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that opinion will change, It is yotrue that the Venctians

are peacefully submitting to their destiny. ‘ Austria has flattere, them in vain.

change not oaly ia Myance aad England, but Germany also,

Wwihieh is bocousiage liberal, will be in our favour.”

Couss Cavers concluded by makiog an appeal for cancord.

News by the English Jail.

FRANCE.

; a All the Bishana in France are addressing nastorals to their clergy, using very strong language, and ordering marses for}

those who have fallen m detence of the Holy Father. The Bishop of Rochelle has gone (9 visit the Pope.

Te correspondent of the /Terald adds that the 2nd division of whe army of Lyous has received orders to start for Rome, nod that 10 infantry regiments have been warned to prepare for upurediate departure.

The Post's Paris correspondent says, for the moment the question of a Congress has given mee lo bo hegociation among we Powers. which is net yet an accomplished fact, is, according to appear- ances, aatep resolved on. There is no longer anything sa.d about the recall at the Prussian Minister.

At acabinet council held a few days since at St. Cloud, at |

it was resolved that important

which the Emperor presidee,

works should be immediately commenced to strengthen the | fortutications ef Cherbourg sud Algrers,and iskewise that a}

number of stéel-cased frigates should ve constructed on Wie model of the Glonre.

it is stated that a French merchantman, the Protas, of Mar- Gacts, has been captured by! Gartbaldi's ships ; but as tye alockade has not been pecoguis “d by France, she will probably ve restored to avoid disagreeable |

seities, laden with stores for

culiscquences. ' .

: ITALY.

The Piedmontese troops coatinue to arrive in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. A body of S00 arrived at Napies by sea on the Orch and 1Q.h. Half ef them were wmmediately marched on Copua. © ‘Two divisions ef the corps of Cialcin are crossing the Adrugzi. : :

The Post ina leader remarks that Count Cavour’s speech says, justas plamly as did G acibaldi’s fumeus aduress to the citizens of Pelerw »,** We must have bo h Rome and Venice!

; ms ; nay, it goes further, I Siys,° We sall have them! As re- gards the means by which these somes hat d. ficult results are to be secured, we are told m rely that six months hence we shall know a little more of the matter. :

‘The Times}-ays i: is understood that the Emperor of Austria may aljany tune take a resoluvion which will bring his lorces

nen hoot oe

tate the fieid against Sardinia. —The speech of Count Cavour might, im the eyes of divlomat:sts, justify a decloration of war, aod the Times can scarcely dare to hope that prudent counsels will prevat! with so obstinale & Prince as Francis Joseph. fature of Italy probably depends on the counsels which may prevail with the french Emperor within the next few days,

Pants, Oct. 1R—The Patric announces the concentration of

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Austrian troops on the frontier, which, i: aays, has caused a)

similar concentration of }redsontese troops.

‘The Presse gaserta that information was received yesterday, at Furic, thar 4000 Austrians from Mantua had crossed the Po end taken up ‘heir querters at Levere, which town is still uncer Austrian docsipion, The Presse add-, ** the news Las produced w sen-ation at Turin.”

The renewal of the Austrian war in Italy appears imminent. Russia has agreed to protect Austria in the rear 80 as to enable her te throw all her furces ugen tne [,eubard frontier. Russian Ambassedox has left Turin. and ‘he Sard:titn minir- ter at St. Petersburg has rec: ived his passports. montese are collecting large bodies of troeps elose to the Mincio, Several divtssons about to start for Nuples have been couptermanded, and ordered \v proceed to the Lombardian fronuer.

Daeaorct Sreamsoat Acorpest on aN Tratian Lake. —A dreadful acéident vecurred, last week, on the Lake o! Garde, The boiler of a gunboat, winch has been runmng regularly, with the permission of the Goyernment, from Salo id Limone on the opposite shor=, exploded, and precipitared 80 persons into the lake. Only the captain and some of the crew were saved. ‘The whole fem 'y of Count Guerriert, Verona, comprising eight persons, were lest ; and the fauily of Count Avsighi, of Salo, suffered the same fate. ‘he nuyjver of vic-

bout 70. —— NAPLES.

Teain, Oct. 15.—King Victor Emmanuel has entered the

-Neapoutaa town of Guilian Nova amid the enthusiasm of the

pops'auon. : The Piedmontese Government bas enforced in the kingdom

of the Two Sicilies the decree published at ‘Turin on the 25:b August, 1848, expelling from ‘ie Piedmoutese territory every individual forming part of the Society of Jesus, and confiscating fur stave purposes ali the: real and personal property.

