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23 Le ~ _— - - - j rosist an army of 50,000, which had chosen 1f8 OWn batt e- | ; tion The Russians aga ; fi ld, and de} ire] made its preparations. | ut ast SLIUDS ALAN! tried.t : In) ro nn ft ‘tics Then the vy trica to cut olf ay Ltr TnKkernunenn ACTA ' rs eek d as portion of th Fnevlish army ; they now endeavoured WO OAK rub) Oh viiso i mv ; sO! ? . . - General Morris from the |

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Not | 7. ain moment, however, did SUCCOSS sinile on them | ie shen nts of the French and Piedmont so were “* | rously exocuted as ably plann vd, and in three hoars 7 a wians were in full rout. The omemy have now learnt ry the | BS verest experience, aud after repeated trials on their part, | that their wldiers aad their gen als are inferior to those ot tie allies in the open field, and the effect on the spirit of their

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FRENCH SURPRISED.

Fer some time rumours had been afloat each night that an Attack in foree along the whole line would be anade, but the deserters had so often proved fatse pr wphets that people began i? doubt all their stories, until on Wednesday evening three #pics came in, who positively declared that an attack would be made in fores on the following morning ; and hardly had they csasod speaking, when General Allonville, commanding the French eavelry at Baidar, telegraphed that the heights around were coveted with troops, artd that he wished to retire, from the fear that he might Ne eut off, but could not, owing to the road being blocked up by some hundreds of commissariat waggons. The Turks remained under arms all night, but, strane to say, th the matter, seem to have giten themselves no troul about it. bat went to bed aml slept tranquilly. Chassours d’ Afrique went out to vsatrol during the night, and on the other side of the river fell into an ambuseade, and were «ll

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made prison but even this was treated as one of the ordinary in- cidents of night duty in presence of the enemy. About an hour before daybreak the French sentinels in front of the bridge thought they could perceive shadows gliding past them

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deep as death followed ; about the sam time a few shots were heard from the hill oceupied by the Picdmontese out-post, but, as the utvnost stillness prevailed afterwards on every side, no

weeautions were taken till just as the first streak of light

jaade itsef visible in the horizon a sharp fire was opened irom ;

party of skirmishers against the fede de pond, and a regular

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# sault made upon the Sardinian picket. General Marmora was already on the ground, and sent a battalion of bersaglieri to reinforce the post, so that they might defend themselves till tha trooy 7 1 ha ent onder arms mel the 3 SSarv arrance- the troops could be got under arms, and th ry arrang ments made. When the reinforcements arrived, hali the picket was already Aors de combat, and the assailants were up on the parapet of the little redoubt firing down into them. To pro- = : . . .

lone the conflict here would only have caused a_ useless

. ann } Leenlinians ant uently withdrew behind ai massacre, and the Sardinians cons quently witacrew Denind an ulement on the other side of the-river, near the aqueduct,

after the enemy’s first showing himself on the ground, notwith-

standing the heroic resistance of the

line, which in one battalion alone lost twelve officers. The bridge was now oceupied, two batteries of artillery were brought

Lcruss, So as to swoep the road leading between the two heights

towards Bala Clava, and a strong column was pushed on to the ussault and mounted the declivity. Strange to say, although General Pelissier had received full warning the previous night,

he refused to believe in an attack until it actually commenced, and consequently no dispositions were made, and nobody was ready. ‘Ibe Russians had already reached the crest of the hill many oflicers were

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sergeant had his head taken off while writing the orders of the |

day for the division. At this critical moment two battalions alone of the 2d Regiment of Zouaves held the whole assaulting column in check, an] contested the ground inch by inch til they were forced back upon their own tenis. In the meaniime the alarm was sounding, the troops got into order, the artil- lery into position, and a vigorous onset drove the Russians down the declivity, leaving it covered with their dead and weunded. All this occurred in the grey of the morning, which the smoke of the action converted intu something like positive darkness, leaving everybody as yet in complete ignorance as to the force they had to contend with, or the dangers they had to bear. In the short pause which followed, however, and during which

