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cares of ofbce. We mention these facts

show that the political world of thie coantry |

may be nearer a contulsion than many imagine. —With the disappearance

e Eerie stage of the nuble lord at the head,

of the Government, the coalition between the V bigs and Liberal Conservatives would pro- bebly come to an end: but Lord Palmerston may live long enough to se & Dew Par- liament; and if he remained Premier, the tion of the new House could not fail to be largely induenced by his prestige. [ov the interim, we can only say that it is tif'ring to see a remarkable politician, who jaggeiy induenced his age, refuse the ease and repose which hie yeers demaad, and give bis whole time to his country. -——— - - -2o The Algerian papers contain an account of @ shocking scene im the Province of Uren. A private ia the 2nd battalion of Foot Chaseere, camed Boudiere, had been sentenced to death fur an attempt at murder and robbery against one of hiv cumrades, and was urdered to be shotat Plidah. He walked resoiucely te the place of execution, cetused to have bis eyes bandaged, kuele down in front of the picket, und himself gave the to fire. So ansteady was the aim that “oar ballete struck hem—~one in the n, one shattered his haed, and one etured each shoulder. Me shouted, * Ma- ja droits, vous mavez mangue,’’ (clumsy fellows, yoo have missed me |) und then laid down, his face to the ground. The sergeant then came up, put bis musket to his ear, and fired, but the proce did nut gu off. Boudiere thea ruse, chook his fist at the soldiers, and thea lay duwa again, the crowd meanwhile shouting out, “grace! grace! (mercy! merey.) The sergeant agai fired, but the gun again voly snapped. At last a musket waa loaded afresh, aod be was put out of bis The crowd which witnessed this atrociousscene isdeseribed as** exasperated,”’ aad the executive picket hod ty be sent to the barracks under escort.

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Tue Taisa Exaturtion ov 1864.—The pro- wed exhibition of Irish manufactures and of English and foreign machinery suited to manufactures, which the Royal Dublin Sueiety have decided to hold upon their pre- mises next year, we are glad to see, 18 pro- greseing favourably, aod offers to be one of the must successful as well as practically aseful ever held in the cowotry, We thiok

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i ——m— Naw we fee 8 ew eee |

Cape Race, Nov. 20th.

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“ City of Baltimore” from Liverpool 11th, and | Queenstown 12th, was intercepted at 7 o’cluck on | werniog of Friday, 20th. Rescairt To GRaNno Duke ConstaNtTine.— |

| Continual increase vf insurrectivs in Poland | baviog convinced Constantine vf the condition ot |

| affairs there, and the govd will which induced |

| the Emperor to ivtrust him with the eatabliab- | | ment of the institutioas decreed, (’) the Emperor retieree Coustantias of bis functuns as Licutenant

Cowmmandec-io-Chivf of Poland; truste be will |

resume bia task after the establishment of order. |

Not. 12th, 3 p.m. —Bank of France has raised | rate ut discount tu seven per cent. Rentes 67.30. |

Steamec “ Anglia" struck @ rock in Galway | | Bay while entering trom Liverpool on lth, gut | (od apparently uninjured, but still rewained at | Galway va morning of 11th; report of a survey. | Nothing transpired.

OU. 3. Corvette, “ St Louie,” gone from Lisboa | te Cadiz; “ Niagara” expected iv Lisbon

Reported the Adwiral urdered the * Kearsage"’ from Queeostowa; believed she was shipping | mea ostensibly fur stukers, but supposed fur more | active service. Saviled on Sth duriug such bad | weather that it ia interred ber departure was tnsisted upon,

Palmerston in a epeech at Lord Mayor's Banquet | deplored ite Awerican War, said Englaud would have intertered but tor belief it would be in vain She theretore would ovt yield to biandishuneats or | menaces, but reruam strictly neutral.

Regarding Poland be said England had done | her duty by remoustrating, but although their re- | moustrauces failed be hoped Russia would cease | tu pursue an olfensive course

Pabnenten's recepton was significantly enthu- sinstie

Mr. Villiers, promineat Government supporter, had been speaking in defeuce of Federal Goveru- ment.