SWITZERLAND,

The Journal de Geneva states that the question of Savoy and |

of the newraltty of Swizerland wil be discussed during the interview at Warsaw. SPAIN.

While the Government of (Lucen Isabella, 2 sovereign ruling by a revolutionary tle, and but recent'y recozuised by the Boui- bone of Naples, out-clamors the le zitinst Courts in its indigna- tion.at the progress of events io liely, the cause of freedom in the sieter peninsplar is most warm!y teken up by the people. The friends of legitimacy and tue temp ra! power of tie Pope can get very few recruits for Rome, and eyen fewer for Gaeta, whereas a great many, and those the pick uf the population, ere enrolled for Gariveidi. ‘Three hundred of these volunteers recently ewbarked at Barceluna.

Mapa, Oct. 17.~-On the orrival of the Queen at Madrid a young man, armed with a smal pistol, arrempied tu shooi her Majesty. ‘Ihe pistol, however, missed fre. Ihe man, wiuose name i$ Rodrigucg Servia, hay centeased his crime, and de- clared that he was employed by Nudez Pradeo, a deputy of the Cortes.

KUSSIA.

The Journal de St. Peters» erg breaka the silence it has hitherto observed with regard to wwe interview at Warsaw, aad declares thet the iotervaew of the Saree sovereigns can ouly be stiended with results feyouradie to the peace of Europ:. ** A yood understanding among sovereigns,” it says th conclusion, ** brings nations Logether, and reimeves the chances of war

The Paris correspondent of tie Tunes, says :—ht was meninwed yesterday that the resolutigus to be gdopted at the Conierence to be held at Warsuw are more ad- vanced than are venerally believed, With respect tu [raly, the Northern Powers wii demoud a Suspension of Wostiities, nud the mamténance of the sfc/us gue.

CHINA. of information with reference to if tae,—comes through Paris, and Patrie, ove of the semi-otficial ft states that Mr. Bruce, the Eu-

A very important piece China ,—that is, important, on the author ty, tuo, of the organs of the Government.

viish Migis-er in China, ches thi Emperor of Clina wou 4 be disposed tuconclude peace

with the Allies after tne capiure of the furts on the Peiho. It would appear frou tis thar the Emperor ef China trea.bles for the esfety of bre capital, bul he appears at the same tune to think that his furis are lupregy ible. Such a Communication, if it hag been seally made, dudes, at ail events, an easy termi- pation of the wag, for at the forts will be taken, and without much trouble, is tke opinion of all who have paid attention to the tactics of the allsed forces, os given in the accoygute which have recently come tu hand. :

Ap account of the result of the allies’ advance was conveyed to Hong Kong by the French steam transport Weser, whicis Jeft Pebtang va tua 13 h August, venging the following iytel- ligence ;—

Un the 12th August the allies edvanced on the entyenched Os has approach the Tartar cavalry boldly sallied ont to meet tuem. ‘The British cavalry-uomediately charged, utterly rout- ang apd dispersing the Tartare, who fled im all directions for

reiuve. ‘Phe’ allwethen stormed and took tho camp, the eneny the province if anything should cccur to disturb the peace | gentlemen may become fat— his hearth should not be shrouded

retiring through an opening judiciously left for such an event, and entrenched themselves im some villages hard by, Frow ies? indy *were dislodged, ane were> pursued until ihey took ehelies under tbe walls of the Teka Forts, which appearing foroudab'e and well defended, were not then attacked, Onthe I&h, however, a grand attack would be made on the tora. The Moniteur, after ging » summary of the allied opera- tiews in Uhine, says that, at the moment that despatches were seut off, a mandarin with a blue bation, escorted by two horse- men, bed displayed a fag of truce, and brought propositions op the part of ihe Chinese Government; bul it Was nol kuowu what the wature uf Ususe propos tions are. From Ladia we learn that ano'her Wagheer rising of an uu- uuportant Charecier has taken p ace at Kattiawar, ea

Archbishop Cullen preached at the termination of the mass celebrated in the Dubin Roman Cathedral, for the reposé of fie souls of thosé who fei! at Spoleto, Perugia, and other places.

