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tad taken the wooden bridge ; whilst the commander-in- Chief. with nearty all the cavalry, the 99th, and Queen's, pur-vel the enemy two or three miles along the eanal from camp to camp towards Pekiu, The cavalry charged three or four times, aad slauchtered a considerable number. I don’t thivk thac eur killed aud wouade] on the 18th aad to-day amet ty more then Jo, Sone bridge, and we at the wooden bridge, about seven miles from Pekra. One ef the roada to Pekin passed through our eanp, and there are two more (one of them paved) oo the north side of the canal. A flag of truce was sent in to-day

from Pekin, with a levter, the purport of which is understood | L have omitted to

to be a request to reopen negotiations, men'ion that Mr. Wade was sent on the 19th with a flag of i.uce tv Tuug-chaa, and was fired at five times.

FURCHER DETAILS OF THES PROGRES OF THR ALLIBQ PORCRS.

Sevey Mices rxom lsxin, Serr. 22.—An attempt bas!

been made at negotiation, which has ended in the smoke of more ganpowJer, the partial deeeption of Lord Elgin and

Mr, Parkes, aal, | grieve to say, the eapture of the latter |

by the Tartars, with the Times’ correspondent, Mr. Loch, Lord Ligin’s private secretary, Mr. de Norman, attache, {aptain Brabagon, of the Artillery, and the adjutant of Fane's Llorse, with some twegjty Sowars, and the murder of a Breach offizer. loree were encamped at or near the Taku Forts; now they

Bre scattered over a space of some eighty miles, to say na-|

thing of the 44th Regiment, who were packed off in a hurry,

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on the 27th or 28th, to relieve Shanghai, where, it appears, |

they were not wanted; the Royal Marines having settled the rebels before their arrival. It was nat until the lst inst., [ think, that the first move was made towards the nerth. This consisted in the advance of our Ist division, who crossed the Peiho, over a brdge of b ats, about two miles above

Tong-ku, and were followed on the 2d by the 24 division |

(with the exception of a wing of the Buffs, who were left to garrison the Taku Forts), tho French marching along the leit bank of the river. The first halting place was about a

baif ame from the bridge of boats, on a plain nearly en- |

crreled hy orchards full of grapes, peaches, apples, pears, and water melons, which enabled the army generally to lay im at a cheap ratea large stock of future “ mollygrubs” and * ecllywabb-es,” not to mentioa more serious complaints, from waich they have beon (:a an extent seriously embarrassing the doctors, I believe) suffering ever since. The second

march was to a place called Kikko, the third to Kih-tang- | 13th of August, the typhoon was upon us at half-past eleven | kou, aud the fourth brought the whole army up to Tien-tsin, | a m.

the marches consequently averaging ab. us eight miles each.

Bat although they were so short, and the start was generally |

Tae breach are encamped at the)

Qa tlhe 26th ulimo, the whole of our |

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and that he had ten Mongolian princes, each with 5,000 wen, under him ] We have now taken up a position on the | right hank of the grand canal, only seven miles from the | Celestial capital, but are again encamping among fields of | spikes (of which ouc worthy and gallant general seems to) think we are fond, as he never lets us among the trees), there ‘(like so many impaled martyrs) we are to await, [ believe, | the arrival of some more troops and stores. A ‘ shave” ‘has just come in to me that the Emperor has bolted from | Pekin, and that Sinkolinsin has sent in another flag of truce, | ‘but [ have not time to find out how far it is true. Great | sympathy is felt for Mr. Parkes and his party, and I have | heard a report, which L earnestly hope it is true, that Lord, Kigin has declared he will order Pekin to be sacked if he is ‘not given up again, with all his party, alive and in good) | condition. Tien-rsix, Serr. 26.—It appears that Messrs. Loeh, | Bow!by, and Capt. B.abazon are all safe and well treated at Pekin, with Mr. Consul Parkes, ‘The army is within five miles of Pekin, after an engagemext on Saturday, in which | the enemy is said to have kept at a respectful distance from | our artillery, but the French got at them and treated them | very roughiy, killing, it is said, 460 or 500 men. We had ‘one officer aud a few men wounded. The Emperor's brother | and another Mandarin of the highest feather came cut to’ camp, but Lord Elgin would uot see them until Mr. Parkes ‘and the other prisoaers were given up. Tung-chau was given up to pillage, and the usual atrocities of the Tartars were committed by themselves on their women, who they deprived of life, and an their children, whom they threw tato wells. The latter was past doubt, as the bodies were scen when the place was entered, } WRECK OF THE * BRANSCOMBE,” |

