MISCELLANEOUS NFWs. SO eee ere — TAR OON FROCK ATR OUNSPIRACY IN CANADA.

ihe Montreal Advertiser, a paper weually well informed on all matters connected with the atlerre of the Suathern States, gives the following partreulacsof the reornt conspiracy, which, it now appears, came very near being ® serious matter -—

* Khe eapeditios intended to effect the liberation ot ‘‘onfederste officers, prisoners «@ Jobneton’s Isiand, having failed, in order te remote the iInisapprebansions that may be created by Federal accounta of a Canadian plot te bara Western eities, we give below all the facts m which the public are interest- ed, whieh may, we are assured, be implicitly relied on. The Washington government } aving refused to continue the exchange of prisouers of war under the cartel, sent the svuthern offeers accustumed to a troprenl climate to Jubnston « Inland, where 2.000 of theta were confined ia wretched quarters ab- eulately unfit to house cattle There is no reaeun to duubt thet the officers selovted tur thie prison were thdad on whom the culd,

damp climate and exposure would act most prejudicially. l¢ wae, in fact, an attempt to

commit mutder withvot publicly incurring

the odium of slaughter. In these circum-

erances the Confederate government doter- mined to Make an aftempt to rescue the ‘iovomed officers, fur this purpose an expedi- ww Jeave the ship in ® boat—which. was’ tion was firted out, conswting of thirty-eix ewamped immediatly, and all of them lost. | elbeere under the command of une who bad Ajrer the tide fell trom the reef and the surf | distinguished bimselt in swilar dashing jad settled downs little, four gullunt fellows, enterprises, and three hundred wen. foe gat out from shure in a bout, reached the. officers ewbarked at Wilmington io the Con wreck, and brought uff the reat uf the crew) Lee, and landed at —three in number.

The cortom avd tubacco brought! pon 4 hy that steamer as freight were auld to | turaish the funds required, amountieg to new contract with the Atlantic Steamship whoat SILGMH). The men came ewetiard Company. through the States, in small partes, to the terms than those of the former contract, the | The wteaten was to Government have reduced the annual subsidy | vurprise the Federal garrison on Johnston's trom £416,000 to £206,000.

Island, liberate the prisuaery, convey them provided lur Sie purpuse, and forward them by Halifax to Nassau or Bermada ; the greater part of the funds houmg expecially devuted tu paying their pas-

tederute steamer KR. E Halitax.

yoneral rendezvous.

to Canada in vessels

to one of these paints,

* Any further operations on the Inkew were lett to the direction of the officer in commaod, whuee ordere were stringent and peremptory to avoid « breach of British neutrality, and to take care that even the “Phe damage inflicted must hare been tery con- sembmace uf international wrong should be siderable.—The wost severe, continuous and ter- been rible fire to which our new works ou Cuunuing's taken, it might have formed « bass for uther Pvt hare been subjected to yet, occurred ov eperations against Federal commerce on the lates; bat tire real object of the expedition wae to rescue two sioasand valuable livos

prevented. lad Joboston's Island

trum the cruelty which had devoted them &

slow but certain death in « climate snd aitu-

ation in the last degree inimical tw thew."”

lad this conspiracy been successfully car- i esrried out, it would have been tollowed by ‘hat dilapidated citadel. the moet serious consequences to these Pro- vinees, The statemento! the Advertiser that Britieh neutrality was to be respocted, and * even the semblance uf internatioual wrong | \..5¢ yp until the tide rose and she Was towed oul prevented,” is entirely inconsistent with the Qj pauge. During the eugagement the officers Tae tact of such an ex- aud crew being on deck, labouring to get-outlines | peditiog being arranged on British soil, was te baul ber off, several of the crew were wounded |

tscta of the case.

eS oS Se See Se wer ekeneresss -_— |

ao exoeption to the rule, the pecuniary elaim | -SPONDENCE. being set dows at net leas than £36,000 Need | Cc 0 R RESPONDE .

we @&y vhe word more upon the sapect of the, ' ; u

)case Ae stands? We thiok not. The poopie! Dee she gs een

vt Kngland ace abrewd, ae well aa geverous nod | TOBY'S REPLY TO HIS MASTF. grateful; aod we will out add another ayliable to Tour doggere! verses, youd master mine, : vur iadigosot plea that they should disown the) Were read to me by 4 friend of thine ; eageroesd of sluuderert sud partitans, aod at. ho We ob ae oe an one | nrthenltot — mam | how proud 1 see that the folk should read vt aituse i— Fryl Sh paper. Fth west. \ that your Toby comes of the purest breed ; > i airy | Por a dey of anduinted Scotian blood, The Londun Sutw rday Review saye that in| Vesceaded from thowe before the flood, the European Conzress recommended by | St weil with the Lani sie rec proad ohd Thanes, Louie Napoleon, Ragland weuld become vat! Derived frou the Runie Celts and Danes, 7 wr , | Who, dox-like, atule whatever ther fonad, * secondary power in influeuce, and France! And worried each other, like wolf and hound would gain at hor ek pedae, Lhe Spectator Great Dons were these, us histury notes, says that * th: rumble of cannon in movement t Winw drank and swore, and (haved npn oats ;