She mong reverend preinte, having exiolied the virtues of the

fetien and deldated, proceeded tw denounce Victor Huunanue. and Gartbalds. : -"Pwenty-two veasels were barct at Coastantiuople on the 12t October. : f ‘The potatoe rot has caused great loss in several localities in Ireland. ae 1s ; , She persecution and murder of Christians are still going on

‘ yn parts Of Asia Minor. |

On the 28:4 ult. the Relief Commitee at B-yrout had about 15,000 destitute refugees on 14 list, cmd On tie lists of the Auxiwry Couusitlees aic sua 3000 wure.

The rocall of the Russian minister from Tarin, |

The |

The i

The Pied-!

writing on the 17th, |

had received a desparch, aunouncing |

whieb was situated midway between Pehtang and Tako, |

DEATH IN HIGH PLACES.

England has just lost two men, who have moved very

Publie opinion will | actively in their spheres, though their spheres were so essen- | ‘ '

tially different, The ove fought for us; the other wrote ; ihut the name of both have long been familiar in men’s mouths

| —for who that speaks cur mother tongue has not heard of

)Sir Harry Smith, the victor at Aliwal—and of Sheridan |

} Knowles, the author of + Virginins#’ Fate, however, is jsomotimes capricious in terminating the carcer of men ol

}mark, The hero of a hundred fights has died quietly in his | bed. The author of a score of dramas has been drowned in

‘the shipwreck of a steamer, on the stormy coast of the Baltic.

As for the gallant soldier who has gone to hig last rest— ithe merest outline of his varied services is a history of the | battle-fields of Kngland during almost a half’ avecentury. le

fought, and fought no children’s battles in both the Americas, |

— : Me ope ‘in Nurope, in Africa, in Asia !—at Monte-Video, Ciudad | Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, New Orleans, : ; . , . . ! Waterloo, in Caffre-land, at Ferozepore, AJiwal, Sabraou ! What a list of stormings, sieges, engagements! What a. oe “ hair-breath ’scapes!" No officer in her Majesty’s employ ‘could go through sucha list, aud add, of nota few, pars |magna fui. The Baronetey is extinct, Nir Harry having left no children by the Spanish lady whom he married in 1S14.—N. York Albdion.

Correspondence.

PR PRR RA ORLA RAR AR LLL LALA ALLL LAL ALD A AO A AB ABA A OAS

PROPRIETARY CLAIMS.

To tue Ecrron or wie Examrnen.

Sin—Ever since I had the honour of being elected to a seat in the House of Assembly, about eighteen years ayo, | have been desirous to have settled in some way the long vexed question between landlord and tenant. Having been ‘unable to carry out my own projects, I readily gave all the assistance I could towards prosecuting the enquiry before the ‘Royal Commissioners and was mainly induced to do so from having learned that the gentlemen appointed by Her Ma- jesty to settle the important questions at issue Were empower ed and determined to make a free, open and searchipg en- quiry into everything connected with the lenseho'd tenure. Since the elosing of the Court, I have not failed ta impross upon such of the tenantry as came to so:icit my advice, the propriety and necessity of their complying with the Lion. Mr, Gray's recommendation with respect to the payment o the last year’s rent, which would be gonditional on the pro- 'prictars pot enforcing the collection of the back rents. | ‘am aware that very many of the tenants as well as frechold- lers think that no rents atall should be paid until the Com- ‘missioners shall have givan their award ; but let this view of the case be right or wrong, | am satisfied the majority of the tenants would pay one year’s rent, if ordinary forbearance and moderation were practised by proprietors and agents. But scarcely had the Commissioners taken their departure from the Island before circulars were scattered broad- ‘east in every direction, threatening legal proceedings for the recovery of the arrears if the curreyt year’s rent be not paid by the tenth of the present month, and stating that the Commissioners advised this eourse be adopted. ‘Sir, it is well knowa to every intelligent man that the Com- ‘missioners never adyised legs] proceedings to be taken whe- jther the one year’s rent was paid or not. One of the cir- iculars referred to has been served on a tenant residing on Lot 36; but this man, who bas been thus threatened, gave his bond last winter, for the payment at a certain time, of all arrears of rent, and the bond is not yet dus. But this is a slight imposition in comparison with the general treatment which many poor teuants on Lot 36 have received at the hands of a certain proprietor, The Builif was sent amongst them, ‘and actually distrained for rent, on the 25th October, twelve days before the time mentioned in the circular for the payment of the year’s rent. The man whose case | have referred to,and _ whose bond, not due, was given for arrears, was one of those ‘distrained upon. His rent was due on the }st September, vut before he has time to sell his produce, his property is taken and sacrificed to satis'y one year’s rent and a bond not yet due!

