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THE NUISANCE OF MUNICIPAL ADDRESSES. a rive); trickery aud s'ander, theugh not very honourabl

nalities, are not of such rare oecurrence in the world a to call for the expression of any peculiar indignation, when we find them displayed by a clever and plotting Lalian. They have, however, Jed him to the plain and wide path of dam nation, He cannot retract b's iosinuations, Even if he desired, Othello will not let hin. * * * fore, hud no choice but to go forward, — He was evidently not prepared for this furious outburst; and we may aequit bm of bypocrisy when he prays to Othello tc let her live. But Cassio must die: —

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That the great have their troubles as well as the little is & commonplace truisn, but little can the little imagine some of the worst troub'es of the great. Charles Lamb. in hia praise of beggary, says of the beggar, he is vot ob! ged to weer Court mourving, atid as blessed an exemption of the little is, that they are safe agsinst mayors and aldermen, except, indeed. {o « magisterial way, which is not the most | formidsbie. For the great on'y corporations bave their ter- rore. Every town is garrisoned by an enemy ever on the Watch to sully out with an addrese. And the address isa foolery and flummery which must be answered, and how? Why, by some kindred foo'ery aud flummery of the unfor- tunate recipient. Lt is thas a remnant of torture, moral in- stead of physical, and mary an uebappy prince wou d rather submir to the thumb-screw than have tu cudyel his brains to rev ly sppropriately to au address of congratulation, or to re)-eat | the rubbisi thot his secretary or equerty may devise for the | cvcasion. Our Queen is sadly beser with addresses. W her- | ever her Majesty goes a mayor and corporation are ready to | come out aguiost her, and put an address worse thane pistol | Te mst mot be. toher bead. How her Majesty must hate the sight Of ftere is the dire mayors and corporitions! How much of her time, which the man would otherwise hase been happy end well spent, hae been | of hig wi lost and wysted ip listening to their tediousness. The ful- some rubbish is always the seme, and thoagh to hear it ovee is to hear it owee too often. yet it must be listened to for! thousands of times, or as offen as mayore end corporations | ean wayley our Sovereign. The Queen must, alas! submit) OO. to her fete, the lotef her greatness, which resigns her to, mayors and aldermen, ao too mast the Prince Consort; but we rejoice to seg that their won, the Prince of Wales, bas found protection agsinet Que of ihe sorest persecutivas await- lug greatuess,

Wheo tis Roys! Highness honoured Clumber Castle with

He hath a daily beauty in his life That makes me ugly.

A more urgent reasou immediately suggests itself : And besides, the Moor May onfeld me to him; there stand [in wuch peril, No—Ar must dic. The death of Desdemona involves that of Roderigo : Live Roderigo ? He calls me to @ restitution largo

O! guid and jewels, that j bobb d from him As gifts to Desdemona.

ct agency of necessity. He must remave Shortly afier, to silence the clamorous testimony ife, he must kill her’ He is doomed to blood. — Dr Maginn's Shakespeare Papers.

Corresponde

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To tus Epirorn or rar Exawiver.

Str,—In the last No. of the Monitor appears a would-be critique on the ** Progress and Prospects of P. E. 1."

An editorial notice of a book, to form a critique, must not only possess some merit of its own, but present & compura- tively just, if not an impartial view of the subject eriticised & visit, the pluce was put iu a state of defence against the) ‘The intelligent reader of the Progress’? will at ence per- mayorsand aldermen who infest the neighbourhood. The ceive that Mr. Bagster, in presenting luis work to the public, corporations were all warned off, or their addresses repulsed. offers it as a mere sketch of such matters relating to the bs- The Duke of Newesstle would act suffer any wayor to be land as may prove of interest or use to enquiring emi- set at bis royal guest, too young. as t roissart says of another | tt ss eee sama ve ae teak nee caring she fms similer coca, to be mode caqusinted with seoh troable. eisure moments of the winter of 1860-61 ; it gives currect and