' ’ . hough high be ar lineage, ne pride I kaow, may bs heard all through’ the Emperor's Rut mix with the cnr and the mongrel Jow | apeech.

It adds that a# tne speaker can Tea-! Knough--I retarn again to my theme, lize prophecy, it is weil to study his oraclea, | Ur yvu + ill pous Toby a bowater deem ; and that ne other im pression can be beft ap- }QO man! i teel that no howling of ane

i , j In pathos ena reach thine own ead whise 7 the miad by thie utterance than that the | cat at saebenestend ith deenla0aaltn, rn

peror is determined to set Poland free ) fait and bark at the full orbed myon, * Lf thie freedom ean be accomplish i by wu) Or gaze ut the vacant chair nme run 5 Congreas well ; if not, it mua, be by war ;| For the deepest yrief mist have ite day,

: . | Aud Poby's serrow will pass away. bat by what war he hae not quite decided.” | {itouch from my inaster culled to-purt,

I never will die of «# broken henrt ;

For whe should | die—there Hea the cub,

Or, for sucrow, refuse to bolt my grub

There are lots of dogs who will visit me,

And on stones leave proofs of aympathy ;

Aad when on the étép ot your déSr he lies,

No tear for the absent dims his eyes; -

Vat PE wateh te apring on the vagabond rafts,

Or chase their faes, Cie merciless cate;

Sole method IE tave of courting the me wa,

Nine lives at a bite '+-no favour he suce; -: From the nine éf Parnassus to sing — :

No wisb on hie part to lap at their spring.

Few classical “notions f seek to display,

Theugh versed in Dog-Latin, I yeuture to say ; And now from these linea you surely may learn Phat, contented, | wait your early return.

| Then cheer up, old fellow, away with your grief,

May your stay in —— be plensant, bat brief ;

Your dog his beat wishes would etrive to express,

| With the Lope that * your shadow! my never be less. 2

THE PUBLIC. (Ne. 1.)

* Justuin ac tepacem propont: virum, Non civiom arder pruva jubeniium, ie San hehit a cet nace Oe ee Now vultus justyutia tye gi U NITED STATES WAR N EWS. Meuto quatil avlidu.'— Monat. ——— Or) + e- ess i Ma. Eotror; FROM CHARLESTON, j A letter trom Morris Ieland, dated Nov. 19, ‘says the third atteanpt to soell Charleston occurred oo Tuesday, the 17 te instant. Our rifled Darrots iw Fort Putnaw threw fweatyene shot at the Palwetto City, bineteen of which, it is ascertained, fell within the most populous portions of the city.

ssesasee catia |} A correspondent of the Eastern Chronicle | | &nDouners the loss of the brig Transit, o1 | ‘Whitehaven, Rengland, on the North Beach, | on the eset point of Magdalen Islands The | brig was frow Quebec. and was wrecked on the evening of the 10th inas. Shortly after | daylight the captain and 5x yoen. attemtped |

The Canadian Goverament have sgreed to 4

Besides making more stringent |

FOR

| since 1 commenced addressing a series of letters

| lated columus. Frew the subsequent prosecution ot that design [ wae, however, preveuted, ow ing

tou relate.

| completion of what LT then beguu, 1 wight ‘net, | perhaps, now devul it rasential to seleit any fur j Sunday wight 1oth. A pew aeven yuu battery on | Sullivan's [sland opened contewporaneously with | ) the Contederate works on James laland; and for | several hours the shells tell among us like a teu- pest of destruction. The bellowing of the u urtars | on either side was terrific.

my pen; wet that Teomcder ihe teld of centre versy any lees inviing thnu at the period in question, but sitnply beenusc uy own disposition ) ad ’ on the contrary, evers man of cominen sense ui Phe object ot the | this Island, whe at the saue time is possessed ot

uight fring was probably to retforce Suuwter, or | » gufficient ammount of common bonesty to admit |

the reba uaght have autvipated au assault on! the truth, well knows that the very reverse ot | this bypethesis is, in every Texpect, the real slate

