of coffee We ment

MISCELLANEOUS. ——_—-*

Lore or Two Vesseas wera Aut Uanps.— Un Saturday intelligence was received of | two Origantines having been seen to founder | ia the Boylish Channel with all hands durtng | the recent feartal weather. The ship Mage | wrenne, Captaia Stanbury, bound to Vera) t'rus, which put inte Falmouth om the 6th, reperts that on the afterncon ol the previous Hay. when some 20 miles east of Usbant, an heghsl brigantine was observed in distress, with ensign down (reversed). Soon after- wards a tremendous «ea struck her, and she was not again seen, She toundered with all jands, for no wit cowld be rendéred them. Nobsing cowkd ix gleaned of the name of the

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A bedy of rebel infantry was posted between that thren as an indiserimmate bedy of men through. point avd Orange Court House, and the whole out the entire Colony? Why were such articles rebel foree moved off in the direction of the latter peuned as those whieh were signalized by the place jsery significant Readings of “ Our second great Loenst Grove is four milessouth of Germania Pretestant triemph,” &c., from some of Wineh I Pord in Orange Connty, and within a shertdis- an at any moment readily quote as ainple eontir- tance ef the wiklermess where Hooker fought his (ation of what [now assert! ‘Ta talk and write batt he af the * se-called "© misnamed © Liberal party Mill Run is two miles frour Locust Grove, and here.” may in itself be admissable enough to any trom bene to Mowutain river, where the rebel 0h who really regard them as such; but to talk General Early, with Pwell’s old evrps, is said to 2d write ot the * so-ealled misnamed Liberal | be im force, is about six miles. Orange Court party hore attempting to thrust popish dogmas on | House 1s ten or twelve miles further en ina seuth-. tae whole community,” or of Liberal Protestants

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ison or achievements, still T adopt it as one whieh

ee a _ project, | shall only further say, that in now pro- ceeding to enter seriously upon it, L shall simply write What I aetually belive te be the (ith — as the truth, wor give wysell the sightest concern as to who reads or Who reads not. 1 have selected | my motto from HLorace; aud although Limay rot prove a practical illustration of it in my own per |

We have no doubt that the venerable will. as far as be can, make himself useful to his employers, and worthy of his hire; but be should

oo ee ema

editor

; : ery He :s unwarranted in saying that we. are alte-

gether ignorant” of the results of the Dolegation ;

every right-thinking mind should strive, at least in some Commensurate degree, to exciuplily. * The man that resolute and just, Firm to his principles and trust, Nor hopes vor fears can bind :

te ws in the reticence of the Government party on | the subject.

not do this at the expense of teuth and fair play.

; ” neither is there anythmg “ extremely annoying

On the contrary, we have reason to

rejoice that the Government are as dumb as mutes

on the following instrnetions for s ‘hare founded upou rites and printi- some of my predecessors in par iz in former years: [t is “tengo jouw of lis place by any

to convey try i wuidance, whit ples lnid dows by ' ticular epee creerrs ar i istent with the rese paid ottieer ttrder the Geoveriment of a colony to be ‘the editor of n newspaper. vr to take why ge | part in the pmnayement of it. While Tam gla

fusing information, 1 cannot time that it is ampos t take any part in conduetimg a newapt ae political subjects and the measures of the boenl Go- ‘yvermment are discussed, without being placed in

soxitiow towards those under whom be serves quite

wapaper Fa whieh

ryvowr THE EXPRCTED CONFIG

sible for a publie seryunt to |

lischarwe of hix duties. ’

west direction. Wasiuxeroyx, Nov 29. The army of the Potomac advanced at 6 0’ eloc a.m. of the 27th, from Culpepper and Jacoh's fords, aud formed a line of battle, the centre rest- we on Fredericksburg turapike, near Robortson’s

