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licned here, where be cannot answer, mey probably defend himself in another place and in as | ublig a manne:

Mr. HAVILAND.—Mr. Chairman, } must say that i um disappoimted at the course the debaie kas taken. L sup-

nosed, that as the matter kad been postpone { for days and days, that when at last it did come up, we shou'd have had ? eraud discussion on some constitutional question ; but ims | stead of that, I have beea SUrprist lat the gross per onalities | induleed by tho Ton. Col. Secretary and the Hon. Mr. | Whelan. And © tell those hon. members that they would | mot dare to use them, unless clothed with the protection | of parliamentary privilege.

Hon. COLONIAL SECRETARY.—If the

ver's friend will come outside the dogrs, 1 will repeat to his

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hon. mem

face what 1 said of him Mr. HAVILAND- that a jury would give heavy damage ; has been so ft ully maligned, is a mavistrate for the who Esland, from the North Cape to the Bast Point, and if he has been thought worthy to receive such an appointment, 7

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Mr. Ch urman, T can ouly Buy Mr. Stewart, who

surcly he cannot « with reference to him. The Hon. Col. Secretary sneeringly alluded to the exteat of Mr Why, Sir, does he mean to Say that a small proprictei is pot as much | justified iu protecting his interests as a large one? Itis somewhat amusibe to hear the parties who attacks, say that they admit the right of petition. they may admit it, for it isa fundamental principle of the constitation, and the necessity of adding suspend:ng ¢! to the Bills arises from that principle, which enables a man

whose rights are invaded to go to the loot of the throne. |

Vright’s property.

Well}

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The hon, member, Mr. Whelan, laid down the principle|The Spanish Government most decidedly but courteousty | that land was liable to taxation; no one denies it, but the! refuses to wply with the wishes of our goverment, and 1h | taxation should be on all, not ¢ particulss portion On} Minister urges that, according to the laws of nations, the | what priaciple should the owner of more than oUU acres be} commauder of the Ferrolano did nothing more than the peculiar | *). . . » : Fol 't he /- awanes taxed, while the proprictoi less Mipeed \s is! circumslances at that time in the nely ibourhved of ae stated in these documents, small pimees of ground to CUbar-} justitied. vlicloWwh are moi luable th uu fal | rict ! thre | i a . . ; Son tt) ; v» > LiperaL Donarton.—Andrew Carney, kisq , of Boston, | vouueuy As tO til iAmwous ** gagved Ki wrimeni, W the ul ae a -* ; é . eee , ‘ the Boston T'ranserpt presented last week to the trus- | ateulog as t) the necessity Which existed for orgamzing the; “45 | 1 . at iff f $12,-| c , as an nt’ VE nwa . ep S > a pe Sanne, @ te the dul f ac ange ypulation to con-| tees of the Sigfers of Charity the munificent sum ¢ ; py i P wie “oe Ts : ‘ ‘ i ‘ 1 Qi i? tow urds thy new “t \ mcernt ce Paul Qi hou Asyluin, | tribu to the deicny tin ountry With referene vs we 3 Wrat } 2 . ' ‘ F al i eonrss« yt srectror ) ~ rt venue. ' to t allusion of tha Pon. ¢ Secretary to those of the |i cour creetion ou Shawmut Avenue obi tic ; who held offices. I wish he had manifested the gy \" , The | ' . 1 : " ' \i« *ARTICULARI {OND OF ALATRIMONY, hie j} 4 sifu irl OW OLher oi ‘ \\ Mr. Chairman, re- | A Man . | nucr tbe time wher We were called on to contribute te ; a et ' | Y | ‘a! . ; . } : Work ist hristia nr) ot Kriohoan oun’, and * the} the relief of widows and orphans, rendered to by the Eastern |* Purkish . ney a rf : \ ’ il . ' ' ' " ‘ , e le year ‘ or k - af Amertcea el yar, and on that occa-ion an the Government opposed | most remarkable bigamist ever Knowa tn

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eserve the remarks that have been made hound that attacked hith

old, and was a general favorite with the fauily.

auses | Minister at Madrid, in reply to demands made at different) rn of which be is a member tind their cot

. ° . : } . var o oa « >» N ’ < é ‘times for redress in the matter of firing into and detaining | ine the Grand Trank Raibway less profitable than they expected

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cleven years old, in attempt . which Brown drew | The monster hed , | but was overtaken | He threw |

