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dead. There was another meeting on) Monday jast, when the rent was an- nounced at £26 10s 7d. Mr, O'Connell atated, that by that day week he expcect- ed the association would be free of debt.

The accounts of the potato crop are atill conflicting. The only thing In whieh they fortunately ayree appears to be that the bulbs are as yet, in almost} every instance, untouched, although the blight would seem to have exhibited utself in the leaves throughout nearly the whole country.

WAR IN THE DANISH DUCHIES.

The belligrents in the Duchies have each assumed a defensive attitude, with- out any apparent design at the moment of attacking each other. General Willi- gen has fortified his position at Rends- burg, while the Danes occupy a strongly entrenched position in Schleswig. The Danes hove declared martial law in all the districts round them, and their army observes the strictest discipline. Gene-

ral Willisen’s advertisement for recruits | has been responded to by a number of]

German officers who have joined his standard ; but, as far as we can judge, they only appear to be mostly of those unquiet spirits, soldiers of fortune, who sre always to be found where there is fighting going on. Contributions of money have been sent to aid General Willisen from various States of Germany, and the report is.industrjously cii¢ulated that the Hanoverians are about to support the cause of the Duchies, which junction will be very deplorable.

Mr. Nauensen, British consul and agent to Liloyd’s, at Eckenford, was arrested on the 2nd by the commander of the Schleswig-Holstein gun-boats, and di- rectly afterwards placed on board the steamer Reil lying there, which. immedi- ately sailed for Souning, whence the consu! will probably be conveyed to Kiel or Rendsburgh. He reserved to himself his legal rights to the. utmost extent, because he was compelled to. yield to

force. ITALY.

There is very little news from Italy or Naples. Lord. Howden has arrived at Madrid, and was.to be presenfed to the Queen on the 3rd inst. The Duke and Duchess de Montpensier have gone to

Seville. TURKEY.

M. Lamartine, afler having-been re- ceived with great distinction by, the Sultan at Constantinople, had arrived at Smyrna from his estate in that quarter. The Sultan is taking effective steps to send objects to london, for the great ex- hibition next year.

Colonial and U. States News.

CANADIAN AFFAIRS. PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT,

The Canadian Parliament was prorou- gued 10th inst., by the Governor General sn person. There was a very large atten- dance of spectators, including a great many of the citizens of Buffalo—then on avisitto Toronto. Before 12 0’clock the Legislative Council Room was filled with the fair sex. His Excellency thanked the Council and Assembly for the zeal and diligence with whica they had applied themselves to the business of the country, and declared his intention of immediately carrying into effect the Imperial and Pro- vincial acts for transferring to colonial authority the controul and managemeat of the Previncial Post Office... The Gover- nor General. is of opinion that an ex- change of products may take place toa greater extent.than was.at first anticipat- ed,and promises to avail himself of the powers entrusted to him for the promotion of this important object. Lord Elgin thanked the. members of the Assem- bly for the liberal supplies voted, and pro- mises toapply them with the strictest economy. ‘Fhe Council and Aasembly are congratulated on the flourishing state of the revenue, and the abundant harvest

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products of the country, and the satis. tion experienced at the recent visit to the

in the great chain of water communic tion through Canada to the ocean — th gratification being enhanced by the o,- portunity it afforded for an exhibition of courtesy by the citizens of a neighbouring and friendly nation. The movements that have taken place for extending Rail- way enterprise, and to the construction of plank roads, has his Excellency’s hearty concurrence. And he trusts that mem- bers will,on returning to their homes, use their influence in furtherance of these and other measures of practical utility. In conclusion, the Governor General hopes that the asperities of party spirit, which have at various periods exercised so bane- ful an effect on the welfare of the coun- try, will be mitigated, and progress in all that constitutes substantial prosperity, with God’s blessing, be ensured.—His Excellency gave his assent to 107 bills.

THE NORTH AMERICAN RAIL- WAY.