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AND DREADFUL SUFPRRINGS OF THE CREW. | The following particulars of the barque Brans:ombe, which i sailed from Bristol on the 8th of November, and Penarth Roads }on the 2ist November, last year, have been writen by one of | the crew :— H. B. M. Consulate, Amoy, China, Sept. 20, 186} —We| left Shanghai on the 3d of August, and proceeded on our voy- | }age to Manilla, and all went,well till Sunday, the 12th, when!

‘it began blowing fresh. Soon after midmght the wind in- | has inserted in his challenge a condition which will probably to a real Armstrong—a bottle of squirt weapon. : save him the trouble of defeoding a position which appears | killed, nobody hurt bat something ot a pleasant discharge of |

creased, and we tried to close» reef the topsails, when both | split to pieces, as did the foretopmast staysai]; we thea put | preventive gaskets on the yards, but wherever the wind could |

,catch a bit of the sai] it was gone directiy. On Monday, the |

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* Starboard’ was called, and immediately land was seen | stra:ght a-head. We squared the foreyarde, in the hope of |

LOL TE SD ih wae Ree & ot | for the purpose, If the old saying ‘* Ne puero gladium” were set aside and a supply of saitable arms were provided, | think this Institution would be almost perfect for the various * drill” |

fuls’’ is already excellent—their stepping is as regular as that | of any of our Volanteers—they keep their bodies in a singular-

‘ly erect and graceful posture—their stretching forth their arms |

into the air will tend to enlarge their chests, cause the blood to flow freely through their whole system, greatly strengthen the muscles of their arms, so that they may be enabled to | wield the sword most valiantly ; in a word, the whole round of exercises is very well adapted to make their bodies robust and athletic for military service. Then there iy a great ad- yantage in the shouting and yelling peculiar to the ** system 5 "| for their vocal exercises will give them loud, stentorian voices, which will be very useful to those who may hereafter be en-| trusted with command. Should this training system be pro- perly conducted for a few years longer we might indulge the | hope that we would have a regular and well i. army | of valorous youths and maidens ; and should we be fortunate | enough to have Mr Monk appointed Generalissimo of this)

atriotic band, we would have nothing to fear from foreign or domestic foes. What a magnificent spectacle would it not be to behold a splendid army of ardent aud ga lant youths, head- ed by numerous battalions of amazonian virgins, marching, under the command of a ‘* General Monk,’’ to the courage- inspiring and soul-st rring martial air of * Chick-a-dee dee!’ Since Mr. Monk is so willing to rush into print, why did he not defend himself when he was deprived of his situation by the present Government ? And why is he so ready to defend the Normal School system now ? The expectation of a Pro- fessor’s Chair in the new College has perhaps something to do with the affair, He had, U understand, an open field for doing so—for, if I have not been misinformed, a member of the Executive Council spoke of him publicly in terms far from

limentary. Cassis tulissima virius. piivi2iss ¢ » A LOVER OF JUSTICE.

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To rue Eprror or tne EXAMINER.

Sir—Without wishing to encroach on ‘* A Lover of Jus- tice’s” ground, [ cannot refrain at the present moment from offering a few remarks on our Normal School. The rigor- ous assaults of your anonymous correspondent have called forth a challenge from Mr. Monk, late teacher of that In- stitution.

to me to be indefensible. Let not the editor of the Islander, or Monitor, or Mr. Monk suppuse that the Normal School | receives opposition from Catholics alone. The general

opinion at one time was that the Normal School was little |

to teach the Government, if not impervious to such a trust-| entertaining to the public as we'l as useful to the French, in worthy criterion, the truth of what [ now assert—that the! imitaticn of Mrs. Stowe on Slavery, it would have given a Rev. George Sutherland is no authority whatever in matters} p'easure to have afforded it—that is, if he could buve assured

‘exercises. ‘The marehing and countermarching of the * hope-| o¢ education ; and that he was never entitled to a seat at the| me it would have been usefully employed ; but unfortunate!

