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EUROPEAN MATTERS.

’ Evropean mattere become more and move

cums licated every day, a d the likelihood of prospectsof Britain in any degree discour ging, number of Lippineott’s Magazine, peace beirg altimat:ly maintain: d ace alwaye And though they were very d ferent from what ee —_— fai: ter, and less encouraging, It washoped tney ure, our du:y and ult mate safety and PARIS LETTER. that Russia would not push matiers to ex) honor would still be found in retaining our

tremity, but would allow al! the mattersin cis- postion by her side, ready to dare alldangers; 4 Paris Jetter of the 27th ult., says; many pute co Be discussed deliberately, and setti.d and endure all losses ip connection with the of 4 emicsbly by a conference of the great powers dear old iand and the dear old flag. People | apie quarters of the town are inhabited by Lseiest inielligence makes this appear unlikely. | tell us we should be safer if we were free) persons who have taken refuge in Paris from The great northern bear has lu-ged fixed his | frem that protection, with its many compli-| the country and working people from the eve ead heart upon the eity of the Golden cations, How much more we should de 80 faubourgs. ‘They imhabit the enormous ele- Hors asa seat of government, and has not may be seen in the way President Giant thinks | gently painted and gilded rooms rent free. A for m re than & century turned from this ob- it right to talk of and to us, and the awount | fy sticks of turniture, sabots and blouses con- ject for a single moment. Circumstances may of consideration he thinks it becoming to show | trast strangely with the decorations. Salona have forced Russia to keep fora while the us even as ® part of the British empire are turned into laundries, and ragged linen mutter ia abeyance, but no opportunity has |there were a dozen or two in Canada who up hung out to dry on the balconies. From the been ailowed to paas unimproved for (he fur- to this time believed in the greater safety that | windows and balconies of the upper stories of theracce of her settled and darling desive | independence would give us, they must noW| one of those new houses in the Rue de Lafay- Sue, (abgied that when the“ sick man’ was | eee their folly and mistake; and even decent | orte, looking over Baron Rothechild’s garden last to be dealt with, neither Britain nor! snnexationists, few and concealed though they 'stoekings, shirts and female under linen of France, and especially Britain, would fight; be, must now feel that in every way it is better | every deseription were dangling when I pass~ in defence of Turkey; and. she, ne doubt, | to continue aa we are, with all the chances of | ej yesterday, It is something to have a roof buoys nerself up now with the hope thxt, as war from our connection with Britain, than to| over their heads, but the poor require focd, France cannot interfere, Britain won't —iet| be scolded ard kicked and cuffed into the | and the cuntines are a greatboon. There are the G:and Tark be treated in ever se cavalier|Uaion in the way thought decent and be- | at present sixteen, but the number will be in and ty annical a manner.

to the witima ratio; but if the worst come to cover or behind buildings hedges or entrenchs| the worst we ew mot think the position @nd ments.—[David A Wells, ip tue Jepuery | ondall. Discount Dnys,.

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"DIRECTORY. ’ and.— Cahier, Wm. Bank of P. E. Islan Moodays fee

violution of the Treaty of Puris

, Thursdays. | Union Bank.—Cashier, James Anderson. Discount Days, Wednesdays and Saturdays. | Savings’ Bank --Colomal Building. Bavk- ‘ing days, Tuesdays and Fridays. | Farmer's Bank Rustico Cashier, Marin ‘J. Blanchard. Discount day, Wednesday. Summerside -Bank.—Cashierr, R. McC, Stavert. Discount days, Tuesdays and Fri- days.

Y. M. C. Asso¢iation—~Thursday evenings | during winter.

C. Y. M. L.: Institute.—-Tuesday evenings.

M etropolitan Lodge, , British Templars, meet in Falconer’s Hall on Wednesday evenings.

City Lodge, British Templars. meet in the| which they have caused has been the Atheneum on Tuesday evening. source of much uneasiness, and much i!]

Victoria Division -Sons of Temperance, meets Monday evenings.

St. John’s Lodze,, Masons, Second Tues- day in exch month.

made in Russia, we may depend upon it

|blows with telling effect.