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they fell to be sure by the dozen, but they never wavered nor | faltered, climbed on slowly and laboriously, and at | reached the erest of the hill, ‘and came out on the level, When the head of the column attained this point, the Zouaves, who were lying down behind the ri@ge on the Russian left, Jumped: up and ran off to join the main body, posted near the artillery | on the centre of the plateau, and at the same moment the

i'whole of the French, the artillery ineluded, retired about a

hundred yards before the adyancing enemy, The firing had ceased, except broken and puny file-firing from the assailants, who now, unable to form in line, and mixed up in disorder, » mounted in line, or halted or deployed before coming out on the open ground For some’ moments I thought the French were about to give way and retreat, and the Russians become masters of the hei¢hts, but [I was soon convinced of my mistake. One could a20 them, it is true, falling back on all aides, and closing }up into a small round mass, but in the twinkling of an eye this mass opened out like a fan, two black lines shot from it on each side across the plateau, the centre closed up, divided itself, and the next moment a sheet of flame broke from the | whole line, followed by a cloud of smoke, and the crash of the ketry fell on our ears in a long, continuous, unfaltering | whirr, like the rear of a waterfall, drowned every seeond by the mightier thunder of the artillery, which had made half a | wheel to the right, and raked the crest of the hill with a tempest of grape. The Russians be mg for a few seconds, i soemed to hesitate, but were speedily relieved from all em- | harrassment as to the course they should pursue by the advance of the French, whose cheer rang mierrily through the morning air, levelled their bayonets and rashed to the charge. The Russians gave one ** Hurrah,’’ as if they intended to come up | to the seratch, but instead of suiting the action to the word, they wheeled about, the Sardinian artillery again playing | upon them as before, and flung themselves down the hill side | in complete disorder. Some hundreds threw down their arms | and surrendered to the French, sooner than run the gauntlet ;

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lonce more across the aqueduct and the river. The remnant of the column got under cover on the other side of the stream, /and remained there for some minutes, until two battalions of | of Piedmontese came out upon the plain, and throwing out | skirmishers advanced upcen the river. The Russians now re- } tired in haste, and not m very good order, skirmishing as they went, until they reached the high ground on which their ‘eavalry and the reserve of their artillery were stationed. | During the pursuit the Piedmontese made some prisoners. | The moment was propitious for a charge of cavalry, who might |haye cut them up completely. Major Groyae, the second on the Sardinian etat-major, accordingly brought down their four squadrons, but the colonel objected to charge in face of the | Russian eavalry force, fully five thousaad in number, unless he | were supported by French or English. A message was ac- leordingly sent to General Maurice, the French general }commanding the cavalry, requesting him to push forward a } body of his men in the rear of the Piedmontese, but he de- telined, alleging that he had positive orders not to pursue, having returned a similat answer to a similar request on the part of |General Erbillon, who commanded on the heights. This is extraordinary, but true, and the only thing one can say about it is to express a hope that there was some good reason for it not visible at first sight. ‘The greater part of the Russian ar- | tillery now retired, followed up for a short distance by the French Chasseurs de Vincennes : the cavalry then advanced in }an immense line, forming a crescent, from out of which issued three gans, which fired away to protect the retreat, till the last column had wound its weary way up the road to Macken- | zie’s Farm, or disappeared amongst the hills towards Tchionlion.

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FEARFUL TRAGEDY IN STERLING, N. Y. Brotuer Kien sy a Brotner.— | {Let ali Irish parents in America read and lay to heart the liollowing fearful tale, and remember the moral it teaches, the first signs of diabolical independence of parental wuthority, sv prevalent im this state of society, begin to show | themselves in their boys.—Hp. Am. Cxtr.]

