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snostly go for this nisht's shelter; but tomorrow

must see the business | have come upon cum: |

pleted.

uncle ?

‘No, the night is sultry and the darkness

threatens a storm.

‘Good night.’

And Gertrude tripped away, for fatigue was over, and her heart was rendeged light by the thought of another image that had been en throned there beside her uncle’s—That of Her- bert Hinchborouzh.

As the door closed behind her, the old man sat down at the twule: and, drawing some pa- per, pens, and irk dowards hima, he commenced £0 write quickly, seldom pausing, as if he had wil he wished to say ready formed in his mind.

So engrossed was he that, bis back to the window, he did not observe the white, eager! face peering in at it and at hirw.

Moationless it remained for an instant; then the body it belonged to, slipped noiselessly into éhe room, and, the bwots being removed, stole cautiously to the back of the writer. Leaning forward, the dark, brilliant, epger eyes read the writing on the table. The pen travelled fast; hut the reader kept pace with it; and as he did so a still whiter hue overspread his now fivcce looking features.

‘ it is so—it is so,’ he thouglt.

Good night, darling.’

‘My fears

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The Whelan Trial.

‘Shall I close the window ‘before I go, THE PRISONER FOUND GUILTY.

His Speech before Sentence.

‘TO BE HANGED ON THE 10TH. DEC.

Uttawa, Sept. 15.

The jury entered the Court at twenty-five minutes past fen

The Clerk— Mr. Foreman, have ye@u agreed on your verdict? How do yau fing the prison- er at.the bar— guilty or not waeilty ?

Foreman— Guilty. (Sensation 1 Court.)

Clerk—diemlemen ot the Jury, hearken to your verdict as the Court records it. Your | verdict is “ Guilty ;"’ so say you all.

- a i a a ai

IT had no breakfast. It was not ready, and on the sentence T am -aboyt to pass ts ratified, a

several mornings, not one only, as stated, it) it must be, iby the conviction of those who read | ury were warranted in| Well, this morning [| bringing in their verdict, when the sentence went to work and worked till 12 o’clock| must be absolutely earried out without any |

was not ready when I yot up, and 1 used to go ithe evidence, that the j

to work without it.

when I came back to dinner. I had mv dinner hope of reprieve, Let me implore you to con

" : : 1 and then went back to the shop; when I sider and weigh well found that Eagleson was arrested. I then put | Jittle time left you in this world,

py | : . i } on my coat and went up to the own Hall.) duty now remains for me to pronounce on you ' «

I wanted to see Eavleson to find out what he | the exreme sentence of the law--that you I could not get in to see,| Patrick James Whelan,

was arrested for. ; went to Quinn’s, and after | place where you may be confined to the place

jand from there I that I went to the tailor shop next door where Mr. Me(iee boarded. 1 stopped there a | an

few minutes and then went to my own shop. | 10th day of December ext, and that you be iThat night I dressed myself and went down to | there hanged by the neck until you are dead ;

the society. My overcoat was hanging up. | and may God have mercy on your soul. ¥ . . . . , r | . - . é r R a My revolver was in its right hand pocket, a} Prisoner then said, ‘ Well, my Lord, tha ” . . . * . a box of cartrides was in the left hand pocket, | does not make me guilty.

land there was a ramrod. Well, I put the coat | His Lordship was deeply affected while de

your future during the!) and Priate Imperial, to-day The solemn Queen daabella of Spain at St. Sebastian. be taken from the

to | of execution, between 9 o’clock in the morning 15 o’clock in the afternoon of Tuesday, the

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FROM EUROPE.

London, Sept. 18— Evening.

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Empress Eugenie, made a visit to

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The Emperor Napoleon,

An Italian Cardinal has been tried by the civil , court at Rieta, and sentenced to pay a fine of 1500 franes for attempting to take possession of lthe Sea of Sabina by order of the Pope without | the authorization of the King of Italy.

