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may speak free.’*---Enuripides.

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Monday, January 9, 1865.

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New Series.---No,

KING SQUARE HOUSE Cloths, Cloths, Cloths,

'N Beavers, Whitneys, Meltans, Blue,

Riack, Brown and Drab BROAD-CLOTH,

Mantle Cloths, Doeskins, Tweeds, &c.; a very superior but BEER & SONS.

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Shawls and Mantles. 1 ATEST STYLES, cheap. , 4 BEER & SONS.

Ready-Made Clothing.

GOOD Assortment. A large lot of fR HEAVY CVRRCOATS BEER & SONS FUR CAPS, FUR CAPS. A SPLENDID variety

prices BEEK & SUNS.

ia qualities aad |

LADIES’ FURS, | 1 MICU, Oppossum, Masquash and Mock

Erwine Boas, Muffs and Cuffs to wateh, Also Russian Pup and =) berian BEER & SONS.

Moakev Mutts. Lamb Shins

SEAL SKIN COATS,

FEW very svuPreRior. BEER &

Felt Hats, Felt Hats,

. Ladies’ and Gents’, latest styles.

SONS.

BEER & SONS.

Boots & Shoes. EN'S and BOYS’ STRONG BOOTS N and BROGANS; Ladies’, Misses’ and Childrens’ Kid and Cloth Leather BOOTS and SHOES BEER & SONS.

BUFFALO RORES, ->F FIRST CLASS QUALITY. o BEER & SONS. SKATES, SKATES, SKATFS, ADIES’, GENTS’ and BOYS’, a large L eariety and VERY CHEAP BEER & SONS.

Stoves, Stoves, Stoves, FEW of the VICTORIA COAL COOK fA STOVES, acknowledged to be the very best

for byruing Siuall ¢ wal. Also some very band some Parlor Stoves for beth ¢ oa! aud Weed x Stoves ter Scheel-houses and churches

PAIRS

The Leviathan Cook Stove tor Wood LADIES’ aad MISSES GENTS

BEER & SONS. ) 80 BOY'S and CHILDREN'S

Rubber Boots and Shoes,

OF SUPERIOR QUALITY. BEER & SONS.

Charlottetown Lier. 5, Ini4

~ The Cheapest House 1\ THE TRADE! DAVIES & WEEKS | Respectfully aunowwce that their! IMPORTATIONS | oe aienniis

Coming An

NOW COMPLETED!

The Stock of GOODS now on hand is LARGE, and includes almost every article which the wants ef the country demand, and which. in order to meet the ** hard | times,’’ have been marked at

Exceedingly LOW RATES.

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We especially invite attention to

LONDON HOUSE! Oranges, Lemons, Established 1820, Apples, Onions. i yest RECELVED, per steamers Commence 1004. asa, —

Bbls. Oranges, 2 Boxes Lemons, 5 Bbls. APPLES, Baldwin & Russet, 39 Bbls. ONLONS,

Y the Commoporr and Unpine from £7LIVERPOOL, Lorvus from LONDON, Itecen Davies from BARBADOES, Sevex | ao

BROTHERS, BEAVERLY and steamer Commence from . a ae , y

BOSTO M, the subscribers have completed to 100 Bbls. Extra Supertine b AMILY FLOM R,

importations for the season, which, having been | 20 Bbls. CRACKERS, Wine, Butter and Seda.

ry one of the Firm, 20 Bbls. CRUSHED SUGAR,

AND BOUGHT ON THE BEST TERMS! Boxes JORDAN ALMONDS, Filberts, Castana

they are enabled to offer at extremely low prices | og eee ¥ OZERGES

for prompt payment. Wholesale Buyers supplied | 7, at aa ee wT s :

as usval, The present importation comprises :— Boxes COPPER, Saleratus and Shoe Blacking,

5 oe 5 Cases MATCHES 20 Doz. BROOMS

? hhde; lierves ar 38 bales Carnet & Wo | 2 Cases aii a Ay pede = pe Bar bales { arpet & Wool 20 Dezen BUCKETS, 50 Boxes SALT,

20 hhde Muscovado Mo-| 1? 4 Casks Keresone OLL, 20 Boxes CANDLES, lusses, Tea, Brown Sugar, Molasses, Mustard, Pepper,

se leeted

lens, packages Glasgow Goods, in Gala Plaids,

| 50 shests Prime Congo! Shawls, Wineies,!| Cream Tartar, Licorice, and a lot of other articles | aoa, , city Shirting,Flan- in the Grucery Trade. cases Ready-made nels and Shirts, Bags \ nn Clothing, reed Std Baxuing, ‘Osna Atso—The largest assortment of 2 do Geuts’ and Ladies burys, Canvas, Cali Rubber Coats and coer &c. &e. | on } bale Blankets, C 0 N F E C T | 0 N A R Y 6 de Ladies’ Boots &, 7 bales Paper Hangings in the Island.