k 'statemeuts, which, it they can neither be estab. |

ifi-fated Tesset. he other unlortumate ship tavern; the left advancing along the plank read, went down some 30 oF 40 miles to the east | toraing a curve towards Gordonsvijle, and the ward of the Sperm. Captain Madgraft, of: right terminating near the Rapide.o, southwest of the Mary of Ipswich, which had arrived at Jacob's ford. As the centre a? vanced it came on that pert, reported that the vessel had lost the enemy's pickets aud a s\irimish line. Subse- her a hyhoom, and had her mainsail blown in- quently the enemy's live was strengtheaed by! torbbons. Three men were at the pumps, arrival of reiatercemenis trom Hwell’s corps, on und ber ensign was in the riggiag. She had | the Rapidan trout, a parrow white streak on her sides, with Abont Le’clock a stow and irregular eannon- height varnished mastheads. ‘Ihe weather | (Nuk commenced on me ayers, nection townrd 7 ’ aay bs onse, and cousiderable firing Ye- was most fearfal at the tune, aad amidst an | bendem thie ahishildhers. The enciay did nut reply overwhelming sea the veasel disappeared. | wien aAtiat ‘Ato Sokdk Wes sancneed lake the former antortanate ship, nothing | taut Hill's corps, which had previously rested on could be ascertatned «! her namé except that! the Rapidan, west of the railroad, was approuch- sue Was British — Liverpool Mereury, | ing ou che centre, and hall av hour later heavy 7 jmusketiry was heard on the right, showing that Confederate Currency has eo depreciat- ioe Srd corps, forming that wing, was engaging hat the Richmond people say, *hf you go | Pit chetmy. : : = We market you nape ae cota ‘ Upto 7 o'clock on Friday evening our casual-

_ ' ; . ak. Conall id _ lies were few oo the centre, The ouly oflicer of oe baaket, d carty your beef in the rank at that time known to have been killed was yp eket Book. ‘

the Lieut. Col. of the 72d Pennsylvania.

Grege’s cavalry and batteries had a severe fight with the enemy's right wing cavalry on Thursday alternoon, We drove them back on their infan-

— ee, “Rive oot wito Bares! —In Liverpool , the othee Sumday aight aéa very late hour,

here being com

wed in no meconsiderable degree vf © Semii-intide

nt and tle like, ave point blank |

Nor parties for revenge engaged, Nor threatenings of 4 conrt enraged, Can shake his steady mind”

jlished nov yet were designed for the express pur. | W. KEIR. pose of misrepresentation by these who gave | them birth, must have been designed in the ouly | retaining unpert which they can consistently | possess, for what is yet iufinitely more reprehen- |

Melpeque, Dee. 7th, 1863. ll toe NEW BRUNSWICK AFFAIRS. (From Our Own Correspondent. ) Winter — without any snow —has just set in,

sible—the still vile purpose of black defamation— Which we all know well amounts te ove of those

things whieh in all good suciety is jusly held to and is fikely to remain in until it goes out. Yes, be absolutely unpardonable. No doubt such flagi- i

Winter is here; everything proclaims the fuct. Yesterday wasas mild as you could desire; but lust night and this morning indicate in the most feeding daauuer the begining of a cold aud frosty season. Che departure of a long lingering and beautiful autumn, D sincerely lament, aud am in po degree

tiously libellous tultuinations as these to certain kinds of pious ears may have sounded all very | mee: but had “ Liberal Protestants here’ not been possessed of sufficient g od temper and good common sense te enable them to make themselves very easy as te whether “a great Protestant” or any other sertet © triumph,” when achieved by such absolutely reckless aud dastardly means, can ever prove anything more than very temporary and shert-lived affairs indeed, they uught perhaps have, loog ere this, taken much wore summary and concerted measures to have brought their heartless and wholesale detamers to something | tike a comparatively seasonable exercise of their more normal and christian senses. Of course, had Protestant Liberals been so irritable and childish as to have “ turned the tables,” and for one moment have forgotten that respect which they seem to know at least they shouid ever pose | sess for themselves by having allowed themselves to mistepresent Protestant Conservatives, or as

cessor, though--as becomes all right miaded persons, of whom your correspondent Claiuts to be one—I have resolved to submit to its presence

will aduuit,

‘To you, my icebound readers, it is unnecessary to offer any suggestions witha view of persuading you te be onee more reconciled to your lot,

coutrary Tavew it. Bat you should ever bear in wind that submissieu—voluntary submuussion—to

Virtue that will most qssurediy recerve is reward, Keep that tratk, then, canstantly before your winds, J need ne adienitian on that pent, but I

incompatible with the proper ¢

} P . iy » Dele their dumbuess | apqut the Litegetuny beeuts x [ do not object to public servat

| proves the trath of our “ propheey,” and shows i thut they have suffered a lawentable failure in their Delegation scheme. Lt they had met with ‘a shadow of success, in any way in which the

its publishing art eles auiuex upon subjects of yveneral hey abefaim from any further what is implied

| signed with their u ‘interest, provided t | connection with the newspaper than ; by coutributing such articles, and especk

lly Trom is net now a question of mere domi writing on questions whieh ean proper) be ealled cular svttlements, but a coufict