R , : succinct summaries of many waiters interesting to the emi- i f . . °° ° . ° ° © We consider this the moat kind hospitality ewer yet shown grant or the transient visitor; information is to be gleaned

to s royal guest, and deserving of imitation upon all e'm.lar trom its pagee which would cost considerable trouble and o¢casiuns. Li mayors had a particle of sense, which they weary research tf suught from the original sources,

have vot, beiog by nature denied it, they would fearon frow | this example the odious light in which their addresses are | regarded, ani would Know that to spare tbe infliction of | them would be the s'ronge:t proof of their consideratiun for the great. “Asit is, however, that is, as mayors and alder-| 4 Fledgeling critic however, fearing it taay be years before nen afe officious!y constitu'ed, it must be the first duty of all! another home profuction appears, pounces oa the Progress as | noble how's to protect their guests aguinst the ivtrusive » fit subject for his drivelling nonsense, drags it forth, strips | nuisance of addresses. An exvellent begivuing has beeo it of its unassuming garh, clothes it in a fictitious histurical | wade at Clumber, aud as joyal subjects, we aie not without | rubs, crucifies it on a literary cross, and pours ever it the.

nausevusly offensive, but baraless veil of criticism, woven by

an unscrupulous mind and pen. The unfortunate and bewildered readers of the Monisor's|

us take it for only what it purports to be, @ sketch of she Progress and Prospects of P. EF. I., written during the leiwure moments of a sort syjoura in P.E L., but making no preten- siuns to a JZ story.

hope that even the Queeu will derive some bevetit from this | example, snd that ber servanrs will throw thems |ves reso. |

lutely be. ween their royal mistress and intrusive mayors. | critique will readily acknowledge its originality ; protessing | Always let it be borne a mind that an address, loyal aod! to point out the grammatical incurrectness of the Progress, it | congratulatory or other, is the very next thing in effect to | plunges repeatedly into the same slough, in the (utile endea- | an assault punishable with a whipping. and then the duty of | Vor to introduce with effect sowe misapplied word or sentence | revcution is obvious. To be ab e lu say es l suved the Queen | which colloquially might be current, but in col position us rom ap addres” will be « proud boast for any subject. And much out of place ug a rosebud in a cow's ear, ' well would it be if avy corporation could have it to aay :| 4 The fledgeling critic makes assertions, and immediately after | ciiilatasialiahiactats os roa ddre lenies their truth ; complains that the work is too abstruse | Our mayor at the (Queen wita au address. fur his weak intellect,or ue he phrases it, ‘its style is obscure."" |

bus _ knew better, and did ot.” The dedgeling critic is candid enough to aruw b> o>!

We do not mean to say that there are not occasions upon of a portion of the * Progress”? slacys 1 8m Psene #pproval which addresses may be beecming. Whut is to be checked ‘his writings being the gr" ~ wich he must (she etyle vf ° the Scions asians f el damien “ra bad puns, sohich eds BY. carlo) have enjoyed sone wretchedly | 13 (Be ure of every Opportuanty of waylaying cepraved literary taste cannot fail te enjoy ; Royalty with addresses.

he is persuaded (who persuaded him ?) no

The plao of the new Post-office at Edinburgh was”) one would ever read it a! (vii Murray!) but from cariosity.”’ a fair and proper occasion, for an address +> erste perhaps Carivsity, 1 think, is the feeling of all who open a book the sort on bos way through thoows, “rranhe'ss %

t Thyra = . E" : it: ue says °

gine Prince Con- first time, and that curiusity is increased at the end of sume yg) sue erty, but trom the first paragraph | writings as to the real meaning or motives of the writer; as é@ hud beeu vo such oceasion the Prince | for instance, take the Monifor s critique, no one can sey whe- would pot have been suffered to rest a vight on his journey ther he (the writer of the critique) means to direetly “yaseult |

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in anewer to the charge brought against hiwn tor political in-

| Swabey's family and friends, that Le sv svun

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Throwing aside the merits and demerits of the Progress, Jet |

The Craminer.

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« President t—T'bis honour overwhelins ae. all the services [ have attempted to render my country. [ had any elains before, they are all obliterated by this ex- pression of approval by the President with the tinamninous support of bis Cabinet. 1 know the President and this Va- ibinet well; L know that the country bas placed its interests ‘ia this trying evisis im safe keeping. Their counsels are iwise; their labours are dfitemitung as they are leyal, and a course is the right one.

rhaps many valuable lives

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lost. This is to false picture: there are many persons who have

scen the Bridge bent down the stream with the weight of vea- eels made fast when the tide has been falling. Lot 59, 1861. AUTOPTICAL.

en To ras Epiror or rus Exasingn.

