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, ' . . a ; i ‘ . ee TD als I Mvuapes.— Yesterday forenoon, a colored woman of bad Fatan RarLroaD CoLtrston.— CINCINNATH, Oct. 9.—A

cha acter 1 amed M ivy Ss evensau s! me Ww th two athe 8 of collision oeceurred on the Ohio and Misaissippl Railroad, J ~ r

izht trains, near Mitchell, Ind., by which the

aud brakeman were killed,

} . . the same stamp, was out on the Common, tw company with betwe n two fre three or four Marines from one of the war ships now iu har- | conducior, engineer, fireman

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Newsraren Apventtsing —An Indian Court recently

bor, when one of the men, named Downey, moved, as is rup- posed, by joaloasy, snatched a loaded gun from the hands of : ee Mr. Adawore, a young man who whiist passing them to go Jecided, in a controversy about a charge for advertising, on a shooting excursion had just been induced by the re- that the published terms of newspapers constitute @ coutruct. peated solicitations of ove of the group to joiu them and Lf work is given to newspaper pulishers without a drink a pot of beer, and discharged the piece at the woman, contract contravening the pudlished terms, the publisher can blowing off one side of her head and face, and inflicting a fatal charge eud reesive according to the terms so published. It wound. Downey was seized, a few minutes afterwards, sod | 1s not necessary to prove what the work cost, or was worth ; is now in castody. The woman who was shot dizd a few the publishers have a right to fix the estimate of the value of hours afterwards.—Acadian Recorder. ‘their columes, aud, if so fixed, no other question need be ‘asked, but the price thus charged can be recovered, Liidinintimasiilgtl

Two farmers riding along together, met a large number

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Canapa and avs Govganons.—The Montreal Transcript makes the following observations: Lt is a fact thal may not be gainsaid, that Cansda bas proved au eril country to its of clergymen, avd one of them said to the other :—* W here governors, Like the consumptive patients whe are sent to are all those parsons coming from?” To this his friend re- has | plied, * ‘They have been at visitation.” The other, no wiser certainly been the political aud personal death-hed of not a then before, asked,“ What's visitation?” The answer was, few of the imperial representatives. One of those who) ‘* Why, it is where all the parsons go oncea year and swops governed it fell a victim to hydrephobia ; one died of lockjaw, | their cermons.” His friend thus enlightened, quietly re- and one of cancer; two of broken hearts; others have been marked, “ Hang it, but our fellow gats the worst on it every ignominiously recalled, or criven away by the mob; the time!” predecessor of the present Govern r-General was egzed, and ~ ~<e > pelted, and toned —though he alone appears to have survived Save Your Newsparrns.—Miss Jane R. Sever, of King- the infliction, and is likely to rise to high place and power | ston, Mass., has given the library of Harvard College a col- in the motber country. ‘lection of several thousand old newspapers, filling six barrels

be ‘and two large boxes. ‘The files are nearly complete, and the

AN Ixctpent.—A touching case was presented yesterday gift isa truly valuable one, as there wre no publications which to the consideration and charity of one of the Uiood Samaritans | gan go well tell the local history of a place as its newspapers. who now take care of the sick, relieve the destitate and feed | [py themselves they are the witnesses and the evidence of the the starving. A boy was discovered in the grass of Claiborne | progress of a town or city, to wealth, intelligence and power. — evwcotly bright and intelligent, but sick. A man They often register the pames of those who are born, of those bam nen the feclings of kiadvem strung!y developed, went tO who are married, and of those who die, and are thus guide him, sho ik him by the shoulder, and asked him what he was pooks from one generation to another, or better, a sort of doing there. * Waiting for G xd to come for me,” said he. “pavorama ia which these generations are viewed as though e W hat do you mean,” said the gentleman, touched by tho they were but one. And then, if you want to know who prthetic tone of the answer and condition of the boy, im made the boots, the pants, (they used to be ¢rousers when whose eye and flushed face he saw the evidences of the fever. | we were first connected with newspapers), the coats; or * God sent for mother and father, and little brother,” said 'who sold groceries. or who did the auctioneering, or the mir- he, “and took them away to his home up in the sky, and | pying ; or the price of teas, or who kept the best liquors

