Ghe ECraminer.

The Examiner.

How. Mr, LONGWORTH.—Bevause the Imperial law had force in all the Colonies. But Boukruptey laws in the neighboring Colonies did no* affect debts contracted here. 4. case of this nature bad been tried in this [sland. A party who had passed through the bankruptey court in New Bruns- wick, and had been relieved from his debts there, thought also to get c'ear of those he had in this Colony; but it was resisted, and had it not been that the contracts were agcer- tained to be made in New Brunswick, and not in the Island, he would have been heid liable for the amounts which he | ered parties here. He (Mr. Longworth) considered it his duty to make these statements before the House should take ary action with respect te passing a binkruptcy law. It was certainly a hardship that unfortunate merehants could no’ be di-charged from their liabilities; but however desira- bie it might be to relieve thea, this House could pass no measure wich would free from any debts hut these contract- ed io the [sland.

The Commirtee rose, progress was reported, and the House @djourned. D. Lainv, Reporter.

stays and swung fearfully free, endangering the funnels ; and | whep, after long and hard exertion they were secured, a | boatswain's mate bore testimooy by a broken ley to the se- | verity of the straggle.

All through the hurrizane, while the wafers were hissing |

Charlottetown, P, E. 3, 1861. up her sides, half everturning ber boats on their davits, and | a : oe aie : : dasbing spray far a into the yards, the leviathan was move | NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL.

ing steadily at the rate often knotsan hour. Twice or thrice | the vessel was put off her course by a couple of points, to |

make fast the upper works. Then the real greatness of the | in a sailing vessel from Pictou on Saturday morning.

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Her motion was again

The labor was with liuto a few lines

stood perfectly firm and composed, easy. There was no shock, no strain, the sea, and it wasin vain. And there was no fault to find with the movements of ver engines. —This was perfect. : : distance performed in this day of “ weather,” not including | the Northern and Southern States of America, appears in the the miles travelled out of course, was 215 knots. English papers. It declares the intention of Her Majesty's

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To this rough and yet satisfactory experience succeeded | Government to maintain the strictest neutrality with regard fine steaming, with abated wind. A chill in the air bespoke | aie eae the near neighborhood of ice; then, on the Banks, a fog! : came up, through which the vessel moved at full speed, sound- ing her shrill whistle, and closing the voyage—350 knots. | or attempt to get recruits or fit out vessels for war purposes or On Thursday last soundings were taken aud a fog fought; transports, or break or endeavor to break any blockade law- on Friday the weather was a beautiful welcome home, and fully or actually established, or to carry soldiers’ dispatchee, = ns was steered a ee ene the a oj \or any material contraband of war for either party, they will ire < ee , aok , 5S DQ } - : panig the Am germ wae Prag oscmpreniae Titel on gracing. deg | be liable to all the penalties and consequences, and will do so tne leviathan roaming along shore. The pilot boats were all | ; : : i chasing her far out at sea, and she actually reached Sandy | %* their peril and in no wise obtain protection from Govern-

| Iluok before sbe caught one of them. Her anchor was drop- | ment. ped about two miles outside the bar. The actual time of the; The British and French Governments were preparing to send voyage was nine days, thirteen hours, and twenty minutes, | vessels of war to the American station, to protect the interests

It warns British subjects that if they enter mi- litary service on either side, or join ships of war or transports, APTERNOON SITTING.

The House resolved itself into a Committee of the whole to resume the further cousideration of the petition praying for a Bankruptcy law.

Hon. Mr. HENSLEY said he coincided almost entirely with the hon. member from Queen's County, Mr. Longworth, iu the views which he expressed respecting laws which ke laid down. He (Mr. Hensley) recoguized the justice and propriety of enacting a law to protect honest, though unfor- tumate debtors, and it would he very desirable to have a law to free them frem that restraint which, at present, debt im-

