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THE EXAMINER.

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CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E.t.. JULY 21, 1856.

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SIR DOMINICK DALY, KNIGHT, kc. &e,

Weare gratified to learn that our esteemed and popular Lieut. Governor received intelligence by the last English Mail, to the effect, that Her Majesty the Queen had been pleased, on the third of July last, to confer upon His Excellency the dis- tinguished honor of Knighthood.

7 his mark of the Sovereign’s favor will be esteemed the more highly by His Excellency and his numerous friends, when i¢ is remembered that it was neither solicited nor expected by Sir Dominick.

However much his enemies may revile him—and no public wan is, or can be without his enemies—it must be gratifying to the vast majority of the inhabitants of this Colony to per-

ceive that the Crown fully recognises the impartiality, firmness

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This is the course which her Majesty’s Government has throughout being willing to adopt; and I have accordingly the honor to inform you that I am prepared to enter into the | proposed communication, and [ trust that our conferences will be conducted in that spirit of eordiality and frankness which, as Mr. Marey justly observes, is dictated by thgsrue interests of Great Britain and the United States,

Lam, Xe., (signed) CLARENDON,

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Mr. Crampron’s Dismissat.—The Times says :—" Mr. Crampton was certainly not the man to send as a minister to the United States. But the truth is, the United States is not a favorite Embassy, and at is not very easy always to get the man you want for it. You may offer 1t to the “ proper man,” but the proper wan won't tuke it. He does not like to banish himself from European Society, taste, and refine- ment, and to fix himself amongst a new and rather rude uncouth people, who cannot abstain from cudgelling each other, in their own Senate-house, and whose ways and habits are very different from ours. Diplomatists are not adven- turers; their character is rather the reverse of the adven- turous character. They are the children of civilization and established order—the disciples of system, manners, and

. ° ° ih . . . ° , . D ausht Poe od justiee with which His Excellency conducts the affairs of) etiquette. They prefer Paris, Venice, or Berlin, as an Em

this Colony, which is clearly manifested by the fact of his | name bemg enrolled on the ancient and honorable order of | Kuighthood. Not many months since a rumour was prevalent about Town that His Excellency was about to be removed from this Goverument, as a panishwent for his not administering its affairs for the exclusive benefit of the Obstructives, which ) many of his predecessors had done—a privilege they have not yet unlearned to claim. But the fact which we have now the pleasure to record, affords abundant ev idence that Sir Dominick Daly enjoys the esteem and approbation of his Sove- reign, in view of his administrative career, and that, to the lelight of many thousands of Her Majesty's subjects, he will be long left amongst us to exercise the functions of a respon- sible and popular ruler: We are sure, then, that our fellow colonists heartily unite with us in congratulating His Excel- ieney on this royal and auspicious recognition of his public and private worth. nen AS I ————

LATEST INTELLIGENCE FROM EUROPE.

Tue Lady le Marchant arrived here on Friday last, about noon, with the English Mail, which afrived in Halifax on the previous Tuesday. We make room for the following extracts from our latest papers, which comprise every thing of any in- terest or importance brought to hand by this arrival.

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ENGLAND AND AMERICA.

We have great gratification in being able to announce, that negotiations between England and the United States, | with a view to the settlement of the difference unfortunately existing between the two countries, have been resumed this week; and that, too, under circumstances which justify the belief that matters are already in a fair train towards an

bassy, on the same principle that they prefer the society of Kurope to the society of the backwoods. The diplomatist is a delicate article; he does not like rough handling ; he likes the smooth security of decorous ceremonial and oily words, intercepting all disturbance, and acting as an infallible breakwater against the violent surge of human passion and petulence. Moreover, diplomatists, like soldiers, sailors, clergymen, lawyers, and, we believe, most other professions, like promotion, and the United States Embassy, as being comparatively a new creation, lies out of the regular line ef embassy promotion.”

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LAST DAYS OF THE ALLIES IN THE CRIMEA.

