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CUARLOTTETOWN, P, E.1L., AUGUST 17, 1858. LLL LR L OLE ELLE el LILLE LLL OOO OD eXAMINER OFFICE,

Tuesday Morning.

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Nearty twiee as auuch matter having been put in type as Wat sufficient to fill our preseut No., our issue of this weck ' . bys ro

has been consequentiy delayed, and some articles which we

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were anxious to have published are of course omitted.

the view of avoiding such omissions, it is our intention to!

pudlish a much Jarger sheet in the ensuing Fall, or as soon 2 oo : co

as the requisite new Printing Machinery shall arrive here

for that purpose.

‘ +" 7 ‘ y ‘Ty, i T > f 1 LATEST NEWS FROM EUROPE.

Aw English Mail was received here on Friday last, with dates to the 3lst ult. We give below the following extracts from our latest papers, relating principally to the affairs in the Hust, as being the most important part of the news received.

INDIA AND CHINA.

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decimating the several corps engaged in the suppression of the rebellion—an apprehension which we have frequently expressed, and which anhappily is fully realized. ‘

All over the North-West the troops are being housed, ‘and ' eease until the fieree heat has a little abated.

operations Tbe sun has been more deadly than the enemy. itry the endurance of Englishmen to the utmost, the season ‘has been such as bas not been known since 1833. dn | Bengal, on the loth inst., one clergyman in Caleutta buried

48 Hoglishmen, chiefly sailors. In one ship the captain, ehiet’ mute, and 26 men had all apoplexy at once. Nine

wen from Fort William were buried one morning from the

j}same cause.

after, have 200 men unfit for duty from immense boils. Colonel Stratton, of Her Majesty's 77th, just arrived from Australia, marched his men to Dumdumh, eight miles, with ‘their stocks on. An bour after he and his instructor 1m rifle practice were both dead from apoplexy. /country paragraph after paragraph announe so many men at such a place from apoplexy. ithe rains are setting iv, and in a month it will bee | tively cool. Notwithstandiyg the boast that has been made ‘of the very excellent arrangements for the provisianing ol ‘our men ez route for the upper provinces, complaints of a ‘serious nature have reached us from several quarters. The Light Cavalry recruits, which lately came out from agland. were sent on to Allahabad, and were arriving there by bullock train at the rate of 100 aday. A correspondent

es the deaths of Fortumately, gin para

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Her Majesty's 19th, at Barrackpore, who coal inearly all ander cover, and who are most eafefully looked |

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mention to their Lordships, the landable conduct of all the officers and men under my orders, J have also much gratifica~ tion im redordtng the cordial co-operation of my gallant colleague land of the forces under his command. We have been actuated | by the sole desire to carry into effect the orders of our respective ‘raneements are making for a further advance up the river | towards ‘Trentsin.—I have, &c., eS) M. Seymour, Rear-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief,

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| TurKkry.—Two hundred persons implicated in the Jeddah massacre

; j “— ‘have been arrested. Turkey remonstrates against tho continued oe

| pation of Perim by the British.

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THE DISMISSALS.

Tory indignation in Charlottetown bubbles and boils as much

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‘as ever about the late dismissals. The official sacrifice of an | . . . - ; ‘insignificant and unpopular Road Commissioner in King’s |

County, or the overthrow of a useless and treacherous Collector | yoted for the Government from whom they had received

ef Excise at Belfast, was nothing in their estimation to the heavy blow and great discouragement which they have received from the removal of the late Postmaster General. By

‘this act of the Government their cup of indignation seems to ‘have been filled to overflowing. Ever and anon their feelings ‘find vent in fitful and terrible gusts of passion, whereupon ‘they more than rival ** our army in Flanders ’’ by the number ‘and unction of their maledictions against the Government ; ‘and when the fit goes off, like storms in the physical world,

. ‘ . oo ee ee m ‘ ig . ia i 8 ae . J . ne Sm H. Rose ar Gwattor—Buistiaxt Vicrory Atv) of the Delhi Gazette states that every batch arrived with at) there are long and plaintive sighings borne on the dying breeze