Metz, Sept. 13.

factory in this city te-day. ‘Thirty persons were lkilled outright, and eighty-twe badly injured. t| The building in which the explosion occurred was torn to pieces. : Metz, (Franee.) Sept. 19th—Eve.

A terrible explosion took plaee at the cartridge |

London, Sept. 25. | The Times this morning has a letter from Paris containing the following news of the insurrection jan Spain :—Gen. Prim, the Leader of the I | eyrgent forces, star Generals who were reeently Govermment at Cadiz. Capt. Spanish ironclad “* Saragossa, for the insurgents, brought bis guns to the barracks of Cadiz and compelled the Royal ‘Troops gatrisoned in the city to surcender. I . city having pronounced for the revolution, each General sailed to pre-arranged points on the ‘eoast, where each raised the standard of insur- l rection and set the movement o& foot at his appointed theatre ef operations. Despatches frem Naples report: that insur- rections have broken out in Calabria and Sicily lin favor of an Italian rebublic — The Italian Govermwment has taken prompt and strong steps o the disurderss re New York, Sept. 19.

exiled by the Spaniali Malearaye of the ’ who had declared

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ted from Paris and met the}

bear en}

A closer exawination ef the ruins of the cart- The cricket match was concluded yesterday by

victed of the murder of Thomas D'Arcy Me- ree. The Judge—What have you to say, Patrick | James W helan, why the sentence of the Court shauld not be pronounced ayainust you? The Paisoxan thep addressed the Court in a loud and firm veice, to the following etfect: —My Lord and get tlemen of the Jury, | have | been tried and found guilty, of course, for the

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Mr. Reilly—I move for the judgment of on just as it was, and walked to the society. ‘the Court ayainst Patrick James Whelan, con-! After the meeting was over 1 came back ayaiu | deal of sensation in court.

and sat down, not thinking of Mr. McGee or {who had murdered him, when Dectective (O'Neil walked in and arrested me. Wel!, on | going up to the police station he asked me | what time I left the House last night. I told him it was twenty minutes past two o'clock, as 'well as I could recollect, and that I went | straight home to my boarding-house. /never indicated in any way what I was arrested for till about two or three hours afterwards,

‘livering the sentence, and there was a good

the American twenty-Lwo scormg 35 on their |

price to be paid Mr. ‘Todd is thirteen nine pence per acre. The arrears of reat lamount to nearly five thousand pounde | with the estate at the price named.

| | now offer this estate, a* purchased

*hillings

Whies * Play

|the Government, at the price at which | beng it, vig.: Das Od, per acre, including ajj areas | Asa pecuniary investment, this purchase we; in my opinion, preve remunerative te me, but q I desire that the Government may have ~ a | portunity vf emancipating the Leaseholders y | Lot 19, 1 offer it to them. pug 1 have the honor to be, Sir, Your obedt servant, JAMES CG. POPE Hon. Joseph Hensley, . Altoruey General, &., &e.

Charlottetown, 4th Sept., 1862 Hon. J. C. Pope, Sin; 1 bey leave to acknowledge receipt of ter of the lat September, imestant, inforwnee

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He |

But the prisoner wore his old look, and be- fore he put his hat on, when leaving the dock, ' brushed it with the sleeve of his coat.

Application for a new trial in the case of

Whelan will be made to the Judges at ‘Toronto ‘in November. ‘The ground on which it will be ‘based is that the Judge refused to allow chal- ‘lenge of jurors *‘for canse’”’ before the per- emptory challenges were exhausted. <A great

have at last become realities |’ . Suddenly stretching his hand over the while L am standing on the brink of the grave, other's shoulder and putting his finger on one | and ghaut to appear before Almighty God for

partic ler line, be said iu a hah hoarse haat crue, l swear to you before God, as my Sone. judge on earth, that J neyer committed the o

