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old man had bee’ contered, and a tew minutes after I wae at the bed side of the sufferer. Tfonud hie sensible; but with a change tu los counten- | ance that ne ameuat of pain or suffering alene would have placed there. He was quite cals, and smiled as L entered

* Has she gene te pieces 1’ he whispered, stap- o'clock by the Monitor Victoria, thus. euding an pong to wipe the bloed away that weaed from bet | action entailing a disgrace upow Spain greater,

Lips

* fear ww, I replied; ‘the shore is strewed with wreek.’

*T hnewed she weuld.” he gaxped. things, powr things! liow mmany di ashore tT’

I told him fiteen.

* Ah? be groaned, * not enough, net enough.’

‘But it was a most gallant act.’ I said; * and more would have ‘been saved but for accident Where are you hurt! lt is not serious, hepe

* Serious’ he whiapered; and then, with a sad ewile: * Not it aint eertons, I'm the only ene bart, and aiy time's ap long age—tour year and mere So it ain't serious.”

* Where are yeu hurt?’ d said.

* Ribs all crushed,’ be whispered. * I was under the guowale of the buat, and it’s allover. dj could eee it wm the doctor's looks.”

A gush of blood stepped his utterance, and | dared not whisper the comfort I could net lee.

‘It's all right, air,’ be whispered, after lying with his eyes clowed fur about half an lheur— it's all right, and an old tar could'nt die better than doin’ bis duty. felt as [ should jike te die in hyrness, as they say. and ee I shall; but LT wish there bad been more.’

* More what 1 1 said.

‘More eaved,’ be whispered. ‘You see I've been afore now in action; and the Almighty ouly knows how many souls I've cut off; and [ should

. Poor d we bring

fike te feel sure ae I'd caved wore than £ did for |

—that’s all. Perhaps they might go in the scale, te help balance the bad

* But you did al! as » part of your duty.’

* Ab!" he whispered, ‘ duty! Yes, sailors should de their duty ; and-f telt it was mine, o-night to “. answer to a call in calia or storm ; and when lives wete at stake to-night, | felt that I was called, and L hope I did arydaty. Will you ask them te just say a word oF twe tor the eld wan in thei: prayers, sir; | mean when lm gone! I think | should like them te, tor I'm an old sailor, and eau't beast mach of wy past life.’

‘Have you no relotives?’ € whispered; ne friends that you would like to see?’

* Far away—far away,’ he said with a meurn- ful shoke of the | eid ; ‘and some are a-waitt:.’ for me te join their wateb. Dou'tleave me, sir,’ he said piteously,

I promised I would not; and sat watching hour atter hour, listening to the hard breathing of the sufferer, whe seemed to sink into a state of stu-

por, euly moan'ug at intervals as he tossed his |

head fron side te side of the pillow, and muttered a few words broken and balf-spoken. Tue atorm

gradually suk, til the wisd quite lulled; aud | which sits the calmness of content —the radiance

abeut three o'clock | ha'f drew the curtam and looked out upon the aoa, which still tossed tear- fully; though all above was cal aud peac -ful—a light cloud just drifting slowly past the pale bright ewer.

I stood gazing at the soft blue sky, now so | garmen fighter than gossamer—those invisible placid and serene, alimst wondering what se gtr points more sensitive than electric wires that wheo fuarted, | join the outer to the inner world, bearing on its

a change could hay‘ sken place, tor a voice behind ane shjiey Morning wateh Draw DDagittiin, and ‘et that moon shine in.’

I obeyed—+turning cid and trembling as L did |

so—still looking at the dying sailor, who sat erect

iw the bed. * Hers,’ be said ; and as I approached i * Hark ! don’t you |

the bed he seized my baud. hear that} <°lt's the beatawain pipmg tor me te heep my everlasting wateh. Ay, ay; sir! There —bark again! ‘s the waves a-lashing upon the further whore: Drewkers ahead! breakers abead! Look out there! The old vessel's struck, aud she's guing to pieces —the old seventy-four, thal weat so many a storm, guing ashore. Farewell, messmate ; one short struggle, one cold plunge, and a hupeful heart—a brave striking out through the breakers! Land, he! laad, he! on the other side—and it's a land of rest—a land ot peace and hope. Now for it! That rush of the dark waters is coming-—-biinding—deatening—but a bold heart, messmate. God bless you! I'm go ing ashore.”

