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tone of these communiceuous, It is with reference to the | poverty that he was unable to purchase wood to heat the water.

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road it, i think ahis House will | feel it due to its dignity ;

‘ 12 ( “~~ it, as ° ‘ ‘ ; wo Uenounce I - his arm, he found that his family had added a small lump of

conveying most unjust and caludnious reflections 02 1°45) cheese to the usual fare, You will bring me into trouble,” House :— , Mongo exclaimed with energy. ‘‘ Did L not tell you that

« The joining ia one Bill two objects totally unconnected | having been rather gluttonous last week, | was alarmed to with each other, and which ought to have been made the! hear the Representative Niou say mysteriously to those about subject of separate Bills, is 2 clear proof that there is no) him,* Mongo is getting easy in his circumstances ; look, he immediate intention of raising any armed foree, and that the ¢ats radishes!’ ’’—( Quarterly Review.) We should thank a. -,| God that it is not the custom in this country to put men to death for being sarants, otherwise cacique Mooney might not content himself with calling us ‘*drones.’? The reader can ‘have no diffieulty now in understanding why he is the natural

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mention of an armed force in the Bul is only for a cloak to the real object of the Legielatare, a determination to harrass | the proprietors aud render their property of Jess yalue.”

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(Lo be continurd 4 cnemy of edueation. ee —. _ Ranking és the next most useful, and to the class of persons

= : Fs enemies, ‘. lalready mentioned, the most odious manner of employing Corr spondence, ‘lead and private banks are still more shakin thas RR MARAARAARRRARRAAR ARAMA mnAnannmmnnennme | vint stock, The reason of the latter distinction is easily ex- plained. For, as under divided responsibility, men will com- ‘i mitacts of injustice when acting in bodtes from which many Siz,--/ het envy human being should enter into a controversy | of them would shrink with horror in their private capacity, with Mr. Mooney is entirely owing to the fact of the folly of no joint stock banks dake risks which private bankers will not. my countrymen . , r ? , having placed, Those who do not bear a good character for honesty and in- ,, dustry are continually made ta feel that not only will the banker not help them, but he is in the way of their helping ;themselves. The following may serve as an illustration. In order to a clearer und standing of the argument on both! About two o'clock on the morning of the Ist of June last, sites, L must be allowed to transeribe the following extract | three persons in disguise forcibly entered the house of a man from my former communication :— -named Grey, near the West River, bound him neck and heels They {the majority in the Assembly) mast be well aware that no| With a pair of reins, and then helped themselves to “31 I1s., where ia the Coloyies cam any ove be found filling a like situation, | all the money the poor man possessed. Never shall I forget wed where similar quatifications are required, so inadequately remuner-, the trepidation of an aged couple as they drove into town the ated as [ aw And without going beyond this Island at afl, when they | follow ing day to deposit their little savings with a private

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w ina posiuon where, though utterly powerless for good » la direetiyv : . . . ? . : ue 13 directly and indirectly the cause of much that is evil, ~ a + * “* * . . . .

the se ia j < » fi aad of « z ies ary ore n ' + . . «= themselves have had the fixing of salaries, a very diferent sealo has ‘banker; and only when they heard the clank of the safe as it |

heen adopted :—- ad : . . , ee closed on their little treasure, did they breathe freely. They

e Visiter of Schools receives - ° , - £300 a-year. Tne Teacher of the Norma! Sehvucl] is te have - . 200 do.

Phe Seeond Master of the Academy receives, on an average, 140 do. | the stay of their declining years, but were unwilling to part { should like tu see juis disparity justified on publie grounds.” | with jt on the same kind of security that poor Grey did. To rhis, it will be allowed, was stating the case fairly and | haye followed, therefore, the business of private banker, from tomperatel ¢ : ; ' —— | b wwe, throug the almost unbounded confidence of the public,

| been able what may be considered large resources at the ser- was willing to bo ecyero, but became simply mendacions | viee of the honest trader and industrious Pamnets and mechani¢ In all human prebability the Teacher of the Normal Seho rai otherwise would be inaceessible oo ae ; to have vill eb Jniaclae bm cinta all ame Hecenl Clean Tenaheen in mala ie been charged not only with a dishonest but even a dis- of ‘ Lalasailie. vet te In « Sede £60 ene eco thant any honourable action ; and all this without havinga solitary re- To aitessnt $6 conch with Mie Meomer ‘would be atdeandt <1 , ; | verse, is in the eyes of sech men as Mr. Mooney, experienced to the other anembtes of tho Eliieatl Fo weubt et a es something never to be forgiven, but to those whose good opinions vers eames Eien ebeiedun iiieank an 0 nds Sute'y | Lyalue, it is nothing I trust that one need be ashamed of. That ye SAREE FO beret eo Al, OF you are unjust! 4 certain class of persons should manifest their dislike of private ‘banks by the most vulgar slang, is what might be expected,