The Colonial Secretary has charged you, Sir, with en- couraging sedition amongst the tenantry ; but those who per- petrate acts of gross injustice like that to which I have referr- ed, are the real promoters of sedition that may lead to re- ibeliion. It must be painful to every well-wisher of the Colony to sec the pubiic mind unduly agitated, but the really guilty parties should be held respousible for the con- sequeaces of that agitation. Hopes were held out to the teuantry by the Government that their condition would be ameliorated by the Commission ;—the Commission has not yet secured any advantages ; and it is impossible to say when fts award will be made known; but the learned Chairman

gave the proprietary party a humane advice to abstain from |

uarsh proceedings against the tenantry. This advice is yot ouly practicaily rejected in the most summary manner, but the Government declares, throush the Culonial Secretary,

iu the organ of the Administration, that the Commissioners |

cannot compel the proprietors to ugree to any terms—that

the great bulk of the proprietors are at liberty as much as |

ever to propose whatever terms may please éhem, and to re- sist any decision of the Commissioners that may not be iv accordance with (heir views. Ls there any reason to be sur- prised at the existence of exrraordinary agitation when such conduct ws L have detailed is practised by the proprietors, and such doctrines avowed by the Goverument? It appears to be the determination of the proprietary faction, supported as they are by the Goverament, to drive the people inte desper- ation. ‘There is no doubt that they will apply for, and ob- tain troops, (and a threat to that effect has been publicly juttered by a Land Agent), if there be an attempt to resist ithe civil power in the execution of writs and distraints ; and I therefore hope the tenavtry will act witi moderation, even though the proprietors should not. It may, indeed, be difficult for a settlement of tenantry to keep within the bounds of moderation, when a poor man amongst themselves is singled out as a victim of proprietary vengeance—stripped of everything to the last sheaf of gruin—left destitnte, with- out a morsel of food for himself or his widowed mother, as ‘will be the case with the poor bondsman of Lot 36, whose grievance [ have brought under your notice—it may, I say, be difficult to repress the prowptings of human nature in such a case ; bat the proprietor wio could bave the heart to bring such misfortane on a hapless individual, and such a disgrace upon our common humanity, would be more to blame for any resistance to the law than the actual perpetrators of it. | L am happy to say thet there are many proprietors who jare an houourable exception to my rewarks, and who are | quite willing to act up to the spirit and letter of Mr. Gray’s ‘recommendation. I sincerely hope the tenantry wijj deal with them in g like generous and bonourable spirit. Yours truly, GEORGE COLES. Charlottetown, November 3, 1860.

| P. 38. So far from the Commissioners recommending the enforcement of the puymeut of the back rents, if the current jyear’s rent is not paid, the Hon. Mr. Gray stated, in his j concluding address, that, “ it would be a great misfortune to

aud harmony which ought to prevail,—equally would it be |a misfortune if the RenT3 AND arnears were hastily and jharshly collected by the proprietors.” ‘The three Commis- jsioners were ou the bench when Mr. Gray delivered this

| Opinion, and no doubt the three concurred init. With respect )to the payment of one year’s reut—where that part of the \recommendaticn siall be complied with—I hope it will be jconsidered in the award as part payment of the first instal- ment of a purchase, if it should be determined to buy up the claims of those proprietors who may bappeu to have good titles. G. C.

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[The following is a copy of the Circular referred to in Mr. Coles’s Letter. Jt was intended to be served on a man who | has been dead ten years :—

Cuarvorrerown, October 9, 1860. Sir;

Unless Oxg Yean’s Rent of the land you oceypy on Lot 61 be paid at wy Office on or velore the Tenth day of November next, 1 shall, with- out further notice, take such legal steps as 1 may deem expedient to enfurce the payment of the same, together with all Arrears of Kent that may be due by you. I may observe that the * Royal Commission” has, in open Court. expressed its concurrence in such a course, should the tenant wiliully reiuse to pay a year’s rent.

lum your obedient servant, G. W. DeGLOIs, A gent for tho Right Mon. L. Sullivan.

Mr. Miclacl Drown, Lot 61.

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Now, j

To rum Eprrom ov tae Examiner.

