stephen Paschal Tache, a member o1 that irresponsible body of venerable old women, the Legislative Council, a Lower Canada tory Hincksite, and every thing aud any thing to suit the times and keep office. This (S. P.
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| 'Tache) is the cabinet-maker to His Excellency Sir E. Walker
Head. Mr. Attorney General Drummond, of Lower Canada,
. : - . ; ° . , thlnal 7 broke the , several winutes she remaived thus, overwhelmed and absorbed | begins “to observe the signs of the times,’’ and withdraws
frow the new government, because as he says they will not give him as formerly the leadership in the house. and his friends, MeNab and his friends, go into opposition. The new administration who profess to be no-tory, no- radical, nu-party, but simply and modestly assume the con- venient name of ‘* the government of Canada,’’ dare not now provoke a yote of want of confidence as before, when they wanted to get rid of Sir Allan. But it is moved, and for a week a fierce debate is kept up for the purpose of having the no-party, no-policy government assert the course intended to be pursued. Now the division takes place in a full house.
‘The bribery, by way of office-giving and promising, and money
bribes for individual mem be and their localities, excite dis- gust from ‘ Gaspe to SagAwich.’’ ‘* The Government of Canada”’ are voted confidence by a majority of four in the whole
! ' n. Decidedly the so-called reformers; 2d Clas ition ought to resign as « matter of; lst Class Carpenter's
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s Dictation,—Henry Green, Ist. Wai. Lydiard, oq,
Spelling,—Joha Handrahan and Danio| Egan, equal, Ist. Besuasd Reddin and Alexr. MeLellap equal, 2d. ’
}2 Class Speiling,—Ien, Barnard & Joseph Stentiford, equal | Ist. Vonald Ross, George Longworth and Lich. Vassinore, | -equal, 2nd. | 8d Class Spelling,—Joseph McDonald, lst. John E. Brow, and Robert Foyster, equal, 2nd.
Ist Reading Class,—undecided (2d Reading Class,—John Handrahan and James McKenna | equal, let. Daniel Egan & William Hodgson, equal, 2uq’ 3d Reading Class,—William Dawson and Jesse Gidley, equal,
| Ist. Simon Crabb and Henry Green, equal, 2nd, | Geogra hy Ist Class —John Handrahan and Wim. Heart, , ist.
Daniel Egan & William Hodgson, equal, Qnq’.
2nd Class,—Charles Hughes and John W hite equal Ist. Bernard Reddin and Henry Groen, equal, 9nq’
Ist Claes English Composition, William Heartz and Wij Dalgleish, Ist. James Brehaut & Archibald Wright, Qag
2nd C.ass,—Ailan Simpson and Tlenry Davies, Ist. James Welsh and Morton Lydiard, 2nd.
(3d Class, —Wallace Owen and John White, Ist. David Mp. Gill and Ilenry Green, 2nd. :
Ist Class English Grammar,—dJ ames McKenna and Daniel Egan, Ist. Jesse Gidley and Allan Simpson, 2nd.
2d Class,—Henry Barnard & —— Stentiford, lst. -Donalg Ross and Richard Passmore, 2nd. j
Recitation, —Alexander Mcl.cllan & George Ailey, lst. Joh White and Daniel Egan, 2nd. ‘a
Writing,—Alexander McLellan & Joha Dalgleish, Ist. Wa, Dalgleish and Henry Green, 2nd.
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DESTRUCTIVE FIRE!
Anovt 3 o’clock on Saturday morning the unusual and fears ful alarm of the fire bells aroused our fellow citizens from theig slumbers, and the premises of Mr. James Scantlebury, Wheel-
ongPefvte she could sufliciently subdue her emotion to think | house ; but have an Upper Canada majority against them of wright, &c., Kent Street, were soon discovered to be the seenoof
fifteen. Do the Upper Canada reformers of the present £°- | disaster, which — especialiy the buildings ip the rear—were
rnment resign? No, No! They are no more reformers,
ot now as formerly hold their seats.