The ing to aid her mother, knife cutting them sey rely

ir daughter, wized the

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to esciy in a boat,

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others.

ihy Cant Benimin \ \\ arren und thre 3 : himself overboard with a rock tied to his neck, saying, ** War- | ren, you know what I bave done , f have killed any wile, hut

[commit myself

she killed me first,—take gtre of my children i te the waves.’—but the water being shallow he was Alastor up, and committed to Belfast jail. He is 35 years old, and his

wasabout 30,a small woman, inpofensive, and pre possess

wife ing in appearance

A Boy Torn vo Pieces by a Bioopnounn.—A young > ? 4 ; ; ; ‘ Waele ye traim Whitehead, living in Cleveland, was

lad named Kp! a Iie was missing,

kitted by a bloodhound on Saturday last. Mh when the family became alarmed, and search was tustituted for him. A nephew of Mr. Whitehead diseovered the boy ina field, about twenty rods from the house, nearly dead, and torn in a most awful manner by a bloodhound slut, owned in the neighborhood. The poor little fellow lived only half an hour after he was found. When he was found, the questign was asked whether tt was the blood-

He had barely strength enough | —The boy was about eight years |

having been attacked

to half articulate * Yes.”

|

Spat avo THe Usrrep Srares.—-A despatch from Washing-

fnake these} ton says :—

The last steamer brought despatches addressed by the | Minister of Foreign Relations to the American |

Spauish

the steamer i) dorado by the Spanish wan of-war Ferrolano. }

Hamilton (O.) Lntelligencer tells us of a modern Blue Beard, } wreck of the British barque Blake, of S00 tons, Kdward

is the rare and aristocratic name of Nathan brown, and

ur yu nlina& (ric. | : : — . | cures then as now when a few individuals protest against their | h¢ ha nine gentle he pinates, partners of , is joys ane ee property being taken from them. The Tenants’ Compensa-| and wives of his bosom, to every one o! ‘whom he has een | tiow Br}! for lreland, introduced by Mr. Sharman Crawford legally married t ulike Anna's sister's ‘husband (that most it will be seen by Liansard, goes into the Llou-e of Clommous truculent ind energetic Mussulivan), . } very Session, und as regularly goes cul. There is not the} 29'S Wives heads; but when he is tired of one thew, he very | must remote chance of its ever » ssime, bn mause it embodies

| philosophically raus away, and as soon as possible he marries breach over her decks. Several of the crew had alreatly

The| a other. to make good the loss in which he has beeu tnyol- been swe}

i the

srown does not cut off} date the ship had become waterlogged,

EXAMINER.

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of the mountains resembled a vast wall of rocks, and at another a boundless plain of fallen ruins. ‘

The bluffs, slopes, escarptinents, depressions, clearmes nn wooded regions all change both fearure and postion go ab- tooishing rapidity. “Phe mountaimons walls of rocks si wae all pass away, and are followed by an endless variety 0 » landscapes the eye ever beheld, al! apparently istant bills covered with green foliage, and sun. A countless number

most lovely hemmed on by d bathed in the guided rays of the Summers — of small rivers mnyht been seen gracefully winding among : ereen hills. finally discharging their waters into a crystal lake lathe midst of the landscape. ‘To contrast with this beauty and ecuchantment, inverted bills covered wih timber might be seen moving over the surface of the water passuns directly — the side of the mountains, while off the unrufiied bosom of the lakes start a number of poied cones, widening as whose bases are fixed in the clouds, ali moving gently torward and mingling ore with = oiher toto every inagimary form and figure that it 1s possible for the mind to conceive. —For atew moments 1 was interested mm seeing one gf these miverted mountain peaks passing _ rectly through a large eity, and changing on the opposite side into a formless mass of rock, confusedly thrown together and suspended inthe air, Afterward it assumed the ro a nu merous promontories with long low headlands, extending fee away into the lake, After the lapse of a few moments it broke wks and shoals just emerging from the water, ared, deaving nothing behind but the blue sur d by the horizon.— Wesleyan

phantou they rise to great mountains,

into islands, re finally disappe tace of the lake—our vision bounde

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he Montreal Truc Witness says that a letter from Mr. Brassy, of the Firm of Peto, Brassy & Betts, to the Hlon. Mr. Ross. fas caused almost a panic in the Reil Road Commercial world of Canada, Mr. Berassy’s letter is to the effect, that the itract for construct- They therefore modestly request that the Province came to their assistance by yuaranteemg to Stockholders a dividend of five per cent: at the end of 99 yeers the Road to become the property of the Province. | =

Meetings were about being held in various cities of Canada, ty denounce the conduct of “ The Great Coutractors.”