Shoes,

Shoes, | bleached,

4 do Silks and Ribbens,! 6 do Millinery, do Haberdashery, | j

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White Caliooee it can be imported, 3 do Stripe & Check | Consisting of all kinds of FRUIT DROPS, |

Shirtings, | LOZENGES, MIXED CONFECTIONARY, | o do Linen Drapery, 2 do Butfalo Robes, | Ju Jubes, Gum Drops, Clear Toys, Kisses, Al- | do Hosiery, 2 do Wrapping Paper | monds, Conversation Lozenges, Lumps, Sticks, | do Gloves, Hhds Paint Oil, do Shawls & Mantles, 113 packages do Ladies Furs, Paints, 3 do Fur Caps, 30 sides Sole Leather. do Damask & Mo! If case Guns

assorted kinds too numerous to name. Pulverized Sugar, |

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Lo dee 3 do assort’d Cutlery, | All will be sold cheap for Cash.

do Floer Clot is, I do EK Pp Ware — r hare, . 2 do Glaze Lining, 1 do Indigo ALEX. McKENZIE, 9 do Townend'’s ILATS 25 tons assorted Iron,

& CAPS, do bdls Spring, Cast and ie do Felt Hats, Dlister Steel, | do Ladies HATS and 225 pieces Plough Metal BONNETS, 125 pkys Nails & Spikes | do Sundries, | 90 do Ironmongery 3 bales Cloth. | - Casks Baking Soda, Whiting, Putty, Wash- ing Soda; Barrels Crushed Sugar, Currants, Jamaica Ginger, Porter and Ale, Epsom | Salts; Kegs Powder, Cudbear, Mustard, Bexes Loudon Seap, Tebaeco, Starch, Rai- sins, Extract Legwead, Lozenges, Giass, Pepper; Bags Rice, Coffee, Alispice, Leaks, Coils Manilla Rope, Dozens Brooms and |

Pails, &c.

const SP UHIND &TARVIES NENEREW HOUSE, | acts ose soe

Christmas Presents!

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EXTENSIVE SALE OF

CHRISTMAS PRESENTS

AND

New Wear Gifts,

MISCELLANEOUS. THE REWARD.

Who, looking backward from his manhood’s prime,

| Sees not the sceptre of his misspent time ; Aud through the shade Of funeral cypress, p'anted thick behind, Hears no reproachtul whisper on the wind From the loved dead!

Who bears no trace of Passions’ evil force! Who shuns the sting, O terrible Remorse ! Who would not cast | Half of his future from him, but to win Wiakeless oblivion for the wrong and sia Of the sealed Past!

Alas! the evil which we fain would shun, We do, and leave the wished-for ood undone ; Our streneth to-day Is but to-morrow’s weakness prone to fall ; Poor, blind, unprofitable servants all, Are we alway.

| Yet who, thus looking backward o’er his years,

ian . Feels not his eyes wet with grateful tears,

to aspire to claim the dignity of freedom, that you should yourselves provide the [een by which free institutions prosper. (Hear, hear.)

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MR. GLADSTONE AS AN ORATOR.

An audience of working men, an audi- ence of ordinary men, which hears him for the first time, gains 3 new idea of the human mind, It was said of Scarlett, the great {advocate that ‘ he should be asked to speak Bis et ee asked eee as young ladies are asked to sing.’? The same may be said of Mr. Gladstone. With-

| out seeming effect he has command not only ,of exact and flowing words, not only of | modulated and flex ble tones but of ideas vew enough to be instructive and familiar

enough to be delightful. He tells the mul-

G, ee a | Courts are to act only upon the latter. The | to the South, and are not affected as Canada Federation, it will be evident, is not one to is, and ever will be, by a winter of frost. | be composed of Sovereign States. | The disadvantage of a Canadian winter will, All the powers thus surrendered, and ali! however, in all probability be overcome by | to which, saving the Queen’s prerogative, an the federation of the inland and maritime independent nation can lay claim, are trans- | colonies.’ ferred to a central authority as unlike that, i aa — a ‘existing at Washington as it is well possi- oo S HOAXES [N CINCINNATT. , ble to conceive. It will consist, in the first | (From the Cincinnati Gazette.) ‘place, of a Viceroy appointed by the Crown, | * A good hoax is sometimes allowable, and the

rae Howing statement of occurrences that actuall wielding all the powers of the Crown, pro- transpired last evening, will do to laugh oun

tected like the Crown from attack or remo-| once, but their repetition in any community

val, and fettered like the Crown by the Oe | Itect + call for some effectual measures to

eennts es oes. - | detect and puuish the rogues.