Accounts from the Crimea state that for some days the embarkation of French troops was conducted with extraordi- nary rapidity, and on an extensive scale. It still continued, but more slowly, owing to the small number of transports then lying at Kamiesch. All the English vessels laden with troops had sailed directly for England. Others were expected to receive the men still remaining there. The French lately had four cases of cholera, and the English two, but the disease was of a mild character. On the 9th of June General Lord Gough attended a grand breakfast given to him, and the officers of his staff, by the Russian General-in-Chief. The greatest cordiality prevailed during the repast, which had been preceded by a splendid review of the Russian troops. The general afterwards visited the Russian hospitals. He left the Crimea on the 14th, and arrived at Constanti- nople on the 16th. Bala Clava, where the English were en- gaged in taking to pieces the ironwork houses they had estab- lished there, as also their huts, was to be immediately’sur- rendered to the Russians. About halfa mile of the railway remained to be removed. The English traders were also pulling down their iron and wooden houses. A number of Russian speculators had presented themselves to take advan- tage of the disaster of the European merchants. They had

amicable adjustment of the points at issue between our Go- vernweat aud that of the United States.

OUR DISPUTE WITH THE UNITED STATES. REPLIES OF LORD CLARENDON TC MR. DALLAS.

Lord Clarendon’s replies to Mr. Dallas on the Central Ameriean question, and on the dismissal of Mr. Crampton, have just appeared. With reference to the latter subject, Lord Clarendon says:—‘“ Her Majesty's Government have carefully examined the additional documents, but do not find in them any evidence worthy of belief which should shake the confidence which they have reposed in the assurances of Mr. Crampton and of the consuls. But Her Majesty’s Government are bound to accept the formal and repeated declarations of the President of bis belief that these officers of ber Majesty have violated the laws of the Union, and are, on that account, unacceptable organs of communication with the Government and authorities of the United States; and her Majesty's Government cannot deny to the Government of the United States a right similar to that which, ina parallel case, they would claim for themsclyes—the right, namely, of forming their own judgment as to the bearing of the laws of the Union upon transactions which have taken place within the Union. I have, therefore, the honor to inform you that, however deeply her Majesty’s Government regret a proceeding on the part of the President of the United States which cannot but be considered os of an) unfriendly character, they have not deemed it their duty on that account to advise her Majesty to command me to sus-

purchased from the French a large quantity of firewood for I}f. per chegui. One of them had bought the wooden huts lining one side of a street at Kamiesch for 130f. The stores contained upwards of 50,000 oaks of tobacco, which the Russians refused to buy, no doubt because they are not ac- customed to smoke tobacco of so good a quality. A great number of horses had been abandoned, and as the country does not abound in pasture, the poor animals must soon perish. The Europeans were apprehensive of being left at the mercy of the Russians, after the departure of the Allied troops, and the przd’ hommes and notable Anglo-French

traders had held two meetings, at the last of which they had | Hall. The ecaptain-general proceeded in person Saciauite tas

resolved to wait on the Generals-in-Chief, to request them to reconsider the decision they had lately nctified to them, It was believed that their request would be acceded to. Our correspondent informs us that two consuls, the one Hnglish and other French, would be appointed at Kamieseh, in which case every assistance would be afforded to the unhappy traders remaining in the Crimea after the departure of the army. ‘The Tartars regularly supplied Kamiesch with meat, and on reasonable terms. ‘Ihe villages lately enlivened by the presence of the Europeans, were partly deserted.

Tux Prrxciairies.—-The latest news from Constantinople, of the 23d June, states that Aali Pasha, during his atay at Vienna, succeeded in having it determined that the Princi- palities should remain separated; but it appears that the Moldo-Wallachian population has declared itself in a sense opposed to this.