American cousins seemed to cherish them asa sort of pet grievance. They seemed

t hei quite evidect tha «an open the fnmilies of the men in his ; woul be, have to depend upon the cold charities of Our shores? attended with serious consequences, The the world to give them their winter's attempt to make Turkey a Russian | bread. If men worthy of respect suffer, petus would be given to trade and . provinee, and the Mediterranean » Russian) Why should we express any blams against ov: — capital wens he avai . . 7 a i rm rket; our v: f lake must he deferred tome little time} ou Government for Protecting our rights. Sestpt wf aa e tor aa pees — longer. Russia is patient, but sbe is per-| Should we not rather entertain and? give ae sistent; she is foiled just now, but she will{ ™tterance to our indiguation against the sides of our wagnificent rivers, take measures to put her favorite project in| blatant demagogues of the United States, |hould we be so fortunate as to get a execution at the first favorable moment.| Who inmagine they can punish or force We read of vast preparations for war being the Provinces into Annexation.

The Alabama Claims séem.just now,in a the management of affairs at Washington. fair way of being adjusted. The agitation

feeling on both sides of the Atlantic. Our

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employ will be the result of these suarmer vis Why, a better felis, Spricy out of the social intercourse be our neighbors and ourscives « fresh

, would dot the besutiful landscapes on

‘road from Summerside to Georgetg (the very building of which wouid iy aew ‘life and vigor into our pec

Captain Friend feels that he has not the | would not merely ree one large

that whenever the opportunity presents it~ slightest cause of complaint against the Is- | but. in self-defence, we would have to pres self, she will be ina position to deliver her | land or Hume Government. and has no other

plus population which would flood feelings but of contempt for those who have | ety.

elements to break up the fishing seasons of the American fishermen, depend apon itwe will svon be offered a Reciprocity Treaty

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| who would indirectly reap the Berefit a floating lation during the summer mOneRe. eRe . i

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ai . . hotel’ built by a company, or not? eo Aided by the oe and prestige of Great have: professional men, enterprisin ; Britain. if the Tslund and Dominion Goy- chante, energetic and skillful mechanic ernment enforce our laws, and he)p the intefligent farmers, an@ » host of j

ly, to Driag matters to an issue without de- lay, sie made very arrogant claims, which substentially amounted to saying that she would not hold herself bound by solemn treaties any longer than might suit her con- venieoce: acd though the firm Searing of Lord ( -anville at first seemed to bring her to remsou, and to give hope that the matter would be settied without auy proceedings of a war- ike deseription, later iatelligence is of a war- like ebaracter, wd Russia appears not only determined to push her previous claims, bus to advance othera in each a way as t» make jt appear that she is exber bent upon precipit- ating «» conflict, ar entirely convinced that Brita'e the only great power she has reasov to dread, will not riek tke danger involved iu an appeal to arms.

The proceedings of Prussia at the same Time, ia reference to Haxemburg, make it

Lo order, apparent-| coming by President Grant.—TZoronto Globe. | creased to twenty-four. Upwards of 15.000

| - LAYE WARK NEWS.

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but the supply is not equal to the demand. _ | There are between 150 and 200 employed in #@ London, Dec. 23.—Despatches from Var-) the cantines. A room having been obtained Sailles state that ; attle me yee at mo |from @ house proprietor, a one a wae | wale. a amall market town of France, in the | for tne distribation and two or three benches | department of Indreet Loire, about eigbt are installed therein for the persons waiting }miles N. N. E of Tours, on Tuesday. 7 he ‘their turn to be supplied. Tables there are | French strength was about 6000, the TegI- | none, xs the food is not to be eaten in the |ments consisting chietiy of mobiles. They | cantine. The distribution is made by a wo- 'bad also artillery and cavalry on the field.| man cook and two assistants in each room; | The M obiles were atiaoked by a force of | she accounts and checks are kept at the Marie. Prussians, which was spiritedly resisted by | Nothing is sold at the cantine, and pereons cavalry and artillery, which they brought tO desirous of obtaining food must first obtain, | bear upon the enemy. After a brief engage-| at the Murie, tickets, which are avaliable at | ment the French were compelled to abandon auy cantine in the district, They are of dif. | their position, and leave the field to the vie | ferent colors, and entitle the bearer to receive /torious Prussians, The Prussian forces then | either or the following portions : Half a litre entered Monnaie and took possession of the of seap or fifty grammes of meal, 200 grammes

Odd Fellows—Monday evenings.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Steel, and Mud Digger Chain... are - G. & S. Davies, House to Lat .. .... Peake Brothers, & Cc., From London and Liverpool. ...... do. Crackers, Molasses, Oil, &.,....Wm. Dodd. unite Lande .: -sceyu oot Francis Kelly, Chitown Mutuai Fire Insurance Company.