Nawascunce—Deatu or tHe Meutvie.—The following ‘Velezram’ has been received at the Foreign Office, from Acting Consul-General Green :

Avexanpria, Jury 23, L858.—Sir Hugh Rose reached Gwalior on the 16th June from the south-west ; Brigadier

‘Jeast one dead man, and that officers made great complaints

of the poor fellows not being able to get anything) 0a the road between Gopeegunge and Allahabad, This state of the weather has producel.at Qalcutta a great deal of aickness, and the mortality during the last ten days has been very:

Smith approached it fromthe south-east. Karly on the 17th

a sexies of severe conflicts ensued on both sides of the town. | ments aud most of the schools have been elosed it being)

On the 19h the enemy were beaten and dispersed in all di- | rections, and the town captured by us. The fort was next | day found abandoned. ‘Tae Maharajah was conducted in| state to his palace on the 19th. Four of our officers have fallen. During the four days we had edptured 27 guns, many elephants, and a vast amount of treasure. Tae fugi- tives had the Agra foree in front; Napier on their rear ; | Kose and ours on their right and left flank. A large forge | under General Roberts, left Nusseerabad on the 29th, in the }

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direction of Jeypore, waere the mautineers are supposed to | be assemling. | On the 13th, General Sir Hope Grant gained a brilliant victory at Nawabgunge, bear Luckuow, capturing a large | number of gans, aud driving the enemy beyond the Gogra. G. the Uth the eelebrated Moulvie, for whom £5,000 had been offered, wag killed. Oude continues much disturbed, ‘fie Governor-Cieneral, on receiving Lord Ellenborough’s |

heavy amongst Europeans. Several of the public establish-

absolutely dangerous to move about even ina closed earriage during the day. The tanks in some parts of the town haye completely dried up, whilst all are much lower tan they have been for the last twenty years.

| season is considered uncommonly healthy, (be mortality among

among them being actually less than at awy ether season of the year, Pi

CHINA. CAPTURE OF THE FORTS AT THE PIE-HO.

Desspatches from Admiral Seymour.

Apmirnatry. Jury 27, 1858 —A Despatch, of whieh the fol- lowing is an extract, lias been received by the Lordy Coumis-

isioners of the Admiralty from Rear-Adimjral Sie Michae!

Seymour, K.C.B, the Comwmander-in-Uhiet of her@Mejosty’s ships and vessels va the Hast India station, dated May 21, 1858 : —l accordingly Jost no tine in consulung wiih Reay-Admiral Bigault de Genouilly, and making the necessary arrangements,

. © : . j £ « : ‘ s f £ ‘pp 2 1? : : = desp teh, issued a proclamation, giving amnesty to all but | and the same afternoon we proceeded with all the Raghsh gun

wurderers. ‘The results are not yet kuown.

CoLusion Berween THe Turks aND Moytenecarns.— Despatches have been received to the effect that the Turks, to the number of 3,000, had attaeked the Montenegrins on their owa territory. Some men were killed. Prince Danilo found himself under the necessity of bringing up reinforee- men's. The Porte disavows these acts, and has sizuified to

boats across the bar to the mou'h of the river, whége the gun- vessels and French gunboats (Nrnrod, Cormorant, Mitraille, Fusee, Dragonae, Avalanche) had been previously stationed, to give weight to the negotiations. The Slaney, F1%%!, Staunch. and Bustard conveying our landing parties, and the Leven and Opossum those of the French. From the arrival of the ambas- sadors on the 14h April, the Chinese have used every exertion to strengthen the Fort at the entrance of the Pie-flo. Barth works, sandbag batteries, and purapets for the heavy gin calls,

the lowers that it had sent formal orders to forbid any re-|

petition of them. BAST INDIA HOUSE DESPATCII. The fullowing telegram was reeeived at the India House on Taursday, July 20, 1858, dated Malta :—

Oung.—sir LH. Grant, on the 13th of June, attacked a! isrg> body of rebels at Nawabgnnge. on the Tesabad road, |

and, afier a hard fight, dispersed them, killing GUU men and capturing six guns, ihe Rajah of Airowles, one of their lealers, beiug among the slain. attacked ia his fort at Shahjunge, but the rebels have as yet made no impression upon it. The Rajah has applied to Go- verniment fur ammunition and funds, which will be supplied to him.