(From the Oswego Times and Journal.) We resterday evening visited the scene of the late terrible | tragedy in the town of Sterling, and will give our readers the | particulars as we learned them. ‘The Fitzgerald family reside jabout ten miles west of this city, (Oswego,) and about one and a-heif miles from the North Sterling Post Office, on a by- road. The family consisted of Mark and Mary Fitzgerald, and their three sons, Patrick, John and James, aged 22, 18 and 13 years, respectively. John, the murderer, it would seem, is a wayward youth, and had but recently been in the Auburn Jail for horse-stealing. “His father, in order to obtain his

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‘yoth sides prepared for a renewal of the struggle, the sun came release, applied to a neighbour, Mr. McKEchren, for whom out from behind the hills, the smoke rose, and the valley | John had formerly worked, to endorse with him a note, to of the Tchernaya lay before us like a picture. The tract of | raise moricy for the purpose. Mr. McE. declined, giving as a tabloland lying at the foot of the Mackenzie heights was | reason, he thought it would teach him a lesson by kee ving him covered with cavalry, infantry and artillery, About 30 guns | imprisoned until the Court set, when he would assist the father were ranged in a crescent outside the bridge, and thundered in obtaining his release. He added, that John was a bad boy,

incessantly against the French position. The Piedmai%ese were drawn up in line behind a small eminence close to the ford on

the Tchorgoum road, and their batteries on the heiglits to the right were vigorously replying to the Russian fire ; the three

divisions of I'rench, Camoux, Erbillon and Faucheax were

under arms, front line a litthe way back from the brow of the hill, anda great number of Zouaves were lying down in

shelter behind a smail. ridge. Below, on the plain, along the hollow on which the English light horse died so gallantly last winter, every turf bencath their feet a soldier’s sepulchre, were ranged the English and French cayalry, after squadron, extending back nearly to the Turkish redoubts, ready to act in case the enemy should force the Piedmontese position and attempt to debough upon the open ground behind. ‘Lhe pennons of the Lancers fluttered gaily im long lines in the fresh morning breeze, 2nd when the sun rose high in glory and poured down its rays full on the plain, making scarlet look redder, and steel and brass brighter and more resplendent, gilding the hill tops, making the tents glitter, and rolling smoke and mist in great packs up the valley towards Inker- mann, the scene became one of passing splendour as well as of passing interest. We Ivoked in breathless anxicty for the renewal of the conflict. The combatants had taken iattiies their blood was up, for hundreds on both sides lay already stark and stiff on the river side around the bridge, and the artillery evidently was simply playing an interlude till the curtain rose upon another act in the tragedy. We were not kept long waiting. From behind the cloud of smoke which natarally hung around the Russian batteries came two large columns of the enemy, marching in quick time, about 200 yards apart and exactly parallel, a short distance from the river, and in a line with the bank. As they wound and twisted, mounted and deseended, fullowing the inequalities in

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the ground in long compact masses, their bayonets glancing |

in the sunlight, they looked exactly like two huge serpents cTecping rapidly along, their seales glistening, and their prey in sight. O@ arriving within about eight hundred yards of the ford, one halted, and the other turned off abruptly towards the river. It was evident they were about to assail the French position more to the right, on the side next to the Sardinians. Ou reaching the water, some passed on sinall bridges hastily thrown over, the rest forded, and on gaining this side the column broke into loose order, and pushed on towards the canal or aqueduct, which rises within an embankment at the very foot of the hill. Before reaching it they had to traverse abont two hundred yards of smooth green sward; they were no longer exposed to the French artillery, because the guns could not be depressed sufficiently to reach them, but they had their flank turned to that of the Piedmontese, who had got

the range to an inch, and fired with an accuracy little short of

marvellous. The head of the column had hardly come up dripping from the water, when they found themselves in the midet of a storm of round shot, grape and shell, bent upon relentlessly, unrelaxingly, mowing them down by the score, and covering the survivors with clay and gravel. - But I must do these survivors justice, and say that they bore up right gullently, marched firmly onward and upward, passed the canal, though the water was breast high, pushed some yards still on the precipitous side of the hill, though here every wornd was mortal, for all who fell rolled helplessly down- vsois Into the aqueduct, and were instantly drowned ; but at