A good pet mol transpired in the [louse of Parhament tno relation to the late demand on the part of the Contractors of Grand ‘Trunk Katlway. “The demand.is Brassy,”’ observed the perpetrator, “and you cam tuke Petts to any

df

smount thatthere is something more in Peto.”

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NEWPOUNDLAND. Menancnoir Surewkeck AND oe Lare.—The VYewfoundland papers contain detailed accounts of the awful

Loss

Rudolf, master. ‘This vessel sailed in excellent order, on the Sth of February, from Ship [sland Harbor, Mississippi, bound for Cork, with a cargo of pitch pine deals. When near the middle of the Atlantic she encountered a series of terrific gales, ov rather one continued hurricane, lasting from the 4th of March until the 19th» But long before this latter her sails and spars had beer carried away, and every heavy sea made a clean

1 away, and those who survived were suffering the

the principle of interfereuce with private rights leri ) ld ati T ! t . - . » _ . oe - . ca | ¢ Hiouse is so warm to night that I must defer apv further | ved by bis fastidious disposition. We learn that his practice | Wost € xtreme sutlering from cold, huge r, and fatigue. The varks to a futuro opportunity ihas been to live with each bride about three months, and} gale began to abate on the 19th. For thirteen days the IC BUT AS (U a i ure rat ¥. } - ‘ * . " . - . . llon. COLONTLAI SHOR ETARY had not « id that the | then to “ vameoose ” in search of fresh bridal adventures, | wretched survivors remained upon the wreck without tasting ' vimwithe ge Ogg ee eae eek , sui !a morsel of food, except one rat, which was divided among cers who : iwhed the petition should be dismissed ; but} § thing the property ol his re lempor Spouse wihbiw. But j . — . Eek. ne eX - é _ —_ — 7 - oC that they should have resiched t! situations before affix. | bis seventh wife has proved too much for him; and upon her | them. Mie account of their sufferings during this time, as ng their names to such charecs acainst the Government jcomplaint, he has been torn from the embraces of his ninth, | given hy the master himself, is quite harrowing. Ou the Mr. HAVILAND had omitted to refer to the arcumepts|2ud locked up in Butler county jail, where he will have} thirteenth day one of the erew—the second one who had done AvEL abschy : ‘ ’ oh alt) ‘ S : . - ° é i i t. . : Final “— an ma al of the Hon. Co!. Seeretary, that th appointing nis to the | 2™@ple time to retieet upon the error of his ways, but precious | SO——Sank under his suff rngs and died. he body was not Leatsiative Council proved that the old iustruetions had been | little oppertunily of wooing and wedding his tenth. In short, | thrown overboard. Lt served as food for the survivors, until i 29th, the sufferers were taken

?

" ‘ ' ° e¢ arog . { ty re : . P ae , sted. They proved no such thing, and the preper in-| #ter a carcer quite worthy of Don Giovanni, Nathan Drown

ce was that the Imperial Government were under the) ! impression that the parties were qualified as the instructions |! prescribed. i ¢ ficon. COLONIAL SECRETARY said, that the fumeut of the hoo. member was to the effect, that any fool | who might chance te own 8,000 acres of land was fit tor reat in the Legislativ: Council Ile had also stated, that he lon. Col. Seeretary) had no right to speak of the petition- | be had it was all right for them their abuse on the L gislature.

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to pout

tors being 1m the Commission of the Peace for Counties wherein | eguse of bis grief,

they held extensive properties ; but they should not siigma- || lize their tenant™ as perjurers. jections of the hon. member opinion that the Township Lands should bear the expense of}

4 cotlitay y for ,*

lon. Mer. MOONKY —With reference to the hon. mem- | r, Mr. Elaviland’s, allusion to his opposition to the Patri i. tic Fund vote, state from his own pocket ; j the mon 5 the pet p! : without the it consent, us he did | not think there was much patrietism in compulsion Progress Was report }