** You gave as a dint that you are badly paid. Uows not being well paid.’’ Ho

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‘Un the above propoaition, however, Mr. Mooney joins issue land assuredly, it was quite unnecessary for one who is a swall alter the fullowing fashion. Ile refers to twe notices contained | tenant a? 8 * to inform’ the public that he has un ths English hewspaper to shew— reared his family without any help from bankers—they are

i. That there is wanted a head master for ® grammar school too wide awake for that in Australia ; salary £100 sterling, with suitable residence. a ee Candidates must be graduates of Oxford or Cambridge, and a mtried man preferred.

=. Liat anuther is wanted for a school in Lancashire, Eng- Iond; eclusy euly £305 sterling, with some trifling fees. ;

‘Aud these applicants,"’ exclaims Mr. Mooney triumphantly, | ‘must he competent persons to teach the yuuth in Greek, Latin and Elementary Mathematics!”

discussed on some future occasion. March 27, 1856.

JOUN KENNY.

{We have omitted two passages in the foregoing letter

members of the Administration.—Ep.] Prodigions They must! Graduates of Oxford and Cam- arcetinittinninin idge able to teceh Elementery Mathematics! If { could only hope ty be able te bring the matier to the leyel of Mr. Mueuey 8 compechension, L would cndeayour to make him| Sm,—We had reason to expect that when Her Majesty was understand that at awery early stage of my education, the} graciously pleased to concede to us what is commonly termed ‘cmentary Mathematics were left behind, and perhaps| Responsible Government, that the private intrigues of the Pro- craduates of an English Univer:jity may have adyanced a) prietors would no more interfere with our affairs at the Colo- tittle further als »! Jf the Lan ashire grammar school were, nial Office; butin that we are disappointed, It is humiliating sustead of ‘being an exceptional case, the general rule in Great | to the Colony that an irresponsible cabal of Absentee Propric- Britsin, can it be urged as a precedent in this Colony? The/ tors can render nugatory all the efforts of our Legislature to wages of @ labouring wan ig that part of Britain at tho pre- ameliorate the condition of its inhabitants; who drains the

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‘es within the scope of my objections to the offensive | contracted in the discharge of bis arduous duties, sueh was his

this invariable breakfast was dry bread ; and going forth one morning at four o’clock aceording te custom, his meal nnder

Two other points in Mr. Mooney’s letter may be usefully |

| which appeared to us to cast an unmerited censure on other |

sent thmo-de net, dam toh), exceed £20 sterling, whilst a case has ofter been referred ty, of a labouring man in this Island

Colony of a large proportion of its cirenlating mediam in the shape of rent, and contributing nothing comparatively to the support of our institutions, except their proportion of a small

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arbitrary and unjust laws see that they will not be allowed to interfere with their constitutional freedom. . I am, sir, your obedient servant, A Layman or tue Cuurcu or ENGLAND. ‘| Charlottetown, April 5, 1856.

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CHARLOTTETOWN, APRIL 7, 1856.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATURE,

Wx: have searcely any space in our present No. to notice the proceedings of the House of Assembly during tho past weck. The principal part of the business transacted, however, had reference to matters of routine —the receiving of reports of Committees, and the completion of Bills previously before the flouse. All these matters will’ be duly noticed in the Par- liamentary Summary. Our first page is occupied with an account of the proceedings and debates in the Couneil, which are complete down to the 24th ult. Owing to the space thus oceupied, and the insertion of communications, which were last week deferred fer want of room, we have been obliged to postpone the insertion of House of Assembly debates. But we

in order to make good this deficiency.