Tue districts of Azimghur and Ghazeepore have been again disorganized], owing to the presence of bands of rebels from Judespore. Tae main body, under Ummer Singh, on the approach of Brigadier Douglas, abandoned Ghuamer, and fled southwards, but several lirge parties recrossed the Gauges, and made for Oude, burning most of the Govern- ment thoughs (?) and fustreels (?), aud plundering many large towns on their way.

Gonuckrore Disraict.—The column under Major Cox, whic relieved the Rajah Wu Bansee, joined by the followers of that chief, pursued the rebels under Mchumee Dassain across the froniier into Oude, and on their return attacked gud drove the rebels out of the west at Amorha,

AvtamaBaD Diyiston.—This division is quite quiet, with the exception of the fronticr Pergunnahs of the Allahgesad district, which has been somewhat disturbed. A large marauding party was attacked and dispersed near Soram by ‘» small foree sent out by Brigadier Richar (?); 31 mon were killed and 11 taken prisoners in a charge made by the th Madras Light Cavalry. The Bada district is settling down quietly. Fewsing, the Rebel Rajah of Dynpoorie, has surrendered himself to the Magistrate of Ktawah on a guarantee of his life,

R outtcunp Diviston.—The districts of Budahow, Bignour, and Mordabad are quiet. A band of rebels has been routed near Buheree, in the Bareilly district, by a smail column of the Rohileund force and Kuttoee police levies, under Capt. Costoman; 70 rebels were killed. The notorious Moulvie. Abmedocle Fahkan, of Fyzibad and Lucknow, has been killed in the Shahjchanpore district, at.Pawean, which place he had attacked with 5,000 men.

Pencgat.—The rebels, under driven out of the Judespore jungles by Sir Kiward Lugard, ‘and had at first made for the Gawleepore d strict, have re-

traced their steps, and are spreading over tue eastern side of

Bengal, plundering and burning ai! villages whose inhabi- tants they suppose to be well affected. The station of Gyabas has beea reiufereed hy 300 Madras Rifles. Her Majesty’s 77th Regiment, 599 strong, hap arrived from Australia, aud will be immediately moved up to Dinapore. <A wing of the 21 battalion Guth Hifles has been sent to Dacca, Central Ludia.

<ierat Heat or tur Wratier—Fraicutrct: Morvariry

aMona tux Kuroreans.—Delhi, Agea, Joaasi, Bareilly, |

are protected by European troops, but our authority scarcely extends beyond the reach of our guns, and the intervering districts are overrua by rebels and budmashes, who move about as they please, marking their course by plunder and destruction of property, and setting at defiance every attempt to restore order and tranquility. Indigo factories, public and private bungalows, aud railway depots have been burned, and we are thankful that these deeds have not been accom- panied by the murder ef Huropesns, though doubtless not for want of inclination on the part of the rebels, but waut of opportunities. ur troops have again been engaged on several occasions with the enemy, and although in each instance perfectly successful, yet the majority of the rebels have ag usual managed toescape, Tuis, however, can hardly be wondered at, for in the absence of adequate cavalry, and with the dreadful heat of the season, pursuit of the fugitives would haye beea useless, and in all probability only added to the frigthful mortulity of our brave men, who fali daily victims to the sun. We are not overstating the fact by mentioning that sun-stroke, heat and apoplexy are regularly