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why they were present. Then with respect to the brave | sons of Mars, with their gay uniforms, glittering swords, | against than sinning—their constitutional privileges wee

t they have been morg sinwed

=== (nodling plumes, and the indescribable fuss and feathers which ‘invaded and wbstructed, and the loss of life was altogether on ‘distinguish many of our overgrown children who play at. their side. They have had the lion's share of abuse from goldiers—it was not te be expected that they could be absent. some of our Colonial papers, who, in their own little «

| Several of them purchased their unifurms at great expense want to make political capital out of the troubles in ean , solely with a view to display on such occasions—some of them foundland ; but they have als» had the lion's share of the Tax English Mail, with dates to the 18th May, arrived here | never having raised a company, are never likely to raise one, wrong and injustice that stirred their anger. torping thas There | and would never be in the Commission if they thought their unger into heart- breaking despair over the new-made graves Great Eastern appeared. With her head to the wind, she | is very little news of importance in addition to that received | country would be menaced by a foreign foe, and their services “of their mard red relatives. ; | by previous arrivals. The principal topics may be ecndensed | required in the field. Suppose the whole twenty-six warlike | 'gontlemen who graced the levee had no uniform to put on, | The | ‘The Queen's Proclamation in reference to the war between | and no nicely polished swords to dangle about their legs, would | menced in St. Jobn’s on the oceasion of the pow ination of

From the St. John’s Record, Mey 18, On Monday, the 26th of April last, the bloody drama com.

half of them have made their bow to the Lieut. Governor ee ae ae «an baw We 7 . ,airea 0 10 10 Orange pa ‘lied forth on on the 2ith? We really think half the namber would be an S000 wits, murderous weapons in order to int mnhen

Then, with about half the Mi- | electors, and force them to yote contrary to their -six | and how, when defeated in this their nefarious purpose, private gentlemen above referred to, may claim to be unin-

en renched themselves within mercantile stores and vther places of defence, and fired upon a defenceless people, shoot. fluenced by any selfish motive or any prompting of vanity in ing down men, women, and eae the public ) . : : ‘4 -., fares: we have told all this belore: but we have now to e e ‘ ° t | . attending the Levee on the Queen's Birth Deg We notice | ac ne eddeadiem to. thinseane, theb. ap tortie sae these facts merely because the party now in the ascendancy ‘now more than three weeks, no' a single step has beoa abe have always seemed to consider that outward or lip loyalty is, by the rete se a nga! espe = to ae Thong ai ds ibera'’s have nx im to it, 88assins are walking daily in the public streets hefore our one of their cardinal virtues “thas i hers 8 have no claim tol |ey-s, while the victims of their werdervas onslensii —that it is the ‘* peculiar institution,’’ as our American '¢ nt, and patriotic, and noble-hearted young men are w inno. neighbours would say, of the ‘‘aristocracy’’ who rule the roast; n pain and anguish upon os beds from all but in this Island,—and that the late occasion, so favourable to | wounds inflicted upon them by these base, cowardly, and de ’ /moniac assassi s. More than three weeks have clipsed Sines

a band of Orange assassins fired upon an unarmed and defenes.

extremely liberal allowance. litary men, and perhaps a few of the officials, the twenty

its exhibition, was not improved as it should have been.

‘ S me 9? - Q - poses upon them. He was afraid, however, thai the great and the ‘ast day's run was 344 knots,

object sought by parties desiring the Bankruptcy Act would | not be secured as it would not afford relief from foreig 1 debts,

TIRES THOUSAND LIVES LOST. In addition to the six thousand lives lost by the earthquake

of British and French commerce.

| guns had sailed from England with this vbject. Spain is also “strengthening ber naval power on the American coast. She

One screw frigate of 40

fle thought it would be better to refer the matter to a Spe- cial Committee to report, and if he were called upon to as- viet in framing av Act, he would be happy to reuder all the assis'ance in his pover. Lu opposition to the view taken by the hon. Leader of the Government, he thought the Judges of the Supreme Court could not undertake to grant a dis- eharge from all debts, He considered a separate officer would be necessary who should have a regular salary. He would be in favor cf making the Judges of the Supreme Vourt Judges of a Bankrupt Court, if it could be done con- sistently with their office,

Hou. Mr, COLES having expressed his full satisfaction with the Judzes of the Supreme Court, and the confidence he wou'd repose in them if appointed to carry out « Bank- ruptey Law, argued in a ‘avor of extending the prov sions of the ex'sting Insolvent Debtor's Act, as being the best remedy, in bis opinion, to meet the rejuirements of the case; for a Baukruptey Law would have only a local effect, and wouid not even extend to the neighboring Provinces.