Assembly and amending the Election Laws, was under discus-

\ sion in the House on Friday evening last. After a strong op-

‘had saved something in the season of health and yigour to be} position from the minority, the Bill was sent to Committee, and |

is now in a fair way of becoming the law of the land. On Saturday afternoon the old story of Escheat was brought

go inte Committee on the consideration of the question.

| Coles moved in amendment that the House go into Committee | that day three months, alleging, as his reason for doing 60, |

that the House had last year fully discussed the question, and je opinions of members were clearly ascertained thereon — | that no new light had since been thrown on the question of escheat — that such a measure was quite as impracticable then as eyer, and that there was no reason to suppose that members had changed their views in reference to it.

When Mr. Cooper found that he was thus to be baulked, he re-opeffea the escheat debate in the best manner he could, by adducing his old arguments and quoting extracts from old de- spatches, which, in his opinion, favoured his views of the ‘question. But the discussion was exceedingly languid, as none of those who supported Mr. Cooper’s motion to go into Committee, entered upon the merits of Escheat, and the rule of the House, that no member can speak more than once while the Speaker is in the chair, was a great check to the flow of escheat eloquence. After the elapse of about an hour, Mr. Coles’s motion was carried ~ Messrs. Yeo, Douse, Longworth, Montgomery and Hayiland having voted with Mr. Cooper to go into Committee. The vagaries of Messrs. Longworth and Montgomery, in reference to this matter, were duly noted last | year, but it was highly amusing to see and hear Messrs. Douse and Yeo proclaiming themselves favourable to escheat !! eyer, the question is now shelyed for the present, and perhaps

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“i . |under the management of Professor Anderson, the wizard, ~ shall publish a large supplementary sheet with our next No., | t

| slightly injured. The Bill for increasing ¢he representation in the House of perties was complete.

| anxieties prevailed. | the obstinacy of the defence raised a doubt of success. unce:

seemed to be awaiting the end of the struggle before pronouncing itself. yet Mr. Mooney retorts :--— ) Small beginnings and with litle or no means of one’s own ; to| up for discussion — Mr. Cooper having moved for the Llouse to | To maintain the war, Tasked a loan which you voted unanimously, though

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getting £190 currency year, and that too for the droll work of luoking at a clerk copying deeds. Let uz new turn our attention fur a few moments to the | Education.

other cass so strongly relied on. It was going a Jong way for We trust that our Legislature is not insensible to the insult a precede rit and ufter all, what docs it amount to? Just to | given them by the British Goyernment, by paying more atten- this: that certaim persons in Australia, dignifying their school | tion to the Petitions and Remonstrances of a few interested with the name of grammar school, are ambitious of placing | Land-jobbers than to th®united voice of the people, expressed oyoe it a ova luate of Oxford or Cambridge—no other Univer-| through their Representatives in Parliament. We earnestly rity in Great Britain or Ireland would do ; but with that species | entreat the Goyernment of this Island to uso every lawful of economy peculiar to such people, they offer for the services of | means in their power to counteract such baneful influence, in such a gentleman less than they would for a groom or a black- | which they will be fully supported by the inhabitants of this smith. ‘ There aro but two classes of people in New South | section of the Island.

\ules,"” wrote Governor McQuarrie, in a despatch to the British Government, ** those who have been convicted and those who ought to be.” Having got a cheap passage themselves, they furget or do not choose to remember, that ene year's tulary would in the case of 2 man of family, scarcely cover the espense of his outiit and passage, leaving entirely out of the account tho almost fabulous prices of all the necessaries

Assessment on Wilderness Land for the encouragement of

. Yours truly,

AN OBSERVER. East Puint, Lot 46, March 17, 1856.

To tue Episror or tue Examrven.

Sin,—Having been informed that a member of the Legal profession, of life in that Colony. Kesides, until they can shew that) very recently, wade a most pathetic appeal on behalf of the Indians at the theix Austrslian cousins have caught their fish, they must ex- bar of the Council Chamber and House of Assembly—the beautiful and cuse people if they aro unable to appreciate the cogency of | Pk ae ae the pam - Eliza Cook suggested themselves to their reasoning. Even in Victoria itself, the colonists have | my pm idel ‘deeteiek — ho kind. cnoughs te-givethom insgeyive been blessed with a government sufficiently enlightened to have | ? or CATHERINE, established a University, with salaries for the professo : averaging £500 sterling. In using the term Colonics, how- ever, the North American Colonies were meant; 1 never once thought about Ceylon or Australia,or New Zealand. And nobody but a political juggler, one accustomed to evade not search fur truth, would ever haye thought of shifting his ground to our antipodes.