The wonitor Lehigh recently anchored for the | of walters — that our civil or polities! condition night near Fort Sumter asa picket boat, when asa British Colony ie every day becoming a more the tide fell aud letther aground. At daylight the | and wore nuenviable ong—that whatever sensible rebels opened a heavy fire upou her, whjch was) degree of genuine relisuce even numbers af ite own supporters may have hitherto felt inclined to deposit in the clique.w hich coustitute. our present nominal Gorerament, wa esery heur becoming

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“staal and beautifully leas: — aud that, in tiawi,

piselt an insult to British weytrality. Mad it by picees of exploding shells. Counwander Bry- {in so far as the consceutive history ot this litte succeeded, had ti.¢ 2.000 prisonere op dubn- sen was slightly cut in the face by a fragment of | Province is eoneeradd, there never was, perliaps, wma's Ielaod been liberated, they would b+ shell, and Lieut. Hopkins, the executive officer ef) any other time, taking every thing inte account, driven fur shelter to the Canadas side of the the ship, wae badly hurt in the ealf of the leg | wheu the field of coatrakersy Was either as Wide,

Jakes. by the Federal furces. Confederate sympathi- sore among the Canadians would be involved in the trouble hostile collisivas would tollow, the British troops in Canada would inevi- tably have a share in the play, and thus, simost befure we could be aware of any im- ponding » these Proviuces would be hanged inte all the horrors of a wrr between iritemm and the United States. ladced it quits “that in planning tiie expedi- tim tae Contederate authorities were actu- sted by # desire to bring Abuut such « result quite as much us hy the mere wish to rescue tue prisuwers on Jobostua's Isiand. peuple ui Britush Awerica bute cause to con- gratslate themselves up the racape they have wade [rum « danger su serigue aed slurwing. A SCANDAL; LORD PALMERSTON.

Fer sowe days past rumen ce hare prevailed in Levwdum of an extraordinary case, which is about te be tried us the Divorce Court. The petitioner is @ pocson natued O Kane, ~ formerly of Bromp- ten, wed naw of Comuercial-soad, Londen,” while The ce in said te be oe less & persouage tuau Palwersion. Lt was asseried the other way, that the affair bad been compromised, but the sulicitor fur tle petitioner writes tu the Morning Star that there is oo foundation what- ever for suct « statement

The fillowing totter which appeared in the Standard of the Sth, will teud to throw some light upen the matter :—

* Sir—Having just read the ‘ sensation © leaders | Eveving |

edition to-day ,wod in the ‘ Svar’ of yesterday, ander the above heading, I am empelied w break silence by declaring, ne the welicuer for the © mt, that I believe the svhole of the statements in the petition to be untrue, we tay client seleimuly declares them tobe. As to the aable co reapondent, he ix ia highly respectable bande, who are quite able to take cure of their cleat’ shonour ; sud I should not bave thoughtit ne- + eseary to say a word on Lebal! of the respondent but tee the maanerin which the cause has been mest un } canvassed on the fuith of the mere filing of @ petition, of which not one word has n or (ae I believe) can be proved w be true. | have deen always taught that common justice demanded a absence of comment ou « cane anti afier the trigl. How has it been observed in this instance !

in your event

Now, ait, ta reference co your leader of today, I) would beg toask you whetber fou cay in any way,

justify year refereuce to the or-respondent us the *boury defendant?!) The very words teem to

assume guilt ou bie part. Then you say ‘a respect. tiem of evticitors vouch that the pending suit ‘eo Tivorce Court will, auder ua cireumatunces,

« compromised” Now, first. who are the respect. wble Girw of solicitors! Are you aware, sir, that the ‘firm,’ otherwise (he attorney to the petitioner, ic the Mr. Welle who daily advertiser relief * To

the Embarrassed’ by meane of the Court, in con. |

nection with o Mr. Weston, who 1 believe, is an accountant st the same addreas? Mr Wells adver.

ties thes be will obtain ‘ prvtection trom £5, pay- able instalments,” sod ‘ without publicity!’ Also, ‘divorce cases ate contidentially con- ducted. The present cuse sdeine * coatidentialiy’ kuewa to the whele world, as Mr. Weils at once rushed iuto print to inform the public that no com.

roumise had been made in thecuse. Now, I should te to know what set the report of » compro- at all? Most senurediy not the re- nor her solicitor! She esplutionlly denies ioow im the petition; aud Mr. Wells cof denial, might and ought to have no eorapromise, or suggestion of u com- coum from him to the respondent or will quietly awwit the petitiouer s when the case comes into ly to state in conclnsion that the isa clergyman, as stated, nor (to does be weur the robes * of the y; bat, if Law not misinformed, he is now in the service of the Weston sliuded to in Mr. Welle'edaily advertising programme.

