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cover the land.

v'. rexpeiidiiure of the Society in its

Societies, that even our enemies do not attempt to deny them 3 a determined feeling in favor of sobriety now generally perVades our Town, and increase of good order, and a diminution of crime a/i-e‘most obVious; many persons have been prevented from fall; in; into the snares of iutempcrance, and alegreaa. number of moderate drinkers also, have been retormed; the places of wor- ship are better attended, and. his Honor (hi: Chief Justice, in some of his recent charges to Grand Juries, has noticed the obvious salutary eflects which Temperance Societies have‘ pro- duced on the public morals, by lessening crime and promoting habits of industry and peace among the population of the island generally. ,

In order to further the objects of the Society, as well as to gratify the members. 25 public meetings have been held by this society during the year. some monthly. others sembmonthl-y, and oibers weekly; also, a tea-party and public meeting after were held. when upwards of 300 attended in a spacious room above the central Academyu—fm' the use of which room, your Corn.

lqu-ecommeud a continuance 01 all their meetings and exer-

tions, and that tea parties be heltl at least twice a rear, , Your Committee have much pleasure in recording the name

rendered most valuable services to this Socieiy; and your Com- mittee are anxiously looking forward to the speedy erection of a Temperance Hall in this Town. the publication of a, ’fempmance riodical, with the zealous cooperation of numerous Branch . ieties. ' ,r Yum- Committee are convinced that abstinence front all kinds 'of‘intoxicating liquors is the principle upon which every consis- um and ethi-ient Temperance Society must stand. and in their views they are glad to be borne out bv all the zeztlo-is and best perienced leaders of the true Temperance cause both in Europe «ud America. and therefore they advocated the Petition lately~ nted to our Legislature, praying the entire suppression of _,hnp0rtflli0n, manufacture and vending ofintoxicating liquors, lagging not the prayer will yet succeed. and that the day will ,m approach when the hideousmonster Iiiteiiipernnce shall be totally destroyed, and when sobriety, peace and plenty shall

‘ -' AuxruAnY Tamrniutvc: Socr:TY.—-A'monthly Meeting of “If! society wns held in the Nuttonnl School Room on Mondqy evening but. The attendance wait good, and the addresses nui- 1ntted and interesting. Fifteen persons enrolled their names us Members on this occuaion.

v . Ronni! CnitbLic Tour. ABS‘I‘INENCE SOCIETY.—0n Miinduy lie 11th inst.,.the membch of this Society assembled at an early hour, ‘1 the Society’s Room, in Powiinl Street, in order to celebrate their .pecond anniversary, and at 10 o’clock, prooecdexl in processioniil array, mompaiiied by a Temperance B-ind luter organized. with [honors and Colours flying, to the Chapel, where High M ass was celebrated on the occasion ; and after prayers, returucd to their Room, to elect their *Ollicers for the ensuing year. The following members were unanimously chosen : ,

,Rcv. Malachias Reynolds, Presidunt, (raglan-ted.)

Mr. Richard \Valsh, Vice President. . ‘

Mr. Richard Walsh, (Carpenter), Assistant

Mr. William Toole, ‘ r n >

Mr. Thomas Broyderick, Treasur'rs' .

Vice President.

the inltituttons of that country which We are bound to ros- pect_—a vucroua, bombastical, lying effusion worthy of that .dignitary WHrz, who draws his comparisonsf no doubt from anomalous circumstances and ima ’ " ' ,

"1“ have h . ginary coincideuts, that.

y ' appeued sometime about the year 1800 when 22% meniall blockhead, no matter of what origin or "‘chrxr- “was2?:1lltfi0fspreadmg ii plai-te'r or brushing out the jesty's Coley ava or Military Bospitnl in some of Her Mit- side of me Alas, could, after a lltllo _aervice, send from‘tliis or AbPrdenn tantic and purchase a diploma at St. Andrew’s with u. h , or a few pounds, \vithoutcver being liouored

