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reyented Usie leer to the Coancil on! ky grt joss, DWE icey befused Ww xive | and ordered him Ud transuiit the sume |

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Oe rely of William of Orange was a letter, | ined by Dalrymple, in_w hich, upon the yecital that ° several of the chieftains and many of their clans have not taken the benefit of our gracious ity,” he guve orders fot a general imaseaere . | « Totbat end, We have given Sir Tuomas Livingston | orders (0 employ our treops (WwW hich we have already | cou’ enioutly posted.) to ent off these obstinate | rebels by all manner of howtility ; and we do require | you to give him your assisiance aud concurrence in | ali other things that may conduce to that service ; | and because these rebels, te aveid our forces, uaay | draw themselves, their families, goods, or cuttle, to} jurk oF be coucealed among their neighbours ‘| therefure, we require and authorise vou to emit a jamation to be published at the market-crosses | of these or the udjaceat shirey where the rebels reside, discharging Upou the highest penalties the | faw allows, ny re set, correspondence, or inter } communing with these rebels.’ ‘This monstrous | wandate, which was in fact the death-warrant otf fuauy theusands of lanocent people, he dishinehon being made of age of sex, would, in all human pro- | pabiiny, have been put inte execution, but for ie | rewoustrance of ove bigh-winded nobleman Lord | Caruarthea, afterwards Duke of Leeds, accidental ly becute? aware of the purposed massacre, and | liy rewoustrated with the movarch against | a measure Whica be deuouuc od as at once cruel aud | jnpe lic After wach discussion, William, influenced rateer by au apprehension that so mivage and | eweepiug an act might prove futul to bis new gutheriiy, than by any compunetion or hm rulse of humanity, ayreed to recall the weueral order, and to limit hinwelf, in the firet inetance, to a single deed of butchery, by way of testing the temper oi the nation. Svwe dificulty seems to have arisen in the selection of the fittest victim Both Keppoch | and Glercoe were bawed, but the personal runceur | of Secretary Dalrymple decided the doom of the latter. The Secretary wroie thas :>—" Argyle tells me that Glencue ball not wken the oath, ut which I rejoice. kt isa great work of ebarity to be exact | in rooting owt that damnable set.” The tinal iu- } structions regarding Glencoe, which were issued ou} }éth January i0¢%, are as follows:— i

“Witttam R.—As for M'lan of Glencoe and | that tribe, if they cun be well distinguished from the rest of the High landers, it will be proper for | public justice to exurpate that set of a. |

This letter is remarkable as being signed and eeantersizned by William alone, contrary to the esux! practice. ‘The secretary was no doubt desirous we ecreen bimself from after respousibility, aud was farther aware thatthe royal signatare would ensure @ mgorous execulion of the sentence.

Macdonald, or as he was more commonly designat ed, M lun of Glencoe, was the head of 4 consicera ble sept or branch of the great Cian Coila, and was lineally descended from the ancient Lords of the Isles, and from the royal fanuly of Scotland, the common ancestor of the Maccdouaids having espoused = daughter of Robert If. He was, according toa contemporary testimony. “a person of great in tegrity, hononr, good nature, and courage, and his Jovalty to his old master, King James, was such, that be continued in arms from Dandee's first appearing in the Higb lands till the fatal treaty that brought vn bis ruin.” In common with the other chiefs, he had omitted taking the benefit of the indemnity until he received the sanction of King James; but the copy of that document which was forwarded to him unfortunately arrived too lete. The weather was so excessively stormy at the time that there was no possibility of penetrating from Glencoe to lnverara, the place where the sheritf resided, before ihe expiry of the stated period ; and M'fan aceordingly adopted the only practicable mode of signifying bis submission, by waking his way with great ditfieulty to Fort-William, tben called Inverivehy, and tendering bis signature to the military governor there That officer was not authorised to receive it, bat at the entreaty of the chief, be gave him a certificate of his appearance und tender, and on New-year's day, 1692, M'lan reuched Inverara, where be produced that paper as evidence of his intentions, and prevailed _— the sheriff, Sic James Campbell of Ardkinglass, to adwinister the oaths requred. After that ceremony, which was immediately intimated to the Privy Council, bad been performed, the unfortunate

Jeman returued home, in the full conviction that he had thereby made peace with government for bimeelf and for hia clan. But bis doom was already sealed. :