bie ce aeons a yer yore | It was an 9 evelock when one of our minis ‘ament. Ns Farhament 1s | ters—who, from his genial and lively disposition,

composed of an upper House, to be culled is fast earning the reputation of the Marrying

the Council, and composed of 76 members , ?@tsen—returned from hie Weduesday evening

selected by the Crown for life, in proportion

of 24 for Upper and 24 for Lower Canada,

itude wh: most kne Ms i taoee Snes Hig, Sete we Ane ef |10 for Nova Scotia, 10 for New Brunswick,

wonderfully well. tis not possible for a

is 14 for Pri Shemned tale

respousible winister to be exceedingly or- seticeys tar ae —s 4 tor New. |

iginal ; people stare, and wonder, and ask |p" Canada | ik ee ae

what the new thing means, what measure it | 7°W°F Vanada 10 proportion to Its resources | being a concession to the French element

meeting, and was handed a note by his wife, signed Charles M. Ray, that requested him to eal at a certain house on Vifth Street, to perform amariiige ceremony. Enclosed was the liberal tee of ten dollars. Not to be behind time, the parson hurried off to No. — Fifth Street. When the door was opened, he found a gay assemblage

|of young folks, the gentler sex preponderating.

Announcing the ebject ef his visit, he was sur-

portends.

Those who have to preserve the |

which in the Lower House will be overborne. | Prised that ne one seemed to understand it; and

1 do Rubber Boots &) > Pe Pree eed tn. Which will be sold Cheaper than)

If he hath been Permitted, weak and sinful as he war, To cheer and aid, in some ennobling cause, His fellow men!

If he hath hidden the outcast, or let in

| Cough Candy, and a large assortment of other | A ray of sunshine te the hall of sin;

If he hath lent

| tor Teing Cake ; Wedding Cake made to order. | Strength to the weak, and, in the hour of need i — : . “_ rx, "~LePe i : ° : ' CerA great variety of CAKE ORNAMENTS. } Over the suffering, mindless of his creed

Or hue, hath bent—

| Water Street, Dec. 19, 1864—1 W M 7in | He hath not lived in vain; and while he gives

fhe praise to Him iu whom he moves and lives,

With thankful hexrt Ife gazes backward, aad with hope before,

YEAR IF | ! Knowing that from his works ie never more N EW 7 Can heneeforth part.

THE LIGHTHOUSE.

oe Three months at sea, and one on shore ; Three months av oca yet uot afloat ; Around our home the breakers roar, Yet own we neither ship nor boat. Rock-based, amid the swirl of foam,

The lighthouse stands—it is our home.

Three months at sea—a dreary time— The ship goes gaily on its way ;

Now and again a mellow chime Comes to us through the dash of spray.

The ship will reach the nether zone While we still pace the lighthouse lone.

To commence THIS DAY, and |

be continued eaeh day, until all are |

South Side Queen Square. Thomas’s Old Stand, GREAT GEORGE STREET.

AVING COMPLETED our | disposed of, comprising in part: [ Importations for the Season, LADIES? WORK BOXES, we desire to call public attention | In Papier Machie and Rose Wood.

to our Stock, consisting of | LADIES’ WRITING DESKS, |

[un Papier Machie, beautifully inlaid with Mother | STAPLE AND FANCY eat oa . Papier Machie Goods, |

DR y (5 OO] ys } ly» Card Baskets, Stationery Cases, Ladies’ Com- u - FW a panions, Watch Stands, Writing Deska,

s Work Boxes, Glove Boxes, Xe. Hardware, Groceries, | Gurr, prrcia vasks, | {

BRONZED VASES, Gutta Percha Card Trays, Rustic Baskets, Ink Stands, &¢.

Beots and Shoes, Rubbers, | | |

LADIES’ FURS, SKELETONS, | CARD CASES, AA TS and C A PS, | In Ivory, Mother of Pearl, Turtuise Shell, &e. PHOTOGRAPIE ALBUMS,

lu splendid Bindings and styles.

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; Linen) f

BHLRLALO BOB#S, | |

And a varioty of other Goods.