For seme minutes | sat motionless, The old man’s eyes had lighted ip as be gazed straight be- fore him, oat upen the aieonlit Leavens. His voice seemed to peal through the silence of the wight, till L shivered a» he described the wreck then taking place. To the last uote, his voice

had rang out loud aud reseuant; then he sauk | countenance well nigh transparent ts back motionless upon the pillaw—stained new | by disease. with bis life-bloed; aud I passed softly frou | on the skin.

the ream, for I knew that his life-bark was strand- ed by the sea of Death.

8 ee THE BOMBARDMENT OF CALLAO. AN EXCITING NAVAL NARRATIVE.

The telegraph haa slrvady announced the at- tack on Calles made by the Spanish fleet under

eoungand «f Admiral Nunez, andthe crushing de- | jgdeed fortunate in having them su near at teat of the assailants after an engagement of four | hand.— Temperance Freethinker.

hours and o half. Since then we have received | New York papers with full details of the action, |

the most interesting parts of which we condense

Admiral Nanez arrived in Callae Bay on April 24th, and ow the 2th gave foreign residents nv- tree that he woutd bombard the city in four days The town wae imutediately deserted by all but the fighting element, nud merchandize was care- fully removed. About one hundred and fiity merchant ehipe, and ail the foreign men-of-war in port moored outside. The Peruvian garrison gut all ready: in. their batteries, on which were

furmidable Blakely and Armstrong guus gl the beat Eaglieh make, 490 and 300 Ibs, reapec-

tively. They had alsy two small iron-clads in the harbor, although gun tor gun they were inferior |

to the Spaniegds, aud felt doubtful of their ability te handle theiy heavy ordnance efficiently. The Ist of May, appeinted for the action, was too fogay for the plans of Admiral Nuwez, and the fight was pustpoved til! the fullowing day.

THE FiGtr.

The day broke with every promise of a favor- able opportunity tor the Spaniards; the tog of the day previous bad cleared away, and although the heriseon was net well defined, ou account of haze, still there was nothing to prevent au engagement ow the part of the weather, At Ila. m. signal was wade from the Nuiuancia, flag-ship, to get un- der weigh, Seon after, the six frigates, with eteam ap topmacts aud lower yards down, tripped their anchors aad formed line vt battle in twe columns of attack. The column to engage the northern forts consisted of the Vil ade Madrid, Aleoanza and Beranguela, the latter leading Those destined to play their part on the western forta were the Numancia, Blanca and Resolution. The sight was ene long to be remembered by these whe enjoyed the view from a safe distance. The nerthers column moved into action heading to the southward and westward, while the south- ern coluwn beaded ty the eastward and uorth- ward, the gunboat Ve gedera taking position be- tween the two columius in order ta render assis- tance in the event of any ship being disabled in either lines.

At ten mihutes past twelve the first ehot was fired from battery No. 2, at the Numaneia, aud was replied 40 at ouce by that ship. Not wore than five minutes elapsed before the action be- gawe general with bul) divisions of the Meet, that fu the new western column. The firing from the ships vas very rapid, too much so, indeed, for it was wild, wud gave evident prof that the captains of the guns were not s0 deliberate in their aim as they aight be. The fire from the batteries was at first slow gud inaccurate, but they soon began to get vauge, aud their beasy shot waa seen to tell ou more than one ship. Ly lees than half an hour after the agtiog eoumwenced, the Villa de Madrid ‘ @ signal, evidwitly asking assistance ; the bittle Venerdora weut iv aud towed her out of the fire, and, as she came in plain view, it was e~i- dent that ber motive power had been deranged, the on was -— issuing iu clouds trow

the vessel. te ae tie tw retire waa the Berenguela. font slowly about twenty minutes after the Villa de Madrid. This ship had been reeeiv- jug aheasy fire trom balleries 3, 9 and 10, and a gras fire trom battery udimber 5. As she passed

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the United States ships it was noticed that she

had peeeived & heavy rifled shot op the port side, weer the waier oe. coming out at oy uuder the water lneen the starboard side, pondering it ve- cransary to careed hey, to prevent sivhing. As it was, she had takeg jy ow vast quantity of water, so Chat, When oat of range, and auchered, nol guly Were the pranps peerssary te keep ber free, but Qie Grew, Were euiployed im bailing with buckets. She did wet go into action again.

& PERUVIAN WATERY BLOWN UP.

Luever thought te; but I always |

ward Uming so as to be behind the |

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tar net bargaiwed tor, aud it wae manifested te all that they must soon back out badly defeated. At fitteen minutes past five the Spaniards ceased fir- im, and stood owt of range, the Batteries peppet- img away until the Dens were out of reach. The last gun was fired @ few midu es beture five

possible, than ter defeat at San Domingo. THE KILLED AND WOUNDED.