Henry Pa'mer. eee. Moore and Richardson. Ee

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| very reluctant to part with them. They

upon our own terms. The high tariff upon were useful in some way to politicians of fish sent by our people to the United Staves all part-es on occasion, and were they 1 is no protection nor advantage to the Am- honorably and amicably setiled, the stump| @tican fishermen, Moreover the fact that orators of the Union would be deprived of the duty upon certain articles imported a very popular and avery ex-| from usis to be lowered on Ist of Jan. 71, citing topic. A little fire-eating and) is #0 indication that the poor manufacturers Zz ’ tall talk against the Britishers went of the New England States are finding out a great way in certain quarters to bolster | *a¢ they suffi most from the high daties ap the reputation of a shakey politician, | 0" articles of daily consumption, and that The question was, however, getting some- their interests would be better served if our what stale, and the cautious and astute | *ricultura! products were cdmitted duty President evidently considers that he will | free. : gain more in every way by settling the) A few men like Captain Friend will Question thaa by keeping it open to be a render good service in representing the

source of perpetual irritation and even] real state of affairs. Ifnot a hero, he can

more end more likely tat there is a foil on.

town |of rice, 175 grammes dried vegetubles, 500

rivate individuals take the matter in — and, and suppiy the want so much needed, _ and reap the benefit of their en : We fear many a private individual hesi- tates to embark his capital in this way, — fearing the formation o 'which he could not successfull Hience the nocessity opinion on this matter

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Miss Robertson's department is nearly fall,

| Miss Longworth has a goodly number, and’

Mr. Dickieson had 86 boys in his class. — rm.

Hon George Beer was called to> the chair. Addresses were de‘ivered by Rev. Mr. Milligan,, Charles Palmer, Esq , Rev. Mr Fitzgerald, Judge Young, and others.

& company with — of testing publi¢ :

teat Tur New Wesleyaa College was opened _ pile

Advices from Paris of the 21st inst., bring ' grammes of bread.

derstanding, if no i | : a3 a © am. aheolete treaty, be un oficial report of the recent military opera- | HOW THE DISTRIBUTION If ARRANGED,

tween the two great aggressive empires of |

Charlottetown; January 9, 1871.

danger. General Schenck is sent to Eng- land with instructions to settle this Alabama

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glory in being a martyr. Others will reap the fruits of his suffering; but it is a satis-

—the latter

gentleman volunteered, in sid’

the morth-east of Earope. When the first decisive sucoesses of united Germany made the probable cession ot Alsace and Lorraine

a sabject for general discussion, the rumor |

went that Russm had put in her absolute veto againet any territorial agyrandisement as the result of the conflict. Aad though no official docame its oa the subject were ever pnblished, euch a feeling on the part of the Czar was in every "ay natural, and such a protest only what ws4 to be expected, now n@ «pparent fear for any such interference.

Prussia voakes her arrangements and puts tor- | ward her claims With the greatest coolness, as |

if she could reckon on the most absolute non-| wnterfersoce on the part of her formidable neighbor, and feels herself qnite able to take. all others into her own keeping. Some 4rumpery excuse about the German wounded | uot beisz allowed to pass through Laxemberg | is put forward asa reason for absorbing that Duchy. and perhaps paving the way for bring-| iog in the whole of the kingdom to which it| belongs to form part of the great German Fatherland. Jt is bat a short time since the neutrality of Laxem berg was solem:ly recog: nised by treaty, but Prussia, like Russia, ap- pears, in the intoxieatjen of her succesz, to care for treaties only eo long as they suit her! eonvenience, and help her in the working out | of her favorite plans. It ie this, far more than | the importance of the territory in question, that imparts gravity to the present compii- cation.

