u.is7..uiive G-\'ll«‘.'|"l‘E, MAY 28.

(From the European Times.)

An agreeable episode in the career of Lord Brougham has taken place during the present week. His lordship is the president of the Law Amendment Society the most prominent members of which were entertained at the banquet of the civic monarch who rules to the east of

have brought to bear, upon the points under investigation, a common sense. view ofthe diilicultics which occurred,‘ and the most prompt method of reliev-, ing them, painfully illustrative of the. want of strategic capacity in the military chiefs. Even the questions and sug

the military witnesses, and most ofthem 3

ASZARD’S GAZETTE.

Wednesday. May 28, 1856.

'I‘ni:itl is no subject more important to the elfaro of the people in every society or col- ction of individuals, from a Town or Parish to an empire, than that of education, Every

Temple Bar, London. The Lord Mayor paid a marked compliment to his dis- tinguished guest for the services which he has rendered to the country by the vari- ous legal reforms, of which he may be

gestions of the advocate-general, Mr.I Villiers, the member for \’Volverhainpton stand out in contrast with the narrow, technical views and conduct of the Lieu-g tenant-General of Division and his sub- §- ordinate.

men therefore, who contributes his quota of information or experience on so interesting a topic earns a portion of public gratitude. To the credit of the Island, it iaa be said that ere have not been wanting t ose who have in a very masterly manner grappled with some of the diﬂiculties which stand in the way of a

said to be the parent. Lord Brougham in responding to the toast of his health, deplored the want of support which the commercial men of the city were able to afford him in the great work of improving and purifying the law; and the censure, we regret to say, is shared by the other great communities in different parts of the. country. 'l‘o the fact ofthis lethargy may be mainly traced the contradiction and absurdities which now disﬁgure the commercial law of lzlnglaiid, and i'.e evil has risen to such a lieight, that com- mercial men are everywhere discussing the question, whether it would not be more wise and economical to leave to their own chambers the settlciiioiit of the various business differences which spring up in the present state oftrade. Lord llrongliani, when at the bar, had the reputation of being an excellent C0llllllC‘I'Cl(ll lawyer, well versed in all the points of coiinncrcial adjudication and if backed by the moral influence, the loss of which lie deplored, England would have been still more highly his debtor. if we glance at the career ofthis extrordiiiary man, wlietlier in apolitical a judicial, or a scientiﬁc aspect, the influence which he has had on his age will be found to be great, beyond most of his contcinporaries. But it is in his capacity of ii laiv-reformer, that he has especially of late years, endeared himself to the country. In the extent of his attainments, iii the fervour of his elo- quence, in the versatility of his genius, and in his rodigious powers ofapplica- tioii, Lord rougham is without a paral- lel, in our time. There are men who in some peculiar walk of science or lite- rature have excelled him, but in the aggregate of his great abilities, he is cer- tainly without a rival. The occasion was opportune to reveive in the mind of the nation the gratitude which it owes to his lordship, and towards the last of his long and arduous career, was felt, no doubt, as most gratifying.

The inquiry before the military com- missioners sitting at Chelsea has shown from the first, how thankful we ought to be, that the war is over, for the world never witnessed such a mass of blunder- ing and imbecility in the Crimea, as this investigation discloses. Lord Lucaii, had he been wise, would have submitted in peace to the stricttires of Sir J. M. Neill and Colonel Tulloch, for nothing which they have urged against the discharge of his duties ala cavalry general can equal the facts, which have come out during this attempt to whitewash his own administrative skill. This week Lord Cardigan, second in command to Lord Lucan, has been before the com- mittee striving to purge himself from the imputations of the Crimean commis- sioners, and it must be admitted more successfully than his so rior incom- mand. These noblemen are related, and we presume, are still, as they were in the

Crimea, on the worst possible terms. In the face of the enem they could not sink their personal leads, and poor Lord Raglan appears to have had a weary time in acting the port of a medi-