-aited, turned and fled—neyer stopping till they reached

*. “vor, when they got shelter under the banks an amongst ti:.\l willows. An officer remained for some time alone on

the d clivity, vainly urging them to follow him. Reinforee- inents now came up from the second coluiin; they re-formed, but again in léose open order, or rather no order at all, for they marched exactly like a flock of sheep. This was done evidently so that they might present less mass for the artillery to play upon, bat it was a great mistake, as will bo seen after- wards, time they displayed tore pluck and rowlution ;

jand if liberated—from his knowledge of his character—would ;not mend his ways. Mr. Mc. told the father this on the | Strength of conversations he had had with John when in his employ. The father, however, obtained $100 from G. S. Viltord, Esq., residing at the ‘ Mills,’’ betweeu North Sterling and Sterling Centre, on 2 chattel mortgage on his farm, and had his son liberated. .

A son of Mr. Fitzgerald’s died and was buried on the 27th last May. John would not attend the funeral, but ridiculed the ceremony, (his parents being Catholics,) and remarked, if he had a gun, he would shoot the cross from the hearse. This coming to ghe father’s cars, as would be supposed, displeased him very much, and since that time; John’s hatred to his parents has been gradually on the increasc, till the final con- /summation of this hellish deed.

From the confession it will be seen that he attempted poisoning his a about a week since, by placing strychnine in the sugar, but from some cause his design was frustrated.

On Wednesday evening he had an altercation with his mother, and refused to go to bed, sulkily lying down on the kitchen floor. The father, mother and murdered brother, slept in a room off the kitchen. The house contains but two rooms on the first floor. As before stated, John refused to go to bed on Wednesday evening, but lay down on the floor, while Patrick slept in the recess.

About three o’clock in the morning, Patrick was awakened by hearing a noise in the adjoining room, which he supposed was caused by James falling off the lounge on which he slept near the bed of his parents. He immediately got up, when John came out of the room, saying there was “a man in there doing some mischief.’? Patrick at once went for assistance to the house of Mr. O'Neill, living but a short distance off. The startling fact of his brother’s guilt flashed upon him, on finding the door fastened on the inside, when he started for aid, showing, conclusively, that no one came in froin the outside. ;

He awoke O'Neill and they together went back to the houso, meeting John in the road, who said two negroes had just run down the road to the woods. Patrick and O’Noill entered the house, and found Mr. and Mrs. Fitzgerald weltering in their gore. Patrick immediately alarmed the other neighbours, and then went for Dr. Proudfit, a physician living near by.

G. 8. Tilford, Esq., Justice for the town of Sterling, arrived at the house about two o’clock in the morning, and from par- ticulars he could gather, caused John to be arrested. He was eee and kept in a room on the socond floor during tho

ay. . Mr. Tilford waited till 4 o’clook, p. m., for the Coroner who was sent for to Auburn, but ho not having arrived at that hour, proceeded, through the advice of those present, to em- panell a Jury and instigate an examination.

During the Coroner’s Inquest, and among the witnesses sworn was Peter Adle, who testified as follows :-—

Peter Adle, sworn, testified : I have had a conversation with risoner; he confessed to Dr. Plump and myself that he illed his father, mother and brother, with an axe ; ho assiened

as a reason, that his parents misused him, for not attending his brother’s funeral, and for forbidding the man by whom he was employed paying him his wages; said he tried to poison his parents about one week ago, with strychnine or some poison placed in the sugar; says Patrick know nothin

of his intentions; reason for killing brother was, that he isieone) was angry with him: said he killed father first then mother, and afterwards James: he apnea actly sete . : vames; he appears perfectly rational ; had no intention of killing Patrick; I found blood on prisoner’s wristband and sleeve of his shirt, which a