A cempany of the Earl of Argyle’s regiment had been previously quariered in Glencoe. These men,

nh Cumpbelis, and hereditarily obnoxious to So lnabes de, Camerons, and other of the loyal clans, were yet countrymen, und were kindly and

itably received. Their captain, Robert Camp

bell of Gleulyon, was connected with the family of Glencoe through the marriage of a niece, and | was resident uuder the roof of the chief. And yet| this was the very troop selected for the horrid service. :

Special instractious were seat to the major of the regiment, one Duncanson, then quartered at Bal. | jacbulish, a morose, brutal, and savage man, W bo} accortingly wrote to Campbell of Gleulyon in the | following terms :—

“ Batracnorts, 12 February, 1692. |

“ Stn,—You are hereby ordered to fall upon the) rebels, the M’Donalde of Glencoe, and putt all to the sword auder seventy. You are to have special cave that the old fox and Lis sous dove upon to arcount escupe your hands. You ure lo sectire all! the avenues that ho mah estape. This you are w | put in execution att live © eluck in the moruiny ;

iselyyand by that time or very shortly after u Fi strive to be att you with a stronger party. if 1) dve not Come to you at five, vou are ‘not to tarry for we but to tall un. This i by the king's special)! coumaand, for the good and saiety of the country, that these miscreants be cutt off rvot aud branch. dee that this be putt in execution without feud or | favour, else you may expect to be treated as not] true to the king’s government, nora mun litt tocarry | & Commission ia the king's service. Expecting you

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Aud the fires were rising tast. When thy noble futher bouuded To the reseue of his men, And the slogan of our kindred Pealed thronghont the startled glen. When the herd of frantic women Stumbled through the midnight snow, With their fathers’ houses blazing, And their dearest dead below ! Oh, the herror of the tempest, As the tlashing drift was blown, Crimeoned with the couflagration, And the roofs went thundering dewn! Oh, the prayers—the prayers and curses hat together winged their flight From the maddened bearts of many Through that long and wofal night! Till the fires bogan to dwindle, And the shots wrew fuint and few, And we heard the foeman’s efallenge, Oaly in a tair halloe. Till the sileuce ouce more settled O'er the gorges of the glen, Broken only by the Cona Viunging through its naked den. Slowly from the mountain summit Was the drifting veil withdrawn, And the ghastly valley glinunered In the gray December dawn. Better bad the morning never Vawned upon our dark despair! Black amidst the common whiteness Rose the spectral ruins there : But the sight of these was nothing, More that wrings the wild dove’s breast, When she searches for her offspring Round the relics of her nest, For, in many a spot, the tartan Peered above the wintry heap, Marking where a dead Macdonald Lay within his frozen sleep Tremblingly we scooped the covering From each kindred victim's bead, And the living lips were barning On the cold ones of the dead. And [ leit them with their dearest— Dearesi charge bad every one— Left the maiden with her lover, Left the met.er with ber son. 1 alone of all was mateless, Far more wretched I than they, For the snow would not discover Where my lord and husband lay. But I wandered up the valley, Till I found him lying low, With the gush upon lis bosom And the frown upon his brow— Till I found him lying murdered, Where he wooed me long ago!

Woman's weakness shall not shame me! Why should I have tears to shed? Could I rain them down like water, O my hero, ov thy head— Could the ery of lamentation Wake thee from thy silent sleep, Could it set thy heart a throbbing, It were mine to wail and weep! But I will not waste my sorrow, Lest the Campbell women say That the daughters of Clauranald Are as weak aud frail as they. I had wept thee, badst thou fallen, Like our fathers, on thy shield, When a host of English foemen Camped upon a Scottish tield— I had mourned thee, hudst thou perished With the foremost of his name, When the valiant and the noble Died xround the dauntless Graeme ! Bat | will not wrong thee, husband, With my unavailing cries, Whilst thy cold and mangled body, Stricken by the traitor, lies; Whilst be counts the gold und glory That this hideous night has woa, And his heart is big with triumph At the murder he has done. Other eyes than mine shall glisten, Other bearts be rent in twain, Ere the heath belJs on thy hillock Wither in the autumn rain. Then I'll seek thee where thou sleepest, And I'll veil my weary head, Praying fora place beside thee, Dearer than my bridal bed. And I'll give thee tears, my husband, If the tears remain to me, When the widows of the foemen, Cry the coronach for thee !