All of whicl for | A Magnificent Assortment of y . ae » r oy « i 0 is 1 | we ae re at | BIBLES. rices that, we think, CIHIURCH SERVICES and

,ANNOTP FAIL | PRAYER BOOKS,

to give satisfaction to h urekasers. | In various Styles and Bindings, viz: Blue, Green © "i r | is » FT aol wr, ‘ eg / i » | and Parple Velvets, sloroceo Autique,

DELANY & BYRNE.

rims and Clasps, Kc.

Charlottetown, 19th December, 1364 COXTPLV TED | GOLD PENS and PENCIL CASES. Apr Tae '

A Larke Assortment of

8 Ri T| tH WAR FH ( | tt Games and "Toys, 3) Games of Joko,

QU E EN SQ U A RE, Tactics, Aunt sane Seihecer Salinas IMPORTATIONS |

Dominoes, Dratts, Skittles, Seven te Win, Christmas Pudding, &c. &c. Ke.

While we still pace aml hear the sound That comes from yon far village spire, Where wife and children gather round The cheery board, the crackling fire. Or seaward gaze, at dead of night,

Yo watch our slow, revolving light,

The skipper, through the midnight haze, Marks well its gleam, and feels its worth. ** God's blessing on the light!’’ he says, Dut gives it stil! a wider berth. And so it shines, from sun to sun, A thing to bless, and yet to shun.

And when the tempests how! and rave, And driving clouds shut out the day, Awsdé «er the lautern top the wave Flies skyward into feathered spray, We laugh, uy comrades twain and [, To fee) oyxselyes so warm and dry.

The Tigirthowse quivers to its base,

Yet, sung within, we know no fears; We know its stoues could fearless face

Sul! stonter gales iz bygone years. Thank God, our lot is not amiss.

There’s many a lite far worse than this. ee eal

MR. GLADSTONE ON THE COLONIES. Mr. Gladstoae, Eogland's Finanee Mi-

fully to shun theseeming eccentricity of novel | truth. But a Cabinet Minister is the bes | popularizer of all truth just accepted. What) | the world is just acquiring he already knows, | and he can convey it with a weight, an} authority, and a convincingness which be- long to no other man. Mr. Gladstone does more—far more. Nothing passed through his accomplished and ever-working mind without being elaborated, adapted, and im- proved. He looks at familiar things through spectacles which others could not use; he uses illustrations which ordinary men com- prehend, but could not invent. He com- municates, wherever he goes, the last ac- cepted specimen of cultivated cpinion, and ‘he communicates it with an individual mark. |The tenet is common to instructed and ex- | Beriqnens politicians, but the words are the | words of Mr. Gladstone, the expression has the happy flavour of a personality which is ever present, which is incommunicable, but which is never eccentric. The glimpse of the working—of the mechanism, we had nearly said-—of his own mind, which Mr, Gladstone cannot he!p giving, is more at- tractive and more instructive to working men, or to any man, than a thousand inu- dustrial exhibitions, Nor is this all. Mr. Gladstone inevitably and involuntarily dis- plays to his audience not only the spec- tacle of an intellect at once forcible and elaborate, but also the spectacle of a great aud most generous ambition. Others may be anxious for place and power for their own sakes, for the sake of profit, or for the sake of vanity, but Mr. G/adstone is eager for power to accomplish great things with it. le would be the agent and instra- ment in a great policy forthe English nation, great improvemeats to Lcritish society, “ great benefits to man’s estate.” He is willing to pay the price. He told the work- ing classes of North London that some rich people work as hard as they did. He might have added that he himself worked much harder. There are a hundred expedients of which a conspicuous public, man anxious to do nothing, can avail himself to do roth- ing, but Mr. Gladstone uses none of them. He confronts labor not only when it brings fame, but when it bringsaunoyance. He is at any time willing to take ap some small _improvement—some petty reform by which he will gain nothing—for which he will be badgered, which will cause him much toil ‘apd some pain, and for which no one will ‘ever thank bim. The most stupid audience ‘would feel something of this. ‘They would

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present confidence of average men learn care- |

, {arranged on the fixed idea that Lower Ca /nada is to have G3 members always. When, |

