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“This is truc Liberty, when Freeborn Men, having to advise the Public, may speak free.”*---Euripides.

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Gleanings from late Papers. _

How to Bras Coit.—N'ne out of ten who attempt to bard pointanment. Very bikely the son-in-law is rade to you, the

Marcu Mantne.—Ah woman—woman !—ah wedded « ife— ah fond mother of fair daughters? to add to thy titles that of mother-in-law! 4} are told, when you lave got the title, it is often but a bitterness and a disap-

eval in a stove waste about as much coal as necessary to coarse, ungrateful brute! and very possibly the daughter

consume for the obtaining of all the heat desirable Ob:erve | rebels, the thankless serpent ! And yet you will go on

% We will suppose the stove cleaned out scheming : and having met only with disappointment from e ; 3 ee . .

he following rules.

First, To make shavings, or light catity of the stove four or six inches i efegz coal. Ligh yinutes add about

a coal fire, Dut ic a double handfal of kindling wood instead. Fill the earthen rearly full of chunks of dry wood, say length. On the top put a d zea lumps with a paper from beneath. twenty lumps more of coal. As soon as the wood has burnt out fill the cavity half to two thirds full df coal. The fire will be a good one The coal will, by following these directions, become thoroughly ignited.

Second, Never {II a stove more than half or two thirds #1! of coal, even in the coldest weather.

Third, When the fire is low, never shake the grate or dis turb the ashes, but add from ten to fifteen small lumps of coal, and set the draft open. When these are heated through, and somewhat ignited, add the amount necessary for a new fre, bat do not disturb the ashes yet. Let the draft be open half an hour. Now shake out the ashes. The cox! will be thoroughly ignited, and will keep the stove at bigh heat from six to twelve hours, according to the coldness of the weather.

Fourth, For very cold weather. according to the rale first and third, add every hour about fifteen to twenty lumps of ege coal. You will find that the ashes made in each wil! be about in that ratio.

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Batutyxe 1x tHe Deap Sea.—A pleasant correspondent of the Boston Post writing from Jerusal-m thus humorous'y describes his Dead sea bath.

The Dead Sea has nothing of the desolation which it has been the pleasure of travellers to deserile, and it seemed to | smile at thé secret dread with which it inspires the pilgrim. I, of course, took a bath here; and for a swimmer who has a fancy to keep his |egs as well as his bead out of the water, | can imagine that it was quite pleasant. My French friend, who is not a little inclined to corpulency, complained that he could not get down into the water, and floated about, now one side up, now another, for all the world like an inflated bludder. On emerging fromthe water it was rapidly eva- porated by the sun; and the salt erystalizing on our bodies | grve us the appearance of animated sticks of rock candy or a family appearance of Lot's wife. With a sensation upon our skin, as if we had been pickled for family use, and with a taste on our mouth compouaded of glauber salts and usa- for'ida, we coneluded that one bath in the Dead Sea was enough for a lifetim:

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A Sxrizsor Hornors.—Cincinatti, March 7.—Last uight Patrick McHugh cut his wife's throat, killing her instantly ; Jubn Miller was fatally stabbed in a street affray, aud A. H. Bayard fell suddenly dead in the street.

Yesterday morning a woman was found dead in her bed | shall be replaced, and perhaps the Beffana may rely on the |

on the corner of Pearl street and Western row.

On Sunday, a daughter of John Stratton, living on the Montgomery turnpike, was burned to death.

This morning the hat and cap store of L. Isaac & Co., was damaged by fire to the extent of $1500.

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An Indian and a white man recently skated sixty miles,

Lou sa and her husband, you will try and get one for Jemima, and Maria, and down even to little Toddies coming out of the nursery in her red shoes! When you see her with little Tommy, your neighbour's child, fighting over the same Noah's

ark, or clambering on the same rocking-horse, I make no In ten }doubt, in your fond silly head you are thinking, ‘+ Will those | And you give

little people meet some twenty years hence ?”’ Tommy a very large pieee of cake, and have « fine present for him on the Christmas tree--you know you do, though he is but a rude nvisy child, and has already beaten Toddles, and taken her dolly away from her and made her ery. T remem- ber, when I myself was suffering from the conduct of a young Woman in —in a capital which is distinguished by a viceregul co urt—and from her heartlessness, as well as that of her re- lative, who I once thought would be my mother-in-law— shrieking out toa friend who happened to be spouting some ines from Tennyson's ** Ulysses’’ :—*+ By George! Wavrring- on, L have no doubt that when the young syrens set their green caps at he old Greek captain and his crew, and are beckoning him with their white arms and glancing smiles, and wheedling him with their sweetest pipes—I make no doubt, sir, that the mother syrens were behind the rocks (with their

