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dering all the Europeans at the place they were stationed marched into Delhi with the band at thetr head, playing * Cheer.

boys, cheer!’ The heat of this place for the Iwst few days has | been fearful—the thermometor upwards of 100 in the house. | bam obliged continually to pat my head in a basin of water to | cool «=©6Many officers with their families, from Sealkore, are | expected at Lahore daily. The number of tadies, women, aad

children that are here already ts immense; they all flock to

Lahore as the only safe place, and now we shall shortly bave | the fugitives from Jhelum. We have just set 100 men of the | Sist to reinforce the garrison at Umristir.”

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SICKNESS AMONG THE BRITISH BRFORE PFLAI.

The following extract is from a private letter dated ** Delhi, | July 10, 1857"" :—* We can bardly recognise in the infurtate

savages—Pandys we term them—who rush on us hike demons, | sal the quiet mild looking Sepoys, who we never thought would | can

have had pluck to attack Europeans. Attack, however, they do with a vengeance, and beiween you and I, once or twice it has heen a toss up whether we were not driven pel!-mel! through the cantonments. Mere sheer hard fighting and brute force kept them back; any maneuvring or head-work seems quite obsolete. hours’ hard fighting barely held our own, How it is to end | cannot see. We are daily losing our best men, and the rebels geem to increase. When you hear of the Siege of Delhi vote stathumbug. We are besieged ourselves ;

but well discip!ined and brave army, | wou'd have encamped a few miles from Delhi. The foo!-hardy devils would have come

Yesterday we were vearly in a mess, and after many |

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‘volunteer corps of cavalry composed of officers,

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advancing with the army on Cawnpore.

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THE LOSS OF THE “CENTRAL AMERICA, The American papers devote much space in detailing all the incidents connected wjth the melancholy loss of unfortunate steamer, which have been derived from the sur- Viving passengers, The Central America sailed from Havana on Tuesday the Sth September, with 525 passengers and 104 ofhicers and crew. On the following day a gale sprung up, which inereased in violence until Friday, when the vessel was found

to have sprung a leak, which continued to increase, notwith- |

ling the exertions of those on board, until the water put t the fires, leaving the vessel at the merey of the waves.

Captain Badger, one of the rescued passengers of the Central America, states that the gale increased until two o’clock on Friday the 11th, when it was perceived that the

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the sea, which caused her to make considerable water around ‘the lea abaft and the lea lower dead lights. It was after- ‘wards ascertained that the e

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engine had stopped, and the ship fell off into the trough of

iuse of the stoppage of the engines just in the way of| was the neglect of the fire and engine department of getting | THE their immense artillery. Had 1 been generl, with my simall,! eoal along from the bunkers to the fire room fast enough to | p up the fires, consequently all the engines stopped, as)

out in force to fight, and, away from their walls and guns, our| "",,, >, _- , ; | » deck s were out of order, and at Capt. Badger’s cavalry and artillery would have slaughtered them by thousands, | The deck pumps were outo 9 P g

AMINER.

To tHe Eprror or tne EXaMINen.

| Dear Str,—I beg, through your paper, to,request the

Kiitors of the Protector to inform the serious generally,

which London cabmen they are that are alone to be hailed

'by the piously inclined, supposing they should be rather late 1] meetings in “ the merry month of May.

fur the Exeter Hal a th Beyond an earnest desire for the spread of the truth on

‘this subject, 1 may confess to my having a persoval object in | view, as I heard the acceptable number mentioned by a young man lately from London, and if my memory fails me not, he announced all cabs bearing plates numbered by figures below “1010” to be positively proscribed by the truly “ called.

As I am fully aware, dear Sir, that your valuable journal is ever open to the spread of truth and information, 1 will but subscribe myself as Yours very truly,

Oct. 5, 1897. ENQUIRER.

Che Examiner.

CUARLOTTETOWN, P.E.1L., OCTOBER 5, 1857. a

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EDITOR OF THE ISLANDER ON HIS HOBBY.

Tnx stupid malignity of the Islander, which sacrifices tb | faction every consideration of public decency and duty, found vent, in its issue of the 25th ult., in another of those curious

and Delhi would be ours. Now they fight chiefly under cover, and we have to stand astargets. Very pleasant. Our best men are dying fast by disease and the sword, and our very ex- sstence depends upon the Sikhs. If the Punjaub were to rise, and it is not impossible, we should be cut off to a man.”

SUFFERINGS AND CONSOLATIONS OF THE LADIES AT JUBBULPORE.