the warm climates to droop and die, this Province

mother toid me when she was sick that God would take care ‘amon : the old-time folks, there is no where you can get such of me, [have no home, nobody to give me anything, aad | information as in the old newspapers. There isa perfection be pectin Oe woneng fe long a ne the about them in matters of local interest and history, wnether ky fi » aod take eare of me, as mother said he ‘they be matters of yesterday or fifty years ago, which can would. fe will come, won’t he? Mother never told me a/ po fiyalled by no other production of the press. The his- oo. y , ” ; - “ai. : = ¢ mea a taal be ee ee | tory of many a piace is to be found in its newspapers ; and ; ; a aor ao aVe | they are the true index to the size and wealth of the place, seen his eyes flash and the smile of triumph break over his | its industry and intelligence, and to the manners and customs face as he said, “ mother never told mea lie, sir, but you've | of its people. By all means save your newspapers, so that = ee — page - 7 nen a Senet and wow your children’s children may see how their grandfathers and his ident vet of never deceiving, children | jrandmothers did in “ old times.” with tales, hs eee ee ee i : v . | Tae Lances or tue © Six Huxprep.”—Witbin Dover A Styavcar Srory.—Some of the American folks express | Castle there is now a collection ef pikes or lances which we ! doubts that any message ever passed through the Atilantie | will undertake to szy no visitor will look upon without a

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Tarquari that a ttl Polly. It was not intended, therefore, tu expose the pieni- po'entiary to the very awkward and wadiplomatie dilemma of being lifted over the rail of a Paraguayan war steamer in extreme disha!ille.

Lop: a, notwithstanding all the commercial treaties he bas made—ineluding the one with the United States, which he subsequently refused to ratify—is a complete monopolist, engrossing, as far a3 possible, all the benelits of the river traffic, pot to his country, bat to hum-elf and family. The Little Polly, though trading no doubt strictly within treaty stipulations, iutertered with his avaracious designs, and hence the attempt of the Taqaari to cripple her, ‘This, at least, is the present explanation of the affair, The facts, as yet but imperiectly kaown to us, may discover a different state of things. At all events, there is room for a loud demand for satisfaction on the part of Great Britain, and for a settlement which may precede ours, and prepare the back of the uoruly Lopez for the rod which we bave in pickle for him,

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Dear Sia,—Although you are a Koman Catholic and I a Protestant, | anticipate that you will not refuse the use of your columns to combat a movement which is destructive to all Chrisuuanity, yours a8 well as mine,

I ain Sir, your obed’t serv’t, A PROTESTANT.

Shade of Wesley! if it be permitted to you to look down from that celestial dwelling, which we huinbly hope is now thy habsation, amongst angels and the just made pertect, how will it grieve thy benevolence to behold those who profess your name, carried away by a mesmeric infatuation, bowing down before the worst errors, which wuen here you labored to recufy ? Wonderful indeed it is to behold those whose contrition and guilt should be poured out in the recesses of that secret chamber where they should **commuane with their own hearts ond be aul’? standing up before the congregation, armed with the effrontery of a sudden and imaginary conversion, proclaiming iheu accepiance with the Saviour ma few cabalistic words at the cal! of an tefatuated woman, imagining herself eadued with that holy spirit winch has aot iababired hawan bosoms siace the Apostolic age ; of woman too, whilst It hs said of women 10 St. Paul’s first Mpistie to ihe Coriattnans, idth chap, 240. © Let your women keep silence in the ehurcnes, tor itis not permitted them to speak.” tlow would you grieve to see your people responding to an apveal made to their senses and not to their intellects, by @ woman presuming virtually, however forms and words iniy disguiee the assumption, to absolve from gin those whom you, Wesley, would have taught, that whilst there is no pardon save through the ateming blood of the crucified Re- deemer, it Cannot be pronounced by human Deings. Surely repentance is not a soddea emotion of the nerves, called into life by huinan agency in a moment, as by the leverdemain of a juggier; but mt mast have its evidence in long and patient coutrition, by of amended Ife for obtaining a sense of sin watied to the heart by the inspiration of the holy Spir-t, and not by the appeal of a mortal like ourselves, and that morial a woman, who, if she would learn any hing, should © learn of ter husband at home, for it is a shame for a woman to speak in the.

