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TERRIFIC STORM IN ENGLAND. | The storms which have passed over the country have unfortunately caused some loss of itfe, and been productive of great damay: at sea and on land. At Piymouth, on Sun- tiny morning, there was a fearful deluge o rain, accompanied by the most appalli eg lightening and thunder ‘he tide im Ply- mouth and other ports of Devon and Corn

wall was ths bighest known for 30 years A cond gable poruog of Clymoath—whieh especigily through Uaion Street, the long

towne of Piy renport, lies low apd one of the

#. est connecting the three mouth, Stonechuuse, and Lex —Wwas completely inundated Royal Mayines was drowned the streets were couverted i the unparalleled rain

to leave their houses in were sume most exciiing soenes owing to the marrow esvapes from drowning. [be ship- piog in Piymouth Sound rode out the gale in saety, thanks to tha Breas water, although at the latter epd of last week @ portion of the wall of the Great Western locks was washed away. At Falmogth several ecolsivuns took place among the large deet of merchant vessels which crowded the barbur. At Pen gance, noted for ite tremendous seas, the scene was terrific, the great rollers from the channel charging up aver the sands Mount's Bay ino manner liightlully grand ‘The scho ner Padaran of Aberethirsk, wen down off the Sturt and all haads were lost The ra lways and tevegirap @ have suff-red severely. Un Saturgay aight and Sunday Coraowall was visited by a terrific gale, and the highest spring ftidee which have been seen in the country for nearly 40 years Che | results are very serivus. A large number of people had a bairbreadth escape op the Weer | Corowall Railway on Sunday morning. Tae} up-pessenger train had moved slowly out of | the Penzance station, and was abvut to enter on the long wooden viaduct at Ponssndane, which was at times buried in sea, when a Joud crash caused the driver to promptly pull up. Two huodred yards of massive uprighte®, driven 4 great depth into the beagh, aad the; whole system of wooden supports hegan to} shake, and 10 a few minutes went duwn with! « fearful noise. Immense iron Lars were! twieted, gigantic bylts of the same met! snapped, and is @ very shost time the wreck was twirled seaward. Phe telegraph wires were aleo carried away. Dand apd shingle, covered the railway from Penzsnce to Mara-!

to deep rivers by he inmates had boats, and there

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IMPROV«<D METHOD OF ASSASSIN A-| TION ARM ED PREPARATION For a long time past New York has enjoyed EUROPE. the bad pre eminence of Leing one of the!

: worst governed cities in the erviliged world. |

Europe is at presend in a state of ar red [eg property ig oppressed with an almost in- preparation without parallel in the world. The tolerable weight of taxation. Its revenves| | are squandered in prodigal profusion Its) , municipal goyernmens je corruption organ: | destruction of the human species, and wed. Justice haa been bought and sold at its tribunals. Jobbery and robbery have beep practiced gn system ip ity adgpnisira. lion. RRowdyism, ruffianivm, rom and lager | beer have beld almost unlimited sywa7 within uestions they once had, but they still count) ir. precincts. Crue of every sort has revel- ye something, and five Continental nations | led in a sort of splendid impuuity withio ite limits. Kecently a new terror has been added to previously existing causes of quiet in that city. A new method of aésassination hae come into yogue among its dungerous classes. Night and day a:en are noiselessly shot down for wounded with silest airguns. At night,

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preparation ig for the largest and quickest pos- sible ever before was it so advanced, so complete, <0 scientific, and so ready fox immediade use

Numbers have not now th vaiue in military

nave five and a half millions of mea eithe eady to mach to-morrow orto follow atshboit| intervals, These ave the most warlike races, wid al have their special quatities for the woik. Ot one race we are told that they are bor

Idjers. and never so much at home as on the

} | ‘ ry | end attle field; of another, that they will endure Sage tla vervthing, ard go lilies they are com./ '@ the glare of the street lamps at their fire- t i wy, € y ‘ i . ne sanded f another. that a national ippea | sides, er by day, in their offices, or walking ! i mas « ar ‘ . i ail s al a . -

the crowded stregte, people are murdered or mutilated by mysterious bulleta, coming they know not whepee, without warning of flax or explosion. Tn some cases, it has Seen clearly ascertained that air gums have been the instruments wade use of in the per- petration of these deeds of villainy. In others, it has been reasonably inferred, trem | circumstances, that such in-

will write them all as one man, differ as they wav in their habits of warfare; of another, that they only want organization and leaders; if another, that they aye only too vivacl us, and dithcult to restrain. These are the forces f the Girst class Powers class Continental Powers, for E ye Spain, Portugal,

