HASZARD’S GAZETTE, JULY 18.

Great Britain over this Colony, to set Royal Ordinances aside and subvert its laws, to set men against men, by corrupt- in one class to debase the other.

he Legislative Council is composed of men, who have no sympathy with the people, for a lawful and just settlement of the Land Question; and they are allowed a preponderance in the Executive Council. The Attorney General and the Commission- er of Public Lands have sought constituen- cies for a seat in the House of Assembly,but were rejected; and yet they were appointed members of both Councils, and hold the principal oﬁices of Government to defeat the investigation of the titles of land.

Your Petitioners therefore pray, that your Majesty will be graciously pleased to give instructions to the Governor to overn this Colony for the honor of your ajesty and the well-being of your subjects,—to carry out the Royal intentions according to law and the British constitiition;—and purify such institutions in the Colony, as may he found corrupted through a long course of misgovernment.

And Petitioners further pray your Majes- ty, that it may be understood by their Peti- tion, that Petitioners respect the rights of property, which is lawfully and honestly acquired, and in seeking an investigation of the conditions of the Grants and Escheat of lands which are forfeited, it is to deprive defaulters and impostors of unjust claims, and to relieve the tenantry from a bondage imposed by conspirators in disobedience of the order of King in Council ot' the 26 Au- gust, 1767, and the tenantry declare their willingness to pay a price to the Goverii- ment, for the fee simple interest of their farms, to make up any deﬁciency which might accrue to the revenue, through the loss ofthe tax upon \Vilderness land. And it is desirable as far as practicable, to res- tore improved lands to the parties who have the host claim to the improvements, and to provide for widows and orphans, whose maintenance aroe from the rents, the te- nants are willing to pay such a price for their farms, as will enable the Government to allow compensation to the one party and a provision for the other.

That your Majesty may enjoy a long reign, beloved in your family relations, honoured by your subjects, respected by the rulers of all nations, n succourtothe oppressed and a terror to the oppressors, is now and shall be the earnest prayer of Pe- titioners.

JOHN B. Cox, Chairman.

‘,2d. Moved by Mr. Alexander Robert- son, seconded by Malcolm Forbes, Esq., and supported by Mr. John Moynagh:

Resolved, That the draft of a Petiton to Her Majesty the Queen now read, he adopted, and printed for general informa- tion, and that a copy of the Petition be sent, together with an address to His Royal Highness Prince Albert, to show that while he has made it his duty, as much as it is in his interest, to preserve the he- nor of the Sovarign, and convey it down to

osterity, Colonial Ministers and Governors have made it their study to indulge and encourage conspirators to disobey the ordi- nances of the Soverei , and thereby un- dermine the honor of t e Crown and bring the Government into disrepute.

3d. Moved by J. Miller, jun., Esq., se- conded by Mr. Joseph Aﬂieck, and carried unanimously-

Ruolvcd, It is necessary to inform His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, that althou h the so la were well satisﬁed with savers bane ci measures brought to per- fection aad ut into operation by the men who form t a present administration, yet they are of minor importance to what was

mised and expected. When they did not recover the Fishery Reserves from the nded Landlords-— when they have taken the public money to purchase the Worrell Estates, which are presumed to be forfeited, without investigating the titles— when-they passed an Act that they might urchasc the Township Lands with a con- dition, that they would cause the titles to be investigated--when they voted in the House of Assembly, that the law which they them- selves ori inatad to investigate the titles, should no go into operation, when the persuaded unwary Members, that if the a

ministration went out of oﬂice, some cala- mity would befall the Colony, if they voted for thetitles of land to be investigated,- therefore the people have no conﬁdence in the administration, and that the Lieutenant Governor be requested to dissolve the I House of Assembly and take the opinion of I the people by a new election.

To His Excellency DOMINICK D.u.i', Esq., Lieut. Governor, &.c. &c. &c.

The Petition of the Inhabitants of Prince Edward Island.