Paris telegrams say Matamoras is not blockaded, but contraband of war will not be allowed to be | luuded

Emperor's proposal for a European Congress | attracts universal attention. Fifteen Powers are invited. No official advices yet received, but sup- |

‘posed greater number will give acquiescence, | | English Cabinet were holding meeting to consider | answer, Tones sees no objection to England | joining. Emperor's letter short—meutions ne | question. j

Bourse firmer, 67.05. |

Prussian, Belgian and Saxon Chambers opened | by Kings in person. King Prussia expressed | earnest wish fur termination of differences be- | tween Government snd Chambers. Upper House | voted address in response by small majority.

Captain and crew of “ Gold Hunter,” destroyed | by the “Georgia,” were landed at Teneriffe |

j ka ase. ome Oo

(FOR THE EXAMINER.) FPISTLE TO TOBY.

When to-morrow morn I leave yon, A pang will visit thee, —

And on sour Launches sitting, beg To go away with me.

I knew, my wistful suppliact, Thy prayer will touch me sore—

That dumb eloquent petition Will whelm my feelings o'er.

Ab, I know that you will miss we— { knew that you will fret—

1 know your heart will beat for me, Aud never will forget.

You will snutf the public high way-— You'll whine about my chair;

Howe and every baunt you'll rammage, And hope to find me there

I know you'll start and funcy off, My foot-falle in thine ear,

And often think you see me tuo, Now passing bere and there

And run in pleasant epeed of joy, To meet me on the street,

And wagging tail, and cheerful bound, Thy welcome be aud greet.

But, Toby, yeu alus will tind Your muster nor your frieud—

Not him you loved to welcome so, And fawn on and defend.

Then. faithful ene, you'll turn away, Tn disappointment’s pain—

Sit on the doorstep of our home, And eager watch again.

othere outside the

Fn but little uf the gow the fault was not trumpet é iv a <— praise) is

the Ora range ce, Ceaulutione to Roderick MeNeil for Soving vaved Priace Edward Island trom the dangers of Popery ! But during Roderick’s efforts to gaia notoriety, we bave not beard that he made avy atteaspts to qualify bimeelf oo i. = ed

i i tiun, ’

tied te City. bat be wen tu Dundas holding only

fer shortly, but he went pag veto class certificate, and came therefrom

without a bigher one. Now, the Rochfort school ta hitherto been a aecond class school. Mr. Jawes Currie, if I have been correctly informed, nad, before he lett the schvol, several boy. who were learaing Mathematics and the Latin Gram- waar, There are several teachers of long standing ip the Island who have second clase certificates, and who are teaching in district schools, and others who are unemployed, why did not one of these get the Roehtort school instead of Mr. Roderick MeNeil, who only bolde a first or lower class certificate, and who three years ago was vegetating amongst the brambles of the great Cape Breton country 1 That an incompetent

-rson like Roderick MeNeil received the situ-

o& ft i

But you will sicken and grow weak On weary watching stand,

And faint, refuse the generous food From Care's assiduous band

And you will weep, if dogs do weep, } The tear that sorrow knows— |

The drop which from fidelity In burning fervour flows.

The polish'd gems and — of love That deck the canine heart,

Are thine, my dog, untainted by The mockery of art.

Aid the crowd, the denizens Of earth and human pride,

I'L see as L wus wont to seo Thee, trotting at my side

And in my distant chamber oft, As we were used to meet,

I'll see thee looking in my face, And sleeping at my feet.

And bear thee pawing at my door, Impatient of delay;

And even rise to let thee in, Though thousand miles away.

Thine image in mine eye shull rest, Thy faithfulness to me

In many a thoughtful hour afar Shall lead me back to thee.

Though dogs snd human art and skill Have plied seductive power,

You never from your master swerv'd,

the promoters of the exhibition have acted siter very hard treatment, and arrived in England wisely in confining the manufactures to the | on the Airican Mail Steamer. Irish, because we are fully aware that many | Drain of eld trom Bank of England continues of our native manafactures were never Further advance of discount to seven anticipated. properly represented in previous exhibitions, | Cutten warket dull. a, 7 un- uod the reason assigned is, that ~ were changed. pple = Bly rovisivns duii. sulject to unfair competition. coglish | Consuls 92 1-4 a i