-that is, of the first brim d is not

i luce d, and, of cours: ’ the attendant

urkey, Greece, Belzium, Holland, or the

Scandinavian nations, Jt is only the more | #ruments have been used in attempted ussas- | vctive elements that are inc!uded in the survey | bation } Che outsiders are left outside. The loose ex- Much consternation has been created

tremities of the great Kuropean organization | among the peaceful citizens of New York by

sre left hanging or Iving about, JPhey would the adyent of this new torm of danger to lile

rave their place and work in an actual fray,!'m their gity. (tis readily perceived whata

but for the cresent they need not be noticed,| terrible weapon against society a well coa-

This is a question of vitalitv, design, and will, | structed air gun would be in the hands ot | Chere are five million andabalf men of action, men bent upon mischiet to life or property. |

An innocent looking walking stick might be | * wost deadly but unsuepected instrument of crime in the bands of a man of ordinary cool pees and cunning. An incident te recorded io the New York journale to the effect that « policeman in that city some time ago, hap- pens to hewe his atieatiog gipected to the

each resolved to sell his life dear, and to help

to turn the balance considerably one way or the other—that is, if he ‘s to be calied ito action at all, and each is tully aware that le

may be. A large proportion of these men are under regular and constant training on one

aystem of tactics or another=-old: fashioned, new lizhts, experimentg], or jamproved by very | recent experjence. The Prussians have learnt much, and eye; the Austrians something, in Denmark and Bohemia. Then even the latter hag hardly anything to learn in their aptille y

and cayajry. There are stogies, indeed, of the Russians being behindhand, and of frickeries being found necessary to deeceige the eyes of the Emperor; but we remember similag stories, with merely circumstantial ditferences, in the

publicagious of the last century, which certuin- ly were belied by the results. We have very little doubt that there is not much to choose

another along a deserted street. After 9 time the policeman observed the man pur- suing raise his walking stick and point it towards the other, alihough at the moment the two men were separated by some dis- tance from each other. Jostantly the man pointed at fell so the ground, and was rushed upon by the other, who began to pifle the fallen man’s pockets. The pol.ceman sprang forward and the murderer fled. He wus pursued and captured. On the line of flight the walking stick was dropped and picked up. On examination, it proved to be an air

movements of one man stealthily foligwing | checked,

: : betwe } dif ; ot ‘thiser givn, the depth in many parts being from 2/t) 9¢t weet the « iffesent sections of this enormous

to 3ft. The Pengsnce promenades, 4 iss,

pier, aad other places were under water for many bdurs,and scorcs of | onses were A oded. At Truro the Houses and tnoroughisres in lower parte of the tuwn were QooJed to » eun- eiderubie height, and many poor people have | rulfered great loss by damage done to their furniture. In seores of instances, chairs,

tables, Ke, were afloat. and many articles were washed away. A boat, laden with cos

went dowo in the Truro river, and a maa

named Davy was drowned. At Falmouth a youth named John Tregenga was washed over- boaid end growasd. A large pogiion of the town of bowey was covered by from g't to: 4itof water nearly all Sundsy, und at tel

ston, Padstow, and Ssltael) there was a similar etate of things. Many people had to turn outof their houses in the:r night clothes

and seek refuge eleewhere. Several bhundr-ds of acres of land were under water on Monday. and the continuance of beavy rains caused ferious alarm. Louse property bas suffered considerably from the hurricane. An im

menge body of water ‘as come down the Thames, which everflowed its banke or mony

moiles, and lgid a great quant ty of land under water tu a depth of sevepal feet. Vie sea has washed away haifa mile of the Cambrian tuilway, near Borth. The wail Lad just! massed over. Tiere tas been an unusually nigh tide all along to coast of Cardigan Bay,