Sunday next is the day appointed for the general thanksgiving for the resto- ration of peace, and the prayer to‘bc read in all the churches on this occasion has been published. People who_ were“ the most belligerent in their notionsa short time back are gradually becoming reconciled to the peace, and they are mainly inﬂuenced in their altered views by the excellent terms which we have exacted from our late enemy, and by the advantages which the country is certain to gain by the throwing open of new channels for commerce. But the securities which have been taken for the future peace of Europe are perhaps the most gratifying features of this treaty eace. The thanksgiving, therefore will be much more hearty now, than it would have been two or three nioiiths back. and Lord l.’aluiei'ston, at the close of his speech on the liars debate, was perfectly warranted in referring with triumph to the success of our diplomacy at the close of the war. The treaty is so excellent, so uiiobiioxioiis to criticism that the Opposition are spcechless— knocked out of time, as the veteran pu- gilists used to express it. Her Majesty's birth-day, which is to be celebrated on the 29th, has been ﬁxed for the illumina- tions, and we .-.hould not be surprised to see a great demonstration of joy in every town throughout the empire. Eight thousand pounds will go a long way in providing ﬁre-works tor the metropoli- tans, and the private citizens, before the end of the month, will he found vying with each other in welcoming the returii of peace and prosperity. Now that the war is over, and that we have time to reflect upon the past, it may be admitted in defiance of the gross imperfections of our military system, that we have attaiii- ed grcat results in the. course of two years. During his exile at St. Helena the ﬁrst Napoleon, as we had occasion to observe some time back, foresaw that a brush with the great despotism ofthe ’orth was inevitable, some time or other e contended, that unless we heat back Russia, and conﬁned her to her own territory, she would overrun western Europe. The trial has been made under circumstances pecuilarly fortunate, and we will never have the work to do again,-.—never certainly during the pre- sent, or, itmay be, succeeding generations.

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WILLIAI LANG is the name of ti trumpeter who went to the Crimea at the of thirteen. He was frightened‘ at the whistling of the cannon balls on the banks of the Alma for the space of half an hour, but never has been afraid of them since. The night after the battle,

abush half-dead from exhaustion; -he‘ was wrapped in a horse rug, and carried

He sounded his trumpet st Bslaklsvs, st lnliermsnn, and during the whole siege of Sebtistopol. the highest praise for his intrepdity. He would ride through a storm of shot to

ther, inany other army in the world, we 1 s tacle would have been tolerated e public service being sacriﬁced to ‘ _ _ these miserable rsonal bickering‘, He returns to his native to_wn such of the cm jam 3. have been decorated with the model with four closps, examined in the course of this inquir have contrasted most favourably wi

he sick with all the core ofa Ni htingolo. I

of the lots war.

adapted to their ca wlncli, all classes 0

s . not only the utility. at even the necessity of wb he was found by an officer lying under is so apparent. that lneed not oltempt to otfer unv division could be made. each county should have its share laced in the most central position. But it is lo the camp. where he speedily recovered. only or n more temporary convonienco, that any room in the Control Academy at present could be m_ado available for such a purpose. A room or lull _ _ . might be built as a win to it, soy His comrades give him l'"'- '1' "'00 ll-loll. lfdiirib M H h - w t i d ntor between them. We question whet; any pmmiom ,0 men in the tnncbu, lLo.dt.Ir:s.:.v.oTy «la; .o'i:hor.b; Iolorno ‘.1?-'.'iI3.5.'I.'i'.'.‘ZZ°,

and when he could be spared, he attended if

oolwich t o Island,

the youngest, but not the least gallant hero‘ :f:,°lI"|- in I of all

while it would uﬂbrd tbs jun ‘r or I ‘ootnpﬂbnt bo on additional iu_tlucomon't"lli'”;;d'if thouioolvos

general system of imparting instruction to all ranks, classes and creeds. been raised long since, shall a necessary and component part of the system of public instruction, or shall the learning to be instilled into the minds of the pupils be of a secular description only? Advocates have been found for the one system and the and the pre the union 0 religious and secular instruction. were it not, that those who agree upon the necessity of the first are, for the most part