—_——__--+-6<- For THE EXAMINER.

TO HIS EXCELLENCY JHE LIEUT. GO- VERNOR—THE HONORABLE THE LE- GISLATIVE COUNCIL — THE HONOR- BLE THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.

The huuble Petition of the undersigned Inhabitante

of King’s County, sheweth— That your Petitioners, grateful to Parliament for the arrangement by which they, or many of

them, have been relieved of all outstanding claims |

against them as tenants, and placed in a fair posi-

| tion to become proprietors, have to regret extreme-

ly the absence of convenient markets, or good roads leading to those already existing; in conse- quence of which they find it to be a perfeet hard- suip, at least, to meet their annual engagements with Government at the proper season, and ia the shape required.

That were the Government prepared (or au- thorised, if need be, by Parhament) to accept pay- meat of the annual “ instalments,”

ceipt of said instalments.”

That this arrangement night readily be rendered | stil more advantageous to them in the market |

will not faill in the fuldiling hereof as you love which it weuld rapidly create for the disposal ot yourself, I subserive these with my hand. | their entire surplus produce, inasmuch as the Go- [ “Roserni Duscansoy.”

i lexecution, would be certain to attract ready pur-

| vernment Grain Commissioners, appointed for its |

“Por their Majesty's service. To Captain Kobert Campbell ef Glenlyon.”

This order was too literally obeyed. At the) appointed hour, when the whule inbabitants of the | glen were asleep, the work of murder begaa. M'lan | was one of the first who fell. Drammond’s narra tive fills up the remainder of the dreadful story.

“They then served all within the family in the | same manner, without distinctiun of age or person. | Iu a word, for the Norror of that execrable butehery | must give pain to the reader, they left nove alive! bat a young ehild, who being frightened with the | noine of the guns, and the diemal shrieks and cries | of its dying parents, whom they were a-murdering, |

hold of Captain Campbell's knees aud wrapt | iteelf within his cloak ; by which, chaneing to move | compassion, the captaia inclined to have saved it, | but one Drummond, an officer, arriving about the} breuk of day with more troops, commanded it to be | shot by w file of musqueteers. Nothing could be | more shocking and horrible than the prospect of | these houses bestrewed with mangled bodies of the dead, covered with blood, and resuunding with the |

of wretcbes in the last agonies of life.

“Two sous of Glencoe'’s were the only persons that escaped in that quarter of the country ; for, —— jealous of sowe ill-desigus from the beha- viour of the soldiers, they stole from their beds a few minutes before the tragedy beyan, and chancing to overhear two of them discoursing plainly of the matter, they endeavoured to have advertived their | father, bat finding that impracticable, they ran to | the other end of the country and alarmed the inha- | bitants. There was anotheraccident that contridu- | ted much to their safety; for the night was so excessively stormy and tempestuous, that four hundred soldiers, who were appointed to murder these people, were stopped in their march from Inverlochy, and could not get up till they bad time | tosave themselves. To cover the deformity of s»| dreadful a sight, the soldiers burned all the houses) to the ground, after having ritled them, carried awey | nine hundred cows, two hundred horses, numberless | berds of sheep and goats, and every thing else that |

to these miserable people. Lamentable was the euse of the women and children that} escaped the butchery. The mountains were covered | with a deep suow, the rivers impassable, storm and | tempest tilled the air, and added to the horrors and | darkness of the night, and there were no houses to | shelter them within many miles.”

Such was the awful massacre of Glencoe, an event which has left an indelible and execrable | gtain upon the memory of William of Orange. The records of Indian warfare can hardly afford a)

lei instance of atrocity ; and this deed, coupled | with his deliberate treachery in the Darien busi-| ness, whe Seotland was for a time absolutely | ruined, is mt to acevunt for the little estima-

| chasers or orders for much more grain than would |

be required under their commission.