The duchy of Laxembarg is German, and was made part of the German Confederation in 1814, being then handed over to the King of Holland in lieu of Nassan, after it had be longed to France for twenty years. If the people choee to cast in their lot with Ger- many, 20 one conid very greatiy object, but if solemn treaties can be turn up and east to: the wind whenever Biemark or his master tuink it couvevient, all international arrarge- men's are useless and treaties are not worth | the paper on which they are written.

The question is all important. What atti- | tude will Hritain assume under these circum- etanves? Will she choose the peace at any price position? Or, folly aware of Russis’s pisns inthe East, will she throw herself ac- tively into the provoked conflict, and by sab- e dies ang direct naval and military efforts, do | her best t) make Russia and her ally respeet treaties and cbserve ancient boundaries? Difficult &s some may think it is to imagine England y sing to wur on such » question as the neutralization of the Black Sea, for the defence of » decaying country like the Turks, we are fully couvinced that, put in the way the alternative is likely to be put, the over-| whelming force of public opinion in England | will be for war, Though unfavorably situated in some respects compared with whut she was in 1854, from being unable to reckon upon

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ehe is better prevared for the conflict, and the | very tact of her being antrammelied by en- | snaring alliances im.y be found to be, not her. weakness, but her strength. In such a war | France, Austria, and Turkey, with Italy per-| haps, would be on the side of Britain, and | Russia and Prassia would ve: y naturally fancy} themselves strong enouch for all-comers The shock of suca nations .n m: rtal conflict would be terrible, and theFesult ia any case, an amount of slaughter ard desolation abso lutely frigheful to eontemplate. The likeli-| hood however of the two great wilitary | powers having it al} their own way is not so! great as ame might imagine. France, raised | from the dust and braced up by sdversity and | trial, would, in her very bitterness, be a for- | midabie opponent, and Austria anc Turkey, | with what help Britain could afford, would Maintein @ wt unequal contest in the Princi- oo while Britain # immense ravy could, «rmetically seal up the sea coast of both her | coatederaie of poner:ts. What of the United States? Would they! not castin their lot with Kussia, and avail | thems |vee of the opportunity of avenging

the “* Alabama’ depredations and all the un | in the capacity of Krankentrager, or hcspital | triecd)y doings of Britain for the last cighty | attendants, whose special duty is taking care years? Some peopi think that woald be the | case, bat appearances point ina totally dif | furcut di ection, The Americans are tired of | competent to judge than » transient observer, together with an adequate incowe,’ war, avd are not inclined to risk ite horrove|and since communicated to the writer, has | merial itsell ie couched in larger or less definite even to gain Canada ond humiliate Britain.| been however,

They reckon on a surer game. such a cont.ct Will pay better, and they wil! therefore be neutrals, This course will give a chance for the revival of their commerce; and their enterprizing citizens, they imagine. will make the sea swarm with “ Alabamas’”’

and sweep J.iti#h commerce from the ocear. | varia,where a smallar preportior of the young, must isake up her | able-bodied men are drawn-into the army ;

Well, if this comes, Britain mind to take ita @ par’ ef the burden or war.

ivals mn naval warfare, let it take what form 1s May. Heets of merchantmen sailing under the convoy » ebips cf war have been arranged for hefore ibis, They could with steam keep better to- gether, and vield each other better help, than ru days of cailing vesse’s; and it would be strange indeed and sad imputation, upon her energy and (be seamanship of her sons if she id not send American * Alabamas ” to the >» ttom by the dozen long before they united- ly did @ the of the damage which the one did of whieh s) much complaint hae heen made, and which comprowieed the character of the

naval lecders of the States quite as much as it) children coming in to beg for bread; the flelds

/nyared her wereantile marine, The Americ wns make but a poor figure in the present com petition with Britain for mercantile superiority sod the ocean carrying trade. and with Brit- win possessed of large vessels by the ecore woreh @ fortnight’s work would tura into: for. midable vyeasels of war, and coalinz stationein every part o: the world, we veutare to hazard the. prophecy that American “ Alabamas’ wod'd havea hot time of it, and might chance

There is, however, |

aud |.id in their last s'eeping place moet of the sun.

| the transportation of merchandize by rail or} |boat, except fr military parpos: 8, was me

|ing a blackswmith to shoe a horse in many

Neatrality in | not really interrupted by reagon of the war in | C°KMIZ® Suu M8 eae Soe epee ve Tae Forage

She is quite as likely as not to equal od ba like Nassau and Franktort, have been |

Privateering is uot a novelty, and, where the Prussia? military laws have on!