Mr. DAV LES considered that though such a law would. Dot actually extend to the neigtboring Provinces, yet that | virtually it would. If there were a Bankruptey Law passed | ia this Uclony, it would, oe thought, have the effect of induc. 4 report has reached Boston that a sanguinary battle is; , ee ; : ing all creditors, present and absent, to wake application for going on at Harper’s Ferry. Sixteen thousand Union troops , P!*°° called Haab in Hungary, in which three persons were an equitadle share of a debtor's property, when he became sre now engaged in fortifying the lines from Alexandria to _ killed and fourteen wounded by the military, on account of insolvent, and ii any one re‘used to give adhesion to the law, Arlington heights. Troops will soon advance on Culpepper, ‘an attempt of the former t» liberate some deserters that hed shat person would not receive aayrhing. ie thought eredi- 70 miles from Washington, where a large body of rebels has | been recaptured.—Count Teleki, a distinguished member of tors generally would be glad to come im and participate. If! been concentratiug for some weeks past. Lt is rumored that gh Hungarian Diet, had committed suicide ; cause assigned— the power, suggested by an hon. member, was vested in the one of the United States steamers has destroyed the rebel | ited 1 7 Judges of the Supreme Vonrt, he thought it would be diffi- battery at Acquia creek, and occupied its position. The re- | RorL Det a . . , cult for them to ascertain whether or not there had not been | port is current at Washington that five thousand Union| Te Bill granting an annuity of £6000 to the Prineoss Alice, some fraudulent dealings on the part of debtors in relation troops have been attacked by an overwhelming rebel force, | °° her marriage, had passed both Houses of Parliament. A to their property. [t could scarcely be expected that the ‘and driven back to Washington. A battle has been com- dowry of £30,000 was also unanimously yoted to Her Royal Judges of the Supreme Court could devote as much time to menced and is now geing on in Virginia. Six additional [ighness. the consideration of the various cases which would come be- seyiments have been immediately ordered forward by Gen. | fore them as they would require. He could vot agree with Scott. the hon. Leader of the Government who stated in the morn- jug that ifa merchant scat away property without insuring it, he would not act dish mestly, thought hat property sh: uld be lost; for in bis opinion it would be dishonest in such an one to risk the property belonging to otber individuals, end this was be view he thought which was taken of it by mer- eantile men. The benefit derived from a Bankrupt law was) Souruxrs Srecutation.—The Mob’ e Register says woe that all c editors shared alike. He (Mr. Davies) himseif be to tne Northern battalions that meet the first shock aud had sometiaies held back, being unwilliug to pounce upon an | cutburst of the fiery valour and fieree indignation that have

at Mendoza, South Ameiica, we learn that San Juan, situ- | has ordered six screw frigates of the first clare ated one hundred and twenty leagues north of Mendoza, had) The annexation of the eastern section of San Domingo was been nearly destroyed by the same earthquake, with an csti- b.54 nt to the notice of the British parliament. Lord Wode-

3 - . “ ; » . as ak e s mated loss . three thousand lives. The earthquake a house said that Spain had accepted the offer of ann xarion, proached from the direction of Valparaiso, and great anxiety

is manifested to hear from that quarter. oo | A curious anecdote is told of Francis IL., late King of} It is eaid that proposals have been made to the directors of Naples, A person having despatches for the M inistec of the steamship Great Eastern by the French ond American Go- unten, wandered about Gaeta tu find his office. th Entering a | vernments to purchase that vessel, but the directors have come dismantled building, he saw a man sitting on a pile of papers, who answered his inquiries by saying he was the minister, He then asked where be could fiud the minister of war. | * Here," was the reply, ‘ 1 am the minister,’ adding: * find- | sity of increasing the growth of cotton in the Island of Ja- ing myself betrayed by every one I trsuted, Lam my own maica, in order to supply the trade in England, which is likely minister of w ar ia the mornng, chancellor in the afternoon | to suffer from the civil war in the States. and prefect of police at night.” Lt was, indeed, Francis LI. | himself.

and had given assurances that slavery would not be re-estab- | lished,

/to no decision, British capitalists are directing their attention tothe neces

Bedfordshire on He had just attained the age of 73. He is succeed-

The Duke of Bedford died at his seat in ithe l4th. ed in hia titles and estates by his son the Marquis of Tavistock.

THE CIVIL WAR IN THE STATES, a Continental affairs have undergone scarcely any change

Bostox, May 25. . | since last advices. —There had been a slight disturbance at a

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LOYALTY — THE LEVEF.