'tenautry might be cajoled for a longer space of

time, there would be a * flourish of trumpets, indeed, tin ones we suspect, aud cracked at that,” | asthe editorofthe Islander says inanotber editorial. 1 |

“ prophecies" being “ failures,” if eur common

} id which we huve written aud spoken are “ failures,’ | Whe will ¥

ing great expense on this country,? | Deleg | deception ’

‘to the

the vecurrence of events beyond our control, is a) defence—what is it but a contemptible burlesque Will the

land failure iu every point of view!

| editor of the Islander imtorm us in what parti

We can afford to smile at the sneer about our

Seuse observations on public questions can be iguitied wiih the name of prophecy. Nearly all Whatever in love with its grim and grizzly suc- | the measures of the present Government against euture to say that the * Land Com- with as much fortitude as the * nature of the case” | mission’ was anythiag but a huge failure, entail- What is the ution but avother failure, and a piece of What is the Volunteer Movement, which, I do not deny, 1s a hard one; au the | shishwie wat thd widehd tideiblen andameds

country and such an efficient means oi of alfairs.””

political, or discussing the measures of t e Govern- ment, or the official proceedings of its officers. | should also cousider it iuproper for a public servauit ‘to continue to furpish any articles whatever to a newspaper Which, in commenting on the meusores of the Governweut should habimally exceed the bounds of fair and temperate diseussion. Lu such a case I should expect all publie servan & te abstain from coutributing any articles whatever to ie co- lumns, [consider the rule that all articles what- lever written by public servants should be signed by them, the best security against abuse of the privi- ‘leve. Tt must. therefare, be distinetly understood that if the authorship of anonymous articles should | be brought howe te one of them, or if, in articles | bearing their siguature, they should discuss any po- litical subject, or the measures of the Government, lor the official proceedings of its officers, I should consider it my duty io direct the removal of the per- aon so offending: since, if the writing of such ar- ticles were permitted, it would very elearly destroy that harmony and inntual confidence among those who are employed by the local Government, which ‘ure absolutely required for the dwe administration

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Ix noticing the late Complimentary Supper to eorge Bagnall, Esq., the Islander makes the fol--

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T BETWrE DENMARK AND GERMANE™ aan Kt is stated that diplomatic efforts are hei

made to prevent a conflict between Denmark ; | Germany, and that * The Cabinet of St. Pete burgh, by an amicable intervention, seeks te “4 _ veut a struggle which might involve all Europe SWEDEN, The Government applied to the Diet for an e« | ffaordifiary efeda of 3.000,000 thalers for wilitary armaments. Great distrast of King Christian } and excitement against Prince Frederick, prevail,

THE WAR IN NEW ZEALAND.

| ‘There is ne escape fran the it i

| New Zealand; for the Sanches cesar tot _ ‘ready ax our settlers to fight far supremacy, 2

wion In pa jtions. We were undoubiedly the —— the first instanee, but the rejection of all our eo. cessions bas disclosed the exact state of fee} towards the British colonists. The resue | been long postponed, partially by a belief on | part of the settlers that it was the duty of the _ mother country te do all that was DeCesary in | the way of custly hostilities, and partly by a dig guited avoidance of a duty which we dared jug to deny as proper to our colomal poliry. At laxg natives and settlers stand face to tace with a cleag understanding that they have to adjust the question of supremacy by toice. There is ng flinching on the part of the settlers, Bo hesitation, but a thoroughly English Cetermination to conqueg ix uppermost. Jt is only when English that there is no loo; hole by whieh huwani assert iis clus, that we ever indulge the of extermination which the native inte easily invents. It is not to be concealed there is a strovg determi: a‘ion on the part of the | courageous rave to drive us from their er land that we siall be driven to erwcl extremi for their subjugaiion. We have ourselves to for the state of tlhimgs, because we have so the natives and done so much © to elevate the

tue townsfolk were startled by hearing the church bell tolhag veolently. Tbe mystery was soon explamed to thuse who ventured ia

end found « young man who had falien asleep |

siwring event service, had been locked in vnnotreed by the sexton, had come to himself jn the dark. and run te the bell to ring him- e4f ont? Ringing to get in is common + nongh, Sat a sleoper so sound is not so com- mown, cren in our eity churehes.—Halifaa