Sin—The fresh agitation commenced amongst the a pk: in eonseqnence of the Commissioners having left oo . | without giving in their award, and one of them having a . vised the tenants to pay this year’s rent, requires Investiga~ | But before doing so, we must refor to the warrant |

tion. : whole of

from the Queen whioh gives the authority, the which authority is dontained in the following words:

« Whereas we have been moved by the Assembly of our [sland to appoint Commissioners to enquire into the differ- righ s of land ownei

| ences now prevailing relative to the : | and tenants, with the view to the settlement of the tome! ‘upon just and equitable principles ; and whereas It 1s highly desirable that the said diJerences should be adjusted, we | to be our Commissioners for enquiring Lato} and |

appoint (names) in said differences, aud fur adjusting the sa:ne upou fair equitable principles.” nee

The rights of the land owners means their titles, and the differences were to be settled upon fair and equitable prin- ciples before any demand could be made upon the tenants. | From the nature of the evidence brought before the Com- | missioners, and from their high standing in society, there | need be na doubt they would have declared a forfeiture, if} they had been allowed to remain in the Island to give in| their decision; but as the Government knew it would be | against them, it was not allowed to be given,

The Government, electe! by the people, are presumed to | ‘be their representatives in all public transactions ; and at the | last election the people chose the proprietors to represent | them. therefore the Govern:sent and proprietors are ail one ; | and by tracing their former acts we may guess at their | When they took office, the Colonial |

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present intentions.

| Minister asked the proprietors what concession they inteuded +

| ‘to make to the tenantry, and Col. Gray’s resolutions were passed and sent home. But they were so iniquitous that| they could not be laid before the Queen, (‘he Government may defraud the people if they tamely submit to be defraud- | ed. but they eannot get the (QQueen’s consent to do so ;) there- | fore, to satisfy the hanme Government, a Commission was applied for in a proper way, and when obtained the object was to deprive the people of their services; for as soon as it) Was agreed upon to have a Uommission to investigate ¢it/es, a vote was obtained to purchase the Selkirk Mstate, thereby admitting that the land owners bad a title; and since the arrival of the Commissioners the object of the Government have been to show that they were not wanted. The people wight represent their owa complaints as well as they could, but the Government wou'd give no information on bebalf of the people, and the resideut landholders refused to submit their titles to be investigated ; and therefure the sole object of the Government appears to heve been to send away the Commissioners before they gave a decision; and I can see

no authority the Hon. Mr, Gray had to advise the payment |

of reuts, pending the decision, and more espedially when that decision is purposely withheld. The Hon. Mr. Gray / would hardly suppose that he was preparing the way far the Government to do away with the decisien altogether,

_ The refusal of the resident landholders to submit their titles to the Commission, sets an exampie to the tenantry that they need not obey the landholders or Commissioners to pay rent until they give a fair aud equitable decision accord- ‘ing to the Queen’s Commission ; but [ agree with you that ithe tewants ought to hold meetings in cach County, and de- Sach meetings would serve

the

iclare their intentions openly. several good purposes. It would bring Uvmtuissioners to light, which now remains iv the dark. It would warn the banliffs that they should not distress the tenants ; and would serve for instructions to their represen- tatives. A meetingin the Metropolitan Couaty would serve as a guide for the rest.

WILLIAM COOPER.

| Sailor's Hope, Ovt. 30, 1860.

—_—oe © For raz Examixer. j 7 <arie ~ ‘me mere ae _—— | TO THE TENANTS ON TILE SELK! ESTATE. | | GentLeyen—Sinee P-naddressed you in the Examiner of the | 29th Qetuber, [ haye learned the fact, that a number of you, fully prepared with means t> purchase, wade personal appli- cation at the Office of the Coaunissioner of Public Lands for

se

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the freehold conveyanes of the property each applicant holds |

| undet leage ; but ta the astonishment and severe disappoint- |mentof the applicante, the Commissioner demanded eleven jehillings and six pence per acre, and the payment of twenty per centam of arreara of sent, and intimated that upon ny juther terms would the Government cell, and give thie fee simple of the lands applied for. This unjust demand was per- emptorily rejected. ‘Lhe Government scheme, if carried into

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decision of the |

é ae in comfortable freehold possession, at a cost commensurate | with public integrity and prudence, and with our private rights. TENANT'S FRIEND.

re A > EI mene

To rue Eorror of THe EXAMINER.

Sm—Having read in your last publication a letter Pur- | T.iand; he then, together with bis o

porting to be from what muy have been understood as a ma-|

have not had on the muster roil of my company as members the fulloweng names: J, Smith, Gleason, Counolly, Michael

members who appear in their majority, and are now and

have beea members of the corps singe its formation, namely :

James K. Kelly, as ropr-vented Kasign, the company has understood that he was not one of them, and upon those rounds that we imported clothing and a sword for him, but ne refused to take them, consequently thé cloth remains on our hands, and the sword remains in J. HU. Turner & Co.’s shop window, So much for their majority.