Telegraph Cable, and that the messages between the Queen | certain degree of reverential emotion. These are the lances and President, and others, were at hand at Newfoundland | of the survivors of the renowed “Six Hundred,” who, in the | in readiness to be sent; but finding the electric curreat not | charge across the plains of Balaklava, won immortal fame | strong enouzh to transmit a word, or sentence, after repeated | for themselves. The condition of the lances now in the Casile | trials by the electricians, the messages were sent from New- | speaks forcibly of the nature of that bloody passage at arms ; | foundiand, this way, to stop the public mouth, also from there is scarcely one that is not stained with tha heart's Ireland to Loadon ; aol this will account fur the long delay | blood of the noble rider. In some cases on the inside of the in getting the Queea’s Message after it was announced that | white arm straps of the lances are little masses of clotied the cable was laid. Of course we do not offer any opinion | gore. The stains are there forever.—the very names of the upon this subject, bat merely give the report; and, by the| riders are forgotten; but, as we ean testify, the sight wins way, We observe that the New York Railroad Journal also | “

; ithe sympathy of all beholders.— Athenewm. , wotices the story.—M. News. ~ Screntiric Paradoxes. —The water that drowns us, fluent A Law-antorsa Propte.—The citizens of Milwaukie, | stream, can be waiked upon as ice. The bullet whieh, when Wis., are the most law-abiding people ia the world. One of Gred from a musket, carries death, will be harmless if ground them being asked why so many people were drowned in | to dust before befng fred. The orystalized water of the oil their river, replied that it was on ac:ount of an ordiuance of | of roses, 30 gratelal in its fragranee—a solid at ordinary the city, which forbids swimming in the city limits. When temperatures, though readily volatiie—is a compound oue of them slipped in, he revatled the ordinance at once, | substanee, containing exactly the same elements, and in and rather than violate it, weat cheerfully to the bottom |exsctly the same proportions, as the gas with which we light | without a strugg'e. jour streets. The tea which we daily drink with benefit and | —_—_-—__—_—+ ace e- | pleasure, produces palpitations, nervous tremblings, and even

Fara Avenay serwees Partwrens. at Lovisvrie.—The | Paralysis if taken in excess; yet the peculiar organic agent Ceurier, of Louisville, Ky., of the 24th ult., gives the parti- | calle theine, to which tea owes its qualities, ey be t ken eulars of a shooting affair at that locality: On Saturday | by itself’ (as theine, not as tea) without any appreciable effect. afternoon an affray occurred in front of William Diller’s ci-| Phe water which will allay our burning thirst, augments It gar store, on Third street, which resulted in the death of Dr. | when congealed into-snow ; so that Capt. Ross declares the lL. Ward, at the hands of R. R. Lindsay, both printers, | Natives of the Aretie regions “* prefer enduring the utmost Lindsay was passing down Third street, and was accosted by /extremity of thirst rather than attempt to remove it by eating Ward, who used very abusive epithets, calling him a ‘d—d

‘snow.” Yet if the suow be melted it becomes. drinkable on ¢ . . . : . } ate J oge ras * « . 2 ai ? rat,’ and finally striking him in the face. Lindsay immedi. | ¥#tr: Nevertheless, although, if melted before entering ately drew a pistol and fired at Ward, the ball entering the

ithe mouth, it assuages thirst like other water, when left breast. Ward walked a few steps, entered the Democrat | M¢!ted in the mouth it has the opposite effect. To render office, and died in léss than half an hour. this paradox more striking, we have only to remember that ee ice, which melts more slowly in the mouth, is very eilicient : avi hip niin

