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HASZARD'S GAZETTE, MARCH 21.

THE NEW MINISTRY.

Lord Panasnaarorr, First Lord of the Treasury. Lord Caaivwonnr, Lord Chancellor.

Lord CLARENDON, Secretary of State for Foreign l

Affairs. Lord PAKIIVRI. Secretary of State for the War Department. Sir Gsonos: Gria:v,Secretary of State for the Home Department. Joiuv I{uasn.i., Secretary of State for the Colonies. Sir C. G. LIWII. Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sir Crtannns Woon, First Lord of the Admiralty. Sir W. Mor.s:swort'rH, Chief Commissioner of VVoods and Works. Lord GitArsvrr.1.a:, President of the Council. Lord CANNING, Postmaster-Genera . Duke of Aitavr.r., Lord Privy Seal. Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, Lord CARLIILI. Chief Secretary for Ireland, Mr. Ilottsautiv. Lord of the Treasury (in the room of Lord Elclio, retired), Lord Duncan. President of the Board of Trade, Lord Sraxaaiv of Anni:itr.s:x. President of the Board of Control, Mr. Venison S

aria-ii. Secretary to the Board of Control, Mr. DANIY Savasouri.

Mr. Villiers, who was offered the Vice-Presidency of the Board of Trade, declines that ollice, and retains his present post of Judge Advocate General.

r. W. Cowper succeeds Mr. Fitzroy as under Secretary of State for the Ilome Department, and Sir Ilobert Peel will probabl go to the Colonial Office as Under Secretary. Ir. Monckton Milneir has declined the lordship of the Treasury, rendered vacant by the resignation of Lord Alfred Hervey. In filling the Secretaryship of the Ordnance, Lord Palmerston was anxious to avail himselfof the busi- ness experience of Mr. I.aing, but that gentleman declined the oﬁ‘er. The Attorney-General for Ire- land. Mr. Brewster, has tendered his resignation, and it has been accepted. The Solicitor-General. Mr. Keogh, will succeed Mr. Brewster as Attorney- General. Mr. John David Fitzgerald, Q. C., has been sppoiiited Solicitor-General, in succession to r. eogh.

Lord Palmerston has succeeded in the re-con- structiori of his Cabinet; and England once again ﬁnds herself under the rule of an Administration, composed almost exclusively of the members 0 the old traditional Whig families. The celebrated Coalition of 1853, after a contemptible existence oftwo years, has gone down to the tomb of al the Capulz-ts, and leaves not a living soul behind to lament its fate. Henceforward this famous combination of the Talents will be memorable, only for the genius with which it managed to in- volve us in is formidable war-—for the skill with which it imposed upon us is doubled income-tax- and by the brilliant administrative ability by which it inaricii a catiipaigri and lost. an unity. The country will easily reconcile itself to the loss of the " talent" which has been attended with such results: and although the Cabinet now formed may not at ﬁrst sight appear to be so strong as tho exigency ot the tines would render desirable, every one will at least perceive that it possesses the advantage of a complete uniformity and identity of political opinion and principle between all its members. This, at such a juncture as the present, is an advantage of the mostinestimable kind, and may fairly be regarded as fully com- pensating for a much greater amount of mere mediocrity than can be justly sscribrd to any part of the new Government. 50 manifest is this fact, that evi-ii one of the warmest and most violent in Lord l’:ilmerston’s political opponents is forced to confess it.

“The new Cabinet,” says he, “ has one fea- into which gives it a great advantage over the Ministry which it succevds. It is iriore of one mind and of one class. It has thrown off the peril and deﬁlement of the Free-'l‘rade-'l‘rsctaris acct, comtnonly known as ‘ the Peelites.’ Heric it will not excite the alarm and jealousy which were so often aroused, within the last two years, by tho Gladstones and Sidney Herberts, whenever any Church question sprung up. Neither will it but iinperilled by the internal intrigues or the ex- ternal unpopularity of those now defunct politi- cians. In all these respects. the Palmerston Ministry will be more likely to last than the Cubi- net which preceded it." This is unquegliungbly the common sense view of the change that has been effected, and we hardly entertain a doubt that it will turn out to be correct.