srticies were exhibited as Irish, and the Irish | FROM VENEZUELA with « less sightly appearance, perhaps, | oT Hg Te i with far greater intrinsic value, were passed Success er tar Lysvrcents — New York, over. But in the exhibition of next year, to. Nov. }1 —Curscos dates of the 22nd state | quote the wordsuf Mr. Walker, ** Irish iriexe that a Veneauelan feet belonging to the old | made in Dewsbury, and Galway flannels | government j arty arrived on thre 17th, and | made in Lancashire, will nut be allowed to! surrendered themselves to the commander of | compete with the genuine article made at) the Federal fleet. oF | howe.”’ It will be a genuine exposition of | It consisted of six sailing vessels, one | Irish industry, and we doubt not but that | steamer, and a number of small craft, with a | wany of our readers will be surprised when large number of wounded men and refugees. they witness how great a variety of goods Venesuela is now in the hands of the Federals | are even nuw made in this country. The and insurgents. : addition of & machinery department to the There are many arrivals daily from St. | exibition will be an interesting aod usefal Domingo, bringing hundreds of refugees | feature, because much of it, we understand, | from the Dominican republic. They report | will be im motion; so that manufacturers the insurrection spreading, and the slaughter | will have the opportunity of seeing machines of Spaniards and patives as very severe. suited to their products at work.— farmer's Curacva is suffering much from want of rain, Gazette there having been none in @ year.

The negroes since the emancipation will

not work, and great inconvenience is the consequence.

Caprure oF a Siaver.— The Army and) Navy Gazette, in giving some particulars of the | capture of a slaver by Her Majesty's gun-vessel | sas calliliiialiae, Eepoir, ans ee ee ene ot Deatu of Genekat MacNei., Late or correspundent informs us taal the Eapoir Cow T! Banga, Cuier oF Tar CLan Macneite.—The prize within tworty-four hours of the shipment of Coloneley of the 78th (Highland) Regiment of | the unfurtuuate slaves; but such was ee rowded | Poot, or Ross-shire Butis, bas become vacant by atate of the decks, and the stench proceeding trom the death of General MacNeill. The gallant | below, that the boarding officer and wen could | General, who rese apparently in his usual health, with difficulty carry out the duty entrusted to) on Thursday morning, retired to bis dressing- them. Shades of Wilbertoree, Clarkson, and | room for the purpose of shaving, and on the re- Muxten, are you net horrified to fied that, after turn of his valet and butler, waslound dead. The tifly-«ix = since the British slave-trade was! yeuerable gener! entered the army in the Spring abelished, and twenty-nine years after the ex- of |s04, and immediately eutered on active ser- tiactivn of slavery in the British deuuniens, 577 | ¥iee, as in the same year he joined his regiment haman are cramuwed inte a hold, tor a jou the Continen General Sir John Moore. lengthened oe acruss tropical seas, ee small! te was iu that General's retreat to Corunna, and that 20 adult Kuropeaus would complain of want | subsequently took part in the Waleheren expedi- vf rvem to breathe? Se dense ice = Packing | tion. in 1813 and 1814, he served in Swedish | of the living eurge, on of Sela ef Douglas, 8) Pomerania and iv Hollaud, and was present at the exercise of a sound and hormane judgment, | Reryeaupzoom. He was also among the Army removed IIL of the hapless creatures te his OWN | which served during the campaign of 1815, and vessel, and with them to St. Helena, | was present at the battle of Waterloo. The late where be landed thew all sale and well. The | General was, for wany years, Lieut. Colonel

ize with the remaining 466, bad previewsly | commanding the 75th Higilanders, and seccom- made her way to the island. wut she had buried | panied that distinguished Regiment to India. three during the run.—What would have been After he had attained the rank of Major-General, the rate of mortality if the craft had not been | be was placed on the Staff as commanding a di- seized trom the hands of the wao-stealers may be | vision of the army in the Madras Presidency, Ss oe that ne = | where he served for five years; Lieut. General, from Espoir cause saver to ve-tu, | 20, 1854, and General, samuber 21, 1362. the slaves rushed on deck, and with clapping of | ~—s* Ten Oct. ~~ Gem ” hands aad other marks of exultation welcomed ae the arrival of their a oman a pow “at THE SIEGE OF CHARLESTON. memerable ane, - i sea, A pe The bombardment of Fort Sumter bas continued gutten by the brave fellows who were present on | | : ‘ wap anabhi 4! Sse ancsin. Comin Din te proved | Stroy ce ou at spor, The water 2 hisaeell to be an ee a Guvehentes. indomitable garrison now engaged in the sacred d duty of holding wad defending the fort has woo