We now come to what I am willing to believe Mr. Mooney’

THE INDIAN HUNTER. BY ELIZA COOK.

Oh, why does the white man follow my path, Like the hound on the tiger’s track ?

Does the flush on my dark cheek waken his wrath ? Does he covet the bow at my back 2?

He bas rivers and seas, where the billows and breeze Bear riches for him alone,

And the sons of the wood never plunge in the flood Which the white man calls his own.

own, and what no doubt he considers the most argumentative part of his jetter—tho personality. I shall not be seduecd into following his example, bat will make a few general remarks which may not be without their uso just now. —

Providence is more just in the disiribution of what are called the good things of this world than most men are willing to admit. But if in addition to making the sun shine and the rain fall on the just and unjust alike, the earth had been directed to-yield her fruits in eyual abundance to the lazy and the industrious, supposing there could then bo such a thing as industry—we have mo reason to suppose that the relative position of man- kind would bo very diferent from what we now find it. The frugal snd provident would lay up something in times of abundance against the contingencies of sickness or deficient crops; the lavish and imyrovident would, to use a phrase of their own, enc y life as it comes, and leave the future to Pro- vidence. The atter would find it casier to participate with, To find that the white man wrongs the one thaa to imitate the former; ond at short intervals would in- Who never did harm to him. vist on @ redivision of property. These principles must apply Sndheee still more wnder the actual order of things, when to be frugal es and provident seems a law imposed alike on all, but a law! Yo tne Eo:ror or rue Exawriyra. which all will not alike obey. While man in a sayage state} Siz,—A petition was presented to the House of Assembly suffers alternately from repletion or famine, it is the aim of} last evening, by the Hon. E. Palmer, from a nomber of civilization to equalize as far as external means can, his con-! Protesiant clergymen, who have associated themselves together dition not only as regards his fellow-beings, but his own con-! for the purpose of introducing the Maine Liquor Law into this dition in the different stages of his existence. Many of us Island, and it is perfectly within their province to do so. live as if the law just named did not extend to them ; and in-| There are, however, in my opinion, as a lay member of the stead of being thankful that any should be found to obey it,| Church of England, grave objections to ministers of that we learn to regard them as our enemies and teach others todo Church, acknowledging the clerical character of men who likewise. They excite our envy, but not ouremulation, We) never were ordained, and who, in many instances, are unable would willingly participate with them in their success, but! to mterpret the scriptures they preach in the original. Have notin the meaps by which they haye attained it, their in-!the clergymen of the established Chureh, (with some honor- dustry, business-habits and self-control. These successful | able exceptions,) disearded the doctrine of apostolical sue- people we eall capitalists. No capitalist can exist in a barba-| cession, which has always been considered a fundamental rous state unless he has the address to enlist the cupidity of principle of their creed, and they do so by acknowledging as S me #6 resisi the rapacity of the other. In what are called | clergymen men who never were ordained. I presume “the civilized countries guvernment dves this, though the per- next step proposed will be to open our pulpits to every self- formance of this duty involves an incessant struggle. Educa-. styled minister of the Gospel, who is desirous of joining the tion is as much the representation of capital ay is money. | association, and denouncing from the pulpit every ‘member of It caables the ekiled mechanic to carn higher wages than the | the Church who will not coincide with their exclusive yiews day labourer, and the professional man, than either. And no!The Maine Law has been found impracticable wherever it has other vem of eapital has been go obnoxious to demagogues in| heen introduced. In Portland particularly, and in New York all ages. The Freneh Rovelutionists did not deem their work ‘1,000 men are, as [ understand, employed in the useless oh of nativsal spoliation complete, ull they had suppressed the _tempt to deprive men of a hevera they were always in th colleges amd guillotined the more emiuent professors. When habit of using in moderation. If the ople of this Island . Javorier hoped to ubtain a zeprieve by asking to be permitted, | determined to have the Maine Li i Iw ion before he died, to complete sowe i i ; > aquor “aw, * would ask them

» LO com Awe experuments important to jare they prepared to forego a revenue of £12,000 humanity, one of his Judges cried out that they had no longer l derived ‘from the sale of wine and spirits, and j li hereot? ows of re ae a ee was appointed | place an additional tax of 20s the 508 dtesé-tn all te