Petitioners respectfully call your Excel- lency’s attention to the fact,that this Colony is governed in opposition to the ordinances of the Sovereign and the well-being of the community. The original Grants were made by an order of the King in Council, upon conditions which declare that unless the grantees settle one-third of their Grants with foreigners within four years, the land shall be forfeited, and the Grants shall be void and of no effect, which evidently im- p|ies,that the Grantees who have not fulﬁlled that condition, shall not exercise an owiier- ship over the land, so as to make a trade and profit of it by sale or lease, to defraud other subjects who required land to settle themselves upon and bring it under cultiva- tion, and have a better right to a share of

means to defaulters and impostors, is cer- tainly unconstitutional, all of which in our opinion, has rendered the Executive un- worthy of confidence; and as there is no appeal from the decisions of Government on the fraudulent purchase ofland, but to a new Election. That for the reasons before given and for the deception practised to lead unwary men to support Ministers’ des- patches, in opposition to law and the ordi- nances of the Sovereign, we pray your Ex- cellency to dissolve the House of Assembly, and order a new Election for the honor of Her Majesty and the peace of her subjects in this Colony. JOHN B. Cox, Chairman.

4th. Moved by M. Forbes, Esq., second-

ed by Mr. P. Mooney.

Resolved, That the draft of a Petition to His Excellency the Lieut. Governor now read be adopted and printed for general information.

GLEANING8 FRO]! LATE PAPERS.

Prussian AND R.icuN.—Some of the Lon- don letter-writers predict that it will be ex- tremely diliicult for Lord Raglan and General Pelissier to get along harmoniously. e former is cool, calm and cautious, and rarcl acts without thinkin

twice, while the latter is

the public land by improvement than de- hold and impulsive, rave use lion, but some- faultcrs, who undertook to settle the land times hot and hasty. Ono account states, that with foreigners and failed to perform it, ! in the recent movement which was so success- Tlie disastrous war which the mother 5 ail‘: l:v°ll‘i‘l‘3°V::1§‘££';; “;t‘?:1t‘;;1tt‘i:3‘:'t"l‘1le‘°grld4‘°,:::ldR“*}l‘§(; l 9 Colonies, mad.’ hi"? Fngaged the “"°“‘l°“lt:l:§ellllllgwld:a ﬁgcdllepicll)? vlvllllSltll‘|llCllel0l)1lS)Jc?l'0llll‘ of the C°l°""‘l M""5““' '0 the ncglecl 0f, aris. It is also reported, that soon after his ‘ills I5l°"d for 5°"°"3l Ye‘“'5a but C9-""01 I nomination to the chief command, he received justify ministers in allowing Governor Fan- i froiu the Tuillcries, atelegraph despatch on the

Country conducted against her American

ning to form a conspiracy, with pretendedl owners of the land, to destroy the Royall Authority, and allow such pretended owners to exercise supreme power over the Colony as Governor and landlord, to receive thef revenue and demand a rent—tlie revenue tol uphold such authorities and invest them with arbitrary power to recover rents for pretended Landlords,—nnd such oppression being continued by successive Ministers.

To be released from such authority, a large majority ofthe inhabitants supported a party of men (who styled themselves liberal) to raise them to honor and office as members of the Government, under the im- pression that they would perform. their pro- mise and use such means as were in their power to have the tenantry settled in free- hold. Nor did the inhabitants forget the useful measures they have passed, or with- draw their conﬁdence from the Government until after the purchase ofthe Worrell Es- tate, and procuring members of the House of Assembly to vote that the titles of land should not be investigated, nor comply with the law which they themselves originated.

To have inserted a clause in the Land Purchase Bill,for the investigation of Titles so as to procure the Royal Assent to the Bill, but without any intention of investiga- ting the titles was deceiving the Sovereign— an to purchase lands which are forfeited without such investi ation—is defrauding the public, and maging the Sovereign a party to the fraud. To say that the investi- gation of titles does not mean the conditions of the rants, but only refers to the transfer of the rants from party to arty, is intend- ing to deceive and mislead the ignorant, the batter to betray them; yet these are the Acts of the present Government.