Allow me, Sir, to inform your readers of the very lament- able Joss sustained by Capt, John ;Murphy in losing the confidence of the worthies whose names are contained in the comuun’eation alluded to. ‘The supposed majority appoint- ed a Committee to enquire into my conduct. That Com- mittee farnished a list of what they called charges, and catied on me to apologise, which I refused to do; tor this reason, that the charges were false, and got up throagh a spirit of petty jealousy. ‘They {proposed that a deputation should wait on the Goverror, and make their complaints known to him. His ixeelleoey treatc) them with thst gentlemanly kindness which is the characteristic of bis meet- ing with any person on business, (» d of evarse he was par- ticularly condescending to ths. eciebrated deputation, not al! soldiers, to the eredit of the [. V. lifle Corps, thank goodness). His Excellency was kind enou ‘h to give them

Court of Enquiry. Well, Sir, the Court met. The com- plainants, their gallant Lieutenant as prosecutor, and Mr. Murphy as prompter. They appeared before

| William

| the Court—-prosecution coinmenced—witnesses were called,

contrary to the wish of the Court or myself, but by the direct request of Licut. lh. Reddin aud Mr. William Murphy, were sworn. Now, Sir, out of the number of charges, which I believe amounted to eleven or twelve, they ‘could only sustain one: and that one (what think ye, Ca- jtholie Irishmen @) that I did, on the loth day of August,

vo to the Catholic Church in my owa regimeutals, and also

with what their friend the Protestang newspaper called my ‘trappings, and that I did on that same 15th day of August

‘salute seven Bishops and twenty four Priests while walking |

in process‘on from the Cathedral to the present Episcopal Residence!!!

| for saluting a Catholic Archbishop, six Bishops and |

‘liberal minded and more just than those worthies whe beg-

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iis Exvellency I now offer my gratefyl thanks, am doubly grateful, and highly honored by baviug the humble salute of the Captain of the Irish Volunteer Rifle

'[ bave now done with tbo.» worthies, and recommend them to the public as every thing bus bad soldiers, aud in that honorable profession they ave wot had 4 chance to form 1a character,

Yours respectfully,

JUIN MURPHY,

Captain commanding Irish Voluuteer Kifle Corps, Charlottetown, Nov. 2ad, 1360. | P.S. The friends of the Irish Volunteer Rifle Corps are informed that we pow mu-ter 45 members,

For True EXxaMiNER. CELTIC VOLUNTEERS, At a meoting of the members who enrolled themselves as | Volunteers under the designation of the Celtie Volunteer

, as : | Corps, held in the Agricultural all, on Priday evening, the

jagreed tu:— ‘the Co'onies,baving,at the review of the Volunteer Companies !

‘held at Government Louse on the 10th day of August last, fon the occasion of the visit of His Royal Highness tie Pi fice ‘of Wales to this Island, intimated that should a larger num-

| elfect, would commandoyer £25,000 for the Estate which cost | ber of Voluutcers desire to ve enrolled, any deficiency of

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Kilfoy, MeUabe, O'Mara, ard [ may add to those, ees

in him by Ils Excellency, to dispossess the tenants on Lot 30 Mr. R. B.S. again visited them, and gallantly donning tig [sland-wide-Magisterial power, called upon certain people to assist his Justicesiip im acis of agvression and vivlenee, but the people thinking the Scot had “ a bee in his bonnet,” ang being themselves peaceable and sane wen, refused to do the high Magesterie! bidding of Mr. K. B. B,5. P. for the whole hired servant, und sundry battering rams, humanely, aud in great tenderness of

jority of the Lrish Volunteer Rifle Corps, L do assure you! gpicit aad action, demolished the dwelling house of Mr. Sent. lsuch is not the ease, and for this very simple reason, that 1' per, during bia absonce. Query Jan Governor Dundas | sucl , and for th y simp] that I! per, during bia al Query? Can Gow Dundas,

with propriety, permit Mr. R. B. S.'s name to disfigure the Commission of the Peace, afier that heartless and riotous ae? It is thought His Excellency cannot and will not,

‘If Troops do not arrive, to be quartered here this eutump

jand winter, then, in case of tenant mages: to pay arrears ; an : | rent, the Volunteers will be ord-red out, to wssist the proprig. James Gormley, John Brodrick, Thos. Griffia, and for Mr. | 1

tors and their agents in the Collection, The Volunteers know, ing this Government dodge, shou'ld at once decline turthg drill and service, and send in their Srearms to the Governmem, as tools fit only for the Government touls.