much go that he has since di d. On Satur-

| a3 far as possible, ag truly as possibile, and to

gun somewhat clumsily constructed but suffi- ciently effective noiwelessly to send ite bullet through the bead of the maa musdered L{ow dangerous 93 thipg st would be if such Weapons jjcome common can be easily im- agived. The temptation to deeds of violence would be very great with many in such » case. The a; parent impunity with whch such weapons might, with slight precaution,

mass of armed life. Any hundred thousand of them would probably be fourd a fair mat h for auy other h.ndred thousand: and there are nearly sixty bodies of jhat number of meu ncluding ihe outsiders--pretiy certain to b- should the war be concluded within two or three years—there cannvt be less than a hundred such budics, that is, ten million armed men.

insiders, not

But the stupendous enumeration is the least part of the great fact. t

UCTS, es characteristics, ory gra, and sity of adopting adequate weaeurcs for their whatn Roma ie ids in ip portance and present

kill ;., protection, There is ominous talk of vig: sirnifieanee to the ri y of skill, aide or sc nt rn oe ee a q iange committees and such like insututions, ee r oe mene Ah “nw nted to do just:iee where the aw is weak oO mana ) I itary . | } a - ra int —e a are and iniquity is strong. It ia to be hoped nL t es ictiun has , any al Le i aaa Gest-uction has for Many YCars LEC! tnas the servives of dudge Lynch will nut a e to tak pre dence over all oth - 7 2 be called into requisition To purily and io thas been studied with greater skill, and i 1: i . Vigorate the regular tribunals, that the op made the subject of the most costly experi : ‘ : eration of criminal justice may meta. ’ minal o ode alee ides abbuet and sure, is the thing speéialiy aceded. mau o hel uo « a i 0 odje . : : * “Nl But this new development of the art of of common interest, as not to enter with wa m P secret assassination would justify the use, if and intellizent curiosity into the . 7 necessary, of very strong measures for its successive Inventions and improvements um ar- cutee nad ot hk of dee el ee It ig a frightful manifestation usketry, arc i t Oo arms arn f : : : of human wickedness, calculated tu bring the most awful calamitics upon society at large,

The weapons of the age are now as ingenjous, as elaborate, and as exact in : , ™ : : if not arrested. —Sié. John News.

their construction ag a@ chronemeter or a phi Phe object is to carry

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repeat the deadly operation as rapidly as) pos

crime,

Everythiog—num New York folk are waking up to the neces-

the « Powera.

There are few persons so far from the

humerous

thiery,

defences oe

losophical apparatus.

and great damage has been caused to houses sible, sy that it can be done cooly and eor- FROM EUROPE. aod rtock, On Fridsy evening an iron shed, rectly. The weapon now put into the hand of a ae j s!leubl e ' Rie . : . London, Peb. 75, evening. wn the malleable iron works at Biocha rn, of a common soldier for this purpose woud have ( Messrs. Han és ' bl du oa Mr. Bright made a speech at the banquet of r STs. a ay an m, Ww ae juwn duwn astonished the makers of the f llowin plperd! on, Anmuinted Chamtee of Caamneten. a which on . wige wind, and several wen enzas dour fathers were proud to possess. The next pe urged the importance and uecessily of adepi- | in the plac. severely injured one of them uo war isto be a great shooting-match for the lig & systeus at veean penny postage.

In the House ef Commons this afternoon an

tra! of halfea-dozen different rifles, upon the enquiry Was wade as to whether the usual legal

be used, would be w dreadful incentive to,

be speedy |

day, as four men were et work in the upper merits of wh en military men are still divid-

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storey of a new building in Lunslet road Leeds, it cuddenly collapsed. and buried the moen under the debris. ‘n'y one luborer, an Irishman “ #@utey,’ was seriously injured, nod he is now lying at the Leeda intirmary. Tue other three were not much hurt. The tide rose to such an unusual height at Wey- tgouth on Saturday, that the esplanade was two or three feet under water, and the houses on i were inundated At the rai way etation the water wae above te wheels of the car- riages. aod all traffic had to be suspended, vntil the water receded xt the tall of the tide | A very melancho'y offsir is reported from! Bridport. Itappeurs that a gentleman ven- tured out too far on the pier, ty ere a vonse| jhat wae in distress, when u wave dash ed over the pier tnd ewept hia away. The ‘Tae lower part of thea'd towo of Portamouth better known in the lostlity ag ** Spice Is land,’ bas been inundated, the evra haying gained an entrance saute several of the douses nearest the harbor