That, with the view to render this business of | easy execution, as well as to meet the most press | ing want of the place, should the Legislature au- |

| thorise at once the early construction of a good | : nti | been the means of interrupting our regular coir- of the amount of the public debt, as a sinking fund, | 28, from an intelligent American geatleman now

Plank Road from the Head of Saint Peter's Bay | to Grand River Bridge—a brief distance of some | seven miles, and throughout which every nataral | facility presenta itself{—the undersigued could de- posit then all their surplus produce at the latter point, which, owing to its safe and favorable situ- ation for shipping, should soon become a very po-) pular place of export.

That by accepting the labor of the people, in payment of the aforesaid “ instalments,” on said road, the entire expense, perhaps, of its coustruc- | tion would be obviated as an item of the public | estimates, whilst the revenues should be largely | improved incidentally with the increased prospe- rity growing out of this good work.

Wherefore, &e. &e. Ke.

ee Che Examiner,

Charlottetown, March 24th. 1862.

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY.

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M‘Aulay; Messrs. Rameay, J. Yeo, Montgomery, Howat, Davies—-13. The original motion was then agreed to.”

Mr. Longworth moved the following addition to Mr. Haviland’s resolution before the question was finally put upon it:—

“A person ownirg lands, partly freehold and partly leasehold, amounting together in value to One Hundred Pounds currency, shall be entitled to the qualification referred te in the feregoing resolution.”

The next resolution on this subject was moved by Mr. Haviland on Saturday, and is as follows :—

“ Resolved, Thata Candidate for election to the Legislative Council shall be thirty years of age, | a British subject, aud atieast five years a resident | in the Colony prier to the teste of the writ of | election,

“Hon. the Speaker moved in amendment thereto, that the Candidate be three years a resi- | det in the Colony.

“ Forthe amendment—Hons. the Speaker, Coles, Woaelan, Perry, Thornton, Kelly, Wightman ; Messrs. Davies, Cooper, Sinclair, Sutherland, Owen—12. Against it: Hons. Haviland, Hensley, M’Aulay, Yeo, Col. Gray, Longworth, Pope, Laird; Messrs. Ramsay, Douse, Moutgomery, Beer, Howat. J. Yeo—14. The original motion was then agreed to.”

It 1s evident from the tenor of the foregoing re- solutions, that if ever the elective Council Bill should go inte operation ~ which we very much doubt—the majority of the people will have no control over it. The Council, as it now stands, is infinitely preferrable to what it would be under

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' : | Tue Devee to Pay iN Hesse Cassc..— There bas beco the very deuce to pey in Hesse Cassel. As to the British public, the majority of their number is in a pleasing state of uncertainty as to where Hesse Cassel is, and who the poten- tate may be who rules over it. There are somany Hesses. ‘There is the Hessian Landgrave who keeps the gambling-house, and the Hessian Prince who is about 20 become a son-in-law of England. ‘There is one magnifico who resides at Darmstadt, and is a Duke; and ‘then there is the Elector oi Hesse, who has lately got into such a terrible trouble, and made such a pother in the minor German mind. ‘The, capital of the Electorate— although we are not at all sure about it—is Cas- sel. Beyond this, and an indistinct idea that all things Hessian are in some way connected with boots, Hesse fades away into a kind of shadowy land ef pumpernickel, saur-kraut, bad oysters, Hof-Kammerers, armies twenty-seven strong,with as many field-marshels as soldiers, royal revenues of five hundred a year, and coats of urms with five hundred quarterings—a kind of German coun- try of Cockayne split up into Wolfeubuttels and Schaumberg Lippes, and Saxe Everythings. Un- less we are misled by the Almanach de Gotha, electoral Hesse is at this moment ruled bya sovereiga called Frederick William I., who as- vended the electoral chair in 1847, and who is now in the sixtieth year of his age. Very lately the Elector of Hesse, perambulating his palace, strolled into his wife’s boudeir, and discovered her Effulgeacy the Electress—if that be her proper title—greedily devouring tae contents of the Prus- sian Punch, the current number of which con- tained some comments not altogether complimen- tary to her lord. His Serene Excrescence—ii that be his proper title—felt, like Mrs. Bond of the nursery ballad, and in re the sage and ontons,

the elective principle based on the foregoing re-

tailing enormous expense on the Culony. We have not time for further comment now, but will

On Saturday afternoon, immediately after the adjournment, a grosa outrage was offered to the Hon. Mr. Coles by the Colonial Secretary and his brother the member for Bedeque. It appears that Mr. Coles used some language in debate, in

the Messrs. Pope. Instead of having disposed of the matter while the House was sitting, the