‘Ts this you atate here true! | deed, and 2 know it in aa heart and soul well,

With an exclamation of surprise mingled | Yow, in the next place | have been accused by with terror, the old man started up; but the the Counsel for the Crown of Fenianism. I , wf mn . ' . 7 . 4 } > :

other’s hand was on bis ,broat, clutching |.can assure you, my lord, and you, gentlemen

wurder of Shomas D'Arcy Meee, and now |

'when he informnd me that Mrs. Trotter's son lhad seen me running ground the Queen’s |Printing House block after shooting Mr. | |McGee, when 1 knew in my heart and soul that | I did not shoot Mr. McGee, J knew dhat better ‘than any man. Well, after they got all they could out of me, as they thought to convict, they jexamined my boots and compared them with ‘the warks in the snow on the stairway behind |

many prominent lawyers think the ground is a good and substantial one. It is stated that in the Notman cage in Montreal, the éudye al- lowed it to be done.

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ridge factory in the official investigations as to the number of persons employed in the works, lead to the still more sorrowful conelusions that forty-six persons were killed and 110) badly) wounded by the explosion which oceurred this morning.

second innings which with 61 on their first ‘innings made a total ef 140 against 175 by the English in one tioning.

Nine of the Englishmen played a gawe of base ball with nine of the Americaus. The score stood 33 for the Hugtishmen and 10 for the Americans.

They left for Montreal to-day,

Gold 1448.

London, Sept: 20.

John Wilson Patton, member of Parliament for North Laneashire, has been appointed Seeretary of State for Ireland, vice Earl Mayo appointed Governor General of India.

At a meeting of the Roman Catholic clergymen of Galway a resolution was adepted pledging thease present to oppose all candidates for Parlia- ment who do not support Mr. Gladstone s re- solves for the disestablishment of the Irish Church.

Queen Isabella of Spain made a visit to the Emperor and Empress at Barritz soon after the return of the latter from St. Sebastian.

An insurrection is reported to have broken out in Andalusia, Spain, A despateh from Madrid |

Che Examiner.

SORIA PRAIRIES EIR IIL LD OD OB I

Charlottetown, September 28, 1868.

THE LOT 19 ESTATE,

We publish below the correspondence be-

tighter and tighter every eifurt he made to free af the jury, and every loyal subject in the daupael lf ‘Answer by word or sign—is this true? | demanded the other tiercely. 4 And,take care, | old man, how you trifle with me! WYour gray) hairp shall have no effect upon me.’ ‘Midnight assassin !—robber!' gasped the | other, whatever you may Le, J will gaswer| vi shat question, ford am here to proclaim it | o the world! J declare by the Heaven above that all [ have written there is true." ‘Madman,’ hissed the other, ‘* Those words |

| country, that I never was a Fenian either at

ithe house opposite Mrs Trotter's; but that home or abroad, I have never belonged to | charge was not produced against me nor the any organized body here or elsewhere, The | charge of having been seen running around the Hibernian Society | never belonged tou, and the | Queen's Printi g Office. Now, ny, Lord on suciety I belonged to here | belonged to ouly | the 22nd day of April, I was in my cell locked for a shoré dime. The Counsel for the Crown |up. ‘They brouzht Lacroix up and ¢ was alluded to my being marshal at the progession | deliberately pointed out to him, but he did not on last St. Patrick's Day. ft is true [ was, | know me; when I was pointed out to him he but it came about in this way: I was asked it | suid, Je ne connius pas. He did not know me, I could mde. I said 1 could, having been in| my Lord; and I knew he did not know me. He never saw me in his lite. Three hours

i f the ‘City of New York.’ al th 7 Arrival o y announces the resignation of the Prime Minister | ee" the Government and the Hon, J. ¢

and most of the Cabinet. The Marquis of Havana has been requested to fill their places ad interim. The Queen is returning to Madrid. Martial law has been proclaimed in the capital

The Paris journals have reports that a general insurrection against the Queen of Spain has been commenced, teaded by General Prim and the genecals who were recentiy exiled Some ae- counte say that the rebels are moving on Madrid in force,

Pope, relative to the purchase of the Todd The transaction de- cidedly quiver took about it. Mr. Pope is,

during the dog days, suddeuly seixed with a

(From the News of the World, Sept. 13.)