The present prodent, practical and all efficient Governmens —the wise and economical Executive Councii—happened 19 forget or d-layed fur nearly six months the repairs and g@eg. sary alterations for the metamorphose of the Central Acadey into a College, under the unposing utle * Prince of Waies Culiege.”* ” ;

Professor ———— arrived here some time since, under en.

gagement to take the first chair in that institution, He jg on

salary at the rate of £300 per annum since he left ig himself prepared to enter upon his collegiate dati

For this very grave offence, as solemnly ‘sworn to by Corporal H. G. MeLatire, Catholic subordinates | arraigned me before a Court as having lose confidence in me ' Priests, which grave offerce His Excellency, being more ced of me'to become their Captain, took no notice of ; and to

And, Sir, |

Corps acknowledged upou that occasion by those holy mea. |

| the Colony a little above £10 000, and the Teaant-antagonist- | arms and aceoutremeuts would be supplied from the [mperial | Government would thereby e -tract an uncalled for prefit Of At resources. And whereas, on the faith of this declaration, | | least one hundred per cent. from your pockets, and luvk YOu | 14) desirous of emulating tho example of their fellow subjects

the ever-zealous-of-pnblic-good-Execative have no Chair -

| for the Professor, and no College fitted 1o receive studems ;

classes cannot be formed in the College ; nor a chair fog thy Professor be ready until the 15th January, 1867. Meanwhile students are educationally unprovided for--the College revenues Jost—and some £89 to £100 will be due and owing to the Pro. fessor before the Guverument, through Cereliction of duty, can | College.

The tast on dit says, the Government is in that delightfal state of good feeling and. co-operation which may be ters and beawifuliy illustrated in the hapoy association and plet able mtercourse of the Kilkenny Cats,

RECORDER.

To rue Eprron or tne Examrysr,.

_ Sm,—As we have heard that Capt. Joha Murpiy ie 'tryimg to fill the ranks of bis forlorn hope, by nxisrepresenti

the motives which induced above thirty members of the L. Y, R. Corps to withdraw from it, let us briefly state, for the /present, that the assertion that the late members lost con- fidence in him solely because he presented arms to the

Catholic ecclesiastics on the loth Augnst last, is | false and malicious, intended to mislead the i unwary.

and Neither in the Drill Room nor before the Court

of Enquiry was he charged with presenting arms to any one,

-much less to those for whom we entertain as much sincere- Next week we may be called upon to shew the public the reasons 94, Which have caused the large majority of the Corps to leaye

‘respect as does the officious Capt. John Marphy.

j

Capt. Murphy and bis admirers to themselves. As the Cap-

‘tain may bave the bardihood to impute that the names _attached to our resignation are pot genuine, we enclose you the original, and also the Muster Roll of the Company, that

you may testify, if necessary, that the persons who signed

it were dona fide members of the Lrish Volunteer Corps, we

| may add to their regret.

Yours truly,

THE LATE MEMBERS OF THE I. V. RIFLE CORPS. Charlottetown, Nov. 10, 1860.

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Che ECxraminer, Charlottetown, P.E.I. November 12, 1860,

DEPARTURE OP THE PRINCE FOR ENGLAND.

| Is our last paper we recorded some of the latest incidents connected with the Prince's visit to America, and we regret ‘that we could not give then any of the details relating to his departure from Portland. We have no doubt that ere this

2nd November, the fullowing Kesolutious were unanimously the Hero and the other gallant ships which foriused the escort | ei | of His Royal Highness, have safely reached the white cliffs of Whereas, Ulcer Majesty’s principal Seeretary of State for | Albion, and that the heir to the throne of B