Masvuractore he en ae y Ee for Chast a glorious name, and will furnish another oe ae a, Deiadelieonee oie thie iliustrions page in ae history of “4 aehease me : 7 OW) of Fort Sumter and the harbour and city o city. The manufactoriesat which these now in | Charleston. Notwithstanding the terrible and dispeusable adjuncts to our comfort and conven- | eyustant fires from his monitors and laud batteries, senes are produced kere, comprise thiee in| with missiles of every conceivable invention, size pomber. [he oldest and probably the most | aud power, showered like bail from Parrott, extensive is that on City Street, carried on | Dahigren, rifled guns and mortars upon the de- by the elder Lindsay, who, indeed, claims to | voted tortresa and , o.gnecionn, > enemy has ba the original inveatur of the lucifer match , | bees fuiled in his ubject, and ie still unsuccessful

: -. in bis designs. During Friday night the enemy's

a second is carried on by ason of the former, oy wee be ? ieteetty die iso situated in the north end of this city ; fire was chiefly diree ¢ against ; tery dregy, | also ke ie Mneniiedl ard his mortars on Cummings’ Pout Battery. and the chird w owned by Mr. Mamiord, in Sixty-eight shots were fired but eight of which Dartmouth. We are not informed a4 to the | pissed and passed over, waking an aggregate of aes of matehes manufactured in these | eleven hundred aud twenty shots fired in twenty- establishments, but the total must be very) four hours. At3 o'clock on Saturday morning 5 considerable, as the proprietors have to @/| deplorable disaster occurred, resulting in the in-

| fullowing paragraph, published in the last No. of

| Sutherland, so deseribed before the “ Young

Forsevk him not an hour.

Ah, I must deem thee faithfal more Than those of boasted mind—

The caskets with immortal souls, Poor feeble frail mankind.

Thy faithfulness thy grief must be, My absence thy distress :

So tidelity doth wound herself With ber own loveliness.

Yet, hands there are, aud gentle ones Will minister relief,

And cheer thee in thy loneliness, And soothe the throb of grief.

They'll pat thee on thy shagyy head, And call vou by your name ;

And fondle thee, and tell you, too, “* He'll suon return ayain.”’

Thus of the sweets of sympathy A honey-drop will stay,

And resting in the wounded heart, Take half its woe away.

O. Toby, I'l remember thee, Thy faithfalness and pain,

And feel for all thy grief, my dog, Until we meet again.

When flower, and field, and hill and dale, And green leaf on the tree,

Bathe in the dews of virgin Spring, I'll come again to thee.

Good bye, my faithfal dog, good bye— My heart must swell to thee,

Proud that no cur-blood mars thy vein— Nor mock fidelity.

Deg, though thoa art, thy merit claim'd This truthfal tribute paid ;

Thus at the public shrine express'd,

And vn its altar laid. WERAND. Charlottetown, 26th Nov. 1863. ae To THe Eprrok or THE EXAMINER. Sin ;—My attention bas been directed to the

the Monitor, in reference to an individual whose case illustrates seme of the strange things which ean be done under the regime of the Dark Lan- tern Fraternity :—"* Weare requested te intimate that the Rochtort Sebel is now re-upened under the charge of Mr. Roderick MeNeill, late of Dun- das. From the test monials whieh Mr. McNeill has broug*t from his late trustees, and from bis well knov a activity and energy, we have nv doubt the parents of that school district will find Mr. MeNeill a very efficient teacher.” Who is Mr. Roderick MeNeill, and where or in what has be shewn “ well known activity and energy,” so as to entitle hima to be placed, in lieu of old and able teachers, in a second-class school in the City of Charlottetown? Fortunately, the career of this hero—( for this is the famous Roderick of Dundas) —is net altogetherunknown. At the outset of these remarks, it may be well to note the fact, that the gentleman who has played an “uctive” part in the affairs of P. E. Island is neither a native nor a resident of long standing in the colony. He came here about three years age, from the great country of Cape Breton. The bird of passage trom the Cape Breton country took shelter under the wings of the “ Black Eagle’ — Rev. George

Meu's Christian Association.” Roderick was laced in one of the first-class schoole in the City. ‘he Government thought proper to incorporate

the District School, of which Mr. MeNeill was

teacher, with the Normal Sebvol. The measure was & very judicious one on the part ef the Go-

vernment, as the District School being within a

few yards of the Normal Schvol, the pupils of the

formerschool were not in the least inconvenienced, and were placed under better teachers than the

Cape Breton man, whilst the colony was saved

above £100 per annum. Every one was satisfied

with the chauge tor the better except Mr. Rodk.