. : j have always beer remarkable for upholding their solutions. It would certainly then be the subser | matrimonial rights by the strong band. Frederick | vient tool of the proprietary clique, besides ev- |

take aw early opportunity to retura te the subject. | term a “ fackeuse explication” with the Electress,

self-defence, which was particularly distasteful to |

in “a very very great rage.” German potentates

William I. of Prussia used to cane his wife and birch his daughter Wilhelmina. In emulation of this famous example, Frederick William I. of Hesse proceeded to have what our Freuch allies

but what in England subjects uubelted husbands to the risk of six months’ imprisonment and hard labour. Bluebeard went to work—whether he corrected his consort with his seeptre—if be have oue—or, according to the spirit of the old common law ot England, with a stick no thicker than his thumb. At all events, he proceeded to the most womis- takeably violent exereixe of the Faustrecht. | Piercing screams were heard from the electoral! japartments, and an adventerous flunkey ventured to the scencof contention. Here the story grows

We don’t know exactly how the Hessian |

AMERICAN AFFALRS.

The battle of Roanoake Island is acknow- ledged by the Confederates to bave resulted in a most complete and ovorwhelming defeat of their forces, Tue whole army are made prisoners—all their armed vessels captured or destroved—Elizabeth city deserted and burn- ed—such is their own account of the disaster which bas befallen them. The number of prisoners is stated at 2500 or 3000, which probably includes only the troops upon the island. It has been reported that General Wise, with about 5000 men had taken up a’ position at a place called Nagg’s Lead on a | narrow strip of land which separates the At- lantie from Roanoake Svund, to the westward

\PTUR) =e AT ‘ ' whe i. son: Sant e2. nc eae from Capt. rew Lurde‘t, states the Traveller, master of the ih Sogn ighosl Beetmen ; Messrs. Joseph Sou , giving an account op hen eee, and destruction by the Prvatect Sumter, Gibralter on the Jath nt. The letter, which gives the first particulars of the atfuir reevived in this Country, is dated Gibraltar, Jan, 21, and is as follows; “T jeft Messina on the 29th of December, and on the moruirfy of Jan. 19, I was in the Straits of Gibraltar, within a mile and a half of Gata Point. At daylight made a steamer showing the Aweri- can ensign, Whieh came alvngside aud ordered me to heave to. She sent her boat on board with orders fur me to take wy papers and go on board her. The steamer proved to be the rebel steamer Sumter. After examining my papers, the captain

of which only a few miles distant is Roanoake Island) What has become of this body of troops does not uppear from the aceounts re- | ceived, although it appears that their com-| mander retired beyond the reach of danger. | The New York World thus remarks upon | the recent capture of Fort Mellenry :— «The capture of the fort, which is situated | just upon the Tennessee border, secures us a

of the rebellion, Manasses excepted. over the command of the Memphis and Ohio

communication between the two strongholds, except by the extremely circuitous route through North Alabama and North Mississ- ippi, over a portion of the great Virginia and south-western route, already overburdened by its army service. ‘Lie Confederate forees at Columbus nuwber about fifty thousand inen, and those at Bowling Green about forty thousand. A considera! le portion of these two armies consists of sixty days’ men, o! little discipline or practical efficiency. Nei- ther of the twostrong :olca cin space anything like the number of good soldiers that would be required te retake Fort Henry and drive | back the irun gunboats, that now ran freely up the railroad bridge across the Tennessee. If the heavy detail should be made from Co- lumbus, 1t would at once expose that point to be euptured by our large force at Cairo, acting in cenjunetion with gunbyats on the Mississippi. if the detail should be made from Bowling Green, General Buell’s large army, now at Musfordsville and vicinity,

member for Bedeque rushed at Mr. Coles, in a most threatening and violent attitude, the moment the House was adjourned— demanding him to re- peat his words, if he dared; while the Colonial Secretary—convulsed with rage, and his counte- nance black with passion—called repeatedly on his brother James to “wring the nose”’ or neck of Mr. Coles, accompanying his vociferations with eurses and foul abuse. Mr. Coles was perfectly unmoved during the whole scene; and neither “ James” nor William H. Pope had the courage to attempt to put their threat in execution. Quietness was restored after a little time by the Speaker ordering the Colonial Secretary to leave

and making nearly as much use of the floor as if)

the Speaker’s reprimand will not be wholly lest | on this shameless individual.

