. , no means of carryin out this

(From the London Times Jan. 18. )

Over the sounds of warlike preparation but yesterday resounding from one end of this labor- ious island to the other has fallen a sudden lull. and the hammer oftho armourer is uplilted. and the hand of the sliipcarpenter is stayed, while they listen with wonder and surprise to the unex- pected tidings of peace. We rave become indurated to a state of war. and it seems now al- most as impossible for England to fall back into the old pacific routine of the last forty years as it appeared two years ago for her to shake off the peaceful habits and associations, which those forty years had created. Nor would it, we sus- pect, be perfectly true to say that the country baits the prospects so suddenly offered of a return to peace with unmixed and uualloycd satisfaction. No one is so inhuman as to argue for war in the abstract, but there are a great many, we suspect, who think that its continuance for another year would have more of good than of evil. Our pre- parations are so vast, our army and navy are assuming so much more promising an aspect than before, and the power of Russia is so visibl reduced and shaken, that we might reasonably hope at the end of another canipaigit not only to dictate terms much more favourable. but to have for them the best of all possible puaranteen—ihe utter exhaustion and prostration of our adversary. In such cases, however, it is wise to propitiate that Nemesis, which is so apt to unit on those whose overvveening expectations of future good fortune render them blind to the opportunities of the present, and to close our hand upon that -certain success which is in its grasp. than open it to snatch at some forttine more alluring, but also more doubtful and dangerous. To be delivered from the continually recurring catalogues of slaughter, from the rapid increase of our national debt, from the prospect ofa 10 per cent. income- tax, and a constant derangerneiit of our monetary system; to curb cffcttially the insulence and aggression of a Power which two years ago would only condescend to answer our earnest re- tnonstrances by a haughty and expressive silence, treating them, to use the metaphor oftlie Empress Catherine, "as the moon does the wolves that bay at her,”—these are advantages so solid and sub- stantial that we would not change them for the most brilliant future that ever allured and deluded the \'lSlIlll(Il‘y or the eritliusiast. Let us only he sure that we have got hat we ask for, and we ‘Shall bear with much philosophy the loss of all .thc fine things that another year of war might bring us.

We would. however. caution the public agalnst the p‘!'l’Stl:lSlJn that the telegraph messages of our correspondents at Vienna and Berlin, mid that

outed by the French Government on the Paris Eourse, necessarily imply what their words cer- tainly, taken in a literal sense, would fairly I0tn[)T8ltel'ltI,--Illlll. all the propositions upon which the allies insist have been iincomlitionally accepted by Russia. The terriis of the fifth pro- position are general, and 0 not necessarily include the undertaking not to fortify the Aland Isles, any more than any other demand the allies might think fit to make. e 0 not believe that this requisition has yet been specially sub- . mittcd to Russia, and whatever may be the probabilities of the case, we are certainly not justified in saying that she has unconditionally ‘ Iccepted it. Two other terms on which we must perempiorily inaist—-the disarming of the eastern coast ol'tlie Black Sea, and the allowing Consuls of the Western Powers to reside in the Russian its on its waters—havn been only slitingly and ; amhiguously mentioned. Why this is so we do not know. That is the concern of Austria We are not -rincipals in the negociation. but have employs the irradiation of a third Power, whose duty it. is to see that Russia be brought to an unconditional acceptance of our terms. with all their stipulations, before we even enter into aicgociation. We do not believe for a moment that these things are likely to offer permanent obstacles to the conclusion of peace. but our readers must remember that the announcement is that of an Austrian, not of an English diploniatist, and that he speaks front a point of view not al- ways identical with our own.

Again. what does Russia mean by an uncondi- tionalacceptsnce? We have held an acceptance of hers before, and have some experience how coolly she can dishonour it. Other dcspatchcsi

, ; from Vienna speak of the terms being accepted as

' the basis of negocistions. Logically, there is no distinction between the two, for the foundation on which to a negociation rests, must he accepted unconditionally, or they are no foundation at all. ‘We must begin somewhere, and that with which do begin must be unconditional; but we have some cxpcnsnos how Russia understands these things when we remember that last year she undertook to do away with her preponderance in the Black Sea. and could be bron ht to accent to

itidn which did

‘ not tend directly to efbst it. « We do not believe. -an we have said that any of those difliccltics will

: "guy allowed to interfere with that peace

.:isrhich;tho Court olst. Pstcrsbtlrgh seams to have

mpg to-he necessary to its interest, but

flppul wish to cool the ardent of those over

sangn n'c spirits who may infer ‘that everything is already done, and that pothing reinitns for .England and France but to ring their bolls, light choir bonfires, and pay the bill. Nothing should indncs us to rplax for s sin is gomont in our preparations until all the stipc s-

