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The steamships .N'ortIt Sir, from Alpin- wall, arrived at New York , 9th inst.. |‘ 5} o'clock, p. m. The California mails to 16th ult. came to liand by this arrival, together with $1,700,000 in Islpecie. 0;?

h 526 . he steams ' Yorke‘-Blade,P.v:hi:li°l:fl San- Francisco Sept. 30, for Panama, was totally lost on th i‘ ll ' d . She hadflll passengers be.sid)es°l‘ivdi-.‘t:re.v’v’. She struck on a reef off Point Arquello, I5 miles above Point Con- ception. About iifieen lives, and all the’ :.*'°°‘°.°°

ense o revat e a e Captaingjulilgled himself twenty kmilea oil’, the coast w on the shi struc . Some terrible scenes of pillagepand it is said, murder, took place on board the ship after she got ashore, and before the seengers ,were rescued by the steamer Go ' , plying between San Francisco and San Diego.

Three French l't'ig_p.rt‘e: and a sloop of-war had arrivdd at San claco. They had. in conjunction‘ with the English fleet, made an attack on the Russian town and fort of Petro-paulovski in Kamschatka, from which the allied fleet ‘ was repulsed with a loss in killed and wounded of 209 men. The ‘British Rear-Admiral Price, commanded the allied fleet, was killed by a pistol shot during the en agement.—lt is supposid that htlifaccidenta ly phot hlll’llI:‘l)l‘.

wo ttsstan s tps were ca ure e allies. The British ships afterwards sailed for Vancouver’s Island. '

, WAR ITEMS.

Tiia '33d IN run Wa'ran.—lt will be remembered that the 33d Regiment lost the most men in killed and wounded. e regiment went into action 616 men and 40 sergeants strong; it came out with a loss of %32 men and 30 sergeants. They crossed the river in deep water up to their armpits under a shower of balls, and were first to reach the opposite bank, the 23d close upon them. Col. Blake rode down so steep a pitch to the river, that his horse went in

cadforemost and was completely under water for some seconds. The colonel never dismounted all day. His horse continued to carry his master with one ball in his jaw, one in his side, and a contusion from grape in his chest; besides these, one ball was lodged in the saddle, another in the holster, where the pistol stopped it, and a sixth ball hit the colonel in the left wrist, ran up in the sleeve to the elbow, where it came out, having grazed the flesh of the arm, but it was not of any importance. The colonel was close to the colours all the time, and saw three of his officers struck down in succession who carried them. The halls in the horse were extracted and the animal was doing well, and likely to recover.

Coi,oiias.—It is stated on good authority from St. Petersburg, not only that all Russian ollicers are ordered to disguise themselves as privates when going into action, but that regimental colours are ordered not to be taken into the field, lest they should fall into the hands of the allied troops.

Loss or ran Russians in was Ba'r'ri.a. —The Ti-inter Zeitimg says, that the loss of the Russians at the battle of Alma was 12,000 men; 2 500 were wounded, and 700 taken prisoners; and nine pieces of cannon, and a large quantity of munitions, fell into the hands of the victors. .

From Lord John Russell’: Speech at Bristol, Oct. 26th, 1854.

“ They had seen within the last day or two the commencement of a new system of reform in the University of Oxford (loud cries of “ hear, hear”); and he trusted that venerable seat of learning, while keeping all that was valuable of its ancient constitution, would now extend its benefits far more widely than it bad hitherto done, and more deserve the name of a national institution (chseral. Such being the general aspect of education and of the progress of mental instruction, let him turn for a moment to the institutions which they had in their own city. He rejoiced to find, upon inquiry,that the Atheneum was far from being the only institution of the kind in Bristol. e found that they had an hrly-daring Asaodstion, eokicltltadilaoicit lcclttveaend its own established means 0 instruction; that there was another institution which possessed a most valuable museum; and another which had a large library,

branch of science. and literature. These branches, many of them, had sprung from low beginnings, and he found that the lord bishop of the diocese had many years ago inaugurated a society which had formed one of the societies from which the Athenmum had emanated.”