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| responsibilities which Great Britain had as-| i their lives many of them would realize Oak sides, Plain Moreeeo, Gilt | sumed in connection with the outlying por- | and krow what those words meant, and they | tions of the empire, of the feeling which at | WOuld be the better of it.—Lconomist,

| territory, he remarked thus:

nister, bas of late been desesnting upon the | feel that they bad before them a man ol colonial portion of theempire. Ina speech | Strung ambgion but yet of bigh ambition, ‘delivered in Liverpool, after speaking of the | of disinterested ambition—for the first time

one time prevailed that the greatness of the reengineered rt empire was to be augmented by obtaiaing |

| THE FEDERATION PROJECT

| continual accessions to the extent of its ter- | ee acne

ritory, and of the changes of sentiment at! The London Economist, which is an able the present day in regard to the question of | and influential exponent of public opinion, contains the following article upon the text

ss Not more than oue century ago, T am lof the Federal Constitution fer the British

{n that house, the basis is to be population, |

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numbers, it will have 130 members, the present proportions being—

Upper Canadas: . iis jatbas.. cscs uid 82 Bite Dees, «ios. cucdidts coil bontis cick 69 Nova Scotia ceecccosecese cre eeeseceseoes iv ee i 15 Pere Pomanen 52 ss ee oe 8 Prince Edward Islands... . eles o

The object with which this number has | been settlcdiz apparent at a glanee. The Con- stitution has been arreeged to meet the sus- | ceptibilitics of the Lower Province, and | Upper Canada is uot mistress of the situa-| tion as against Lower Canada, unless she can gain over more than one other entire colony. This Central Government, thus constituted, will, acting through responsi- ble Ministers, make all laws required for the ‘ welfare and good Government ’ of the nation, all laws on criminal matters, com- merce, currency, banking, immigration, marriage and divorce, and all subjects not specially named in the Constitution. It will have the entire control of taxation, in- ternal and external, of the national defences, locai militia included, of the post and of all inter-provincial means of communicatiun, will appoint all judges, (who are to be irre- moveable), exercise generally all except really local patronage, and possess the right of annulling within twelve months any act of thie Provincial Councils. These powers are very extensive—may, indeed, be easily 30 interpreted as to meet all likely contin- geucies, but then nations are killed by ua- likely contingencies ; and we should still ad- vise the Canadians to submit to the insertion by Mr. Cardwell of ove more clause, enab- ling the Viceroy and his Minis ry, in the time of rebellion or visible emergency, to ‘ proclaim’ any province, and while it re- mains proclaimed, to exercise absolute au- thority therein. On some such provision we trust Mr. Cardwell will insist, and we! think it is the only one in which Parliament should intefers. ‘The principal being graut- ed, there is nothing in any of these details which should offeud the mother country, aud much to geatify her pride and benefi: her interest. The delegate affirm in their very preamble that their first object is to perpetuate their connection with the mother country, they jealously reserve the preroga- tive throughout their arrangements, they specify that the Constitution requires the assent of the Imperial Parliament, and they insert this invaluable clause into their fuoda- mental jaw. *All engagements that may be entered into with the Imperial Govern- ment for the defence of the country, shall be assumed by the Confederation.’ That clause gives us the right to callon the Ca- nadians as allies under contract to perform their due share in the work of their own de- fence, aud removes the anomaly under which we are bound to defend men who may re- fuse to help us—who may shut out our trade, and decline any assistance to our re- venue. It is not, that we know of, the du- ty of Parliament to see that its colonial al-

bound (o say, the idea on which the colonial | American Colonies :—

“ The thirty-three delegates of the British

lies choose constitutions such as Englishmen approve ; but even if it were, the Ministry

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A Large Stock | |

or |

Ready - made Goods, |

suitable for Winter—manufactured

expressly to our order, and warranted =| to give satisfactiou—in

Over- Coats, Reefing Jackets, Pants, Vests,

Fancy Flannel SULRTS, Heavy Kersey Drawers, | Lanibs Wool and Merino

Vests, Pants, &c. ALSO,

A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF) Flannels, Wooi Sorges,

Fancy Flannel SHIRTINGS, BLANKETS,

| Selected with the greatest care, purchased on the

] Ae " . a" | stati as based, é i al Ore Y y , Bagatelle Boards, Tiavoli Boards, | P°!#tion was based, was in the main a nar beteee a eet ahd alas row and selfish idea. In one respect, in- i Ta Puzzles aud Dissections, w great variety. | deed, the administration of the old Ameri- ! snidletettntentn

Toys in every variety suitable for NOLIDAY PRESENTS.

Poetical Works, Drawing-

THE SUPPLY OF

British& Foreign Merchandize, |

COMPRISING OUR

STOCK IN TRADE, ! room BOOKS, Annuals, Xe. Xe. WILL BE FOUND Beautifully Bouud. Ore Oe |. A Splendid Lot of

PICTURE BOOKS,

| None | For Variety, Quality, St;le or Value.

| of other articles which cannet be ernymerated.