HASZAR.D’S GAZETTE. FEBRUARY 9.

tions we have mentioned have been clearly unequivocally put by Austria, and as clearly unequivocally conceded. We triust remember that by the pressure we have put upon ltussia,

and not by the mediation of Austria, has the pre- ,

sent happy alteration in our circumstances been brought about, and that, if we would preserve the advantages of our position, it can only be done by a constant adhesion to tho very means by which that change has been pl'UdllCL‘tl. Let Russian once see reason to believe that we have allowed the hopes of ease and tranquility the iiiinerve our vigilance and disarm our courage, and the whole work must be done over again, for she will assur- edly find means to wriggle out of the concessions she has made, and io restime her old attitude of haughtiness and defiance. 'l'he way to ohtin peace is to make our adversary feel thoroughly- what is, indeed, no more than the truth—how much more necessary that peace is to her than it is to us. We have tried reason and remonstrance with no effect, have tried vigour and action with the most encouraging results. lly energetic ac- tion, we have cotnpelled the eucniy to negociatc; by a continuance of that energy and that action

salt. It is the common error of historians to attribute in these matters too much to the talents of plenipotentiartcs. and too little to the relative force of the contracting States. No negnciator was more successful than t.‘harlesXll. before the Battle of Pultawa, or Napoleon before the expr- dition to Moscow. for their arguments were back- ed by their bayonets. and faults in their logic passed unnoticed atnid the thunder of their cannon. After these signal reverses they iregor-iated with equal talent but entirely different success. for the power that gave force to their propositions was none. Now. then, if ever in the course of the war, it is necessary to push on those preparations which are required for the ctliecicncy of our sea and land forces in the next campaign. Never before was that necessity so urgent, IlG\‘(3l' would the effects of any relaxation or rt.-inissness be so immediately felt. We have the goal in sight, and that ought to induce as rather to double rli.in to remit our exertions. By ohsorving this lint: ofconduct we shall either have _e_'£llIICtl the noble- st victory—a solid and lzrstin-_i peace, or be in a position to inspire those who shall have withheld it from us with still more tlnrrbio I‘9pl‘lll3IlCe.

Tut-: I’nri.»i correspondents of the Imlcpcndancc Beige l‘0Vl\'t: the story that the lhiiperor intends ilncing hiiu n?.«.'.it the he.v.d of one of the exped- itions on the weaning campaign.

THE bedcharnber in the Palace of the Elysee, occupied by Queen llortensc,nnd iiiwhicli Louis Napoleon was born, is being made ready to receive the Empress on the occasion of her con-

ncinent.

Late from California.

New YORK, Jan. 30th, -—'i‘ho stcamships Star of the \Vcst, and the George Lriw, arrived with a. large quantity of treusurc.

CENTRAL AMi:rtica.—Genernl \Valker it is said has now I50 Aincricans under arms.

\’Valker has lost two of his finest oflicers by cholcra——Cnpt David.-on and Lt. Col. Gilman; they died very .-;uddt-nly last week within a. day or two of cncli other.

Caur-'ortivia.—-Front the mines we have the most cheering accounts. The recent rains have given the llllll(.‘l's\ plenty of ivnter and plenty of work.—-Tlic exports of wheat during the past year has been quite lur c ——equivnlcnt to 132,556 bbls. of floor. ‘The total amount of when: raised in Cali- ‘-fornia during the past year, is estimated as high as 2,5‘..’.5,44-I bushels.

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OREGON.—-The latest dates from Oregon are to Dec. 20, broiiglit by the Panama, which arrived on the 24th. Previous ac- counts give the intclligence that Col. Kinney was marching with his coinpnny to attack Fort Walla Walla, which was then in possession of the Indians. No intelli- gence had been received from the expedi- tion up to the date of the selling of the Panama, and fears are entertained for the safety of Col. Kinnsy’s party.

POLICE COURT IN CT. JOHN, H. I.

Since the fat of January, the business at the Police Office has been row‘ “ small by degrees and beautiful y lsss, ’ and for the last three days, it amounts to nothing at all, if we cxce t a complaint against an individual for the larceny of a couple of codfiah.

A Lowsltgirl, who says she was married at 13 and has a child two years old, has been de- tected ssrvingss sailor on board the new ship James Ray at Philadelphia. She was very nimble tn the rigging.

we shall bring those negociations to a lisp iy re--

-filaaszannts GAZETTE. I 7 _‘___V___ A ___________ __i_

Saturday. February 9, 1856.