The question has religion be

other,

C‘ o 8* -s

onderance would robably

totally at variance as to the peculiar plan that

slgould be adopted, whether the Bible, that is, I

e old and new Testaments, should or should

not be placed entire in the hands of children,

or whothera selection of only certain portions pacitics, and concerning

Christians are agreed, would not better answer the pur ose of re- ligious instruction in the universa ly acknow- ledged principles of Christianity, without inter-

meddliiig with the peculiar opinions held by

the parent of the pupils. “ Who shall decide, when octors disagree." We shall therefore

oller no opinion, not that we have not an opi-

nion of our own upon the subject, but because we have long since seen, that there are certain matters u on which argument is thrown away,

and men c oose rather to deal in assertions of

that unqualified nature that put a stop to all further attempts to reason or argument, than calmly to view without prtjudice the subject on all its bearings. “'0 were much pleased at hearinga lecture given by the lion. Mr. lire- min, at the Mechanics’ lnstiute on this im or- tant question, and we are more so at ﬁn ing

at it has been printed at the request of seve- ral teachers, but at the expense of the Hon. Gentleman himself for gratuitous distribution among the several teachers; and we trust that one suggestion of the author, “ the formation of a library for the use of district teachers" will be mature! considered and energetically followed out. Ve give the proposal in the Hon. Gontlcaian’s own lan uage, which will at once serve to bring the su ject matter of it to the attention of our readers, and at the same tiuie furnish a good specimen of the style of the

on. Lecturer. (See Pamphlet, pages 50, 51, 52, 53.)

“I need not weary you with too many examples ofthe necessity of a good Library for this purpose, but would most respectfully suggest, that a Legisla- ture wliicli has already done so much for the furtlier- ancc of education, by adopting rind improvin in sys- tem, which so for has succeeded, I think beyond the expectation ofiis most sanguine friends ; we d sllll fllrllwr prosper the good work by granting a sum of money to procure a Library for the use of the dis- trict teachers. Suppose the House of Asseiiibly " in its wi'u1oin" would out even the triﬂing ruin of three or four hundred pounds sterling, to be laid out in the purchase of books for sueha purpose 'l‘lie llonrd of liddcation assisted by ii Committee ofthe teachers, including the masters of the Central Acad- emy, might make out xi list ofthe books inost requir- ed. The order might embrace 8 or 10 lrcllllses upon every branch ofscience to be taught in the schools, which treatises might embrace 8 or 4 different au- thors upon each subject, as well as the best works on Agriculture. On the arrival of the books, they might be placed in a room in the Central Academy , and taken charge of by one of the masters, as l.i- brarian. Each District tesclior might pay an annual subscription of lie. or 10s. for the use of the books, which each might take in rotation, and whatever

nds would accumulate in that way, over and above small compensation to the Libi-srisn, should be ap- liod every year, with a small great from the Legio- oture, in the purchase of more books, maps, globes, nd philosophical a porous. so well as on orrory ; ich

rtb_or remark thereon ; and so soon as a good sub-

50 or 60 by 80 rid of wliic I smell obsorvstor might and tho rouisindor loll for a ton

vacation, all the District Teocliors

oroctod °

the winters of the Control Academy, as well

tbo uoofol sciences, as upon I gums! oymsi tucking. to be carried out ii all the schools in this would give the better informed of tho oscbors an opportunity of dis laying their abilities ;