My Drak Sia,—Accept my thanks lor your defence of my relative Capt. Swabey's public character in yvur lact issue,

P: esident— You must excnse me; Tam unable to stand |long: r to give utterance to the feelings of gratitude Which supposed that such despicable trash a> that tu which | allude | oppress me. lo my retirement ] shal! offer up my pi ayers Was tar beneath your notice asa journalist. Lallow Mr. Popes | to God for this Administration and my country, I shill supporing the attack on Capt. Swabey to be an ewination ay foe it with confidence in its success over all enemies, {row bis brain and pen, the correctness of some ol nis pre- oui, deh speedily.”

mises, to wit, that that. gentleman was atiached to a couserta- b) rG ret sell ae tive party in his native County in England, beture be emigrated | The President then took leave of Gen. Scott, giving him bere in 1840, and that owing in part to kis former puistical | his hand, and saying that he hoped soon to write hit a pri- bias and predilections, as well us possibly to bis personal ac-| vate letter expressive ef his gratitude and affection, The | quaintance with the Queen's representative, at that period, | p, eeident added—

‘in this Colony—-be was, (am ssiamed to say, one of the few) | Boghshmen, who, setthog bere for the lust quarter of a cen- } , ‘curvy, have attached themselves for even a very short tune to gen lemen of your stall, who have rendered you and their }that most jostly abhorred political body, knuwn as the) country such fariuful service. 1 bave tuken the subject into \* Family Compact,” which misruled her- for many years,! eyo.ideration, [ ugderstand that they go with you to New cand otili vainly attempts to spread its baneful influence over) york J shall desire them. at their earliest convenience oe re een outta Supe e a is utterly | ror their rein, to make their wishes known to me. false, and so tarirom its beimg « subject uf regret tu Capt. | heitis you vow, iL cemmnente sutisfied that, exeept the en

voidable privation of your counse: and society which they

cunsistency ip the Islander of the week belore. I should have

‘- General —You will matura'ly feel « sulicitale about the

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vewed bis in-) |} dependenee and honesty by renouncing al] connection with | 4 } the political clique he was firs thrown amongst, it was con-| bave so ; ‘sidered, aud justly 6o by them, the wisest and vue of the must them will be such as to reuder their situawoa a8 agreeavle bag weep Neate _ s litici tl ou Lpoevan as it bas been bLeretofore.” o ever iWeral minde wlitician, tie censure of \easrs . . 4 °

Pope mapas ie senate tue bighomt praise; and excuse | Esch member of the Aduslsistration then gave his band ‘my egotisu, when, lor myself, f assures you that the (aimcest |‘ the veteran, and rerired ia profound silence. cheer of the Wiest water-drawing Negro on my departure ‘from Charlottetown would far wure tian compensate for tne | islanderous attacks of such political writers and printers as ‘the Colunial Seeretary aod the publisher of the Js/ander.

I have been somewhat surprised, this last week, to hear so

Inisn Prospentry.—A Dubdlia paper of October 10th | says :—

From Mizen Head to Benmore—from Eagle Is!and to (much sbuse heaped on the Colouial Secretary's head for his | the Skerries, there but ” et! ringing through the land silly article to which Cam alluding, asif he is not just aa | —and that a weil of fear, for famine impends - Ireland, Ir

civil, clever, decent in language and behaviour ; and both poli- cannot be denied. The press teems with its agonized utter- tically aud privately as honest, &c., us the great wajority of | ances, Tne Londonderry Standard echoes it in the North the party {au surry to see lim prostituting his taleuts and |as the Co:k Examiner proclaims it in the South; from the Hee in working tus. : ae | verge of CO nnaught it is lifted by the Cusilebar Telegraph.

There is, buWever, some satisfaction in the assurance, that land it has iteration under the shadow of Ben Heder, through

all the scribbling the talents of W m. Pope can provide, and | he onl f th t tit . | This i soon the genus of Jubn Ings publish for us between this and the | [ere eS eo tae no So next General Eieetion, will not have the slightest effect on the | PYF, which canuot be gainsaid—a testimony of terrible issue of that straggle—when such wens ruus hombugy and | Me#0'ng. Nothing has been done to avert the consequences wockeries a8 & ** neu-departmental eystem,”’ ** sectarian ani-| Which It presages—it is suid that uothing will be done to mosity,’’ ** Land Commission,” and a packed Upper Cuamber. | avert thou; and as the world rolls through day and night, shall be seattered to the luur winds, aud when the goud old its hours, as they revolve, crush out the remvauts of the libeoal ‘pasty, lives of our people. God pity them to-day, for Government will not,

From the West the ery comes with most cruel intensity. Tuere a pastor bas lifted his voice for his people, out of pity for the appallng fate which horrifies them with all is tern r The venerable Archdeacon Co. blan bas told that condition in @ picture more awful than drama has ever revealed. In the few sentences constituting the resulutions, now memora- ble as the resolutions of Kilmovee, we are cognisaut of 2 tragedy which is being played out before cur eyes amidst a

*“* As the maiden Phenix, From the sacred ashes of her honor, Shall, star-like. rise as great iu fawe as she was, Aad $0 stand fixed.” hen, in due time, “ Our children’s children shall see this acd bless Ileaven.”’