The Emperor of the French made no speech Estate. whole haa a at Chalons. The spirit of tive army at the camp is said to be very warlike, and the Em- peror paid it marked attention. On the oc- casion of the sham fight his Majesty sent round champagne go <he officers and a copious

supply od red wine 10 the men,

benevolent desire to benefit the farmers of Lot 19. for he has been for many years Mr. Todd’s He knows perfectly well who owes

He knows all about their circumstances,

The Moniteur states that at the camp at Liverpool, Sep. 21. avent.

are your death-warrant! Two know the secret | reason I was appointed Certainly it is true |

the Cavalry at Quebec, and that was the only | ‘ fet afterwards he was taken down stairs and shown | Chalons on Tuesday numerous experimental ‘my clothes, and he asked that I should be | trials of artillery were made in the presence of

Apprehension» of war have partsaily eubsided | back rent, and how much he owes; who are in

now—you and I; before many minutes have jam # Roman Catholic, but that does not make paseed it will be only known to one!"

+ Who are you?’ gasped the old man, in vain attempting to wrench the strong grip from his throat, ‘who are you that thi gecres can so in- terest.’

‘You shall never kpow’’ gather, his grip tightening as he spoke. ‘ Suf. fice it that it does interest me, and that your lity is in my way, and it must be removed.’

£ Would you, then, kill me.’

. | eeclaimed the |

| me any the worse, in my opinion. — 1 was in Quebee during the last Fenian raid, working jou Lavallieres street, but knowing that the } work would not last for long, | weut up to the | barracks of the P. C. O's Ritles, in the citadel, where i was engaged Dy the master-tailor of ithe Ritles. I was there in company with a man named O'Brien, and we had some drink |together. #¥e were not there very long till ‘sume cogyersation came up between O'Brien

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'dressed in them = 1 was then brought down land placed in front of him with eight or ten | irespectable gentlemen of Ottawa. ‘The Sheriff} }was there and said, “ Turn right about face.” | Then he did me an injustice in the sight of God. |

| man. isitting on that bench. croix, ‘Show me the man you saw that night, and he of course came oyer snd pointed me

He did that as sure as you are now

Ile then said to La- a

| Ny lord, he deliberately pointe d me out to that | met everywhere with a cordial reception.

the Emperor, The intuutry were also put through some manceuvres, at the termination King of Prussia at Kiel have proved a failure.

of which the Emperor visited the encampment | {¢ is evident that peace is sincerely desired by the | |

and inspected the corps of ambulance aud) Governments and people of Europe, with the sole | ,

other military establishments. His Majesty! exception of the Emperor of the French, whose purpose is unknown and perhaps undetermined. | | Growing indignation is manifesting itself at his | | ambiguity of indecision.

According to the tenor of the last adviees from Ceutral Asia, the resumption of hostilities on the part of the Russians at Bokhara is expected in

A correspondent of the dudependance Belge says that a difliculty has just arisen between the Governments of France and Switzerland, out of a naturalization case. A Savoyard of

| during the past week. The efforts of the Parisian | ood circumstances and who are not. | Press te extract a warlike signiécegce from the) ©

Mr. Todd visits the Island, and, with the most disinterested and purely benevolent intentions | in the world, Mr. Pope sends his brother, the) Hon. William Pope, to find out from that gentleman whether or not he is willing to part with his property oa Jot 19. The ingenuous, unsophisticated negotiator has no thought of

that you bad agreed with AndrewThorntog Todd Keq., for the purchase of his estate in this , comprising about 12,000 acres of land, situaty 0’ Lot 19, at the price of 13s. 9d. per acre, thea rears of rent, ameunting to nearly £5 » ing with the estate, and offering the purchased by you, to the Goverowent at the price with all arrears.

The Government fully appreciate the ex, sion of desire, upon your part, that they WKY hag an opportunity of a the I upon the Lot in question, and are exeeed Polen w! Saar themselves of it. In ondat! arrive at a final and seund covelusion ¢ course, require to have seme further parti ; connected with the eetate Communicated to

1000, yan, a adie

=\ whieh d naw request you to furnish to me wi |

| aw little delay as possible.

