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right,” says the Commerce ‘to abstain from mentioning | ; | 3 ) - 7 ‘culated with this news; but,' The shocking transaction took place at Grafton, in the

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selv so fi to! correct, we can allow ourselves to go so far as oul B ” ‘agreement with the Commissioners of Crown Land for

‘a very large allotment of ground. On taking possession

apnounce that this personage has been arrested.’ The personage here alluded to is the Prince de Joinville.

After a stormy debate in the National Assembly, a decree for preventing tumultuous assemblies in the streets was carried by 478 against 82.

The probable retirement of M, Lamartine and Ledru Rollin coutinues to be mentioned.

Many conceive that an effort at restoration will be made with the present ment. The friends of the Orleans family desire to put the Count of Paris on the throne, with the Duchess as Regent, and, to conciliate the leading men, would offer them (Lamartine, Arago, &c.) the position of a Council of Regency. This would be about as wise as the purchase of Mirabeau and Danton was.

ITALY.

Surrenper oF Pescmiera.—Great VICTORY OF var [TALIANS OVER THE AusTRIaNs.—News has arri- ved from ‘Turin, dated up to the Ist of Junes It men- tions the important fact that Peschiera has surrendered to the Italians, and that in a general engagement be- tween the Austrianarmy, amounting to 30,000 men, and the Piedmontese army, numbering 15,000 (namely two to one on the side of Radetzky) the Austrians had been beaten and utterly routed. Both the Duke of Savoy and Carlo Alberto himself were wounded, though hap- pily but slightly. The blood of the fine brave King of Sardinia, shed in fighting the battle of independance for Italy, will anoint him as monarch of Lombardy.

Since the foregoing intelligence arrived we have re- ceived further accounts of the battle which took place on the very spot where the campaign of Italian eman- cipation commenced, namely, at the bridge of Goito. The numbers do not appear to have been mis-stated as — Austrians, 30,000; Italians, 15,000. Carlo Alberto and the Duke of Savoy were both personally engaged in the combat, the former receiving a slight contusion of the ear froma cannon-ball, and the latter being struck bya musket-ball ; neither, however, of the roya! soldiers being sufficiently injured to induce them to retire from the encounter.

NAPLES.

Out of the different rumours prevalent at Naples up tothe 29th ult. we extract the following, as at once the most important and the most probable:—Plots against the life of the King axtended their ramifications within the precincts of the royal palace itself, and it was said that many individuals had taken a solemn vow to avenge their relatives and friends murdered by royal order on the 15th, and to expirate them by the blood of King Ferdinand. In short, there was every ground for expecting another explosion, Even in the opinion of

the more moderate spectators it is felt that all concilia- tion between the King and the people is henceforth, impossible. |

ROME. The letter addressed by the Pontiff Emperor of;

Austria immediately on the breaking out of hostilities: in Lombardy has at last come to light. It has already | appered in the Siecle. We givea translation of it, as tollows :—

T'o the Emperor of Austria,—

‘It hag been the constant practice of the Holy See to, he the herald of the words of peace in the midst of the) wars which have watered the soil of Christian countries: with blood; and in an address of the 20th of April, in’ proclaiming that it was repugnant to our paternal heart to declare war, we expressly avowed our earnest desire | to contribute to peace. Do not allow it, then, to offend your Majesty if we make an appeal to your piety and

religion, exhorting you, with paternal affection, to with-|

draw your armies from a war which, without, re-con-' cuering to your empire the minds of the Lombards and| Venetians, brings in its train an unhappy mass of evils —evils that you yourself must certainly deplore. Let) not the generous German nation take offence that we_ invite it to lay aside its feelings of hatred and to con- vert into usual relations of friendly neigbourhood a rule} which would not be either noble or happy, as it could | only be maintained by the sword. |

‘We entertain, then confidence that a nation so ial nerously proud of its own nationality, will not make a point of honor to attempt the conquest of the Italian!

nation by the bloody path that alone can lead to it, but)

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that it will rather deem itself interested in recognising, it fora sister. Both are daughters, both dear to us,| each consenting to occupy its own natural territory, | where they will lead a life honourable and blessed of the Lord.

‘We pray the Dispenser of knowledge, and the, Author of a!l good, to inspire your Majesty with wise! councils, whilst from the bottom of our heart we cive| your Majesty, her Majesty the Empress, and the Impe- rial Family, our benediction. ‘P. P. PIUS IX.’