Nothing reliable is known of the exaét aumber of killed and wounded ov either side. The Peru- Vian Seeretary of war, Senor Galvez, was killed in battery No. 3, when it was blown up. The wounded ou shore, as fast as they fell, were car- | ried to the rear and sent to the hospital at Balla- ‘vista, ‘Those whose friends resided at Lima | were vent to the eity ta be placed in charge of | those who would eare better fer them Chan if thes dad eemaived at Ballavista to take their chance | Phe most rehable information had, at the tine the Vanderbilt sailed, was that the Peruvians had

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vat they had caught a Tar- and Turkey. Soth have moved troops tqwar ds marauders were preparing . | + \ the Dauube, but as yet no further movement has "wicked enterprise, for months past, ™ the very , House — always receiving the most marked

taken place.

COMMERCIAL,

Monetary and commercial affairs are unse tled. The panic in financial circles has certain- ly considerably subsided, but great distrust still prevails. When to this state of things is added the unsatisfactory position of continental polities, and the efflux of gold in Knzland, the depression pervading the London Stock Ex- change markets is easily accounted for. The most important downward movement has been in Banks, the decline in the price of the shares of which has been serious. The money miar- ket rémaining without relief, and the flow of sold from the Bank of Eagland coutinuinz, jsome anxiety was betrayed when it became | known that the sitting of the Bank direetors was unusualy prolonged; but no alternation was made at the establishinent. Consols for money

Hlost sixty kilel aud about ove buudred and seventy wounded. THE SPANISH LOSSES—NUNEZ WOUNDED.

| Nothing is known as to the loss on beard the | Spanish fleet, but, bored ax their ships have been,

the number of casualties must necessarily be very iheavy. Admiral Nunez is reported to have re- | eeived no less than eight wounds and contusions, jone in the head pronounced severe. ‘The Ameri- lean surgeons, Who offered their services to both

| parties alike, were not allowed to see him, and, indeed, it was evident that they wished to con- leeul, as far as possible, the number of men that lhad been placed dors de combat, aud the cendition | of the ships. By ihe shot that disabled the steam- pipe of the Villade Madrid eighteen meu were killed and twenty-one wounded; so, taking the uv isebiet deve by ene projectile, we may be sate ‘in judging the Spanish loss as tar in excess of that }of the Peruvians,

} DAMAGE TO THE SPANISH SHIPS,

| Doetor Peck, of the Vanderbilt, when he went

We old weno war's men were trained te | alongside the Vila de Madrid, counted eight shat |

jhofes in her sides. Tis was doing well, cousider- jing the time she was under fire. The Blaneha } was struck over forty times, and the Alnianza }and Berenguela suffered alwost aa much. The | Resulution was hit very often, The Numaneim jeame oF very well, being ironclad, but one eight- liueh rifled projectile from battery No 5— pierced hee five and a ‘alf inéh iren plating and went partly through the weeden backing. She was i bronght so as to receive the fire at an angle; hence her plating caused the shel to giance. | Phe Veucedora was uninjured. = ——.- ivi BEAUTY AND VIGOUR.

For the sex to wish te be beautiful is reason- j able and natural. jtpen a lovely countenaner, on every feature of

jot a happy, guileless mind, spotless in its exes

With what admiration do we look pay blooming | cengtenien. That delicately udertul texture, | mhaling, exhaling. WyFingly, with inconceivable | elasticity adtrength, and covering us with a

surface a blush more evanescent than the bloom on a flower—Yes, beauty is charming. But it may vanish in amement, fer it is butan aureole | around the brow of health—the sign like the frag- rance of the flower of perfect vitality.

