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: eee rer ae: 2 Ss od Peas fk ‘ee i ee idle ia To : é } —— omin of a of bis. provision of this kind quite superfluous ; or that any care — ‘from the terrors of the scaffold, and the ignominy agp Wb. Sabetne-tex forms publi, | be taken at all with these very essential fire implements, which | fg}on's grave, 6 ey ” peagrgren Bs idi . : ci pat -/ Government takes no notice of this rioting, have no shelter, notwithstanding that they have costa large; Qn Christmas morning Sheriff Harding received miormas | oo ankles cas-oh teed te the dls tna ee amount of money! tion from the Lieut. Governor that the sentence of death j men might have p 2 Bib . > ean give an idea of such luxary. [shal not actempt in thes Then. again, when the late City Council, including the | il; : J 1 son Bean had been commuted to im- no one interfered, The Bombay peop @ have ta 6 le hesty ase teddies ae oplendenr, Ai by <a coll Chief Engineer, became so extremely sensitive about the | Proaounce a - a tiary for the remainder of his life, | at this ; and they yesterday went down, to the number of at| (ayy w.J) give you a onnplets account. I caused every ; 5 - . . ° > » : . ° . ; ‘citizens that they did not like to have their eyes filled with peipenen a t > oy wm sentence was (o be carried; least 2,000, to 1he,Apollo Pier to receive the Governor (who | jet of the palace to be guard d by strong poste, in order col i dust, seized upon our Fire Department water casks, and had | out wn in I = 's “7 me i his trial, Bean ogndiated | Bas expected to arrive here from V ingor la), and to remon- | stthing should be deren zed netee hie anunat lean pling. several of them converted into machines for watering the | into effect, ' tile in jai oe ae Iie undertook! strate with him against the tax. Again, none of the police Whom I sent immediate information. Some hours after 4 20 3 > ‘ P ne i - ; . . 7 ” mae ‘hi cif 2 : cs shes hes e of being sent to the | were present. Fortunately, the Governor did not come, and | = — ee padres nag ns Jomed wy aK se i an in the ae ’ : ae : . . ‘ co!) a ‘ ” , bes ea aa c oe ward Jabor, and would ‘spend hours | after waiting two hours in vain the disappointed crowd peace- | Coumn, F appo ag rene ow asylum, a escaping bart .

| streets, and which, after using much of their brains, all their | knowledge of Hydraulics, and more of our money on, proved a ° , see that n thing siould be touched, and that the two armies is Voi ' . , t act vigorously | oe kicking at the stove, groaning at the top of his voice, en | ly Sihnearric,) Nee TNE WE vig ~ Should conjontly exercise a strict eurveillince. Genera} going through capers of won

ja decided failure; and ¢he Chijet, ashamed of his folly. had these mutilated casks hid in the Misses Stewart's yard, fer ! js 0d r which we will no doubt have ground reut to pay. Since the | ductal novelty to the edification ; things won tend here ; indeed, it wants little now to entire y /Grant and Lord Elgin hay nz arrived, we pam ‘d three eat aici wes eae SShatloa. while sit cone of thie of his visitors ; but on being handcuffed apd lodged in rt | stop the collection of the tox. ats 9 — ne . " ee rd ;

p CES HGR OS CNS Sa ee ee hey ; vr . s +h as they are—returved with wonder- | a Waluad-e ari - £0 that parts , nm f Frene are scattered round in their late depot, partially covered with | dungeon,his senecs—such — nae an impostor of the THE TREATY OF PEKIN /Co:nmussioners Only to give their atientomto Oo‘ jects having

He bas provec f cae 4 d wIN TIN, value in point of view of artor autiquity. f hope to send ty on} TUB CONDITIONS OF PEACE —@REAT INDEMNITY —A NEW your Excellency for the Enfoersr and. for the great collection ica

snow, while the carriages are froz niast! Now. these long | ful spontanicty. A 7 spouts to these casks have no plugs to them, end at the last ‘deepest dye, and would wake a suitable acquisiticn to SESSION CEDED TO GREAT BRITAIN—BURIAL OF THE — of the Government, or for the Acnillery Museum some cui we - - é . - 7 MURDERED PRISONERS, Lam row anxieu ly expecing

}fire one of the Truckmen reported at our Engine that he | Politics] Alliance in Charlottetown, where his Aypocrit ashes very rare in Prance. vould be properly appreciated.” |