| The House have been engaged during the whole | of this day, (Monday), in discussing the priner- | ples of the famous Award—Coi. Gray having in- | troduced a resolution, recommendiug the passing | of a Bill te confimn the Award, without entering

| into any details upon it. Although the majority ' openly advocate the confirmation of the Award, | they do not hesitate to express their opinions | privately that their legislation on the subject will ' be perfectly nugatory. | that the system of hunibug with which the Gevern- ment inaugurated their adininistration, will be ! practised to the fullest extent in reference to the | Land Question, as we have already shown on!

Indeed, there is no doubt,

| many occasions; and we have now more abundant |

| proof than ever to establish the duplicity of the

outstanding | Government in reference to it, which we shall do and still due upon their farms as balance of pur-| o¢ an early day. chase, ix grain, your petitioners should truly con- | oe sider this an inestimable advantage to them, whiist jt to the Government it would insure the regular re}

Sa ee TO CORRESPONDENTS.

| sane | i

“Dreamer,” “W. D. Stewart,” on the Montague

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| Meeting, “ One of the People,” in reference tothe | Award; aud “Observer,” hare been reevived. —_ ——- - ~ 4p -—-- -—

We have had no Mails from abroad since our last issue. The violent storms which commenced about ten days ago, and by which the roads have been most effectually blocked up, hare no doubs |

inunieation with the postal departments in the ad- | joining Colonics, — +p

Catuotrc Youne Men’s Literary Insti-} Turer.—The leeturer being unavoidably absent on | Thursday evening last, a debate took place on | Education. The audience was large and respect- | able; and eight or nine gentiemen present entered upon the discussion of matters relating to education generally, and the educational system af the Co- lony, with considerable spirit and ability. Some of the points advanced and discussed were as fol- lows:—Ist. That it is absurd to establish expensive Celleges, where there exists no intermediate | schouls between them and the districts. 2nd. That |

County.

teachers of district schools should receive as high salaries as male teachers.

Tue principal part of the time of the House during the past week was occupied in receiving

petitions, which elicited little or no discussion. |

[he Committve appointed last Session to report on the several petitions then laid before the House, praying for more stringent regulations in the Li- cense Law, presented their report, which was agreed toon Thursday last. The following pro_ visions are to be embodied in the new law :—

“ Licenses in the City of Charlottetown, here- after to be issued, to be subject to the approbation of a majority of the Council, instead of two only, as at present.

“ Every year when a party holding a License pays his renewal fee, he must also preduce a cer-

| tifieate sigued by two neighbouring Magistrates,

Son in whieli the name of the “ great Whig deliver- | that he has during the preeeding twelve months

or ” is sili regarded iv the valleys of the North.

Do not lift him from the bracken, Leave him lying whee he fell— Better bier ye cannot fashion: None beseems him half so well, As the bare and broken heather, And the bard and trampled sod, Whence his angry soul ascended To the judgment-seat of God! Winding-sheet we cannot give bim— Seek no mantle for the iead, Save the cvid and spotiess covering, Showered fron: heaven upon bis head. Leave his broadsword, as we found it, Bent and broken with the blow, That, before be died, avenged him On the foremost of the foe. Leave the blood upon his besom— Wash not off that sacred stain: Let it stitfeu on the tartan, Let his wounds unelosed remain Till the day when he shall show At the thrope of God on bigh, When the murderer and the murdered Meet before their Judge's eye!

ane shoald not weep, my ebildren! ve it to the fuint and week; are but a woman's Weapol— wm betit a maiden’s cheek. Wheanaa't of Maedona'd! ‘ ou, bis orphan heir— Not in shawe, byt stabaloes honour, wo oy slaughtered father there. Ana shine “oi when years are over, is And thy {aot i ewift and steady On the mountain and the nuir~ aero saecl w. te Tit the Ghee vompemee or the ruce that slew th ! Till im deep and dark Giesben”” Kise » louder shriek of wo, Than at midnight, from their eyrie Beured the eagles of Glenvoe. *

coudneted his Tavern m an orderly and respecta- ble manner.