Cis. =o

An Enelith mercount may manufacture eannon. aed all other manttious of war for a

try lines, when we were conipetled to fall back. Ilis loss is said to be about 250 in killed and wounded. The Sth corps coming up to the euemy iu turn Were compelled to retreat,

About GO were wounded in the 2nd corps, 5 killed aud 7 mortally wounded.

On the right, Gen. Freuch, with the 3d corps, when advancing, encountered Ewell’s corps be- fore he connected with the centre, and after a severe fight he held his position, but lost heavily He, however, captured 900 rebels. “The 6th | corps was then thrown forward and filled the gap between the centre and the right.

A train of the Sth corps, advaneing on the plank

read, was attacked on the flank by rebel cavalry, hollgerent, because there whe law to prevent who destroyed 15 or 20 waggoua, killed two men An Baglish stiphathder way not equip & and several mules.

vessel of werot a transport ior a belligerent,| On Friday morning it was tound that the rebels because there happens to be au Kaglish Act had fallen back from our centre tu 2 miles near of Parliament which expressly protibits his Orange Court.

su duag. The Engligs Government do not CoLtumnus, Ohio, Nov. 13, 1363. jotertere with the firygt class of transactions, lhecause they have no authority to do 80 ; | brother Dick from the top cell to the lower tier, they stop the seeund. because it 19 their busi- The floor of the lower eell is two and a halt yess to enforee the law.—** Jiisturicus,”’ in the New York Herald.

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bed, leading down into a two and a half foot / sewer, running te the main wall around the Peni-

Jolin Morgan, on escaping, changed with his |

rerhaps Wwe should more correetly sivle them, | “Prince Edward Island Tories,” in the same disgracetil wauner it would never suit at all iow marvellously inclined, however, are that particular class of people the world over “ whe | live in glass houses’ te be the first te “throw | stones.” J, for one, feel gratetul to find that | | Liberal Protestants, whatever they may be iu) jether respects, have usually proved themselves | “a sort ot Christians” who have far too much | real sense aud respect for their own character | ever to demean themselves so much as even to istoop so low as te Ming back again such vile | ‘missiles as unworthy of the origia trem where | they so habitually spring. Such modes of politi- | cal wartare as these, and such missiles as these, | may still, perhaps, be retained as the favorite re- | sorts and tactics of certain parties aud mdividuals | | who have been wout to employ them hitherto ‘| but if so, they may at the same time rest well | jassured of this oue thing, well understoad by every Liberal Protestant ii the Island, that such a course of procedure on the part of any conse- i elation of men in the werld, uo watter if their |

inches thick, in which a hole was cut, under the CHlse itself were good, must very shertly and | your homes, and your tamilies—to lead Virtuous

| justly be found to recoil on their own heads, and, | without inflicting the slightest injury on their op-

depend upon it, Lam laying down a sate doctrine, aud TE should like Go sce it practised by Christiaue |

cular iy

, : | towing ill-natured remark :— have your happiness deeply at heart. You may) justance the Government have beeu successtu | /beyond getting the reins of Government under false pretences, when the ‘* No Popery” how! | Alexander Bannerman. | jwect with it the name of Lad lall accounts she was more © | ”

j the other?

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We are informed that an attempt to enforce Lady Bunnerman’s name should be dragged int

as well as Orangemen, : : , : Recollect, we are all placed here in this wilder-| was raised by Bigots, Hypocrites, aud Cleats ! hess of a world—upon this ever changing theatre | o-y-onengipliliitbins of life, with lmpertant duties to pertorm, with re- | TENANT OUTBREAK. verses to sustain, with many promises to make, | soine te forget and others ta violate, Therefore, my good readers, although your sublanary fate is | such as enlists my warmest synapathies and de- | serves my condolence, yet, taking all the cireuin- | stances consideration, [have deliberately game to the |