®leanings from fate Papers. | UNITED STATES. as |

fur sew Liquor Law rok tue Srate or Maine.—The new Maine liquor law, which takes effect on the Ist of Jun ensuing, provides that no person shall manufacture distilled Spirits | without «iving a bond of $1000 that he will not sell any spirits except of lis own manufacture amc without adulteration Any | ueturing without giving bonds to forfeit = LOCg.— The act does not extend to imp rted liquors, Cider, or home made win The 6th section authorises cities and towns to} :ppoint as many agents as they think the wants of the com Janholders are authorized to sell to guests, | but they may not keep a bar No liquor is to be sold to any | minor, indian, soldier mm the army, drunkard or intoxicated | nersou. Violations of this provisivu are punished with a fine of #20. No person can be authorized to sell until be has given bounds in S100 not to violate the law ; persons selling, who are | aot authorised, are liable toa fine of $20. Three unlaw ful | sales constituts a common seller, and render him liable to a fine | of $100 or imprisonment for six months. The 15th section | provides that no person shali keep a drinking house or a! tippling shop in the State, and this is defined as meaning any | place, except au imn, where liquors are sold exeept as provided | by law. The keeper of such house is fined $200 or imprisoned | one year. No action can be maintained on any claim for} liquors illegally sold. Any person selling to a drunkard is held liable forall injuries committed by him while intoxicated. | Any one selling impure liquor is fined $1000

Person miaanat

munity require

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Mrtancuory Dieaseen.--Scelir. Mary, Nickerson, of Argyle, was capsized off Cape Ann, during the gale of Monday last. | Capt. Nickerson and Avron Boyd perished in the rigging. A boy was washed overbvard and lost. Samucl Allen was taken | off, on the following mormog, and the vessel was taken into Snie lulem.

Ayxorngen Unrorruxate Wreck.—The schooner Wailiam D Careill,

224, the wreck of the schooner Robt. Miller, of St. George ge.

Me., from Virginia, with a cargo of vak timber for Boston, on her beam-ends and full of water, Took from her the mate, Kdward Colbert, the only survivor of the crew, in an exhausted stute, having becnon the wreek forty-cight hours. Five others perished from ee, viz :—Mitchell Wilson, of St. Cieorge, Me., captain ; Daley of Boston, steward; James Nawler of St. Jobn, John Weich of Prince Edward Islaud, and another unknown.—Dostvon Courier.

cores

| with his whole collection of wives, and leave him to his fate. We suspect there would be very little left of Nathan in an

Hie br vl po objection lu propric- The owner of the mill wis touche d, sund kindly inquired the

Notwithstanding the ob-|son John could have got a dollar and seventy-five cents a and others, he adhered to his| bushel for this very wheat two munths ago

~ | nevertheless,

1, that he had coutributed to that fund | was one death to thirty-two persons, in Boston, one death to mt bad opposed the appropriation | thirty seven, and in Philadelphia one death to thirty-two.

old this spring, and has had thirteen calver.

(2.000 miles of railroad

{ females

from Philadelphia for Boston, put into Hulmes’s | Ulole, aud reperte having fallen im with off Fire Island on the |

: down, having been at the age of fifty-three arrested in his rilliant matrimonial career. We should like to pass sentence

m Nathan. We would lock him up in rather a small cell

our or two.— Boston Atlas

Arrectine Case.—The Dayton Gazette, in a recent number, old an affecting story of «a farmer who, while selling a load ff wheat at a dollar a bushel in that city, burst into tears. . © Sympathy’? was too much for him, and vursting into a tremendous ** boo-hoo,’’? he replied :—* My

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Puaysictans AND Mortauiry IN San Francisco.—There are in an Francisce not less than 156 phy sicians and 65 apothecaries | the mortality is small, being not more than one } leath ina year to fifty persons, whereas in New York there} For the indigent sick in Sun Irancisce there are four hospitals.

Phe Batavia Advocate notices & very remarkable cow, owned Hiram Wood of that town, She is a red Devon, eight years In 1854 she had two calves at a birth, last year she had four, and this Spring three—wil full grown and well formed

by

Tho income of Ohio last year was about four and a-quaricr millions of dollars, and its expenditure three millions and a half. It has 860 miles of canals, 600 of navigable rivers, and fts wheat crop last year was 20,000,000 bushels, and corn 80,000,000 bushels.