Ne

Don’t Porget

LAIRD & HARVIE'S,

Scuth Side Queen Square.

| Charlottetown, Dee. 19, 1864, | |

best termes, and sold at the lowest remunerative prices.

We Solicit Inspection. W. & A. BROWN.

Charlottetown, Nov. 21, 1864,

The Fall Supply

or

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

DELANY & BYRNE

RE offering the following Goods at Very Low Prices:

the giggle ef the girls gave him an inkling of the fact that a call from one of his prefession was a novelty to that crowd. He was assured that there was to be no marriage there, whereupeu be

| therefore a Province amounts to double her | beat a hasty retreat.

Thinking the figure 3 in 5th street might be meant fors,our parson hurcied off in that direction ; but, although he was treated more courteously at the corresponding number in that street, he tound nobody disposed to be married. Being satistied that he had been hoaxed, he walked by No. — Fifth street, and, while talking with a couple of policemen as to the character of the house, his friend, a popular undertaker, passed him in se- lemn gait, with his cvoling board under arm and assistant by his side. Turning around. and ex- changing his * good evening,” the minister was astonished to see the undertaker stop at the same door where he had met so strange a reception. “T have come,” said the grave voice of the man of death, ‘to lay out the corpse in this house.” “There is ne corpse here,” said the servant; and he needed no further assurance than the burst of laughter from the giddy heads within to satisfy him of the fact, and he, too, turned away to look for the object of his mission elsewhere. But the irrepressible “ Ha! ha!” of ourjolly parson called him back, and a statement of his own experience at once convinced the undertaker that the pro- posed marriage and death were alike fictions, and emauating from the same party. The seri- ous part of the joke is, that the parson found his ten dollar bill to be as spurious as the rest of the affair.

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Nores or Peorte or Weicut.—What is the average weight of a man? At what age does he attain his greatest weight? How much hevier are men than women? What would be the weight of fat people; and what of very fat people? M. Quetelet, of Brussels, some years ago, deemed such questioas quite within the scope of his exe tensive series of researches on man. He got hold of everybody he could, everywhere, and weighed them all. He weighed the babies, he weighed the boys and girls, he weighed youths and maideos, he weighed mea and women, he weighed ecllegians, soldiers, factory people, pensioners, and, as he had no particular theory to disturb his facts, he honestly set down such results as he met with. All the infants in the Foundling Hospital at Brussels for a con-

| siderable period were weighed, and the re-

sults were compared with others obtained at similar establishments in Paris and Moscow. The average return shows that a citizen of the world, on the first day of his appearance in public, weighs about six pounds and a half; a boy-baby a little more, a girl-baby a litle less. Some very modest babies vardly turn the scale with two pounds and a half, while other pretentious youngsters boast of ten or eleven pounds, hen Shy- lock asked for his ‘ pound of flesh,’ he ask- ed for an cquivalent to a little less than one-sixth of a baby. How the tiny ones grow during childhood, we need not trac here; but it may be interesting to know that girls and boys at 12 years of age are nearly equal in weight; after which limit males are beavier than females of{the same ages. M, Quetelet grouped his thousands of people according to ages, and found that the young men of twenty average a bund- red and forty-tnree pounds each, while the youog women of twenty gave an average of a hundred and twenty pounds. [lis men reached their heviest bulk at about thirty- five, when their average weight was one hundred and fifty-two pounds ; but the wo- men slowly fattened on until fifty, when

that is stil abroad, as many still living per- | to the Imperial Government. When revis- | counterpart of their own. ‘They may recom- | sons know, but yet it was based essentially ed and accepted by the Cabinet, it will be | mend certain modifications, such, for in- “upon the idea so fur as economical and com | presented to Parliament, we imagine very | stance, as the insertion in the Act of the) mercial purposes were concerned, that the! much in the form ofa treaty, to be aecepted | provincial constitutions,left by the delegates interests of the colonies were to be made or rejected en blac, and will then finely be! resolutions to the provinces themselves, bui

American Colonies have completed their! could not object to a scheme which, except in , fury and have published the basis of the | can provinces was carried on upon a system | Federal scheme which they intend to submit |

their average was one bundred and twenty- nine pounds, Men and women together, the weight at full growth, averaged almost exactly cen stones, or a hundred and forty pounds.—Ad the year Round.

the essential point of the absolute authority, vreposed in the Central Legislatures, is a