Board of Education ; and moreover, when he recommended | for that unpopular public officer and his colleagues in th the abolishment of the old Academy to make way for a| Government and their friendly supporters, the aidiidan Prince of Wales College, he knew neither the resources nor | are not a party generally credited with being overburthened

the real wants of the Colony. with philanthropic views towards the Acadians or othe But it is time I brought my remarks to a close, Before| settlers. Kntertaining the prevailing opinion, [ cann ‘ doing so, I would observe that the late Government set an) therefore, admit the secrets to a person who | regard as - example worthy of imitation in regard to this highly impor- | open and avowed enemy of popular rights, no matter on what

tant matter. ‘Their successful endeavors to raise the standard | plea or ground they may be requested,

of-education and the status of teachers, entitled them to the| If the Commissioners, on a reconsideration of the important gratitude of the country; but it is discouraging to reflect matter laid before them, require minute information on the that those most benefitted by the laudable exertivas of that. subject, they will seek for it in the proper quarter; but ifit Government manifested the greatest amount of ingratitude. | is out of their power to entertain the grievance complained

The teachers, however, have received a reward for their ex- of, the Acadian French descendants have friends who kno ertious to oust their benefactors rather unexpectedly, in being } where to apply for redress, It is, however, in tie ilelien, compelled, at the risk of a reduction of salary, to undergo a satisfactory to know that the Colonial Secretary is awareof re-examination before a Board whose decisions are charac- the undeuiable charges preterred of oppression made on a terized as partial and-unjust, and in spending five months French, and the violation of the Treaty ceeding this Island to instead of three, as formerly, at an institution which they Great Britain, which guaranieed the French settlers oo themselves admit to be a hoax. and peaceable possession of their farms, 4 A NORMAL SCHOOL STUDENT. As a Delegate, [ take this opportunity to say, that the December 18, 1869. |Statements made by the Government in the Legistatare as i well as by their organ, not twelve months ago, led the publio

,to believe that the Land Question would be set at rest b

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ON DIT. Editors and contributors of the Monitor, Cooper's Govern-

iment Band Organ, namely, Hon. Mr. Amos, the convicted 4

Forger, Tonalt vf the het skin, occupier of posts and grateful friend of the Duke of Argyle ; Bubbly Jock, Dominus Visitor d member of Assembly ; the Colonial Secretary, Tenant’s foe and Government House pet. Here is a choice pack of ** jolly companions every one.’’ Why Lor! what a splendiferous tail our Government has! tue fag-end of it tipped off with the very upright honorable James B. Cooper, beloved and respected by all in the honor of his acquaintance. Vive la bagatelle !’? ** Noli me tangere.’’

The iast spawn of the Monitor, thrown out by the “ jolly companions,’’ was an Herculean effort, no winking—a real swinger, casting its dreadful missiles in all sorts of directions ;

It is to be regretted, however, that Mr. Monk | nono of your pea-pop-guns, sirs, but a thorough a equ] | Nobody |

bad powder, for the amusement of the retined c.ique, the great respectables

Ned great gun, worked by a new screw principle, called the} Wonder when the * time will arrive’? | ~

tapeworm screw.

Her Majesty’s Commissioners ; but now we are told that the Commissioners have no power to entertain the question of -forfeiture—that they can only settle some slight differences xisting between the Proprietors aud the Tenautry—a subs ject wholly distinet from the Land Question. . | Ifthe Colonial Secretary can impose this opinion on the | public in opposition to the views advanced by the Commis. _sioners respecting their authority to settle aj] differences in relation to the Land Question, it will relieve him and the Government from the opprobrium they lie under of sacrificing | the public interests to private ends. I am, Sir, yours respectfully, BENJAMIN DAVIES, Dee. 20, 1869,

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Clie Examiner,

‘* The Opposition,” the leader, was a ripper—|

| positive tear-all; it was discharged point blank from a long | Charlottetown, P.E.L, December 24, 1860,

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better than an expensive model humbug, and the sooner | to load and fire again? When the worm bites. {le is a ter- DEFENCE OF THE GOVERNMENT BY THE GOVERN.