Tus Portrann Rai Roap Conven- Tion.—From the Boston Advertiser, we learn that the report of the Business Com- mittee of the Convention, which was sub- mitted on Thursday last, expressed the opinion that the time has arrived for the commencement of a Rail Road for effect- ing the most rapid and certain means of communication between the people of the old World and those of the new, leading through Mane, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, which should be denomi- nated the European and North American Rail Road. The following is one of the resolutions passed :—

Resolved, That as a network of railways now overspreads a great portion of the (Tntied States and Canada, and extends from the L’ar West to the valley of the Kennebec, in one unbroken and continu- ons line, it is expedient that the European and North American Railway should con- sist of an uninterrupted line of communi- cation by Jand from the valley of the Ken- nebec eastwardly through New Bruns- wick,ta the Eastern coast on Nova Scotis, from whence. the ocean may be crossed by. steamships to the Western coast of Ireland, as the shortest Ferry across the Atlantic.

They express the opinion that the Rail- way. should be buiit in a durable and sub- stantial manner, and that by shortening the duration of the passage on them it will eventually draw on ‘t the entire business travel between the two continents, which will render it a most profitable undertak- ing.

nay state also that the country through

‘which the route passes, in Maine and the

Provinces, abounds in natural resources,

and that through the infivence of the Rail

road, it, will become densley peopled.-—

The following resolutions were also assed :—

Resolved, That the State of Maine, and the Provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia shall be calied upon to grant concurrent charters for the incorporation of Companies to construct the proposed Railway fro: the valley of the Penobscot to the eastern terminus in Nova Scotia.

Resolved, That in addition to individual subscriptions for shares in the proposed Companies, the aid of the public resources of Maine, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia shall be solicited to the extent of one half the cost of this line of Railwav; that grants of the public lands near the line, shall also be asked; and that the Province of Canada shall also be solicited to contribute toward the construction of a work of such great importance to its pub- lic and private interests.

Resolved, That a special appeal shall be made to the stockholders ofall the Railroads between NewYork and Lon- don, for aid of this railway, which to them will be of much pecuniary advantage, by promoting en endless stresm of travel and traffic. :

Resolved, That applicatton shall be made to the Governments of Great Bri- tain and the United States respectively, for conaitlonal contracts for transporting

munerating rates,

af the present season. Allusion is made

ia the grea; and natural facilities of Cang-| views at length on, the subject.

great Public Work, which forms a |: ok | 1° }BETIOUS

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| We observe by notices in « Bermudian [paper that avery heavy gale has done lamage to shipping and other several of the West India

property IV islands.

Bareavors.—Previous to the lith the weather had been very unsettled. Heavy rains had fallen, and strong breezes from S. andS. W. prevailed. Between three and four o’clock on the morning of the 10th the brig Cartaretta of and from St. John’s N. F. with a cargo of fish went on a reef onthe East coast, near Conset’s Bay. The crew was saved and, the ves- sel became a wreck. The schrs. Peri and Spec of P. E. Island dragged their anchors and narrowly escaped drifting on to. the Pier. The damage onshore was confined to uprooting some trees.

Demerana.—A bill patenting an im- provement in the manufacture of Rum has passed. a second reading in the Court of Policy. The Gazette of the 18th July states that valuable discoveries of gold have been made on the borders of the river Yurnary in Venezulean Guiana. The Zoyla came here a few days ago, bringing among its passengers one of the first merchants of Cudad Bolivar, the ca- pital of the Oronoque district of the Vene- zuelan state. This gentleman, who stop- ped here onhis way to St. Thomas, brought with him some samples of the gold lately found among the washings of

office. The grains are about the size of apes. The gold, there is every reason to suppose, is as good as the best in the} world, and considerably superior to that, ef California. There is no doubt from the vicinity of the Yurnary to our territo- ry, that the veins of gold stretch to no) little distance into this great portion of) the American Continent, over which the! British flag waves. |

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Genera Taytor.— Messrs. Mannsell White & Co. of New Orleans have pub-' lished a letter in the Picayune, which) states that they have been the agents of General ‘Taylor for the last twenty five years, and that during all that period they | never saw his obligation in the shape of a note; that at his death the late Presi- dent did not owe one dollar; and that he has left an unencumbered estate to his family worth at the lowest two hundred thousand dollars. This letter was in- duced by the reports in circulation repre- senting the affairs of the late President to have been in an embarrassed state at his decease,

Tse Cuorera aT Havana.—We are sorry to learn by the steamer Tay, that the Cholera continued to rage at the Havana toa most alarming extent. It had already carried off thousands of peo- ple.—Bermuda Gazette.