}tions which says: The operations were }resumed to-day and only ceased at nightfall

a ee eee her | the cantines are also opened from eight til! cupied Neuwilly 6ur-Mlaine, Nilla Kura The | halt-past nive A. M., and from two to half-

oints, | PS three P AM. for the issue of numbers in-

Two distribntions are made per day—from ten to twelve and from four to six o’cloek

| Maison Blanche. all to the East of Paris

jfire of the enemy was silenced at all

THE UNSETTLED.. QUESTIONS OF THE COMING YEAR.

Tus year 1871 promises to be a year of

difficulty. That is his mission. We have little doubt but that he will succeed. The British Government have, throughout, action, In 1870 much was begun, but very! evinced a desire to settle the Alabama

'dicating the order in which each will be ser-

i ! ~ i * . 7 . Pe a thas after a — a * = lved. When tne distributon ot food is made, | whic n. Fave was wounded, the troops | Nationa! Guard takes his position near the

crows Bt. Bovis, unite Stnitel fa Rouciere, | counter, calls eut the number, tells the cook

| the quantity and the quality of the portions jrequived and places the vouchers in the ull, 'which is taken every evening to the Maine for | examination,

AN INCIDENT IN THE STREETS.

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| Bourget, to the rorth of Paris. bat were un- j able to Lold the place and retreated, having exptured 100 prisoners, The forces of Gen |Duerot were also engaged south of the city in a Violent artillery action egainst Mout Ablon and Blancmesuil, and at the night Du- erot occupied Groslay and Draugy. General | I saw an old gentleman yesterday who was Noel made a feint on the side of Mont Valer-! formerly in a large way of business and lived ien, west of Paris, against Montretout, and | in guod style some few years since. A twist the chi:f of battalion fourth occupied the| in the wheel of fortane ruined him, Until the island of Chiard, in the Seine. The mobilized | war was declared he struggled ou and support national guard fought with the trocps in these | ed bimeelf respectably as @ commission ager t, engagements, and displayed great ardor, The} but the siege had pressed heavily on him and garrigou ot St. Dens and marines lost con-| uli his friends had left, His clotheehave been siderably in attacking Bourget, but the losses | brushed threadbare, ns hat still effects to shine of the ether troops were not heavy, Geueral | feebly and his boots are polished. He looks Trochu remains outside the city with the army /scrupuhously clean and respectable. In the A correspondent of the London Times | course of couversatia:: he told me that he had sends an account of what hesaw at the late) yone eurly to the market. A turnip had take: | sortie :— | his fancy—it made the peor cid gentlemen’s “It wis one of the hoitest parts of the bat-| mouth water. He asked the price—five sous tle-field Heavens, what asight! To see|* J] could not afford the luxury,” he said, the men advancing under fre of the forts \¢ There are two of us in the family, You and falling at every step ; to see the French! may not be aware of it, but I have the bump | and the Suxons amid that horrid din of artil- | of ‘curiosity extraordinanly developed, and | lery shooting one another down with Chease- was unable to resist saying, “ What did ya! < and teedle-yun ; to hear the “hurrahs,’’) haye for breakfast?” ‘The old gentleman 1¢-| ollowed by a volley, and as the smoke cleared plied, with hesitation, ‘‘Why, this morning | away to find the lines thined and living men |we had only four potatoes between us.” To-| advancing over the prostrate bodies of dead 'day he breakfasted with me, but it was with | and dyirg was horrible, as the sizht of this| mach difficulty I made him agree to do so. battle tield, with hundreds of dead lying there | THERE 18 NUCH MESRAY Ps PARIS, in the cold air, the sun shirirg on their | ghastly features and still forms, while the | ut the people bear up. I knowa person who cannon on Avron and Nogent were thunder.| pald six francs and a half for forty-four pota- ing with sounds which shook the earth for| tes. Another Jacree announces that in order miles around, One of the first groups I came | '0 €conomize the gas for natural purposes the | upon was composed of sixty French soldiers | upply will be cut off from al} private and pub- A few Suxons and Wurtemburgers lay around |!ic establisbments on the 30th inst, On and them ; but the Germans had slready removed #fter that date we goto bed and get up with