The new Bishop of Salisbury, England, has begun his episcopate by preaching in the open air to the laborers on a railwa.y

AIERICAN ITIIS.

Catrrswas.--At a recent council with the Chippewas, the governor threatened the Indians with the loss of their annuities if found drunk; and any lndian’s portion thus forfeited was to be divided equally among the sober. Iglole-in-the-day, a dis-

itwaajun;hutthatthesaiaeruleougbt to he applied to the agent, who was a great man, and had a great annuity. It ought to be taken from him, and divided like the others, for he got drunk very often.

The p ' rs of 'the Chicago news- apers .a ' set week, and d- lvzltoetltheir eta fl per We are'likel soon to be well an lied with raidss. hem aga ved atfiemoaou; Sunday and Hoodsy,

Wort/tn‘: Rios-rs.—'l‘he Halifax Sun Sa_vs:— Front the coocludinfaeetence of our friend bits. Dcnton Cridge's very acceptable commttnicatiullt we are led up. infer that she insists on thw‘ Rid“ of sufigj atone 0 Rfifiti." ii): i 1}. uveted ‘t.ri|ilit" ~ really obtained. we -‘eaa readily Mei. V "I fiutteriag of oeokereliiefs and smm_hl of bonnet! and dlmnaagin of curls there was vicinity of" Ptdliag plssss.” occur to ear‘ fair “ right" existed, aspirants to _ _. would inevitably court the Ladies in general,_ not regarding one section _of the D0¢.|l°8“° 3‘

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A wife who could get but one vote would scarcely satisfy in ambitious husband ufltler the new orddr of things; and the law against polygamy would he so dreadfully in our we . that It would be evaded and avoided in all po ‘bis l.‘nn.‘:I 1° attach as many voting ribs as possible to our sides. The gallantry of men is remarkable ‘now. in_ our civilhed socioi y. A man of true clttvalry will do anything ‘for a woman, even in these degenerate days‘-. but if the woman could win. slum"! would be so magnified and so extended, that our devotion to other women would make our wives. we fear, scratch out our eyes, and pull our wigas. _

rs. Cridge’s argument may be expressed In few words than: _ _

- I am most firmly convinced that the division of mankind into two castes--one born _to rule over the othsr—is in the case of the sexes as to

cases an unqualified mischief, a source perversion and denioralization, both to the favored

class and to those at whose expense they‘: favored, producing nose of the end which it is the custom to ascribe to it, a forming a bar

almost inaupsrable to any really vital improve ment, either in the character or in the social con- dition of the human race.’ ,

Now, we put it to the lady, (forgive our presumption) if we men can tend babies as well as she can,—-if our boards don't scratch the little ones, sometimes, and our whiskers frighten them, —if our laps are as convenient as t ‘re, a our means of nursing them quite sooooveniant as God has given? may be mistaken, but if we can recollect aright, we felt better and happier in a mother's lap, or on a mother's boso .’