ve they don to their modere brethren out of t! they belong to ‘‘ the government of Canada’’ party now. You see, Sir Allan is out-driven from office, to gratify private , piqueonly, ‘Traly a grand shuffle, as said Colonel Rankin, in| which the king of tramps (Sir Allan) had been shuflled out, | The coalition, once beaten as | purity
impracticable, the only correct way was to call in the Op- | position. The or by the next election, mark me, will | number two-thirds of the house, You may say, Brown and. party ave extreme. Why do twenty Catholics of the | ‘young Canada’’ party go with him in all his motions?) They desire no exizas for their church. They go for destroy- | ing church and state connection, just as much as Brown. Although strict Catholics, they vote with him. They are right in this church and state matter, and are the only true |
liberals can consistently coalesce and carry on a government, suited to the views of a majority of Canadians. ‘This ‘‘ young Canada”’ party is sometimes, as you may observe, called rouge
politically just, and must eventually, in connection with Brown and his party, rule this country, toryism, church-statcism,
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Exeuse the length of my communication. Wishing the Examiner and its spirited proprietor every success they deserve, allow me to subscribe myself,
Yours, very traly
MONS PAYS. eB SEAMINES
CHARLOTTETOWN, JUNE 30, 1856.
CENTRAL ACADEMY.
Tne half-yearly examination of the pupils at the Central. Academy was held on last Monday. During the past term the number on the roll has exceeded one hundred. It will be seen from the synopsis laid before the Trustees, and which we here publish, that the number of classes is very great: yet from the range of subjects taught, as well as the difference in ages and capacity of the pupils, we dare say it could not well be otherwise. Indeed the Academy seems to have reached that point in all educational establishments at which a farther increase of pupils adds little or nothing to the labours of the masters, as it would be difficult to find a youth who would not find his exact level in some of the classes actually taught at In the higher departments of Greek and Latin there are not many ; but those that are, translate and analyse in a manner which bears testimony at once to the talents of the pupils, and the scholarship and zeal of the master. The country students who have obtained the scholarships, have advanced as far as the fifth book of Casar’s Commentaries, which they read and construe with great accuracy ; in Mathe-
present.
matics, as far as quadratic equations inclusive ,; some progress in Geometry, and can do anything within the reach of plain Trigonometry. Jive of them have been successful in English Composition. This assuredly is great progress in eighteen The very highest departments of Mathematics—the Calculus and Physical Astronomy—none have ever yet reached in the Academy ; indeed we question whether any have in the Lower Provinces, nor is it likely that any will until a scholar- ship be founded for that express purpose, and to be competed for by those only who have completed the junior Mathematics. In English Composition several pieces ef great merit were read
towards Merl—‘ now, sir, you perceive that you have got; their number who lately pronounced him and his coufreres as by the successful competitors. In the way of written transla-
into very indisereet company, such as I'm sure Captain Martin's letter never prepared you for; and although it is not exactly in accordance with the usual notions of Lrish hospitality to point to the door, perhaps you will be grateful to me wheu [ say that you can escape by that corridor. It) leads to a stair which will coudact you to the stable-yard. | Vil order a saddle horse for you. I suppose you ride? | And reaily the glance which accompanied these words was not « flattery.
However the proposition might have met Mr. Merl’s wishes, there is no means of knowing, for a tremendous crash now interrupted the colloquy, and the same insiant the door of the drawing-room was burst opeu, and Magennis, followed dy a number of country people, entered.
‘i told yon,’ eried he rudely, ‘that I'd not be denied. It’s your own fauit if you would drive we to enter by force.’
‘ Well, sir, foree has done it,’ said she, taking a seat as she spoke, ‘I am here alone, and you may be proud of the achievement !’ The glance she directed towards Merl made ‘that gentleman shrink back, and eventually siide noiselessly from the room, and escape from the scene altogether.