11- has often struck us, thntn public surveyor of stripping was an officer much minted, not one whose sole business was to take the dimensions ‘of the vessel previous to her being repiatercd. §hnt one who, with it thorough know edge_of ‘ hip-building. could pronounce with authority ‘on the fitness or unfitness of the ship to do the i work required of her. and that she was well and 'securely put together. and constructed of the best materials and workmanship. When we !tnke into consideration the enormous risk of life land roperty that must of necessity be encoun- Steredlby “ these go down into the sec in_ ships " from storms, fogs, sudden gains of wind, and the hidden and unforeseen calamities that beset the mariner on every hand, thero_is surely no wisdom in adding to these by inefficiently build- ing or rigging vessels, but on the contrary,thnt

' ' duty to endeavor to lessen the number of every precaution in our

it is n ‘casualties by takin win a vessel to sail, until of she was in every

ipower, and never alfo -it was fully ascertained, t _ _ respect well found in ri iug, provisipns, and stores ofnll kinds. iudepen entl of harm been faithfully built, and bein tig t, stnunc and stron 'umerous have con the cases that have fallen under the cognizance ofthe writer. where in disputes between the builder and contractor, it has turned out that the vessel in question has been inefliciently bolted and caulked, knees, apparently sound on the first view, have upon examination. turned out defec- tive. in the heart, every kind of urtilicc was re- sorted to in order to conceal latent defects, on at times such an capnsc ofutter recklessness and want of principle, that made him shudder. _ 3 It gave us great: pleasure when we heard it ‘announced, that it building surveyor from |Lloyd’s had arrived and intended to take up his xresidence among us, for the express purpose of examining into the construction ofvessels while on the stocks, and keeping an eye upon them from the la 'ing the keo to their sailing out oftlie harbor. \ e lind often lienrd of A I at Lloyd‘s' and could easily imagine that the letter and figure were intended to desi note it first class ‘vessel, but never understoo until now what were the requisite qualifications in order to on- nble the committee at Lloyd's to place it vessel ,in this class.

We had no sooner heard of Lloyd's surveyor lrziviiig arrived, that we took the liberty of wait- ing upon him, and were highly gratified at the

open, frank and gcntlcmaiilikc manner in whic our advances were received by hlr. Coker, who at once furnished us with the requisite infor- ination which we shall take peculiar ilcnsure in imparting to our readers. Sliip-bui ding is ltlic only niaiiufrtcturc-if it may be so called— ‘ofony extent. that we have in the Island, and us it constitutes it considerable item in our ur- .tir.-les of export, it is of the first iniportitnco that E the manufactured article should be of the best possible quality. Our builders will now have the satisllictioii ofbeing able to submit their - work to, in the first instance. ti. competenlzjudge, ‘and one who, from his knowledge of the art, ‘and the particular points insisted upon at ‘l.lo_vd's, can. and its he informed us, is willing to give every requisite information u on the subject; and in the second place, of o tnining from liiui such it certificate of the cculittr me- rits of the individual ship, as aha lcnable the lcomrnittco at Lloyd’s to assign to her the pecu- aliur class in which her proper place is to be ’found. The ndvanliages of hatvin on the spot an officer of this description, do y accredited, into too obvious to require enumeration, and ; will upponr the more clearly when we have Jgivcn. as we purpose doing, soiue extracts from 1" Lloyd’s Register of British nnd Foreign Ship- ing,” with the loan of which we have been kindly favored by Mr. Coker. It will be easily conjectured, that no contractor will omit in fu- ture specifications, it condition, that the vessel shall be duly surveyed according to the instruc- tions from Lloyd's, and that the certificate of their surveyor shall be decisive as to wlistfier tho contract has been duly executed or not. In truth, no owner will venture, we should think, to send his vssselto sen, without haing first an jocted her to this proof of her soundindss, as any reluctance or unwillingness so to do. is it a eciea of negative evidence, that there is something in her construction or equipment that will not bear inquiring into.

ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOOIITY. Committee Meeting. Feb. 6, 1868.