Un Sunday the tide was so high at White- haven that it overflowed th wurket-place between Whitehaven and Parton the water ewept in heavy showers over the railgay: near to Harrington a portioy of igie wall” which protects the railway from ibe sea was damaged. At Harring‘on horbor om Sunday se sez damaged the breakwater on the north side ; while between Workington and Flimby the ses overfi wed, and su serious y sajured about 100 yards of the railway aa to put a stop to the trafic along that portion of ~ Londya gud North-ty cgcpu Company's ipe

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On Monday, whilst the etorm was raging, a lutgh brig was in great distress near Port- jand ; but by signals made by the fishermen and coastguard she was atecred into Ches:! ove, where ehe tan sground va the soft Two of the crew endeavored to gt ush ge, dut were gyept of by a huge wave that came round the yessej's stern ang yege | carried into deep water, whea they pore drowoed.

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STORM AND FLOODS IX ipeLaNa. |

The greater ; arto’ the city of Cork was Quod ed,the water beimg from 3/6 to 4ft deep in the principal streets. The traffic on the limes of ratlway on oth sides of the river was stup- ped, the ratis being submerged; and several treaches were made in the Qu enstown direct liae. At Youghal the sea broke over the line of 1atlway, destroying a postion of the station, overturning pngzong, end syask ing serious breaching in the permanent way. A row of new houses on the beacu was gutted, a portion of the town subme g- ed, and eonsid-rable damage dune. Part of Queenstown is also under water

Some amusing incidents of the inundation ere deseribed bY the Lerk Const.tution -— ** Oo Saturday night swall craft of every kend, from the tihy casoe ty the heavy yawl, glided alung the canals formed between the rows of houses and to those who wera #pectators of it the scene was one of eva tinual aniwation. All the smalier busts were brought out by the r Qwners for the pose! qleasure of having w row through the sireets uf the city. but die larger ones were en yrged in plying from ope ploge to suother, éopg eXtemporaing ouwtezless ferries, by whieh people who were iuprgyned by the flood ‘gould reach their hougegy, Ao im m-nse taade was done by such buate ge fares that must huve made a golien harvest for toeir proprietoze, a8 the charge for being ferried acruss # gireet was is, and any where beyond that dytange bs. The gingle erivers tov made a gigng haul, though thes vehicles did not appear fo he as much pat- yoocsed at the boate, the weters in many places reaching the geate of the cars, thus thoroughly drenching the lower extremities vl their occupants.

Tiyssa appears to be preparing in the! eveut of ET combine ol "fice

suriat officers are engaged in making cvn-| tructe with the apubian Prioeipalities for three mogths’ ammunitiog and stures for en

army «f 80, men, Telegraphic wires are ono.s laid on lines leading from Warsaw

2 “ue frontier towns of Turkey.

investigation before pardon bad been made in the cases of the Feuiaa cuuvicis recently released from prison

ed, but each 18 good in its way. As to the guns, we have been ringing the changes on brags, igon, slegs yasi guns, built gung. eorls, composite, converted, smvooth-bores, breach. loaders, muzzie-lusders, puns of every im aginable kind, by as many great competing makers, till it costsan effort of memory to know exactly how we stan] and waat is post- tively the last gun. It is certain, however, thgt there is a prodigious number of very good guas all ready to be used, gud also that in the event of any one carrying off the palin in the expected competition it will be easly multiplied to any extent, 5. many first-rate establishmen's are there for the purpose in good working order. There are also some novelties in ordnance of a rather terrible character, but they don’t seem to be much reckoned on for hard killing under ord:nary circumstances. ‘The pace of improvement is equally brisk in the matter of ammunition, «¢ outremente, carriages, and other points ecouparatively unheeded ip the wars of our foreta hers. A soldier if fom g man of ecrence, If an officer, a skilled mechanic if ip the ranks, and experted ty tp g jaan of g-nius endoenterprise ifincommand. Estab- ishments most cosmopolitan in their charac ter readily supply all nations with the weans of mutual destruction ; and the science itself is pursued and professed with an impartial desire to witness the greatest posmble results. ‘The favourite study of the age will suffer an immense disappointment if it cannot reckun ite success by millions oé slain.