‘If you'll send any one with me through the house, Miss Martin,’ began Mageunis, in a tone of much subdued meau- ing—
* No, sir,’ broke she in—* no sir, U’ll give no such order. You have already had my solemn word of honer, assuring
ou that there was not any one concealed here. The same “incredulous disrespect you have shown to my servants. Go wherever you pleuse ; for the time you are the master here. “Mark me, sir,’ said she, as half-crest-fullen, and in evident shame, he was about to move from the room—‘ mark me,s r, if 1 teel sorry that any oue who calls himself a gentleman should dishonour his station by discrediting the word, the lighted word of a lady, yet I can forgive much to him whose Seclings are under tke impulse of passion. But bow shall I
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| ** steeped to the very lips in corruption’’—now, just before the |formation of the coalition, sit ‘‘ cheek by jowl,’’ and take \** sweet council together :”’ Sir Francis on his part offering the |support of the Hincksites of Uprer Canada, and terrifying the so-called reformers of Lower Canada by threats that, if they and the tories did not coalesce with the Hincksites to carry out his former policy, he and his party would go over to Brown and fanaticism, so called—the unholy alliance is completed at liincks’s beck and nod, and Brown and fanaticism are in opposition. Sir Francis gets a whitewashing committee ap- pointed, and verily they do their work well. These men who a month ago said * steeped to the lips in corruption, thou art the man, Sir Francis!’ lay it on thick and white, and off he goes to Barbadoes, thoroughly cleansed and absolved from all sins Canadian! But thy mantic, Sir Francis, on whom hath it fallen? None, none aecounted worthy to wear it. Enquiry into Lower Canada eutrage—the Duval case and Corrigan murder—deiies that coalition of thy building! Grand Trunk schemes, without thy financial presence, fail and come to nought! Thy precious moderes, thy Hincksites, hath no lead- er! Ob, Sir Francis, they bave surely eaten of the tree poli- tical that thou forbadest!. Their eyes are opened! ‘They have gone over to Brown and fanaticism !
‘he moderes, or Hincksites, in the government, finding themselves in several Upper Canada minorities, and findin their own party men will no longer support them, stil! de- sirous of clinging to office, cabal with Jolin A. Macdonald, tory Attorney General, of coalition notoriety, to oust the premier, Sir Allan—promising to follow John A. McD., provided he eschew the title ‘‘ tory,’’? and announce himself a modere. But it will not do, the moderes of the Assembly look upon Sir Allan’s opinions as more nearly approximating to theirs, and begin to evinee feelings of disgust at the dodge resorted to, to deprive Sir Allan of the premiership, and to place a con- firmed tory in his stead, at a time when Sir Allan lay ill in bis bed. The moderes in the ministry shifttheir tactics again and again. The vote of want of confidence is carried by an _ Canadian majority of six, and lost by a maj rity of the whole house of twenty-taree. Nowmark what followed. The , Upper Canada section of the ministry resign, and eventuaily
tion, the best piece was by Master George Hodgson. It was a history (Memoires de Tous, vol. 6,) of the celebrated forgery on the banks of England, Vienna and St.Petersburg, attempt- ed to be practised, (and in the case of the two latter banks with complete success,) by the French Republican Govern- ment towards the close of the Revolution. We should like to
more useful to forgers than to bankers.
In conclusion, we have only to add that most of the classes have been determined from a Register, in which is marked the place each pupil may occupy on the last day in each weék, during the term.
SYNOPSIS OF MIDSUMMER EXAMINATION, 1856. Ist Greek Class—George Hodgson. Ist Latin Class.
ape not sufficient competition. James McNeill, Ist.
Cesar, } Murdoch Nicholson, Archibald Wright, & equal, ms
Ist Class Arithmetic,—Jas. McKenna, Ist. 2d Class Arithmetic,—Allan Simpson, Ist. and Wm. Dalgleish, equal, 2d. 3d Class Arithmetic,—andecided. 4th Class Arithmetic,—Henry Barnard and George equal, Ist. Peter MeNeill and Joseph Stentiford, equal, 2d, — hd urdoch Nicholson, Ist. Jas. Me eill, 2d. rigonometry,—James Robertson and 8 many pores James Brehaut, equal, Algebra,—James Brehaut, Ist. Bes: equal, 2d.
Daniel Egan, 2d. Alexr. McLellan
Matthew,
Archibald Wright and Daniel
Ist Class Dictation,—Daniel Egan and James McKenna, eqnal Ist. Allan Simpson, Wallace Owen and Bernard Reddin”
equal, 2d.
With respect | "" : ne ministry, they are no panics had been brought to the spot. The utmost exertions
‘longer the moderes who resigned as ‘‘matter of delicaey,’’ | were used to save the buildings in the immediate vicinity, and
| barely cover his loss—there being an in
| Bee ilis piece published ; but that it would be likely to prove 4
totally enveloped in flames before the engines and fire com.