their dead. The centre of the group was | THR CHEISNS OO PANEe, formed of a close line of forty-six,. You in martial costumes, Tyrolean hats and swords could not have placed a body between any | at their sides, who threatened to mount guard two. They fell shoulder to shonider just as | on the ramparts, and, if need be, to extirpate they stood to fire, By tar the greater num- |the Prussians, were cut shert is their enthusi- ber of them were on their backs, with the: | asm, fiistly, by M. de Keratry, and secondly feet to Paris and their heads to Villiers, Alas, | by his succeesor, as Prefect of Police, M, Ed- it wea painfully evident that many of them, mond Adam, neither of whom seems to have and of others whom J] saw subsequently, had been suffisiently impressed with the charms of not dicd justantaneouely,byt had lived probab- | the fair sex. ly many hors without a hand to lend them! ‘Their first decree, of some length, termiva succor, and im piercing snow and frest. | ted with ** Vive la Commune! Vive la Repub- Bismark intimates’ that should any other lique Uuiverselle! aud is 3 gned by the Presi | than the Eastern question be i:.troduced at tne | dent (Louis Michael’, the Vice President and |

conference of the great powers to be held in|sixtzen members of the amiable eommiite, |Judiced 890 ae ens 4 don during the firs ek in Jax i : v apartments { itis |raw levies of the arnyy of the Loire an much asaistance from Fraver, yet in others | Loudon during the first week in Javuary, the | They demand ail vacant apartmc Or Citis | j y

representative @f Prussix will imm<diately | zens without shelter, and the wine and fuel) wibdraw, |\therein for the sick; the abolition of religious | |workshops and houses of prostitution; the | THE EFFRCTS OF THE FRANCO PRUS-| chureh bells of Montmartre for cannon; im-| SIAN WAR ON INDUSTRY IN THE partial returns of the aged and infirm, so that NORTH GEKMAN SIATES. ‘the Republic shall not be deceived; profess-| : ioral schools gratis; communal workshops On entering Germany in August last the and democat'c asylums; sorties of ertizons, must unobservant of travelers could badly protected by National Guard, to gather vege- fail to be impressed with the fact that war, | tables, the produce to be distributed hy the for the time being, had beeome the first and Mayors and Vigilence Committees ; the Na- almost sole busies3 of the nation, or more | tional Guards to be fed like soldiers, at the ex- roperly, of the Uor.federate Germanic States. | pense of the state, and thelr pay given to) in Rhenieh and Northeastern Prussia produc- their families, se that their wives, childven tioa seemed to have been ina great degree ar-| and mothers shall not die of cold ant banger rested ; few civilians were to be encountered, during their absence. either upon the cars or at tle hotels; while | —~ wee

| MR. GLAPSTONE AND THE POPE.

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apparently eutir'y suspended, Private letters! yr, Plcdstone hae weitten the tollewing letter written a8 late es the middie of Octobbr des ty Mr. Dease, member for Queen's County 3 cribe also this same cuncition otf affairs, ard | Dowstxc Srreer, Nov. 39.

; ; > ; , make mention of the ddficalty of eves find- | Sir,—I have the honor to aoknowledge the

receipt of your letter of the 16th inst., trane- |mitting a memorial from the inhabitants of | ter | Stradbadly, in which you state that they ex- War districts | press their desire that Her Majesty’s Goveri~

the German villages; with the further inei- dept that even the sexions had left their eharches und gone to the actual

went may see fit to use * such diplomatic intele vention as may secure to the Pope the contivu- of the dead, anee of such a temporal Bovereiguty as will pro- The opinion of German authorities, more | tect hian in the éischarge of his ee he mt.