** Jopsutporse, Jory 20, rrom ove Inrrencuments.—On the morning of the 4th inst., Major FE came to me and said he had just received a crumpled peneil note from N—— at Dumoh, saying that he and the two officers in charge of the

detatchment of the 42nd, and a Indy, the wife of one of them, |

had been obliged to fly for their lives; that a number of the irregular mutinous cavalry had galloped over from Saugor to plunder the treasury, which contained a lac and a quarter of rupees. It was feared these troopers would come on here and try to get the 52nd to join them, so it became a question what was to be done with the ladies and children. In the first place it was resolved to send therm off to Nursingpore, and an express was sent off to order some of the Madras Sepoys and a couple of guns to the Nerbudds at Jhansi Ghaut. In the course of the forenoon it rained heavily, and we all knew how impracticable the roads would be after it. So it was determined that we should al!, regimental officers also, take up our abode in the Residency, Major ENR——’s house, which | and others declared we could fortily so as to resist any attack of mere musketry. Accordingly, in the evening we ali maved into the Residency. We were obliged to show confidence in the 52nd, even to the extent of having a guard of them near the house, and they were informed that we had merely moved into the Residency as a precautionary measure against the Bundelas, who were up and plundering. It was too late that evening to do anything in the way of defence, and few of us dared to hope that night would pass without an outbreak, Thankful, oh! how thankful, were we all to see the dawn of another day, Posts were assigned to all. [ was appointed Garrison Engineer, with two artillery officers here on the staff to assist me. We set to with a will, and on the evening of the second duy we felt that we could hold our own so long as artillery was not brought against us, | We have been gradually strengthening our position, replacing our hurriedly-constructed works by defences of a more permanent nature, We have six months’ provisions stored, and hope to get water inside in the course of a day ortwo. What we have now to guard against is a surprise, but we do our best to prevent that, All of us, except the commissioner and two others, take our turn of sentry duty—two of us on sentry ata time. We have a pumber of pou-commissioned and uncovenaned, who also furnish « couple of sentiivs, I have been on duty every pight except one. We muster about 50 at dinner, 10 of whom are ladies, and we have Jj children in the house, Our numbers are nearly 100, including the uncovenanted. We have included some spacious outhouses in our intrenchments, which gives them accommodation. We are lucky in havi a small room

“suggestion companies were organized, — ~ sieward’s | diatribes, on the assumed insolvency of the Government, by ‘ 3 i tk he swe ass the coal a.ong. y} ; ‘ es aaa i — te Sea de 7 which the patience of its patrons has been tested for several oe , 1 oD ie oe i uccessive week ’ ri ic character of its heated in the hold of the ship, and the steam engendered was | successive weeks. Burd aes with no public ¢ c | so great that they were compelled to abandon passing the | own, the Islander would fain rob the country which allows it > r . . . . ‘ . coal. The ship then lay at the merey of the waves, but she | an existence of every vestige of reputation. The editor’s ima- ‘did not labor hard. We then started several gangs at bailing, | gination evidently exulteth in conjuring up scenes of wretched-

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_ the experiment and found it much harder to pass off g ‘than a warrant in the payment of a debt. But the latter wa, jssued on the faith of the former being made £00d—just ag

man in trade avill give his own note to pay a debt on the ‘faith of his being paid by others whose notes are in hig

sion ; and the Js/ander assures us, by implication at least, that ll such paper 7s money !

The Islander furnishes another scrap of information not generally known. It assures its readers that the present Go. vernment—at the commencement of their career, we _—promised to abolish the warrant system altogether, and yp. stitute a specie currency. We should like to have . testimony on this point than the mere assertion of the Islander Certain we are, that neither in the records of the ature nor in the parliamentary debates, nor in the public journals, nor in election speeches, can any such promise be traced to any individual member or supporter of the present Goverameps Such promise would be childish and absurd, because its fylg). ment would be impossible in the circumstances of the Tf we were prepared to abolish the credit system, the of warrants might be stopped, not otherwise. If merchants could sel! their goods for cash and cash only, and pay their ‘duties in cash before their merchan@ize came to their shelves

or ware-houses, there would be no necessity for issuing wap. ‘rants for the ordinary service of the Government—the cirey- | lation of Treasury notes could then be increased to at least the ‘full amount of the probable revenue, as there would be ng scarcity of gold and silver to make such notes payable on de ‘ mand, and an important saving in the way of interest would

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‘ward, and at half-past three she was under the stern.