MeNeill. The ppeietien of @ political pedagogue

generally (of all men) ean never get higher than

hie breeches pockets. Roderick was indignant at the Governinent, wrote letters for the newspapers against them, and fretted and fumed for a consi-

very great extent driven the imported article | stant death of thirtecu of the heroie garrison, de- out of the market, and, if we are correctly | tailed and posted in the barracks, near'the sea informed, have exported considerable quan- | wall, in readiness for uumediately mounting the tities tu places beyond the i:mits of this pro- crest m case of an attack from outside. The

: Bi this aa it may, the home made melancholy oceurrence was caused by a 300 viace. t 7° lar preferable to | Pounder Parrot shell striking an iron girder in the prs ann 7 nad prolly iia geote sea wall of the barracks, caving in the roof, those b ,

\ hi crushing and burying the men beneath its ruins. made here are generally used all over this) Pie position was cousidered comparatively safe, country. It is satisfactory to know that

, the root having previously resisted the continuing Nova ia can compete with her neighbors,

shock of the falling debris. even if success is confined vo this one branch | Qu Saturday the bombardment again raged of industry. {t would be superfluous to state | furiously. A sivady fire was kept up by two that the manufacture of lucsler matches is | monitors, two heavy and two light rifled guns at extensively prosecuted in the neighboring Gregg, and four ten inch mortars at the middle States, but as we have never seen any pub-

buttery, and four rifled guns at Wagner. Four jrahed estimate of the number, it ie not pus-| hundred and forty-three rifled shots were fired

, ; | trom the land batteries, of which sixty issed; sible to furnish our readers with the particu | eighty-six trum the monitors all of whieh cena jare. The statistics of the Enropean manu-) aig tires hundred aud seventy-three frow the facture of matches are curious. The firm of mortars, of which one hundred and twenty missed Dixon, London, employ 400 workmen, and The mortar fuses, were 80 cut as to explode the y lave on haud from £8000 to £10,- | shells a second or two alter the report. During 000 worth of timber. Each week they con-| Saturday night seventy rifled shots were fired, sume une too of sulpher and wake 43,000,000 mostly with time tuses, of which ten passed over, matches, or een in the year.) et ee —— oa ee eal long rike. re e lan ries uarter Laos om ‘aed teak om was directed chiefly at the southwest angle of the ~ ld far exceed the circumference of the | fit, The dagetall was shot away twicw yn Sa- wes eee esleutaticn th ti turday, and replaced by Seargent Graham, —, A pa Aes mr paren ee oe Corporal Hill and Private R. Swain, all of y a ed | pany, F. Twelfth Georgia Regiment. The flsg- every year by one London manufacturer in, viath e #0 mt up that it was fou arsannsy ths production of ** veetas’’ would reach | raise the battle flag of the Twelfth Georgia in its from England to America and yond go place. On apd tas the tiring LL hept jan Bet the Austrian producers tur ex the | monitors a id batteries, in ern tude of these figures, Two makers, 4t intervals. The shots were estimated by some clos, Pollak, at Vienna. and Furth at Bo-|'o ba dachared at eae oO Ma a" "i ? is oti ing on, *)> hemnie, pooteee $6,208,560 £00 marshes year. ae a oar ‘ak o'clock on Sunday ly, consuming 20 wet as mga — uight.—Charleston Daily Courier, Noo. 3. giving em oe persons. elow omit joo at wh these necessaries of life are pracaia mm St. Stepnen.—The St. Croix . wm equally astonishing. Furth seile PP am + saye that the saddest instance of the rava- | w@ cheapest buses at one penny per dozen, of Diptheria, that we have beard of oceurred | each containing eight; matwhes. Amother|in the family of Mr. D. Travers, Milltown, St. maker sells the pisin bozes at two penge per | Stephen; within a shert period he has lost seven : seen A ag ebtidren, 6 boys aad one girl between the ages of 100, aod 1,400 matebes for one farthing; rf a ; ten and nineteen. Another daughter was attack- whilst @ third maker sells » case of fifty |“) ™ ; ; boxes, each containing 190 lubifers, for four od her be ee recovered, but lost the ’ : ; ’. t y- The imports of matches into the - -

derable time. He next applied for the second Mastership in the Normal Scheol; and during the examinations for the situation, he disgusted the candidates by flourishing before their faces some Cape Breton or Nova Scotia certificate, the poa- session of which he thought justified bim in des- pising the native teachers of the Island. The Board of Education, on examining the candidates, found that a modest, unassuming young gentle- man, Mr. William Bell, was bes$ qualified for the office, and hence great Rederick trom the great Cape Breton country, with his great certificate, was found “among the missing.” Some time alterwards he turned up in the woeds a8 & first or lowest class District School Teacher.