to char of a “ beadle’a Wig.” Does any such diplo- Xa exvst here under such circumstances? Eh! \Vuiz ? ns_wer me, that with your borrowed' but pretty Well adapted Latin quotation, evidently assiduously sought after with avulity by/nn old man, “an'toreur dc sci-meme,” who would appear" “lantcd’_’ to. the rising generation. I fancy I see VVrirzs contortion of countenance, spellino over the said quotation, something like poor Syntax, whzn in search of the picturesque, who, with one optic closed, sqtiiiiting through his glasses, standing at the time in the inquistorinl altitude of a young magpie, looking into in marrow bone. Stilll must not presume to doubt his great “taming.” 0r tho possibility of his making verses in imitation of Horace—- epigruins alter the model of the Antliologia, as well as after the model .ol Martial; well versed perbiipenlso in Aristotle’s ‘Moral Philosophy 01: Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and having, en .Mdgistrat, a particular affection for the canine species. I could not doubt how profitably he could divert the little boys and girls ot'thc Sunday School bv rccjtiiia the names of Acteon’s hounds and the fate ofAlciliiades’ aforr.

\Vbat ii medical leallllllillIOll may have been zin1800 or thercubouts, lam not prepared to suv—uuv person curibus on the subicct had beter consult the-Acts .of Parliament of 1815 and 1825, or \Vnrburton’s Report to the House ofCom. moiis, 1837. According to the stutistical return ofthe Bills of Mortality for the lust ten years, it appears the savinttof human life has been incredible, and which by that rcturii is

stated to have been produced by “ Vaccination and the im-'

“proved state of medical science.” .Sir Astley Cooper, one of the greatest medical authorities ofthe nineteenth century makes the following statement in one ofliis public Lectures 13,1837: “ It ts consolatary to [mom that the human frame is

ettcr understood at the present period by (students, than it was “fortyyears ago by Pro/asset's.” More evidence is needless. tpi-oiessors were so deficient forty years ago, what must have been the pi‘otiessionzil knowledge oftlie coiiiiiion domes- tic ili'tidge. rind duhblet‘ lll Illedlclllc‘llt that period?

I cannot pass over in silence the disgust that must nntii- riilly he tell by well thinking pcrsousht the obscene nnd would-be-witly questions and ‘nusvmrs of vour “turned” cor- rcspoudeut’s “ bcnu idezil" ofa medical crinniination, 011800 or thereabouts ofcoursc. We tiurlsin the early piii't oftliat melbfiueiit composition, iillusiou made to the “icy fingergof death.” Then soon follows the irrelrugzible question—“y How many noses has a man ?" Answer—4‘ One, ifnot previously destroyed by disease or accident.” Aliis! are not the eyes—

Mr. P. F. Doyle, Secretary. At4 o’clock the members nguin met, when seventy persons inclu- ding several respectable guests, sat. down to a sumptuous Dinner, reputed by Mr. P. Coughlun in his best. style, the room was tastefully decorated with Flags and wreaths of: evergreens. The Rev. M. ,Beyuolds presided, and after Dinner. proposed in Total Abstinence beverage, several loyal and patriotic Toasts, which were responded to

. by several gentlemen present.

, Afterthe party rose from dinner, a ball was opened, which was kept up with much unanimity and hilarity, until 5 ,in the

morning, every one satisfied with the results arising from tem- perance—Gin. '

.‘ Histamine Socre'rv or Pruner: EDWARD [sumo—The Annual

' General Meeting of this Society was held oanrmday the 3d, inst

the Hon. Charles Young, President of the Society in the ' Chair. A full and satislactnFy Report of the proceedinvs oftbe society for the past yean was read, and ordered to be printed The Report, among other details, embfnced an account oftlie laudable endeavours to difl‘use fillleablassings. 0! Education among the children of their Country- warm this island To the promotion of this. its primary object, the funds ofthe Society have been hitherto solely appropriated. and'tbe Report included a list of those Children who have been receiving instruction and donations of Books during the prece.. din'g years, at the expense of the Society. Some interesting let- ters from Correspondents were also read. After some roriiine _business._tlie Ofiice-bearers for the ensuing year were then elected :— _ ' Hon. J. S. Macdonald, President. , prert Finlayson, James Purdie. Esqrs, Vice Presidents. R Macaulay Esq. M. P. P. i‘Iessrs‘. Joseph Macdoiiald, D, Benton. S. Nicholson, John Brown, John Mocdonald. Directors. Mr. Kenneth M-Kenzie, Treasurer. . Messrs. John M‘Neill. Edward Irving. Seeretaries; A Vote ofthanks was given to the Ollii:e bearers for the past

_ year, after which the Meetihg adjourned -—Ib.