-as the only chance of saving the ship. At my suggestion the captain ordered the foremast to be cut away, which was done about six o’clock.

From four o’clock till eight the water was kept at bay. attempt was made to raise steam in the donkey boiler. Berths

| were torn down and thrown into the furnace to raise steam to | to the world that there is not a shilling in the publie Treasury. The cause I could not | phat cause must be a desperate one indeed which requires such |

‘start the pumps, but all to no avail. ‘Jearn. A drag was prepared, but failed, and the ship con- tinued in the trough of the sea. Bailing still went on vigorously, and was kept up all night by gangs, who were changed as they became exhausted.

water to increase and grow up in the hold of the ship. four o'clock on the morning of Saturday the 12th, the gale abated, with a heavy sea running.

They were encouraged by myself and others with the assurance that the ship would hold cut. remained cool, and seemed to forget his danger in the united efforts to save the vessel. There was no weeping or exhibi- tion of despair, even on the part of the females. At eight o’clock another attempt was made to raise steam in the donkey boiler to pump the ship, but without avail.

Oue proposed to box the pumps, but on enquiry no car- penter or tools could be found, and the water gained rapidly. The lee shaft was shrouded in heavy blankets to stop the leak, but the water burst through.

At two o’elack on Siturday a sail was reported to wind- Boats were immediately lowered, but two were stove instantly by the sea. Three boats still remained, one in a bad condition.

At four o'clock the work of removing the ladies and children to the deck of the Marine was commenced. The brig being much higher than the ship, had by this time drifted away to leeward.

The distagee was considerable, and the boats were long in making the trips, and there being a heavy sea, but few could be carried at a time. After sending the ladies and children, the enginecr and some fifteen others were embarked on the brig.

iby this time it was dark. The work of bailing was still

to oursel-es, In our room three ladies and achild sleepin one bed. Jf you could look in upon as you would not think we} were a very lugubrious set, but rather that we were met ae some festive occasion. At this moment | hear the piano and winging. Weare a queer lot, we Britons; day efter day we | hesr of atrocities too hurnd to write about, and of the murder ot friends and relatives, aud never seem to think of our own fate, Laughing, talking, eating, drinking, music, singing— all seems to go on much as psig). For a day or two we really had a cloud over us whea wedeard of the death of Sir Henry Lawrence—-the uncertain fate, too, of Cawnpore is disheartening. To return to our neighbourhood, the Subadar Major af the 42d, left with the compames at Dumoh, wrote in to say that he had removed the treasure into the fort and that he would protect it for Government. A few days after some villains belonging to the Shaghur Kajah came duwn, but a Havildar went into the villege after them ard killed I1, driving the rest off. Things at Saugor after the move into the fort went on quietly for a few days. At laat the 3lst and irregular cavalry quarrelled, and the 42nd who had seized the morning gun joined the cavalry and fived round shot into the lines of the 3ist. The 3lst replied with muskerry and the 42dtook it up, They fought at intervals for a day anda night, and at jast the Uist gallantly charged and captured the gun, driving the 42d out of the cantonment. The officers of the Sist wished to join their men, butas treachery was feared they were not allowed todo so, The 3lst imme- diately sent the gun into the fortand next day pursued the 42d, but cou!d not overtake them. Whefi the news of this fight reached the detachment in the fields, the whole of the 42d men and some 40 of the 3ist quietly bolted, taking with them theirarms, The 3]st returned to Saugor, brinzing back the two guns and delivering them up. ‘Three companies with their officers were then allawed to goto Dumoli with Captain P——-,

kept on, but the water gained faster upon the vessel. As the bouts successively approwched the ship, a simultancoas rush was made by the passengers to get aboard, and it was appre- hended that the boats would be filled and stove,

It was now dark. About two hours before the sinking of the ship a schooner ran down under her stern, but could not render her any assistance for want of boats.

The work of bailing went on until within an hour of her going down, Two lights of the above vessel were now seen far to leeward. Rockets were fired from the wheel, but went downward. The immediate sinking of the ship followed.

Capt. Herndon remained on the wheel up, to the moment of her going down, which was eight o’clock Saturday night. I was standing on the quarter-deck.

Some jumped over and put out from the now rapidly descending ship, and seized on whatever they could. No one shrieked or cried, but all stood calm.