ose

books in the library, until the period would arrive the next season, to make known their P,,,‘,.eu There might also be an order of merit established ti; he conferred on the truly deserving ; or a third,’ or l''ﬂl'°' 0'00 Ihnn In)! yet in a District schools. This would enable wealthy settlements in Whig, souie advanced pu ils might reside ; to raise amou st einselves a sum in addition to that allowed by if” as a bounty for the services of such highly qualiﬁed teachers, while it we d be a great stimulant in the career of the teachers, to render themselves worthy of such bounty. This ‘training or_ lecture system would of course be_entailing an additional labour on the masters ofthe beiitrnl Academy, and for which they should be cuuipenimted. And if they be will. ing to give their able assistance to forward a project, such as I am endeavoring to describe; it will for ll“? P"°|°ﬂl. I_IIpply the place ofa Noriinil School for our present circumstances ; and will. ’ e co ol a your or two,_ bring all the present District teachers into _a uniforiniiy of system, and onsblo them to acquire in that ‘short space of time, more {Gilt ractical and scientiﬁc information in their call- ing. 1 an they could obtain in a quarter of a center _ihrough ii Normal school of the ordinary kind. An lfto accoinplisli an on so desirable, it required a longer period of vacation than the present, or two '“"°'d "7 0'19. it could be easil so arranged, so Well as a small grant to the teacliers, towards their support while attending it. The same amount of ltlleﬂl and teaching powers of mind, which ilio pre- sent lnlllllﬂfﬂ of the Central Academy possess: I re“ °°'"'"|C8d.. cannot be imported here, for the pur- pose of establishnig ii Normal school, from Europe or America, for three times the sum which these gentlenienlnt present receive. It is a well known ct. that in Literary Institutions, in old and well “’"l°‘l °°“"_"|¢W. a division of labour nikes place, the same as in. all other professions ; and hence it is, that while a high reward awaits the successful stu- dent in each or any department on his matriculation. I! 1! V_cry rarely. that a gentleman ever thinks of preparing liiinsel!‘ by such a course cfsovere drudge- of studies, as would qualify him to leach from tlic A B C of the English \lpiiabet, to the very best iiuthors in thelflreelr iind Laiin, Classics, and from the siniple unit in notation, to the highest powers of numbers in the ditfeieiiiial calculus, as well as to trace from the smallest point ofthe globe which we inha- ,b'It, the mighty works of the great Creator in the 1 I laiietaty si .~lOlll, ainidilie regions of illiniitsble ,"P‘”’e 3 and even yet after acconiplisliing so much, .10 have to claniber the rugged sleeps of Mount Par- l'_'°*55W'i and after liiiving llicre quiilfed copious], llrom the iiispired fountain of the muses, be able to sing in"unrival|ed str;iins—“ Tin: li1iLANcii: or , will —lit.It although such ii ram acis as Gold- sniitli so felicitously described in his Country School- ﬂllﬁlef. may occasionally be found, as I have al- ready observed, tlierenre no prospects which can be held out to him in Prince Edward Island, uul to the rcwiird _w ch will nwiiit liiin iit home, or lilrel to eiiduce hint to come and mllta his abode amongst us, to teach either the young or the old idea how to Let us therefore appreciate the talent! We P°“8Il Iii the present stall of the Central Academy, and avail ourselves of their scqnirements to the fullest extent ; and if to their Lectures on the scion- ces and general school system. you add Mr. Slark’s o_u Agriuliurol Clicmioiry ; the consequence will be, met you will very shortly have a class of Teachers not to be surpnssed—if equallod—in North America.

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The II. Ingram loft with the Mails morning in place of the Lady Le which, up to the time of our going to press, has not yet arrived from lticliibucto, owing no doubt to the high winds which would be severely felt on that coast.

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POLICE COURT.

May 19th, James Trainer. drunk and disor- derly ; convicted on confession. ﬁned 5s.; paid. James M‘Lcur, drunk, disorderly and insult- ing the Police ; convicted, lined 5s.

20th, Edward Wlielan, trackinon, forinsult- ing, abusing and using threatening lan cage to, and tearin the clothes of Thos. W. odd, Esq., C. C., w ile in the discharge of his duty as a J. P.; convicted, ﬁned 40s. with costs, or be imprisoned one month and find security to keep the peace for 12 months, himself in the sum of £30 and two sarotios in £15 each, and stand committed, till such fine and costs be paid and such securit 'ven.

21st, Susan Callaghan, drank and incapable of takin care of herself ; dismissed, when sober. May lst, John Thompson, an orticled sea- men of the Barque Isabel, now in the Port of Charlottetown, was arrested and brought be- fore Bis Worship the Me or and Councillor Davies, on the complaint 0 one of the owners of said Bur ue. for disobedience of the orders of Charles oer the chief mate of sold vessel. The evidence brought before the Court wont to show, that the cool: of the Isobel had become disabled in his hands, and that some of the men had in turn undertaken to . s at ; that on the morning of the 21st May, inst., hands were at work in the forward port of the vessel, some of then on tho forooostlo dock- tbst on the mate making enquiry whose turn it wosto cook, John Thain son and another of the crew spoke out plain y that they would not cook. Thompson adding that be had ship- pod as an seonioa and not as cook; whereupon the into ordered Thompson below, he immediately dl as li

mate followed at his heels and ordered him out, and Then a turn to boy; when the mats

possible information, through tbs study of tho

o struck on kicked him, then followed him out on the main dock and struck him twice sorose