THE WAR NEXT ‘YEAR. Many people have imagined -that with -the fall of Sebastopol we might look for a termination of the war, and the return of our brave countrymen to the enjoyment of their homes and their laurels, This is certainly not the opinion of the French govemment. The capture of Sebastopol is looked upon here as merely the com- mencement of a succession of rest events. It is not at‘ all likely, that t e Emperor Nicholas will submit to the humiliation of the defeat he ‘has already sustained, or that he will consent on the first check to the abandonment of that power over the Black Sea, and with the Black Sea over Central Asia, which it has been the policy of his redecessors for centuries past to establish. he French government is consequently making preparations on an immense scale for the prosecution of the war. Not only is Sebastopol to be taken, but the Crimea is to be kept, and Perekop garrisoned to resist the huge armies now on their way to the Crimea to the relief of their country- men. It is also said, that as soon as the possession of the Crimea shall have’ been secured, another expedition of an important character is contemplated. A winter cam- paign will take place in Bessarsbia, all the troops which can be spared fl-om the Crimea being carried back to Odessa, and forming a junction with Omar I-Iach, who will ad- vance for that rposo from the Pruth. This expedition iphluccessfully carried out, would force Russia to abandon Ismail, Rent, Touchkloii’, Kills, and all other fortresses on the southern boundary of Bessarabia which constitute the strength of Russia on that frontier, and ive her the command of the mouths of the anube. This is said to be the work cut out for our troops in the ensuing campaign, if the rumours circula- ted here be correct; but whether they be so or not,it is certain that, in the opinion of the Facnch government, we are only at the commencement of the war, and that it is making preparations on a gigantic scale for future operations. A vast number of gunbonts have been ordered, and the dock- yards are in full activity. Great bodies of men are on their way to Marseilles and Toulon, where they will be immediately embarked, and as you are aware, 15,000 men have already been despatched. Or- ders have also been given for a supply of fusees, for coogreve rockets to the amount of 6,000, and for other supplies on a simi- lar scale; and, in short, the preparations now making are mgreater than they have been at an peri since the commence- ment of the war.—(Perie Chronicle Corres-

riia MAINE LAW IN CANADA.

The Le ialative Assembl has adopted the princip e of the sine lfiiquor Law by a majority of 96 against 5. During the last two or three sessions, petitions for the adoption of a prohibitory liquor law, have poured in, in such numbers, that opposition to their prayer became too perilous a thing for the popularity of members to be ven- tured upon to any considerable extent. East year, the bill was only defeated b the utmost exertions of a portion of the try, while it was not only an ported but introduced by another room r of the Government, who was pledged to his con- stituenta to take that course. Before the question came on, on that occasion, a lead- ing member of the A ' ' tion who was opposed to the manure, be it to count heads; and when heatlded upt S ures,he was appalled by findin a prospect ve ma- jorit of four in favoro the measure. rsso red to change the ion of the res, and to make the majority on the

is supporters in the House that one ofliie colleagues in the cabinet‘. being under a s to introduce a_Prohibito Liquor , was permitted by the ran his col-

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her of the an "mattvattss boron‘-«form! to—woul rill aflca. The flI0nce- ment of is resolution had the istmded effect supporters of the Government inllia to hvert the dreaded catastr_ephe_ef gpsqgnatian, and when the vote_ was take! cm the second reading of the bill the ma- jemty of flier in its fhvor was transform into a minority of one. B 000 V0" 0"’! was the measure led. 0 IIIOWOP Of petitions in favor of the measure was not for a moment intermitted_. During the lanes an organized inachiaery_waa kept actively in motion to swell the lists of pe- titioners. When the session 9 nod. I doses members gave notice of bil on the subject; and .a lar Committee on fem-. perancc was forms , to which to refer the titiona and the bills. Before the Com- mittee had reported, however, the second readhtg of one of the «bills-—l,nost stringent in its provisions—is moved. The overn- ment hesitates to adopt a decisive policy on the subject. lt resolves not to oppose the measure, but to allow it to be read a second time, that it may be sent to_tlIe Committee on Temperance. It is a curious fact,that far more members spoke than voted against the bill. The most formidable op- out of the measure was the late Premier, . Hincks. He denied that the circum- stances of this country were analagous to

'° those of the State of Maine, and that the

law had been auccessihl even there. though the bill does not, in its present shape, go beyond the prohibition _ol' the manufacture and sale of ‘intoxicating liquors, the,quution of prohibiting the importation also will ootne u . hie, of course, is a matter with whic no sin Ie State of the American Union can dea ; and therefore Canada has the power to pass I more effectual law on the subject than any one of the States. One member of the Govern- ment, Mr. Postmaster-General Spence, declared in favor of addi a clause to pro- hibit the importation. is view was in- dorsed by several other memberewho spoke on the subject, and the- probabilities are, that no measure will finally pass which does not prohibit the importation as well as the aale‘and manufacture of intoxicating liquors. Mr. Hincks denies the practice- bility of any attempt to prohibit importation; and says it would be impossible, even if the United States and this country were to join, to exclude-the article from the continent altogether. It shows the strength of public opinion on the subject, that Mr. Hinclts,