There was manufactared in Massachusetts, during the past year 15,467,502 pairs of boots and shoes, valued at $37 ,468,- 355, and giving employment to 43,907 males and $2,652

The lowa Republican says there will be five eclipses this year —two of the san—two ol the moon—and one of Frank Pieree. The latter will be visible all over*the United States in November next.

Of the fourteen Presidents of the United States, not one was a citizen of @ great city.

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COLONIAL NEWS.

CANADA.

The Bill to encourage Smuggling and hypocrisy, called the Prohibitery Liquor Law, has been thrown out, and serve it right! Now then, Ict the released Delegates give their steady attention to some measure to discourage the almost universal crime of Iutemperence among us, by a new License Law, or the proper observance of the present one! Tax all alcoholic beverages, ano render them less accessible in price to those who most abuse the power to purchase them. Let us have a Philobarleycorn Mania instead of a whiskey feyer—encourage the growth of hops and barley and apples, and grapes, and home-made wines! Why can’t we make as good champagne as our cousins in New Jersey ?— Old Countryman. "

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Minace on Lake Surenion.—We have often heard of the optical illusions encountered by maciners on the great Northern lake but wothing equal to that wyinessed by a gentleman on Isle Royal: —

The wirage on the lake shores is a most interesting natural phenomena, Occasionally it displays a surpassing grandeur which baliles all powers of description, from the rapidity of its changing features. On one occasion, in the Spring of 1854 it exceeded anything that | had before seen. From. the Siskowit N@ie, the South shore from the Keweenaw Point to Pon du Lat, a distauce uot short of one hundred and fifty miles, which is seldom seen under the most favourable cir- Curmstances, Low came in full view, The nearest point of this range of hills is at least fifty miles from us, and though not

affair at Islesboro’, Maine, last week. raft, returned to

ee i Chere was a terrible

Joseph G. Brown, 6

™ y 7 i Wier Of U dliia@il Waicr

1, } . ; e .. »t Fis 1 f ; \ } ' 468 NOMIC US His lulliy WuUs Ul DPeAniasi Vuch ils Wilt saw } : - . : 4 . isi3 COUntenance, she exclaimed, **f am afraid of you.’? He tmimediately caught up a knife and parsued her to a corner of

+The ‘ al 4 ' 1 . 4 rovm, and eut her throat, Ssl2yering NOt windpipe anc

wore than eight or nine hundred feet in height, by actual | easurement, presented the appearance at this tune of an ex- | tensive rane of lofty mountains, with namerous peaks starting (from their summits, and lost ia the clouds not unlike gigantic | Pillars of Heaven, ‘To the observer, the scene like a moving

four days afterwards, on the from the wreck by the schr. Pigeon, of St. John’s, N. F., bound to that port from Lisbou. They had been tantalized,

during the most iniense slage of their suflerings, by secing three other vessels pass them at different umes. They arrived at St. Johu’sou the 15th of April, The survivors numbered eight, including all the officers of the ship. Kight of the

evew bad been washed away, and two had died on the wreck

trom cold, fatigue avd hanger.

‘The following is a list of the survivors :—Kdward Radolf,

master; Wynne Duggan, mate, Swansea; James Gosgrove,

second mate, Liverpool; John George Ludolf, third mate,

Halifax ; Juba George Peterson, seaman, Srieste ; Joseph

Barber, seaman, Genoa; John Kiezer, seaman, Germany ; | William Thomas, cook, Halifax.

List of those who perished :—John Philips, carpenter, Dundee ; Thomas Leach, seamen, Dublin; Heary Kagleston, seamen, New York; Joseph Thomson, seaman, do.; John Crimmons, scatman, do.; William Brown, seaman, do.; Charles Beck, seaman, Baltimore; Jonathan Roberts, steward, Liverpool. 3

Died from fatigue, cold and starvation :—Richard Fess, seaman, Bridgeport, Wales ; Jose Ariva, seaman, Callao.