“fem, &e, Ceances Honsirr, * Solicitor to the Kespondeat.

2, S.aple lan, November 4."

sh eomnes bat situilar letter bas been addressed wtbe Morning Mar. The Uaily Telegraph has the fullowing remarks On the case :—

* One would think that, however bitter is envy, y tor place, the meu who catch up net we name hogvured by gil broad would take cure that the nor should rest before band on very grave und well reputed suction. What, then, w * the ble fru

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we flads letter printed iw type as bold as the

amuy, * Thos. Woile, solicitor for the | petitioner.’ omas Wells is uot quite the use on whose

to receive arge against Henry Jobn | “Vemple, witheat * er infurmation’ But, even | witbeat further information, the weight of this

precous is not likely, we think, to be iu- reased. the public a peruse the subjoined wivertisement, which we beg to contribute from uur ows eolumos, for their edificutinn, and us a «aveut & our contempornries. We wil! wive it as eppeere thie duy iu another part of our im- presmon:-- “* Po twa Fupannaseep—-There sre

Here they would speedily be followed

by the seme cause, The vessel, though frequently as“ ripe unte the burvest,”’ bit, was dawayed but little. It i said that the | open in ite demands tor the moral sickles of acme reason why Charleston is not coutinuvdsly shelled | uncompromising advocates ef onr Tights ta te is the tow great strain put upen the heavy ritled | fearlessly wielded, in order, if possible, te effect

- | as done of even its own most boosttul apostles,

\

A lapse of seine months bas new intervened

} te my tellow colonists through yonr widely eircu-

} to ecireuiustauees winel it wilh net Pe necessary | Were it net indeed that L tind many | whe setexpect me te tedeeus my promise in the.

ther spuee in the Lawaieer tor the eveluuens of

to enter upoo it has been aevidentally digaished ; |

or 3e iinpurtuustely |

guns. They either burst outright or give Way in | the rifliug or vente, ———— i <i WASHINGTON NEWS. | Wasnineron, Nev. 24.—There is nothing de- cisive about issuing any one-year Treasury votes at present. Ot the two-years notes only the tifty millivne negociated with the banks wall be pre- pared. No new financial measure of any charac- ter is new contemplated by Govermnent. The War Department to-day sent ite estimates

The ‘or the west fiseal year to the Treasury Depart. |

ment. This completes the eatinates of all the Departuinente on which the report of the Seers- tary of the Treneury will be based. The utinoat caution is used to preveut any possible premature

| publication of the figures. ' It being represeuted that the increased prices |

of provisions and of uecessaries render it proper that there should be an increased rate of wages ter mechanjes, labourers, and other employees whose compensations are not fixed by law, it has jdeen ordered that the heads of the reapective bureaus of the War Departinent to male enquiry and report a just and reasonable rate ot advance Wages Wo be paid by the Goverament at the pre- sent time. Ttis Qndersteed that the President, in Compliance with the terms of the haw of the last Congress, Eas decided that the Northeth Pa- | cife Rusiroad shall start.trem » paint od the Mis souri aud Rack Isisad Raileved. Bti

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AFFAIRS AT CHICKAMAUGA,

The Richmond Whig, of Nov. 13, in an edito- ‘rial on the army of Tennessee, ways:

| something fike a radical separation between the

| few stragyling ears of pure earn ‘and the indiaecri- |

| Mivate mazes ef periicious tares, which every | where seem ty iutest Che sucial suil uf tin counters, throughant at least peurly every departinent ot | tke public eosauueay.

lu the few slips which I sent you, introductory to the course ot letters which 1 contemplated Wiiliug at the previous date just aliuded to, i jadepted a style of phraseology which, perlaps, to jsome few over delicately dispositioned imiods, finay have appeared at firet eight udt Sliopétier

| strietly beeumimg. Brom these iew slips, which

| were they publicbed iu your papyry sou, chance |

| individuads, vo? always ia the dagslaig- oof dork day: far | bey oud the vuler edges of theireyesvkers, uamy peradveuture bave coguplacently intecred that | (aun likely suvie addieted te the use of" aweeping assertions’ than of selid arguments in the eouree ai any species of composition Which L way happen to undertake. If a0, they will now permit me to inform them, that in drawing such # couclusion fron such premises, they muy have possibly vecn a little wo fast The phrases ogy in question was simply adapted at the time, not only trem the most deliberate | design, but alse for a most specific purpose. ‘That purpose wae principally te held up a mirrer to certain individuals, just te give them a fair chance | of viewing themselves well in their own glass. | believe I had even an idea in the outset of iter | Apering a few little osthe among my other re- | marks, to render this glaes «till more compicte. | This, however, trom not having been educated in that important modern aceeusplishinent sufficiently | when young. | was obliged te emit. 1 remem-