After the fire is made, | dyed fronts and cheeks pain‘ed, so as to resist water,) and |

calling out * Now, Haleyome, my child, that air from the Pirata! Now, Glaukopis, dear, look well to that old gentle- man at the helm! Buathykolors. love, there’s a young sailor +} beckon him!’ and so on, and so on. shriek of despair. Island, and come away thence, mad, furious, wanting a straight-waistcvat.— Cornhill Magazine.

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Tne Berrana, TIravtran Twetrre-Nicasr Cvstow. — The ** Beffana’’ is said to have been an old womin, who was busily

employed in cleaning the house when the three kings were |

journeying to carry the treasures to be offered to the infant

Saviour. On being called to see them pass by, she said she | could not just then, as she was so busy sweeping the house, | The | kings, however,as iv well known, returned to their own country |

but she would be sure to see them as they went back.

by another way; so the old woman is supposed to be ever |

since in a perpetual state of looking out for their coming, something after the manner of the legend of the wandering Jew. She is said to take great interest in the welfare of young children, and particularly of their good behaviour. Through most parts of Italy, on the twelfth night, the children are pat to bed earlier than usual, and a stocking taken from each, and put before the fire. Ina short time there is a ery, -‘ Ecco la Beffana !’’ and the children hurry out of bed, and rush to the chimney, when lo! in the stocking of each is a present, sup- posed to have been left by the Beffana, and proportioned in its value to the behaviour of the child during the past year. If any ove has been unusually rebellious and incorrigible, be- wid! the stocking is full of ashes. This degrading and dis- appointing circumstance is generally grected by a torrent of

tears, and the little rebel is then told, if he or she will promise

most faithfully to be better behaved for the future, the stocking

promise of amendment, and leave some little present as she eomes back. Accordingly the child is put to bed again, and in a short time the ery is again raised, ‘+ Here is the Beffana,”’ and the child jumps up, runs to the stocking, and finds some little toy there, which of course the parents have placed there | in the interim. Any misbehaviour during the following year | is met with, ** Oh! you naughty child, what cid you promise | on Epiphany? Beffana.’’— Notes und Queries.

how strange thy passion is

maintop, who will tumble right into your lap, if you |

For I too have been on the dangerous |

Charlottetown, Prince. Edward Island, Tuesday, . March 27, 1860, |

mankind. Few men live who do not imagine that in some | respect they stand alone in the world, or stand first. I have seen people quite proud of the unexampled disease under which they were suffering. It was none ofthe common | |ma’alies that the people rownd about suffered from. ] have /known a country-woman boast, with undisguised elation, ‘that the doctor had more difficulty in pulling out her tooth than he ever before had in the case of morial man. There ‘is not a little country parish iw Britain but its population are persuaded that in several respeets, and for several reasons, /it is quite the most important in the empire.— Fraser's Magazine. ——— <b 000 oe Witv Boar Hunt.—The Journal d'Alencon has the following :—* The pack of hounds of M. Ratiier de Verveines, \twe.ty-five in sumber, lately ianted a wild boar in the forest near this town, but after three hours’ chase they could not | bring it to bay, though he stopped now and then to attack | ithe dogs. Twelve fresh hounds having been set on, it at Just | | stopped, and the dogs attacked it with great determination. | | It, however, ripped up several and threw others into the air. | One of the keepers having arrived, fired his carbine, but only broke one of the fore-feet of the animal. The chief keeper | | then arrived, and fired two balls at its head, without, however, | producing any effect. He, however, reloaded, and lodged one | | ball in the boar’s muzzle, and the other behind the ear, The I It was then |

last proved mortal, the animal falling dead. ‘found that two of the dogs were dead, ten more mortally | | wounded, and that several others were more or Jess injured. The boar weighed 150 kilogrammes (about 8 ewt.)” | An Ohio editor gives his views of several dances which | he lately witnessed at a ballin Washington. He says: The /want of variety in this metropolitan dancing was, however, | |fully made up by the fancy things, such as the waliz and | ‘the polka. ‘These were ddibiely barbarous, The old-) | fashioned waltz, the morality of which even Byron called in| question, is here ignored as altogether too cold and distant.