Beauty is strength, and strength and healih de- pend ou the order of the animal functions. For re- yulating these, Hollow ay's discoveries have proved the most poteut ever known. His Pills as stimula- ters of the stuunach and secreting organs, separa- ting the deleterious deposits in the various fluids, and evacuating by the skin and bowels, those parti- eles which by irritating the vessels excite disease, lare indeed unequalled in the catalogue of me- dicines

The Ointment arrests either secent or chronic ulceration, helps the discharge, and, at the sawe time, by tts peculiarly softening qualities, svothes and reduces inflammation at the edges of the teu- der vessels, thus mdueing them to reunite, not only rapidly, but so as not to bear these hard un- sightly scars which so often remain witnesses of | the past disease, and despoilers of personal appear- ‘ance through life. Nothing can compare with health ; its preservation is our chief duty and high- est interest. [mpair this either by excess or neglect, and beauty sv becowing is distorted. The bappy discoloured Unsightly sores break out and fester As the lava from a burmmg mountain #0 the eruption, evideace of inner malady goes on, corrupting as it goes. Life itself would soon be extinguished. But science steps in. ‘Phe hand of the skilful gardener is ready to heal and re- invigorate. We are net saying more than what lis knewn to all the world when we assert that | Hollow ay’s Pills and Ottment are equal to their celebrity, which bas been well aud nobly earned | Professor Holloway is a fortunate man to be able te offer such genuine remedies, aud sufferers are

The Gxaminer.

Charlottetown, June 11, 1866.

LATEST NEWS FROM EUROPE. ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL.

Tue Royal Mail Steamship Africa from Li- verpool arrived at Halifax on Wednesday morn- ing last. Latest Euglish dates are to the 26th ult. The Commercial pauic continued, but had not increased in violence, although, as might have been expected, from the first two or three disasters, several heavy failures had occurred. Political affairs on the continent are still very unsettled. The German Powers continue their preparations for war, and another portentous cloud, presa sing “ wrath to man,” looms dark- ly in the East of Enrope. Our extracts yiven below, for which we are indebted to the British Colonist, will indicate the state of affairs in the old world.

THE EUROPEAN CONTEST. Preparations for war continue, All parties are evidently bent on havins a fizht. The Florence correspoudent of the Debats says :— The situation may be summed up in a few words. A Conzress is talked of, and war is prepared for. In truth nobody believes in a Con sress, or regards the ne zociations as serious, or perhaps as even sincere. The volunteers, accompanied by music and the bravos of the population, are proceeding day oF day to their depots. Their number is considerable—espe- cially in Lombardy. Milan alone has supplied £,000. New reziments will have to be organ- ized. Already in addition to the 10 regiments called out two Carbineers are being formed. The volunteers will be ready by Sunday. Ga- ribaldi will not enter upon the scene till the last moment. The Official Gazette contains a decree empowering the Government to press horses aud mules. ‘This measure is generally one of the last adopted before actual warfare. The 28th of May is said to be thé date fixed by the terms of the treaty between Prussia and Italy for the commencement of hostilities. The time may of course be prolonged by common consent, but there are strong reasons for bringing matters to a crisis. The dilatoriness | of diplomacy is bezinning to irritate public | opinion. It must be admitted that Italy has | made @ snpreme, military, financial, and moral effort—that she has put forth all herstrength and | energy. And all see that if this evds in a mis-| carriage it must be her ruin, These prolonged | efforts without any result fatigue and enervate the nation. A feeling of impagience is the consequence, aud this is especially the ease in Turin, which is generally at the head of the public opinion in Italy. To these moral rea: | sons must be added financial considerations. The army is costing enormous sums, which are | | increasing every day My the calling out of the | | volunteers and ‘the mobilizing of the national | suards. The receipts are not in¢reasing, and | jeaanot possibly meet the daily deficit. Tt is,

Roun etier the Com menerment of the fight, bat- yuite clear that such a state of things cannot

tery No. 3, contajniny two three-huudyed pounder

Armstrong , Wee blown up, diameyuuting the guus and mg wud wounding every one in the giwinity. * Ty bypttery No. 7 the three-huudgred | Aruistrong was dixunownted at the grat

¢ but besides these casualties there was vue | thing w dil iv any way, or slacken in the

erie total aud Byawiaesde

te ewvy and well directed fire SOVerei ca of the Duchies. of the Peruvians, which was becoming wore ang Sccording to the account, aud made a flattering ructive every moment. The speech according to the same account, but his soon begsy to Gud out that the gaur _ presence, natiually enough, has alarmed Russia cannot be ignorant of the fact, that the as good as could be made from the ranks of his

be proloaged fur months, nor even weeks. | THE HAST.

| A eomplication has arisen in Pucharest. | | Prince Charles of Hohenzollern availing himself | of an unoflicial hint, presented himself as future He was well received

With what rapture do we gaze

jure quoted at 864 a%6{—for account at 85] a

| R54.