ihese exertions proved successful to a very great extent, for only two or three dwelling houses were destroyed in addition to the workshops of Mr. Seantlebury, where the fire originated. The conflagration was not subdued until about six o'clock, puildings, containing much valuable property, had been iaid in ruins. We are not in possession of the ful) particulars regarding the losses sustained; but Mr. Scantlebury,
when five or six |
who is an industrious, enterprising mechanic, has suffered to a very great amount; it is roughly estimated that £3000 wil]
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per for only £600. It is stated that the fire commenced is that part
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ments are made, and urgent business disposed of, we may ex- | ]jberal party in Lower Canada, with which Upper Canada ‘of the premises where Mr. Scantlebury’s steam engine was ia
operation. prevailed while the fire lasted, for had there been anything
It was very providential that little or no wind
ministers will but promise to dissolve the Assembly at the end|/ and republican rouge in contempt. Their principles are | like a breeze to fan and spread the flames, several valuable and
handsome buildings in the immediate neighbourhood must
sary business completed, and indispensable legislative enact- | reformo-renegadeism to the contrary notwithstanding. * * have fallen a prey to the devouring element.
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Tiere has been little or no news of any consequence reecived by the Colonial and American mails of the past week. Some of the elections in New Brunswick have taken place, and the candidates returned are, in a majority of instances, opposed to the continuance of the Prohibitory Liquor Law, which was declared to be the cause of the appeal to the country—so that
| there is every chance the Lieut. Governor will be sustained in i - . - . . the hazardous step taken by him in dissolving the Assembly
in Opposition to the advice of his late Counci!, in order to ascertain if the people of the Province would permit sueh an arbitrary and oppressive enactment to remain on the Statute Book. The people have decided against it, and the humbug is doomed there as well as every where else.
Tur business of the Supreme Court, during the past week, has been confined chiefly to the trial of petty larceny cases, We stated last week that one of the libel cases was abandoned, or rather postponed, for
and some unimportant civil suits. the present. In the other, a very untenable and silly excuse is raised for putting :¢ also off, the grounds of which we will ‘Our friend the Judge’’ — (confound the man!) —did not come down from
review at some length in our next No.
Canada, to give his valuable testimony to ‘‘ our character,” and therefore any excuse is better than nothing for putting off the trial. Very like another ‘* white feather.”’
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ce “A querist’”’ had better put his impertinent question to D. Maclean; he can best inform him whether she Judges
name is or is not Lynch. LL UNITED STATES.
REVOLUTION IN SAN FRANCISCO.
FULL PARTICULARS OF THE MURDER OF THE EDITOR oF THE BULLETIN AND THE EVENTS WHICH FOLLOWED.
(Special Correspondence of the N. York Times.) San Francisco, May 20, 1856. We are in the midst of a revolution which will be recorde as one of the most remarkable in the annals of history—wh was designed, and is destined to effect a most important ch in the social, moral and political character of the State.
THE MURDER.
_On Wednesday afternoon last, at about 5 o’clock, the whole city was roused by the report that James King of W illiain had been shot dead in the greatest business thoroughfare of city, by James P. Casey, a Sing-Sing convict. Casey was known as a successful ballot-box stuiier-—so successful, that on counting the votes in his Ward, it was found he was ¢b one of the Supervisors of this county by a large majority, although he was not even known by the voters as a candidate. He was also well-known as the man whe had been engaged it /® murderous affray growing out of one of these political operations. His name was a prominent one among the many hundreds of gamblers and shoulder-strikers that have always ruled this city, and the houses of every harlot opened, a6 tf by a when his well-known knock echoed through i# walls.
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THE MURDERER.
Would you believe it, when I tell you that James P. Casey saaniee known - me proprietor aad ostensible editor of a Sunday paper, the Times, which r aasaued great spectability, and had hundreds, ae perhaps thousands of influential supporters? It is too true. What fear had he, then, with ali that has embodied the power of this city ix favor, and with the knowledge that no man of his ¢ ever been punished for murder in San Franciseco—what had he of the law’s retributions? The onl danger to was that of instant execution at the hands of the people. this was provided against. His friends stood around him,
a carriage was ready to bear him to the jail, which it ™ supposed would be an ark of safety to him. of
ut Casey wofully misealeulated the spirit and courag® the better portion of our people.
GREAT EXCITEMENT AMONG THE PEOPLE.
Tt can scarcely be said that there was any excitement the people. At least there was no sudden outbreak—no @ tion of feeling that would naturally follow such a m outrage on a citizen so er in the affections of the And every man’s eye flashed when he spoke of it, a”
woe heaped
man’s countenance expressed a settled determination Mr. King’s wrongs and the wrongs that have beea