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We cannot, for the tife of us, understand why

native character,” 80 as to prevent any siirprise

“some of the toasts are highly amusing—we | that our civilizaven has only produced the revere allude particularly to that in laudation of Sir of eur intentions. A quick and intelligent * people Why did they not con-) are quite as ready to learn the principles of tortie

y Bannerman, for by ‘fication and construction of rifle pite as the f the Governor than | elements of arithmete and the rudiments of the

| Christian religion. It is ouly too likely that the | arts which we have communicated to the e inind will now be forgotten in favour of the aetivg

’ operations of the field.

j ett a . - ae" the payment of old arrears of rent ou the Melville | this affair, We never heard that ber Ladyship | The Waikato Maories are the prime mover jg Estate, Lot 29 (near Crapaud), tas been met | inhovented herself in the polities of the Island. of our respective cauditions inte) with armed resistance, aud that something in the | We knew, indeed, that she was always extremely | (

the war, tor we can seareely eall it they live not more than forty miles from Auekland, dn the banksof the Waikato they have

form of a Tenaut League has been organized there, | kind and affable to ladies and geatlemen of the ed “a pertcvet network of rifle pits,” whieh,

p aloot the Bailifs of the Agent. It used Tory party, and laboured assideously to make | probably, wili be easily taken by us; but it may happen that we may be repulsed, and suffer

considerable loss of men. The captare of

rifle pits will not bring ae victory, becaue the

natives are sure te escape, and to repeat the

sane experiment elsewhere. tf seems to be a

part of the policy of the natives to build .

|‘ phas;” they secum te expeet that are

attacked, and thete capture docs ng °

| operate on the native mand as a loss. The

is not te be done by sukliers alene, ter i

ef New Zealand has proved that we may lock for

conclusion that through good fortune and ill! ; fortune we are each entitled to “ share and share to kee , : alike.” “Phis tact cannot be too stedfastly urged | to be slanderously said that no class of people in | Goverment House as agreeably as possible te them |

ee . serions oe ver remember itt. [stand resisted the paywent of rent but Irish | while she dispensed its hespitalities. We had , ¥ . . . . ur j . - Z } mat im duing om Det 009. Oe SnmEaree te oer | In this case, the “rebels” are not | hoped that she had lett no other feeling behind

thoughts. To you, then, whe are a community of Catholics. : yourselves-——whose sifdation estranges yeu from Catholics or Irish, but good Protestants and her than an enduring remembrance of her re- We are markable good nature, and lady-like demeanour

the rest of mankind from the present Gime autil) roug supporters of the Government,

vext spring, the best advice which I can bestow | : aes : i : :

ia to entreat you to tnke good cate of yourselves, | wut at all surprised at their acting in the manner on all occasions. We are serprised at the ingra- ‘ described to us, for they, at least—having served | titude, to say the least, of the Islander—being as the Govertineyt at the elections—had reason to it is the organ of the party so highly faroured by

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and pious lives, aud ol! my dear readers and tellow creatures,

THE WAR IN TILE STATES. soe (From the New York Heraul.) TUE SITUATION.

he news from the army of the Potomac shows thas it hae completely severed its eun- neetion with Washington and is now advanc- ing, with anew basis of supplies to rest upon. Ne news of @ serivus battie has reached us. ‘Tue cannonading beard im the front was pro- bubly nothing more than outpost skiruush- ing. Lb wad reported in Wasiington that on Friday morning ovr cavairy pushed turward as far as Loeust Grove, four miles south of

‘tentiary. This wall was cut under, aud the party

escaped into the open country. jdark, with heavy ,raiu. | made by the authorities for his recapture. | 7.

| A Feareut Picrvne.— The

i brought, most of them, te die, are furnished to the New York Times by a party who has been a visitor of the hespitals in and around Baltimore fora year or more, and who has witnessed the tnost intense suffering among aur sick and wounded seldiers, enabling him to estimate the amonut beth

The vight was All efforts are being

following obser- vations made on a recent visit to the hospital ut Aunapolis, Mal, where the faimished prisoners whe arrived from Richmoud on the 20th ultinw, were

of mental aud physical pain which men are capable | of enduring. The writer's deseription is terrible: |

“Lhe mea landed (at Annapolis,) at A. Mo, in the chilly dawa, and it seewed a fitting time | fer so mourulul a precession, They numbered | Ist brought from Belle Usland, near Richmond. | Many were anable to walk, and were carried to