) superintone the manufacture of arms, and s i is and i : we from daybreak to nightfall in ee “ Sepelicn re co = on tea, tobacco and all other articles of general received no salary for his services, not even the wages of the |t eae di ae ee he abetter look in time 40 their ig. muon Wworkisen whom he instructed and ‘apeenkek Wh fy j .?P seen it sia the Maine Léquor Lay pevached Bertholfett opdersd a mes ted Ao alnesy which bh nn rom the rotestant pulpit throughout the Island, it is ty be

; ch ne had | expected the people will preach too; and let the supporters of

Why then should he come to the streams where none Lut the red skin dare to swim ? Why then should he wrong the hunter one, Who never did harm to him ? The Father above thought fit to give The white men cora and wine; There are golden fields where they may live, Lut the terest shades are mine.

The eagle hath its place of rest, The wild horse where to dwell;

And the spirit that gave the bird its nest, Made me a home as well.

Then back, go back, from the red man’s track, For the bunter’s eyes grow dim,

{ confidently expected that the negotiations would be brought to

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LATEST INTELLIGENCE FROM EUROPE.

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Tux R. M. Steamship Canada arrived at Halifax on the 28th ult., with English dates to the 15th. The mail for this | Island did not reach Charlottetown until Friday evening last. The Peace Conference continued in session in Paris, and it was

a chose some time between the 15th and 20th of the month (March.) We give below such items of the news as ap- peared to us to possess most interest.

The negotiations of the Peace Conference at Paris were progressing very favourably, according to current reports. {It was even confidently rumoured that a Treaty of Peace would be signed on the 15th March. Certain disputes relative to the Danubian Principalities and the Asiatic frontier will remain still undecided, for subsequent arrange- ments. With respect to the latter it is said that rectifications of territory will be adjusted by a commission who will re- pair to the spot for that purpose. These rumours should all be received with extrewe eaution, the deliberations of the Conference being avowedly secret. Russia is augmenting her fleets and recruiting sailors in the Baltic; neither the British, nor French nation, is desirous of peace; and it is still very questionable if we shall soon see peace. Accounts from Berlin confirm what has been stated before, that a strong Russian Squadron has managed to put to sea in the Baltic, in the hope of meeting with the few English ships there now. It is said that the armistice excludes the block- ade from its operation. If the English have a right to blockade, the Lussians retain the right, it is said, to attack the blockading force. Prussia has beep positively invited to take part in the Conferences ; and Baron Mantcuffel and M. | Hatzfield have beeu appointed Plenipotentiaries for that pur- pose.

| News of the armistice reached the Crimea on the 28th; the principal officers of the two armies met and defined | certain neutral ground along the Tchernaya; and the ar- mistice was formally proclaimed on the Ist of March. The White House works were blown up onthe 28th. There was much sickness among the French troops; the British were healthy.

The new American minister has arrived in Liverpool and /putup at the Adelphi Hotel. He had been waited upon by a deputation from the American Chamber of Commerce of ,that town. He would leave for London 15th ultimo, Mr. ‘Buchanan has made a most pacifie speech at the table of the Lord Mayor of London, which was loudly cheered by the company. The Times continues its thunder against the , United States. A recent fracas between a British cruiser and an American man-of-war, about a slaver, on the coast of | Brazil, under American colours and manned by Americans, | does not tond to brighten the prospect between the two coun. tries. Nothing but mutual forbearance iu dealing with “ the group of unsettled questions,” alluded to in Mr. Buchavan’s

Speech, can prevent a fratricidal ruptur 4 and the Uniied States. are Ann ae

The great sea fight in the House of tardily off. Sir Charles Napier has ppecenaannens fromeshe ex-First Lord of the Admiralty. Sir James Gra- to have “crumpled up” bis adversary. The es that the Admiral and the First Lord did

each other. The breaches of faith elici both amused and amazed the Commons: ee

An extraordinary programme of the ceremony to be served on the birth of a Prince or Princess, child of ve

Emperor, has been published officially in Paris,

The Grand Jury at Stafford have found true bills agaiust Wm. Palmer for the murder of Cook and Ann Palmer,

|The bil! has been ignored iu the case of Walter Palmer.

Count Orloff declares that it isa pity his late magtp Nicholas of Russia, did not know the present — En. peror and that the latter is just the sort of a man the defunct Czar would have liked.