/' BOMBARDMENT OF VALPARAISO, Ke, The Spanish have taken umbrage at Mr. Lay- ard’s speach in the House of Commons on the bombardment of Valparaiso, but the result is ‘notyetknown. The Spanish Admiral has made ja report to his Government of a very proper | kind. He laments the necessity of having had ‘to fire upon a defenceless town, and. laments that the men on one of his ships were such bad sunners that they did misehief for which he: is sincerely sorry. There was nothing to boast of, | and the Adimiral took no credit to himself be- | yond that of showing obedience to orders from jhome. The Peruvians, it seems, have impris- oned some Spaniards residing in the republic, but as yet there is no account of the twe iren- clads having arrived off the Western Coast. The fighting continues on the River Plate, but it is admitted that Lopez, with an inadequate | force, keeps the allies at bay, By some new | mede of mounting guns he has destroyed the | turratted ships of Brazil. Doubt, however, may well rest Ga the intelligence received from the seat of war,

MISCELLANEOUS.

| The Hon. J. H. T. Manners Sutton is to be | rovernor aud commander-in-chief of the colony |} of Victoria.

| The cholera has nearly disappeared from | Liverpool; and the cattle plague in Ireland is,

sv far, confined to the place where it first ap-

peared. A report is current that a portion of the

i@ahzguinary conflict between the Roamanian and Turkish troops has taken place on the fron tier.

The Cork Reporter states that recently three steamers left Queenstown for America, bearing with them some 1500 emigrants of a very su- pres class, and leaving behind a large num- yer who could not be accommodated,

Derartune or Troops ror Caxapa.—On the 24th the Montreal Steamship Company's Steamer Nova Scotian, Captain Wylie. sailed from Liverpool for Quebec. The Nova Scotian carried out to Canada about 600 troops, com- prising detachments of the 30th, 44th, 80th, 17th, and 100th Regiments of Foot, and two companies of the Royal Engineers and Royal Artillery. A few of the Rifle Brigade also sailed in the above ship.—English paper.

An order has been received at Chatham di- recting the following reinforcements to be held in readiness to embark for Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, to augment the corps serving at those stations—viz., two officers and 65 non- commissioned officers and men of the Ist bat- talion Lith Regiment; 13 non-commissioned officers and gunners of the third division depot brigade, Royal Artillery; one officer and 73 non-commissioned officers and men of the 2nd battalion 17th Reziment ; six men of the Royal Engineers; together with 12 men of various corps.

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THE FENIAN RAID.

Dvrinc the past week the town—and coun- try, we presume, likewise—have been kept in

a state of feverish excitement by the sensation telezrams received here relating to the doings of the Fenian marauders who had, on the Ist inst., made a descent upon Canada, for the purpose of committing robbery and murder Without the aid of the Rezular force, the brave Volunteers of Upper Canada prompt- ly met the invaders, and drove them from their positions. A considerable number of Fenian lives were lust~—small matter for that ; and some hundreds were taken prisoners, who will, no doubt, get the doom which the law

there.

denounces against highway robbers and mur- But the most unfortunate part of the business is, that several of the Volunteers, officers and privates, have been killed in the conflict, while a great many have been wound- ed. We hope their fate will be deeply avenged to the everlasting cost of the villainous mar-

auders. So causeless and so wicked was this invasion

upon a peaceful and unoffending people, that many well informed persons have refused to believe that it had any real existence except upon paper, designed to promote the purposes of Telegraph Companies ; and that politicians in New Brunswick, working on behalf of the Confederate cause, magnified the telegraphic reports to create excitement in the Province. There is no doubt that the Electric Telegraph is a stupendous liar—the greatest in Christendom ;

derers.

—but much as the reports have been exagze- rated—and we do not believe that this has been done for the purpose of serving the interests of the Confederation paity in New Brunswick— there can be no doubt now tbat the Fenians made a raid upon Canada—that there was a fight, and that lives were lost upon both sides, The telegram from Mr. Brydzes to the Proyin- cial Secretary of New Brunswick, which we in- sert below, gives a very clear, concise, and, at the same time, tolerably full statement of the ruthless and wanton invasion committed by the» Fenians. Mr. Brydges, who was here last week, is incapable of misrepresenting well- known facts; and the Telegraph would scarce- ly venture to take liberties with his name, Here is the account he gives of the invasion :— Port Sr. CuarLes, Moyrreat, June Sth, 1866. To the Provincial Secretary of New Brunswick :

The Fenians at the Niagara frontier have dispersed. Several killed, and a large number of prisoners taken. The great body escaped across the river, and are now in charge of the United States authorities, who have telegraphed to Washington to know what disposition to make of them. Ten of our volunteers were killed, and about thirty wounded. The whole volun- teer force of Canada is under arms, and either actually on the frontier, or under orders. to move at an hour’s notice. The different re- giments of the regulars are also on the ground with batteries of artillery, &e. Several -thou- sand Fenians are reported to be massing at vari- ous points on the frontier between Kingston and Montreal, and an attack is reported to be imminent ; but 1 have no doubt the preparations which have been made are amply sufficient to take care of any marauding parties. The volunteers killed are relatives of well-known parties in the Province, and their loss will be bitterly deplored.