Tuxre is no portion of Her Majesty's possessions where such loud and frequent boasting about the loyalty of its inhabitants may be heard as in this Island; and the people who indulge the boasting are pretty generally those who call themselves

Fieut ar Sea.—A despatch from Gardiner’s Island, on | the 13th, te the Boston Journal, says that two privateers were captured by a frigate between that Island and Moutau‘, | on Saturday afternoon, after three hours cannonading. They

> “i 2 D ‘ Sat “WY pik ‘ . . ~ * were towed into New London on Saturday night the aristocracy and their hangers-on. Searcely a week is al- lowed to pass but an occasion or pretext is devised wen some

half-dozen pompous fellows will be fuund strutting in front o!

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In this connection we are remind-d that an address was presented to the Lieut Governor, last winter, said to have been signed by 906 Beliast people. In one part of that address

less people/'n the noon-day, and in the public - wounding nine or ten persons, some ef them boys and w and mostof them still suffering severely from tie effects of their wounds, while some of them are not pronounced

there was an expression of profound sorrow that the whole 906 | their physicians to be out of danger of death ; and up to. could not attend Ilis Excelency’s Lovee on New Year's day, ee slightest notice Las been taken of the murdep- because the roads were bad and the weather disagreeable.| ~~ Jy gix days nites thie muniéses onslaught in St. John’s, a Where were the 906 loyal people on the 24th of May? The) repetition of the bloody seene occurs in an electoral diatrig roads were in good ordor, and the weather was genial and | some thirty miles distant, but with more fatal effect, for one f | man is shot upon the spot, and four severely wounded, #04. pleasant; and yet we do not perceive that one out of we | verety indeed that their lives have been, until within the fasg whole 900 showed his pleasant face at Government House | few days, ewes . aa too _— to ony ee ii eaiaeal elt ee a alichilie Tot wa impsnity which attended the murderous attack in St, 's There ¢ an’t rs \by excus about an insuffi ient war robe now, mp before, that the blood of the murdered man at Cats as their friends are so clten reminding usof their indepen ‘ence | Cove rests upon the heads of the Government? Surely, this and wealth, s nee the purchase of the Selkirk estate — each is but a natural in‘erence from the impunity extended to the ttler upon it, who was erroneously s sed to be unable to | 258288In8 in the former case. : 2 i ; r ee rig al Monday last was the day appointed by the Government for | &dministering the Oath of Alegivnce to the newly-clected denly discovercd @ stocking fuli of gold, by which, we are in-| members of the Assemb'y. Accordingly, at 10 o'clock, a. m., formed — whether correctly or not the public accounts must they met in the Council Chamber, pursuant to not-fication, |and were called up by the presiding Cominiesioner, the Hon, Laurance O'Brien, to be sworn. After nearly the whole number of members present had been called ap ir hed

pay his rent for the very long poriod of 18 years, having sud-

prove by and bye—he has been enabled to purchase the free- hold interest of bis farm. We shall not stop to enquire nn the neglect to pay rent had to do with the ability to purchase ; but surely we may ask, has the acquisition of independence

Messrs. Hogsett and Furey, the elected members Jor the trict of Harbor Main, having been passed over by the Cor |sioner, presented themselves to sworn, whereupon the made them ungrateful and disloyal? If bad roads and bad Commissioner refused to put the Oath to them, observing that w-ather stopped them from going to the Levee in January, he ccu'd not acknowledge them as members of the Assembly, . : | Mr. Hogsett then handed bim his certificate of return signed what stopped them from going ts the Levee in May? | by the Returning Officer, together with other documents besr- ee ‘ing upon the validity of his Election. The Commissioner POLITICAL AFFAIRS IN NEWFOUNDLAND. sili persis ing in his refusal to putth> Oath, Messrs Mogieth ; i _and Furey took the Testament, and repeating the words pre- Tue excitement, tumult, and loss of life which have occurred scribed for the Oath, swore allegiance to their Sovereign in

in the sister Colony of Newfoundland, consequent on the the same manner asthe othermembers. The Attorney Gene-