After sued & vapid succession of tributes of respeet and affe- tion—after so many ond so varied seenes of festivities, and so constant reeurrence ef mueh that was novel in nature and the social wnstitutions of North America, we imagine that the re- pose of his apartments. on board the Hero has been a grateful

give him a chair to fill, or a chance to open his mouth in the

ritain has agaig been folded@ in the arms of his royal and MJustrious mother,

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| in the face, and say we are your friends, and give you cheap |

lands ; but the scheme of terms slows plainly where their | friendship and affection lie. In hoisting | boasted sympathy of the Government with the tenantry merges into deveptiun—the eloyen foot of the Executive is palpably | bare ; and a deadly animus and influence crops out above the | aurface, and indicates the baneful praprietory vein lying be- | neath, and peryadine the hears ef the Government, which | holds, as it were, a lighted cande to the proprietors, that | they may see their way cleay to demand suuilar or larger)

prices for lands, and under its auspiccs, example, and adyo- | cacy, exact and egllect arrears of rent. What a band of} hypocrites and parderers to private interests is our down- stumbling Government! ;

Subsequent to the publication of my letter referred to above, | in which { cautioned you against payment of arrears and | high prices for lands, and posterior to the high prices de-

manded from you for the lands, and the insisting upon payment

of arrears of rent by the Government, the Monitor, an obscure

newspaper edited by the Hon. RK. Palmer, leader of the Go-

vernment, pub ished an editorial paragraph, headed *§ Selkirk

Kstate,’’ which affects rojoicement in stating: ** the Govern-

ment haye relinquished all claim to the large amount of arrears | uf rent due hy the tenantry,’’ &e., and further, ‘‘the land has | been classified and priced as follows: Ist class, 10s. per acre ; | 2nd, 9s ; 3rd, 8s. ; 4th, 7s. Gd. ; Sth, 6s. ; Gth, ds. Gd. ; ** with | these terms,’? Mr, Palmer adds, ** no sine person out to find | fuult.’? he Islander, edited by the Colonial Secretary Mr. 'W.H. Pope, as an understood thing copied Mr. Palmer's | paragraph, and thus tacitly or tangibly rather endorsed Mr. | Palmer's paper for cireulation, and scattered broadeast the great boon which the great Execuéive body had bestowed upon ) you, gentlemen.

The reduction of prices of the lands, and the relinquishment | of arrears of rent, was determined upon not through any re- | gard or proper feeling towards you, bat was relactantly made /to outside pressure, to the thunder of public indignation | rattling in their ears against Executive imposition. | The Hon. E. Palmer, believed to be a doubtful owney of a part of Township No. 1, and claiming some squatter lands at | Kildare, and Mr. W. H. Pope, a kind and remarkably scru- | pulous land agent, and imputed su) resq owner af leasehold ‘lands within this Island, both personally interested, you per- ceive, gentlemen, in keeping land at high prices, together with their coileagues in Council, Mr. Yeo, Mr. J. C. Popo, and Mr. Haviland, and thejr masters outside, the larger proprie- tors, whose interests they subserve—no doubt would and sausé question the saneness of any jndividyal who * could object’’ to the Government scale of prices, as published, or would dare to obstruct their pecyuniqry objects, and the aggrandizement of the other proprietors. Yer, though they ery ‘* insane,” the public good and ated of the inhabitants of this | Colony must not be held s condary to their combined private 'interes‘s—the poor tenant should not be saer.ficed, that those

1a despair, that their firesides may glow with cantentment— his children should not go uncoyered, that they may robe in fine apparel—his table should not be the meagre board of Jean | penury, that theirs may be bountifally spread—nor should | his labor and toil in the lands, which, under sever privations, he subdued from the wilderness into cultivation and ierti.ity, he made a means of ggrandizement to proprictors and per- fidious land agents. No, gentlemen, these things should not be, but the present action of the Executive, cantrolled by the proprietors, must induce gnd insure these, if the loyal Com- mission should not in dué time gome to the rescue of the tenan- try without the pale of the Selkirk Estate; andif you, your- selyes, as one man, shoud fail to resist Government imposition. Be ye firm, tenants, and resist the Government's published seale, of prices of lands,—it is unjustly high—it bears harder upon you than the purchase price of the Estate autho- rises, ar fiscal requirements demand. Be firm, gentlemen, and do not purchase at those rates, he Government, enfeebled by disanion and tottering under internal elements of self- dissolution, will most probably give early place to an able and popular Executive, to which you may confidently look for due and becoming consideration in the reducement of the prices of your leaseholds toa sam much below that which the present Government-tenantry-grinders ask and demand. _ In my next, gentlemen, I shall endeayour to. show you, by figures, that the Government would make a consijerable profit from the Estate in the gecomplishment of theirscale of prices ; and I shall attempt to convince you, by reliable calculation, that 4s. Gd., with intermediate prices up to 7s. Gd. per acre, wie fully sufficient to yield a profit to the Government, besides