The places abandoned by the three leading Peeliie deserters have been distributed by the Premier in the following manner:—Lord John Russell succeeds Mr. Sidney Herbert as Secre- tary for the Colonies; Sir George Cornewall

wis ﬁlls the place of Mr. Gladstone, as Chan- cellor ol the Exchequer; and Sir Charles Wood becomes I-‘im Lord of the Admiralty in the room of Sir amea Graham. So much prestige has hitherto attached to the names of Mr. Gladstone and Sir James Graham, that many people are disposed to shake the head and to look exceeding- ly grave when they run their eye down the list of the new Ministry, and ﬁnd the places of these celebrated gentlemen supplied by the humbler names of Sir George Coruewall Lewis and Sir Charles Wood. Now there is an old and homely adage which says, that“ the proof of the pudding lies in the eating.” For something more than two years, we have had the advantage of Mr. Gladstone's sparkling ability in the Exchequer, and of Sir James Graham’s administrative taleiit-

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In the department of the one, increased taxation

and embarrassed ﬁnance; in the department of the other, a mighty demonstration of naval strength with no result. Are we to be so enamoured of hose results, as to declare that no men of less acknowledged genius than Sir James Graham and Mr. Gladstone shall fill these important places in the Government? Are we to conclude. that Sir George Cornewall Lewis would not have capacity enough to double the most onerous of our taxes ; or, that Sir Charles Wood would not possess sufﬁcient intelligence to send out a fleet which should bring back nothing better or more valuable than a refractory admiral? We confess we do not share in the apprehensions of those who look with alarm at the substitution of the high genius which has produced as these results, for the less pretentious talent of the gentleman whom ord Palmerston has appointed to the offices in question. Sir Charles Wood is not unfavourably linown for his former administration ot the admiralty; anil although Sir G. C. ewis is a new and untried man in the department of ﬁnance, he must at any rate be exceedingly unfortunate, as well as hope- lessly incapable, if he do not make "as good a hand of it” as his very famous but woefully deﬁ- cient predecessor. Nobody we presume will, for a moment, dispute that the Government and the country gain immeasurably by the substitution of Lord John Russell for Mr. Sidney Herbert in the Secretaryship for the Colonies. We know not upon what conditions Lord John Rnssell’s ad- hesion to the new Cabinet may have been obtain- Many feelings personal to himself might certainly have operated to deter him from entering any Cabinet in a capacity subordinate to that of Lord Palmerston. It is hardly to be supposed that the circumstances of 1851 can have been completely forgotten, either by himself or by the present Premier.

We presume however. that a high sense ofpublic duty overrode all other considerations in Lord John Russell's mind, and induced him, as soon as he was informed of the Peelite deaertion, to afford with prompt and patriotic readiness all the sup- port which his honored nsme could give to the shattered and tottering Administration of his old colleague—the somewhat cavaliery-treated subor- dinate of a former day-—but the admitted chief and trusted champion of the present hour. Lord John Russell's conduct in this instance, does him infinite honour. It is understood, that as soon as he shall have acquitted himself of the high mis- sion conﬁde to him at Vienna (which is not expected to detain him for more than it very brief period), he will return to England, and in his place in Parliament, will lend the whole weight of his great experieiice and personal influence to the new Administration.

.ooking at Lord Palmerston’s Cabinet as it now sizinils, we are cotnpelleil to admit, that it has lost much of oratorical, and sometliing, perhaps ofad- iiiinistrativo ability; but we art: strongly of opini- on, that these losses are more than compensated by the lio:nogeneity—the unity of opinion and prin-