But what is ali this for? Whom is it for? Who wishes it?) Who has any purpore to be avswered? Who holds thie enormous avalanche. waiting for the fatal footfall or sound? There is the paradox. No native wishes for war. Of the balf duzen Sovereigns who would have to give the word of cum mand, put one desires was or feels bis interest tu lie in that way. Not one is naturally cis posed to war, or now inclined to it by cir- cumstances. Of the armics themselves, per baps there are five wen in @ hundred, if so many, who do not wish fur peace, fur their Jiecharge, and for their return to some peaceful employment. The Statesmen all with for peice All nations are heavily in debt,and disubled from prosecuting num -rous works long desired by the dedication of the public money to the preparations for war. Lhe cost of preparation. indeed is felt tu be! almost as Fuinous as the cust of aciual war, ang ty be worse in having no legitimate con- ciusion. A war way come to an end one way or another, but the preparation for war can only end in war. (Qt one Power it is said that bow is ite time dor war, as it will never be beter prepared ; gf another, that it woul? gain immensely by » respite tur five years ; of anvthes, i495 1 Cannot be d pended on for w single day tor either keeping out of a war or keeping stead ly at it; of another, t tit contemplates War at tts ows tune bye wav find i.s band forced before ite ume 5 yo! aovther, that i canueot possibly precipitate wor, b cause time is wanting for it; aad, of another, that seuce it ie perishing and falling tu pieees io peace, much more wil it in war. Tie gum of tul* 18 that no one wan wishes! lor war. no class uf men wish for war, and the publie opimion o: Europe would gladly see the way to pec fication, disarmament.and and @ returu to # peucelul policy. Why, then, ie this nut td be? Why se it even doubtful? The danger consists ia the uni | versul preparation. Tne Continent is one Vast mayagin: which an incendiary may fre. og insizniticaut State, one man i pppening to be in power, muy pus) the firet cause that | selpihg wars in motion. They who would. wait may find themselves not allowed to Wait they who wish to frighten may have’ to fulfil their threats. They who are looking about for partners may have fo epter the} dance without them. jVheo apything ws)

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the Govesnuageut bad made was quite sufficient. | as their cases differed trom ordinary couuu- tativig of eeutenge. |

lu reply to a question, Mr. Monsell sayd yego- liutions tor the settlement between the Hudson's

lies foreugh the territories of the Company, lo connect the Atlantic with the Pacific coust unui a complete adjustment was reached,

lo reply to the request of Mr. Timene for in | formation, Me Otway stated that the Govern. | ment had reeeived no authentic advices of the | rejection of the Alabama Couvention by the | Uuited States, vor bad it any litormaiion w haste | ever, In teg ad to the watural zation protocel,

Tie Bank of Eugiand decrease is £200,090, | gerd. g.

London, Feb 26.

The War Office has received official despatch es trom New Zealand anuouneing turther euc ceases over the rebela. The Troops have car. ged by uasaul: the Maori stroughoid, Hay atepah, Phe vatives made a desperate defence aud lust 200 in killed and weuuded, while the Lritish loes

Was wuly 22, Madrid, Feb 25

The vote in the Cortes, thanking tae retiring Provisional Government and authorizing Marshal Serrane te torn: a hew ministry sluod os follows: For lov 5 against 62. :

In the Constituent Cortes, the proceedings en the occasion of the passage of a vote of thanks lo the Provisional Ministry were very luteresting.

The Ministers explained their action towards religions orders and the chyreh

lt wae slated that the Jesuit College of St, Vincent was suppressed because its members were engaged in # conspiracy against the Gov- erument, aud three of them were accomplices in the assaggination of Governor Burgos.

The ordere directing the civil authorities to take charge of certain articles of chayel property | were als explaiced aud justified on the ground | that the proceedings of the clerical party ge- manded the interierence of the Guveruiment to preserve the objects of art in the churches.

