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Established 1823.

Haszard’s Gazette. GEORGE 'l‘. IIASZ U11), Proprietor and Publisher Published every Tticsduy evening and Sztturduy morning OEice.South side Queen Srpinrs,I’. E. Island. 'I‘::::—-Annual SulJsCl’lpliotl,I5l. Discotiirt lur cash it advance. slums or ADVIRTISIHG. For the first insertion, occttpyiiig the space of 4 liner- nclutling licitd,2s.—-ti lint-s,2s. (id.-9 liner , 3|-—'l2liut'r 8s. Gd.-I8 lines, -Is.—20 lines, -ls. 6d.—-25 lines, 5u~ 80lines, 6s.6d.—36lincr,6s.—und 2d. for each udrlitiorut iite. One fourth ofthe above for each continuum-e Advertiseinentsseiitwithout! iinit:ition,willbecontinue sutilforbid. ‘

CARD. srswaur 8:. MACLI-IAN, SHIP BROKERS (lb COMMISSION MERCHANTS, For the Sale and Purchuu of American 5' Pro- vincial Produce, _and llralrrs in Provisions, h , l . 4:. Pass! Lairnuta, Water-Sireet,St. JOHN. N. B. rnuence . E. I.. ha. Punniu,’ Esq., -. Messrs. It. RANKIN Gr. Co.

in: Charlottetown, P. t. 0 ll, . April 18, I855.

J. . EALEY, . SHIP BROKER .d.N‘D COMMISSION AND

. SHIPPING AGENT, - No 7, Coentis’s Blip, New York.

Particular etteniion given to Freight: and Veeses for the British Provinces and est Indies. Jlro, the sole of Coal, Fish, Lumber, and other Colonial Produce.

s. L. TILLEY, Wholesale and Retail Drugglst 15, use ariurrr, S.dI.rV'1' JOHN‘, JV’. B. nuansii in BRITISH AND FOREIGN DRUGS, CHEMICALS,

Patent Medicines, Perfumery, Soaps. Spices, Ifnints,

Oils, Glass, Putty, Varnish, 81.0., Confections in great variety. 6mx

MR. HOWE’S OFFICE ' IN mt. novvr:it’s BUILDINGS, \VATER. S'l‘lll'}l‘7'I‘. Charlottetown, April ‘.20, 1855. 0. 6L J. BELL, MERCHANT TAILORS, and Manufac- turers of Ready Made Clothing, Queen Square, opposite the Jl.frn'l.'et, Cliarlollctown. IMPORTERI or Cloths, Whitneys, Doeskins, Tweeds, Vi.-stings and Tailors’ Trirnrnings, and keep in their employ- ment tho largest number ofilic best. Journey- inen Tailors on the island. All Orders attended to with punctuality and des- patch. J

WILLIAM C. HOBBS. Brass Founder and Machinist. Shop-Corner of Great George and King Street, Charlottetown.

EEPS constantly Manufacturing all kinds of Brass and Conipositiou Castings, such as. Ships’ Rudder Braces.Spikes, Bolts, Hinges, ornarnentnl Fastenings for Ships’ Wheels and Citpstons and Belle. Composition Mill Bushes and'I‘hreshing Mucliine Brasses, &c. &c. All of which are warranted of the best material. . P. S. The ltigiest price will be given for old Cop- per, Brass and omporition.

Just Try WEB JAMIE DUN CAN ’S New Establishment of Tin, Copper, Iron, and Plumber Work. Nazi door to the reaidenct of the Hon. Geo. Cola.

From his late experience in the Old Country, and by strict attention to the execution of orders, he hopes

to merit a share of public patronage.

",‘>P.8.—.lohhing punctuully attended to.

Charlutwtowii, P. I4), lslaml, Sa.turday, May 12, M5

GLEANINGB FRO}! LATE PAPERS.