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eye of the enemy, or rather, we are aiming at the

very heart of his colosal power. If we tail, we are ruined; as e is, if we succeed; and atthis, precise moment, with our forces, in so dreadful at condition before Sebastopol, one of our leading statesmen starts off post-haste to Vienna, again to talk about—peacc-! While Lord John is pottering with Gortscliiikolf, Nicholas is pushing on with life and death exertion reinforcements on aire- inendoua scale; and, doubtless, by this time has placed his own construction on the motives, that could have led us to send Lord John Russell on such an errand at such a moment. We want to be told that Nicholas will not do what we ask; we know it already that he will as soon listen to a proposal for dismantling Sehastnpol as a man to the proposal for cutting off his right arm. It is mere madness to suppose. that he will do any thing ofthe kind; and that madness is on the ministry, if they seriously entertain such a supposition. The country is in a stern humour, and will not tolerate triﬂing any longer. Our brothers’ blood crieth from the ground ; while we are fooling, they are perisliing—perishing ingle- riously, and with them the renown of old En- gland. Wiiile the country looks at Lord Palmer- ston with an anguished face, he jauntily ﬂaunts it with a bit of red tape, saying “ Pooh! be quiet! I will put your War oﬂice into good lteeping——- that of an elderly invalid and a young incapabIe!—i Panmure and Peel!" We believe that Mr. Gladstone will have the temerity to propose to parliament to go on as he did before,and starve the war abroad by crushing us at home. If he do, there will be a sudden storm of national fury, the like of which England has not seen for a century. Yet such is Mr. Gl:tdstone'e infatuation. that we are prepared to see him make the attempt, and thencountry is waiting sullenly to see whether he wi .

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EA8ZARD’S GAZETTE. Wednesday, March 21st, 1855.

The proprietor trusts that his readers will fora little while bear with and overlook any occasional deﬁciencies that may occur, in any department of the nper. Some time must elapse, before his mind recovers from the shock occasioned b the sudden and appalling death of it much oved brother, to whose natural abilities, and studious habits, he has been fre- quently indebtcd for assistance, and to whom when the period of his preparatory studies had ended, he looked for more valuable aid.

The task that devolves upon us this day is t1 sad and distressin one. We gave notice, in our last, that one of the Mail Boats was miss- ing, but were unable to give any further infor- mation with respect to the fate of either the

ciple which it lizis gained. Its success, however, and its continuance in potter even for the next three months, will wholly depend upon the activity and vigour which it shall display, not only in cor- recting the negligcnces and errors of its prede- cessor. but in pushing forward the war in the new campaign whic is now about to open, with the whole weight and power of the empire. Lord Palmerston has taken the helm at a critical mo- ment iu the nation‘s fortunes, and will doubtless have many dilliculties to encounter, but he has now surrounded himself with a crew of his ow selection, and to adopt the modern phrase, he; s, in the most emphatic sense of the term, " master of the position. ’

All eyes are now ﬁxed upon him as the states- man who can heat embody the purposes of the British nation. Will he deceive the hopes thus fondly placed in him? We trust not—we believe

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THE VIENNA CONGRESS. (From the Morning Herald.)

We warn the public not to be sanguine in their expectations of success in Lord John Russe|l’s mission to Vienna. We entertain a conﬁdent opi- nion, that none of those who have sent him are sanguine, or have any other intention, than secur- ing a formal cessation of the miserable shilly- shallying which has been going on so long at our expense. and for the C7.ar's advantage. This we believe to he the view of Lord Palmerston, and. it may be of Lord John Ruasell;and if even that little point he gained, we must be thankful for small mercies. But let not crednlity or connivance burst forth again into full Aberdeen bloom. If it do, it will be the death-ﬂower of the national he- uor. What is the state of the case! The war has been horribly and fatally mismanaged from first to last; the English peoplelooking on with an apathy, or, if the word he more agreeable, for- bearance, quiet new to the English character, and, ifit continue, of evil omen. They have to- lerated an old man crying peace.’psace.' when there was no peace. but there was kindled a war, blazing round us at this moment like a czrcle of ﬁre. That old man has been got rid of, and pitched into privacy after a convulsive eﬂiirt; htit he left his mantle over his representatives in the cabinet. and they, with war on their lips. are in reality cryioc ace; while our giant foe is ordering a levv en

in tho \dmiraIty. What have they prodocadli

masse. calling every available man to arms, and already in advanced in a campaign, where the watchword is victory or destruction. Our attae

on Sebastopol is an arrow quivering in the very

£?ll5n om 0lII' OWII.