made before daybreak each morning, still they were much | fathoms from the ehore. Ler starboard bow etruck ou a rock, | extensively obtains. Now, that the public may hear evidence |

more fatiguing than any one would imagine, as they were never Gnished in less than four hours, during the last two of which the heat was always very great, and to mon carry-

mg heavy packs, ss wel! as their rifles and ammunition, very | over to starboard, when Mr. Gomer, second mate, and three of Ser

trying. At Tienrisin ihe army halted for nearly a week on | a magnificent plain immediately outside the town, living in clover in more senses than one, while the Frenel occupied a position on the left bauk of the river, and an attempt was made at negotiatian, which has ended in smoke, the Chinese commissioner sent dowa to treat with us having declared himself afraid to sign any convention ou his own respaxsi- bility, and almost hinting, [ bel eve, that our best plan would be to advance upon Pekin, and 30 frighteu the Kwperor into submission by a warlike demonstration at his very door. On the Oth inst., accordingly, a force consisting of the King’s Dragoon Guards, Fane's and Probyn’s Morse, Baring's Desborough's and Stirling's Batteries, the Royal Mariues, gad 9 ith Regiment, the whole under she command of Gen, Michell, marched past Tien-tsia, to a place called Pookvo, ten miles distant. Qu the following day they marched to Nan-tain, eight miles further, and the next 10 Hoo-si-woo, whes they halted for five days again until the 2d Queen's, the GO:h Rifles, and some 2,000 Brench came up. Almost | the whole of the road for these \ast four marches was through eudless fields of millet, cxtenling as far as the eye could peach, and the camping ground at the end of each of them Was wearly as comfortable as a bed of thorns, being upon haif eat beds of millet, the spikes of which were nearly as shorp and strong as those surrounding the Taku Forts, and bud, I verily believe, being left so by the Tartars, in the nope that they would effectually prevent our advance with- ous any further aid from their prowess. So far not one of| them had shown his face within range since the dressing | they gotat Taku. At Lloo-si-woo, accordingiy, Mr. Parkes | was emboldencd to ride forward to Mut-ow, about ten miles further on, attended by a cavairy escort, and the gentlemen I have already mentioned, in order, I believe, to propose to the inhabitants that if they would send us out supplies of fuel, four, Kc., we would not molest them, but encamp oat- side. as we had previonsly done in the case of every village | or town we bad passed, They first of all told him that

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could not get out the boats, as there wae a tremendous aca) running. About five minutes after she struck she broke her

back, the foremaet and inizen.topmust went, and ehe cante? |

us took to the water; none of the oihers would foliow. When | wae leaving the wreck the suction wae so great that it nearly took me down, but I had the good fortune to catch a rope, so | hung on ti'l [ saw a piece of timber, which | made for, and tomy fast hold of. The seas were now making a clean breach | over the wreck. I was washed among the rocks, where I gol terribly bruised and cut; at length a heavy sea washed me high and dry, and f contrived to craw! along the rocks, where | I found two of the others, the second mate having gone down. We then saw the captain and mate on the bottom of the long- boat, and helped them ashore. We got under the snelter of a rock, and cvould see eix hands clinging to the stump of the mainmast, the sea making a clean breach over them; then five of them got on to the mizenmast, where they remained for about two hours ; the ship then broke up, and we never saw | them more. We climbed the rocks for about two hours, but

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and we cut sway tho mainmast in the hope of easing her. We on both sides, when the Institution is brought to the bar of |

public opinion through the medium of the public journals, 1 | thiak it imperetively incumbent on Mr. Monk or Mr, Web- to defend it against all attacks, irrespective of whence | they emanated. It may be superfluous to state that it can | be a matter of no cousequence to the public to know who) ** A Lover of Justice” is, or indeed any other writer on a) public question, provided his remarks are founded on trath, | and bear the impress of a legitimate object. I trust, there- | fore, that Mr. Monk will! reconsider the matter, and, whether |

“A Lover of Justice” throws off the anonymous mask or.

not, that he will come out and defend, if be can, an institnu- | - . . . - . | tion, for presiding over which he received, aud bis successor |

now receives, a salary of £200 per annum, and two assist- and with much alacrity, bobbed his pleasant countenance over |

wearing the ship, but it wae too late; we were not a hundred | abolished the better. This opinion even at the present time | rible fine marksman, very fierce, but takes a long time to pop. |

Pity he is so slow. Spirits of turpentine might quicken him, or a little oil to the worm would facilitate its movements. So mote it be.