Sorr-osrn DEARTH or Airtrurvr-riou IN $'i-:mts-rb- roi..—Soon ufter dark tho French opened on the left it more vigorous hornhardmentizgoiust the town than has yet been uttoinpted. All their- new mortar batteries opened, and a terrific churgc followed. A series of cascades of stars, as it were, played into the town, falling with such regularity, that seen from the distance of the right attack, it appeared more’ like feu ¢!'arIificc than the discharge of so much heavy metal. Behind the batteries of minor weight

some of the large 13-inch mortar works were 1

opened, the shells froiu which rose to an amusing height before they fell on the devoted town. The crash of their explosion reverber- ated among the hills. This continued shelling was kept up for some hours, and must have caused vast destruction. The fire of the Rus- sian ritlemen against the etnbrnsures of the ad- vanced works, active enough at first, gritduully subsided. But the most wonderful part of the spectacle was the almost total absence of any flash from the Russian batteries. A complete silence reigned along their whole line. To fifty or a hundred shells thrown from the French. and from some of the works on Green- hill. scarcely onc replied from the Russians. This formed so remarkable as contrast with the usual activity of the enemy‘: batteries, that it became the subject of iiiuoli speculation. Whether there was really a dearth of ammuni- tion, or whether from such a terrible shower of metal it had been thought rudent for the gunners to conceal themselves as they best could, until the hottest part of the storm was over, was equall uncertain. During the French attack on the night of the 14th instant, an Irishman, who had been two years in Sebas- topol, taunt ged to elfect his escape to our lines, and he represented, that there was great appre- hension in the garrison respecting our opening the new batteries. Whatever the cause, while an uninterrupted shower of shells was being poured into the town, scarcely it shell or shot was returned to check the fire or in retaliation. There was equal silence preserved in the Rodeo, and in tire works around the .\Iulakoll'Tower, on the right-—although_from time to time the Lancaster and 21-gun batteries, and the French buttery at lnkerman, maintained a firo against the parties supposed to be working in the new Mamelon redoubt. We must look to time alone for the explanation. The bombardment of last night on the left is it sample of what; will be the tire against the town and arsenal, when all the new works are opcncd.—Lr:Hrrr from the Camp, March 19.

SEB.tST0l'0L AND Aiurtoi-tnnox.-—-Tlro following letter appears in the Morning C/irrmicIe:—-“Sir your correspondent, referring to an extract from a sermon of mine, preached on the Fast Day, and reported in your columns, asks very naturally. on what ground I explain Arrnn ed- dou as meaning in Greek Scbastopol. ‘he word in Greek is triads up of scbaslas, august, and polis, city—Sobustopol, “ august city. The llcbrew word Armageddon is made u aar, a city ; an magad, august, the on being formative. I do not say, and did not say, that Scbttstopol with its terrible slaughter is the great war of Armageddon. but this great war seems between the sixth and seventh vials —our resent place in prophecy; and in -all

robability it is the beginning of that war, the duration and havoc of which will be terrible. —Your obedient servant, JOHN Cuiiiiisa."

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LIFE or SIR Jous FRANKIJN.--Iii. C. Richards Weld, a London barrister, is preparing for publication I life of his uncle, Sir John Ifianklin, embracing his early naval career, which was chequered by many remarkable events, and his various Arctic explorations, with the measures taken to search for his last unfortunate expedition

A Ruriisc I‘-0.Vl.\tUNlTY.—'I‘hct'e are sixteen million fifty thousand four hundred and sixty newspapers printed in tnc course of the year in the city of Albany. This is 321 to each inhabit- ant, or more than one to each person every week- day in the year. " The mart that don’t take the papers” does not live in Albany.