A Lavy Kitirp.—Yesterday afternoon, Major Hagner, debe See

the Superintendent at the United States Arsenal. at Brides- z: barz, and Mr. Pigott, his clerk, were engaged testing powder on the Arsenal groands. ‘The mauner of testing it was by firing an ounce of powder in a mortar, aad projecting a twenty-four pound ball with it. Mrs. Pigott, the wife of the clerk, Jeft her house, ow the ground, and started to go to the office of her husband. Qu her way she crossed the range of the shot, just as the mortar was fired, and the ball struck her, mangling her in a shocking manner, aod causing her death about an hour afterward. The deceased was about 21 years of age. She had been married about two years, and leaves one child. She was the daughter of Mr. Henry Herbert.

Coroner Fenner held an inquest in the case to-day. The, facts given above were substantiated by the evidence. It seems that the experiments have been going on since May last, by order of the United States Government. Men were stationed (o give warning to persons crossing, the ‘ shell ground.’ Mrs Pigott was cautioned, and she siood watching | the ball coming toward her, but she seemed fascinated aad | unable to vet out of the way. Hee left arm and right thigh | were brokea. The jury rendered a verdict to the effect tat the deceased, Mrs. Lucy M. Pigott, died from injuries avcilently received by being struck by a bail, &. The olivers were exonerated from censure.--PAzladelphia Bulletin.

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Tur Reevstic or Paracoay.—President Lopez, of Para- guay, is bringing trouble about his house. In consequence of some difficulty which recently oceurred between his Ex- celleney and the United States, a fleet is about being des- patched to chastise him, unless reparation is made. We now learn that the President has grossly insulted the British Minister at Buenos Ayres, and the next news from there may inform us of summary chastisement being inflicted by a British fleet.

The Boston Courier thus states the nature of the trouble with Her Majesty's representative :-—

We must bestir ourselves, it seems, or we shall lose the coveted opportunity of drubbing President Lopez, of Para- guay, into a sense of international civility and justice. The Hoglish have had a brush with His Excellency, not very dis- similar to that which we are waking such potent preparations to avenge. The story is, that the British Minister resident at Buenos Ayres, in view of the approaching expiration of | the treaty between Wnzland and Paraguay, recently went up | to Ascension to invite negociations for a renewal or a new) treaty. Having obtained an interview with Lopez, the Minister (Mr. Christie) had occasion to be disgusted with | the incivility of that dignitary, who chose to remain covered | with an immense gold-laced cocked-hat during the whole ‘ iaterview.

aon Mr. Christie felt obliged to take official umbrage at this

Frencs ayy Enctisa ar Curersovrg.—The cafes were in! ridiculous freak, and to regird it as an indignity to his the evening always full to overflowing. At intervals up sovereign, her Majesty the Queen, and he accordingly with- started some Freachman or Kaglishman to propose compli-| drew somewhat abruptly from the republican presence, and mentary toasts to the respective nations. John Bull drank | en:ered a formal diplomatic proteet against the wearing of a to the Km peror, and Johany Crapaud to the Queen. Que | presidential hat in the presence of a representative of royalty. night when the festivities had been going on warmly Yor some Failing to obtain apology or satisfaction, Mr. Christie clapt time, a Fvenchmen rose in a cafe which was crowded with| his own hat on his head forthwith, and retired with all con- Gauls and Eoglish—“ Messiears gentlemen,” said the | venient expedition from so discourteous a court. He des- spokesman, “I do rise, I do drink je bois, to the very good | eonded the river in a little Eaglirh merchant steamer, called health of de very Good Queen of Kayland —ve vill sing the the Little Polly, and had proceeded a hundred miles or so, soug that the Anglais do sing to the health of er Majeste— when the Little Polly was met in the night time by the | Paraguayan war steamer Tarquari, and a collision ensued, by