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pend my diplomatic intercourse with you. MURDER OF AN OFFICER IN THE TURKISH

With respect to the Central American question, Lord Clarendon says :—‘ Mr. Marcy is correct when he states that Great Britain lays no claim to any possession or territory on the Mosquito Coast, and ber Majesty’s Government consider mow, as they always have considered, that the future condi- tion of the Mosquito Indians, for which her Majesty’s (jovernment are bound in honor to provide, might be assured by direct negotiation. It is not contended, and never has been contended, that the British Government, consistently | with the stipulations of the treaty of 1850, could, in the name of the Mosquito Indians, ‘take with military force, and hold, San Juan de Nicaragua, or any other point in Central Ametica;’ and her Majesty's Government agree with Mr. Marcy, that such a proceeding would be irreconcileable with the independence and neutrality of the isthmus, and would render the treaty nugatory to the United States; but no such pretension has cver been advanced, and no such proceeding has been contemplated.

With respect to the district of Belize, her Majesty's Go- vernment consider that the only question to be determined as regards Central America, is that of the boundary between that country and the British possessions ; and in the settle- ment of that question, no insurmountable difficulty need be anticipated,

With respect to Ruatan and the other Bay Islands, these, at different periods, have been held by Great Britain as well as by Spain, and, having been again occupied by British settlers, formal possession was taken of Ruatan in 1839 by Great Britain, which has since been uninterruptedly main- tained. The population increased fast, and magistrates were, from time to time, appointed by the Superintendant of Belize until 1852, when these islands received a regular form of colonial government solely for the purpose of their better internal administration; but Great Britain did not thereby acquire any territorial rights that she did not previously

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The Government of the United States, however, maintain that, even supposing the Clayton-Bulwer treaty were only prospective in its operation, these islands were no part of the British dominions earlier than 1852.

If the difference between the two Governments on this subject cannot be arranged by direct negotiation, there seems no reason why they wight act form the matter of a reference to a third power.

tier Majesty's Government have learned with satisfaction that you are instructed to enter into communication with me iu vespeet to Central America, in order to ascertain, in the tirst place, whether existing differences cannot be promptly terminated by direct negotiation, and, if they cannot be so eettled, then to discuss the conditions of arbitration on those points of difference as to which this method of settlement

CONTINGENT, AND TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.

The smal! military society still Jeft at Varna have been thrown iato excitement by two melancholy occurrences which have recenty happened in their reduced community. Lieut. Pierce, of the Land Transport Corps, late of the Turkish Contingent, an officer attached to the horse depot at Balt- chich, started from the camp at six in the morning, on the 5th of June, for the depot, accompanied by one soldier. Each

‘was trounted, and the soldier led three bat horses. The

feeling of the natives being known as good, both the lieute- nant and the private travelled without arms. The country was generally open, and as there were no roads they journeyed across the country pleasantly for about five miles, when the soldier cried out, ** There’s a man in the bush” (which skirted the path they were pursuing). At that instant he heard the erack of a rifle, and saw Lieut. Pierce fall to the ground. In terror he jumped off his horse and threw himself in the bush, but not before three shots had been fired at him from other men who showed themselves out of the bush. It was close upon nightfall when the survivor reached the camp, horror-stricken, and scarcely able to tell his tale from fatigue and terror. There was mounting in hot haste, and a rapid ride soon brought the party to the place. Here they found the body of Lieut. Pierce, rifled and stripped; the shot kad taken effect in his chest, and the poor fellow had died in- stantly. They soon scoured the country, and succeeded in re-capturing the horses, but the murderers have not yet been discovered, Scarcely had the painful feelings aroused by such an event subsided, when another even more deplorable cireum- stance horrified the whole camp. On the 10th June a young gentleman named Elkes, veterinary surgeon to the Turkish Contingent, gave a party to his brother officers in celebra- tion of his birthday. Among the guests was his most inti- mate friend, Mr. Weston, who had come over from Bala Clava to Varna. The feast went merrily, and the night ran out, as such nights do, in song and wine. Liuts were scarce, and the two friends retired to rest in the same room. The story of the murder of Lieut. Pierce had formed a prominent

the native population was expressed, so much so, that all the officers slept with arms at their bedside. It would appear that some hours before daylight Mr. Elkes had left his bed, and i walking about the room had awakened Mr. Weston, who called out to him to know what was the matter? There was no reply. Weston again called out, and receiving no reply, said loudly, “ Fred, Fred, I see the shadow of a man on the wall, and I fear there is some villiany about. Speak —is it you?” ‘There was still no answer. Weston then challenged the intruder, as he thought, and threatening to fire upon him, Still no answer. Weston then rose up in