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GENIIH N01‘ ALWAVI lJuru:\vAnmco—ltis stated in the lloston 'l'rat'e1ler, that Little, Hrovtii (V. Co. of BOSIOII, having paid the family of the lattnliirlge Story $ l50,0U0 for copyrights of the various works written by the Judge. llis copyrights have soriietirnes yielded his family $8000 per ann_uin. Of Daniel Webster's writings. the sumo hou~e have t>(ll(l 50,000 volumes, and of B:tr.croI'1's llirtury ofthe United States, 30,000 cfipies have already hteu sold, For one series of works (the CflmlJl_It.l[18 Mathematics) they paid $30,000 for the copyright.

Colonel Piiiurs, of Mobile, member of the rite Congress, was on his way from Weldon to Charleston, when the cars stopped at a. station- house, and he went out into the air to smoke it cigar. While thus engaged, another train ran into the one in which he was a passenger, and the scat which ho had occupied a few minutes before was completely demolished, and his cloak, which was lying upon it, perforated by a bar ot' iron, and carried out through the top of the car.

Msititrino IN A Suiioi.'n.—-Calling recently upon a young bride, (is very leasing custom we saw spread upon the tab 0 some beuutifu silver ornaments of elegant workmunsliip. Books were there also, with richly chased covers and golden chts s. Gilde baskets and orn- broidcry adornc this beautiful table. They were bridal gifts, and the ride, a blushing creature, light-hearted and happy, seemed proud of the many and exceedingly rich testi- monials. It is it pretty custom to give presents to a bridal air, and one that is in v0 us every where, hot in civilized sud uncivi ized life: and we thought, how varied the character and meaning these gifts imply in diflerent countries.

In Japan, strung: its it may scam, the bride receives from the a a sermon in disguise. On the wedding-day, when light hearts and innocent mirth prevails, and the gusts move liohtl among flowers and perfumes, as soon as t e ride enters, a long white veil is thrown over her, which covers her from head to foot. Whether the material is transparent or not, we cannot tell, but after the ceremony is over, she carefully lnys aside this covering among her treasures, not to be ' turbed, and there it is to lie, until the day she is to be carried over the threshold for the lost time. For the wedding veil at her death is‘ to be her shroud.

What would our ladies think of having a shroud around them to partake in the festivities ofn. wedding day 1-O/ivc Branch.

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Fir.-tsrri.iN's Bin'rir-D.tv.——'l‘he New York 'l‘ypograplticailSocicty celebrated the one hurr- drod anrl toriy-ninth anniversary of Franklin, in the liioadtvay Tabernacle, on \Vednesday evening the 17th inst. They departed, judiciously, we think, from the programme of former years, and instead of having a slipper and ball, with the com- mensurate expenses to all who attended, confined the celobrutioii to literary exercises alone, and made the admission to the Tabernacle free by ticket. The result was I} noble gathering of upward of three thousand people, composing an audience which for decorum, iritelligence, and right good humour, we have rarely seen equalled. The evening passe oil" most pleasantly and delightfully to all concerned, and produced, a sub- scription of upward of five hunrlred dollars on behalf of the Society’s free library. His llonor, 'or \Vood, presided with mtich suirvity and abi ity, and in a. neat opening address introduced the Rev. L. W. Bacon or New Haven, Connecti- cut who olfered prayer. The speeches were good, the music was good, the house was filled. and everybody appeared to be highly pleased. It was, altogether, a delightful and successful atlliir.

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The statue which has recently been erected in St. l’nul's cathedral, London,‘ to the memory of liishnp Haber, is said to be unsurpassed in beauty of design and excellence of execution. lie is kneeling, attired in his robes, with one hand resting on the Bible. as his support, and the other upon his breast. On the pedestal, beautifully

confirming two lndian converts.

ads of her dearest friends‘

done in has-relief, he is represciited in the act of

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MISCELLANEOUS.

Ul£!s"l'Ll-".\v1t<ZN.r! i'Ixrir.n_ir;.tNt:i: rr.-r.vu.< l.rtnils.'