Che lady lays her bead on the gentleman's bosom, puts one

hand on his, and the other ia his coat tail pocket, and re- | sizns herself to his embraces, and goes to sleep, al! but her | feet, which, when not carried by him clear off the floor, go | )patting around on the toes, Tue gentleman thus entwined | throws bis head back and his eyes up, like a dying calf; his’ body bent in the shape of a figure 4, he whirls, backs up. | swings around, swoons, to all appearance, dashes forward, | and leaves the ring to the delight of all decent people.”

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“Gentlemen of the jury,” said an Arkansas lawyer, | |“ would you set a rat trap to catch a bear? would you make |fools of yourselves by endeavouring to spear a buffalo with | 'a kuitting-needle ? No, gentlemen, I am sure you would | not. ‘Then how can you be guilty of the gross al suardity of | | finding my client guilty of manslaughter for taking the life lof a woman ?”

er ee | Beavrtirct Sextimenr.—The following beautiful verse con- Veys a sentiment which many of our readers will recognize in | 'a feeling they have no doubt experienced, but never known | how so touching to express :--

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‘OQ never breathe a lost one’s name

By the Hon. Mr. Forgan, a Petition of divers inhabitants

of Cascumpce and vicinity, praying aid towards the erection | &*

of a Commissioners’ Court House and Lockap House.

Ordered, That the four preceding Petitions be referred to the special Committee appointed to report on all Petitions relating to miscellaneous subjects.

By the same. a Petition of Mary Kelly, of Charlottetown, widow, with four female children, in indigeut ctreamstances, praying relief. ,

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the special Committee appointed to report om all Petitions relating to Paupers.

The Hon. Mr. Palmer presented a Petition of divers Mechanics and Labourers, praying for a Law to give persons of their trade and occupation the benef of a lien on any ship or vessel they may have worked on, for the balance of their wages thereby earned. Tis Honor, fo presenting this Petition, merely observed that there was attached to it an almost endless amount of signatures; that he bad no doubt the mater would receive due consideration in the other Hoose; and that should any measure founded on it be sent up to this House, he felt assured that it would receive their Honors’ best consideration ; also—-

Ordered, That this Petition be referred to the special Committee appointed to report on al! Petitions relating to miscellaneous subjects,

DESPATCH IN REPLY TO THE ADDRESS TO HER MAJESTY OP THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF LAST SESSION.

His Honor Mr. Paumer, a Member of. Her Majesty’s

Executive Council, by command of His Excellesey the

Lieutenant Governor, laid befure the Honse eopy of a Des-

|patch from Lord Carnarvon (in the absence of Sir EK. B

Lytton), dated 14th June, 1859, in reply to the Address to Her Majesty of the Legislative Council of last Session, on the subject of the exclusion of Heads of Departments from the Government and Legislative Coupeil.

Lis Honor, in presenting this Document, explained that, in consequence of its having been published some nonths ago in the Royal Gazette, it was not considered necessary to have it seut down at an earlier period. That when it was called for last week, he thought it was the answer to the couuter Address of the House of Assembly that was required ; and, therefore, he applied for that answer, which appeared in His Execelleney’s Message of Wednesday last, and which would not have been laid before the Legislative Council had he vot, through misapprehension understood that that Des- patch was the one enquired after.

Tue Despate, as follows, was then read by the Clerk.

** Downtxo Sraeer, 14th June, 1859.

* Sin —I have to acknowledge the receipt of your Des- patch, No. 28, of the 12th May, transmitting an Address to the Queen, from the Legislative Council of Prince Klward Island, expressive of their dissatisfaction at the exclusion of the Members of the Council from the present Executive Goveromeut of the Island, and at the poliey which is pur- sued by that Government of excluding fiom seats in the Legis'ature the holders of salaried offices.