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«“ Weston, you have shot me through the heart,” and fell dead without a grean. The horror of the survivor, the alarm of the camp, the terror occasioned by such a calamity, need no description. Mr, Weston was, of course, placed under arrest, but only formally, His state of mind borders on distraction. What renders the case still more melancholy, is, that the parties were affianced to two sisters, and that they had settled to be married at the same church, and on the same day, which was already fixed for a brief period after their return home to England, for which they were 1m- patiently awaiting the arrival of the transport appointed for their conveyance, Sad to say, the table on which they had dined so happily together the evening previous, wasethe next day cut up into planks to make a coffin for the then joyous host, Mr. Weston is not more than twenty-six years of age. Mr. Elkes was the son of a gentleman residing in Camber- well, and for many years a clerk of high standing in the Bank of England.

PRUSSIA.

Preparations ron Prince Frepericx Wsit1am’s Mar- ntaae wrra tur Princess Royan or EncLanp.—Professor Hinck, the Court architect, has furnished a design for the re-arrangement of the interior of the so-called “ Old King’s Palace,” the destined future residence of the young Prince and his English consort. Up to the present time the rooms and their furniture have been left exactly as they were at the time of the death of Frederick William III. On the tubles there are still to be found his books, newspapers, spectacles and writing implements, as well as the many me- mentos he cherished of his deceased Queen Louisa, the most prominent of which to the stranger's eye is her tambour frame, with a half-finished piece of embroidery in it. One of the first changes produced by the betrothal of the young Prince with the Princess Victoria, and strikingly emblema- tical of the future changes that will take place here when the well-known sympathies of the young Prince and his father have free opening to exhibit themselves, is that Count Dohna, the high Chamberlain of the Court, has to turn out of a suite of rooms, that he had been permitted by the good nature of the King to inhabit, on the ground floor. Count Dohna is a member of the so-called Camarilla to which so much evil influence is attributed in Prussia.

RUSSIA,

Re-constnuction or Srnastoron—New anv Important Works ar Nicoarerr.—Southern Sebastopo! is to be made a first-rate fortress? but on an entirely new plan. Nicolaieff (says the Kalisth correspondent of the Oesterreichische Zet- tung) being in immediate connexion with the continent, * is to be the war port of the future fleet.” The Russian army in the Caucacus and on the Turkish frontiers in Asia has already been reinforced. The Guard and Grenadier corps will re- main at St. Petersburg and Novogorod ; Moscow will be the great depot for the reserves, and the six “ active army corps will form a great chain extending from Odessa, across War- saw, to the Baltic.

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SPAIN,

Tur Disterpances at VALLAporip.—The Madrid Gazette gives the following account of the disturbances at Valtadolid, which appear to have been of a more serious nature than mere mob riots :—As all moderate means failed to appease the riot which began on the 22nd June, at eight o'clock in the morning, and in whieh the civil governor of the province and some national guards were wounded, a meeting of all the authorities and corporations proceeded to proclaim the state of siege. The bando having been published, and the city divided into four sections, each of which was placed under the command of a military chief, the troops were put in motion; the head-quarters being established at the Town