Cierman Ford, where they met the advance vl the rebel cavalry, aod the latter were driven across Russell creek, and afterwards ucruse Mill ran, two miles from the grove. A body of rebel infantry was posted between twee pons and Orange Court House, and the ithe hospital, These who could walk must have whuie rebel ture moved if in the €-revtion | presented a sight never to be forgotten; for, be- of the latter place, whieh is nearly twelve pore jeaving, the rebels not only stripped thei of | miles to tue southward. jsocks, shoes and blankets, but took from thew Phe report of Quartermaster General Meigs their shirts and pantaloons, except where the | of the late grand battle near Chattanooga | rags could scarce hold together. Men came with- shows that it was & surprise sprang upon the ut bats or caps, wih thin evtten drawers, enemy, ur troops moving upon Missionary jand bodies bared to the waist—their nakeduess and Kidge in such perfect order that the rebels | bleeding feet covered only by what tatters their had ee suspicrun of ap attack. but regarded cruel captors Lad left them, oot from merey, but | oa : d . adie all because they were too filthy to keep. —These men | the movemegts aS a Crees parade Of OF) iad ween on Helle Laland (which seems to be a troops. Tne detaris of bhe fight are mv8t | parren waste) without avy protection from the | sutssiactoriy given by General Meigs, who | weather, exept what they had themselves con- declares that su well direeted and ev weil | gcructet. They had tain on the sand which was ordered @ battle Las nut taken place durimg jte them beti bed aud covering, expesed, both | the war. isick wad well, to all extremes of heat aud cold, | Ver last reports from General Barnside | without clothes, without food, (except small are tu the 25th. Me thea still heid Knox- | portions of the most repulsive Kinds,) lor weeks | ville, and was in & position to do so tor ten peat eee oe ry it nee Ganon al , " ' jor belote the bale of Gretiysuurg. Many were | days w come. The victory at ene | suifering from: what are ated saud sures, cad the bas oo dowht releved bi ere this frow much lsurgeous in vain attempted te produce general sulicitude as to the security of his position. | vipcuiation at bleed, the cuticle in many instances Ky the arrival of the mail sceamsnip ‘seemingly dried on the bone from exposure, and | George Woashingten (row New Orleans, with nearly the color and consistency of parchment. | dates to the 2lst, we have some interesting If food was denied chem, it would secu as it the | news relative to the movements of Gonos Banks | veriest barbasian would bave given them sueclter and Dana, who omrched upon that place lt die beweath. j overland from Brownsville. Arkansas city) Un eutering the firat roam, some sick men, was attacked, and taken after a very brief | otis mM oon gp -~ ary, vrai narod to. : jshow us, that with us was entering the unseen, renetanee. Une headred yettonsey and these | but not wnexpeeted visitor—death. “i-fure us Ja) guns were taken = =‘The British brig Dashing | cre eee as ge ee et Wave wae exptuted by the gunboat New a eee ee Hag fast, a rere London off the Kiv Grande, with & cargo | stronger relief a frame Which must once

skeleton, Whose dying throes seemed to oe in ve be-

cvasisting of seventy thousand dollars in gold longed to a strong aud vigorous life. We tured | and a large quantity of elothing aud wedi- away in eur herrer, ouly to look upon another who | cies intended for the rebels. | weuld soon follow his martyred comrade. Near) Toe despatebes frow General Fraoklin, in | tiem stood two male wurses, who, alter wither sing |

) Blom.

) gels inte an unseemly rage ata brother minister

ponents, only tend, sooner or later, te bring both | During the last week there has been on exhibi- lified disrepute. This is a premise, I repeat, | the most renowned places, works of art and | which every Liberal Protestant in Prince Edward | curiosities of Europe. This “ Costmepholoscope” | Island is not quite so dull as not to be both the-|—as it is designated, has attracted immense roughly and efficiently aware of, Spartan-like, | gatherings of persons to the Hall of the [natitute, they may keep aluost meaodishiy silent in the | paenjes an imaginary continental tour. Se vividly meantime. Bat their silence is only that natural | Were souwe of the scenes pourtrayed, and so and coumendable sort of taciturnity which is} correctly did they represent the originale, that usually produced on all seusible men, who knew | they were at once recognized by uiny persons that the ultimate gronud en which they stand is | present, whe, through the lapse of years, lad al- net only in itself good, but that also their own, most forgotten that such places stillexisted. His cause, aided thus in reality as much by the im-) Pxeellency the Lt. Governor attended the open- prudence of their adversaries as anything else, | ing iecture of the Mechauics Institute, and indulged will eventually, however gradually, suredly in due season ag [, for one, can candidly say, that L entertain in inmany respects yery distiictive political sentunents from those which seem to be iidieatud by our | jy any epitome of the leading events connected with present Conservative Government of this Pro-! the [ustitute Siuge Us urguligalion same twenty- vinee, and think that under the protection of the | gyre years ago. His Worship jx nat the most