* | have to request that you will state to the Council that [ have laid this Address before the Queen ; but that I have been unable to advise Her Majesty to interfere, as has been requested, with the proper local au‘horities in the formation

No more presents will you get from the | That chokes the breast and fills the eye ;

, : : ‘of a new Administration. When those who loved that name are nigh ; \° et or ee It pours a lava through the frame I have the honor to be, &., &e. , . (Signed) “ CARNARVON,

al 4 wh .. . , Ryd It strains a chord that yields too mnch Tn the absence of Sir K. B Lytton

ou a wager, in Wisconsin, The Indian came ina few minutes less than ten hours, and did not seem to suffer from St : the exertion, The white man was over eleven hours in, W = somebody—a lady perhays—from New York - the making the distance, and in a few hours afier he pulled off | Traveller about Shopping :—" I have seen one dress purchased weer Et : ‘ d he was °*® well known house, which, with its trimmings, eost $455.

his skates his limbs swelled to a monstrous size, aud he was it is of violet color moire of tie richest quality, serigged disabled for several days, with purple. The trimmings consist of eleven narrow flounces covered guipure of myrtle green and embellished with a broad Sratistics or Carte 1x Esxotann.—According to the band of black ve vet just above the hem. Another dress pur- official returns ber Majesty's criminal subjects iu Esgland chased xt tlhe same store, is one of groseille colour silk, which

, . cost $350. It is figured with small boquets of flowers, and and Wales are in sumber sbout 16.000, «f whom about a) nag pine narrow flounces, each edged with velvet.

fifth are in gaol, and the other four-fifths at large pursuing | corsage is its most beautiful featare, ornamented as it is with their nefarious av. cations. Upon a moderate calculation, a fichu berthe of tulle trimmed with blond The purchaser of each criminal preys upon society to the extent of £75 a year, | the former is a Brazilian lady, the wife of a diplomatic fune- and thus the 135,000 at large inay be estimated to cost the tionary ; and the latter is the bridal present of a New York public in the shape sf plunder about £10,000,000. this must be added the cost of police, prosecutions, prisons, making £2,500,000 more, or a total of £12,500,000. : i ' ps The thieves thus cost the uation more than the Royal Navy,| It is generally supposed that cats will not injure children, vearly twice as much as the British army, and more than ae a Senn Siapravee Spc thcagiion a aie : 2 2 nM A bOY 7 year : > st ones, f tulscermmmbeste pitt, sntnationg Cute o + ton wong Seawkclin ot oe playing during an afternoon recently with a equal to a fourth part of the contributions to the State. If iy

’ : ; ‘ : , strange cat which came to the house. When the child went the charge could be seen in the shape of a rate, the thieves tusleep the cat was under the bei. In the night the parents 1

rate for England and Wales would be about 12s. 64. a head noticed that the little fellow was quite uneasy from time to time, for a man, woman aodchild. A thief is supported by every | and at length he cried out that the at hurt him in such a man- 120 of the tax payers. The male criminals are to the female | ner so as to attract their attention. On examination they found in the proportion of two to one, but a much larger proportion | the cat upon the bed over the ehild 8 face, und the pillow and of the females are at large. Under sixteen years of age there bed saturated with bl vod. The child was taken up and washed, Faue . bat no wound could be discovered. ei upeards oe: 12.000 males, and half as mary females to the nose, and it was evident that the cat had been imbibing recruit the felonious ranks. 'the vital fluid by suction. A physician was called, and some |} time elapsed before the hemorrage was PONS, This should serve as a warning to parents who allow cats and dogs to occup Aw * Ow Gaxtow.’—An exchange ee states that . Oy, dette eae There is always danger from anid fellow in Venango county, Pa., profited in the following | animals. «ats should never be allowed to enter a sleeping manner by the “ oil excitement” now prevailing so extensively apartment in the western and northwestern part of Pennsylvania : He | saciaiaasaieliaiiitaeaes bored a hole in his jand, poured a barrel of oil in it, and then | How Tuixes are MaxaGen at tar Cureca Istaxps.—An called his neighbors to see the large yield. The result was) 4). jean captain has written a long letter to one of the that be sold bis land for $2000 in cash, pocketed the money, | American newspapers, with the object of drawing atteation to oiled bis Loots and * slid.” | the injustice aud partiality shown by the authorities of the

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ladies in the Fifth Avenue.’’