Sines the battle of Chickamauga, the army of | bered the couplet of Burns:

Teunessee bas lost the services of Lieutenant: | | tieneral Polk, Lieutenant-Geueral Hill, Majer. |

|General Forrest, Major-General Chearham, and _ Major-General Buckner. With the exceptian of | | Geners) Hill, these officers have stved trom the

beginning with that army, commanding its con- | | fidenee—some of them to a degree of enthusiasm |

| —and were undoubtedly among the moat skilled, ! intrepid and devoted of leaders, But great aa! waa their value te that army, if their withdrawal had left nothing but coucurd asd harmony there, | they could well have been spared. Untortunately the iuformation that reaches us is far otherwise. | Harmouy does pot prevail. confidence does not | (exist. To secure these there ia no officer, no} hundred offieers, that it would not be well te re. | move, for without coufidence of wen in their | | comunanders, and commanders in their men, there | is wo ary cau be relied on. |

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THE FOOD QUESTION.

questign,” aayn:

“© that some power the vift wanld gie us To see curse iv ee as obbere soe ue.”

SE ee ae.

adwission, strangely complex. It was partly ertil and partly religious, sp inexplicable cules Leenoe, perhaps, of the sacred and profane. But

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n sear; and we mas reat assured that he will aveer leave England so long as there is 4 ‘chance of getting an odd job, ur embarking

‘and they would appear until at least very recently ‘in a Land speculation that will tern him in

, to have prided in nothing eo much sain repre | ore than £300 m year, all tur dving nothing. senting themerlses to nn, only sete earl It is more than preposterous to suppose that Mr. igent | ; : ee wit it onl > wtecsip futile iu’ amd | Palwer, the highest salaried officer in the Govern | te “y tu myself the powers of discrimination | nent, and in station next to the hy ponchondraical j equal t web » taak. | Leader, should have gone to England, and re- | At buth warand without doubt still rer ine nlike | mained there a considerable time, at the public | te them and teous in manifold reapects a moat | voritigatedly unique, sed. puzzling ambiguon ! Land provokingly perplexing eause — one w hich finger in his mouth, net having a werd to say iu “may aately be anid toidety ull huwan —-. it public to those whe went him, and te the whole oo oo mrepesh. pele ne Pa te /community whe bave paid bis travelling charges ia seam to have claimed any plainly distinguish: | His silence is a proot that he is thoroughly ashamed | able canditions. ae main san | of the fuol’s errand upon which he weut. Ii it | ae iis votaries have towere revel eg tied et . i fa — them to the intelligent aie op Were the intention to heup the public in the dark the inbabitaote of thie provigee, would appear to Lhave invelved a mytly jumble of anti-Popiah po- | ‘lemic, theulogy, and anti-British Prince Edward \Ssland polities. It was, in briet, none other than | ithe old stale bed-ridden, praguatical, and esern- ‘tially predseieas; wr tyranny-leving cante ot) Toryinm itt thie Colony, And What a vaniej Try, if ye cap, O Solomon, Seerates or Solon te 5 7 ‘define it! Te if pot contessedly one of these pe- | by enabled to air th culiar affairs which may be very righteously | gee the sights of the British Isles, witheut our | termed » conse with @ muirty attached to M3. of, knowing anything about it, just as Mr. Pope has as the wulgar would Jacouically say # ¢ause and te Te ea a half,” aud that, tao, with a vengeance? Would | invariably done, fur two or three years pa - | we not obv ously require seame Kind of a ments | travelling through.New Branswick and the United 'microscupe to pry with any preapeet of snecess | into arty of*ite mysterious convolutions? © But to+ viay aside hyperbole, and endedvedr candidly to ltuke aenie henest Coynizante of it, what ih strict | reality ia it? A religious institution? No; tor ‘it deals principally m every day jwatter-ol-tact | —pounds, shillings and penee, counnon dridge- drudge secretary allairs. Whuttheu ! A political assuciation? No; tor it lays claim to the Bible in at least a vominal or professional eerie as one | of the many mystical ingredients of its organic heonstitution. Jt cannet neither, therefore, pro- | perly be reeognized av belonging correctly tO) vermment—il Mr. Pulwer cannot be awakened to capital “aes ONraitien are one. a sense of his duty—to give us this information ; science can it be! “It is evidently a hydra, aud after which we may be disposed to enter on tae une, too, whieh there can be little doubt wall yet diseuesion of the Cuion question; but we shall ‘eall up some new Hereules tu put a stimubary Fond tu its unnatural eareer, This much, at any : : : | rate, counet be disputed, that ii @ really in some betrayed juto a forgetfulness of the Delegation, shape or other, according to the Sulgur prouuue) simply because its wuthora and promoters are elation of the teria. a very * waffleditish” concern. | Mongrel, in every light we choose tu view i, it : finest ussuvedly ws. Ln theory, it is ecclesiastical transaction. re or religious. In practice, it is sadly materiallistic, ae Te v it not indeed imméral. Technically, it professes! COMPLIMENTARY SUPPER TO to be divine. Divebted of all mere erage HON. GEORGE BAGNALL. garbature, it, for the west part, cxeupliies priu- i She oan | ciples lamentably peta voluntarily salnitiee ON Thursday evening last a few of the Pe rsoual | iteelt to be “ot the earth!’ —effeuinately “eartay | Tu this, then, its composite cousiiiution, we lucy | yan honored bin by a Complimentary Supper oe eg rea oe under the | at the North American Motel, ou the eve ot his | desperate attewpt to make not simply “two but departure tor New Zealand. The Supper was a great many “extremes meet.” We feel) got up in excellent style by Mrs. John Murpay, strongty disposed tu entertain the lapression that (iH the wise muir had dived long enongh te have _ enjoyed the rare privilege of becoming a sejouruer ben this Island for a very few days in the present} Lera, be would never have peoned those words : | “Nothing new uader the selar arb.’ He would, batany rate, have readily adudited that tliere may j be things oat euly new but marvellous queer punder (he moon; tor if it be sineply tor the evedit Jot ordinary human reason, fOr Uie general eake of } commen creature instinct, Wwe ahall feel but ta | feudy te grant that lunar jnflucncé most have bad js great deal mere to do with the development of the cause now in question than any ofber plavatory ageney ty which philosophers at least may be willing tu allow aay sanitary control over the or: dinary concerns of mortals. Whi, looking at the subject even in the very fare at ull pessihle gon. | traversy, Withuyl any dew of argument at all, | what ather interpretation ean aby ralievsl und Fever dream of arriving at!