Excase the length of this letter, my dear Sir, and believe we ty remain, yours obliged sincerely, STEPHEN SWABEY. Charlottetown, Nov. 30th, 1861.

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2a people. What story equals it in terror? Six thousand bu-

Fox rus Examnga. higher wath beings are there marked cut as victims for the fang of

WHO WROTE BAZOR FISH ? famine if they are not redeemed from its influence within iwo ew

Mz. Epitor—You remember that during the last sammer a| mouths. —_ ive-sixths of the potatoe crop has tuiled—it is series of letters signed ** Excarsionist,”’ on * P. E. Island,’’| proclaimed on the authority ofa public meeting—and j-° all appeared in the Halifax Chronicle,and were afterwards copied | the corn grown in the mountain district where the calamity | into Ross's Weekly. He (** Excursionist’’) spoke in glowing | has taken place were given over to the people, they bave terms of some parts of the Island, but unfortunately for us, pot food for two months. Tears have been wou from ap au- he haa been se unkind us to say some very naughty (ings | ditory at the picturings of feigned woe; but will nut a more about the ** dingy village’’ of Souris, as he was pleased to | t Sart of a ve a ship Dienihis of vatindiin call it. It ia unfortunate for us, inasmuch as the mental | rest ¢ ort = syapat J OFS SHOE ENS CONS OF CUEING quiet of our ** villavers’’ has been more or less unprofitably | like this ¢ This poops ure guilty of no crime Sixty-one disturbed for some time past. | years since their fate was cowasitted to a legislature which

demands tbe honour of being a paragon of rule, apd in the

From the enraged state into which some of our villagers

It rs plement catue in contact with « Nomen arti, cs f

lung enjoyed. the provision which will be made for |

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quantity of bones. The vessel was eftire, with the " d fans tion of a portion of the bottom. As is very fi —_ oxistiBe case, the urn was placed with the mouth dovowee the ing the bones; it was about 18 inches long, and 36 ie Ps wide at the mouth. Numerous coins have been found a ably * sane locality. “ The troops of Agricola,” fa ys our 3 = rity, **on their march to the camp at Ardoch, came Maibg. ee Gleneag'es, and, consequently, would pase near ¢ st dicated.’ Be pot ig. 7 pone th geen . ' _ ; sensat, The Graminer. © 2%: ¢ Examiner, —_ bw SS ee SS ae: “ i. PX) i @ Charlottetown, P. E. I., December Qqgq) 5" x s~AT ne the ab ARRIVAL OF TUE ENGLISH MAqL-§ ia eo te . i x, 4 that t Tux Royal Mail Steamehiy Canada arrived at Halifax, pe tit ® Wedne-day morning last, with dates from England tots ten | that \ ult. The Mail did not arrive im thie Island ang oe fot * after.von, although it might have been here two deys scones we bad whe contract with the Weetmorland been mained. 4 = aad summary of the latest news will be found below = _@ wee ‘The mail steamer Trent bad not arrived in England D the pt The news by this arrival is not im portant. a E qhere A telegraph from Lisbon snnounces that the King of , d twgal died on the 12th. King of Por. < ‘Phe Gazelle publisues a long list of military Promotions ang ” an appoituments, eo Yue Freneh ships of war, forming the Mexico expedition, daw! will, it is expected, have wesembled at Mayans, by the lous = ever to the 20th of Deeember. Tori

Thomas Slingsby Duscombe, many years the Tepresentatiyg . tv"