Lord Palmerston has promised to submit the papers po. lating to the Central American Question to the House goo, after the Easter recess.

Selim Pacha is to be court-martialed for the loss of Kars, The Sultan’s brother is dead. It is said that as soon as the peace is concluded, Sir Edmund Lyons will be sent to Qox. stantinople in place of Lord Stratford de Redcliffe.

been for some time dangerously ill.

It was believed that the Britsh Parliament would be dis. solved some time in May.

There was a further advance in the Liverpool Corn Mor. ket of 1s. per barrel on flour, Od. per quarter on wheat, and ls. per quarter on Corn.

Loss or tne Sreamsnie Curtew.—Steamship Curley, which sailed hence Friday, 14th, was lost on the North Side of Bermuda, on the morning of the 18th instant. Crew all sayed. Mails lost.

Covent Garden Theatre was burnt on the morning of the 6th, at an early hour, just at the close of a ball masque,

Nearly all the party had left, and but a few persons were The destruction of the -building and pro

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Sprecn or tae Frencn Eveecron.—Paris, March 7.—The scesion of

| the Senate for the year 1836 was opened on Monday by the Ewperor in

person. His Majesty delivered the following Speech:

Peers and Senators:—On the last occasion of my assembling you, serions The allied armies were engaged in a siege where Europe, uncertain,

the amount might have appeared excessive. The rige in the price of provisions threatened tho laboring class with general inconvenience, and a disturbance of our monctary system caused a fear that business and labor would slacken. ‘Thanks to your aid and to the energy displayed both in France and England, and above all tothe assistance of Providence, these dangers, if they have not entirely disappeared, have been for the most part averted. A grand feat of arms at last decided in favour ofthe Allies a strugglé unexampled in history for its inveteracy. From that moment the opinion of Europe was more openlyexpressed. Our alliances were everywhere extended and strenghtened.

The third loan was completed without difficulty. The country gave me a fresh proof of its confidence by subscribing fora sum fiy, times. larger than that I asked for. It has supported with adlvirable resignation the sufferings inseparalle from the dearness of provisions; sufferings alleviated by private charity, by the zeal of the munici- palities, and by the 10,000,000f distributed to the Departments. The arrival of foreign grain has now produced a considerable fall.

The anxiety caused by the disappearance of gold bas diminished, and never has labour been more abuadant or wages higher. The hazards of war have revived the military spirit of the nation. Never have there been so many volunteer enlistments, nor so much aréor amongst the conscripts designated by lot.

To this brief expose of the present situation, must be added facte of great political significance. The Queen of Great Britain, desiring to give a proof of her confidence and of her esteem for our country, and to make our relations more intimate, came over into France. The enthu- siastic welcome she received has proved to ber how profound were the sentiments ber presence inspired, and was of a nature to strengthen the alliance of the two peoples.

The King of Piedmont, who, without looking behind him, embraced our cause with that courageous spirit which he bad before exhibited on the field of battle, has aisocome to France to consecrate a union already cemented by the bravery of his svuldiers. These sovereigns bave beheld a country lately agitated and disintegrated of its rank in the ceuncils of Europe, now prosperous, peaceable and respected, making war not with the momentary delirium of passion, but with the calmness of justice an® the energy of duty. They have seen that Franee, that was sending 300,000 men across the seas, cenvoying to Paris at the sawe all the arts of peace, as if she meant to say to Europe, “‘ Phe existing war is to me only an episode; my ideas and my powers are always partly directed towards the arts of peace; let us peglect nothing fur a good understanding, and drive me not to throw into the field of battle all the resources and all the energy of a great nation.”” This appeal seems to have been underetood, and the winter, by suspending hostilities, favored the intervention of diplomacy.

Austria resolved on a decisive etep, which introduced into the delibersa- tions the entire influence of the Sovereign of a vast Empire, Sweden linked herself more closely to England and France by a treaty that guaranteed the integrity of her territory.

Lastly, the advice or entreaties of ail the Cabinets reaching St. Petersburg, the Emperor of Russia, the inheritor of a situation he had not created, seemed to be inspired with a sincere desire to put an end to the eause that led to this sanguinary conflict. Hedetermined to accept the proposition of Austria. honour to give way to the clearly expressed wish of Europe.