Ist. Particulars of the agreement between jm and Mr. Todd. i ake >a

Zid. Reat roj] with names of Tenants much land #soder leasxe—how much wi id land—arrears of rent due trom each Tenaut.

Grd. Plans of property.

Commissioners have been appointed to ving and inspect the property #0 soon as the above particulars shall bave been received, and their report be favorable, the Government will be prepared, on the tithe being approved of, iy

couclude the purchase.

The Commissioner of Public Landa is aj rent in the country, but if you wall be «gle to let me know when you can furnith the abuy particulars, 1 will send to him. and request biy attendance in Town, so as to expedite wattey as much as possible. The agreement will, y F course, speak for itself, but T wish alse, i deutly of it, te koow trom you the terme of pay. meot of the purchase money, in case of Ue mg ter being finally arranged between os.

I have the honor to be, Sir, Your obedt. Servant, JOSEPH HENSLEY,

Attorney General,

* Aye, Inke a doz, unless you declare by all ‘and some genilemen belonging do the P. ¢. your “hopes iu the world to come to destroy |0"*, aud accordingly it happened that O'Brien this, and never let the secret pass your lips!’ | offered $20 to this man if he would join the

out asthe man. There was a deposition made by Lacaoix and I asked to see it, but | would not be allowed to ask him a question, I

ithe uame of Boyrgeois has long been settled lat Geneva, and was naturalized there before the annexation of Savoy to France. He has

any advantage, pecumary ov poljtical, to him- self or to his brother iu the trausaction. The

October next. Despatches from Madrid via Paris state that the Spanish naval forces stationed of Cadiz had

‘Never! The crime has been burden enongh

| Fenians. I was sitting at the time this occur- |

knew I could put to him a questton which he could not answer, but they ran me out of the office and upstairs to my cell. Now, I know in my heart and soul that that man did not

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revolted against the Queen’s Government. The genevals receatly banished had returned and joined in the revolt.

Marshal De La Torre headed the morement,

a son still a minor, and the French authorities maintain that the naturalization of the father does not carry with it that of the son, and as

yood of the suffering tenantry of Lot @9 is his He finds Mr. Todd disposed to sell,

and as the Hon. William has a circuitous mode

sole aim.

Charlottetown, 7th Sept., 1868, Sir;

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt gf your letter, dated 4th Sept., mestant, in whi after communicating to ime the gratifying intel

genee that the Government appreciate my & sire that they may bave an opportunity of emane

already. I would not live a day louger with it | ed at the table. I was arrested and brought unrevesled.’ | before Judge Maguire, but no charge was ‘Then you shall not !” made against me. | was asked my name and

|the young man has refused to submit him.

The grip became tight indeed; bus ike old man aroused, strengthened by the thought that five secret must perish at his death, collected al! his powers fur one last cry for help; aud so shrill, so piercing was it, tha: the whole house yang with the sound.

he next instant hurrying feet were heard on the stairs and in the passage.

With a frightful expletive, the man threw hia victim, now senseless, yjolently from him, epreng to the door, turned the key; then colleeting all the papers writen Upon the table, hastened to the window, lept into the | spreading branches of a tree, by which he had) managed his ascent, dropped from bough to | bough till he reached the ground, resumed his) boots, then rushed trom the inn yard by a back | way, 33 he heard the duor of the roym above, burst open, and sped like a hunted bare from the place, muttering ;

*T have nearly killed him if nat quite. He} is old. It will be long before he recovers) conaciopaness, so to-morrow I must have re-| gourse to gnother plan. My future depends |

oe ig.” j

{ To be continued )

" ww deal of moucy here, and [ took a house and spite in any shape or form. I know be was a Judson’s Pills. /eamne, I think in Qetober. J took a house in | talented mar, an able man, and a pride of his : ji ; : ithe warket, and insended fo settle here. Well, |country, and is it to be supposed then that || probably have an interview with the Emperor imines —~<£>- ™

NEW ZEALAND. | MORE TROUBLE WITH THQ NATIVES.

a Aceou.ts from Platea state that an attack | by the natives had tven made upon the re-| doultt at Turo Turo Moki. The Times extra. geves the following account :—

“The attack on the redoubt gt Furo Ture | Moki was made before break of day. Private Lucey was on sentry outside—challenzed | twice and then fred—received a volley —was_ shot through the shoulder--aicceeded in load-| ing his rifle, but could not fire it off.