The captain behaved nobly, and said he would not leave the ship, I promised him 1 would remain with him, as also did the second officer, Mr. Frazer,

All at once the ship, as if im the agony of death herself, made a plunge on an angle of 45 degrees, and with a shriek from the engulphed mags, she disappeared, and five hundred human beings floated out on the bosom of the ocean wiih no hop® but death. ' :

Ata quarter-past one o'clock in the morning the Norwegian bark Ellen came running down with a free wind, The cries of distress reached those on deck, and they hove to under short sail. The task of rescuing the passengers was nobly commenced, and by nine o’clock the next morning forty-nive

deputy commissioner, and this morning we have news of the arrival of the detachment at Damoh, and peaceable delivery of the treasure. It is said the two companies at Dumoh of the 42d were the greatest rascais in the corps, and the old Subadar an ald scamp, However, | suppose he wil) be rewarded, for we must now judge him by his acts, The Nagpore avthorities would do nothing for us, An order waa sent by the Governor- General to send a moveable column into the Saugor territory. so now we have the Madras Grd, a squadron of the 4th Cavatry,

and the horse battery of the Irregular force manned by our |

Kuropean artillerywen, all under Colone} Miller, Phe S2nd will give a quota of 200 men ; already they have sent out three detachments of 40 men to protect our most exposed road-, so | am ip hopes the 52nd will prove staunch after all. Captain l---— had ® narrow escape at Indore ; they were all dressing for breakfast when the mutineers opened fire an the Residency from three guns which bad been put in position fur the defence af the plage. and these being manned a regular cannonade commenced, under gover of which ihe ladies were placed in vans, and then the

Luckily there were two guns nearer the house, |

‘had been picked up. Diligent search was made until twolve o'clock, but no more could be seen. They then bore away ‘for Norfolk with a fair wiod, and arrived at Cape Henry on ‘the 17th, when myself and four others embarked in the pilot boat and arrived in Norfolk. | It would appear from some of the statements that the ‘steamer was unseaworthy, as her pumps were out of order land the donkey engine unserviceable at the critical moment when it was needed. It is thought that if steam could have been kept up, the ill-fated vessel would have survived the gale. | ‘The Central America was built in 1853, and was originally /named the George Law. She was of the burden of 2600 tons, he steamer Empire City arrived at New York on Sunday,

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‘via Norfolk, with thirty-one of the passengers and crew of |

‘the lost steamer, saved by the barque Ellen, and sixty saved by the brig Marine, The Empire City met the abave vessels in Hampton Roads, on their way to Norfolk, when the

rty retired with their guns under a heavy fire, but too high, | passengers were transferred to her,

ot a saul was injured, and after many hardships they arrived

st Hoshyungabad. The Sehore fallks had to follow, and then

she Augur people, 27 in all, came in, Mrs, W——wriies that all the ladies were almost destitute of ¢lothing, and she has scarcely a change left. ‘The W-—— house is full of fugitives,

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‘Towards morning the men were beginning to fail, and the | At)

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| ness and destitution. Having attempted to write down the

| credit of the Colony in detail, by numerous and frequent mis- ‘representations regarding the failure of all our agricultural /erops, he labours to give a finish to his picture by proclaiming

| tactics for its support.

We have not space sufficient at our disposal to notice all the illogical arguments put forth by the Islander, but we shall offer a few observations on the high-sounding and authoritative proposition with which they are introduced :—

‘When a Government, a corporate institution, or private individuals, issue paper money, which falls to a heavy discount in consequence of the inability of the issuers to convert it into cash, they are absolutely insolvent, be they who they ‘may, though they may possess assets to liquidate the whole ultimately .”’—Js/ander, Sept. 25.