have been no apnonneement of its object and scope of action at its seiting out. The money wight have been filched trom the Treasury under the general and convenient bead of “ contin encies |" and Messrs. Palmer and Pope be there- emaelyes on the Atlantic, and

Prince Edward Island: * We are going te doa | wondertal serviee fur the Tenantry by appointing ourselyes Delegates to England. We muat take ‘several hundreds of pounds of your movey to pay our travelling expenses.” This taking ef our money certainly implied an ebligation on their part to tell us how they have earned it; and it is

the duty of the Islander, as the organ of the Gu-

take care that our fellow Colonists shall not be

ushamed to avew their lamentable tailure in that

THE

and Politieal Fricids of the abeve named Gentle-

and afforded a happy opportunity to many leadmge gentlemen of the Liberal Party to interchange their views on local politienl questions. The Hon. Mr. Coles presided on the veeasion, nud he was ably assisted by the Hon. Mr. Lord,

It is scarcely necessary to suy a word in re- ference ters New Zealand home. He is well known all over this Ishiud, as one of ite most honest, earnest and euterprising sons. He served tormany years in the Legislative Council at a great personal sacrifice; and although be never aspired te a high position asa debater, he was one of the

must tuithtul adhereuts of the Liberal Party from

this Island. The @ privri argument, we apprehend, is quite | true a inan; but we shall be glad te learn that | sufficient in the cam. For within the whole ) compass of all the known boundaries ot human | - ‘ . linyention, What else, save some farmpintty fana- | img tea larger sphere of action and usetulness, + : * a. . 2 78" 7 | i

jfieal and ridiculous combination of influences | and that be way not be sorry for parting with | could ever have become so lost toevery cognizable |

| condition of The caaumenest a of cotton

he has oot adopted an unwise course in proceed-

ithe happiness, the comforts, the independence,

‘genase, ax to have attempted under any cireum- and the troops of friends that surrounded hin in | stances’ to reduce to any Uirag like a harmiauious) Prince Rdqward Island, rendering bis career in|

| practi@al assectslion or system, stich in thenuselyes butterly Hicempatible eleinenta of secial life as. ‘ | these of Prepricteryisi, Keligwina Seetariati-m, , and honorable oue. ) Polititaly Proginstism, atid” Peverty-stricken- | Before the party sat down te Supper the follow- Tenaiitry itn, as trey now exiet i Prince Edwacd 5, 4 anid