those who avail themselves of them. ‘The lecture

British flag L have a perteet right to do se, with-| felicitous in his capacity of a lectgrer, though he |

out either iny religious or secular circumstances | managed to get along on Lis occasion pretty well, being misrepresented by any honorable-minded | His lecture evinced cousiderable research, as he tellow-provingialist, Whatever his own private | informed his audience who was the first President opinions may be notwithstandig. LT oexpeet all) of the Institute, who was the secoud and se on, true-hearted men, the world over, ao mater what | delighting his hearers tor nearly au hour with this their own personal creed or principles may be, to | Lt was net bad for Mr extend the same ehristian charity and deferential courtesy tome which T aot west heartily ready to | accord to them. ‘This is nothing mere than we may tairly demand (rom every human being as- | suming any other name than that of heathen, | even inthe heat of the most keen public diseus- | i If any Protestant Church Cour, tor ex. ample, deem prope to issue a Political Pastoral | to their denominational adherents, | do not teel at | alt disposed te quarrel with them for it; but yet, most undoubtedly, 1 do expect jo be lett at liberty te form my ewn estimate of its at least apparently | “injudicious” jutention and, net very probable, | beneticial results.

mmest captivating subject, Woodward.

tor several days. against the Commissioners of the EB. & N. Railway, to recover dumages tor personal tijuries sustained by reasan of the fatal collision which eecurred some eighteen or tw@ity mouths age, near the Rothsay Station. N. Si eMail was the Plaintiff, and his case was conducted by the able and astute Mr. Thomson, as senior Cougsel. ‘The

hor seven days which were devoted te this un- It auy Protestant clergyman | fortunate and ill-lated case. The Government |

tin assume the ascendant. | rating the advantages that such sucieties offer to

expect that they would be relieved from the pay-

| promised toy thei,

| wuen the payment of back rents was more rigor-

ously enforced than during the few years the pre- sent Government lave been in power, so that in | most Cases the arrears lave been recovered or ef- | fectually secured. It is not unpleasant to lear of (a rebellion arising amongst the slaves of the Tory

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| party—they deserve to have the screws tighten | . .

j upon them by their uugrateful task-masters,

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yet mest as-) in some pertinent remarks— priicipally enume-— they pay their reuts—well and good—no thanks |

But there vever was a time

Lady Bannerman. We cannot suppose that Mi.

themselves and their systew: inte the most unqua-| tien here, a fine Panorama representiug seme of | meut of the back rents, which had been so vlten | Lawson dictated the rude and ungallant remark.

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LATEST NEWS FROM EUROPE.

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL.

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Tue Steamer Heather Belle arrived from Pictou yesterday forenoon with the Kurepean, American, and Colonial Mai's. We observe no material ichange in the aspect of European affairs, except tae the Congress sougiit to be convoked by the French Emperor meets with no favour from the

a series of hostile efforts as each experiences seine real or fancied grievance. , ouly plan remaining is te people the di distnets with seitlers, who will aedertake to ve- cupy the land we shall ce:tain!y be obliged te eon- fiscate by the laws of war, We are w hope less from the servicers of the regular

than from the new zeal ef the veluuteers

are flocking trom the colonies of Australia and Tasmania. The Mavories do net knew what, it is te meet men who have @ mmtive for fighting, exacdy similar te their own im aggression, The whole war will chaage its eharacter om the: arrival of volunteers, whose character will ber that of wilitary settlers, and who hope te held aa their own that which new grves rise to heetilitiee.