New Sovrm Wates.—Wuaotesate Ilorriere

Wales communicate the particulars of several revolting! i

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d to have been perpetrated by Mr, Tho- mas Coutts, one of the most w@althy settlers in the colony.

district of the Crown Lands. Karly in the year 1840 Mr. Coutts arrived in the country, and entered into an

he stocked it with from eight to nine hundred head of cattle, and five thousand sheep. For the first two years the natives evinced the most sincere feeling towards Mr. Coutts, but subsequently became discontented. Two of Mr. Coutts’s agents were way laid and murder- ed, as also a fine intelligent boy. The stock was either missing, sold, or killed and boiled down. Other set- tlers, suffered proportionately to the extent of their stock. ‘I"hese losses, coupled with the horrible atroci- ties proviously alluded to, led to a feeling amounting to revenge against the aborigines onthe part of the English settlers and it is stated, though not clearly sub- stantiated in evidence, that all means to detect the ring- leaders having failed, secret poisoning was had recourse to, and a great many, particularly on Mr. Coutts’s estate, have fallen a sacrifice. Numerous suspicious deaths coming to the knowledge of the Commissioners of Crown Lands, they, in company with the chief con- stable and a party of policemen, proceeded to the dis- trict, and entered on a searching investigation, the result of which led to the immediate apprehension of Mr. Coutts on the charge of being implicated in the wholesale murders. Ina camp on Mr. Coutts’s land were discovered eight dead bodies, whose deaths, it was ascertained, were the result of poison—arsenic, it was supposed. Several other bodies were found in other parts. On the 17th of February the prisoner was brought up before the Chief Justice, Mr. Sergent Man- ning, and admitted to bail in very heavy securities— himself in £1000, and two securities of £500 each.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,

The Continental news is still of a grave character By a successful and, we hope, a decisive battle, the hopes of Austria, with regard to the retention of Italy, are annihilated. ‘The Piedmontese and the Lombar- dians have pronounced in favour of an union; and Charles Albert, who is now regarded as the liberator of Italy, is to be rewarded with the Crown, Germany, especially Prussia and Austria, continues in a very un- satisfactory state, whilst the renewal of hostilities in Schleswig, now acknowledges to be the cause by the armed intervention of Russia, will, we hope, lead to an immediate and satisfactory arrangement, which we deemed perfectly delusive from mere meditation, how- ever, influential. Prussia, if she is well advised, or rather the Germans, will do well to abandon their pre- tentions even to Holstein at once, or they will find that lejeu ne vaut pas la chandelle. War is sometimes very glorious, but always costly.

A junction having been formed between the Austrian armies of Nugent and Radetsky, the Austrian united forces amounted, as far as we can learn, to about 30,000 men engaged in the battle, and the Piedmontese had probably about the like number in the field, although the whole army of Charles Albert amounts to 60,000 men. On the 30th ult. the two armies came to a battle, which appears to have been one in which the artillery

l'on both sides were chiefly brought into play. The

Austrians, onthe 29th, had forced the Tuscan and Neapolitan lines, and completely routed them, and hav- ing advanced, to Goito, on the morning of the 30th, Char- les Albert was compelled to come into action. For

lsome time he appeared to act entirely upon the defen-

sive, and an eye witness of the battle, which lasted from ‘one o’clock tillsix, seemed in great doubt which way the fortune ofthe day would turn. But, however, the

Austrian forces at length gave way, and retired in the

‘direction of Mantua, At the moment of victory, which the Piedmontese claim, the fortunate intelligence ofthe fall of Peschiera reached the camp, together with the

news of the decision, by ballot, of the Union Lombar-

idy with Piedmont. The Italian combined army seemed highly elated with their prospects; and the campaign ‘having now begun in real earnest, we trust that either by force of arms, or by some amicable arrangement,

peace will soon be restored to Italy. ‘The utter

| disorganisation of all government at Vienna must surely \superinduce some pacific solution of the present hope- less contest for keeping Italy any longer under Austrian thraldom. The Pope has dispatched Monsignor Mori- chini to Vienna to negotiate peace, in which we hope

he will be successfu!. The conditions recommended by the Pope are, that Italy sliall be restored to her natural boundaries, and that the Germans shall recross the

|Alps. ‘I'he people of Italy and Austria would then be-

come brothers.