—:\ conte,-ri.por:rr_v tlmzks that "too much has .laicly l)t‘l’li mid by lll:.rlI_V |I£'i:»0li§ and journals concerning ladies ruining their hu~bands by exiravagance.in l)l:)lll}_' r-ilk drrsses and such !other expensive articles.” lie says that “not ;orieo has the use of to!.:.o;co, cigars, and liquors. 5 by grritlcincn, boon allurln-d to, which I sin sure , is quite as irnportant an item as ladies’ silk idrcsses." 'l'r'.is is ti fair lill. The value of the {cigars llnpnrlval into the I'.'iil(‘tl States in the I ‘C1 year. l"~‘5At. was $3.3ll,035, and of J uiiirrantifacturcd tolmt-co about $5 l,00U,000 more ;in value was iin;-orxed. Azul the tobacco and lcigars \\'liit:li pass through the Cnstozri House is lbut a small proportion iridceil. of the quantity consurni.-tl in this country. The value of the liquors imported during the same year $7,188,820.

Far Mas.-—'l‘licre is something cordial about a. fat man. Everybody likes him, and he likes everybody. our Islvniaelites are, in truth, is hareboncd rricc ; it lank tribe they nre, skeleton and bile. Food does it fat man good; it clin to him; it fructifies on him: he swells noby out; and fills a generous space in life. He is a living, walking minister of gratitude to the earth, and the fulnoss thereof; an incarnate tes- timony against the vanities of care; a radiant inunifestation of the wisdom of good-humour. A fat man, therefore, almost in virtue of being it. fat man, is, per se, It popular man, and com- ruonly to eservcs his popularit . In s crowded vehicle, the fattest man will ever be the most ready to ma e room. Indeed, he seems to be half-sorry for his size. lest it he in the way ofothers; but others would not have him less than he is, for his humanity is usually commensurate with his bulk. A fat man liss abundance of rich 'uiccs. The hinges of his system are well oiletf; the springs ofhis being guru noiseless; and so he goes on his way rs- gjoicing, in full contentment and lncidity. A

fat mun feels his position solid in the world; he knows that his being is cognisoble; he knows that he has a marked place in the uni- verse, nnd that he need take no extra pains to advertise mankind that he is ntnon them; he knows that he is in no danger of cing over- looked. It does really taken. deal of wrong to make one really hate a fat roan ; and if we are not always as cordial to it thin man as we should be, Cliristiari charity should take into account the force of prejudice which we have to overcome against his thinness. A fat man is nearest to that most perfect of ligures,s. mathematical sphere; a thin man to that most limited of conceivable dimensions, 9. simple line. A fat: man is a being of harmonious volume, and holds relations to the material universe in every direction; a. thin man has nothing but length; a thin man, in fact, is but talc’ continuation of a p0int.—Leclurt:s of Henry

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SAGACITY or A3’ Ei.sriirtr\"r.—We passed an

elephant working on the road, and it was most interesting to watch the lialf-reasoning brute; he was touring out large roots from the ground by means of it hook and chain fastened around his neck with 9. species of collar. He pulled likcu.mu.n,or rather like 1]. number of iucn, with it succession of steady hauls, throwing his whole wciglit into it, and almost going down on his knees, turning around every now and then to see what progress he was making. Really, the instinct dis la ed by the elephant in its domestic state is itt e short of reason to its fullest sense. There is no doubt they do trick, and also act upon 5xpertcn_ce and memory, and their capacity scents t0.1n('.-[€0.80 in an extraordinary degree from their inter- course with mrtn. l‘ho remarkable niccty and trouble they take in squaring and arranging the blocks ofhcwn stone when building it bridge is incredible, unless soon: they place them with its much skill as any mason. and will return two or three times to give the finishing touches when they thin]: the work is not quite perfect They retire a. few yards and consider what they have effected, and you almost fancy ‘ou can detect them turning their sagacicus old nmldlr-ii on one side, and shutting one eye in at kiimt in; mannor to detect any irregulari- ties in the ttl‘l‘uIlg'.'1Xl\‘.‘IlI.

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