. C. J. Brynoes.

It appears that the United States authorities | “interfered ’’—such is the word used—to check | the Fenian vagabonds after they were sent back in disgrace and discomfiture from Canada to the United States. Why did those authorities ever allow the scoundrels to go. into Canada? for the Washington Cabinet

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for their rash and! disguised publicity that they could possibly

a ye States) are potring into Canada from various |

points on the frontier,

may put an interpretation on international law different from that which all the civilized world gives to it; but lest we should.judze them un-

fuller information, that the Government of the | United States have done their best. towards

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loose upon a peaceful Province.

= ah ete cin perenee THE ELECTIONS IN NEW BRUNSWICK.

Tre elections in the vast Province of New Brunswick will be concluded to-morrow eveén- ing, Cha:lotte, and King’s, and Gloucester Counties being the only places to be heard from. on Saturday, but the result is not yet known to

The election in Gloucester took place us. There was never an election so fairly tested upon a principle as the pending election in New Brunswick. It was—Confederation or no Confederation. this, thoroughly,to be the test, and have voted accordingly. Eleven eleetious have been held —the auti-Confederates gained taeo—W estmor- land and Keut,—the Confederate or Govern- ment party gained xine elections, including the sreat commercial metropolis of St. John. Thus far the returns give the following unmistakeable figures :—

For Confederation in nine eleetions, 26

Against Confederation in two elee tions, 6

twenty. This majority will be inereased by the returns yet to be made. Charlotte County, we have no doubt, will poll for the Government—

doubtfal. At all everits, it seems morally cer- tain that the new House will atleast thirty, or thi:ty-one advocates of Colonial Union, opposed by the insignificant number of ten or eleven. Was there ever such Was there

contain

a victory in an election contest? ever a more remarkable exprbssion of opinion on the part of a people i a to a political principle 2 Thé in@jonities in favour of Confederation were. neither feeble nor doubtful —they were. in all cases erushing, overwhelming ; and the best/men on the anti- Confederate ticket have perishéd in the political storm. The City and County of St. John, which were supposed tc be strong-holds of the anti-Confederate party, have most emphatically repudiated all connection with that party. The dread of annexation to the United States, and. abhorrence of the Fenian movement, which sympathised with the Antis—independent of the zrowing feeling for Confederation on its own merits—will largely aceount for the enormous vote given in the City and County of St. John for the Confederate candidates. Tilley and Wetmore polled in the City seven hundred and twenty seven votes more than their opponents ; and the otherConfederate candidates polled in the couuty six bundred and seventy seven more than the Autis. It was in the County election that Mr. Anglin was overthrown. | He ‘was, ‘as Bishop Rogers has sty!ed him, “the great Goliah of his party,’’ aud it was supposed that no one could keep him out. The Irish contingent of the constituency of St. John County is quite an en- ormous one. It was upon this, we have no doubt, that Mr. Anglin relied; but his Irish fellow countrymen seem to have deserted him to a tremendous extent. Atuall events, he has new practical, if not painful, proof, that the views which he has advocated for nearly two years past, are decidedly tnpopular in New Brunswick, The Hon. A. J.Smith, one of the members for Westmorland, is the only man of my note connected with the date Government, left to tell the “story of their disastrous shipwreck. As captain who Jately controlled the Barque of State, he must have witnessed with anguish the going dowmof nearly all his confident followers, who could not but picture to themselves any other reward for their exer- tions than riding vriumphantly into port, with banners of victory flying, ami¢'the acclamations of'@ grateful people. Alas! how vain ave all human calculations !—those based on fickle po- pular opinion and election contésts not the least illusory, as other people know besides the defeated anti-Confederates of New Brunswick.