of Finebury, is dead. rt Miss Nigitingale’s health coptimves very Precarious, and she tbe herself appe. rs to entertain very lithe vl ber reovvery, ita According io the lust accounts, there # vo mitigation of _ ES arbitrary proceedings of the urs: suldier# ta. ardethePoles ae In Warsaw, ag weil as Jo the Provinces, numerousarrests are . daily made, the religious wyrship im the churches is oftep pee turbed, and numbers of the congregation wounded and @ ver prisoners. Two Jewish rabbis have digo been imprisoned. Lye late Governor of Poland, Count Lambert, bas been seurgg” at his traycis, and General Loders appointed in his stead, _ iw The condivion of Ireland forms a topic of 4 the oon press. It is, untortunately, but too true that the porthcane v! this year is a sad failure, aod it is seed that uvless the *? santry obtain remunerative ewyloyment, they must eturge from inability to purchase the food that may be imported inty : Ti Ireland. fie . Storms bad been most disastrous on the English const. ta? papers are filled with accouots of ebipwrecks, and the loss of ex life and property has been very great. The gale, which cum f menced on the Ist of the month, and continued with ki . abatement until the 9th, was one of the severest that hasbeen — — experienced since 1859. Among the victimes waa [- a les Beauclere, who lost his life at Searburyu ‘ effort to save sume fellow creatures from the wreck of a si ing vessel. Nearly tweaty seawen belonging to. - . mouth perished in the gale, which was so vicleat Mt & endanger one of the wagaificent Lrish Mail Steam Ships in | Holyhead Harbour. : i The London Times of the 16th has the following—" Ange t der has been received at Portemuuth to bold im readiness for Y a active service, atan huur's notice, all the gun-boate juntas © first-class reserve at that port. ‘To epable thiv order te be f carried out is the most efficient manner, the officers and eres * for each vessel uve been told off to her from the sips ia ber. — } bour—tne officers, seamen und marines frow Her fe ships Victory, St. Vincent, and Excellent; the ot ‘ offivers and stokers from Hl M. >. Asia (the reserve > { and the engineers from Hasiar. Un te signal being made '

from the flag-ship, *Man the gun-bvoats,’ each one told of cullect together bis sea kit, and, whatever may be theduty — upon which at the moment he may be engaged, will at .. ‘ proceed in the ship's to the gun-byat un which be hae besa The two

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without being addressed, and baviog to make a speech in| reply. fis Royal Uighuess is always ready with some suit- able answer, but no morta! man cap aways be in the mood of speech making.

Lucky ic was in this instance that there was the p'an of a

the feelings of all the readers of the Monitor, or merely wi. bring the blush to the eheek of any lady who may inadver- | tently read his erroneous quvtations. Among hie hst of quo- tations purporting to be quoted from the * Progress,’’ is one | ) preventing the geeee of Charlottetown cackling abroad for the space of three years; the three years expired # long time

were thrown on the first appearance of ‘ Excursionist's’’ letters relating to this corner of the country, we were almost ed tu believe that something of a desperate nature was about

| warned to bold himself in readiness to serve.

st fertile land on earth the generations of it le have RE ORIG SOOT, 90, SHED SN eee oe }wanned will then immediately take in a month's provisigus,

been pursued by grim Want claiming its victims from their

which will be in readiness for them, apd whea compleve will,

pumbers through all those years. No decade of this period

ranspire. FAs > mnted that a delegation si e ees Rage : to ivqnepice.. fs wan gee Reaud tive delogatiun should b has passed tree from some extreme visitation of this kind

sent tu Malifax to call upon the Nova Scotian Goveriwent ww give up pour Exseursionist, whoever he might be, to be hanzed

or at least covered with w comiortable coat of tar and feathers dead, und they are not forgerful of those sad epochs,

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be suceecded by the remainder, As svvn as thé proviswning

; as ea my eee ne is completed, the whole foree will be at once rad for ‘ he memories OF Our people ep a grim recdéonuing Of their | service, home or foreign. Kaeh vuat+caurrics & ‘ : Half | Armstrong forward, and a 10U-;ounder Armstrong” a

vew Post office tw furnieh the J riuce Coasort with a topic ago, therefore the rustic critic bas full legal leisure tu make for sensible remark, lor otherwise his Royal Highness with « noise, Again, he pr rfesses to be disgusted at the mere men- all hie dexterity must beve been ratber perplexed to reply | #0" of + strung drink,’’ and lays down a rule for the benfit of to the subject of congratulation put forth by the Lord Pro-| re ; yer pao. fond a man may be of ram and other vost aud city aatherwies, Here ss is: | strong drinks and poisonous substances, he ought to bave re-

Yon : spect enough for the company into which he i admitted to We,. the Lord Provost, Mag'strates, and Council of the | wonduct himself with more propriety.”” The sense ef this rule

city of Edvnburgh, desire to avail ourselves of thisopportunity { cannot understand, the s-ptence being incomplete. to express to your Kojal Hizhness our wordial congratula- | i tions that through the protecting care of a gracious Prov:-| rence to the same subject, and tells as this constant barping dence, her Majesty and the Royal family have again safely OF the seme subject “displays un unpardonable lttleness of arrived. is this city : and we reuew the assurance of our de- a ; bm uae re yr ene ‘else ouluare, gagere 10