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In Russia fires are very frequent, and according to a | guano there. It is stated that the system of giving maney recent report of the Minister of the interior, in the year | considerations to some of the authorities is so general, that 1858, vot fewer than 56 churches, 333 public buildings, and those who do not follow this corrupt praciics are put to 10.210 private houses, the whole of the value of 26,440,270 | Serious inconveniences in several ways. The writer thinks it

roubles (more than $20,000,000), were burued down in that § Tange that the governments of either the United States or eu oo ( ee ’ . | Englaud have never thought it necessary to s‘ation a small country. g g

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In England locomotives bave reeently been built, posses ing the fcllowing peculiarities. The cylinders are outside, snd the engine and the works are buiit independently of the voiler, which can be detached and taken from the working

of daily occurrence, _— 0 -

Tors.—Tops have come, We saw one yesterday—a ve-

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But to | merchant prince to his niece, one of the most beautiful young |

All the blood came from |

|Chinca Islands to American and English captains loading |

|vessel of war at the islands, or in the neighbourhood, to | <. | prevent the many high-handed acts of despotism and injustice |

| OF piereing angu'sh in its breath, And hands of mercy should not touch A string made eloquent by death !”

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A Miss Thompson, in Tennessee, has recovered $15,000 in a | breach of pronaise case againsi a man named Patterson. The | case excited a great interest, as the most eminent counsel in | the State were engaged uponit. The verdict is the heaviest | ever rendered in a case of this kind in Tennessee. | Mrs, Josephine Herske!, a danseuse in one the New York |

theatres, was burnt to death on the 6th inst., by the gauze | dress which she wore coming in contact with the footlights, | while performiug before the audience.

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The people of Havana are quite enthusiastic in the Moor- lish war. A number of yoamyg gentlemen have offered them- selves as volunteers, and the Spanish bank at Hav na has- put at the disposition of her majesty three hundred thousand | ‘dollars, without interest, for one year.

A most brutal attack was made a short time since, at Dorchester, by a man named Gayton, upon his wife. He ‘inflicted a severe blow with an axe, and was about to give | another, when his little daughter interfered and received the | blow intended for her mother. The scoundrel is in jail.— | St. John, N. B., paper.

.— ° | The story that went the rounds of the press a short time | since of the drowning of forty-nine school children at Lard- ing, Llinvis, bas turued out to be a cruel hoax.

The * Hungarian” and cargo have been sold to a company | /in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, for £4,070.

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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Tvuespay, March 6, 1860. | PETITIONS. | Hon. Mr. Walker, by leave, presented a Petition of | ‘Lawrence Doucette, a Licensed Teacher, at Rustico Crose | Roads, praying that this House will concur with the House. jof Assewbly, in granting him the sam of ten pounds, which | has been delucted from his furmer allowance, in consequence | jof the boundaries of his School District not b ing defined and | | deseribed as the Law directs. | Ordered. Tuat the said Petition be referred to the special | Committee appointed to report on all Petitions relating to’

His Honor Col. Swasey—I remember that when this Despatch was the subject of discussion, the other day, I did not know that it was published. Waen it appeared in the Royal Gazette, it is more likely that, at the time, I was aware of it, but if so 1 had quite forgotten the fact. It is not, however, sufficient for legislative purposes that Des- patches should merely be published in the Royal Gazette, they should be duly communicated to both Housee of the segislature, and appear upon their Journals ,in order that they may be easily and directly referred to as the basis of future proceedings on the subject matters thereof, should such subsequently be contemplated, or found necessary. I should wish to know from His Honor Mr. Palmer whether or not the Despatch in answer to the Address to the Queen of the House of Assembly of last Seasiou is to be considered as before this House.

Hon. Mr. Patmer—Certain!y it must be considered as being before the House.

Hon. Col. Swapey—Then I give notice, that, on Thurs. day next, I will move an Address to His Excelleney request- ing him to cause the despateh to which it alludes to be laid before the House,

Wepyespar, March 7, 1860.