: ‘ ral, who was presert, informed these gentlemen that if change cf Government and dissolution of the Assembly there, “attempted cia in the Assembly, see hese cee

have awakened a painful interest in the affairs of that Colony they should abide the consequence ; when Mr. Hogsett, ia throughout the whole of British America. The Telegraphic | TP es — - a porn to defend the position he wires have, as usual, for several weeks past, been taking ena: Soe ne Sone See

» 8ecoriing to proclamation the Governor w # to strange liberties with the facts relating to those affairs. The ‘Bessior: of the Assembly, Messrs. Hogsett and Furey took

troubles of the Newfoundlanders hava been numerous and dis-| their seats in the Chamber, and remained there until the

. . . | Speaker was about being appuinted, when the Attorney Gen® astrous enough, but the clamsy, often incoherent, and lying: ral ordered them to leave the Chamber : they, heather ie

despatches which have come from that quarter have made {using to vacate their seats,he commanded the Chief Corstable them uppear ten times worse. If we were to believe all we | #"4 his — who had been placed in waiting at the door of have read for some time past, we should conelude that the cat of 1s Sele ay ea ee ery a people of St. John’s and of some of the Out ports were the procéeded to the election of a Speaker. This occurred a little most infuriated brutes that ever disgraced God's image, and “ter two o'clock, There wasat th-vtime a very Jarge assem- that the capital of the Colony was devoted to pillage, murder,

blage of people outside the Culonial Building, or Parliamens jiouse, as is usual on such occasions. As soon as \Moesara,

wfortunate debtor who had fallen behind, and in the mean fused in one compact mass tle entire Southern mivd and time other creditors came in, tovk all, and he reseived noth- heart. Lf the war lasts five ygars, the terms of peace will be ing. ; dicated at the gates of Boston. Lut the war will not last

This question having been discussed a little further, the 8» long. ‘The day is not distant when the North will sue Spesker took the Uhair, and the Chairman reported progress, for peace. Until it does, the policy as well as tie will of

the Governor — especially if he isa man of the Conservatire stamp, and has genuine Tories for his conscienoc-keepers — with a bt of dirty paper in their hands—serawled over with

a few score names, and half of them forged — in which there |

is a plentiful supply of commor-, lac: and twaddle about the

rayine and co fagration.

This was happily not the case st ation of sympathy was made in their favour by t © people, who crowded aronnd them and cheered them most vociferuusl.. The secret of this sympathy lay in the fierce and eanguinary opposition directed by an unpopular Government agatuny

| There have been, indeed riotous assemblages at and after the '

election in St. John’s and other parts of the Istannd—blood has | been shed, and life wantonly and cruelly destroyed ;—property

Hogsett and Furey made their appe ranee outside a demons”

sud asked leave to sit again. the South is to give them war to their heart’s content—war |

Adjourned at 4! o'clock. -_——

J. D, Gorpox, Reporter,

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to the knife and to the hilt. The people of Savannah are luxuriating in a bountiful

LATE EUROPEAN NEWS. supply of fruits and vegetables, which are now all cousumed —— at home, instead of being shipped North as formerly.

Sr. Joun’s Nfld., May 20th, | It is soutly asserted that provisions in the Suuth are not

Tue R. M. Steamship * Persia,” of the Cunard Line, from so dear or scarce as represeuted. They have a sufficiency of

Liverpool on the 11th, and Queenstown on the 1:ith for New home produce, and the Southerners say that the North will

York, was intercepted off Cape Rice on Saturday 19:b, at never be able to cut them cff, there being euough flour alone

8,30 P.M. The following is the substance of the news :— in Richmond to last the troops of the entire Seuth nearly a

GREAT BRITAIN. | year. A large amount of war waterials was tendered as freight |

There ig no business whatever doing in Norfolk, Ports- for the * Persia,” but refused.

it is conG lently asserted that Letters of Marque from the

Southern Coofederacy have reached Liverpool ani Loudon. $100,000 check. Gen, Scott may give him a bigger check” set and courtly phrase. {t is well for him if he has nothing

It is reported that vessels have lett Liverpool with “ Let- ters of Marque,” but this wants coufirmatin.

In the vase of Lords, Lord Derby expressed his hope, that the forthcoming Proclamation by the Governesent would give ewphatic warning, that if British subjects sheuld engage iu privateering, or become involved on either side, their biood siould be on their own beads, as Kagland would not ask re- dreae for them, or affurd any.