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Wreck or a Winosoun Baig—Turnee Lives Losr.— St. Joho’s N.EF., April 9.—The Brig * Argo’ of Windsor, N. S., from New York for this port, with a cargo of provisions, was lost on Sunday morning last, at 4 o'clock, on Single Race | Head, about 4 miles to the westward of Cape Race. Captain! and four of the crew saved—three drowned. The names of | the sutvivors besides the Captain, are, Caleb Pathatm, Mate, | Charles Patterson and Peter Wilson, of New York, and Edgar | Douglas of Maitland, N. 8S. The names of the unfortunate | iost are Not given.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

TUE REBELLION IN CHINA, The China Mai of Feb. 15, says:—“ On the rebel left, | in Huh Peh, government appears to be im possession of ali | places north of the Yang-tze Kiang; the enemy confining | himself to the south section of the provinee, which, be it observed, is contiguous to Kiang Si. On the right, in Kiang Su, if we may trust reports, disease has greatly enfeebled the garrison of Chin-Neang, while Nanking has failed in an attempt to succour it; its early recapture would not there- fore surpriseany ove. In the centre, places held for eighteen months have been abandoncd by the rebels; the troops moving south in pursuit. Buta large city in the extreme north of the province, and as it were, in rear of the Im- perialist army, has been attacked by rebels, styled of Kiang Nan—so particularised, possibly, to distinguish them from local banditti of the same denomination as those who infested Itu Nan some years ago—who have been troublesome and victorious in different parts of the province. Behind the Yang-tze Kiang, speaking with reference to Peking, towards which we assume the tide of insurrection to flow, peace, it is to be feared, is less probable than ever. We heard in August of the Kastern King, Yang’s presence at Hwui-chau, in Ngan Hwui; he was then said to be leading 60,000 men to Kiang Si. In the far west of the empire, Kwei Chau has been invaded by the aboriginal Miaou-tz’, who dwell on its inner borders; and in Sz Chuen, a scarcity of rice had caused an outbreak in several districts,” _———-~9 e600 @—_ —___ _ Insurance on The Pacteic anp Cargo.—The amount of insurance on the Pacific is $600,000; half in the United States, and half in Kugland, ‘The freight money was insured lor $40,000. Ter cargo was valued at $1,500,000, and consisted of some six or seven hundred tous ; it was mostly insured. ‘I'he total amount of insurance exceeds $2,000,000,

a ee _ The whole number of births, marriages and deaths in Scotland, during the year 1855 were as follows: Births J3,198, marriages 19,639, and death 62,154. 'This is the proportion of one birth annually for every 32, one death for

vlerstand that a telegram hus been a ceived from New Brunswick stating that the Scér. Lightfoos James Harlow, master, which left this port in tie carly part

of March, has been totally lost; and, melavcholy to relat “;

Disasren.—We w

all on board, except the captain’s brother, perished, Our sympathy 1s tendered to the suffering and bereaved friends The particulars of the disaster have not yet been received — Liverpool Transcript. —=2eo - The Central Association in Aid of the Widows and Families of Soldiers have received £121,704, and disbursed upWards of £90,000 ; 6562 wives of soldiers, 8983 children, and, 939 widows whose sof™ have served in the Kast, have been aided

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A Barbadoes paper says that a Regiment of Natiye-jy. fantry (vlacks) is ordered to Halifax for garrison duty fo» two years, when they will be succeeded by one from Trinidad now being organised.

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Accounts were received by the Cambria of the demise of Sir Rupert D. George, formerly Provincial Secretary of Nova Scotia.

The London Evening Sun was seized at the Freneh post office, in consequence of its appearing with a black border asa token of mourning for the peace.

Jenny Lind gave a coneert at Exter Hall, London, and bestow ed the entire proceeds, £1,872, toward the fund for Florence Nightingale.

Mr. Charlas Gavan Duffy, late M. P. for New Ross, tint been enthusiastically received in Australia. fle was entertained to dinner by the crizens of Sydney, New South Wales.

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Correspondence.

SOOO LALA lll Al LOL Ll al ala eal a ell el eet le To rae Eprror ov Tuk Examinen.

hirk,—Before the Grand Jary at Georgetown, last term, my name was returned, on the information of Galbric! MeDonald, son of Mr. Angus MeDonald, shoemaker, East Point, as haying vivlated the law, by retailing liquors without license ; and ay those reported violating the law, are supposed , by Bone, to he of dishonest vagalf$nd habits, [ beg you to give place in yous

| paper to the following, which can be testilied by every respect

able resident in this community :