PETITIONS. The following Petitions were presented to the House, and

‘the same were received and read:

By the Ion. Mr. Walker, a Petition of Francis Buote,

(of Tiznish, an aged Acadian Teacher, praying remuneration

for his long services as such,

By the Hon. Mr. Johnson, a Petition of Harriet (. McKeown, praying that this House will concur wiih the House of Assembly in granting her allowance for six months’

iservices as a Teacher in Georgetown, which has been with-

held from her, in consequence of a deficiency in the average daily attendance of Scholars, owing to the prevalence of sickness in the Tuwn and neighborhood,

Ordered, That the two preceding Petitions be referred to

|the special Committee appointed to report on all Petitions | ‘relating to Education.

By the Hon. Mr. Walker, a Petition of divers inhabitants of Kildare Settlement, praying that the Light Kstablish- ments on this island may be rendered more efficient ; and particularly that this tlou-e will sanetion the construction of [ght Houses on the North Cape and Kast Poiut of this Island. .

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the special Committee appointed to report ou ail Petitions relating to miscellaneous subjects.

A MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY. A Message from the House of As-embly, by the Tun.

New Series.---No. 11.

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a week across the said Ferry, during the opening of the Navi

tion.

Ordered, That the said Petitions be referred to the special Committee appointed to report on all Petitions relating to miscellaneous subjects.

Hon. Mr. Palmer presented a Petition of Ann Morell, ot Township No. 7, with two children, one of whom is of unsound mind, praying rélief.

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the —a appointed to report on all Petitions relating te

aupere.

Adjourned until Monday the 19th March, 1860.

Tugspay, March 20, 1860.

APPOINTMENT OF CLERK T0 THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

His Honor the President informed the House that Hus Ex- celleney the Lieut. Governor had been pleased, by Commie- sion bearing date the 20th March, instant, to appoint Jamee Barrett Cooper, Esquire, (Jerk of the islative Council of thie Island, which Commission was read: and, thereupon,

Mr. © t, having been duly sworn in took bis seat at the Clerk’s Deck. = |

ACKNOWLEDGMENT BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF THE PAST SERVICES OF CHARLES DESBRISAY, ESQUIRE, IN THE CAPACITY OF THEIR C: ERK.

Hon. Col. Swabey submitted the following Resolution : and, anticipating no opposition to it, suggested the publication of . it in the Royal Gazette.

Resolved,—That the Legislative Council cannot permit Charles DesBrisay, Esquire, to retire from the Uffice to this Branch of the Legislature without giving expression their high sense of the zeal, fidelity, and skilfulness with whiel he has always performed the duties of that important Office, for an uninterrupted period of twenty-five years; and this Council assures Mr. DesBrisay that he carries with bim the re wishes of every member thereof for his present and future welfare.

The Resolution was agreed to nem. con., and it was then ordered that a Copy of it be furnished to Mr. DesBrisay.

PETITIONS,

The following Petitions were presented to the H use, and the same were received and read, viz:

By Hon. Mr. Johnson, a Petition of divers inhabitante of Township No. 13, setting forth that the Small Debts ( ourts. as at present constituted, are in many ways defective, and susceptible of great imp ovement; and saggesting that the power of taking Bail, in cases of Capias, should be vested in the Bailiff serving the process; and praying fur such an amendment of the law as will obviate the evils complained of, and secure the impartial adm:nistration of justice.

A Petition of divers inhabitants of Township No. 13, 14, and 16, praying for aid to extend a Wharf at Ellis River Ferry, Lot 14.

A Petition of divers inhabitants of Township Nos. 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17, praying for aid towards repairing the Cause- my on the Nort’ side of Ellis River Bridge. Lot 16.

Petition of divers inhabitants of the Central Bedeque School District, praying that an Act may be passed to prevent the ranning at large of hogs within the limits of the said District.

By Hon. Mr. Bagnall a Petition of divers inhabitants of Montague River and adjacent settlements, setting forth the inconvenience under which petitioners labor owing to the want of a Public Wharf for the shipment of produce at thie the most extensive shipping place in King’s County, and praying the House to take such steps as will secure to them a good Wharf.

A Petition of divers inhabitants of Montague Bridge and vicinity. setting forth that petitioners labor ander great die- advantage, owing to the want of a suitable build ng wherein to deposit the Weights and Measures purchased fur the use of the Bridze. and praying the House to grant the sum of £10 towails defraying the expense of erecting such a building.