. Be . ne Address was rend’ ta the How. Mr. Baguall, Ksiand’) = «=And yety this wx stibetmetindly the silly / ; : : : | Sree -exhebcle: qutee-absiese vine ctatitnnen a6. the | 204 the Anower appended then given by hin :— Inst few years have been vainly Audeavenring 6 po puy Howson WaLe Gkorgk GAGNat., LATE | accomplish... As well anight shep attempt to res) 4 Mewner or rik HoNonancr Least anive

| coneile Light aad Darkuess, or Gabriel and Satan.) Oooo. oe PRiNer EXOWAGD (StAND. Dear and Respected Sir;

his wative lund un euiueutly useful, prosperous

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| Their cause, as thus composed of such un imtiate | ) concatination of the most arrant paradoxes, they, | bevertheless, Lave the effrentery fe dub the cause | of Couservatisaa, Well, thatit isuapreecdentedly couservative gy one respect weeehall net tor a are about to tuke your leave of your cative bind, | moment begin to deny. That if haeproved itself to seek a new home and a

lanenstrously conservative of nonsense and of in a tar distant clime,

we shall net for a sitigle instant dispute, | secial, politieal and industrial relations ef the '“ Mystery ot mysteries, all is inystery,” we spon) Coleny, we shall nevertheless rejoice to learn that | tancourly grant, should heuceiortiaud for all time | the change will prove advantageous to yourself [te come be consistently aid most appropriately and to your estimable family.

adopted by ail ite reputed advocates for their ouly | We shall long remember with pleasure the many }maniiest and in any wise hetitting motto, whe sre these advocates? As might be naturally | Edw ard Island, in zealous, unflagging and finally cause itself —auel a cause as We have now

trayed — ought ty cqunt fur its apokyista? May) cue publje affairs.

| they nat be readily reduced to an auazing con. slienable birthright

‘These principles are the in- af free-born Britens; and

iylomerate ot Peoprictors aud their Agents, | they are the invincible bulwark of Britain's uori- coutinued in tulure years, with the energy whieh |

g, (expense, nud then come back, like @ fool with hie |

regarding the reault of the Mission, there shouid |

to our friend who is about to leave us |

the beginning to the eud of his political career in |

| camer of a Prinwiples. a his furare lie NEWS BY TELEGRAPH FRoM THE in hia new field of enterprise be bappy aod orem op 4” 4 N Tur . | ewente protected and earonraged a Free inati- HAT OF WAK 8 THE STAY b3. ‘tutions auch aa he helped te establish in bis native band. ith weltin, latte the! 6. Britiah Connection, Keciprority with the, Uelted | Biates a Free Commercial Sotercourse of Potomsuc, beet evening, emye tbe emtinn Army with all the world. > moving and xbt certain, unless enemy retrent » Responsible Government in its integrity in. Roads tevseerby noproved. Battle is eapeeted at | : ‘ ini and a speedy | Germania Ford or at Jacob's Mit. all parte of the British Dominions, predy | Pittire comet 4 ‘downfall te all Politienl Shame. Le A. PF. Hill's corps has loft aud Eee B's rigin of 8. The Liberal Governors Sir Alexander Ban- | — line. President Davie reviewed ‘nerman and Sit Dominick Daly, whe bourstly > ect | cartiel out the principles of Respousible Gevern- | Urege inesed bie divrsivn of enveley across the ment in this Jeland. — at Ely's Ford, va Mouday, but recrossed 9. A free and independent Tenantry in PD. E. under colors. Island, oak ts sitar ol the late Liberal Govero-— Chatanvoga despatches Snurther contre the ment with respect to the Land Teoures, the ouly recent important vitosy otGrant. Mragg's eflectual means of making them @-. represented 98 a ee runt, clonely porened 10. A Pree Prees—One of the best safeguards | Houker and burning bridges aiter them, and thar of Tenant Rights and Free Institutions. depots and genes. Number of cam captured reported over 50.0 ; oe — oo Shetuwan's loss ettimated at 5000,

A New Bueexswick Eprron's Nores or) sv. Jon, Nov. 9a,’ TRAVEL.—Qur esteemed triend, Juhu Elia, Exq., Advices received at the War Departwent trom ‘one of the editors of the St. Jubn Evening Globe, | aot ee as phemarrery contin ! , » - . ; i 7 | the reuit rage, whe attempt w wake

hes, we observe, bes u Severin tor tive ounee aan Chick ansige Station but was forped - cutive days, on Prinee Edward [sland affaire— (pa.g His lous so tar ia sisty cannon, and 7 ny |politieal, industrial, physical and woral. We! prisoners; bis retreat is a reut, the read | | thought af first of copying portions of his articles ; oe — CASURS, WAKE, Cowmtiiongry ‘ . ores, Be but he has seen se much to admire in the Island, | ¥ There is nothing later from Burnside, hie ;and has paiuted what he has seen wm such eharin- | conjectured that Longstreet will attempt ti rejyin