When the result of the decision wae announced |

Gen. Serrave rose tu speak and was greeted wiib “prolonged cheers Tle made a tewperate and | | tranquilizing speech, advising the minority to

pureue a policy of coyciliation, in view of firmly rovied and tuexeravle principles heid by the ma- jonty of the Cortes. Astor bimeelf he promised views loyalt, vatrctiom acd abnega ion Madrid, Feb. 23.

In the Spanish Coratituent Cortes yesterday, | Serrane, Prime Minister, officially announced ihe | resignation of the Provisional Government. Gen. Prioa, Minister of war, ov an addtess, assured the Heuse that the late Dynasty woyld never re- | asceud the throne. Admiral Topete, Minister of |

recent reberlion.—Subsequently the House pass | edaveteot thanks to toe retiring Provisional | Government, although the republican & embers opposed Ho wWilb unauinily, the House also by a | large vole lntigejed Marshal Serrano with tull eacculive powers log the tine being, and granted bin with the authority becessary tor the for- wation of a new Ministry. Gen Caballero Deroda is ty succeed General Dulce as Gai cdigs Getiergl o! Cua. ¢ ROM CANADA. Torente, Feb 23, }

Reporte from various points between Windsor |

(and Quebec indicate that the “Leg sieat shew | storm of the season Was experienced last night The Western trains are very uygh delayed.

The ivains betweev Torvute aud Montreal are entirely blocked uy.

M.R Brown & Co's Bank closed ite doors | this merning In cuusequence of beary jysses in| New York. }

Ottawa, Feb, 23. |

U. 38. and }vglaud. = Montreal, Feb. 24th. Negotiations ape in progress for getting the St.

Mr. Fortesque replied that what investigation | “gs

| house, We have been tod that ue ef our King’s | | County members fw off al y Langent into: open | secure which he trudged to town at the open- is and should be no semblance, even of con;

for securing the independence of Parliament Bellingham woved an amendment that no persen shall be eligible as a representative alter adjourn- ment of the present Parliament, whe receives an annual salary from the Imperial, Dominion er Local Govermment, save the members ef the Ministry of the latter; and no Seuator be eligible tu sit in egther Assembly or Council. I lies Go- vepomeyt regarded the motion aa a Want of con- fidence, and opposed it. After a discussion which lasted till ufter midnight, the amendment was repeeted

could not aqmething be done without any ince | sistency of sacrifice ot principle on the part © any party? J shall take what may be a sery low etgnd, and offer the following ae gestion : : : St. Dunstan s Collego hase been 19 operation new for some fifteen yeare or oo, and, as far as J am aware, it bas never cost the Colony one eent. The number of Students is yearly ou the increase, and there inust be some reason, ty say the least of it, that induces many highly respectable Protest ant gentlemen to send their song there lo receive |

Ten feet six inches ef suow have fallen thus

fat ;

Llogr Market alanoat at a stand still, in con- se Qeyuce vt ryow ptorus. Sales wf ordinary supertine at $450 aud choice at BLO? | ¥ lo $4.

es Moatreal, Feb. 25 No mails have reached @ tawa for five days. Yesterday wae the day appointed tor the as

sembly of the Railway Connmmtesinere for the

purpose of having the contracts entered on with successful competitors. “The however, wade it impossible fer either Commissioners or

Contractors, who are on beard of trains, to reach

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‘Phe repost ia credited in political cireles that | the coutractora will retuse to sign their contracts |

as proposed by the Railway Commissioners Yhere is no doubt the Contractors are gom- pletely at the merey ot the Commissioners, as there are several things bot mentioned in the plans that they may require to have done, and Contractors would be compelled to do them, It is believed the Worthingtons of Quebec,

| will get the contract for No 1 section, in place

of Messrs. Hersey, who have refused tu under- take it

The report im Ministerial quarters is that Sir Jobu Ao cannot settie on the meeting of Parlhia-

‘iment until Cartier returns, Nobody seems really

to know when he will leave England Auother root fell in last might. hurt.

Nobody was

Montreal, Feb 24.

Trayel on the railroads Kast and West is still very muck obstsucted on account of snew on the track

No trains hage arrived or left to-day. The i gtorm ceased tast night, but another w imminent,

The storm was very sewere at Pembroke and ‘in the lumbering regions on the Ottawa river and lite tributaries. Jt je thoagtt that the lumber ‘operations jus the winter will be completely

Montreal, Feb 27,

It bas heen snowing for the last forty-eight hours, and the streets are all blocked up.