The Executive grenadier reconnoitering party took another | cp at the Academy fortifications, with the view of battering | i : : , Tho Hon. Edward boldly skirmished in | into which the Government of this Island has fallen than the

itinto a College.

MENT CLERKS. CUAPTER I. Tue CLerg or tue Lecistavivn Councin. .

Noruinc ean more clearly show the utterly helpless state

advance. Alone he did it, and carefully with great jadgment manner in which their policy and measures are defended, and

crawled up to the picket fence on all fours, or as snakes go,

on the abdominal region, he having and holding in the deter- |

| the character of the individuals wha offer the defenee. There

mined grasp of his Jong fingers a saw, a squirt and a jack-| 8te two papers published in this City svowedly devoted to the

cnife, resulyed to saw off or whittle down something, having twisted himself serpentinely up to the picket fence defences without gvil or injury, except in crossing a cowpath he laid his length alongside the pickets, resembling an alligator in ambush ; but suddenly st.rting like a man finding ** the time arrived,’ he raised the animal E to a vertical 83% degrees,

| service of the Administration—the Islander and Monitor. The - first is published by the Queen’s Printer, and edited by the Chief Clerk of the Executive Council ; the second is published by a man—or one who passes under the name of a“ man,”

"called Cooper, who was last year thrust into a Clerkship of

ants at salaries of £150 and £40 each, costing the country y tall pickets, when thereupon and thereit a certain namber | the Legislative Council, to the disgrace of that body, te en-

altogether £395, | Truth now compels me to subscribe to most of what “ A Lover of Justice” has written. An experience of three |

cackling and screeching in great fear, which roused the couchant beagle Pompey, and he observing the head and front of the offender cackling over the fence, barked viciously at

could not reach the top, so we came down again and made a. months has afforded me an intimate knowledge of the work- | the phenomenon, whereupon finding he was discovered, the

hut for the night. Next morning we tried again, but it was no use. We looked among the wreck for provisions, but only | found four bruised pumpkins, We then set off to explore the place, and found that we were on the uninhabited island of Agincourt, after which we returned and set to work building a larger hut. Next morning we found a boat with her bilge and stern stove in, and commenced to try and repair her. T'wo hands went to louk fer provisions, but found none, s0 we were

ing of the Normal School, and I say Loldly that it bas failed | in its object. Let me not, however, be understood as wishing |

to abolish a system of training for young men about to adopt |

the important and honorable profession of a teacher of youth. | [am well aware that Education is not only a science, but an | art—an art for which many whose learning ia very exten- | sive, are very little fitied. Asa practical art, it requires |

Hon. Skirmisher dodged under cover of the fence, and closing one eye, peeped between the pickets, and observing the public army arrayed against him in his College assault, and defend- ing the old Academy with to» many guns for the weapons he held in hand, or that the Government could bring to bear upon the opppsition, he concluded to raise the siege, and thereupon acting he gracefully retired stern front, as blue jacket says, and observed great caution in presenting his nose, whieh, ac-

eareful of our pumpkins, that beiag ali the provisions we had, | dexterity, like any other art, which should be cultivated | cording to Roderick Random, had been at the promontory

with the exception of a little pig. We finished the boat by

early in life. Reason and experience, therefore, teach us that |

towards the pickets, and his eyes foll flash upon the Academy

Sunday, butfcou'd not launch her, owing to contrary winds and to produce good and efficient teachers a regular system of | gate in some uneasiness about Pompey, and steadily keeping

a heavy sea. Our pumpkins being all done, we had the luck

to pick up two bits of pork which the fis) had turned up. We} had some of that to eat, and cutthe rest upto dry. On Thure-! day, the 23d, at noon, we launched the boat and got clear of | the island. On Saturday we killed our pig, which was almost | starved to death, end drank the blood and ate the liver on that) day, and the heart, brain, lights, and entrails on the next. On. Sunday morning we saw @ brig, but directly she saw us she | braced up and went away from us. We then hove to the boat, | it blowing very hard all night. The captain stuck at the lee oar eighteen hours to keep her head to sea. On the 31st we made the ieland of Formosa, and next morniag the natives

brig North Star in an awful state, being so weak that we were

ae , : add training should be adopted ; in fact an apprenticeship served. |

But will any one animated with a spirit of truth assert that) the Noriwn2! School has added anything to the efficieucy of | our teachers? ‘The most convinciug proof that can be ad-| duced to the contrary is to show that no teacher who bas_| qualified since its establishment, has carried into effect the system taught there. It has been tried, to a limited extent, | in two or three instances ; but, in the attempt, the teachers | gained only the iJl-will of parents, and nearly lost their sa-| lariea in the end.