Ordered, That the six ; receding Petitions be referred tothe special Committee appoinced to report on ali Petitions relating to miscellaneous subjects.

lion. Mr. Bagnall also presented a Petition of Edward Wilson, of Township No. 52, a cripple, ia indigent cireom- stances, praying relief.

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the special Committee appointed to report on all Petitions relating to Paupers.

PROTECTION OF THE SALMON FISHERY.

The Bill intituled ** An Act for the Protection of the Salmon Fishery ,’’ was read the second time.

On motion the House then went into Committee thereon, his Honor Colonel Swabey in the Chair.

After some time the House was reaumed, and the Ilon. Col Swabey reported that the Committee had gone though the Bill, and had agreed to the same wi hout any amendment.

Ordered, That the Report of the Committee be received.

Ordered, That the said Bill be read the third time to- morrow.

The Bill intituled ** An Act to continue certain Acte therein mentioned,’’ was read the second time.

On motion the House went into Committee on the said Bill, his Honor Mr. Forgan in the (hair.

After some time the House was resumed, and the Hon. Mr. Forgan reported that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and had agreed to the same w thout ary amendment.

Ordered, That the said Bill be read the third time to- morrow.

Wepxrspar, March 21, 1860,

BILL INTITULED ‘‘ AN ACT TO AMEND THE ACT RELATING TO JUDG- MENTS RECOVERED IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THIS ISLAND,”’

A Message from the House of Arsembly with a Bill intituled as above, to which they desire the concurrence of the Legis- lative Council

The said Bill was read the first time.

AMENDMENT OF ‘‘ THE WILLS acT.”’

The B'll intitaled ** An Act for the amendment of an Act — in the sixth year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen

ictoria, intituled * An Act to repeal an Act made and passed in the Twenty-first year of the Reign of King George the Third, intictoled An Act relating to Wiils, ies and Ex- ecutors, and for the Settlement and Distribution of the Estates of Intestates, and to make other provisions in lieu therevf,’ ’’ was, as amended, read the third time.

Resolved, That the said Bill, as amended do pass.

Ordered, That a Message be sent down to the Slouse ef Assembly, acquainting thes that thi: House have parsed the said Bill, with an amendment, to which they desire their con- currence.

The Bill intituled ‘* An Act for the better apprehension of serve Offenders,’’ was, as amended, read the third time, and

assed.

Ordered, That a Message be sent down to the House of Assembly, acquainting them that the Legislative Council have

passed the said Bill, with an amendment, to which they dsire | their concurrence.

BILLS OF LADING.

Clerk | iow to,

ritable top—we heard the music of its ham—we watched it | jeducation. as it went to sleep—-and we waited until its last gyration | died away and it flew off, out of the magic in the same old |

parts. The locomotive bas four driving whee's, each five teet in diameter, and one pair of hind runuing wheels, three and a half feet in diameter. A doukey pump is situated near

| Mr. Haviland, with a Bili intituled * An Act to authorise a) The following Petitions were also presented to the House | Cash Account to be opened by the Governor in Couneil

Fh edt s inte 7. »n | and the same were received and read, viz: with the Bank of Prince Edward Island.

The Bill, intitaled ** An Act to amend the Law relating to Bulls of Lading,’’ was read the third time, and pass d.

Also, a Bill intituled * An Act to amend An Act, made | ae

the engineer, for feeding the bviler, and a steam pipe i+ conducted sv as to extinguish the fire in uw minute, if! necessary.

er

Tue Liverroot Dean Manker.—A late circular thus re- fers to the sales in the Liverpool Deal Market :—