Dreadful storin thie afternoon Lae prevented | the arrival of traing.

The New York train ran off the track near Rutland, Vermont, this morning. The sleeping | car rolled down an embankment eighteen feet to lte the river. General Averill and Lieutenants Fiz George and Mclaren were among the iu. jured. ; | A destructive fire yecurred in Ottawa this }morning. About $100,000 worth of property | destrey ed. | Jog, Hickson, Secretary of the Grand Trunk | Trunk Rajiway. left for England lest night. | At w meeting last might for the purpose of making arrangements for a suitable public enter- | tarnmguent ty the Senators and the members of

| the Commons on the meeting of the Parliament, | ambiguous as such speeches very frequently | | |

'a Committees of tweive leading citizens, lucludiug

| the Mayor, was appointed.

| FROM THE STATES

} New Yor, Peb 24.

| ‘The failure of reconstruction tor Georgia, Mis- | siBsi ppt and Teaas aud #f the Jax Bill and the postpovement of the House Tenure Office Act

| Hill will compel the next Congress to remain in | session longer than was expepted—probably sixty

) days trem the fourth of Marep.

| Phe Female Laver ques ion was discussed in Congress yesterday, and it was decided to ia- crease the suiarics of the lemale clerks to $1,200 per anuum

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Money eary New York, Feb 24. Despatches of yesterday from Cuba state that & decree is to be issued imposing ab export duly from the first of Marcu neat of 5U cents per box and $1.20 per bogshead on sugar, $1 per bale on tv- vacce and 50 ceuts per thoysanod of cigars sud on additive of five per gent ou wll internal taxes, the proceeds ul which are ty be paid weebly tu the (Spanish Lanke to secure an advauce of cight { imudiwnu duilare Ww Lue Government. New York, Feb. 27. | Cuban advices represent that the trouble be- tween the volouteers and General Dulee stili con | tinues, aud that in Consequence ol the mulieus spirit of the troops the geverument has deleruin- ) ed to inaugurate a harsher pelicy. A reported battle in the Cienluegos district was

| Wen by the Spanish troops.

D.S Reyoolds, Superitendent of the Buffalo, N Y Police Capt Heury Dickson,and two detectives

the Pohee Commissiouers et with cruminally and uulawtully hidnappig two

wen on the night of January lot, and vi carrying | Administrator of the Government has referred, |

them to Canada tur a reward.

CORRESPON

ed To THe Evrron oF THE EXAMINER. Siuau,— Ere tuis comes to hand,the collective wisdom

DENCE.

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Bay Co., and the Dowiion of Canada were still | of oug tight litle Isiaad will have met iv the | enoush overlooked. si pending, wud it was undesirable to make any { metropolis, ang their work for the Session/ Elder Liird and his brother rule the Ex.|** parent, he shall have forfeited all a pa- slatemept ag to the prospect of bulging telegraph | pointed oyt to them in the Speech from the |

Throne. The Solous of our day will find

\their hands full: for the further and more | ; raydiy we advance in the opening yp andjthat gentleman credit for greater capacity. |develdping the resources of the country, the | We thought that when he became leader of the |™2" should be father to his own childree ; he ;}moere rapidly must the wheels of the state ensine be kept im motion by those who * run |

the machine.’? We have this consolation, however, that, judging from the metal ot which the machine is composed, thera is not the slightest danger that, Phaeton like, they will run the risk of settiug the world in a blaze.