Lord Granville sa.d that such would be the natural result of the Proclamation, which was ouly delayed that | s wording might be carefully cousidered,

Lt was reported that preparations were being made for an American Union Meeting in London.

Tac Times soya, in an editorial artic'e, that Eogland wight as well offer its mediation to a hurricane on the Gulf pf Mexigo as to the contending partics ia the States.

War risks at Lioyd’s yochanged.

ITALY.

Tne Opinione of Turin says that the time has arrived when Frenve should recognize officially the uew Kingdom of Ltaly, aud it calls on Napoleon to d> so.

SPAIN.

Herald, qualified to speak officially as to the purpose of the ure suspected to be the most traitorous varlets in the world. graphic despatches; and the discharge of musketry was, P° ¢ ‘with the governmental opposition to Messrs. Hogsett and

Arrangements have not yet been entered into for the ar- nexation of San D miago, but it is anuounced that Slavery will not be introiueed there.

RUSSIA.

A religious insarreciion bas brukea out at Kanran, (2), Rome and ensangu ned the Tiber with patrician blood were POW? the loyal spirit of the Tories seemed to have taken its |

When seventy peasants wese sot. AUSTRALIA, INDIA AND CHINA.

The mails from these places reached Londun in time to for- | the war, and the spoils thereof—more particularly the spoils. | was not often drank at eonyiyial boards; and not one of them

ward the American portion by the Persia.

Advices from Shanghae to 22d March state that the three trading ports selected under the treaty are Utaa, Kingharkoo, and Hokuing. at each of which consuls have been placed.

Tue ice in the Gulf of Pe ches le was breaking up.

At Usnton, on April Ist, an edict was published announ- Will form the battle ground, and that the Northern roughs accompanied with glowing panegyrics on the neighbouring

“eing the establishmeut of a Board for Foreign Affairs at Pekin, imports were ae : The state of things in New Zealand has improved. An armiatice of 48 hours had been granted to the natives. At Usicutts, April 18, the prospects of the indigo erop were bad, no ram having fallen, The Ryots had selused to sow in Lower Bengal.

YHE LATE3£ INTELLIGENCE BY TELEGRAPH LU QUEENSTOWN,

From LonJon, Sunduy morning, 12th.—-The Privy Coun-

cil met yesterday at Whitehall. Lord Paimersion, Lord Jobn Russe!!l, Lord [erbert, and

the Duke of Sumerset, and other Ministers, were present.

‘Tue Attorney Generali, Sclicitor General, and Queen’s Advo-

este a:teuded, for the purpose of s-ttling the firm of the

" Proglamation to be is-ued by the Queen in Council next Tues- day, waruing Lritieh subjects egrinst illicit or overt compli- | The usual,

city in the Uivil War vow raging ia America Saturday Cabioet Council was not held io consequence ot the above mice.iug.

d + 0+. e é - Tus Gaxat Easreny tx 4 Stonw-—A passenger on board du. ing May, the Great Eastern was driving against ove of the sharp- e-t gales ot the boisterous season ov the North Atlautic. The wiud blew pearly a burricane fur quite eight hours. Caught by the tremendous stress from the ewst aud south, the ship

etoek to the trough of the sea. The erash of crockery und ail

anoveabie thing: started the timid. Lu the treweudvus roll ol- the soip (sie never pitched) Use incouveuieuce of her pond- eruus riggug Ovcame evident. ‘Iwo galis bike tow thew

the last vo.ase writes:—* All Mouday, the 6th o! |

mouth, Alexaudria, and other p'aces in Virginia. It is said that a man in Virginia bas given Jeff. Davis a

than that.— Louisville Journal.

| A citszen of Charlotte, N. C., who has invented a gun which will fire 120 balls per minute, has gone to Mont- gomery to get it patented and accepted.

The Montgomery Confederation gives the following from '& correspondent :

Qa the first night after my arrival, in possing from one “quarter to another, | was stopped by a sentinel, whom IL re- cognized as Private P (though he did not recognise me.) L was asked fur tie countersign, and replied, ‘ @ Jriend with a bottle ;* the reply wag, * advance bettie and diaw siopper,’ which I did, and was suffcred to pass on my way rejoicing.”