Petitioners believe that the Order of the Kin in Council for granting the Township lan upon certain conditions for settlement; and the thirtieth section of the Royal in- structions for the due administration of jus- tics in this Island, are ordinances of sove- reign authority; and that the ﬁfth section of the Act, for the Government to purchase land, which requires the titles to be investi- gated, has received Her Majesty’s special conﬁrmation; and that the former have not been revoked or the~ latter re sled, and therefore continue in force. hat for the Government to set aside and disobey such authority, shows a contempt for the Sove- reign ;that to set up Ministers’ despatchas as law, in opposition to the law and ordinances of the Sovereign, is a usurpation of the Royal authority; and when such usurpation has for its object to defraud and oppress the laboring and ‘industrious population, and deprive them of their means, to give such

conduct of the war, and that he, at once re- plied :—“ It is impossible that you, at Paris,

GENERAL SUMMARY.

Brooks. “ the Aeronaut,” made a balloon ascension at St. Louis, %tb ult., accompanied by the local re rter of t Iifan. The wind was big: and nothing has since been heard of the party.

There is talk of the Austrian army being reduced by 100,000 men. At latest ddvices the Emperor was paying a visit to Cracow.

Ca t. Scobell was to have moved his passen- ger ct Amendment bill in Parliament 18th ult., making it imperative, that vsssels_ carry- ing 50 passengers shall be provided with one or more life rafts,

A smart shock of an earth_quake.w_as ex- perienced at Baltimore and its vicinity o_n morning of 28th ult. The houses and furni- ture were shaken, windows were broken, and citizens rushed into the street in the utmost alarm.

Advices from Bermuda state, that a great ﬁre had occurred at the former place, which con- sumed a large Government Store with all_ its contents,—loss estimated at £16,000 sterling.

The Barque Sarah. L. Bryant, of Boston» 5| on her way to Cape North, 0. B., from nd9ns conveying 360 tons of Wire Cable for the pro- posed Electric Telegraph between that Island

and Newfoundland.

The Dalton Times (Tennessee). says :—Fr0IIr East Tennessee, and all parts of Cherokee Geor-

y gia, we have information that the present is

the largest wheat-crop ever grown in this Coun- try, wheat is worth $1 10 per bushel.

LAYING ir ox 'l‘incx.—-The New York Indepen- dent, in speaking of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, of which paper he is one of the quasi editors, says that he is “a poet of nlll||’°s I minister of the beautiful, a critic of art. I rate compound of Shakspeare, Scott and Irving, beau- tifully interblended.

A ll0Z\lE-THRUS'l‘.—-A preacher took passage on one of the Lake Erie steamers on :i buuday

can judge of things so well as I ; my respon- sibility, and the interest of the soldiers and of my own military reputation, make me feel it a. duty to declare that I shall throw up my command, if 1 have not carlc blanclie. 'l‘herel'oi-c, will you allow me to do what I think pro or .1” And the Cabinet is reported to have rep iod- “ Do as you thin ”

Encmsn N:wsrirsas.—'l‘he abolition of the stamp duty on newspapers in England is a great era in the annals of nglish journalism. It will lead to the establishment of low-priced pa- pors throughout the country, and these, circu- lating in every city, town and hamlet, and among all classes of people. will contribute materially to the moral and intellectual ad- vancement of the masses. It is one of the great- est ste s in the path of progress which England has ta on for many years. A half-penny daily

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at week of its existence attained a circulation 1989 511 l'°l€“d ‘'0 W

of more than ten thousand copies. It has ro- vidod employment for upwards of a hun red? poor men, women and boys, and the duty upon l the paper which it uses, will, at the same rate of circulation as in the first week, amount to seven hundred pounds a year, so that the loss to the government treasury by the abolishment of the stamp duty will in the long run he more than made up by the dut on the increased amount of paper.—Boslon ournal.