to the effect that production is | @uauages but Ide net doubt that I am to re- Germany, a8@ whole, to a greater extent than |" eae Nahithes akin: thiet-tlion Majesty's thirty Pua cevt.; the imerruption being great- | Government bave pot, during the various changes est in Tessa proper, where the mMuitary con-) which bave marked the reign of the present (scription has been the most extensive, and

oe by Pope, interfered, nor bave they new proposed to | least in the a'lied S:ates, as Saxony and Ba | interfere, with the civil government of the city

of Rome or the surrounding country,

But Her Majesty 8 Goevernwent consider all and in the G rinan States aud “free cities,’? | that relates to the adrquate support of the dig nity of ths Pope, and to bie pereonal freedom and independence in the discharge of bis spiritual functions, to be legitimate matter jor their notice,

ludeed, witheat waiting for the occurrence of } . os “* jan actual necessity, they Gave duricg tbe un- | The general effect of the interruption Of IN-| certainties of the jast few months taken upon | dustry in German .by reason of the war try | themeelves to wake provision which would bave

be interred from the earnest appeals that have l tended to afford any neceesary protection to the recently been made to the charity of all Ger-| person ci the Suvereign Pontiff, : {mans in behalf of the working population of} The subjects to whieb I bave adverted will Khenish Prussia, Hanover, Baden and Hesse | continue to have their carefel attention; alttouga especially, One of these «ppeats, brought to they have had great satisfaciion in observing our notice under date of September 28, uses | that the Italian Government has declared in the P : 4 : most explicit manner iia desire and jutention to the followmg janguage: ‘*The towns in theee P Pope's freed di jisttiete are crowded with helplese wo g respect and detend the Pope’s freedom and in rane ee oe br egrery and to tuke care thut adequate pro vision shal! be forthcoming fur the due support are left nntilled ; the villages are swept clean | of bis dignity.” of tuod; while the prices for the neeessaries | I have, &c, ot jife bave gove up thee fold.” At a period W. E, GLADBTONE, usearly as the last week in August the ap-| E, Dease, Eeq., M. P.” pearsunce in every German city, town or ham oo jet of considerable nambers of mon inuniform! Sir Jonw A* » cDONaLp's reasons for be- voub ing upon crutekes, or with their arms or | lieving that the Imperial troops wil be back heads bendeged, testified most cloquen!y to|in the Province of Untanio before five yeare the terrible results of the reeent battles; whine) are as follows: twice in his own remem-

incorporated with Prussia since 1866, ard

| been made applicablé io those who have be- | come of age since the date of mcorporation,

to receive more cuffs than eoppers in their »ealoué endervors to turn an honest penny, and to eripple, if nut destroy, an only too suceess-|

Britian. ad almost every portion of the | FB atish peop», regards war with horror, and will gojxto wach a conflict only when it is econ that uo other eourse can be banorably preued But whea that és seen, most cc-- te ly it will be found thet she ean enter upon a fight without being ** kicked ’’ into it, can, ~-o¢ to it with her old tenacity; can be \. oh of her money aswell as of ber blood ; and, f the tast to come to blows, the Inst al- ©) to cal a bolt or give wp the contest till the cod on nas been gained, the wroug rec- sted the right secured, and peace, honorable and satisfactory. ¢ red and made ts. -apent, We still hope that the whole difh-

almost entire dsstruction in some instances of | the faelinge of the Conservatives aud the uni

at the railway stations, or in the vicinity of | perance, he said, the British Goverument, in the rooms or buildings appropriated for useas|a temporary fit of millitary econey, had hospita’s, the epeetacle of woman clad in| withdraw: the troops and had returned them mourning or weeping bitterly was not by any to garrison Uanada, ard they felt cor fident means unfrequent, There ia also reason to) that they would ug sent out again. He based believe, owing to the practice of grouping the | this belief in part upen the professions of the local or district conseriptions into companier, old Whig party ot England, of whieh Lord battalions or regiments y themaelves that the dohn Russell was the leader, and partiy upon

such military iutegrals has bees equivalent to | versa! pride felt in England at the growth and the destruction of almost all the young, able- importance of ibe Colonial possessions. ZJ/z. bodied men of certain emall towns and villages. — Reporter.