> ial ‘ ‘a ’ the singie subject of ** ethrong diirin sume score of times, Pee aud witacument to ber Majesty's persoo and thereby shewinz his weak point, and insuits uis readers by

} : saying it snits their tastes as well as his own. A centary ago the Leathern Convenience was advertised = ‘Tne fledueling put forth an opinion that a knowledge of the to make the journey trom York to London in ten days. Legislative weasures of the Island, &c., &¢., would be inte.- fiod willing ; but su ely now-a-days the Queen and her Con- esting and instructive to the enquiring emigrant from Burope srt can travel from Balmoral to Edinburgh without giving Any one with common sense would knuw thata bard working eceasion for congrutulatios ov their aafe arrival * through the | edie vere eet ignores L geietion. and turns all protesting care of = gracious Peavideuve.” Whatever bap- elr enquiries to the country itself. bat i the nature of

: . the soil ?—is it fertile ?—what will it produce ?—is it well irri i ‘ : 2 +e . ae . eee 7: ies woe on Providence, | pated ?—are there geod markets ?—these and w boat of similar, Cc 8 lace s ile

on ordinary OF questions will be usked; and the arswers to all these, and) trivial Occasions, the Queea's return from a walk in her everything that really coneerns the intending emigrant, will grounds is as much a su’ ject for it as the short and easy | be found in the ¢ rogress.

journey from the Highlauds to the nogihern metropolis. |

J : ag Following. the pr ent of the Edingurgh m: tes, th consulted respecting the writing of the ** Progress,’’ and shows | 9 we preced ‘ngurg io - how different the style would have been had he been the au_ |

Corporation of Windsor may congratulate her Majesty wheu- thor. Le says he would have told ; : ; the emigrant that the Lan

ever rhe returns safely to the Vastle trom an airing. through Purchase Agi affected the interests of the aie. that ‘we the protecting care of « gracious Providence. Her Majesty's tain number of Townships had passed into the hands of the rides, walks, and tours, may be taken without the Dei gratia Government; that go many thousands of acres of swamp Jand | by which the Prassiay monarch claims to wear bis crown, stil! remained unsold; the management of these jands by the onl truly “in the sense in which every mao in the streets, Government, and whether that munagement has been auccess- wears bis bat. ‘Tirere is no real piety in introducing sacred ful or not. The fledgel:ng complains that, on asking Mr | names on slight or trrvis! ocessions Scott does vot intend: Baguer why these subjects bad not Seen touched ape, be an example of reverence when he makes old Mause Headrigg | replied, ** mind your own cuncerns;"’ a very proper reply to

an impertinent question. Jt is useless, however, to notice ery oui: ee the help of tke Lord [ have luppeo further this mawkish fledgeling critic. A certain classy will over a wall!’ ie, 3

read bis attempted critique, und they will be surprised at

Change the person from the lowest to the highest, and the | their own perseverance in wading through it. occasion from a leap over a wall to a trip from Balmoral! to. Edinburgh, aad there is the congratulation to the Lord Pro- | vost’s address. But old Sause had really more reason on ber side, tur she was » prisouer in the hands of ys aaa and by the party now in power that great things would be done moreover aiwunted ou the buck of a charger, keeping ber f5y tie tenantry and tur the Island generally if they had the seat on which in lexp was, for an old woman. who had mnjovity in the House of Assembly An improvewent «ould never ridden before, svmething wonderful, which her Majesty's take place in the appointment of public officers. ‘The lands sufe travel amongst her loving subjects. and where ail possibie the late Government purchased would be sold by public care and precautors are token lor bee salety, certainly is *¥cton to get rid of them. Retrenchment was loudly preached

not.— London paper, Oct. 26. atevery public meeting ; and that nest-eyg so often made use }of by this same party, wiz., the Bible, was also brought to