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AMERICAN REPRiNTs or BntTtsn VVorth.—ln one of the late numbers of.tbe Colonial Herald an article ap- peared, on the prohibition of the importation into our Colonies of American Reprlnls of British Works._ from which it might be inferred that the introduction of

Colony is interdicied; bu, such is not the case. A perusal of the following letter 0pm-

“:truotions recently received by the ICollvctor Iof Gus.

» toms in one of the neighbouring Provuices, may serve to impart inure correct information on the scblecL No doubt similar orders have been received b. me Post

- Master here: .

‘ “‘Sir: In consequence of a letter from the Secretat, m H", Lordship the- Post Master General, diited the 22d ult., tansnuv ling a copy of it communication from the Lords C(tn’lmlflslvnem of the Treasury, on the subject ot'tlie introduction, through he Pus,

‘ \‘Ofiice of printed Editions oftbe Works of British Autllnrt p,,b_ lished’in the form of ii Newspaper in the United StatcsofAiprica,

7‘ have it in command to acquaint you, that the Extra nupylie, “f

‘ Ibo Newspaper published in New York called the“ Neaw tug-Ln

.and other papers ofa similar descriptyun, have been Itemcom, to be entitled to the privilege of passing ‘llllflug'h the o'st- 3.] II! I Newspaper, and thttt in‘ future the lull rates of postage wt be charged thereon as letters, and that should any papers cpnt ring reprints of parts of Britiin Works, the copyright of w tic still extant, be imported ill inerclinndtze, the saniey-I to seizure. And you are to govern yunrselfacmirdingly.

concerned, and to communicate this order to the sevci'nl parties at

information. “ I am, 511’, 1‘

your Port, for their

Younmmt obedient servant, ‘ “ C. SCOVELL.

“ Custom House, Londonp‘dlst March, 1843.”

To run Enrron or '1'!!! Cowman Hanan.

Sir; The public aront length gratified by Wniz’s “second shot,” who, in the exuberance

no doubt to his perfect satisfaction,

the visionary organs—often destroyed by the like culauiitv ?— a thorn in the path of vice atul sensuality —‘-a deplorable inorul truth—n lesson full of wisdom.

Are the toothless gums ofrespectful old ng'e a fit subiect for sutire or ridicule in the month ofa nian already arrived at an advanced age, even beyond the. probability of human ,existeuce? Pray let himrcousider nnd'wcll i'eiiienibci‘ that the pillow on which be now lays his head—that the bod on which he now so softly and comfortably sleeps—may (nod he knows not how soon) be his dying bed, with the “icy finger of death” placed on that cheek that never knew re-' pose from the world’s vanities till now. There are sortie men who will not see .or take warning, although the gray hairs, the wrinkles, 4be piile, emaciated, yellow cheek, demonstrate that death, though still in mercy lingering, will soon meet them in the dark renluis oftbe vaulted charitel house. [The heart is‘npt to be strangely burdened by long commerce with this World, by iiidolcnce, conceit, sensuality, and slanderous enmity against all tender sentiments, and all religious impressions. Life, remember “him, is nsslender as the spider’s most attenuated thread—getting more feeble as it runs its course., Trike warning, ere it be too late, and think not that the tolling bell, the funeral precession, the ready dug grave, are concerns that concern you not.

I an), Sir, . your obedient servknt, MEDICUS. Queen’s County, 20th April, 1843. ' '

~ To Tn: lint-ran or run CoLontltL HERALD.