For he’s de jolly good fella, which the Little Polly was cut down and sunk 80 suddenly whieh nobody can deny.”” ‘that crew and passengers, some of them in their night-clothes,

Wild with enthusiasm the Hoglish and French rushed into | had barely time to save their lives by jumping ou board the the streets, and hand in baad went singing the * jolly good , Tarquari, fellow” alorg the main thoroughfare, uutil they caught the, Now these matters constitute a pretty serious cause of rounl of other voices; the new comers being French | offence, or casus elli. If the indignity of the cocked-hat

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marines, whom alot of young Kngiish yatchmen had been | could be overlooked, the loss of the Littie Polly, with a valu-

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church.’ Do not Wesleyans ignore the tene's of the Roman Cathohe Church?) Are any Protestents more earnest thia they

and not destroy the Little Polly,—It was not known to thet {Seitish Minister was'ou board the Little the Eduaeation Board, and they were in the meantime per-

he same time. He relinquished the duties of Secretary to

formed by the Acting Head Master of the Academy. Now, | Mr. M:‘ Neill has resuined the duties of his former position, jand Mr. Kenny remains as he was before. No injary has been done to either. They are both inthe unchallenged occupation ‘of the offices which they held a year or two ago. If it 'were wrong to remove Mr. M‘Neill from the Visitorship | of Schools, it was also wrong to remove Mr. Kenny from the ‘Seeretaryship to the Board of Education ; yet not a word has ‘been said on behalf of the latter, but we suppose there qms no chance of evoking public sympathy or feeling in Ais favor. If Mr. M‘Neill had been appointed permanently to the office of Schoo} Visitor, or on the usual tenure of good behaviour—had been dismissed from thai office, and not restored to the Secre- taryship of the Board of Education, we might be inclined to think he was severely dealt with; but when we find that by the act of the Government he has merely changed one office, temporarily held, for one he formerly filled, we cannot see that any of his pretended friends has a right to complain,

As regards Mr. Irving’s appointment, we should leave time to determine the propriety of it. If he has had, in days gone by, a fuller measure than some of as of the foibles and infir- mities of our common humanity, we should have Christian charity enough to hope that these foibles and infirmities wil] not follow him tothe grave. Asa man of extensive erudition, agreeable manners, considerable talent, and large experience as a successful teacher of youth—we consider him very well qualified for the office to which he has been appointmed,

“ Honour and fame from no condition rise,

Act well your part, there all the honour lies,” is a precept incalcated by one of the best of English poets and moralists, which should and does underlie our common humani- ty; and ignoring uncharitable reminiscences, so long as the new School Visitor shall honourably and faithfully discharge his trust, we should endeavour to keep in remembrance another precept : ‘

“* Be to his faults a little blind—

Be to hia virtues very kind,—

Let all his ways be snconfined,

And class your padloek on his mind. *’

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BANKRUPT LAWS,

Tua Jow state of the credit of the [sland at this moment is the cause of much difficulty. Indeed it operates to that ex- tent that it may be very reasonably doubted whether, even wien commercial credit shall revive elsewhere, as it is gradual- ly doiag, we shatl in this colony be participatots in the bene- fits. ‘here could be no disgaise, no concealment of the causes which have led to the total suspension, or nearly total sus- pension of businees in Charlottetown. It is manifest to all, that by only a few well established houses of honorable eha-

in denying the power of the Roman Catholic Priesthood to con-}racter there is and can be any imporsations of goods. rs : » ¢, “ > > \ ; r - . .