No doubt, the attention of our legislators yil! be called to the neglected state of our Roads and Bridges, our Harbors, Wharves, Telegraphs, and regular Steam communica tion in our end of the Island, &c., &., &e., while the subject of Education will, as # matter of course, receiv: g ecial apienfioy, [f ig also to be hoped thet, in their wisdom, they wiil not lose sizkt of the Railroad from George- town to Summerside, and the winter boat tu ply between our capital and Port Mulgrave, or soms other pa ut on the opposite const. These are matters that demand the serious consideration of our Lezislature There are some of them that should not be put off from year to year. We hear ang read a great deal about the improvements that might be made, and are about to be made, in our road sys tem; and while these splendid systems are beany paraded before the public, our roads are, in feality, allowed to go from bad to worse. jt js only those who are obliged to haut their produce to the nearest shipping piace in the fall, with the mud axle deep, that can form an adequate idea of the wretched state of our roads Believe me, Sir, that something more substantial than long-winded theories laid down on paper must be adopted before we have any decided improvements in

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a literary and moral training. St Punetan’s | College hae, at least, done the work of a pery | eflicient Gran mar School for the lgst fifteen) years, Let it be remembered that T am ouly | taking, for the moment, a view of things to suit my illustration, L leave out of the question, for | the present, the fact that, besides the Head Pre- fessor, there have been always employed & twat efficient staff of three or four assistant teachers iu the College. Let us leave out of the question, | for a moment, Whether St. Dunstan's Codege be) Catholic or nen-Cathelic. Let us look upon it as} an educational establishment that has well ana | faithfully done its duly towards the Protestant | and Catholic youth of the Colony for many | years, and viewing it in this light, let ws admit, in the spirit of fairplay and even handed justice, that it bas a just claim on the country, certainly high time that something should be done in this matter, Surely the jaget contemptple | bigot on the floor of the House could not deny it)

the encouragement and support which we give! should form the basis of the education of a/| | A . . i resei.* j 'Chrigtian community, acd that ali denomina. | Prev'ous to the presei’ century, any institu.

common djatrict school With the allowauge of a were district echool, ard reckoning the arrears | for the last fifteeu years, the matter would stand | thue: £6515. = £979. which would be sume- Or it they allowed at the!

| thing to begin with. rate of an ordinary Grammar Se | £1004 15, = £ lov. : | L merely throw out these hints to let the public lees that whatever view we take of the College- | grant question, St. Dyretan’s College is entitled lio a share of Government support, as long ge such | » large proportion of our revenue ie expended an

puble education. [f the Government wish be give the bigets of the colony an idea of the poe tion in which they place Catholics, let them withe draw all Government support frow the Princes of | Wales College for the next filteon years. and long ‘before the expiration of that term, they will | realize a better and more correet idea of the syecies of justice tow long dealt out to thei) Catholic ueigbouure.

Yours, &c ' SIMPLEX. King’s County, March 2d, 1869.

Che Examiner.

Charlottetown. March 8, 1869.

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LEGISLATIVE, &c. The Legislature has been called together by

appears to be envy, malice, and deceit, and who delights in sowing dieseusions amongst neighbors. This week we haye not ppase et our disposal to review the dishonest articls in the Patriot. If we have nothing else to employ our time ut, we may, next week, expose some of the fallagies and ** tricks "’ of our contem- porary's style of argument.

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GOPLESS SCHOOL.

Eyer and anon arises from the Pudriol a cry

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of distress, a wail, a shriek as it were, of des-

ism; fur it seems that Episcopalians and other Protestants, as well as Roman Catholics, are anxious to secure for their children something better than the godless rydbish styled infidel education provided by dame State, It must be admitted that the fears of Mr. Laird ave well grounded, and that the movement in faver

k,piscopalians, Wesleyans and many Presby-

terians, think with Catholics that relizjon |

tiona should be placed on a perfect equality. No valid reason cap be urged why their de-

| pair over the impending doom of State-school- |

It is} of Freedom of Education is fast spreading: |

a tyrant democracy ; and they should epg, make i: Aheir ambition to approve themselves worthy of sbeir high calling. Many are the fecs phom they are called on to combat ; buy wt the present day democracy, with ity de. grading and soul destroying disregard of individual rights, when opposed to the wil] of brute majorities, is the enemy agairgt whom, above ali others, the soldier of freedom should be most on jig guard, and should ever show himgeif mot vigilant, vellaut and uaeompry. mising.

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THE EDUCATION QUESTION,

Two weeks ago we gave a sketch of the aystew Of Education prevaghng in Knglacd; we will now say something about the 8ysfeny jy Ireland. There remains not s wreck of the educational institutions which existed iw the Enerald Isle previous to the Reformation, |g would be easy to shew that they were similar