L emigrated to this island in ISLS; afterwards held a joase i

farm in Bay Fortune for twelve years, for which [ paid my rent honestly : but not bein aware of the egal conditions of leases, I found that, at the expiration of twenty years, the fifty weres I then held would be subject to the annual rent of £10 asum which | was unable to pay, and, therefore, L was obliged to leave my farm and Lnprovements, which were made while

j was in tho prime of life. Being now over sixty 3

i's of ige *s Be; { wake my living, at Rollo Bay, by doing as immeh as 4

iV rheumatic disabled arm will permit me to do, at my trade (shoe-making), and by selling confectionary, lemon syrup ard

such things as | can afford to parchase and the neiehbours mey buy of me. I must say that about bast Christioas | had a couple of gallons of rum, which led to the information, hat wiih IT can testify was sold more than three months previous to my trial before Hon. DP. Beaton and Jolin Knight, Esy.— whose sympathy and liberal contributions, together with ¢ of Captain Roderick MeDonald and other humane neighbours, have enabled me tu pay the fine and kept me out of jail in my old aye. '

{f Gabriel MeDonald, in giving information, had heen acte ated hy any desire to suppress the use of liquor and adyanee the cause of Temperance, his conduct might deserve praise ; but it is notorious that no more dissolute reckloss character ean be feund in King’s County, as may be clearly inferred hig the consistency of his testimony before the Grand Jury. where he returned the names of over sixteen ms, and at their trials proved and had fined only three or fowr.

Trusting you will put this statement of an old industrious man in your paper, lam, sir, yours, e.,

JOHN OPONNELL

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Ifead Rollo Bay, April 28, 1856.

THE BEAMING.

ONO Oe SONI NINA INE NINA ANAL NA Le A he a CHARLOTTE 2, 1856.

TOWN, MAY 1

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THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCEL,.

Tike having been so large a majority in the House of As sembly against the proposition to reuder the Lecislative Council an vlective body, the matter seems likely to- pass off for the present with but little notiee. Governor and the Queen would all have to be consulted befow

The Council itself, the Lieut

such a measure could be obtained, and the time is yer)

cdrstant,

we think, before it is likely to make such progress through the

Legislature. So far as it is A local question - view it

( i ty sO is to take a very narrow view of a coustilational movement)

— the desire of those who promoted it for the purpose

of pe

ducing a change in the personnel of the Council, is casily Uraee able when we consider who they are and what ( That they ome mainly to the Council their pre

position, will make their impotent attempt at veneeunce

r ofnects sone powerless ea

“ily

comprehensible. The same crude and despotic notions which swayed their counsels when they made their al»

under the Holl Government, to prostrate

‘higa « ' rtiye Lenipt,

tne new system @ administration, by keeping departmental officers out of the Le gislature, guide them in their movement for an elective Coun

cil. They have not forgotten —any snore than a Liberal people ought to forget—that it was the Council who prevented this bold attempt at destroying the new ly acquired liberties of the people. That the parties engaged in this onset against the Council are guided, as they ever have been, by the stratagems of an unscrupulous warfare against popular and constitutional liberty, is too evident to need demonsteation. When a traitorous majority in the Assen)! y abandoned their honor and their pledges, the Legislative Council nobly and successfully resisted the encroachments made upon the Consti- tution through the venality of that majority, and hence we may be sure that no session will be allowed to pass withont an attempt being made to get rid of that Council.

The harmony so happily subsisting between the two branches

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of the Legislature, and so necessary to public convenience and safety, is likely to remain undisturbed for many years to come. The object of making the Council clectiye is to destroy that harmony ; ie requiring high property qualifications from its members, §) cram that branch with Vroprictors or their cads, to destroy Responsible Goyernment and perform all the mad freaks ofdespotism. That is all that is aimed at—perhaye not by the introducer of the measure, but undoubtedly by many of those who support it ;—and yet many people are se blind, that they really persuade themselves, or Laye persuaded themselves, that the project is, forsooth, a popular movement. When the two branches ofthe Legislature do not work in harmony, and when the Council obsiructs measures whieh are just, right and liberal, the question of making it clective may then be generally entertained. but not until then.

But let us take a wider and strictly constitutional view of

this subject. Let us remember that the constitution of the

British empire is allowed by wen of all, except purcly ignorant savage nations, to be the most couservatiye of true liberty that human wisdom has yet designed. The French would fain adopt

every 48, and one marriage for evry 153 persons in the

pauoramg, was Cogstantly changing. Atone moment the side

estimated population.

it, but cannot, for want of the material of this very iaterme (diate branch — all of which was absorbed or destroyed in ihe