In the early part of the month considerable sales in cargo of St. John and similar quality Deals, were effected at £9 | to £9 2s, Gd. per standard by private contract, and by auction at £9 4s. to £9 Ss. per standard. Since the an- pouncement of the Chancellor's intention to equalise the

fashioned and i:regular tangent. | come,” the reader may say, ** is there anything particular it a top ?” Good friend—although somewhat critical—tlere is much wisdom in a top. It bas a story to tell—it comes in with Lent—it sings of white clouds and blue skies—it is a forerunner of April showers—the first blossom of Spring. Those urchinsin roundabouts and tucked pantaloons—whose pockets are now swelled out with magical cones aud wh’p- co.d—are best chroniclers of the changing seasons. They

| watzh for the ides of March with eyes that will not be deceived, |

-and they know when the sunshine is longer and stronger, as

* Well, what if tops have |

| well as astronomers and meteorologists. Tops, marbles and

duties upon Colonial and foreign Deals there bas been a considerable falling off in the demand for Spruce, and no | sales by private \ands have been made. The last sale by

kites are as regular in their round as the planets in their orbits—and you may swear by them, as men sumetimes swear by Jupiter and Mars.— Providence Journal.

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auciion shows a reduction in price of 10s. per standard.

ert A Common Forpire.—You don’t much mind being only a

No Compvutsion. sur you must po 1r.— The fol’ow-| commonplace man in all other respects, if only there be one ing story has beeo revived in Paris, and its circulation | respect in which you can fondly believe you are superior to has created a great deal of laughter. We have not | everyone else. A man is taller than anybody eise in the town heard whether it orig nated in the Tuilleries. At the period or parish ; he has longer hair ; he can walk faster ; he is the when Bonaparte was about to be yumed Consul for life, | first person who ever crossed tbe uew bridge; wheu the Queen General Saint Hilsire assembled the troops under bis com-| passed near she bowed to him individually ; be was the ear- mand, and delivered the following harangue :—* Comrades! | liest in the neighbourhood who got the perfvrated postage the nation is deliberating on the question—Shall General | stamps ; he has the swiftest horse in the district ; he has the Bonaparte be appointed Conral for life? Opinions are as | largest cabbages ; he aas the oldest watch ; one Smith spells free us ait; | would not for the world seck to influence your’s. | his name as uo other Smith was ever known to do. Lt is quite However, I think i: right to apprise you that the first man | wonderful how it is possible for men to find reason for cherishing who refuses to vote iu Bonaparte’s favour shall be shot at the| in their beart a deep-seated belief, that in something or other bead of bis regiment —liberty forever !"—Court Cirewar. {they stand on a higher platform than all the remainder of

By the Hon. Mr. Simpson, a Petition of divers Mechanics | and Farmers, of Township No. 52, priying that this House | ) will concur with the Llouse of Assembly, in granting a smal | (sum in aid of individual subscriptions towards the formation | ‘of a Library, to consist of a few standard works on History, | | Mechanies, and Agriculture, the Petitioners having estab-_ ‘lished a Suciety for mutual improvement. | Aliso by the Hon. Mr. Simpson, a Petition of divers in-| ‘habitants of South West River, and vicinity, praying for the establisimest of a Post Office | pat the bead of Freuch River. His Honor spoke briefly in| | favor of the prayer of the petition, asserting that a Post Office was very much wanted in the locality indicated by | the Petition.

!so by the Hon. Mr. Simpson, a Petition of divers in- habitants of Prince Edward Islond, praying that this House | will concur with the House of Assembly in granting a sum | in aid of the erection of a Light House at the Hast Point of | this Island. His Honor, in presenting this Petition, stated | that the inhabitants located on the northern coast of the Is- | land were much more interested in the object of the Petition than the citizens of Charlottetown, on account of vessels leaving | the barred harbours of said coast and taking their departure, when they aad the only tide which would enable them t. | pass over the bars, on accomplishing which they generally | passed the Kast Point before day, from which point a low. and dangerous reef extended a considerable distance sea-| wards ; to avoid which vesszis often overrun the maik, aud | yo ashore oa Cupe Breton, as was the case with a schooner last fall.

and passed in the 18th year of the Keign of Her present Majesty, Queen Victoria, intivuled * Au Act te consolidate aud amend the Laws now in force relating to the Office of Sheriffs in this Island ;*’—to cach of whicu they desire the concurrence of the Legislative Council.

The said Bills were read the first time.

Fripay, March 9, 1860.

ACTS. A Message from the House of Assembly by the Hon. Mr.

| The following Petitions were presented to the House, and _ the same were received and read, viz:

By Hon. Mr. Hutehinson, a Petition of William C. Mug ford, | & cripple, in destitute circumstances, praying relief.