The plenipotentiaries of the allied and belligerent powers are new assembled in Paris te deeide on the conditions of peace. The spirit ef moderation and equity animates them. Ail necessarily creates the hope of a favorable result. Nevertheless, let us await with dignity the end of the conferences and be equally ready, if necessary, to draw the sword anew, or extend a hand tothose whom we have fairly fought. Whatever may happen, let us occupy ourselves with the means calculated to augment the strength and riches of France. Let us if posaible draw closer the alliance formed by a community of glory and sacrifices, and of which peace wili far better exhibit the reciprocal advantages, Finally, in thia solemn moment for the destinies of the world, let us put our trust in God, to the end that he may guide our efforts in a direction most conducive to the interests of humanity and civilization.”

The Emperer was most enthusiastically received in his passage toand from the Salle des Marecheux,

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Toe Peace Conrenence.—The Paris correspondent of the New York Commercial bas the following interesting gossip in regard to the peace conference : rt

**Tbe shrewdest man of the conference, in debate, is said to be M. de Brunow, who has thus far shown an ability which has placed all bis op- ponents on guard agaiosthim. He weighs and criticises each word with a power of mind that keeps the rest ona constant watch, and itis farther said that his criticisms bave retarded business very much, by the care that is required in the recording of the minutes. The Count Orloff, as first minister, has his instructions as to what Russia will do and what she will not do; the Baron Brunow does the pleading. Orloff lays down the plans; Brunow does the fighting, and watcbes the enemy. Hrunow has also visited extensively in the imperial and other distinguished families, and every where praises enthusiastically the bravery and invincibility of the French arms. He told Marshal Vailant be bad the greatest troops in the world, ard almost embraced the brave Gen. Mellinet, (whom he met the other night at the Princess Mathilde’s,) and who las his whole cheek carried eway bya shell.”

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Cost or A Witt.—A’Mr. Thomas Cubbit lately died in Scotland, and left an immense csiate. His personal property alone is estimated at over five million dollars. His will covers three hundred and eighty-six folio sheets, requiring thirty skins of parchment. The stamp duty upon it was only seventy-five thousand dollars. His widow is provided with an sanity of furty thousand dollars a year, and a large amount of real estate.

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COLONIAL NEWS.

Riot at Devarara.—Theo British wail steamer arrived at St. Thomas from Demerara, reported that the negroes of the colony, instigated by Orr, known as the “ Angel Gabricl,”’ had commeneed ‘to slaughter the Portuguese. Governor Woodhouse has sent Orr to jail, but the militery under his command were unabl to cope with the maddened negroes, and his Excellency hed despatched couriers to the Wihdward Islands for the aid of troops to quell the insurrection caused by Orr's fanatical appeals.

The Demerara Royal Gazette, of Feb. 23, contains an account of the disturbance, which was finally put down, and order restored. ‘be Ga- Zette says :—

Animmense number of persons of all classes having volunteered as special constables, both mounted and on foot, selections were made armed from tho government stores. The streets of Georgetown are protected by special constables every night.

On Wednesday, the Tyne steamer took up a detachment of the 2d West

India regiment, consisting of two sergeants, one drummer, and fity men, under the command of in Reece and Rasign Macnawara,

proceeded to Berbice.—The troops took with them three days’ salt ,

ume ont they om remain at Fort Canjo, to aid the oa ape S they remain there, there is no fe peace of New Am- sterdam being disturbed. ; rs: pro

The origin of the disturbances is a deep-rooted dislike on tlie part of the colored and negro aces towards the Portuguese, long pent up. The arrival of the man Orr, and his rabid animosity to the Roman Catheli¢ religion, which most part of the Portuguese profess, pointed him out te the ringleaders as a suitable agent—and tho plan bas been so far

as to occasion a destruction of property, the loss of many lives, and re

exposing of a large portion of the rural population to the miseries starvation and disease, and the creating ofa rancorous and bitter feeling of vindictive dislike, which will not only oecasion much diseord among the people themselves, but may materially affect the general

of the colony.

Ore ia a native of Demarara, and his mother resides there. He wasia prison at last acceunts, being unable to obtain bail. —-_ -—~» +00

Suir’s Knexs.—His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor gave bis assent on Wednesday last to the bill which has been recently pasead »# the Legislature repealing the duty of two shillings cach on Ha ‘ Ship Knees, and notice thereof was immediately comm sl telegraph to the Provincial Treagurer, so that the duty alluded to mg

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