_opposed to the measure as he is, found the

demand for its enactment so nrong, at the

late general election, that he found it ad- visable to promise, that he would support the tneasure whenever he foun that a

majority of his constituents should, in their municipal election, cast a majority pf votes in its favor. It is undoubtedly true, that many who voted in the majority on the second reading of the bill did so under a similar species of constraint‘. There is a ver con- siderable number of members in the ouse

who would prefer to‘ oppose the measure,if they thought it safe or prudent to do so.

There is, however, no pros t of a ma- jority of the House voting against the rin- ciple of prohibition. The opinion 0 the Legislative Council on the ‘subject has yet to be ascertained, but it is hardly likely that they -will oppose a measure in favor of which so great a number of petitions is presented.—Cor. N. Y. Tribune.

Hollotooyh Pi'lls.—.lnotIur Lice? Complaint of Eight Yean standing cured by their I/'uu.——A lidy named Thomas, lately returned from the West Indies. informed Mr. Gowcn, chemist, of Bristol, that for eight years she was in bad health, ariei from a disordered state of the liver and stomach, s was in consequ nee r , to such a state of dehility that she was fearful of never again obtaining her health, as cially as the most eminent medics men had fail to give her the slightest relief; at last, like many others, she had recourse olloway’s Pills, and in the course of a few weeks they perfectly rumored her to sound and robust health. 24

ii A §ZXn“t3‘»Tol A z 2. 1- 1- 1:. Saturday, November 86, 1864.

In the parent state, the individuals composing the hi her class or order of societ , receive the best ucation the count can stow. The male rtion of it obtain their information and learn g at one or other of the universities or these public or private select seminariee, with which each of the three kingdoms are plentifully furnished ; and the females are initiated and per- fected in all that is uisite towards rendering am well informed and accomplished, b means of either public or private tuition, the oilities of obtaining which are equally widely diffused. In addition to t , there are public libraries, museums, botanical gardens, lectures, concerts, exhibitions of the animals and actions of difirent countries, panoramas, and the various public spectacles of so many difisrent kinds, that it would take nota little time even to recapitulate them ; all of which, in a greater or less degree, tend to impart instruction. This general and universal knowledge of itself tends greatly to give a high tone to the society in general, and to the individuals composing it, a certain do- of respect, each for the other, which is the oundstion of good breeding and politeness. ow, we must not shut our eyes to the fact, that we in this Is labour under a lament- able deficiency of the means of via rising generation the means o ee g pace w th the march of intellect in the mother country the United Smtes, or even the sister provinces; and it becomes us now to be it to make provi- sion for supplying these d theblprsltbplacegwnzlslt thatv‘r.l pa ‘o i ra . w many as oal_d ask, rayre the P

want an institution so absolutely to the mental walmre—if we me be allow the on—of lb luhsbltanh We doubt

We do not speak more tive- ve not the means at hradof g o ves in the matter. _Wsru there such an establishment as a public llmary. wanaad not be at a less for the requlsltala- formation ttpoa this or a any other subject