canal, in order to save the buildings and property menaced with complete destruction, leaving the general next in com- | mand at the head of the troops appointed to act in the in- terior of thetown. The conflagration had already consumed three flour warehouses and several transport vessels. The infuriated populace threatened the same fate to all the manu- factories in the neighbourhood, and but for the presence of the troops would have realized their designs. The publication of the bando and the attitude of the Government put an end to the disorder. At three o’clock in the afternoon the in- surrection was quelled; law had resumed its sway, and twenty-eight prisoners were given over to the authorities. The court-martials are now cecupied in applying the law of the 17th of April, 1821. The troops and national guard have occupied the town militarily during the night, in order to prevent a repetition of these excesses. The pretended scarcity was only a pretext; many persons strangers to the town were seen in the crowd, and some were completely in- toxicated. The feeling noticed during the riot may be summed up in a war ery against property. On the 23d and 24th, the peace was not broken, and the courts-martial were employed in trying the prisoners. On the 22d, at nine o’clock in the evening, there were similar scenes at Medina de Rio Seco, which the local authorities were unable to repress. The houses of the corn-dealers were assailed with stones, and the manufactories along the quay and the boats at the wharf were burnt. A column of troops and the civic guard were detached there from Valladolid. At Palencia there was a similar disturbance, and three manufactories and some boats were destroyed by fire. Immediately that was seen the bando proclaiming the state of siege was published. The Nacion says that the ery of the insurgents was “ Death to the rich!” and that some well dressed persons were seen distributing money to them. The Espana says that many of the insurgents were provided with bottles containing tur- pentine and other inflammable liquids to set fire to the houses. The wounds of the civic governor, four in number, were so serious that it was not possible to remove him from the house to which he was first conveyed to his own residence.

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IRELAND.

Joun Savtier Ative.—A_ respectable correspondent, living in Tipperary, writes to inform us that a lady re- siding a short distance from that town had received a letter from her father from Louisiana, United States, in which he states that John Sadlier is there alive and ell, and that he saw him. Credat Judeus! Thename of the writer of the letter from America has been given to us, and our corres- pondent, since writing, has personally informed us that he is a gentleman of undoubted respectability —Cork Examiner.

MISCELLANY.

Tue Harvest ty France.—The accounis from the de- partments are unanimous in speaking of the fineness of the weather which prevails at preseut, avd of the magnificent appearance of the crops in all the places not ravaged by the late inundations. The harvest is going on actively in the extreme south of France, and several sacks of wheat of this year’s yield were last week offered for sale in the market of Maubourguet (Hantes Pyreness.) The price of wheat and flour has commenced declining in the southern markets. The Lyons journals speak of the appearance of the vines in Burgundy as highly sat'sfactory.

Advices from Parma state that the Grand Dachess, while attempting toleave her dominion, was arrested by

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A letter from Malta of June 18th, states that the Anglo. Italian Jegion is disbanded, and a part of them will go ty Genoa, where they are engaged by the revolutionary party whose agents have long been actively at work among them and supplying them with money. These agents openly de. clare that preparations are going on in Piedemout most satis. factorily, and the Germans are secretely countenancing them, Mazzini’s agents at Malta say everything is ripe at Naples for a great movement.

Silver continues to flow in large quantities to India, ‘although the latest accounts indicate diminished pressure jn the Indian money markets, and warrant a hope that the x will ere long be checked. The shipments by the steamer of the 4th July amounted to upwards of half a million sterling.

The interview between Napoleon the Third and the Austrian Emperor is expected to take place at Bregenz, on the Lake of Constance. The Baden Regent, and the Kings of Bavaria and Wuritemberg, will be present.

Miss Nightingale has been presented by the Sultan with a magnificent bracelet, set in brilliants, as a mark of hig estimation of the devotion evinced by that esteemed lady in the British hospitals. ee)

The Pope has promised to grant an amnesty and to com. mence his reform on St. Peter’s day.

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JOHN JARDINE.