fer that absolution which the followers of Mrs- Paimer, whe her’ Phe reason is evident; it needs no great depth of business she telis them so er no, conceive they have through her obtained. Woere is the Scriptural authority tor the theatrical display of this tauainery before man? The great Author and Finisher of and consequently, no credit. Those persons in particular our faith bas said, * Let aot thy rizht band kKoow what thy lel | who have usually had supplies from Halifax, find it difficult hand docth.” And again, ** tle that seeth in secret shail re- ward thee npen'y,”? ** Tae bumble and the contriie heart, ol God, thou wilt nut despise.” © Conversion i¢ not the work of a ol

whilst profession ia the offspring of a moment,’ ** Not every | ghosa whose credit has expired in consequence of their own one that ewith Lord! Lord! shail eater inte the Kingdom of |

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Heaven, but he who doeth the will of my father wich ts in| acts. This state of things is likely to be of the utmost impor-

Heaven,” * Kend your hearis and not your garments, andturn | tance, and most serivus desriment to Island interests. I¢ is i » Le ' jod,” * Be not as rhe by puerite:s of ale : : :

unio the Lord your God, Be not as the hypocrites, one of 1 | gotg through the falling off of the Revenue, in the scarcity of

sad countenaace,’ ** Nor sighs, nor groans, bor tears, por), . ; : : lamentations win the way to heaven,” ** When thou prayest, | what we need, and most of all through the decline in the enter into thy closet, and whea thou hast shut the door, pray to| mercantile character of the whole community. Boston and thy Father, which 13 1p secret.” * No text of Scripture mvites | py alitas are, perhaps, she two places where these evils will you to give brother or sister to the arma of Mrs. or Dr. Palmer | : 7 saci a

In truth, the present state of things ts wes Inamentable. VW jig | D8 most keowa, aad through which they will bo most felt by and i@norant delusion, infatuanea and self-deception charac- | ourselves. {t ie not for as, whose object is a sanitory rot a rerise those in Whom, it may be, there i# a sincere cesire tore | gyn Jomaatory one, to rake up individual instances ef tiles, yen’. Let then go home aad fall humbly oo thert knecs,and bes). aie of tke decid of clus tt. sini f seech the heavenly Painer through bts blessed Son to endow.thein | whica have cause non ane & ae : ° oy not go far with that holy spirit which no human agent can supply. Hav- back to find cases where, whatever remained ia the wreck of » ing done this, let them sirive throug all the unpedimeats INC i | mereantile house had beer distributed te what we will term dent to vur falien nature, to bring forth fruit meet tor repent-

! , ; preference creditors, to the ruin or loss of the remainder. Too ince. For if, indeed, they believe that the Gospel light and | = : : er. To its blessed frarta can be wnparted to them through the means | olen the very persons from whom the goods have been ob-

which these revivals afford. terrible one day will be the cor- | tained which enabled the party to carry on his business, are ; x their ni s, exhibiting, perhaps too ' Se

vicvion which will flash on their minds Px ubiting, perhaps too) 4, losers, and most angratefully used. Neither is it unknown

lare, yet ina clear and uninistakeable light, their hopes to be |. ; i

based ona foundation and through a med:usn not to be found in in this community, thatin the prospect of a break-up, property,

the Word of God. Nevertheless, far be it from me to utter a/ real and personal, has been so transferred that anybody but

sentence of condemnation on this delusion, for such belongs to! gh just creditors could obtain it. Too often it has boen God alone. Whoever cometh to God he will in no case cast out; the ways of his providence are past finding out. Aad if there be any sincere converts amongst these apparently | himself. This is a state of things which cannot fail to an-

senseless devotees, the arm of God is not shortened that it can- nihilate the credit and interdiet the trade of the whole Island.

not save. Weare all human, and not permitted, as many pre- ; ’ : sume to do, to read the hearts of others, In the mean time Who can feel any confidence in advancing supplies to people

there can be no harm in lifiag up our voices against a delasive | whose laws allow of such tricks being played? The whole

movement which has no warrant in Scriptural Revelauon, or the!» ottor dics in @ nutshell: We Aare no Bankrupt Laws; no teaching of those who have drank deeply of its iflam ination. Nay, against which nearly every text of Scripture is a solema