Shahjebenpore, Calpee, Lucknow, Cawnpore, and Allahabad

Rajah Khan Singh is being |

Fn QC; r} } Ummer Singh, who were |

| have been eréeted on both sides for a distance of nearly a mile {in length, pea which 87 guns im position were visible, and the whole shure had been piled to oppose a landing. As the channel 13 only about 200 yards wide, and runs within 400 yards of th« shore, these defences presented a formidable appear- ance. ‘I’wo strong mud batteries, mounting respeevely 33 and iG guns, had been also constructed about 1 OOU garda up the river, in & posilion to command our advance, ard the rear laeveral enirenched Ciinps were visitle, defecdedaw flenkine bastions, and it was koown that large bodies of Bsops hed ar- rived from Pekin. <All the foris and the campy Were covered } with the various coloured tlhigs under which the © troops of the eight banners,” as the Tartar soldiers are styled, range thein selves. Al eighta.m. yesterday, the notification ta the Imperial | Commissioner ‘Can, and the summona to delivér up the forts withia two hours, were delivered by Captain Hall, mv flag raptain, and Capitaine Reynaud, flag captain of the French udiniral, and accompanied by wy gallint colleague,and attended by our respective secretaries and flag Liew enants} we embarked in the Sliney, to direct the movements of the &quadron. No answer having been returned to the su:nmonus yp ten o'clock, the signal agreed upon was inade, and the @@@iiitts advanced in the prescribed order, led by the Corinorant, Chinese ;opened fire tnmediately, and the Signal to eng made a ifew minuces afterwards froin the Slaney. By vessels had anchored in their respective station our well-directed fire had become very appa fort was entirely dismantled and abandoned, partially so, whilst those on the north side bad Ui subdued by the Cormorant and two French short range within which we engayed, ev many of the massive embrasures of mud we At the end of an hour and a quafter the The landing parties were then pushed on sho destructive fire from the gunboats, but h made to our landing, and the Chinese tra moving off in masses, whilst our people were j flags of the Allied Powers soon replaced tho On the south side, 200 large gingalls weref near the landimg-place, on an-embankment. .dHaving obtained possession, the dismantling of the works was e¢inmencéd, and field pieces landed for the protection of the forces against the possible attacks of the Chinese. Shortly after the land Me, our gallant Mies eustained a melancholy and heavy loss of mén, both killed and wounded, by the accidental explosion of a nagizine. When all the vessels had taken up their positions, a bold attempt was made to send down upoy them a long array of junks, filled with straw in flames, and draw across the river : but they fortunately grounded, aad though the people, guiding them down the river with ropes, made great efforts to get thein off, a few shells from the Bustard drove them away, and the ‘vessels burnt out without doing anv damowe. Mach skill and labour had been expended’ in the construction of these forts. "he guns were much better east, and not so fawieldy, as those in the Canton River, and were better equipped in every res- pect. ‘They had good canister shot, and tre hollow 8 inch shot appeared imitations from ourown, “There were several English Directions were now sent to Captain Sir F. Nicholson and Capitaine Leveqne to advance avd cap'ure the two forts up the river, which had kept bp a sinart fire, wre movement was successfully executed, undgr the supporting fire from the Bustard, Staunch, and Opossurm, Several entrenched camps were also destroyed. ‘he Chimese stood well to their euns, notwithstanding shot, shell, and rockets were fiying thickly around them. Most of the gunboats were hulled, some severa! | times, whilst boats, spars, and rigging were cut by round shot, |ygrape, and gingall balls. Tuts signail success, ater the Chinese jhad ample time to fortify their position, and were confident of | their strength, nay probably bave a greater mora! eff-ct en the thinese Government than if we had attacked them in the first instance, when they were less prepared... ‘he necessary ar- rangements at the entrance of the river having been completed, a furthers advance was made to the village of Takoo, where we Tound @ harrier of juuks filled with combustible matter, moored by chains right across the river, whilst seven similar obstructions to our progress were observed within a mile higher up. Capt Hal!, with my Flag-Lieutenant, and a party of men, landed and took possession of eighteen field pieces in front of an abandoned encampment at Takoo, Whilst on shore the residence of the High Coumissioner ‘l'an was visitedand found deseited, though a significant proof of his recent presence was found ina behead- ed Chinaman near his gate. It was ascertained here that the main bedy of the Chinese troops had retired with Tan to a posi- ‘tion about eight miles up the river. The barrier at Takoo offering good security to our vessele elow, it was made our advanced position for the night, in charge of Sir P. Nicholson and Capt. Taoyon. f enclosea list of our casualties, amounting 10 1 warrant officer aud 4 men killed, and 2 officers and 15 men wounded. ‘That of our gallant allies is, [ regret to state, much heavier, amounting to 4 officers and 2 men killed, and 5 officers and 5G men wounded. {t now becomes my pleasing duty to