Any one who has taken the trouble to read the second editorial in last night’s Islander will reasonably enough suppose,

lessons from his friend, the legal adviser of the Gazelle, in the scienee of special pleading ; but if we are to judge from the clumsy manner in which he has handled his briefon the Post Office affairs, it is evident he will never be an eminent scho- lar. "Phe factis, the Government has so completely committed itself in reference ta, this subject, that a writer of even greater ability than Mr. Maclean pos- sesses, must necessarily fail to establish for itany thing like a tenable position, If the Aslander’s editorial proves any thing. it proves our charge against the Gover- nor, that he has been actuated by, the worst motives in procuring a suspensi of the Inland post communications: *:

the European and North American Mails this we shall presently ehew. ‘The over this railway, for a long period at re- ,

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The Jslander attempts in vain to gloss over the fact, thal the Post Office revenue 8 at the disposal of the Deputy Post Mester General, and quotes authorita- lively a resolution of the Assembly, in which Moneys are Appropriated for the service. But we have already shewn that this appropriation is a matter of form —that the absence of such an appropria- tion does not, and cannot preclude -Mr- Owen from applying the receipts of bis office towards the payment of the expen- ses it incurs. “If Mr. Owen,” says the Islander, “ had been authorised to dispose of the posta] receipts as he pleased, and as the Snatcher papers pretend to believe he might have done, there would have been little difficulty.” Now, we asserted in our last No., and the assertion cannot be de- nied, that Mr. Owen applied those “te- ceipts” tothe payment of the quarter's expenses in July last, when there was no appropriation. If he could do it then, be can do it yet. But why does Mr. Owen continue to transmit and receive the Bri- tish Foreign, and Colonial Mails? There ig no appropriation for them, apart from the Inland Mails, He will apply the receipts from these to the payment of the expenses, and, amongst the items of these expenses, he will not forget to pocket his own per centage. What becomes of the Islander’s argument, then, in reference to the want of an appropriation ?

But the Islander fairly lets the cat out of the bag, and the first person unhappily clawed is “our worthy Governor.” To throw metaphor aside, it is broadly assert- ed by Mr. Maclean, that the Governor has caused the stoppage of the Inland Mails to punish the country people for daring to return, at the Jast election,s majority of representatives who would not vote the public money into the hands of a Government in whom they had no con- dence. This unwitting acknowledge- ment of the truth from the Islander, is more than we expected. It shews, that, with all his lessons in special pleading, he is miserably lame as an advocate.— We have asserted that in this matter, a3 wellas in many others, His Excellency has been actuated by spleen and animo- sity against the House of Assembly. The Islander confirms our assertion. Evi- dently, there is one lesson which Mr. Maclean does not appear to have been taught by his legal adviser, and that is, to shew his editorials to the Governor be- fore he prints them. The hint may be useful in future ; however, we ask no fee

In the conclusion of the editorial to which we have referred, we are told that the Government can be conducted inde- pendently ef the Legislature or its appro- priations. Wherefore, then, is al] the pother about the stoppage of supplies? Why. has Maclean been hired to black- guard the Assemby ? why has “an Elec- tor” been suffered to inflict his intermin- able nonsense upon the public, for eleven or twelve mortal weeks, all about there being no supplies, if the Government can be carried on without them ?. We have all along ‘eclared, that the ruling faction in this ©. ony are an oligarchy—are placemen ithout power or influence— wre ustirpe. of authority to which they have long forfeited clanm—and the editer of the Jslquder fully bears us out in the Le informs us ths),