{would have been much sooner to it with water, only that after mancuvres, maniac performenees, and abandoned nature, he had put in what water he thought would have half filled : the arrival of Baron G:oa, whois very @yortly to rej ia me herve, it, he leoked into the cask, oon fuund it empty, = ahew Preparations for the exedutionvof Munford, on receipt of | The following telegram bas been received at the Foreign A kind of convention has been entered: ime between Prince scovered, to hs sorrow, that he must cet some s plug, s gencreahgetam aise 7 > on cae ok foe . atcat ys ’ i 1 : , : ae ' moved from the unembudied Militia of this Island, as publish- = a . : b a wn 7 a ks ps road: who 1 rh a we F ilis Exceilency’s fiat, were commenced, and the condemned | cfiive, v?a Trieste, from her Majesty's Agent and Consul-Ge Kong, Regent of the E ner ar ” oglhsh gece al, im 2s - ( e wou ¢ ve an.e tO. en ater ati ; é Pe Stile to a . § . fs : 2 Sei fe es foe j . n-Pales sy < i eé'in's tate No. of your paper—I regret, aa a friend of Mr. | °F” mS Se ape Ds 1 econ iL in ny A ec the deatiny of his fate with a resignation and sera! at. Alexandria :— the hanes of the gen-rals-in chief. ; hal cons-nt-d to ag ’ — m ; + | have our water casks kept in, and a nice time to discover it! | convict bore the destiny o i j : t+) 92 Thi ‘armistice in order that Prince Koaz mizht cone to Pekint Me€ill. that be, lents of his Ex- . o ri a TE ale ok ae ; ‘ . eed zs uinful to behold, rendered | Mr. Loch has arrived with Cespatches from China, and | armistice : Ag = ne 10 Fea.n to : ‘ t am told that when these water casks were kept about the | mildnesa of temper which, while painful to ’ ¢ Mie A oy nf ere Be way aay ter er a ae : at ‘ning of his two remain- | leaves this day for Malta, he ratification of the Treaty , '"¢4t- H+ has retired to a distance of eight leagues, and the tim an object of sympathy. the morning of his two remain Ts; eo F ‘d ac tion of Pekin signed “™perer is im Tariery., Be kind enough, Mors-eur 'e Mare~ ing days arrives, and now a final effort is made to save his | of Tien-tsin was exchanged, and Convention of Pekin signe

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Collector’s office, and tear-! one of whom, a petty Mandarin. was killed in the court~) ard, Strange to say, the At sunrise on the folowing day I went to t e palace. “Iti A few polive-| lmposeib'e for m’, Mn leur le Marecha', 10 describe 10 you nt. but #!! the wonders of this Imperial res dence ; nothing in Europe

| natives assembling in front of the

he vor no other Blugistrate in the impartial discharge UulY Wes au the ieast danger of any manifestation of ill- feeding. (Signed) Avgus Martin, Alexander Martin, Ai xau ler Nicho'son, Murdoch McKinnon, Mardoch MeK navy, jr, debo McKinnon, George Turner, Peter Johuston, Jobo 8. Camptell, Apgus McLean, Maleola: Matheson,

dames M erimon, Hugh Campbell, Aogus Cen bell, Miteatm Nichalgon, . Kenneth MeLean, Arehibaic Matheson. Se@orn before we this Sed day of Jannory, 1861.

(3igualy~ ALEXANDER MATUESON, J. P.

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To sus Epiror cr tue Exaviner.

Drar Sir—-In reading the correspondence between His Ex- erileagy the Lieut Governer, as Commander-in-Chief of the Fosoes, through his Adjutant General, and Mr. McGill, re-

AN ENGINEMAN.

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Charlottetown, P. E. 1, January 21, 1861.