. f , p- eared as though tried to have been rubbed off; also found lood on his shoulder, and on both feet ; acknowledaed the

bottle found in his trank, brought home from Mr. McFarland’s where he was at work, held poison withwhich he intended to kill his father end mother,

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Prisoner—I do; with an axe. Justice—In whose hands? Prisoner—In my owD 5 about a Week ago. Justice—W hat was the poison in? ’ : Prisoner—In a phial in my trank ; I got it at Oswego, don’t know whe of; 1 dia not get poison, with intent to kill father and mother. : : : Justico—Vad you conversation with any ore in relation to the matter, before you committed the deed ? oi Prisoner—I had ‘a conversation with some one about killing father and mother, but object telling with whom. Shortly after arriving, we were admitted to the room con- taining the bodies, which had been washed and laid out. A sight met our gaze, truly sickening, and one which we hope

never to see again. A father, mother and brother tne coldly side by side, in that sleep from which none awa e—sent to

their ‘account, without a mioment’s warning, brother ! ; :

While we stood gazing at the lifeless forms, a slight opening was made by those surrounding the bed, and the murderer stood ,before us, looking at his victims? Hardly a breath broke the stillness, as he gazed at their fase upturned faces, until a sub broke from him, when his whole frame shook with emotion, It was but transitory, however, as he regained his composure, and was led out of the room in a moment. A good deal of indignation was felt by those present, but no manifestations were made.

The tragedy has occasioned the most intense excitement for miles around, and the roads leading from the houses were thronged with teams and pedestrians, and a large crowd was also on the premises. see +-—____—_—_——_—"

(From the Boston Traveller.) TERRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT.

93 Persons Kituev>—Mayy Wovunpen.—We have now received full particulars of the frightful accident on the Qamden and Amboy Railroad. The number of persors killed is happily not so great as reported yesterday, but the catastrophe in respect to its fatal results has not been ex- ceeded by any since the tragedy at Norwalk.

The cause of the accident has already been very clearly stated. The train to which the calamity occurred, left Philadelphia for New York on Wednesday, at twenty minutes past ten o'clock, and the accident took place between one aud two miles this side of Burlington. ;

At that place is a curve where the up and down trains usually meet, and the rule of the road is that in case either train is behind time, the one on time shall wait ten minutes, and then proceed cautiously, the one behind time switching off and backing into a side track when they come in sight o! each cther. ‘his rule appears to have been duly observed, and when the train from New York came in sight, the en- gincer of the Philadelphia train immediately reversed his engine so as to go into the turn off. i

Whilst doing so, and coming back, as is alleged, at a very undue speed, a two-horse carriage, driven by Dr. Henricken, a physician, and containing four ladies, crossed the track.

Being in the rear of the train, the engineer did not see the obstruction, and the hindmost passenger car came in collision with the carriage, by which the horses were immediately killed, and the carriage was broken into fragments, although the driver and the ladies escaped unharmed. It is reported that the conductor saw the impending danger, and atteuipted to give the signal to the engineer, but the signal rope was out of order.

Dr. Henricken states that he heard no whistle or other indication of a train being in the vicinity, nor could be see one, although he looked up and down the track.

As soon as he discovered the train he tried to back his horses, but they only halted on the rails. He alleges that the cars were running at the rate of 30 miles an hour, although being within city bounds, the Legislature forbids a speed of over six miles an hour.

Now for the sad result. The concussion threw the hind- most car off the track, down an embankment eight or ten feet high. The train must have been backing at considerable speed, for the next two cars were thrown over and beyond the three. The baggage car, tender and engine remained upon the top of the embankment and were inconsiderabiy n . The cars that were thrown down the embankment were broken in fragments. The scene now became distressing in the extreme. So soon as those who were unhurt recovered from the shock, they set to work to relieve the sufferers and extract from the ruins of the cars the dead and wounded. The shrieks of the latter were appalling. So far as can yet be ascertained, the number of killed is twenty-three, and forty or fifty are reported wounded. Of the twenty three killed, eleven are said to have been residents of Philadel- hia.