Thus, the Confederation of the British Ame- rican Provinces may be said to be an accom- plished fact, so far as Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia can make it. Nova Scotia has already determined. to send Delegates to England to arrange the basis of a new plan of Union—the Parliament of New Brunswick will dy the same thing with no doubtful voice, as soon as it meets in the course of the present month—Canada is waiting for her nvaritime sis- ters, ready to embrace them—Newfoundland is prepared to join her fortunes with the rest; but Prince Edward Island points, with her cold fin- gers, to that ‘‘immovable ice barrier,” and declares that, with her @bnsent, nothing but isolation shall be her lot for ever. We shall see whether the smallest of ‘the group of Co- louies will be encouraged and sustained in her opposition to the Imperia»policy, aud be a source of annoyance in the development of In- ter-colonial relations. Wedo not believe she will be allowed to do anything of the kind,

MINISTERIAL CHANGES.

—_—_— | Tur Hon T. Heath Haviland has been ap- pointed Colonial Secretary and Clerk of the Couneil forthis Island, in the place of the Hon. W. H. Pope, resigned. My, Haviland having held the office of Solicitor General, which, of course, he has resigned, steps into the Secre-

tary’s office without vacating his ‘seat in the | afterwards found it impossible to get support “heok and line—bob and sinker,’’ as the late

House of Assembly, in conformity with the following clause contained in an Act in amend. |

ment to the election laws, passed last Ses-| sion :—

“XIV. When any person holding the office of Colonial Secretary, Attorney General, Soli- ecitor General, Colonial Treasurer, Commis- sioner of Public Lands, Bost;Master General, Financial Secretary, or i ector of Impost and Excise, and Controller of Customs and

‘Navigation Laws for Charlottetown, and being

at the same time a member of the House of As- sembly or Lezislative Council, shall resign his office, and, within one month after his resigna- tion, accept any other of the said offices, under the same Administration, he shall not thereby vacate his seat in the said Assembly or Council.” iz

Mr. Haviland’s appointment is certainly quite

fairly, we will try to believe, in the absence of)

| putting down the robbers and murderers a

The country ‘understood |

Giving the Government, so ‘far; a majority of

oe . a siving four more. meyabers ; Gloucester may

1 Ll cnenenen lone eeiiiael z te es - Sip eget | Turkish army heeoseertnd Dantes so Reet, vir tere think; Alice OLe 35 Kinzs s County 1s

able testimony of this.

puty. He is

t: | to their proceedings? Even now, the Velesraph Council and iu the Speaker's cbair on former informs us—if we cai, believe it—that Fenian pyceasions, His elevation to the Secretaryship, métrauders (disbanded soldiers of the United | which renders no partial clectign, necessary, would seem to indicate that a general election |

Their incursion surely | is not so close at hand as many people ima sine, | could be stopped, if jt weve the will of the |Our impression is, that the general election

United States Government to stop it. Tliey | will not take place before the fall of the year. conan with others in the infegnty of ou se 7 ; have no offi- | Goverument, the honor of its cilicers, and the | authority in reference to an interest which o4

gencral weltare of the country to be promoted | Lezislature should alone dispose of.

(It is only our impression—we

‘eal or other information to guide us in the

matter,

James Dunean, Esq., M. P. P. for Murray | Harbour Dishiict, has beep appointed to the iseat in the Council, rendered vacant by Mr. Pope’s retivement. Our frieud, whom we de- surely stood in need of no elevation ; and ifhis appointment is acceptable to all his party in town as well as country, we see no reason why we should complain about it—which, of course, Iu 1848, we think it was, Mr. Dan-

we don’t.

of the Assembly, on being appointed to the Executive Council should vacate his seat in the former place. Aa old obsolete law was fur- Lished up, and made to apply to Messrs. Coles and Warburton, who had been induced to take seats in the Cuuneil, with a strange medley. of Conservatives and anti-Family Compace men. Messis. Coles and Warburton were compelled to undergo the turmoil and cost of an election, for doing no more than Mr. Dancan has done —aceepting seats in ihe Executive Couneil. It is true that the law has been altered since that time—but the doctrine then most positive- ly announced by Mr. Dunean’s party was, that a member of the House of Assembly shou'd not take a seat iy the Executive Council without Was this

doctrine wholly factious and arbitrary in 1848?

the concurrence of his constituents.

And if not, has Mr. Dunean a better rizht to hold his place in the House of Assembly now than either Mr. Coles or Mr. Warburton had before they were cempelied to go to their elec-

° 9 uiOns .

= BISHOP ROGERS, OF MIRAMiCG8it ON NEW BRUNSWICK AFFAIRS.