A schvolmaster, like a clergyman, is capable of dving much mischief, as he is also in a position to do much good. I agree with the opinion that I have beard many persons of different sects and parties express, namely, that clergymen and achuol eames should keep aloof frum the strife of party politics. The clergyman or teacher who engages actively or violently in politics is a pest to suciety, and a nuisance that cominon sense wust eventually remove out of civil and secial life. The spirit of that clause in the Educstion Act which prevents teachers from engaging in any business, except school-teaching, means that teachers should devote their leisure hours to the interests of their profession by improving their minds. But the spirit of the law is violated when

be forgets all about it; when be goes about from house to house circulating seandal, abusing his gotten or py perme and maligning

is neighbours. [ns of being a blessing to a community, such an individual is a curse; he is thy sower of atrifé anouget brethren—a character which is universally justly reprubated. Mr. Roderick McNeil was not long in Dundas befure he commenced “ active” and “ energetic” ra- tions. He first took part against Mr. Clay, an intelligent aud C gen , who was a perfect stranger to him. Liberals and Catholics, who had neyer offended him, he insulted in the grossest manner, merely because they, the natives of the colony, did not hold the same views, as to the poonaqurent of Island affairs, that were en- tertained by Rody McNeill sli the way from the

reat country of Cape Breton. He next joins an

range Lodge, and exerted himself to form another

mited Kingdow are of the value of £60.000| 71, Condon Times of the 30th ult., quotes | . representing the enormous namber

yous } ; | Canada jx per cent securities at 103 to 105, Nova | vf 200,000,000 daily. The daily consum)~ | Scotis 104 te 106, aud New Brunswick 103 to 105. tion is 50,000,000 more than the above Oe ———— number, or upwards of eight matchesa day| The Russians use English tera fur the various ft every individual in the kingdow.— Halifax parts of « sbip, dnd all the orders for asiling are | paper. | given in Duteh. '

ne

toe - --— eae nere ‘The * Great Fastera” consumes 6,500 tons of | The susembly at Adelaide, Australia, as bill to ieguhze marriage i deceased wite. aa aere

haa passed |

coal on an American voyage, and will require With the sister of a

46,U0P ow @ voyage to India. we

meow of other @ehicie etree. | =~ HER & spowe

ot these mischievous Spcjetics in the Baltic. But he is aot eatinfed with’ hie hovors in the Dark Lavtern Fraternity, be must indulge in military aspirations, and Roderick becowes a Volunteer. Then he manages to get himself placed over the heads of better men than hjmsell as a Lieutenant, But when the elections were held it was then that Lieut. Roderick played an important part. He was not only Govertinent Clerk of the Poll, but was moreover the maker and besrer of sticks to be

the teacher no eooner gets out of his schuol than |J

ation ean be owing to no other reason than that he ia an Orangeman, and performed some things which every sensible man mnust consider disreput- able, but which a few parties in the Dark Lantera Fraternity regard as being “ active " and “ ener- getic.” If any persons desire to see what an illiterate individual may be a Lieut. of Volunteers, a Government Poll Clerk, a Deputy Grand Master of an Orange Lodge, snd a Teacher of a higher class school in P. E. Island under the Orange let them read the letter of “ R. MeNeill,”

regime, publiabed in the Monitor of the 15th ult. At an- other time [T may show the rude, uncultivated

mind of the man whe received the thauke of the Orangemen of Canada, for being the defender of Protestantism in P. E. Island. It will suffice to say that the letter referred to proves that Ro- derick is a disgrace to the profession to which he elaine te beloug. But, the letter is not more re- markable for vutrages upon cocmon sense and English grammar than it is for outrages upon the Gecencies vf suciety. The fellow (only three years from Cape Breton remember) has the imso- fence and wickedness to call those whe differ from him politically in Dundas “ vagabonds,” and to impute cowardly and improper motives to the native electors of the Colony. Now, let not Mr. Roderick McNeill imagine that he receives the present notice from auy importance which he may suppose attaches to himself. He only serves asa peg whereon to hang a few remarks in re- ference to tie evil influence of tolerating, in this Island, a Dark Lantern Fraternity. Let the na- tives and the old residents of the Colony observe the facts above stated, and they cannot fail to draw the following conclusions :