their notice. Llow tar these promises have heen performed Maaixy ox LsGo.—Some eritics pronounce hia chsracter the people themselves are the best judges. Respecting the unnatural, as pot having sufficient motive fur the crimes he Award of the Commi-csioners, the tenants are in a far worse committcd, ‘This is not wise. He could not help commiting *at than they were betore ; and they are not only dissatisfied them. Merely to pat moary in his pure, he gulled Rode- POX miserably, disappointed. Inwiud of welling) ve publ : r : 4 ‘ . ‘tron, ‘ ates—po rig? into a belief Tee could assist om poor dupe ip bis” knowing it was the best tae te relieve the tenants iad aiie suit to Desdemona. There is no remarkable crime in this | thom the freehold of their farms. Instead of lessening the Nor con we blame him for being angry at being somewhat | public debt they have increased it. As for the Bible, we heard scornfully passed over ; we can.at ull evens, enter oto his feel- no more about it after the election until a few weeks since jogs when he wishes to undermine ove whom ne cons ders to Mr. Secretary Pope thought proper to return to the subject, aye hily pre‘erred to him. and to obtain. place which jones & ae “7 eT ronan ee with q ; Pale - | agains’ eir Catholic nei urs, an sereb > : he thinks should ee _ oP ome ne - onaie of office for another eet years. But that bait will a pensed. It was a } taibg, In 110 mahgo a lady, Oud (aie thie time-—not even with the parties it had such wonder- | — ws bamaes om aaees Le or < have fal influence over at she last election; they see now the | culated on the harvest o th and crime which the seed effects of voting (dr proprietors and their agents; they fee) | of suspicion that he was sowing was destined to bring up. the shacales that are Pah by the present onrts ure far behving When be mazas Cassio drunk, be only anticipates that be will put him in such action us may offend the isle. When framing the device that is to destroy the licutenant, vo thoughts of murder arise before him. He bas no regard for the leelings of Othello, but dreama not that he wil kill Des.» oy tenants, and keep them in misery, The state of the dewova, whom he says he loves. As for the lady herself, guuds and bridges in this district is by no means im proving, bis low estimation of women would of course lead bi to but, aa might be expected, they are in a far worse state than think but jitvle about her peace and quiet, Heexcu-es him-' they were fifteen years ago Contracts which should have | seif, besides, by referring to the rumour that Urbello had been finished by the firat of August ure not yet begun, and given bim cause to be jealous. At is plain that be does not

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To rug Epitox ov rac Examiner. Siz — Prior to the last election the people were led to believe |

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is from a Government with such a man as the Hon. George | Coles as its Leader, and not from a Government composed of | proprietors or their agente, whose whole aim is to sh<ckle the |

The fledgeling again makes complaint of the irsquent recar- | **

The fledgeling swells with indignation at not having been) ==

‘of wrmy officers retired from aciive service.

Nothing less apparently would appease the anger of the angry. The idea of being spoken of so barshly—no matter his creed or his country—was tod Much for Soaris ** rit’? to bear the ** outrage.’’

Fortunate, however, for our Halifax friend, this extreme state of feeling partially subsided. Phe excited people became cooler aud calmer, aed it was Lally determined to give Excursionist’” a sonnad dressing in t.¢ uewspaper. sult is, we and the public generally have been favoured with two commanications—the one a well written setter from one

who appears to be a well-bred maa, which appeared in the

Examiner over the signature of ** Islander,’’ and che other a scurrilous piece of bad compusition Which wade its appearance not long ago, signed * Rage Fish.’? The appearance of the latter was hailed with great joy by the adourers of ** Our Leterau ;"’ and their curiosity is now op tip-toe to discover the real author of a piece so ably written! Some say that they think the Y’s and OU 3 wrote it, but the majority ubink that L's gave it birth ; and them the question comes, *> Which one of thes: did it?’ © Orie it the production of their many heads?"’ The latter question may be answered, we think, in the affirmative. Yours, &c., JOUNNY PEEP. Souris, Line Road, Nov. 26, 1861.

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UNITED STAETS. AFFECTING 3CENE, Wasuixeton, Nov. 1.—The foliowing letter from Gen. Seott was received by the President on Thursday afternoou— Hearp Quarrers or Tue Army, Washingtow, Oct. 31, 1861, The Hon. 8S. Cameron. Seeretary of War: Sir:—For more than three years [ have been unable,

from a hurt, to mount a horse, or 10 waik more than a few paces at a time, and that with much pain. Other and vew

infirmities, dropsy and vertizo, admonish me that repose of

mind and body, with the appliances of surgery and med cine,

“are necessary to add a little more to a lifé already protracted

mush beyond the usual span of man.