“ Confirmed drunkards to be treated as Luna- tics, and their property put in charge of a Com- mittee appointed by the Master of the Rolls.”

On Thursday afternoon the House went into Committee ou the Despatch of the Duke of New- eastle, relating to the alterations to be made in the Legislative Council Bill, which despatch was late- iy published in this paper. A very warm debate arose on this subject, which was continued until Saturday. The principal point in dispute was, as to the qualification of persons entitled to vote for mewpbers of the Legislative Council,—the Govern- ment party contending that electors sbould possess property to the amount of £100 before they could vote for members of Coaneil, while the Liberals contended that property to the amount of £50, the same as qualified a meinber of the House of Assembly, should be deemed quite sufficient for an elector. The views of the majority on this sub-

posed by the Hon. Mr. Haviland :—~

“ Resolved, That any male person of the age of Tweaty-one years or upwards, who shali own a treebold or leasehold qualification of the value ot One Hundred Pounds currency, and shall have been in possession of the same tor a period of at least iwelve months previous to the teste of the writ of Election, shall be entitled to vote for a Member to serye in the Legislative Council of this Island.” Mr. Coles moved to amepd the above by sub- stituting “fifty” for “one hundred” pounds, but the amendment was lost on the following division :

“Por Mr. Coles’ eS Ts Coles. Wightman, Kelly, Hensley, Whelan, 1bornton, oo, Messrs. Owen, Sutherland, Sinclair, Cooper—11. Against it: Hons. Col. Gray, Ha-

oe * Mewoirs of fir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel.

viland, Yeo, Pope, Longworth, Laird, the Speaker,

ject are embodied in the following resolution, pro- |.

apeakers. forth some interesting and important facts, and was courteously couducted throughout.

Ou Tharsday evening next Mr. Donaid James MeDonald, of St. Danstan’s College, will lecture en “The Progress of the Mechanical Arts.”

Pressrterian Tea Meetine.—The Tea Meet- ing held in the Temperance Hall on Friday evening last, and given by the Ladies of the Queen Square Presbyterian Church, was quite a successful affair. Above three hundred persons were in attendance, among whom were several members of the Lexis- lature. The tables were tastefully and abundantly spread with good things to satisfy the most fastidious taste, and the tea had the merit—a rare merit in pub- lic tea meetings—of being hot and strong. After the tables having been removed, the Hon. Donald Montgomery took the chair, and the Rev. Mr. Fal- coner opened the intellectual part of the proceed- ings in an easy humorous manner, showing that sach meetings were beueficial, inasmnch as they promoted friendly feeling and that union which should be the aim of all true Christians. Revds. Messrs. Barker, Nicholson, Davis and Knight followed in the same strain, and with out any effort to be oe eloquent were very happy in their remarks. e may re- mark that Mr. Falconer was warmly complimented by the speakers on the spirit as well as the style of his preaching in the Queen Square Church. Several pieces of masic sung by the choir, und ac- companied by the Melodeon, added greatly to the pleasure of the audience. Hons. Messrs. Longworth and Coles made a few appropriate observations. Mr. Laird and Mr. W. MeGill made the concluding speeches. The former gentleman s ke ably on the influence of the ladies, the latter eloquently on the blessings cf civil and religious toleration. :

A very pleasant evening was thus spent, besides realizing tue handsome sum of £13.

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Snockinc Murper.—A horrible and heinous murder took place on Wednesday in Cavetown district, Washington county, Md A respectable wan named Frederick Smith had for several months been paying bis addresses to Miss Agnes Tracey, a young lady of very respectable parentage, but with no suceessful result. On Wednesday she

bour, haying some rice in her hand. Smith met her at a distance from any house, and urged his suit in strong terms. On ber refusi Sinith drew a revolver, and saying she should never warry avy one else, deliberately fired, the ball taking effect in her left breast, killing her instantly. The murderer, taking the rice from her, carri it to the parents of sick child, and told them the above details of his hellish act, on whose evi- dence he was arrested, and now awaits his trial in the jail at Hagerstown. The murderer had always mai an excellent character for

sobriety and morality.

long since observed that Mr. Secretary Pope ap-| paper, or such subst pears to be dead to al! sense of shame in thrusting | himself perpetually on the notice of members of and-puil story was hashed up that the Elector’s

the Honse,even while they are engaged in debate, | toot had caught in a carpet, and that his fali was | ' due to the carelessness of the fvotman.