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Among the natives the |

|—the good qualities of the defunct press upon the remem- |

brance of their sorrowing survivors, and gloomy anticipations | are entertained for the fate of others who may or ought to die ‘by the fiat of Executive Authority. “ The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead— The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted.”

| What is to be done under the terrible calamity which has | brought so much indignation and sorrow to the Tory breast? The Unholy Alliance answers. They will rush into ‘ the |imminent deadly breach’’—zhey will put to shame the spurious | patriotism of the fool of a Roman who burned his good right | hand for the honour of his country, or throw into the shade

the fame of that other Roman pagan who was silly enough to 'think he could save his country by throwing himself into a ! cruel and remorseless abyss. ‘The Unholies, as a body, are de- | termin -d to put their foot in it as well as their hand; and much as they may be desirous of imitating the example of Curtius, we think they have attained the lowest possible depth this side of Charon’s Ferry.

They propose to call a Meeting in this County some time before the potatoe can take the rot or the wheat be blasted by the midge, at which they intend to be frightfully indignant against the Govermacnt for displacing Mr. Owen, and to got up the Lord knows what kind of a remonstrance against Sir Dominick Daly ®r allowing such a fearful thing to be done. They don’t beliewe that discretion is the better part of valour,

because they perpose to hold their meeting in the open air,

land in the pablie thoroughfare, where any number of * the

i free and independents,’” from all parts of the Island, will be

lat liberty to congregate. It is considerate of them. The

Temperance Hall could not hold the crowd that will assemble,

| or ought to assemble on this great occasion, and poor Hatch’s |

| o¥er-taxed dumgévould be inadequate to make his voice heard lin every part of the County. The Unholies suppose the meet- (ing will be conducted in sach a manner as to bring joy and igladuess to their hearts. They

will find, to their great grief and mortification, that the little

Don't they wish it may?

arts which prevailed amongst the ignorant settlers about Bel-

| fast and Lot 67 will be of no avail when the intelligence of

ithe whole County shall be brought into one common focus. |

The Parsons will be likely to find their ** occupation’’ in the ’ W on’'t there

‘condition of Othello’s—*‘ gone’’ for that day.

ibe a glorious gathering of the Boys who have a pious regard of their own for all the political parsons in creation, and who,

with the national taste for diversion, will tuck up their sleeves

in; and—although we don’t wish to see a blow struck at one’s tenement of clay, no matter how deeply the national honour «be compromised by the absence of this part of the day’s rt—there is no doubt that

“ When Greck meets Greek then comes the tug of war’

of some sort, and those of our fellow Colonists who have e’er

| been at “¢ Donnybrook Fair,

When an Irishman all in his glory was there, With his sprig of Shilelah and Shamrock so green,” may reasonably hope to haye their recollections revived of some, at least, of th ts and pastimes of old Ireland. We don’t kaowthow th Sheriff cannot preferred ta!

is to be called, or bywhom. The code to any request that may be spect to it; and if it is to be called by the Corporate authafities, we should like to know what right they have to go beyond tae City bounds. Some Tory Magis- trates, however, may be got to assume the responsibility. We hope they will haye sense enough to know that it is a respon- sibility of no ordinary nature; andif they wi// lend themselves to the Unholy Alliance for the rash purpose of stirring up an agitation against the most popular Governor that ever ruled over this country, because he administers his Government in an impartial aud constitutional manner -—they ought to be prepared, without incurring expense to the commuhity, of repressing Iny violence, which is too likely to result from the excited passions of the multitude ; otherwise the responsibility imay be a more fearful one than they can contemplate.