We are well aware that the ‘“‘ paper money ”’ referred to in this extract is Treasury Warrants, and without stopping to dispute the point, and to shew that they are not money, in the usual acceptation of the term, but securities for money, we may be allowed to put the very reasonable question — Did Treasury Warrants never fall to a discount under the old Tory Government, and was that Government always enabled to con- It would be impossible for the Is/ander to answer this question in the affirmative ; and since he seems to be so enamoured of the word insolvency, he will please to direct its application to the party which he is labouring to restore to power, as descriptive of their long career in the conduct of public affairs in this country. While the Tories were in office, warrants were invariably at a heavy discount— not merely at 24 or 5 per cent., as may be the case at present, in some instances; but 10, 15 and 20 per cent., and this was the case with all warrants. Under the Liberal Go- vernment, warrants were never at a discount before this year ; and although the interest had been reduced, they were eagerly sought after by parties who had money to invest. Now there is no money to invest in such securities, and warrants, like every other kind of paper, when money is scarce, must suffer depreciation. Two of the largest items of expenditure con- nected with the public service are for the support of education, and for the repair and construction of roads and bridges. About five thousand pounds sufficed for both these services under the Tory Government. At that time aschoolmaster was never known to get his £7 10 warrant cashed without a ‘‘heayy discount ’’—the ‘'reasury never did, or never could pay them on presentation ; and as for the unfortunate holders of certi- ficates for work performed on the roads, the service was so shabbily and disreputably conducted, that even a twenty shilling order was often deemed too heavy a draft on the funds of the Road Correspondent, who, in such cases, obliged the holders by giving them ‘ truck.’’ Under the present Govern- ment the expenditure for education and for reads and bridges has risen to about £25,000 ; and, until lately, no schoolmaster was ever compelled to have his warrant discounted, which, instead of being for £7 10, rose to £25, for which he got the cash, as soon as he presented it at the Treasury. The incon- venience of his having his warrant endorsed for interest has occurred to each individual schoolmaster—with, perhaps, not half a dozen exceptions—on/y once ; —and as the Government will shortly recur to their former practice of paying aJl such warrants at the time of their presentation, the inconvenience is not likely to occur again, so long as they remain in power. As for the road service, we challenge the Js/ander to show that a Commissioner’s certificate was ever yet suffered to goa

vert them into cash ?

begging for payment, as in former times. Road orders, unless for very heavy amounts, passed from hand to hand as readily as Bank notes, because cash was obtained for them as soon as demanded ; and it was only where contracts for large amouffts had been taken that warrants have been issued.

The Islander sets itself up as a great authority in financial

‘matters, and has, from time to time, given the public some

‘very original views on the abstruse question of curreney. But ‘the dictum so pompously propounded at the commencement of | the article under notice, as to Treasury warrants being paper money, in the ordinary acceptation of that term, throws all its former speculations into the shade, Hitherto, in our sim- _plicity, we regarded warrants as securities for the payment

‘of money rather than money itself, to be classed in the same

for the antipodces a few years since, and has since resided at category with debentures, promissory notes, impost bonds,

Une lady of the Augur party had a baby a week old, and. ; ; ; apather had a baby only a fortnight old. These paor ladies had | Adelaide, South Australia, His eldest son, about twenty-one

frequently to wade upto their waists in water, Saime of the | years of age, having gone to the Ballarat gold diggings, was mutineers of the 42d j jned some of the Shaghur folks and killed, at the bottom of a mining shaft, hy the falling of some | Joated a yillage ; they quarrelied abont the plunder, and some |

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and other paper of a similar description, on which interest | was chargeable; and as a consequence or condition of such | . ° . : | interest charge, had a certain or uncertain time to run.

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be effected. But there is no use in speaking of such & thing | so long as merchants have to give and get credit. : As the last Islander contains some further misrepresentationg and positive untruths regarding the monetary affairs of the Colony, which we have not space to notice in our present issue, we shall return to the subject in our next No. .

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Mr. DOUSE AND THE SELKIRK ESTATE.

Mr. Dovse has published in the Examiner and some other papers, an advertisement addressed ‘‘ to freeholders, mer. chants, mechanics, and also the tenantry on parts of Town. ships Nos. 53, 57, 58, 59, 60 and 62,” from which we make

the following extract :— “

‘* The local Government not being in a position to pote the above property, I now offer, on advan 8 terms, at private sale, twenty thousand acres of fine fertile lands on these Townships, in lots from fifty to five hundred sere each,’’ &c.