“Went tu the gateway and saw Captain, Neuss in his shirt. Handed his ride do huss, | »ho fired it; Ross then fired off all the (pombe of his revolver, and part of another.

e then called ount—‘I am done for. Men, you must do the best you can for yourselves !' | The men then seemed to have had # panic, and some of them attempted to escape.

‘s Four gen jumped over the parapet, one of them #48 cauyhs aud domahay) o*) Svht-

fijly mutilated. Three others, Caimi jig, and Burrows, to Wajhi~ Four men

got awa

held one angle of theorcaouht, and two of these men, Milme ena Johnston, being armed wath davO kept the natives from getting vver #,, parapet. The latter had cut steps in the parapet, aud as soon as oye glowed his bead he was baynotted. These four men hel¢ phe post until Vou Temsky arrived. The uatives never got beyoud the gateway of the redouht.

“+ Casualties.—()ne officer ang mne men killed. Cuptaig fons, Sergeant McFadden, Corporal Bjake, and four privates, namely ; Shields, fiulder, Kershaw, (mutilated) and Lennon (trightfully mutilated) Ross, Swords and Beamist:.’’

The Volunteers were called out, and ordered to be in readiness at a moment's warning.

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Carlton’s Condition Pow ders

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Acry fur immediate relief from impending starvation cawes fromthe people of the Red River Settlemeng. Jt is said that within the whole Colony not one bushel of any kind of grain will be harvested, owing to the ravages of the grasshoppers ; and the root crop will be Short. In addition to this, the byffalo hunters auetead of furnishing their large share of pro- gisions and leather, have come back starving: from their usual hunting grounds. Many of them had to eat their horses and their oxen before their return. ‘The condition of the set- glement is described as a “plague,” and the okdeas ler has no recollection of so terrible @ state of things. gr this dive strait appeal hax been tu the Canadigis.— Halifax Col onist.

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Morse’s Indian Reot Pills.

| gave it as Sullivan, my sother’s name, be- |cause | gid not wish to have my sight same lappeer in print. While in Quebec, | joined Capt. Scott's troop of cavalry. I got to be | sergeant, and Capt. Scott and other gentlemen {knew my character while I was there, whether I was inclined to Penmamay or not, | still | retained the same name in the cavalry, but | bear it in mind, the name I go by now, I went | by in Quebec. 1 came to Montreal from there ‘ufter they were dismissed and was there 9 or /d% or 18 months. I did assist there in the

represent at first that he saw me, but I know what was working against me. The prejudices thyt arg created against me in gll quarters. Men of opulence formed prejudices against me, }und talked and acted in a way that I would) jscorn to use tuwards any one in my position, jand why was this, because I was a Roman 'Catholic. I dave been taunted in the jail, | 'gloated over, threatened in my cell by that! gentleman who is sitting there now (pointing | to Sheriff Powell, who was seated near the | He suid he would beat any 7 Fenians

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/annexed to France he has never been a French- | man at all, and that his son, being a minor, is

self to the conscription, he has been condeian. ed as refractory. The Federal Council has re- quested the Swiss Minister in Paris to explain to the French Government that Bourgeois having been naturalized before Savoy was

in precisefy the same position. France can- not, therefore, claim mihtary service trom a person in no way belonging to her, It is thought that these explanations will have

aid the leading men of the old O'Donnellist | Of doing things—even a charitable action—he party sustain it.

Several towns have joined the insurrection, and the most intense panic prevailed at the Court in Madrid.