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moved from the office, which he has so ably filled for the past three years, of Clerk to the City Council, and that Peter

MeGowan, Esq., has been appointed in his place. There is no doubt that Mr. McGowan will make a very good Clerk; and mercantile business is not of such a pressing nature just now as to distract his thoughts very much from the duties of his new and lucrative office. But why was Mr. Wellner removed ? Because the Unholy Alliance demanded the sacrifice, as the victim did not choose to be unjustly assailed by two or three of their Conservative Worships of the City Council, and because his politics were not believed to be of the true ortho- _dox stamp,

It is rather amusing to hear cur opponents abuse the general

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and be ready for any emergency? How Tracadie, and Fort | Augustus, and Monaghan Settlement, and Newtown, and Mill- | yale, and other parts congenial, will pour their contributions |

We understand that W. B. Wellner, Ksqr., has been re- |

Government for remoying two or three officials who have been. imprudont enough to put themselyes jn an attitude of hostility ; |

but whenever those opponents have a chanco of retalig even in the smallest matters, they stretch the principle which they condemn to the utmost limit. Last year they removed

‘avery efficient City Treasurer, not because he neglected the } Governments, in a spirit of the most perfect friendship. At | duties of his office, or opposed the Corporation in any way; , but because he exercised Lis privilege in voting for a member | of the House of Assembly who had'nothing at all to do with ae ‘the Corporation; and his place was given to a Merchant’s 7

Clerk who had no further claim to the office than hig a member of the Alliance. They changed the Clerk of the | Flour Market for precisely the same reasun,

The Tory Government, during their short term of Office in 1854, removed a great number of petty officers who had been (appointed by the previous Liberal Government, and whose only fault was, that, with common honesty and gratitude

appointments. Poor old Patrick Gilligan —~—a Waterloo veteran — who had devoted his life to the service of the Crown — was among the number of the dismissed in 1854, Me was not allowed to hold the paltry office of Market Clerk becauag

and all their followers raise a howl of indignation against the

| general Government for carrying out a principle, in a modi. fied manner, which they practised to the utmost extentin 1854

and 1857, and which has been again applied to the case of

Mr. Wellner. Even a Policeman, we are told, is not tolerated if suspected of Liberalism. And yet those political

‘howl about the removal of a Postmaster and Postmaster’s

| clerk, and furiously threaten indignation meetings, as if they

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We read in the last Is/ander a letter over the signature of Mr. W. Ii. Pope, reflecting on the conduct of the Lieutenant Governor, with reference to certain despatches transmitted to and from the Island and the Colonial Office. Not having had leisure to look up the despatches, with qaotations from which | Mr. Pope’s letter is replete, we shall defer a more particulag-

notice of its contents toa future period. duced to this course by an intimation of the writer, that it ig:

his intention to continue his epistolary labors.

We cannot conclude, however, without expressing our sur rise that any man, educated as Mr. Pope has been, sh

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not have deemed it derogatory to himself as a gentleman ty indulge in gross personal abuse of His Excellency on the: ground of his religion.

This ‘* travelling out of the record,’’ as Mr. P. would style:

and his associates in their attempt to injure the Government. To do this they thought it not unbecoming to say anything utterly irrelevant to the political action of His Excellency or his Government, and without reference to thetrath of their

| statements, so long as they knew that the situation of the party assailed would enable them to do so with impunity.

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DODSON & FOGG-ERY.