7 Mr. James E. Ray, hosiery merchant of New York, con- firms the report that the last passenger car, where he was seated, was thrown completely over the other three, making a leap of fifteen feet, and grazing the top of the other car in its passage. Mr. Ray escaped with slight injuries,

Mr. Mills, of Bridgeport, Ct, reports that Mr. Humpbries, who was killed, sat next to him, and had just taken his cotinsel as to the best route to Boston, when he was instantly killed, the back of his head being completely cut off. Mr. Mills himself fell among the trucks, with his face in the sand and his throat across a bar of iron. He received a con- tusion on his leg.

Mr. J.J.Leah, of New York, lost some valuable jewellery.

A Spanish gentleman was severely wounded, and suffered much agony. Unfortunately he could not speak English, and a young lady of Burlington, who had some knowledye of Spanish and kindly came to interpret for him, was so affected by the scene around her that she was totally unable to converse.

Miss Leeks, of Bridgeport, Ct., had a remarkable escape. The side of the car in which she was seated was driven out, and the seat being suddenly raised, she was thrown out upon the ground, clear of the ruins.

It is feared that others of the wounded, left at Burlington, cannot survive, 30 of them still remain at the place. A number of the victims have been interred there, while the remains of some have been removed to their former homes. Two bodies still remain unrecognized, one of them a man about 59 years, respectably dressed, and the other apparently an Irish laborer.

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Desraverive Fires.—Within the last few days several fires have occurred, which must cither have been caused by gross carelessness or malignant design. On Tuesday evening about 9 o’clock a fire broke out in a range of wooden buildings in the rear of Mr, A. Armstrong’s, Dock-strect, Brewery, but owing to the energy of the Fire Department, the flames were contined to the premises in which they originated.

Last evening, about 6 o’clock, a serious conflagration occurred inthe district known as Vinegar Hill. The fre originated in a barn in the rear of Watezioo Road, and spread with wonderful rapidity. In a very short time it reached the neighboring buildings, destroying some eleven or twelve houses on Waterloo Road, two on Richmond-street, and three on Kxmouth-street, besides barns and out-buildings, and seriously damaging other dwellings, = :

The Engine Companies Worked with their usual spirit and energy, but owing to the great distance they had to draw

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fairly at work. ‘Their united efforts, however, restggj the fire, and finally subdued a conflagration which gt

time threatened to sweep the whole district. They ape , nswickep

titled to the highest praise.—St. John New Brunswi Sept. 138.

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and uncivilized world, appears to have its full complement ge

unfortenate individuals, who indulge the most ex

of the cases of monomania that have recently come to ow knowledge are extremely ludicrous. We have heard of ong individual who was steadfast in the belief that he was rm

more nor less than a pump—whether his hallucination wag owing to the fact of hie being a cold water subject, we forgot to enquire ; we haye now in the city a saffering woman who thinks herself the Queen of England, and a woman died lately

owned half the property in the Island. But William Cooper, Esq., of Sailor’s Hope, eclipses all his rivais and cotemporaries

fancies.

but in reference to what he calls the ** Land question,”’ the ya garies of his imagination are such, that even his most indulgent friends cannot blink the fact that the ** fine old English gentle His proceedings ag

a public man, extending over many years, have shown this

man’’ has a thundering bee in his bonnet.