And aa regards the comparative Josses of the ee ee

two armies, the opinions expressed to the A London despatch says, the rumor that! writer by numbers of Prussians officer who Prassia repudiates the treaty of 1867, | were wounded in the battles before Metz, neutralizing the territory of Luxembury is, were eimost uniformly to the effect that the to be accepted guardedly, It is regarded | lossez of the Pruss‘ans were greater than hereas extremely improbable that Bismarck | those of the Preneb, inasmuch asthe former would at this time thus defy Belgium and

were nearly always the attacking party, while the Netherlands, i

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must soon give way, Prussia cannot be re-| the British nation will submit to any indig-

| to continue a styuggie which is to all ap- | has run its course.

little completed. Ali the great questions (),ims in a just and even in a liberal raised and discussed during the past twelve | manner, They have offered to compensate eventful months stil await decision. The) those whoare really entitled to compensa- Franco-Prussian war will most probably |tion. In short to Lepair any injury which be ended in the year immediately before us;! American citizens may have suffered the result notwithstanding the almost unin- | through their mistake or their neglect. terrupted success of the Germans, is still The American Minister will find the settle- doubtful; the French gallantly maintain ®/ ment of those claims an easy business, it struggle which, for'them, commenced s0 justice is all that he requires. Both Mr. inauspiciously. If, three months ago, the | Johnston and Mr, Motley, his immediate question were asked, how long will France| predecessors have, from all that we can hold out? How much longer will its! }¢arn become converts to the British view brave but volatile inhabitants endure dis- | of the Question, much to the indignation aster and disappointment with fortitude? |of the fire-eaters and talJ-talkers before

The answer of nihe Spectators out of ten’ aituded to. General Schenck must notex- would have been, ** Notamonth ; the French | pect that either the British Government or

sisted with any hope of success They | nities. They will make no humiliating willin a short time lose heart and hope, and | admissions. They will make reasonable, lay down their armis in despair Theit) and perhaps some unreasonable, eences- country is torn by internal dissensions; they) sions; but they will not incur disgrace. are weakened by faction and treachery, and | Ony impression is that the American am. the fate of a house divided against itself, bassador to the Court of St. James will must, ere many dayselapse, betheirs. Be-) drive a hard bargain, but that he will not sides this, the French cannot bear misfor- | leave England until it is concluded to the tune; they are brave but notresolute; they satisfaction of all reasonable men, beth in lack that fortitude, and that dogged obsti-| England and America.

nacy which enables men of the Teutonic | The Fisheries Question,too, we hope will race to bear reverses with equanimity, and be settled before the year of grace 1871 We wish to live in The Celtic and the peace and friendliness with all our neigh- Latin races need the stimulus of success.’ | hors, but it is impossible to do so if the This mode of reasoning is exceedingly | course of policy initiated by the Dominion plausible. but events have proved it to be | last summer be persisted in The Fishery fallacious, The politicians the military Question needs re adjustment. The rights men, and the philosophers have-all been | and privileges cf American citizens in British ut fault ‘The Freneh have borne their) waters require tobe more clearly difined. many misfortunes with a cheerful endurance | [There should be no room left for doubt as which is more than stoical; they have ex | to what an Amcrican fisherman may or hibited a strength of character for which may not do in a British port. We are) very few indeed gave them credit; the y glad to know that the settlement of this have stood the double test of reverses in! difficult and delicate question is in the the field, and division, and even treachery | hands of the Imperial Government. We in the cabinet, and in a way that has ex- | have the most imp icit confidence in the torted the unwilling admiration of pre-| justice and liberality of British statesmen

The in all matters relating to trade, commerce,

pearance hopeless.

lis a wiser man” with Christian philosophy.

and noted, I must defer, but of them more anon,

No. 3. , S#Ep1ac, N. B., Dee. 14 1870.

Shediac, and Westmorland County bear evident signs ofimprovement. Some years ago tue credit system was the rule. now it is becoming the exception. A few traders here have become immensely rich by taking advantage of the necessities and ignorance which prevailed. They asked exorbitant priees, gave credit, and if the amounts were not paid, notes were demanded and interest charged. If the notes were not honored when due, a mortgage on the farms had to be given. The whole farms and buildings were made liable under what is known as the Screw Auger Mortgages. Their not being able to pay, uhe mortgages were foreclosed and the poor people were * turned out of house and home.”

It is known that some of these dealers have had from ninety to a hundred farms in their hands at a time.

When the bitter results of the credit system becae so obvious the country people learned economy, and did not buy except for what they could pay. Young, enterprising men came to Shediac, and by selling reasonably for cash, induced the peopie to deal with them,-~ thus breaking up, in a large degree, the villainous credit system.