Mk. PALMER ON THE LOAN BILL.

n reference to any antecede ‘ad nearly eneroached ot eantias | ; ; : ‘ eellency, ould i bs Yew ote on the pone Police Court they were under the inspection cf the Police, Cee ee eed © CMBCISNS, WHOSE MOSS BR-| oho saw that every cask had its plug secured to it. How 7 ; : . : 2c eX ieut jovern oe : ‘ Trae hea 8 ce chal, to excuse my incorrectness in this letter, wh chis wren ee ae ace Ural ccaeeiine - eh a eye idifferent now, and who can blame the Police if they do not life accordingly the High Sheriff and three Jurymen leave | October 24. The Engiish and French Ambissadors took anh ade hast ly "hell toda w harks mot o*, ond ‘ound ended, and still ten aterially to lowe he ‘ 9 Aa > ace g gis : : : “at. ; ; ; . *t hast ly. - ; ~_ - ae seine’ te re ane look after them as formerly? I may turn to this subject ‘for Fredericton to intercede for the unfortunate sufferer. | up their residence in the capital, and would remain there untill Pekin shall have been o eu ie! either by sur ender of estiiuation o 1U itize . ni rood [ { r { 7 teiea aaa - “s ls aes 7 , i B be 7 i " \ , ey = Mr MeGill, let mo take the liberty of advising him to * let| a. a ts eae oe ome eo ‘il ane They return without accomplishiag the object of their humane ' till November 9. The French army retired from Pekin on) py forces, and Bholi have the honour of send.ng you oftsially a ” 7 ‘ 5 Une 2c uey . em 3 radi eo | a - a “ } ar . - ¢ ‘ ” . ib bygones be hygone:,"’ an] draw hig attention to the fact, that regres ae a oa oe ee ' mission Que day moraand he goss to those “ myste-| the Ist November. The Kuglish would remain till the Am- a detailed ace sunt.—Accept, &, : tA, eo hd wali ben ten bet Rished enercancnd. |” COCR : os , ti ’ Link RE ae os | be ‘sg lef or mai Tien-tsin ti “ Montacspan.”” supposing the repo't be refers phe oo Seas te correspond-/ “Charlottetown, 10th Jan., 1861. l rious worlds untravelled by the sun,” and yet a faint hope bassadors leit. A large force to remain at Tien-tsin till ol OR ott tod elt fuce, that bis eden oe m - et ve bh, . eat ‘whispers that merey will extend her hind and spatch him Treaty conditions be fullilled. TUE TORTURED FRENCH SOLDIERS IN CHINA, ‘ oposed that the trailing of a gun through Hyde Park - " . j . Pa Dic stad si) iacimainile ‘ sa Saw salt ; ealdibe che mens adopted by the home cleanin for Fron wit Carresponden from the gallows. Friday mornng dawns: the awful doom) — Priucipal clauses : Apology fiom Emperor for affair of | Despatches have beea rece vod by the French Govern nent : ve the f rh rin at fe F iealeskt its on . Sen lay af. Ce oe ae i hangs upou the malefactor’s head, ready to take away what | Peibo last year; ministers to reside at 1 ekin ; indemnity from China which ¢i-p-ove some rumors that were «float re~ ® ing ’ v par ce ‘ : tC PE a. i y af ae ‘ ane . e , ’ . TS - Nene as 7 } 7 5 a ' . tertioon, be actually true, it simply leads to the charitable | NEW BRUNSW.CK AFFATRS. ‘God only can give, and yet | Sed to be doubled : Tien tsin to_be opened to trade immc= garding the condition of the —_—. inst al of the (rope and coneolatury coxclusion, that ** George Dundas, M.P.,”| p in . St. Jol ‘fested j bc | «The wreteh, cordema’d with Iife to part, | diately; emizration allowed; Kowloon ceded to British svif-ring dyssentery, as was seit, ther sanitary condition ie . .- vay - ~ 2A ‘ ete te a . “ t * wanes 4 ‘ i ci eas e . fa the Hous? of Commons tere and then was asseif-convicted 3 caaraate ee a oF auihe b oo ‘bl ‘to iteilt a 1 on ara Still, still, on hope relies; Crown; reaty of Tien-tsin and Convention of Pekin to be. — as a tf sa che 2 hee tae ea a a url a7 i ne : onorabie to itself and wrthy the , . X . : % | we mt ° . * 2 aol . te. an idrot as he ever can be here. pe + . 