_ We reproduced, last week, from some of the New Brunswick papers, a very able letter from | the Rizht Rev. Dr. Rogers, Bishop of Chatham, to the Hon. Edward Williston, Solicitor Gene- | ral, in which the learned ecclesiastic gave a| very decided expressiowof opinion in favour of |

Confederation. We now give another able letter from the same pen, addressed to the Hon. J. M. Johnson, in which the distinguished writer argues with great acumen the question raised in New Brunswick as to whether Governor Gordon or his advisers pursued the right and constitutional course in the collision with his advisers, and which led to their resignation and the dissolution of the House. The Bishop takes sides with the Governor, and justly so,— the anti-Confederates denounce His Excellency for having, as they say, trampled on constitu- tional and Responsible Government. This is moonshine, as the Bishop's letter clearly shows ; and the expression of opinion just given by the people at the bustinzgs, proclaims that the great | heart of the Province beats in warm and gene-

> oldes bers of the | If they, unwilling a able i fulfill its respousibility, found themed rn ; bas . selves in a false pgwition, it is certainly 1 ‘face of the authorities, and with the most un | proofs of confidence at the hands of his consti- jonly iidelicate but tnjust te try give ténts; and he has served in the Executive Queen's Kepresentative the odium of the po- | sition they Goverment. | ‘this state of the quest

| year or two, that I feel it

sire to congratulate on his blushing honors, | °|

| justice

to resign Office, though u

fo put om the

vecapied in yioluting Responusilile vou seu inuke very clea im your valuable speech, aud! techit a duty to ing to you any warmest thanks for it. But it may be asked, how do | taus interest myself in a mere secular or political matter? — reply, because, independentiy of my mtevest in

by its measures, the honour and interests of |

‘the Catholic body have become so affected by ' side issues and cireamstances Counected witli

the discussion of this question as well us the other one of Confederation, during ‘he last due to my people aud ua)

to myself to give public expression ty mp jinions on the present occasion.

Que of the leadiug newspapers of this Pro- vince, which has commented with grave in- on the. conduct of the Governor i the issue between him and his late Advisers, is published and edited by « Catholic. Although this gentleman is a layman and his paper a secular newspaper, nevertheless it has come to

can’s party held the doctrine, that a member | be very generally regarded as the re of

'the feeling of the Catholic body, both lay and clerical, of this Province. The personal vir- | tues and accomplishmen*s of Mr. Anglin—his

love of his Rehgion and of his Native Land, |

ithe integrity of his private life, his genial ami- ability in social intercourse, acknowledged abi- ‘lity ws a writer and editor, combine to give a strength and effect to the influence of his news- paper throughout the extensive circle of his readers of all classes—but especially among the Catholics and Irishmen. Even thing said and written by such a man, or publ’shed with his approbation in his newspaper, bears special importance and influence derived from the fame of its author. Should such a one err in the views he advocates, or the course he adopts— as sometimes happeus to the best men-—the m- jury he dues is extensive, and can only be coun- teracteed by extraordinary means. Now it is | because I believe such extraordinary means to | be necessary on the present occasion, that I feel it asucred duty for the honor of the Ca- tholie Body, to disclaim all approbation of or sympathy with the unjust and uabecoming cen- jsure of the Governor which for some time, ap- | peared in the St. John Freeman. Apart from (the general respect which the Representative tof our Most Gracious Queen claims from all | classes in the Province, our present, Governor, ithe Hon. A. H. Gordon, deserves, not only ‘common justice, but the undying gratitude of uneLathelies of this Province for his. prompt, effective, maniy’ aed honorable defence of them in his speeches at St. AndieW's'ana-t.'V oodstock when their loyalty was impugned. On this oc- casion when the terror of Fenian invasion and Fenian sympathy spread over the Province, when so many of our Protestant neizhbours, in the panic of the moment, yielded eredence to the absurd reports in circulation that all Catho- lies were Fenians, ready to rise suddenly on their Protestant neighbors, His Excellency Go. veruor Gordon, with a promptitude and energy characteristic of him, sprang to the seene ot trouble and by his personal influence aid offi- cial authority calmed the storm. It was owing to. this well-timed act of Gubernatorial justice, together with the happy influence excretsed ‘by the published letters of His Grace the Arch- bishop of Halifax, that this unfortunate bitter social persecution—mutual mistrust and mutual hatred—did not culminate to a melancholy point. If Mr. Anglin, by the general course he followed both in polities and in his newspaper, did not contribute somewhat (though certainly unintentionally I admit,) to excite this mutual bad feeling, he was in no small degree the oc- casion of it.