Troops had been despatched south, Gen. Coueh taking command.

A rumor prevailed in Parie Saturday evening | | that Queen Isabella had abdicated. would be under no such obligation, who might

London, Sepi. 21.—Midnight.

The following news has been received from

Spain.

uses his influence and his eloquence to persuade the proprietor to sell, not to the Government, who, in purchasing land,is bound by statute to resell it to the tenautry at as cheap a rate as

wssible, but to his brother, the agent, who

hold it as long as he pleased, sell it to whom he pleased, and at the highest price which the in-

their due effect. Other cases of difficulty,| The resignation of Gonzales, Bravo and the |

tending purchaser could be induced to pay for it.

pating the Leaseholders upon Lot 19, and the they are exceedingly desirous to avail themsely of such opportunity, you request me to turnig § ‘you with further particulars connected with th leetate offered for sale by me, in order thatthe | Government may be enabled to arrive at a fig and sound conelyeion.

The further particulars required by you, stated in your letter, are:

Ist. Particulara of agreement between me ani Mr. Todd.

2ud. Rent roll of estate with names of Tenants The quality ef land wader lease—the quantity of wildernees land, avd arrears of rent duc frop

|L noticed this to my friend who was with me,

election between Mr. McGee and Mr. Devlin, like me, and that on the 4th of May he would | ag stated by the counsel for the crown. The get out a fifa for me that would finish me. | assistance was this:—I was asked by a man My Lord, Lt am no Fenian. I could sacrifice | named ©'Meara if I would be a serutineer, | my last drop of blood for that noble woman | I did not know what a scrutineer was, never | Whose portrait stands opposite me, and looks | having been at an election before; but I went }down upon me now. (Pointing to the portrait | to the polls, took down a few names, and |of the Queen.) 1 served nine years aud six | stopped there till dinner time, when I went months vf true aud good service too—4 years home. That ended my elections. In the/of them in India. And if she wauted my course of time I came to Ottawa. Here, there | services now | would give them willingly and | were four young men boarding in the house | gladly, but when they speak of me asa cold- | with me; English ebaps, whom [ had known | hearted assassin, and I remember the services | in London. { came up to Barbrook to shoot ‘I have done, my blood runs cold. They will | for a time, but I did not like it, and came | take my bluod for that crime, but [ was never | back to Qatawa. I found I could earn # good | guilty of it. [ never owed that man the leagt

on Christmas eve, after 1 had written several | would take away his life? and L say, my Lord, | letters to my wite, saying 1 would go for ajwe who are Catholics are looked upon as | visit to Montreal, I left. 4 supped with Bagie- | traitors—alwuys traitors, and why? — because son atone o'clock, und ag balf-past one o'clock, | party feeling myus higher here than I have

c . . | Porra< 2a daiois aa 3 S Qe. ‘I was on the train for Montreal. I got to! ever known it to run in any other country, and | lerragon and Badajois have been dismissed on |

Montreal between iweive and one o'clock | | say that is the curse of the country. Pstand | that vight. Mrs. Scanlan's house was the | here a victim to that party feeling, and they | first d went to. I stopped there in Montreal} may find me guilty as they have done, but [|

| two or three days, after New Year's. On| know I am innocent of the crime of the murder |

New Year's night | was drinking in a house in | of the Hon. Thos. D'Arcy McGee. J] must |

Montreal—a house that is well known; but ig | Say at the same time that if [ was placed in the not a dance house as bas been represented to } posifion of any one of the gentlemen of the | you. While there I heard a conversation | jury, with such evidence brought against

tween iwo men who were setting there. j another man as they raked up ayainst me, it Thexe was a board between them and me, and | would certainly bring in the same verdict as) I owverbeard them. (ne of them said “ This jis | they have done,and I fully exongrate them from the night Mr. McGee's house is to be burned.’’ | all blame whatever in the matter. They could not know and were not told the means resorted to to bring the crime home to me. They did not know the way evidence was got up agains oe But I ania iicman Catholic, aud as | am an frish Roman Catholie, must suffer I sup pose. In England we are accused of being Fenians, aud as ig Pogland ang freland, go 2 is here. Any of the Jrish race who stand up in defeyce of grish liberty are liable in some way or other to be caught in the meshes of the law, and perhaps hung, diawn or quartered, or else sent to some terrible hell, to drag ou a life like the living damned.