Cuattexces.—A gentleman from the troops at the Relay House says that the sentinels have, in some instances, a pleasant way of making challenges. A fellow who had been fish.ng on the Patapsco, and had secured a fine string of fish, was stopped by the usual question, * Who goes there ?” * Fisherman,” drop two shad,” said the alert seutinel, looking out for bis

OW commissarist. a IsTsi— The New Work

| © Rovea’’ Usiee ron tur SECEssIon

Roughs, thus warns Virgivia and Maryland :-— We hive in the Northern cities at least three hundred

‘thousand of the most reckless, desperate men on the face of the earth. The Goths and Vandals who descended upou

angels compured to these fellows, who are known by the | generic name of “ roughs.’’ (Cf course they are all in for

‘They have no stake in this world, wo hope fer the future. They will fight like demous for present enjoyment, and where ove is kiled twenty more will spring up in his place. It is jof such rough material that all invincible troops are made, That we are to have a Gght, that Virginia and Maryland will sweep those States with fire and sword, is beyond per- adventure. They have already been excited to the boiling point by the rich prospect ef plunder held out by some of! (their leaders, and will not be satisfiei unless they have a farm and a nigger each. ‘There is no sort of exugzeration about these statements, as the people of the border States will shortly ascertain to their cost. The charac'er of the coming campaign will be vindictive, fierce, bloody and merci- less, beyond parallel in ancient or modern history. A letter received in St. Louis, from the wife of Bishop Polk, ef Louisiana, says his house was burnt over his head on the night of the 12:4 April, by his uegroes; aleo the residence of Bishop Kilts.

Purcusse or Anms 1x Montreat.—All the available arm-, Whether fur cutting or shooting in Montreal. haye been hought up for the use of the Suuth.

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A Lasso Dvet.—A couple of Arizonians, one a native bora Mexican, the other a boatman from the Mississippi, 'who had lived in Arizonia about a year, fought a duel on horseback a short time ago, each armed with a lasso. The American who it is thought would stand no chance in such a novel encounter, except the chance of being strangled, lassued his foe at the first throw of the noose, aod dragged

him over the plain at the full speed of bis Lorse, until he |

was matgled aud bruised almost to a jeily. —- wh eee Evrect or Secession on Viren Piste Kixpityas — One little itew which North Carolina loses by her secession proclivities is the sale of pitch pine kindlings io New York, j which was woth w willion of dullars tc her.

to Her Majesty's sacred person and Government. If the

Queen's re}

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gtegate, perhaps to yse his gun or fishing rod, or extech a)

mouthful of country air—the poor man has to listen to sundry

platitudes about the sentiment of loyalty, stulen from some old |

| speeches or addresses, and of course nut ona jine of whieh is

|understood by three-fourths af the bumpkins who consent to

| through the farce of receiving with a serious visage the pilfered

this petty lareeny. The Goveruur is, however, bound to go

' ponsense, and responding to it according to the best models of

| more to do, for in nine cases out of ten he 8 expected to invite eyery man who puts his beautiful autograph or his mark on ‘the paper to dinner parties at the Government House, and | sppoint to public offices at least a score out of the whole num- 'ber. The same unfortunate word ‘‘loyalty’’ is abused in a great many other ways. You can’t go toasocial dinner party where there is a majority of Conservatives— a little meeting to establish, perhaps, a loca] institution for the dissemination of | | knowledge, with a revenue of about twenty shillings a year— |@ vestry meeting—a militia or volanteer muster—or in short (a gathering of any kind—but you ure sure to hear from them- | Selves the most extravagant glorification of the loyalty of the

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resentative ventures to take a drive for an after- |

noon into sume country settlement where Tories most do con- |

: : ae : | may have been slightly injured teu; but the excesses of the profound and heartfelt devotion of the distinguished signers | y oe te

mvb in this respect dwindle into insignificance iu comparison

, with the fearful extent of the penalty which some of the uiost |

their canditure in the Electoral Distriet for which they had been returned. We should have stated tuat the Government hai had recourse to foe] and treacherous means in order to defeat their election; the booths had been su arranged as to

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innocent of them have been called u on tu pay. defeat the intention of some of the electors who lad prouised

to reeord their yotes for them: the assassination of these elee- tors was pre-arranged : one of them was shot down dead; four were, as it was thought at tie timo, mortally wounded, and ten or twelve disabled. The remaining electors, in thir description, bad to fly from the scene of murder, and recorded their votes in another bouth besides that appointed jor them

| ‘The Mail which arrived on Monday last brought us New-

| foundlund papers to the 18th of May. In one of these — the

Record, a paper conduc ed with great ability — we find a

lengthy account of the disturbance which occurred in St.