While we are always ready to recognize and applaud every effort made by a landed proprietor or an agent to increase the number of small freeholders in the Colony, and thus promote its prosperity and independence, we cannot suffer to pass un- noticed mere sham and pretence when an agent sets himeelf up as the vendor of land. If Mr. Douse really desired to sell the estate with the management of which he is entrusted, he could surely accomplish his object without seeking to damage the credit and influence of the Government. He informs the publie that the local Executive are not in a position to pur- chase the Selkirk property. On what authority does he make this assertion? The local Government have given him no m#- surance of their inability or unwillingnes’ to purchase. On the contrary, the Commissiuner of Public Lands not long since intimated to him in writing the readiness of the Government to treat with him for the purchase of Lord Selkirk’s estate. What was his answer? That he had received the proposal, and would give it due consideration, or something to that effect. But he has never yet told the Land Commissioner that he was prepared to commence negotiations for the sale of the property. He will probably attempt to justify his slur upon the Government, by saying that the Loan Bill has not#eceived the royal allowance, and that the local authorities have, there- fore, no funds with which to purchase. But this excuse wil not avail him. The Loan Bill has not been—and will not be —disallowed. The royal assent is merely suspended until such time as the Colonial Minister shall be enabled to carry through Parliament a Bill to sanction the luwperial guarantee for the Loan; and as to the passage of such a Bill there cannot be the shadow of a doubt. So that, if Mr. Douse, or any other agent or proprietor, had the slightest intention to sell lands to the Government, there is nothing to prevent the carrying out of such intention, as, by the time the necessary arrangements for the transfer of the property can be completed, the Loan Bill will, undoubtedly, have become the law of the land. Besides, Mr. Douse is well aware that the powers and resources of the local Government, under the Land Purchase Act, are far from being exhausted; and that, under the operation of this Act, they are in a position to treat for the purchase of any estate, without reference to the Loan Bill at all.

But it is quite evident that Mr. Douse dees not want to sell to the Government ; and by saying that they are not able buy, he hopes, no doubt, to increase his own popularity and that of his party with the tenantry on the Selkirk estate—t damage the influence of the Government — to weaken or em tinguish the hope, indulged by the tenantry, of getting publi¢ lands at moderate prices —and, what is of far greater conse quence to Mr. Douse and other speculators, to shut out the Government from competition in the sale of township lands and to secure to themselves a monopoly of the market. Mf. Douse informs the tenants and others that he will seil twenty thousand acres ‘‘ on advantageous terme.”? But the extent of’ the advantages to be derived from his private sales of Lord Selkirk’s property. may be inferred from the fact, that he bas not hitherto been willing to part with his own, unless het ceived a price that may be well deemed exorbitant, in compati- son with that at which the Government has sold the publi¢ land in their possession. If Mr. Douse had offered to sell the Selkirk property at 10s. and 12s. 6d. an acre, and give the, purchaser ten years to pay for it, we should readily give bi® credit for an earnest desire to increase the number of freeboldert on easy terms. But judging from his recent operations, the

Shaghur people were killed. 42d, stripped them, and turned them adrift.

THE SURVIVOR FROM CAWNPOKE.

Letters have been received from Ensign Robert Browne, of

the late 56th Bengal Native Infantry, who arrived in General Havelock’s camp on the I5thof July. He did not escape from the intrenchments at Cawnpore, but was on detached duty ata short distange with two companies of his regiment ; they mutinied on the 6th of June, but the Sepoys allowed their officers to escape. from that date he wandered shout the country disguised a8 a native, unti! he resehed the English camp, one maych aboye Fatteypore, where he nmediately juined the

The Rajah seized the men of the The villagers did the rest—they killed all they could lay their hands on. Hurrah !”

art of the windlags upon bis head. Upon the sad news being | conveyed to his parents, their eldest daughter, about eighteen |

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that she took a dose of poison, causing death before medical _aid could be made available.—Halifax Recorder.

The missing of the wreck of the Central America are. stated at 413. Gold was cheap on board the vessel in the | crises of danger. It lay about the cabin, free to all who 'Wiehed to take the once much desired glittering ore. The -conduet of the captain of a steamtug, who refused to bring ‘in the suffering passengers, except exorbitantly paid, has i heen subject of severe remark.

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in all courtesy we bow to the superior wisdom of our cotem- | only parties to whom his terms are likely to prove “advair porary, and, in doing so, he will permit us to congratulate the “8°0¥S,”” should they be accepted by the tonantry, ar = fortunate holders of promissory notes on the possession of so | Earl of Selkirk and himself. much money as those notes represent, not hitherto taken into ’ :

their cash account, The Government entertain, we trust, a New Yorx Arsion.—Mr. E. L. Snow, Travelling Agent of due appreciation of the felicitous discovery made on their this excellent and popular periodical, is now on a visit to behalf; and as they have merehants’ bonds to the amount of Island, for the purpose of receiving subscriptions to the Alioty about thirty thousand pounds in their possession, to say and extending the circulation of that journal. Mr. Snow has nothing of the gold and silver in their chest, they may rejoice brought with him for distribution a large collection of > in the comfortable reflection, that no Government in this beautiful and elegantly-finished engravings which are iseaed Colony was ever so flush of money. To be sure there might annually to thé subscribers of the Albion — cach of which is

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