I must be candid enough to admit, that |

the back step of his march direct for his Government com- radjes, Standing to arms and protecting his rear, he at length halting with his face to the foe, the piekets, found himself in line, eyes right, with bis glorious companions in arms, un- seathed, save in the crawl over the eowpath,end unfrightened, except by the baying of the beagle, and the screeching cackle of the fowls, which rather shook his nerves, particularly as the story of the Roman goose flashed across his active mind. The reconnoiterers retind from the field, and marching double to the Castle, communieated with the Commander-in- Chiet. The Hon. E- — reported the eflicient state of the op- osing army, tle strength of the furtress—the inefficient state

of fowls domestic took fright and ran with spreading wings, | able him to pay for the press and types subscribed for by two

or three Charlottetown merchants, by means of which he de- 'velopes, from week to week, the inherent depravity of kis | disposition, and the weakness of the Government that are | forced to lean upon such a rotten prop. The Islanderm ‘avoiding, for the most part, the personal scurrility which distinguishes its coadjator—labours to bind the proprietary | party to the Government, showing how insincere are the pre- _ tensions by which its masters have attempted to gain the con- fidence of the tenantry. The publisher of the Monitor—though an arrant hypocrite in religion—has not tact enough to simu-

late the character of a gen.Jeman, nor moral energy sufficient _ to repress the outpourings of a depraved heart,—but suffers | his paper to become a sewer for the ruffianism that surges and | bubbles through the ranks of his partizans. We cannot, therefore, be surprised to see the name of a convieted, im- prisoned, and unhanged felon on the roll of his contributors, |or observe his eolumnsfilled with the puerilities of a fop, who perhaps only wants the opportunity and the ingenuity to be, as great a rascal as Amos himself, but who is scareely leas despised in the community.

| necessity of spending an bour daily in teaching a promiscuous | war, and believed that “ the time had not arrived’’ to batter

they would consent to furnish us with supplies if we would unable to walk, ‘Tue captain was very kind to ue, supplying throng of urchins to march round the school-rooms, a /2 down the Academy, and raise up a Prince of Wales College ;

agree to their selecting the camping ground for us, but on hie replying that the gencral could not agree to any con- dition, they immediately made him and ail his companions priscoers, with theex:-eption of a few King’s Dragoon Guards, who suceceded in cu ‘ing their way out. Col. Walker, of the Bay's, and Mr, ‘laomson, of the Commissariat, who had | ridden out in the same direotioa, were also very nearly taken | prisoners, a Piench officer who accompanied them being cut io piecee—Col. Walker ouly escaping with the loss of his sword, and a cut over the hand, and Mr. Thomson with a lanee wound inthe back. The cavalry, artillery, 24 Queen's | Rosal Marines, and YJth Regiment, were immediately order- ed out by Sir Hope Grant, and about middle way between | Hoo-si-woo, our friends of Singho ecelebriety, and whom we | had beard had never drawn a rein after that affair until they reseed Pekin, again caine in sight, extending in a wide | semicircle before Mut-ow as far aa they eye could re.-h. | The Queen’s,who were in advance, were immediataly oruered | to hals, unt i the rest of the regiments came up, and a line of battle was formed, the French taking the right, Queen’s the centre, Royal Marines and “9th the left, and artillery and eavalry the flanks. They had not advanced far in this order | before fire was opened on them from some degen points iu the aforesaid somicircle, whi'e the Tartar cavalry threatened | our flanks. They were promptly met, however, by ours, but | the Irregular Horse who were on the right flank, the King’s Dragoon Guards being on the left, alone succeeded in getting | amoung them— with the to-be-expected result of “ chawing” them up completely, of course. Our artillery, meanwhile, thundered dreadful responses to theirs, and with very un- equal effect—theirs detg little or no damage, cars telling with deadly effect, and finally completely silencing all their | batteries, which were planted in all sorts of extraordinary | positions, aud were evidently of quite an impromptu construc- tion, some ut the entrance to villages, others among clumps of trees, and others behind natural embankments, The in- fantry then advanced aud threw in a smart fire on thom as they retreated, our nimble and gallant allies even getting among them with the beyonat, I believe, and killing great