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We had supposed that this individual had so far fallen tp the bottomless pit of public odium, that he would never again attempt to show his treacherous phiz. to the gaze of mortal man. However, as his political apostacy was of the vilest stamp, he is ready to furnish a parallel for it in the extent of his effrontery. A week or two ago we noticed him presiding over a kitchen gathering of Cooper’s deluded followers, and we could not help thinking that Cooper— a renegade from political principle and honesty himself—could not get a more fitting instrument to authenticate his silly resolutions than a man who had become his rival in tergiversation, chicanery and apostacy. Probably emboldened by seeing his name in print, affixed to the aforesaid resolutions, we now find him en- deavouring to spread his slime and poison, on his own re- sponsibility, as the writer of a communication in Haszard’s Gazetie of Saturday last. That we, ourselves, should be pretty well abused, in the said communication, is nothing at all surprising to us—for two years the miserable and spiteful turn-coat has done his little possible to slander and malign us privately, at times and places where refutation was im- possible ; and what we are most surprised at now—what we least expected—is, that the being should have courage enough to put some of his slanders in print. In 18146 he was elected mainly through our instrumentality—he served the-party he espoused, as it was thought, consistently, and at subsequent - elections down to 1854, he was so far endured as to be elected, because no other Liberal of tried principles and ability made his appearance ; but some of his best friends were ashamed of the large blotches of meanness which spotted every part of his social character at those several elections. In 1854, when ~ venality and rascality became an epidemic amongst politicians, the Honorable Doctor caught the disease, and to comfort him, he sold his conscience for thirty pounds. The Speaker's chair” was barely relieved from the pressure of his uncouth corpus when the venal House of Assembly which elected him was

followed in the summer of the same year the political market

rated the character of the Doctor, like that of some others, a trifle below nothing. Ile had just sense enough not te offer his eminent services to the constituency whose confidence he had betrayed; but he manifested his spite and disappoint- ment by publishing a libellous and defamatory placard against his late colleague, on the very morning of the eleection— (having got up before day-light to paste it on fences and barn- walls)—-which had no other effect than to couple Jardine’s name, wherever it was mentioned, with execration and ane- thema, while his colleague, whom he sought to injure, went in at the head of the poll with a greater number of votes than he had ever before received. From that time to the pro- sent the Honorable Doctor has hated his quondam colleague and supporter with a heartiness and vehemenee truly re-

markable, to which he bears conspicuous attestaion every now

‘and then by circulating the grossest falsehoods his dull

phlegmatic fancy can invent.

But with respect to his letter in Haszard's Gazetie, Passing over the abuse directed against the Queen’s Printer, we ave told «‘ that the expense of the Government has heen very mucle increased since Responsible Government was introduced,’ and in support of this bold, unproved and unauthorised assertion, Dr. Jardine sets a variety of figures opposite to the names of a variety of office-holders. The figures would, of course, be very conclusive, if they were correct; but it happens to be just as easy to insert false figures in a political statement as to insert false arguments or assertions. The Dr. broadly states that the expense of governing the Colony has increased £2,25 since the introduction of Responsible Government. This sum is accounted for by saying that the Queen’s Printer’s emolu- ments have increased £450, and the Departmental offices, such as Secretary, Treasury, Crown Land Commissioner, Collector of Customs, Registrar, &c., from £50 to £300 respectively. Now, we do not hesitate to pronounce the whole statement to be false, excepting one item, and we defy Jardine to prove it correct. The exception is, the pay -io the Legislative Coun- cil. That, we admit, is an expense incurred since the esta- blishment of Responsible Government, but it was a measure eminently called for— was absolutely indispensuble ; and a8 one Session of the Legislature has passed since that measure was adopted, and no petition sent in praying for a repeal of the law, there is every reason to believe that the measure i generally approved of by the country. The Legislative Councils of the other British American Provinces are paid as well as ours—with the entire approbation of the people. Another item which Jardine sets down to swell up the £2,250, is £200 for an increase in the number of repre sentatives. We need not remark on the dishonesty of setting down this item to alarm tax-payers, further than # say, that not one penny of it has yet been incurred, and that the Bill which authorises the increase of members has not be come the law of the land. When it does, we are prepared t0 justify it. With respect to the £450 charged to the office of Queen’s Printer, we say unhesitatingly that the statement faise. The expense of that office is about the same as it was while Jardine held a seat inthe Government ; and the expen?

Austrian military authorities and obliged to return to her.

capital, On remonstrating, she was told the government of

Parma had called in Austrian troops, and it was necessary that the Sovereign should remain to countenance their acts.

of the other offices, noticed by him, is very little, if anythings

| greater than it was then, while the duties have very consider ably increased.

scattered to the winds, and at the general election which