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Lorp MELVILLE anv unis Per Raw.—Lord | Melville, of Scotland, had a large pet ram

subservient to those of the mother country, | referred to the Colonial Legislatures, for a ithey are uot bound to press any point not of | oajied “Bill,” which used to follow him like

and that the channels of its trade, and even | vote which must of course be a simpie yes | of its industrial exertions, were to be forced|or no. Six Provinces, Upper Uanada,

in a direction different from that which pa- Lower Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Sco-

Suitable for Children, together with an abundance | ture would peinc to, in order to make it tri- | tia, Prince Hdward Island, and Newfound- | butary to the greatness of the mother coun-| land will, it is believed, accept it, but provi-|

try. Hear, bear.j Well, gentlemen, we|sion is made for the adhesion of all the

have thoroughly and entirely escaped from) North Awerican Culonies from Ma‘ne to the | The basis, which are ful. and very

any such dream, fllear, hear.j We bave) Pacific. given to ur colonies practical freedom. well eunsidered, do not modify greatly the ([Uear, hear.] I am not prepared to say information already placed be‘ore our ‘that we have not something to rectity on gaaders, but there is a great difference be- ithe other siée.of the aecaxnt. [Hlewr, bear ] tween the deductions from after-dinner

| We see even in certain cases—and [ cannot: speeches and dra‘t bills, aod we May per-' but lament it—we see ig eertain.cases—some | form an acceptable service to our readers |

of which have beer made the subject of | hy describing from the offi-ial record the comment in this couatry and in others~—we | machinery selected for the last new effort at

| pressing imperial interest.

a dog. One day he carelessly left the front

There is, however, one for which no pro- purse ratte ye "didiog "foots, Wes — ae ae. i 7 +)) | along : vom, a u vision is mads, and for which a Clause will ‘very beautiful glass mirror bought of a one day be urgently required, This is the | Spanish nobleman for nearly a thousand ) matter o/ boundaries, ‘I'he Acadians expect | gyljars. No sooner did Bill see bis image, _to induce the people of the Pacific colonies, | than he gave # challenge to fight, by etamp- aud, perhaps, the settlerson the territory | ing, and “getting into his position,” which, now held by the Hudson’s Bay Company, | of course, was answered by the image, and to enter into their compact ; but they have | yoo pore Rene 4 soouns’ "ts ton toa ‘ oe : glass, Shivering , € a

made no provision for the settlement of Jafter, when the animal wae slaughtered, a spoon and a handsome eilver-mounted snuff

‘boundaries. Vancouver’s Island, for ex- ,ample, might like to stay out, while i18 | box were made of his horas, and Lord Mel- mainland dependencies might like to go in, | ville gave these articles to his friend William and Who is to settie that quarrel? The Pitt, Prime Minister of England. Subse- interior, too is entirely ‘quently, Mr. Pitt, in writing to the Spanish

‘vast expanse of the P noblewan who formerly owned the mirror,

without demarcativns, and some appellate |

Cloths, Doeskins,

Fur Caps, Butfalo Kobes,) IS NOW COMPLETED |

GOODS er sean ae |e eee |Gents’ Hair Otter, Plucked Otter, | '18 Memscives our own,

jsee a disposition, even in those colonies to set up aga'nst the industry awd products of a colony

and other superior quality | the mischiefs and fallacies of the exploded

MUFFLERS, SCARES, "Dies,

Gloves, &c. &c.

Queen Street. Dee. 19, 1864. MW I

Cash Provision Store ! W. S. SMITH,

| hy the arrival of Ships Conmopone, Unviye | jan Lewes whieh, for QUALITY and CHEAD. | Collars, |

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| Queen Square Honse, (et. 3), JS6g

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WILLIAM HEARD. |

Na BA;

NESS, will coutrast favourably with any other FUR SAPS:

lmportation fur he 7) , and must insure nA lapid fale, ee ee CANA DIAN MOCCASSIN S, Seal Over Boots,

Square Rod Tobacco. ISLAND MANUFACTURE. Pur Subseribers having purchased the | Skeleton Skirts,

} ‘Tobacco Stock of the late Geo. F.C. »rwee | Fisq., elon ee Eat erieaie ecuintin oo A Lot of Ladies’ Sontags

| purpose af manafacturing Tobacco, and are now |

LADIES FuRS,

| Wowllen Hoods, Breakfast Shawls,

| protective system. [Hear, hear.} And | ‘think with respect to the government of those dependeucies in general, there is yet much to be done, slowly perhape and@ eax- (tiously, but firmly and resolutely, in _reetifying the distribution of burden and of benefit in order to place the people of | Kngland not in that position of ascendency i security which they bawve in good faith | | renounced, but in that position of justice and equality to which they have an indefea- sible claim. [Hear, hear, and cheers] What I think we desire is to give freedom | _as far as we can to our provinces in the af- fairs of our fellow-subjects abroad, to lend them as far as we can the shelier and pro- |