Sir; When we saw it advertised that 5 Lecture was to be read by the Rev. John Knox, on the 26111 0ftliis month, and were given to understand by the advertisement that the Institute would be thrown open to the public, \vetbriuglit we would pay it a visit, and bear the lecture, which wris highly interesting. Happy were we to see the house densely crowded. because the know that “ empty benches," &c. are it great discouragement to lecturers; and "S we had tickets for two successive seasons, rind should have Continued them, had we not been otherwtse uno- voidably enguzed this winter, we. thought we Would influence as many ofbutb snxos as we possibly could, rind ensure their at- tendnnco at the Charlottetown Mecliunics' Institute, on the even- ing mentioned; and ofcnursn iiiuny ofthe gallant ones complied with our entrenlv, and were, with ourselves, very much entertain. ed with the. lecture—which, in our opinion, was wall worthy the. praise oftlie literary and the scientific ofthe present day. 'And when we heard it announced from the Rev. Gentleman that he would conclude it on the subsequent \Vednesduy, we were promising ourselvesn luxurious repant for our minds,. prevutt‘ts to any steam recreation that we. may enjoy during the coming Sum- mcr;and our hearts were glowing within. up, while. we cherished the thought, that we should have something on which our minds and “genius” might food, while our bodies wunldba exarctscd with the gentle and pleasant motion of thebnautiful Steamer St. George, which now decorates our bitrhohir; but ownig to some reflections which were thrown upon the guestl, from one who did not forget to tell the audience that be had paid his m-o-n-e-y as a member, we are afraid that we shall be deprived of the. rat mainder oftbe lecture, or else subject ourselves to the like reflec- tions, which, of course, are. improper, when ii public gratuitous in-

ninniny more oftheni on the ‘evening iidverted to, for _ ‘ I, is oiicltides well when such is the case; and we are nfuptnpnn that

vitntiun is given. \‘Ve have to thank the President for preventing a meeting never

ll be liable l"‘|lt‘.lt indecrirnus behaviour he insisted upon by the nine or any , 0 so It" as

the Institute which may buried in oblivion. \Ve, because we

and beg to

‘r individual.it will prove a stigma to

q‘rn some time to pass are it would he clIavtbe indulgence ofyour inserting these remnrkn, k'mw but it is not our province to speak in public, subset“ ourselves, '

Yours, &c. A ., 2, A new or THE FEMALE S“. P" 5.1843.

M‘C’I‘m“ livs'riTU'rn.-—On Wednesday evening last, the

“'6 perusal or Rev' Johu K| delivered the. first part ofa very elaborate ofhis fancy Lecture on

' ' ’ c has icturod in glowing colours, and fancied eloquent o, p , the “dramati’penonm”

. . “an Pnoonn'sstou OF, MIND.” The‘ doors of Te msmuw be" on this occasion thrown open to the pub- hc’ me “mum mrt was soon crowded to excess, in cott-

‘ ofthe medical proiie’esion, and who, like the Comet that has sequence of WM a considerable ,,,,,,,be,.__a,,,ong whom

lately appeared in the ligenco of his readers, “ body and'defamatory description, undid-l examination. Your'obrrospondent, in the first place,

mouth wide'opeu, and with u muchtruth melting «the Alpswith vinegar, emugl be directed, and is best

at the tail ofhis discourse,

in it as Hannibal

bio-superiority and undisputed sway; ,Of “bull beef” uppean to him cactquo, eomtnnudor-in-ciiiofiwhoee personal appearance, 4' Ill. “ Riot Act,” must at once succeed in all cases ling the courage of refractory

.donionsti-ate that the human figure, “. ilgras”——thu prototype of magnaniriiity the tort offellow who, if a littln larger in the ' ,”' would doubtless at once, like Hem-i Quntre, , ll lune aver: sis dents.”

Iver in silence the “shots” of your correspondent, ‘wero

C; . lot defamatory attack (based upon falsehood) upon 1 > ‘

heavens, would illuminate the intel- were several'memb and bones". by his resplendent admission. of: part of his Lecture a

with his eyes and ’3 states that the arm of science directed, by physical frame.— lmuda ”— ' t: carr with t mm on enta- “ Of“ or thh "ms ’ y in fact, the possessor king, emperor,_ or like reading in dispel-- “ men ofsciencefl particn‘ljarly 1' tie f llowo‘ who seem me o to

those stuffy, Stumpy, doughy it e in“, the '6“me. 'could be made portable—the-eort of men the French call ' a'ml courage; ‘_‘ understdnd- “prendre I should most likely have passed

. & of'tlie Institute—v—were unable togain Ihe R gentleman willvleliver the concludgng .‘e some place on \Vednesdriy evening next’ and we recomlml those who are anxious for seats to secure them as early :9 055mm. . I I