\ tosbring the war to a successful close, there will

' ) UICus *

7th. That musie should |

was on her way to visit the sick child of a neigh- pa

od | beeu despatched by the last mail

mystified. Perhaps the flankey was a kind ot 'Teutonic Ruy Bias, with the livery of a John | Thomas but with the soul of a Cid. Perhaps he sympathized with beauty in distress, repudiated | his plash and asserted his dignity, and with retri- | butive fists impressed on the Elector the truth of | the apopthegm that “ He who would litt his hand i against a woman, save in the way of kindness, is | unworthy the name of a man,” Perhaps Frede- i rick William essayed to kick the audacivus menial ‘trom the apartmenut—these pantomime potentates lare always kicking their subjects—and stumbied ‘or tripped himself up in doing so. Under any | vireumstances there arose what in the Gailic | tongue is termed a “ rize,” andin ours a * shindy.”’ |4 table and a mirror were overturned and | smashed, and, worse than this, the Electoral body ‘was brought to the ground, the Electoral counte- | nance was lacerated and bruised, and the Elfecto-

the fl he 8 Assembly, where ras |

cor of the Hou e of Assembly, where be was | ral entity had to be conveyed to bed, there to

only an intruder, having no seat there. We have) pave its anguish assuaged by vinegar and brown | , 5 : ? 2:

titutes for these homely medi- |

sicians of Hesse Cassel; ™ ** . : rs Acock.| *@#in directing the attention of electricians and

|caments as the court phy } ‘ | could provide for so illustrious a patient.

lt was)

' «as | said even that grave jurisconsults had been called | he were privilezed to holda seat there. We hope in to know whether the neglectful lacquey could |

not be criminally prosecuted. But the real truth | of the matter soon oozed out; and it became | known that the palace servants had been threat: | ened, not with prosecution, but with dismissal, if, hey revealed the real case of the down-tumbling | of this Royal Humpty-Dumpty. The seeret was, | however, as well kept as palace secrets generally | are, and at this moment all Germany is chackling at the misadventures of the Elector of Hesse, and | the burlesque tragedy which has just been played at Cassel. A political moral, not altogether de- void of significance, may be derived trom this tempest in the Electoral teapot. Are not these | and similar scandals which have of late years| occurred among the halécrowned heads of Ger- many, calculated to shake our faith ia the wisdom of the Germanic Federationg which coaiinues to

‘tolerate the existence of these truimpery little

principalities, bringing power inte contempt aud monarehical institutions into derision ? —— re

TAXATION UN THE Srares.—The Philadelpiia

| Daily News thus moralizes on the subject :—

“We have taken a calin and deliberate view of this question, and while we are satisfied that it is true policy to act promptly apd evergetically, we do not think it wise to iiapose greater burthens | ou the people now suffering froin the derange-

lmeat of ordinary business, than the emergency

makes necessary; and we are sure that it is not

| patriotic to scare timid men by exaggerating the |

li, we suppose at,

wants of the Government.

be wanting $1,000,000,000, and if it be all procured

lat the average rate of the recent loan, it will be}

seen that the aanual interest on that sum, at7 3-10 per centum will amount to $73,000,009 ; and

we have frequentty heard it asserted in Congress

that an economical administration of the Govern- would reduce its ordinary expenmes to $5°,- GUG,P0C.

If, therefore, to these sums we add one per cent.

say $10,000,000, we shall uave an aggregate of 133,000,000, which is all the present Congress should be expected to raise, and as such a sum ix, it will not be a serious burthen to the country when peace and prosperity are restered to the people.

Ye cannot understand the efforts of the New York Press, unless they be intended to add to the embarrassment of Congress,aud to create panic in the minds of the peopie. The English element which pervades that city, ef course, sympathizes with their home Government; and with the pros- pect of trouble between the two countries, it will bear a little watching.”

——-——-~— | SouUTHERN LAMENTATIONS OVER TIE FALL|

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4th. That the Normal Schoo! is an wn-} foreed to give in irom sbeer exhaustion, after “the ae eee ee Oe en Sth. That per-| most desperate fighting,” and says that the result jngs of his nearest relatives. ‘These details would