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the manu‘acture of Empires,

Tne objeet of th» American colonists, it is clear from every clause of the resolutions, ‘been obliged upon points to d ffer as to see- tiional jealousies aud fears, but they have ‘not given way in any direction save one to the desire of sma!l communities for indepen- deace. From the very beginning each colo- ‘ny that aecepte the schewe avowedly sur- renders its claim to independence, declares itself By aet of ite Jocal parliament a Province,—a part that is of a much greater whole. It will lese its separate Governor responsible only to Great Britain, and re- ceive one appointed by the ‘ Acadian’ Minis- try. while, though i retains ite separate legislature, the powers of that body will be reduced to very narrow dimensiona. still be absolute in the domain of civil law

‘is to furm a Nation not a Union. They bave |

authority shou:d be provided ia ease of | serious dispute. That authority must, of course, be the Queen in Council, and the) new Act, which may be iaterpreted a hund- | _red years hence wo.d by word by statesmen | who see imperial interests depending on its \eonstruction, should contaia some definisre provision for the difficuity, Intercolonial | questions, too,such as have sprung up be- tween New Sou’h Wales and Victoria should /be generally reserved, so that no Ministry,

wentioned to him the story of the ram. The Spauiard read the letter t the King, who was so much amused by the incident, that he sent Lord Melville a splendid mirror from ‘his own palace. In return, Mr. Pitt pre- {sented the King with the snuff box made of | Bill's horns, and we suppose it is now in the palace at Madrid.—N. Y. Examiner.

Jobn Mitehell, of the Richmond Enguirer, challenged Menry 8. Foote, of the Conteder- ate Congress, to fight a duel. They were | both arrested, as also the Hon. W. G. Swan,

dt will |

|strovg in its pew militia, its maratiwe! who carried the challenge, and taken before | power, and its semi-indepenJence, should be the Mayor, who, om hearing the evidence, able to commence a legislative warfare with S#d that enough of evideove was belore bim a colony outside its authority. to show that hostile feelings existed between a | Messrs. Foote and Swan, and as he sat there | Upon the general feature of the scheme as a conservatur of the peace, it was his daty the Liverpool! Journal has the following :— | to see that such ae did -_ ———— ' a ie ite jin a hostile meeting. e would therefore

* Tee cxercins. of he trangia 59, Bie | require bail of. bath parties in the suin of

Luiou encourages the belief that the Federa- 60. thousand dollure tach to keep the peace

FLOUR, of mapntnete | ow | i | prepared to offer tor sale, under the style and firm | T COST TEAS, laf LOWDEN & RICHARDSON, at their Store in | J AP Cost, WINES Queen's Street, next door to the Bank of P. E. Is | RENFREW HOUSE gp land, the best quality of Square Rod—Island Manu Charlottetown. 192} D l 6 : GENERAI G ROCERIE 8! IRITS, } facture. Strict attentivn paid to orders from the : bagtotiqtawn, 217i Pecenwer, 1364. anc awh 4& - country. ‘ . Se mT mornin Lowpen. MEETING OF THE LEGISLATURE a b. J. RICHARDSON. | ’ N.B.—W.S 8. would eal! the aifention of Re Oct. 10. 1864 ; — wen SS tail Dealers to his Stoek of Wines, Spirits, &e. ct. yi 4. COLONIAL Secrevar y’s Orrice,

Ch town, May 25, 1804. WATCHES & JEWELLERY, UST RECEIVED from ENGLAND,

@? of hest quality, aud for sale at a low price — Horizontal Watches in Sliver Crises,

isl & rw tf

4 holes jewelled,.........ccees i310 6 Do in Hauting Cases... 4.6. 4.-.....4 0 6 Brig bob Leversy. ..csns died tee so vee dD OF 0

Wateh Chains aud Keys, Finger Rings». Steel Ear y A. PURCHASE, Watch taaker, Smardan’s C ’ Charlottetown, Oct. 31, 1864 ped

Kinganwd Lrvoclvenglig iin “ine iy great variety, |

Union Bank ot P. EB. Island. a Meeting of Directors, held this LIEREAS by a Resolution of the House day, it was resolved that a Dividend of 6 per of Assembly, passed on the 14th day of April,

cont, on ihe paid (up Capital, for the half year | 1963, it was resulved that the Initiation uf all