Proscnt,—-Jcrsrnlah Sim n, It‘.sq.. President, Eta Honor Jud Peters, n.'Cn t. Rics,lIon. Goo. lss; os. Psthick. Jo n Johnston, *‘ Henry Longworth, 6 Chan. I-lasui-d,Bsquirss. Rssd minutes of last mssting. ' The sabjss

before the committee when tbs Secretary road

Jlllwsrs to letters written to the difcrcnt com,-'

pctltora. The Committee havlnf ‘ c

t matter of the complaints lodged I against the Turnip Inspectors was again took common

Lewis, in sdjudging the several crops, find, that in seven cases out of eight tho turnips were tailed. previous to bein weighed, socordin to the mode heretofore a ways pursued, and by which the nvern of the turnip crop can always be fairly ascertained, if the Inspectors act im- partially. It appears, however. that on Mr. Ir- ving. the Seoretar of the Society, being called upon to sdjud t e crops of Messrs. Smith and

win, they in orined him. that none of the crops adjudged by them this season had been tailed, in consequence of which untrue statement, Mr. Irving was induced to weigh the turnips of Messrs. Smith and Lewis without their being tailed, thus giving Mr. Smith, who obtained the first prize, an average of 38 bushels per acre, over those of r. Binns, whereas, had they been treated in the same manner as the turni s of Mr. Binns and the others, Mr. Binns won d have had the highest average, and been entitled to the first prize.

Resolved, therefore. That as the said Mr. Smith has obtained the first prize in conse- quence of untrue statements, and the partial conduct of himself and Mr. Lewis, he be called upon to return it to the Society.

Resolved further, That while this committee regret, that the said Inspectors should have de- viated from the course formerly pursued in in- specting the turnip crops, and that they should have denied before tliia committee. that; they had acted in the manner set forth in the com- laint. of Mr. Binns, and the affidavits sent in. hey consider it their dut to censure the con- duct of Messrs. Smith and win as being unfair and partial.

Ordered, That the Secretary furnish Mr. Smith with is copy of these Resolutions, and call upon him to return the prize of Three Pounds, so unjustly obtained.

Ordered, That these Minutes and Resolutions, ttloug with the Affidavits of Messrs. Binns and others, be published.

Read a letter from Mr. Gninsford in relation to some improvements in weaving.

Ordered, That it dozen “ Fly Shuttles,” such as described by Mr. Gainsford, be procured front Manchester in the spring.

By Order, Wri.i.r.iir W. .Il't1'l2\'(.',

Scc'y R. A. Society.

Com. Room. Feb. (3th, 1850.

Charles Binns, of Charlottetown, in Prince Edward Island, the elder, James Dean and John Jackson, both of the some place, laborers, and Alexander LI‘Leod and John Cassidy, both nl: present in the employ of His Excellency Domi- nick Duly, Esquire, severally make oath and say, and first this deponent Charles Binns, for liimst.-lfsnith, that on or about the first day of November last past, George Lewis and George Smith attended in deponent's field for the pur- pose of examining and judging deponent.'s tur- nip crop, by order of the Committee of the Royal Agricultural Society of the said Island, as doponcnt believes. Deponeut: snith, that at the commencement of pulling the said turni 5 by the said George Smith and others, the said George Smith received from deponeut a knife, and did there forthwith begin and cut from off one or more of the said turnips, the tops and roots thereof, and stated at the same time to out: follow in the same manner, and to trim the said turnips ready fit for market. which depouent solemnly saith was done throughout by cutting off the roots and tops thereof previous to their being weighed by the said George Smith, and deponsnt saith, that the turnips sworn to he said John Jackson as hereinafter men- tioued, are the some turnips that were jod ed ‘as aforesaid, ‘nod that none of said turnips were touched in any way whatever, after bein weighed and emptied from the bag by the sni George Lewis and the said George Smith, until after they were noticed by the said John Jack- son, to the best of deponent‘s belief. ‘_

This deponent, James Dean, for himselfsaith, that he was present at the pulling, trimming, and weighing of one or more of the said bags of the said tut-pi s by and in the rescnce of the said George wis and the sni George Smith and others. and that deponent assisted pulling and trimming one or more bags of the said for- ni s, and dcponent solemnly declares, that tho said‘turnips so pulled and weighed in his pre- senco had the roots as well so the tops taken 08' before being weighed.

This deponsut, John Jackson, for himself saith, that he entered the said field on the same morning, and shortly after the said turnips were examined as aforesaid, and that he deponout personally viewed the said tnrnlps so examined and dsponent also most cclsninly aslth, that said tnrnlps had the roots as well as tho tops, taken of when so soon by him. _

This deponcnt, Christopher Osssid . for him- sslfsaith, tlistoa or about the said t_ ty of said George Sgt on;

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,- - . who he commenced in the usual way nlllng and trimming the turnips

taken hitti-

consideration the afldavits and More of the diluent com titan for turnip springs, mit ,

mods pursue by Messrs. Geo. and Goo.

bsin d .b ttl those (1 ts iilmnfrlli t at wbsiiulniihcsct ordohig sbfghc