to thein,—if they dou’t pay, well!—let the screws

A very important case has eecup ed the time | and attention of the Cirenit Court in this eity, | vehemently argued by our contemporary that | ‘lias was an. action brought | coercion should, on he account, be used against | the proprictars ja the disposal! af their lands—th | they should not be forced to sell, ar sell on any jot the iusurreetion are on the increase, and that |

itself was delivered by our Mayor, and cousiated | £8 on, and let them get out of their troubles as |

| best they can. —awnigiieaiatiaiam. THE “SPOLIATION” DO

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CTRINE.

| SOME years ago, wher the Liberals passed the

| Rent Roll

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aud ‘Tenant Compensation Bills, or the purpose of inducing the Proprietors to sell their lauds under the Purchase Act, these measures were denounced by the Islauder as ‘undixguised attempts at spoliation;’ and it was

at

other terms but such as were perfectly agreeable

to themselves. Now, it appears that a most

| tuaterial change has come over the spirit of our th Court Room was full of spectators durmg the six contemporary, aud that he is prepared to advo. | Geverun ut of Warsaw is occupied by £12,200 |

cate views somewhat jin adyanee of the spirit

vuther principal European Powers. The struggle of the gallant Poles for freedom is maintained with unabated vigour, and Russia enlarges the measure of her atrocities with the progress of | the insurrection”

| Our latest English papers are to the 29th ult. We make ream tor the following extracts from

| them, te the exclusion of other matter intended |

| for ibis day's No.

THE POLISH INSURRECTION,

The old military policy of the Romans is about tor be revived at the antipodes. Chains of torts, around which wulitary settlers, trained te the use of aru wand not disinclined to an eccasionab bres Witt av enemy, will be construeted in the dival- fected native country. Reads wall be made, which may perhaps wot rival the reads whiebthe Romans. tuade so &awous, but whieh will et feust ewadle us to penetrate the fasta -ssess beiund which the na- tives now reting = "The wac in New Zealand is ine itself a great calamity, tor it challenges the fret principles of eur civiization. and makes sew and hot very agrerable deannds in colonization We may, however, rest assumed that as the contest im”

A proclaination of the Natinal Goverument

,a continuatice of the war aus the only means ot saving the couwtry. Lt also states that the forces |

|the Russiaus have proved themselves unable to | | govern olhermise than by fire avd sword, | Jt is impossible to give a precise statemeut of | emuinbers of Lae Lussiau acmy in Pelaud. The |

jinen; the government of Lublin by 13,500 men ; ithe government of Radom by 8,300; the govern-

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forced upon us, it may be the means which Pie

‘has just becn issued at Warsaw, which ainoULees | vidence intends to ex»ples te wider the basis of

progress in auether hewisphere: — News: of the World, Nov. 22. ieee ae om REWARDS OF FEMALE LABOUR IN NEW YORK. We find, in one of our latest papers, the follow- ing startling facts showing the price that is eet upon female labour in the wealtuiest City of

was defended by three Q C’@-by Attorney which prompted the passing of the Rent Roll ment of Plockby 22,500—in ali 111,00 men, America—the great Commercial Empormm 6

tor disseuting trom that pastoral publication ou account of this ite apparent and necessarily ob- | vious impropriety, and threaten him with both an | ceclesiastical and civil prosecution, 1 do surtise that L have a very good right to fake a nete of sich an unimitigatedly semi-barbarous course of | procednre on the part of any live man ina free | British territory, m the midst of the nineteenth century. Such a note of such an impertinaciously | and transeendently impertinent cirecmstance may | yet serve a rare purpose in the history of the times. When a govermuent like ours, in what | should be an enlightened Britis: Island, make | special formal provision to cast any persou inte a common gaol, who may chance to let drop any- | thing like wo temporarily discourteous allusion, either to themselves er to their responsible pro- | ceedings, and probably all the while nothing like halt so bad as they richly merit, Edo imagine that

1 have a natural, aud nothing on earth more thau | route tor the winter; but the ether continues her |

| behalfof his client.

} Plaintail. and bis couusel is the Houble

General Johnston, Solicitor General Watters, and ex Attorney Geveral Smith Mr. Johuston de- livered one of the west argumentative and clear sighted addresses to the jury that was ever listened to iu the Court house; while Mr. Thomson —though be trequeatly acquitted bimselt much better—made au able and ingenious effort in Neither of the learned gentle men’s labors, however, had the desired effect, tor after several hours cousideration the jury pniy agreed to disagree—four of them being disposed te tind for the Plaintiff, and the remaining three agaiust him. A similar case is now being tried, wherein