1. The Orange Institution enables unserupulous and ignorant strangers to exert an undue influence over the political atfairs ofthe colony. 2. Through the Orange influence, reckless charlatans from abroad are placed over the heads of young men of merit inte places of honer and emolument. 3. The fact that such characters get ite places and honors is owing to the strife and ill-will which they engender in the community for their own selfish ends. 4. The fact that such persons are placed in positions, to which natives are entitled and well able to fill, brings the colony into disre- pute in the eyes of the people of the neighbouring colonies.

Lut before concluding, I must remark that the cvlouy would be brought still wore inte couteupt, it the vaulting ambition of Teacher, Poll Clerk, Lieutenant, Deputy Grand Master Roderick MeNeill had been gratified by the Government. I referred above to tue applicative of this Hotspur of the Dark Lantern Fraterffity for a high posi- tion in the Educational Department. Roderick's career in office-secking, aas proved somewhat ai- milar le a genius, of whom an anecdote is related, who went to seek an office trom the President of the United States. The American called upon the President, after a closely contested Presi- deutial election; he narrated his services un be- half of the President. and said he eame for bis reward. The President asked bun what office he desired. The office-secker first asked tw be made Secretary of State, then Postmaster Gene- ral, then Collector ot Excise. Dut these offices having been already given to others, the applicant requested seme less exalted position. The minor offices having been also gi te eariier apypli- cants, he wound ap by asking the President if he could give him a suit of old eothes! Aftor or last General Election, Roderick thought that hie services deserved a rich reward, and accordingly he applied for the office of Sehoo! Visiter. But he, too, came down m his demands; and, instead ot being at the head of the Educatioual Depart- ment, he ia now a District Teaeher, ina oor yard, in a lott over an old stable, near the dingy dwelling of the Dark Lanteru Fraternity.

Leaving kim there for the present,

1 remam, Nov. 23, 1263. ' VPHURIEL.

Che Cxaminer.

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Charlottetown, November 30th, 1863.

LATEST NEWS FROM EUROPE. ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL.

Tue English Mail fur this Island reached here on Friday morning lust. with dates tu the Loth inst. ‘There is a good deal of foreign news of an interesting character, to which we devote a large portion of our space. The Polish insurrection, it will be seen, continues with unabated vigour; and the Russian atrocities with which it is attempted tu be suppressed have lost none of their bloody and barbaric character. The French Emperor's invitation to the Sovereigns of Europe te meet in Conterence in Paris, is the political event of Continental Europe which forms the chief topic of discussion in the public journals. We repub- lish the Emperer’s letter amonget our news ex- tracts below. It has reference to no particular question or line of policy; but is as vague and inscrutable as have been the designs of the writer during his long and chequered career as adven- turer and a ruler.

TUE POLISH INSURRECTION. MOURAVIEFF'S VENGEANCE.

The Posen Journal publishes the following account of an act of vengeance committed by Mouravief on the family of Sierakowski, an insur- gent chiet: —Madame Dalecka, mother of Sicra- kowski's widew, and her soue, were banished to Siberia; Mine. Sierakowski, who was near her confinement, and moreover in bad health, re- mained at Wilna. Qn Mouravieff hearing that gle was on the puint of becoming a mother, be gave orders that she should be carried on her bed tu the railway statipu, that the child when bern should be taken to the foundling hospital at Pskow, and (he mother be after banished into the interior of Russa. The officer of geudarmene ebarged with the execytion of this order, went with his men to the hoyse of the sick lady and had her epnyryed to the railway station. hile on the way Mme. Sierakowski fainted, and after- wards fell into couvulsious. The train having just started, Mme. Sierakowski was left at the station, and the efficer went to Mouravieff and gave bin an account of what had taken place, and of the indignation which had been excited by it in the town. Mouravieff replied that he had given the order for the pu of provoking that feeling, which he gid yot He then sent a Russian midwite to attend on the lady, and to tuke care that the barbarous order of Mouravieff be executed to the letter.