crew or the passengers. On Monday evening,

miles from any dwelling. Two of the lloatmen anc- ceeded in reaching a house, gave the alarm, and the Inhabitants carried them to their houses. 'I‘he sur- viving Passengers are both badly frozen, Mr. Wier I ad brought to my'own house, where he now_is. His ands and feet are frozen, the latter so badly,thatI fear the toes will be lost, the old man is in good spirits ‘ " ' r. Johnston's hands and person are safe, but his feet are frost-bitten, one of them pretty badly, but Dr. Creed, of Pugwash, who has examined thein, thinks they are not dangerous. He remained last night at the house where they landed, I have just learned that he sle t well, and feels quite refreshed. A friend of mine, Ir. Judson, has just gone to take him to his house, where, his friends may feel assured, lie will receive every care and comfort required. The Boatnien, with the exception of one, who has almost entirely escaped, are badly frost-bitten in the feet, and so exhausted, that some time must elapse ere they can he recovered. In the mean time, they will be suitably treated and taken care of. 'I'lie surviving Passengers entirely clear them from bliiiiie, and say they did all that men could do. The Mails are all saved, and I had them placed in charge of the Postmaster here, to be forwarded on. The loss of Mr. Huszard is to be deeply lamented; I wish you would inform his friends that I have had every decent attention paid to his remains, and will have the body so interred, that it can be removed if they wish so to do.

Any comments upon the above heat-trending title would be just now superﬂuous and out of place.

Mrcnsivics’ Iivsri-ru'rtt.—Mr. Mac.-tusland dc- Iivered last evening, a Practical and Scientiﬁc Lecture upon Steam, and illustrated his subject by dirt ram, and by having the model ol' s. Steam .ngine, constructed by that ingenious Mechanic, Mr. William C. Hobs of this Town, in full and successful operation.—The Lecturer gave it. very enlar ed view of the Motive Power, and showed its ado tation, to practical urpo- ses in Commerce, Agriculture, and the glarin- ﬁi.cturers.—-

An animated discussion followed, in which the question of motive power against Manual Labour was fully argned——and the preference was given to the former.-

Heath Haviland, Esq., V. P. presided and His llonor the President, who came in late, stated that Mr. Birnie had generously presented to the Institute, the above mentioned model, and,he therefore moved the followed Resolution, which was seconded by J. T. Pidwell, Esq..- and carried unanimously.-

“ ltesolvcd, That the thanks of the Institute, be given and conveyed to the Honorable George Birnie, for his liberality in kindly presenting to the Institute, a beautiful model of a. Steam Engine.”

At: the close of the rocecdin gs, the President feelingly alluded to t e bereavement, that had been recently sustained, by their first Vice Patron, and moved the following Resolution of condolence, which was seconded by George W. DeBlois, Esquire, and passed with much solem-

hovvever, the melunchol intelligence which we are about to communicate reached us. We have been kindly favoured with the use of ii. letter from A. M‘Fnrlane, Esq., to the Hon. Edward Palmer, the greatest part of which we insert, preferring this mode of giving the sad details, which, for obvious reasons, will be more acceptable from the en of n disinterested-

than anything w ich might emanate

Wallace, N. S., Nth March, I855. Dear Sir;