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termed the Legislative Library: ’Now, theI.e- gialatura of this island conaistsofa Lieut. Gover- nor, twelve Legislativo Councillora,nnd twenty- four members of Assembly, in all irty-eeven individuals. of right to the use of the hooks, hi whom are’ respec- tive ofioeaa ofboth and _iudges_o the Supreme Court, not amounting to it? In the Now, admitting that one he! of these are reading men, and that is far shove the pro- t rtion usually a we have a public as- ’ tkeptupatthapuhllcas oafor the benefit or he titlcatiou of ass than twenty-fiveindividua a, who on ht, front their very eta ifs. to be fully as ndepeadant in this respect, as any others of the community. We do not grudge the members of Assemb y all the information that it is in the power of the Colon to th "in ; on the contrary. we wouldywlllingly give them a_ greater scope and a wider range among the rich, fertile an loaf- ‘ s of science and literature, t we think it -hard that the pi: blic money should be spent for their indlvidun. hsnsfi a scenic reason, or at least no gout. and sufioient reason, why they should be sdm tied to drink fl'e_ely of the only well of knowledge that exists In the Island, while those by whose bounty it is fed, and whose weslth_forma the source front whence it is an plied, should be rohibited from test- ing. be great utility o a public library is, that in it are to be met with works of a doscri tion which are not within the compass of t a means of private individuals generally to obtain. For example, no one will deny that a knowledge of the productions of oue’s own country, and of other regions, is not only an useful, but essen- tial rt of education to some at least of the inha itants. How is a full description of the plants, birds, beasts, fishes, reptiles and insects, of a country, to‘ be obtained, unless the means of perfecting themselves in the science 0

natural history is laced within the war oi those whose duty, ate, and inclination, may end to the study of its ' ‘one.

Now the books requisite to impart full infor- mation u it these interesting subjects. are difleult,i not impossible, to be obtained by s o in , rate income, and are therefore sought for, and not in vein in all other as ital towns or cities in public libraries, which one be commensurate to the expense of procuring them. Again, we have eoiae clever mechanics among us, and we are in want of -all those labour saving appliances of art which are so neoessa to the advancement of the riculturc or 0 or industrial resources of the lon_y. Now to what. source is a man of this desert tion to resort if he is anxious to perfect one 0 those machines of which he has heard speak, or of which, perha , from reading, ho hae_ obtained an idea, so of which he only uiras a knowledge of the details, to enable him to perfect and com lets !—Nor is this all, tbevery circumstance t at there is a place to which the ardent student may resort in order, to eatisf his doubts or appease his cravings after in ormation, will have s tsndenc to cre- ate a thirst for knowledge, and spree among our youth a esire to emulate those w as names they find written in im rishable letters in the temple of fame. The slsnd has not as at produced one man whose name is known yond the precincts of its shares. Nor will it ever, if» the same supinencss and neglect of the cultivation of the intellect: that at present unfiirtunatel and, may we not add, d agrees- full , prevai s amon us, be not done away wit , and they succqtfed by a firm determina- tion to give the same aid and assistance to the diflusion of the superior degrees of knowledge that are aflirded by other countries. We have not, hitherto, pressing upon is matter, because the government of the Colony has been in that species of transitiione tats that recluded the members of it from taking into six quiet consideration any objects but were so immediate! pressing, as not~to admit of delay, Such is not now the case,—ths resent government are, we may presume, firm in their 'tion for the next four years, and we have therefore, a right to call upon them to extend their view he end the narrow a here of party measures, an give a rtion o their atten- tion to that which wil be universally bene- ficial—to lo islate and provide for the wants not only 0 the present generation, but those of posterity. We therefore press, not only on the government, but on the ab ' at large, the necessity of having a pa lic ibrary and museum, sustained at the cost of the public, aided by private annual subscriptions and donations. On the government, the necessity of opening the present legislative Library on such terms to the public, and under such restrictions as the peculiar state of aociet , and of the revenue may require. On the a lie, the duty of coming forward inside the government, both with annual subscri tions and donations of inoneybooks, or artio as of any kind t w’ tend to enrich the shelves of the library, or the cabinets of the museum, and by these means foster a love of science, literature and art. There are trea- sures of literature in the possession of private individual,s which we doubt not, would thrown into the common stock, if the present owners were but assured that by so doing, they would be conferring a benefit on their native or adopted country. We ask the aid and assistance also, of all who have the welfare of the country at heart, and pray them to ootne forward and contribute their talents to raise ‘the society of the Island to a level with that of any other in the world. There must be a beginning made at sortie time in our existence, an why not now! Dimidium fodi ' ocpi heist, as the Latin poet says, to which we have a corresponding English proverb: “ well begun is hslfdons."