John’s on the 13th, when the new Parliament was cony-ned, by the Government; but theae votes the Government refused ,a3 well as sume reference to the tumult at Harbour Main, We auknow ly a8 te al; and thus the members elect wan pronounced by the Government as not being duly elected.

| Where several persons were shot and one almost instantly jlence the refusal of the Guvernment Commission rt tu. bende

| killed.

persons there and then assembled—followed by such tremen-

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/and others not imbued with Conservative principies—includ- ing the large and influential class who belong to no party— ‘are very reserved on this point, so much so that many of them

| But it is very

curious that this loyal feeling does not force itself upon the public notice at any other time than during the , existence of a Tory Government.

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When the Liberals were in| fight to other climes. There were very few cheers for Her Majesty then from the latter class of her subjects—ler health “ever thought of | utting his name to an address that contained an expression of loyalty. But there were deep and sullen _Iurmurings about the misery of living in such a poor country, j and the tyranny of British rule, was more than hinted at—

| repub ie, the greatness of its wealth, the freedom of its insti- | Pattons, seasoned by manycomments on the advantages of | annexation.

Now, if loyalty had an abiding place in the hearts of those people who talk so much about it, instead of being con‘ined to

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found to put in its place—its influence would be felt and mani-_ fested o» an occasion like the anniversary of the Queen’s birth

when the people who claim a monopoly of the article might be expected to show some eagerness for crowding round the Queen’s representative, and thus testifying their regard for the Sovereign. A Leyve was advertised for this very object. But how was it attended? The Gazette of lust Tuesday fur- nishes the names of those who responded to His Excellency‘s call for the previous Thursday, and will! it be credited that out of « population of over ninety thousand only ninety-seven per- sons made their appearance at Government [ou-e? Such is, however, tue startling fact. And out of these 97 levee-going gentlemen, 45 were officials, including Magisirates—many of

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, a8 boys and girls use gum, to be chewed over and ‘‘the populace’ | over again, and spat out as soon as something better can be Legislature were sitting, it could not have been difficult for | Very Revd. H Carfagnini. of the Revd. J. Vereker, and of

them being such high functionaries as enjoy the privilege of remaining in the vice regal presence to be stared at by all

Volunteer officers, and 26 were private gentlemen | doctors and clergymen.

| show off their importance at the entree, and keep in — With the representative of Majeety

we shall never advoeate the cause of any people or of any comers and goers; of the remaining 52,26 were Militia and ¢l4*8 who set themselves up in defiance of the laws and the ; including constituted authorities. We have no hesitation in believing As for the officials, their desire to tat large portion of the Catholic and Liberal electors of good | Newfoundiand were guilty of criminal excesses at, previous, —will suffice to ex-jand subsequent to the last election there; but, at the

We give the greater portion of this article below, be- cause it appears to us to furnish more of the details, in clear The | passages omitted are merely the passing comments of the editor, | whic! are nos essential to the relation of his facts. There are a few points in this narrative which cannot fail to arrest the’ aitention of the intelligent reader. 1—That the baleful spirit | of Orangeism is as rampant in Newfoundland as in any of the other Provinces; and, true to its fiendish instinets, has there given public proof of its existence by the effusion of innocent

relative sequence, than any other account we haye seen.

| blood. 2—That the people maimed and murdered at the elec-

tion riots, and in St. John’s on the day of the meeting of the Legislature, were all Roman Catholics. 3—That the princi- pal conservators of the peace, at the several tumultuous scenes |

|in St. John’s and elsewhere, were Catholic clergymen. 4— _dous cheering as to threaten serious damage to the windpipes That St. John’s was saved from fearful carnage on the 13th | of several of Her Majesty's liege subjects. All this display of | through the influence of Judye Little and the zeal and elo- was the anhwer. “ Advatice fishermen and | loyalty only happens amongst good Conservatives. Liberals | quence of Bishop Mullock, and the reverence entertained for | | his exalted character.

5—That the assembling and shouting f boys in the streets of St. John’s, on the evening of the 13th. May, was really no riot, as represented by some of the tele-|

therefore, an act of wanton cruelty. The troops, it appears,