It is under such circumstances, made doubly painful by the unnatural and unjust rebellion now raging in the Southern Siates of our so lately prosperous and happy Union, that I am compelied to request that my name be placed on the list As this re- qaest is founded on an absolute right granted by a recent act of Congress, Lam entirely at liberty to say thot it is with deep regret that [ withdraw myself in these momentous times from the orders of a President who has treated me with

distinguished kinduess and courtesy, whom L know, upon

much personal intercourse, to be patriotic without sectional

prejutice ; to be highly conseievtious in the performance of

every duty, uorivalled in activity and perseverance; and to you, Mr, Secretary, whom [ now officially address for the

last time, L beg to acknowledge my many obligations fer the | ber, evidently the retreat of ‘be ancient monarchs who re gned

ua form high consideration | have received at aud have tbe honor to remaia Sir, with the highest respect, Your obedient servant, WinfikLp Scort.

your hands ;

A special Cabinet Council was convened this morning at 9 o'clock, to take the subject into consideration. decided that Gen. Seott’s request, under the circumstances

“than tue" iron rod" that was said to be used hy the Liberals; his advanced age and infirmities, could not be declined. and they also see that if there is any benefit to be derived it Gen. McClellan was, therefore, with the gnanimous agreement |

of the Cabinet, notified that the command of the army would be devolved upon him.

At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the Cabinet again waited upon the President, and attended him to the reyidence of Gren, Seott. Being seated, the Presideot read to the Gene- ral the tollowing order—

| * Qu the first day of November, A. D. 1861, upon bis | Aso in Scortann.—Some discoveries of a rewarkable perhaps will not be this full. Montague Bridge affuirs are owu application to the President of the United Siates, Brevet | character, says the Scofsman, have been made recently iv

of the relative population of Lreland is wanting to it vow, |shot and all the necessary stores, except powder, which will

> darkly above their ranks, and marks them for the grave. and something was by have been dune smumediately tu avenge |

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: and thinned as their numbers are, the shadow of death looms |

Whiist this doom was waiting for our peasantry the world / has been ainused by details of Lrish prospertty, and that pros: | perity indicated by the increase of caitle, aud the decrease | of wen, Ln vain it was attemped to show tie hvilowness of ; such pretences. Figures were paraded and statisttes were | ‘flourished before the eyes which would seek the ruin of a | _peopie beyond the 9; ecious givze, aud iben the Hgures were | soe ily bad, and the siatisties so fashionale, that it was | best to believe them. Lt was a bitter mockery too, but now | ‘that deceit itself fails to bide the nakedness oi the laad. |

‘ae agricultural returns, which have so often formed the | their mterest tw buy where they buy eb theme of viceregal felicitations to blasning landlords, deviare| where they sell dear st. ‘ |cvelo, from them, and now makes war apun them, to

that there is a falling off in the vaiue of cattle in Ireland tw ‘the extent of wore than a muilion uf pouuds ste:ling a3 com- pared with last year, and two miilions and a builf a- couspared

with 1859, whilst the falling «ff in land uader cultivation amounts to the alarming agzregate of 81,373 acres, the wheat veultivation alone showmg # avereasé 10 the extent of more ‘than sixty thousand acres. This has been just the purpose ‘of the system encouraged and supported by (rovermment, and ‘it bears its fruit in the desolatiou aad misery of the people, ‘us well as iu the artificial production of poverty of ike soil.

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Cunrovs Discovery 1n [xetann.—In the month of July ‘last some ancient regal oruameuts were found by a poor ‘countryman, ‘T'he circumstance attracted geueral attention throughout the country, and several parties expressed ap anxiety to obtuin the orvaments, which were ef pure gold, and consisted of a crown aad collar. Ad intimation was ohn sent through the authorities under the regulations of treasure trove, demanding the oruamects, of course, at their proper value. They bave since been publicly exhibited in| the collection of the Dublin Soeety, and much admired by those who relish antiquarian researches. The Mesers. Hynes offered the countryman a bandsome douceur if he would poin: out where he found the relies, but ths tae wily native kuow- ingly deemed to do, no down expecting that other articles of value mght be discovered in the same locality, He has, however, at length divu'ged the particulars. The man resi- ded at a place cailed Skea, near the celebrated ruins of Clon- macnoize, on tie banks of che Shannon. In the course of sowe vgricultural Operations he removed a large flag which opened the passige to a spacious cavern, in which were found the crown and collar, together with some ancient bronze wea- pons and several utensils used fur culinary purposes, The discoverer of this singular labyrinth kept it conceated from the knowiodge of any oue for a considerable length of tiwe, but at length he bas beea induced to show it to a very few individuals under a prom se ef secrecy; and, as he is about to leave this country for Australia, he intends fur a consi- deration to lead the way to this curious subterranean cham-