A Tuscany IN -i-as Cantu.-—Lieut. Bi-iant, had occasion to check a soldier, who, being partly intoxicated, was marching very irregu- arly. Scarcely had the reprimand been given, when the man replied, “ Lieutenant, you've punished me often enough-you shall not pu- nish me any more;” and on the instant levelling his musket, be tired, and shot him through the body. The general in command of the trenches was in the ravine close by, and after a brief consultation between him and the commandant of the relief, a council was held and the man condemned to be shot. He was taken out, and twelve bullets were sent through his body,

PITBOPAULOWIKI so as BLOCKADID. The Poly- nesian says H. B. M.’s screw corvette Brisk, 13 as, Captain Curtis, arrived at Honolula from allao on the 14th April. On the 16th, she got up steam and towed the Dido out, which has to blockade Poirapaulowski. On the 17th, . . M.’s frigate Alceste, 50 guns, arrived from Callao, and came to anchor outside. She sailed

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This frigate President, Admiral Bruce, sailed April l8,sndt'he Brisk in the afternoon of the same day, bound toihe northward.

The rk of French aim artillery at length sgi Rat Marseillosﬁi} C America: ‘e4li I”-

not «public, Queen 0 ' pm. an 3 nian. T a former is shi mg 4000 calvslry horses. Ca t d’And.igne, o the staﬁ‘, accidentally fell into t a old and fractured a limb. Two hundred doc labourers have been sh‘ from Mhrssilcs to the Crimea. No fewer an

,000 herseslisve loft France since the war

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per has already been started in Liver- 3" d°5°TlPll°“9 “'9 P_’°S"°”l“ Mr. Charles Willmer, and during the Md 0119 W°°l‘ m°1‘° Wll

on the 20th-—destination not publicly known. “I

lately, and before he had been long on board, ‘he applied to the captain for leave_t0 hula 1- religious meeting. Tha captain replied “N93 for any minister who would travel on Sunday is i not {it to preach on board my boat.”

Referring to the crops the_N. Y. Herald says : —'l.‘ho prospect is still cheering, and from every section of the countr comes orth the promise ofa proliﬁc yield. here are plenty of creak- ers on Change in this city who are determined, in their eﬁorts to sustain the present high prices of breadstuﬁb, to hold on to the last moment. With every shower of rain, they pre- dict the total destruction of the wheat crops north by rust, and if the thermometer ranges below ninety in the shade, they have strong evidence, that corn will not escape the October frosts. But we have seen nothing as yet to warrant an such predictions. The crops of prosperpusly, lput al specu anon at eat.

A ﬁre occurred at Springﬁeld, Mass. 3‘'_d in“: in the Glasgow Mills, which resulted in the destruction of property to the amount of $250,-

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seriously lD_]|ll‘Bd.

The American papers contain more than the usual number of fatal accidents by railroad collisions, steam-boat explosions, and .0 causes.

The weather at Boston, July 2, continues op- ressivel hot. e thermometer at noon day stoo at 92 dog. in the shade. Five fatal cases of sun stroke in this city have been re- ported sinoe Saturday noon.

Donald MeKay’s model of the new steamship Cradle of Liberty, intended for the new lme between this cit and Liver 1, has _ _

laced in the Exc ange News in for exhibi- 'on. The steamer is to be 320 feet long, 45 broad, and 41 deep.

Isrxassrnco riioit Mnico.—By we of New Orleans we have news from the city of Mexico to the 19th inst. Santa Anna had returned to the ca ital, having been defeated by Alvarez, near enatto,with the loss of five hundred killed and wounded. The revolutionary army, under Alvarez and Comonfort, had taken Senoro and was investing Morelia. While in the south, the insurgents are advanciu towards the capital with rapid march, in a north Montero still remained in the possession of e rev.o utionists. A lar force of govern- ment troops had been sent to attempt its rec_ep- tare, and our next accounts from that region will probably bring us news of a bloody battle. Santa Anna is rapidly nearing the 01000 01' in! career, and a few brief weeks willsca away, before he will be ﬁghting his game ks in the pits at Csrthsgoiia with his old ardor. The newpa rs of the caplhliih 0'39? '9 $11’ vest the aisle mind from the disaster! which almost 'ly occur the vernmeat , make a great parade iii pub shin acccund of triﬁing_ successes ogained over signiﬁcant

matandilg pﬂlﬂ ﬁll! Olllllly.

a _man was killed and two others ‘