The Invulide Russe publishes the tuilowing from its Wersaw ident :—* The police have recently made several iypportant discoveries. They have discovered two large secret printing- offices, and have arrested nymerous in connection with the Central Committee. One of the most remarkable among these is Madame Thekla Tarnowski. Previous to the rising this lady pursued the calling of a governess, but has recently rendered considerable service to the nar tional cause. Among the documents seized at the clandestine printing-office discovered pu the 28th ult., was a species of certificate setting forth the services of Madame Tarnowski. Dyring her ex- aimimation, the prisoner never lost her sel

sion, avowed the part she bad taken in aiding the insurgents, and expressed sentiments of ardent patriotian. She is now confined in the Citadel. Some days ago the police arrested one Piotrowski, and with hiw two sisters, Julia and

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Advices from Warsaw state that by order of Gen. Berg the ladies and young girls imprisoned in the citadel, with 60 of the chief inhabitants of Warsaw, have been trauspurted without sentence. Their place of banishinent was unknown, The sisters Julia and Sophia Rechowska have been sentenced to be hanged in Warsaw.

The remains of the band of Czachowski. were completely destroyed on the 6th inst., in the gov- erment of Radom. Czachowski, who had been made prisoner, has died from his wounds.

The ex-Dictator of Poland, Langiewiez, has ad- dressed an appeal to the Austrian Government, in which, after urgently renewing his request to be allowed to remove to Switzerland, he concludes by emphatically beseeching that, if this be not doue, ‘. may be banded over to the Russian au- thorities. Now, it must be owned that while coufinement in Austrian Josephstadt way be bad,

et a consignment to General Berg would seem infinitely worse.

LETTER OF THE EMPEROR OF FRANCE TO THE SOVEREIGNS OF EUROPE.

The Moniteur says that the Govervment thought it its duty te delay the publication of the letter which the Emperor bad addressed to the Sove- reigns of Europe ; but a Frankfort journal having

ublished that which was sent to the Germanic

‘onfederation, a longer delay became useless, and it accordingly gives the document. It is as fol- lows :—

“ Must [Tigh and Most Illustrious Sovereigns, Princes and Free Towns which constitute the High German Confederation :—In presence of the events which every day arise and become urgent, I deem it indispensable to express myself without reserve to the Suvereigna to whem the destiny of nations is confided. Whenever severe shocks have shaken the basis and displaced the limits of States selemn transactions have taken place to arrange the new elements, and to consecrate by revision the accomplished transformations. Such was the object of the Treaty of Westphalia in the I7th century, and of the negociations at Vienna in 1815. reposes the political editice of Europe; and yet, as you are aware, it is crumbling away on all sides. If the situation of the different countries be attentively idered, it is impossible not to adinit that the Treaties of Vienna upon almost all poiuts are destroyed, modified, misunderstood, or menaec Henee, duties without rule, righte without title, aad pretensions without restraint. The danger is 8» wuch the more tormidable be- cause the improvements brought about by civiliz- ation, which has bound nations together by the identity of material iuterests, would render war still sure destructive. This is a subject for serious reflection; let us not wait before deciding on our course for sudden and irresistible eveuts to disturb our judgment and carry us away despite ourselves in oppéeite directions. I therefore pro- pose to you to regulate the present and secure the future in a Congress. Called to the throne by providence and the will of the French people, but trained in the school of adversity, 1 am per- haps bound less than any other to ignore the rights of the Sovereigns and the legitimate aspir- ations of nations. Therefore Iam ready, without any preconceived system, to bring to an Interna- tional Council the spirit of moderation and justice, the usual portion of those whe have endured se many various trials, If I take the initative in such an overture, I do not yield to an impulse of vanity; bat as I am the Sovereign to whom aim- bitious projects are most attributed, I have it at heart te prove by this frank and loyal step that my sole object is to arrive without a shock at the pacificativa of a If this proposition be favourably r&ceived, I pray you to aecept Paris as the place ot meeting. In case the Princes, allies and friends of France, should think proper to heighteu by their presence the authority of the deliberations, I shail be proud to offer them my hospitality. Europe would see, perhaps, some advantage in the capital frem which the signal for subversion has so often been given becoming the seat of the Conterences destined to lay the bases of a general pacification. I take advantage of this opportunity to renew to you the assurance of my sincere attachment and of the lively interest which I take in the prosperity of the States of the Confederation. Whereupon, most high and illustrious Sovereign Princes, and Free States which constitute the most exalted German Con- federation, I pray Gud to have you in holy keeping. —Written at Paris on the 4th of November in the year of grace 1863. ‘* NAPOLEON,