Letters from Ferrara state that the Neapolitan troops refuse to cross the Po to join the allied army. The moment iscritical. The intelligence froin Naples an- nounces that Calabria was in full insurrection; a body of 1500 Sicilians had passed the straits fiom Messina, with ten pieces of carnon, to assist their brothers in Calabria. The famous Romeo and his two sons, had landed at Civita Vecchia, and were on the road to join the insurgents. The King ofthe two Sicilies will scarce- ly be able to resist the overwhelming feeling which has

now set against him. The royal troops are said| Muapers.—Advices from the Governor of New South|to be everywhere disarmed, and the people marching on|

the capital,

In Vienna matters continue in the same stete: all endeavours to induce the Emperor to return to hj capital have failed. The Russian ambassador hed joined the court at Innspruck, together with several o¢ the chief nobility. The retirement of the Emperor ees created the greatest excitement in the Hungarian Sclavonian, and Croatian parts of the empire; and it jg altogether im possible to form a conjecture of the politica) consequenees which must attend this almost virtual dis. ruption of the Austrian monarchy.

In Prussia matters seem to be still worse. At Berlin the mob have obtained the complete ascendancy in the Government. General Aschoff, the Commander of the Burgher Guar, who was also Military Commandant of Berlin, has been compelled to resign his command of the Burgher Guard, owing to the jealously of the people of his connection with the Court. Affairs are in a rest. less uneasy state. The arms distributed by the Go. vernment for the maintenance of order are very like] to be turned agaiest the Court; and altogether the violence of the clubs and the demonstrations against ‘re-action’ seem likely to have some serious results The Prince of Prussia has arrived at Potsdam, F

The Diet at Frankfort appears afraid to deal with the Holstein-Schleswig question, A motion has been pro- posed to make the affair a national one, and that the war will not be allowed to end without a previous satisfactory guarantee ‘ for the rights of the duchies and the honour of Germany,’ but the Assembly has put it off toa committee to determine the order in which it js to be brought before the Diet. The honour of Germany and the rights of the duchies will be best consulted by leaving Holstein in its former position, unless Germany has resolved upon a much more serious war than one with the Danes.

Belgium is tranquil, and the only suffering is from finanical embarrassments. The firmness of the King and the disinclination of the people to be moved to re. volt by French propagandism, excites the enmity of the French Government, as expressed in the columns of the National.

In Spain the financial crisis continues; and when the news of Count Mirasol’s departure from London, and the approval of parliament of Sir H. Bulwer’s conduct reaches Madrid, we expect some convulsion.

The news of the French revolution had thrown the Brazil Court into a most perplexed state: no French bills could be negotiated at Rio. ‘The same news had materially affected the negotiations in the River Plate, where Baron le Gros and Mr. Gore had arrived.

The meetings of Chartist in the metropolis and in the provinces have not been so numerous during the present week, and from the vigor display by the Go vernment andthe magistracy the more noisy leaders appear to be somewhat subdued. Messrs. Williams, Fussell, and Sharp, who have figured in London as con- spicuous mob orators in the physical force line, have been arrested by order of the Government. Mr. Ernest Jones also, who was anxious to distinguish himself like Mr. Mitchel, has also been captured, at Manchester, and carried a prisoner to London. ‘The four leaders were brought up for examination at Bow-street, on Wednesday, and evidence being adduced of their having uttered highly seditious language, they were fully committed for trial, and, in default of bail, convey- ed at once to Newgate in the van. Richard Vernon, another of the Chartist leaders, and several more at Manchester, and elsewhere, have also been arrested.

Ste Te ATER Na. MONDAY, JULY 3, 1848.

THE INEFFICIENCY OF THE REPRESENTA TION OF P, FE, ISLAND. We hope we may—notwithstanding the temporary check which commercial pursuits have met with—con- sider that Charlottetown is progressively mounting in the scale of commercial Towns, We are well aware that if the Fisheries—which, in their turn, would give a sti- mulusto the agriculturists,;who must grow the food neces- sary for those engaged in that business, were developed the progress made would be much more rapid and active. Yet, though this desideratum is wanting, we can readily recognize some advance, such as it is, towards improve- ment. The addition to the number of our mercantile houses, within a very few years—the enlargement with- ina similar period, of old, long-standing establishments rising ftom the humble pretensions of the log shanty to the durable and stately three-story edifice—are unmis- takeable evidences that we have laid the foundation, st least, of a respectable commercial community. Ilow necessary is it, then, that those who have the care of our interests in the Legislature should possess acuteness, and some general knowledge of commercial and financia! subjects—persons somewhat better endowed with infor-

mation cn these points, than those to whom they are, at present, confided; and, if we cannot find parties pos- sessed of general knowledge, and of sufficient capacity

ito embrace all these matters, had we not better choose,

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