Baseom, Nov. 27. Herald's hwapateh, dated Headquarters of 4

‘ing colours, that we tear our proverbial Island | Bragg, aod measures have been laken to bieseny : a* a

modesty would never stand the test of reproduc) “on, Army of the Putomae broke camps ig

hen S yp tiret Cue Rapidan. Little opposition was tiade except a st the upper tords, when the enemy eustracts| : their lines and fell buck trom the river. ~ the St. Jobu people, to get a turther iusight inte, Heavy eannonading was heard yesterday and te participate for a tew days in the blessings img in Chat direction.

our superior civiligativun and refinement. : sia Pe | When they come we shall try to make things as! To the Examiner and Reading Boom |)

pleasant ss possible for thems — we shan't dazzle | rarsrenny rds. i. a ate abe «| Cincinnatts Cumberland despatch says, thet ij them tee much, If we can avoid it, nes throw ou | avaliable turce has beea sent to interewpt I

juny unpleasant hints about barbarian in aw sister) gtrect's retrest into Virginie. It is aleo Teperted | Provinee-—Mr. Ellis, we believe, purposes to be | _ = chemy eneaaen to cress ——

oe tar day, bringing on s general engagement,

very enthusiastic, tur the future, in his advocacy | fo ddnapcbaanne with the captore of W : laf a question which is becoming quite a taverite | division uf GOUU. : ' Reports from Bealton Station confirm the

statement of beavy firing. on vide ae the

| be here spain next year, * ‘uufolds her robes,” with an iminense crowd ot |

mor.

‘theme for discussion ith » few of the tew en light

joe peuple 4 his Provides — we'mrun =e au went of the third curps um Friday ‘nexation of New Brunswick to Prinee Edward aggerated. Reports that Lee retreated gut Island; for although they use the words “union credited. He is reported strongly posted on the | Mine river. : ee : : : a Richinond papers bave reports of listion which the proper wording of the question bousbardment of Fert Susuter, and the talling of | would awaken, we all know bere exactly what! neveral shells in the city, alse reported that the They want to fill this terrestrial | Yankees succeeded at Chickamauga by force of

: ; amiubers, Gold 1479. |paradise with their barbarous herdes, se that; eorer ’ “a | their rough edges way be polisbed off by a closer

jot the Provinces,” te repress the sense uf humi-

| they mean,

DecemMBer 3rd, a.m, Advices from Anny ef Potowae up to Tuesday intercourse with us, and thus fit them to mix with moruing trevived. Ne general engagement yet. Thete is ' Considerable skirmishing on Monday, _ ' : : : | Lee seems to remain entirely vn the defensive, | ne doubt but they will attempt to bribe us inte a) yy dy delaying attack, evidently awaiting dp ‘favourable view of thie measure by offering to| vel ntecbewhere. The feld is 40 miles frew ‘auake thie unparalleled Nenpariel of a City of | tae Rappabsnweck station Report enyi that the | ours the Seat of Government for the United Pro-

civilized society all over the continent.

jarmien are centroniing each other; Les being | protected by entrenchments.

vinces, aud by offering, alse, to lay down their! Herald's despatch gives rimmer that Meade bas j rusty iron raile trom one eud of the Istaud te the | fallen back to Frede eters, yee Ceing jotber, se that their noisy snorting irom bore may caine mak ( aang , ~ “— Hooker evacuated Ringold, destroying ranlroad bathed in. te Chickamangs sills, depots, ete., total prisomen the dews and the sonehine of ade and | will foot 7000. Mountains filled —

s i , / and Tennessee deserters. Bragg witb skeletons ‘nourished by the manna which vulgar mor-! of army Was retreating southward, ? (tale denominate “milk and heney.” Bot DrecumeEnk 5, p. m jwe assure our friend of the Globe that the | No general engagement reported io Virginia to OP. K. Island people must know a great deal mor, | Torsday. : : ‘about New Branewick than they do at presen- | Keported Longstreet retreating to Kooaville pa s , | tewards Virginia. Seouwte report-darge Cavalry before they can entertain the startling prejeet Fe-\ force, suppoerd tw be flanking of Lougadreet’s In order to arrive at this koowledge, tauin body, advauring op May nordarile.

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trun through our peaceful valleys, belching fire | ‘and smoke over the gentle landscape,

| ferred te,

We regret to lose so good aud so |