Fat mother lamb to her. I have described the rocess some where else—it is done by putting the skin of the dead lamb upon the living one, the eye immediately acknowledges the rela- tionship, and after the skin has warmed on it, “o as to give it something of the smell of her own progeny, and it has sucked her two or three times, she accepts and nourishes it has her own ever after. Whether it is from joy at this apparent reanimation of her young one, or a little doubt remaining on her mind that she would fain dispel, I cannot decide, but for a number of days, she {shows far more fondness, more bleating and caressing, over this one, than she did formerly over the one that was really her own. . I But this is not what I wanted to explain; it was, that such sheep as thus lose their lambs, must be driven to a house with dogs, so that the lamb may be put to them; for they will Only take it in a dark conﬁned place. But here, in IVillenslee, 1 never need to drive home a sheep by force, with dogs, or in any other way than the following:—I found every ewe, ofcourse, standing hanging her head over her dead lamb, and having a piece of twine with me for the purpose, Itied that to the lamb‘s neck or toes, and trailing it along, the ewe followed me into any house or fold that I chose to lead her Any of them would have followed me in that way for miles, her nose close on the lamb, which she never quitted for a moment, except to chase the dog, which she would not suffer to walk near me. I often, out of curiosity, led them in to the side of the kitchen ﬁre by this means, into the midst of servants and dogs, but the more the dangers multiplied around the ewe, she clung the closer to her dead offspring, and thought ofnothing but protecting it.

Another Emigrant Vessel attacked with Cholera.—The Lord Wellington, Captain Culleton, dropped down from New Ross to the passage of Waterford on the morning of Friday week, bound for Quebec, with a great number of passengers. She anchored at Passage, and shortly afterwards reports were in circulation that the cholera was on board. In the evening these reports were powerfully strengthened by the landing of several of the passengers, with their fami- lies and luggage, stating the death of two men, and abandoning all idea of returning to the vessel. The man who died ﬁrst of the disease was Martin Byrne, from Shille- lagh, in the county of Wicklow : the se- cond was Mr. George Cook, a native of the County of Carlow, returning to his resi- dence at Pugwash, in Nova-Scotia : a little girl died on Sunday morning : the fourth death on board was that of a ﬁne young man of the name of James Walsh, of Clough, in the county of Kilkenny. The vessel sailed on Sunday morning for the quarantine station at Milford. Three of

“ﬁllies that landed at Passage were unwell, a

man and two women; they found it impos- sible to obtain shelter until some clerg - men charitany interfered, and prevailed upon the inhabitants to furnish a little tem- porary hospital for the sick stran ers. The cholera alarm was quickly excite and soon reached waterford. Our authorities, civil, ﬁscal, commercial and sanatory, immediv stely exerted themselves, in their several

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departments, for prevention and cure. It is to be remarked that the vessel was de- layed some days between Ross and Pas- sage, although the distance can scarcely be 20 nautical miles. Since the above was written, Dr. Mackesy, of Waterford, and Dr. Long, of Arthurstown, visited the ves- sel, and found the passengers in a most de- plorable state. Several were strewed a- bout the deck-«dead or dying-«all of whose cases were reported to the Board of Health.— Waterford Mirror.