Yesterday morning, I received information that the Ice Boat, from Cape Tormentine, to the Island, in charge of McRae's, with the Mails and Passengers, had succeded in getting on share at the rear of Fox Harbour, about ﬁve miles from Wallace, in an ex- hausted and perishing condition. I immediately hurried to where the poor people on the shore ha succeeded in getting their. to shelter, and found the scene awful in the extreme. The Boat left the Cape on Saturday. with the crew of four men,and three pas- sen era: young Mr. IIaszard,and Mr. Johnston, son of Ilr. Jolltislon, both of Charlottetown, Medical Students, on iln-ir way from the United States, and an old gentlen-an, Joseph Wier, of Bangor. After crossing without accident to within half a mile of the Island share, the storm of sleet and snow rew violent, and the lolly lay so deep, that they could not force the Boat through it. After repeated attempts, and being in danger of swaniping the Boat, they were forced to return, and drawing the Best on the ice, turned her up to form it shelter from the raging storm and intense cold, and thus, drifted helplessly in the Gulfthroughout Friday night, Saturday and Saturday night. On Sunday morning—having drifted about midwav in the Gulf, and the ﬂow of drift ice making it utter y impracticable to reach the Island ahoref they commenced, with much fatigue, drawing their Boat towards the Mainland, the three passengers being then considerabl frost-bitten; they toiled on throughout Sunday, an until about mid-day on Mon- day, when the Boatmen being utterly exhausted. neither they nor the Passengers having tasted food for three days, were about giving up in despir Fortunately, Mr. Wier had with him a small spaniel, which they killed, drank its blood. and Passengers and Crew cat "lt’_ﬂ!8’I, TIIID.’ this revived them. and being then. air they supposed. within 4 to miles of the land, they lightened the Boat by throwing away 'l‘runlis and Baggage, put Mr. Hsszard. who had become unable to walk. into the Boat, and Mr. Wi--r also, occasionally. be being much exhausted,und thus crawled on towards the shore. Monday evening, Mr. llaszirid died front exhaustion; they toiled on through this night, and just after daylight on Tuesday

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Resolved, that the Members of the list tote, deeply sympathise with James D. Ilaszard Iisq. Vice Patron, in his recent sudden bereavement by the unexpected and lamented death of his son ; and the

embers trust that Mr. llaszard and his family will receive those consoliitinns from the most I-ligh, which He alone can impart to the afflicted.

\.The Hon. Daniel Brenan, will Lecture on Tuesday evening next, on “ Ancient Commerce. ’ ’

TEIPERANCEMEITINGS.-The Sixth of the series of Meetings will be held in the Temperance Hall, on Thursday, 22d. The Rev. Mr. Strong will address the meeting. Chair to be taken at 8 o'clock.

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On Tuesday, the 13th inst., the Presbytery of Prince Edward Island, in connection with the Presbyterian Church of Nova Scotia, met at

riucetown. A call from the congregation of Cascumpec, and West Point, was resented to Mr. Allan Fraser. Preacher of the ospel, and accepted by him. Next meeting of Presbytery, was appointed to be at Covehead Churc , on Wednesday,the 28th inst.; is Preshyterial vis- tation of the Congre tion, to take lace. The Rev. John McLeod,was appointed to preach.

Errata.

In the Gaelic Poem, in our last number; in the 3d verse, for the word “ chintiun,” read cltiintinn. In the 7th verse, 5th line, for the ﬁrst word " ann” read at.

Br.acxwoon’s MAGA2lll—The February number of this old and able magazine, publiahed by L. Scott 6: Co., ‘V0. 54 Gold street, this city. con- tains eight capital articles on various subjects, the “ Story of the Campaign," continued, and part three of“ Zuideo," ll romance. The story of the campaign is written by an officer in the Britah army in the Crimeathe describes what he sees, and what he knows to be true.—'I‘here are reviews of the life of Lord Vdctcalf (once Governor ofCsnada.) and of that late eminent mitimilist, Prof Forbeﬂi Ind 0'10 of Bnlwnr. (lire trcirii-ndr-nit article entitled " 'l‘he Revelations of n .‘llm-i man," is at review of the ntrtoliiogrnphy of I’. 'l'. ll.irvinin. It is the inns! gcmrchin‘ unit |s)\'('l[|) urlicin W0’ EVE!’ fﬂlld ;’ II II enough in in-,.ko ilio olijct-t Fllfllllf into n pint vinegar boltée. It i.i.i tip.tu-,i iiiiinber; those _who wish to get the best for: ign inontl.l_v Illflﬂnzlﬂﬂ tn. the world, in only $3 per ur.u=.iii_ shoiilil twiiil ttt llletl‘ lllmtil I0

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