His Lordship said— Prisoner, we jave given you full liberty of speech in yuar defence There has been no restriction put on you. But what you are speaking about has no reference whatever to your case.

Prisoner—I am speaking the truth, my Lord. I speak because I feel as I speak. They found wne guilty it is true, but that does not make me guilty in the sight of God.

and nothing would do him but be must go up to Mr. MeGee’s, and tell him, and if he was to the fure now he could tell you that what I say = true. We Mem there, put that man never ieft the house when I went in as repre- sented. Mr. John NeGee was not there when IT went imo Me. wediee’s houses he did not hear the conversation between us — not one word of it; and I swear solemnly before God and the world, that I did not give my name as Smith. My friend gave his name as Smith when John McGee came to the door. It has been asked why I had been watched going up to bieGee's, and knew that my life was threat. ened for going there to warn him. In fact it was well known I was threatened there; and tuy couusel knows it, and so I made up my wind two days afterwards to come up to work here, neyey phimking of Uctee, never giving him @ thought, until, my Jord, when here | | used to go to the House on nights when I was not very busy. On the night of the 6th April| The dudge <hep proceeded to deliver gen- L was at the House. I got three or four, |tence. He said, you Patrick James Whelan, — it was tive tickets, altogether, from | have been found guilty upon a fair, full trial, |

uckley on that night. I went to the House according to the evidence. This you have | between ten and eleven o'clock, as near as | lacknowled sed yourself. Everything has been | can recollect. I had several occasions to go ‘done which could legally and reasonably be | down stairs, and Dr. Sweetland can tell you \done, to put your case before the Jury dis-| the same, for he has been ettending me ever | passionately, and secure a fair consideration | since in the jail, [ cage each time to the |of your case,and the Jury have just pronounced porch, and did nut go beyond the door, and I la verdict of guilty, on evidence which you say can tel! you on my oath I was not away from | yourself would have induced you to give a the gallery more than three or four minutes os yerdict had you been in their position. | each time. I then came upstairs into the | As far as our Courts and system of judiciary is gallery, I stood there like this, (the prisoner | ncerued, we must assunse now you are guilty. | here feaned his arms on the front of the dock With regard to many of the observations you | and stood iu a bent position) and I can assure | have made, being @ native of the country my-} iself, and knowing more of it than you do, [|

you, during the whole time I was there, McGee |

| bulk of these young men were born in Swit-

however, are constantly oceurring. The | other members of the Cabmet have been ae: 6 sted.) The terms of this bargain are kept a profound French Government, for instance, claims A parley has been held between the Roy a! « flieers | young men for military service whose fathers | and some of the rebel leaders, the result of whiek | F gr were really Frenchmen until they became | #8 net known. A body of rebels, 14,000 atroug, | point blank to reveal it, and it is more naturalized as Swiss. And yet,’’ says the cor-| have gathered near Vallodold, tu intercept the | than likely that the public will never know any

; ; | Queen and prevent ber trom returning te Madrid, | . :

. a : > > ° > 5 » . . respondent of the Independance Belge, “ the ''The whole of Andalusia 18 in the handa of the | more of that secret than they know at present.

zeriand, and it seems strange to them that they | ead ae nag ences awe mel | No sooner has the bargain—whatever are to be fettered to a nationality which their! Duke of Montpenzier. Great excitement pre- fathers repudiated for them, and which they | vails in the city of Madrid.

themselves are disposed to repudiate also Paris, Sep. 21. upou reaching their majority.”’ The Federal! Some reporta say that the rising in Spain ix Council, desirous of seeing these difliculties | not a movement of the Liberals alone, but is aup- put an end to, have charged M. Kern to nego-| ported by all parties