couu own-arrow. To the Editor of the British American. Mn. EDITOR,

The molasses and sugar duty having been disallowed by His Majesty’s Government, after it had been in force here during a considerable period of time. I hope it may be the means of such Bills, as well as all 0- ther Bills tending to interfere with the Roy- al instructions being passed with a suspend- ing Clause : we seem to have forgot the Royal instructions in that respect, and es- tablished a kind of tartﬂ‘ here, and I appre- hend that very serious consequences may result. An oﬂicer who receives money, without a legal right to do so, is liable to an action for money had and received. Now the question appears to be,—does this Act offer such a justiﬁcation as would shelter public Ofﬁcers who have acted under it ? Government does not desire that the Act shall be repealed, but it disallow: the Statute ab initio, in the case of Shove v. Webb, lst Term, rep. 732. the Deeds for securing an annuity were set aside, for an informal- ity in registering the memoriaI,-—it was holden that money paid to the Grantor as the consideration of the annuity might be recovered in an action for money had and received. A Deed not registered according to the Annuity act is absolutely void, and not merely voidable. Where a Court, not having a jurisdiction, orders an Ofﬁcer to discharge a Prisoner, and the ofﬁcer obeys the order, he is liable to an action for an es- cape. A further question might arise,— whether any person receiving an allowance voted by the Legislature for service per- formed under an act which was afterwards disallowed, might not be liable to Govern- ment to refund such money P As to the notion of enforcing recognizances taken un- der this Act, it is all nonsense ; an Act of indemnity for the past, might by possibility receive the Royal assent, and most certainly the General Assembly would be bound to provide for any such casualties.

Yours, &c. A SPRIG OF THE LAW.

To the Elttor qftlu British American. Sm,

Having found it absolutely necessary to take up my residence in qharlote Town, I beg through them ed '

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um of your paper, to inform the Inhabitants of the town and its vicinity. as also the public in general, I haVe engaged an Ofﬁce at Mr. Mitchell’s, near the Custom. House, where I intend to conduct my professionu Business. For the convenience of those Clients and Friends residing towards the Western district of the Is. land. who have hitherto favoured me with their conﬁ. dence, I intend during the Summer months, to Vlll‘ Saint Eleanors,Bedeque, and Malpeque. once afon. night; and shall remain at the two former places th. whole of Monday, and the latter part of Tuesday, wheulshall return to town, unless unavoidably de. tained.

Your most obedient Servant.

Wm. .MUJllFORD. Charlotte-Town, 15th ﬂugust, 1832.

Oﬂicc of Ordinance,\ Halifax,August 2d, 1832.

EALED TEJV'DERS addressed to the respective Ofﬁcers of H.M. Ordinance, will be received at this Otiice, until Monday, the 10th September next, from Persons willing to Contract for the Supply of as many of the nndermentioned Artiﬁcers as may be required by the Royal Engineer Department, at Windsor, Annapolis, Cape-Breton, 'and Prince Edward Island, to the 30th June, 1833, VIZ :— BLAKSMITHS CARPENTERS, MASONS. and PAINTERS, each per day, Sterling.

Colonial Secretary's Oﬁee. August 14. I832. .

LICENSED RETAILERS 0F SPIRITUOUS LI- QUORS.

aonnn’s correr TAVERNS.

Henry M‘Neill, Charlotte-Town, J. e ‘5. do.

J. Alexander. John Do Ie, Joseph ippy, Thomas Kickham,

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do. Charlotte-To wn. 0.

John Coston. d Eleanor M‘Arthy. do. In. Four, do. James Mooney, do James .Malouey, do. John Davies do.

Rodk, 14' Donald Thomas Jones,

J. H. \Vhite, .

David Hooper, 7 mile House, Princetown road John Crokei, St. Peter’s road.

Lewis Gay, Lot 49.

Phoebe Crabbe. 9 mile House, Princetown road. John Campion. Mount Pleasant. Lot 47. ~ Alexander Johnson, Lot 33. Princetown road. John M-Lean, Charlotte-town Royalty; Prince

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town road. Elisha Cofﬁn. Mount Stewart Ferry. Lot 37. Thomas Merry, do

road. Wm. Murphy. Lot 48, Ferryman. J. H. Down. Charlotte-Town Royalty. James Hayden, Vernon river. Peter Praught, Lot 49. Neil Beaton, Lot 49. John M‘ Leod. Pinette, I John Aﬁ‘leck, St. Peterzs Road, . John Crisp. Hunter iver Patrick Mullen, Mill Cove. S'ronns.

Licensed to sell in quantities less than I quart. Charles Dempsey, Charlotte-Town. Martin Butler, :0.

Robert Hutchinson,

James Quin. do do.

Robert Drew,

Jamem Fitzpatrick, 12 .mile House, St. Peters