pumbers. The enemy fled in every direction, and did not be is prepared to defend the Normal School system, as intro-

even attempt to defead Mut-ow itself, which was accordingly |

sotered and taken possession of the same evening, and proved ™9**- : ; ; to be s very comfortable anil picturesque Sistle tows, veh a ro I Kensaalngy wane geet gy a lah Rae. ge tumble-down old brick wall of great height, and once, doubt- | making a defence of the system in question.

less, of great strength. The following day was made a day of rest, and yesterday the forve again advanced into the plain, aud had really a hard day's fighting. They had not gone more than about three wiles before the enemy again present- ed themselves in a vast semi-circle. We met them pretty much as we did ou the previous day, bat got closer to them

on several cecasions—Loth the Irregular Horse and King’s | Dragoon Guards getting well among them, as well as our | more advaneed parties of in{antry—although from the nature | of the ground (eudiceg felds of cut millet, intersected by wide

ditches, and separated every here and there by dense thickets), aod ibeir knowledge of how to avail themselves of it, it was very difficult to get near them at all. If we had infantry alone, | believe they actually might have the audacity to close with us (as they were evideutly plucky enough men). Lat, as it was, they showed themselves, on both days, im- pressed with a very salutary dread of our artillery and ca- valry, and although they made several apparent charges at wur cavalry, L believe they were almost all merely feints to draw them imto some trap or other (such asa concealed ditch or reugh piece of grigad), while entangled in which they wight hase an opportunity to fire their gingalls at fein fom guder the eover of some wall, or cope of trees. Jiowever, the result of the two days’ fighting bas been that we bave captured upwards of a hundred canuon, most of them © powder brass guns, of a very good description, immense piores Of forage, grain, aid tea, and have got to within seven mjes vl Pekin, and havg, L should think, thoroughly deworshncd the Tariar arwy, capturing and entirely des- troylug sil thei eyinpe on) miuvitions of war, 8 fur. [They bey teat Ssuhvineiw commanded in persou ou Loth dayr,

us with clothes, tobaceo, &c. Amoy on the 17th September, so you see we had ten days, ashore on an uuinhabdited island, and eight days in an open | boat, alinost in a sinking state, keeping two hands comtinuaily bailing her out. We lived all this time on about three ounces | of rviten pork per day, #0 that we were nearly done for. |

RE-ACTIONARY MOVEMENTS IN NAPLES.

The state of Naples has not improved since power has passed | from Garibaldi’s into Count Cavour’s hauds. The re-actionary | movement in the provinces—so the French Government jour- nals, et least, inforin ue—hae broken out afresh, and in not less than five provinces, with the Abruzzi at their nead, has it be- come necessary to proclaim the state of siege.

ALLEG gD CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE KING OF ITALY AND THE POPE,

Letters from Turia allude to an exchange of letters between | the King of Italy and the Holy Father, having for its obiect | ** an amicabie arrangement” of their little differences. Among | the coaditiens proposed ie one that the Pope should abandon | the tempora! sovereignty in favour of the King, receiving a civil list of 5,000,000 livres, and 100,000 livres for each Car- dinal, with a piace in the Senate of the Kingdom of Italy. Both Pope and King would reside in the Eternal City, one ai} the Capitol, the other at the Vatican. ‘This is probably a mere | fancy sketch, of which we may expect to have many brought | before the public eye pending the fluctuations of this most difficult Roman question,

THE ROYAL FAMILY OF NAPLES.

The Dowager Queen of Naples has arrived in Rome, with the Princess and the young children, They have taken up their residence in the Quirinal, ‘The young Queen remains | at Gaeta with the Princes.