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F“: ‘T RUSTICOZ—Ofl’ e nitrbt ofThuritday the l3th iii-fl“ “‘iius‘i'i‘iik‘iiil {Eliaiii'cih ngrglmphv Optic-Herzfljpjfl - w" . ' ‘ - e re. )8 orig- misrm’mne 1' ilxécgzetnlxlvgbut 'ifis supposed that n spittr: g.itol‘lfnhfirst?!(If‘the woodwork. ‘ bgilglnefhlgglgiznd'35:31. ' r - . . - nsl o _ utlmated at £100~the building \9 not warm much—Gaunt

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PORT OF CHARLO.E‘T0WN'

ENTERED. ‘

Dumom’ Ant'g‘he; Limestone. CLEAREB' , .Scbr. Sarah, Campbell, Miramichi; 300 bushcon‘s’ 20 dONWBeaI’

800 d . Potatoes. Lark, Hovovntt, Halifax; 1.500 bushels Cats], ‘0 do. Panto“- Aun Caiheriue, Martin, Pictou; mogatsgtjsso. Happy Rewn,.MflRae, H if”; 1 . ,

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MARRIED, ‘

At .St. Eleanor'n, on Tuenday, the 19th inst., by the Rey. Doctor Wigglnl, Thomas Cooke, Esq, Member oftbe Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland, to Elizu Frances, second daughter of Cecil Wray Townabend, Esq., ofLiverpool. G. B.

On the 1811i inst., by the Rev. Dr. Jenkins,

' Mr.,Joseplt Mutcb, to Mtge Jane Mathews.

~ DIED, At Sacltville Street, Dublin,4 tli March last, Miss Harriet Jones, eldest daughter of Dr. Jones, late ofLondon, and sister to the lute l'Io‘n. Dowrigcr Lady Ventry.

DISTRICT NO. 8_. ‘ HIE Subscriber will let by Auction, to the lowest ‘ _ bidder, on the spot, the repairing rind building the following bridges: On Thursday, the 4th of May next, tit 11 o’clock, the repairing the Bridge near Poplar Islanditba same day, at 3o'cluck, the building ofa‘Bridge over Mathewson‘s Mill Biook, \Vinsloe

Road. , JAMES COLES, Commissioner. Charlottetown, April 18th, 11543. '

. DISTRICT No. B. THE Subscriber will let by Auction, to the lowest

bidder, the repairing and building the different Bridges, its follnw'sz—on Friday, tbct'itb ufMtiy next. or Ill o'clock, the build- iii, of a new Bridge at Bloody Bridcrc. St. Peter's Road ; some day. the repairing a Bridge neur IIIECZDI' Mockinnon's, on the said ronfl ; some day, it! 11o’i-lock,tlierepairing it Bridge niiiir Bough- thI's form, on the .ilHILl roorlfat 12 o'clock, the repairing the Bridge over \Vriglit's Mill dam, on the siiid rnnrl; 7112 o‘clock;

the some day, the biiiltliiiuofn new Bridge over Fttriglit's Hollow,

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on the same road; til 3 o'clock, the some day, the building a new Bridge by Sergeant I)unruu's,_ on the BHlele Point Road; at 4 o'clock, the repairing the Bridge over \Vinter lliver, on the, said road; on Monday the Silt, tit 10 o’clock, the repairing ofdill’vr- cot Bridges, within the Roynlty, on the Print-clown Krinrl, coni- mericing at the Biirinl Ground; at 2 o'clock, some day, l‘l‘pilll‘lllg the Bridge Over Myors‘ Brook, iiiid filling up the Abutments on the said road; on Tuesday tbp ‘th. at 1| o‘clock, the repairing of Bridges on the road loudng to Poplar Islillld‘Bl‘IdgH. commencing at the Hermitage Bridge; at] o‘clock, some day, filling up the Abtttuwnts iiiid railing oanplar Island Bridge.

Notice is hereby given to all persons in Charlottetown and loyalty, and in tho Silt llistrtct, [but unless iill Nuisances urn r-leured away'belore the Isl. May, the Law will be enforced against tbt-m. . ‘

Overseers are requested to see that till Roads (We kept open the proper width rcquircd by Low.

JAMES COLES, Commissioner.

Charlottetown, April Qdili. 1843.

DISTRICT No. 11. ’ [IE Subscriber will, on Monday, the 8th day of May