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capacity to sce that to a great extent there is no confidence,

to obtain them. And some of our most upright importers and store-keepera become involved in the same condemnation with

somehow secured for the not very distant benefit of the debtor

system by which what remains of an insolyent busines can be equitably distributed, no process by which the career of reck- less enterprise can be arrested. Many an honest man, unfor- — ‘tunate in business, would be cheerfully -assisted to set up again by wholesale merchants, who now is precluded entirely from such assistance in consequence of the state of the law. There cannot exist any confidence without a Bankrapt Law of ourown. We are subject to the Bankruptey Laws of Great Britain, the effect of which is to establish the claim of every British creditor to the exclusion of every Colonial one. For

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CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E.L, OCTOGER 25, 1858,

THE APPOINTMENT OF SCHOOL VISITOR.

Tue changes in the Post Office department having ceased to | what is the process? We have seen too much of it lately. A attract public attention, and the spasmodic effurts of the man becomes insolvent, makes his escape to England, where, Opposition Press having failed to ruffle the temper of the | if he has any creditors, he surrenders as a bankrupt, obtains community on account of these changes, our opponents have the protection of the court ; his estate is divided amongst his lately tried to create a little sensation about the appointment British creditors, the Colonial ones having no opportunity of of Mr. Irving to the office of Inspector of Schools. There is proving, and he comes out again no more liable for his colonial much simulated sympathy expressed for the late incumbent ; | debts than if he never contracted them. It is not necessary but in order to get up the agony, it appears that it was neces- to explain the inducements of the British creditors to aid this sary to disparage the private character of his successor. We scheme. Now, this is not the fault, as some might think, of are very far from entertaining a desire to say aught in con- the English law, it is the fault of the Island law; having no demnation of Mr. M‘Neill, or of lauding the merits of his statute on the subject on our Statute Books, we are subject to suceessor, at hisexpense. There is not one of our contempo- | the British law. The Island credit can never revive unless raries, nor any man in the community, let him be of whatever | we adopt one. Some few years agoa Bill was introduced into party he may, more ready and willing than we are to bear the House of Assembly, called a Bankrupt Act; it was not testimony to the zeal and efficiency displayed by Mr. McNeill. passed but printed for public information—whether design- in the discharge of his arduous duties as School Visitor. But : edly so or not, we cannot say, perhaps it might be through he knows as well as we do that the sympathy professed to be ignorance ; but its provisions were most nefarious; for while it entertained for him is mere pretence, and that the Opposition ‘enabled a debtor, if it answered his purposs, to declare him- would as soon see him in Jericho as in the Visitorship, only self insolvent, it gave his creditor no power te declare him that the influence of his friends thoughout the Island—whose i one, so that a fraudulent conveyance of property some time number is deservedly great—imay be brought to bear against previously might bs made. Collusious of alk sorts might take the Government. But no injustice has been done to Mr. place, and the debtor still bo able at the right moment to M‘Neill in relieving him from the duties of School Visitor. swear to his remaining effects. and take the benefit of the Act. When he was appointed to this office. after Mr. Stark’s dis- | This is not what we want; it is one-sided, and pregnant with missal, he held two other employments—namely, chief Clerk temptations to the mos’ atrocious fraud. An Act on equitable to the House of Asseinbly and Secretary to the Board of Edu- | principles will enable the ereditur to institute bankruptey

fraterniz ag with, and who by the diigent.instruction of the jable cargo, will be a subject of indemnification, if not of latter were busily singing the air, without being at all con-| apology, for the allegation is, that the collision was designed saious of what the sir or words woant, to * Rule Britannia !{by the Tarquari, although the object was merely to cripple

‘cation. Ilis appointment as School Visitor was ouly tempo- proceedings against any trader wius2 conduct and means be- ‘rary. He could not hold the latter office, and the others at ; come questionable, in order that his estate may be equitably

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