Correspondence, To rus Enitor oy tae Exaurnen. Ste,—Mr. Monk, in the Jslander of the 7th inst., says that

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duced and carried on by him if [ will throw off the anonymous Since I have chosen to write anonymously I will con-

This, however, should not prevents Mr. Monk from Should he prove that I have stated anything false or unfounded I[ shall be most happy to apologize. In the mean time, | repeat what I said’ | before that L consider the Normal Schcol a great imposition ‘on the Colony. I dare say that it has already cost the Island upwards of £2000, and I ask Mr. Monk what corres- | ponding benefit has the cause of Education derived from it ? /Schoolinasters now go to other schools in the city to prepare themselves to pase the Board, and many of them did so when Mr. Monk was at the head of the Normal School. I do not say that Mr. Monk was not qualified to impart sufficient in- atruction to them, but his time was too much taken up with | the more important employment of drilling bis juvenile re- ‘eruite, and teaching them to sing ‘* The three blind mice.” |Some yeara cgo the candidates for the teachership were ac- eustomed to go to the Academy to receive instruction, but it| | being perceived that they were a considerable drawback on the time whieh the masters should bestow on their other pu- _pils, it was thought that a Normal School would remedy the jevil, The present state of affaizw proves to a demonstration | how totally inadequate our present Normal School is for the |purposes fur which it was firet eztablished. I believe that Mr. Monk is far more cepable of conducting this Instination | than Mr. Webster ; however, I think that the eystem is radi- cally defective. 1 consider it an exotic which will never \thrive on Ameriezn s ii. iL have been informed, on excellent : authority, that Mr. Monk used to be whole weeks without giv- ing the candidates their regular lessons, and that when a boy | was unable tu do his sums he was not shewn how to do them. If this were the case, | think the sooner this system is super- |seded the better for the education of the youth of this Island. _It would be interesting to hear Mr. Mouk’s defence of this part of the system.’* lf we wished to train, for the Volunteer service, the whole of the rising generation, male and female, perhaps our present4 | Normal School would prove to be a very powerful auxiliary

f . sll me » tate a | : ss ; took us round to Cahan in a boat, where we cat on board the | ** far surpasses the range of my intellect to comprehend the | of the Government finances to carry on @ useless and expensive |

| We bope the Lieut. Governor will not be displeased at | reading this description of some of the servantsan4 sapporters

_he wrote and spoke on the errors of Popery quite gcalously ;

larly to females, when acquired even to perfection. Beyond |

this [ might safely aver, there is nothing taught within the | institution which has net been taught and practised; and | that too, with far more cfliciency, in our common schools |

School.

Without giving the routine adopted in this school, it | would be impossible to point out its defects. {tis not my) intention to give such a description in this communication ; | [ reserve that for another. I must, however, refer to a part I particularly noted at the term [ attended that institu- tion. From caleulations 1 made, I ascertained that the actual school hours amounted to an average of three hours daily—playhours, marching and countermarching having absorbed the rest. Again, what would be thought of a teacher who, under the designation of mental arithmetic, would propose questions such as the following :— How wany feet have two boys, three girls, and a codfish ?” ** How many wings have three geese, two hens, and a donkey ?” « How many eyes have six boys, four ping and three needles ¢’ And others equally absurd, And yet, such have actaally been proposed for the improvement of scholars, and the edi- fication of the pupil teachers attending the model training school! Should any district teacher attempt to engraft such nonsense in the school under his charge, the parents would speedily open their eyes to the beauties of the Normal train- ing system, and probably cause the teacher to make tracks for parts unknown—minus his salary.

In no department of society whatever, perhaps, is there anything like the amount of quackery which exists in this age uuder the name—the much abused name—of education. We do not tolerate quacks in other things ; people will not entrust the title deeds of their property to lawyers who can- not produce certificates of their competency. In medicine, we endeavor, by various precautions, to obstruct those who have not the requisite knowledge of the means of dealing with the human frame, and restoring it from a state of sick- ness toa state of health. But in that which is of more im- portance than the practice of either law or medicine, we tolerate the universal access of unqualified practitioners. It cannot be denied that the Normal Schoo! and the present Board of Kducation—and that, too, by means of the very machinery intended to exclude them—have acquired the un- enviable character of empirics in education. If, then, we are to pay for a training school, let us have one worthy of the name—ong, in attending which, the young men and women intending to qualify as teachers can feel and know that their time and money are not squandered,