Tue following evidenee, lately taken in the Mayor's Court, has been handed to us for insertion, should we deem it of such }importance as to warrant its publication. As it discloses a flagrant abuse of one of the most important branches of our civil polity — of which the Press in all free countries is the natural guardian — we not only see no objection to the publi- ~ eation of this evidence, but we should consider ourselyes neglectful of our duty if we did not make it as widely known us it is in our power to do sv, with the view of holding up to

public execration an iustance of very peculiar practice, such as we hope seldom characterises the administration of the law in |thiscountry. We have no knowledge of the extensive practice of Messrs. Dodson & Fogg beyond the memorable case reported in the Pickwick Papers, wherein the legal chicanery of this celubrated firm is consigned to eternal infamy by the graphie pen of the novelist; but we think we could Jay our finger om

a practitioner in this Island, who, being more than their mateh in legal subtlety, could impart to the notorious firm a wrinkle or two — who only wants a sphere as wide as theirs to attain to the altitude of their notoriety, and who would be always on hand to twist the machinery of the law to serve the worst purposes, so long as an easy Court will allow an unscrupulous disposition to rear an unabashed front.

Prince UE pwarp Isianp, ;

City oF CHARLOTYETUWN.

Jn rue orice Court.

The examination of John Rigg, of Charlottetown, Merchant, taken on oath this twenty-eighth day of July, in the year of our Lord, 1858, before the said Court, in the presence and hearing of Charles Varnum Poor, who is charged this day before the said Court, for that he, the said Cnaries Varnum oor, did, on or about the fourteenth day of July instant, falsely, wickedly and corruptly commit wilful and corrupt perjury, in a certain affidavit of debt, made before Danie! Hodgson, Exquire, one of the Com- inissioners for taking affidavits to be used in the Supreme Court.

This deponent, John Rigg, upon his oath, saith, as follows— that on Saturday last he went to the country, with the intention, of returning again on Monday. On his return, on Sunday morning, about eght o’clock, he found his goods, chattels, and furniture, attached in the hands of the Sheriff, at the suit of” Charles Varnum Poor, and another,—the said Poor having made an affidavit on Saturday the twenty-fourth July instant, stating that he was an absconding debtor; whereas he was not off the Island, nor had any intention of being so. tHe would pot hare returned on Sunday morning had not a messenger been sent after him, ‘

Being interrogated on the part of the defendant, states—That he owes Mr. Poor and Company a certain sum of money, bat cannot say exactly as to the amount; but about seven hundred jand fifteen dollars. Saw Mr, Poor first on Thursday fast, and | stated to him that his friend, Mr. Green, had called on him on |Friday. ‘Told Mr. Poor that his affairs were bad—that he had [lost severely ; and he promised to put down in writing the fol- |lowing day what amount he could give him (Poor), He did } ot state that it was his intention to be absent from town any

tine. He put his proposal in writing, and entrusted it to James | Morris, of Charlottetown, with instructions to cal] at Mr. Charles | Palmer’s office, and see Mr. Poor; and also wrote to Mr, Morr

|to say that he had gone to the country on the business that he and him (Mr. Morris) bad been talkiug about.

On Thursday told Mr. Poor that he would get what he eould for him by the time he (Poor) should return from Souris; but cannot say-that he then told Poor that his affuirs were bad. Of Thursday received a letter from Mr. Palmer, and called on hia immediately, Did not tell him (Palmer) that he was going to the country. Palmer wanted witness to give him an order on Morris fur the fal! amount of his (Poor's) account, which witness declined, when Mr, Palmer advised witness to see Mr. Poor. This was on Friday. Witness then promised to see Mr. Poor at Mr. Palmer's office, on Saturday, at ten o’ciock in the fore- noon. Witness did not meet Mr. Poor, but sent his proposal by Mr. Morris. Mr. Paliner told witness that Mr. Poor's creditor was hot at Souris, and that he (Poor) was not going there, and that witnesses’s business was all that was detaining him (Poor) here, or words to that effect; but witness knew that Poor could not leave the Island before Tuesday. as the steamer did not leave till then. Witness left town immediately aficr taking breakfest on Saturday morning, about 8 o'clock. Witness went to Mr.

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he voted for the Liberals. And yet, forsooth, the Unholieg *

had a patent right to official employment of any and every kind | under the Executive as well as the Municipal Governmentr ~~

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