plainly enough ; but his late, or rather his present correspon ence, for it docs not appear to be concluded, with the Editorg this paper, places the fact of his monomania beyond all doulf, It appears from this correspondence that the unhappy gentle has persuaded himself that when he was delegated to England to procure the Imperial sanction to the establishment of 9 Court of Escheat, the British Ministers and others, having no

thing to do, concocted a conspiracy against Aim, the said illus. trious delegate. He has likewise persuaded himself that the acts of the Queen’s Ministers are not the acts of the Queen herself—(how deeply read in constitutional law is the learned Mr. Cooper!) Hé further faricies that Sir Alexander Banner. man was sent here entirely in consequence of Ais agitation, with instructions to save Lord John Russell and the othe Ministers of the Crown, by escheating the lands, from the dis grace that awaited them, notwithstanding that at the time of Sir Alexander’s arrival in the Colony, and long before it, Mr, Cooper was in California, too far off to originate this disgrace, —and notwithstanding, too, what Sir Alexander told the pub lic on several occasions, namely, that the settlement his Exeel- jleney was charged with, was the very rever# of Mr. Cooper's ohject. The gist of Sir Alexander’s instructions was stiply this—that he was to settle Mr. Cooper and all the other old

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in every possible way, the protracted

and fruitless agitation for escheat. But (as if the Fates would have it so) Mr. Cooper seems determined that there shall be no doubt of his insanity, for he persists in telling us, over and over again, that Lord John Russell left the Ministry and fled to Scotland, because he was under the apprehension of being disgraced for haying written a despatch about what Mr. C oper Proh Jepiter! if this is not the result of monamania, what can it be? How disrespectful to Prince Gortschakoff, Count Buol, and the other European failure of the Vienna negociations that Lord John Russell had to leave the Colonial Office. The deluded people of England thought that Lord John’s retirement from office was necessitated bya

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diplomatists, to insinuate that it was not owing to

quarrel with his brother Ministers on a great question affeet- ing the peace of Europe, the parties to which were such unim- portant personages as the Emperors of Russia, Austria and France, the Sultan of Turkey, the King of Sardinia, and the Queen of England. Mr. Cooper and Escheat appear to have been at the bottom of the whole affair, and the incumbent of Sailor’s Hope, according to his own opinion, was the only man who droye the ex-Colonial Minister from office !!

We fear that all this self-reliance, and the disgrace which he thinks he has the power to inflict on British Ministers, will hardly persuade the Legislature or the pevple of this Island te send good money after bad, and again place Mr. Cooper at the head of an embassy to Downing Strect. But, to be sorious, how can Mr. Cooper take the course he does in the face of his diametrically opposite declarations at the last gencral election? His folly and incemsistency in yainly trying to inflame the people to their own injury are so conspicuous, that the only charitable view we can take of his conduct is to believe that with him escheat isa monamania. But if we are mistaken in this view of his case, it is right to advise the Queen, as loyal subjects, to apply to Mr. Cooper whenever she wants to get rid of an old Minister or to set up a new one. He keeps a black list for the first service, and can offer himself for the second. Truly, he is like the renowned Warwick whom Shakespeare calls the setter up and putter down of kings, with this trifling difference, that he has not to do with kings but ministers, and lives atSailor’s Hope instead of Warwick Castle.

Providence, he says, chooses the weak of this world té confound the strong. Weak he certainly is; but we cannot see that Providence or any one else has yet made choice of William Cooper for any purpose of which we have any know- ledge.

Ws stated in our issue of the 10th inst., that we had received another letter from Mr. Cooper, being No. 3, on tho escheat question, the propriety of publishing which we bad under consideration at the time. Since then we have received from him too other letters on the same subject, making three thaf are unpublished in this paper. There is not one neW argument in the whole three letters, and scarcely one sensible remark. To publish them would, therefore, be a great waste of time and of newspaper space. The indulgence of the cacethes scribendi may be a pleasant employment for Mr Cooper, who has no other use for his time ; but for ourselves we can turn our hands to something more profitable than ¢0™ recting Mr. Cooper’s manuscripts for the press, and can fill our columns with something much more readable. Wheneve? he will condescend to leave the beaten track, and write some thing really new on the escheat question, we shall readily

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