2 : ; : _ ny t at And every pang that rends the heart ‘nut in immediate operation, and to be published throughout 1 pum ee 0 rench who died from il--treatiment is state " Whit t ject Of riports, can you tell whether the °*"** which the Catholie world venerates, and for which the Lids expectation rise.” : Revicd Pal ei Ves ié-Ween ? b ‘nal | to be six. of whom one was a colonel, and another held a high ful eS cirsect' r not ? X heated of report a a ‘n lfe-blood of iis nublest sons has drenched the soil of fair | , ae Li il: the hangman’ ‘headinars gre hd cea te ee Hon ave been entirely | segt inthe administration of tie army, ‘The deseription of iets ra oh it twalve mgaths since, to ie ct, th ns Italia. . It has given proofs of its capacity to be the vindicator| The prerogative of merey did prevail: the hangman’s’ burnt to the ground by British foree. the way ia whieh the French were tortured to death is appall- 4 ., “ 3s ( : se 3 : . . . spe osm co : aitan on » « . ‘ = : ae . - , ; gyre f the Que whe Repres ae one of tl ‘ roe of national rights, the denouncer of usurpation, the faithful uplifted arm has been stayed, and the community is saved) — Podties of the prisoaers, who died in the hands of the Chi- ing. The cords with wi.ich tiey weie bound were removed Th resenec 0 1 Ae 1renrese s +O 1@ acl to . A .: ne ‘ ot Oe Se er ak | a , 4 “ i ? . , ole és iI rie Se Cole od that infest this unhappy friend and sudstantial contributor to an exbausted Papal Ex- from witnessing the barbaric exhibition of capital punish nese, brought in and baried wich honours, in the Russian fr quen ly over the sore places, causing intolerable suff-rmg, f i“ 8 Tor 0 é G oa s ie vera. * ji .. : ale od o* Trapeel si : . J : : at community, in addressing some Sun lay School scholars in- chequer. This, and inore than this, has it Gaue in obedience iment. Cemetery, on October 17. Captain Brabazon and Abbe and for which no excuses cou'd Le of cred by the cold bleoded voked his juvenile hearers, and others in the room, to pour et eet on et Ge EG The Legi-lature of this Province meets “ for the despatch | [jy¢ beheaded on er about September 21, afier the battle of | brutes. <) Si6 * es . 5 T » Bim ‘ Pilelt P ‘ ° ‘ : a: se ‘ oe ig a . ro ——~s- iiiaremnridietnteieiaieninettite beatae ee a TS _out their united thanks with him to the Giver of ail Good for : Pe ae See bribe nor threat | of business’ on the 12th of February, and is eo to have | Pah-li-chow ; budies not recovered. Lndemuitics expected | : . having, in His mercy, vouchsafed to this Colony tie blessings | eens pallies |the usual amount of wrangling ou the ¢apis. Then comes from Cbinese for families of deceased. | @! ? & La ; of 9 Protestant Govern rand Tory ee in lieu of a Its clerical and laical yoice has heen united, with a precision ; Pet 2 : : o* 3 a ceimnas ll..as @ peces- | from Ob _— for - . of decease 6 : ‘ 5 j i x & Hi i HI c ¥. SU Catlccment snd o chit u slelaabe of the Mans tin, 1 af Wis Wik-4 euniiielen themes on thet ak tins hendinel anit nthe tug of war between contending statesmen, all, as a nece Kaglish and French Misisters left Shanghai for Tien-tsin. | ery 7OVe mer and ¢ e t strate o > om 2. 3 ( a d > » - rd oe oraiitv. aeceusi is ¢ . . ® - eh lie f ith. “itt! oni hk P rt! ear as 7 rhis E: oe hons in Shs lesan in corrab ee ie public ¢ i aa | sary consequence of political morality, accusing his antagonist Major Anson has arrived, charged with despatches from Sir 1 with. he 20eve rep ve true, Waatever his Excel- | on: | plat mip tet an re + eee a — _" F evs he: cnet tine abt }i suv about hi ro virtue \ ‘ f he ant h} Ieney’s antecedents may have been, and he failed on the spot of that vile ad atrocious warfare now contaminating the du- of sinister wegen: and babbling away about his own virtues | Hope Grant for the W aF O08, and leaves this day. to rebuke the piows speaker for his characteristically insensate | minions of the Moly See, and poisoning the etmosphere of and the British Constitution. | (3igued) il. Raven. °f ind | : . ~s . : b : . : _ »% ) i” an | . grsivyulty butsat calmly through the edifying discourse, the | ltaly with tue remains of Garibaldi’s noxious and po!luted| The new Suspension Bridge over the River at the Grand) Tyjeste, Dec. 24. | einer var Lieut. (isvernors are chosen by competitive exam:-| breath.—But 1 cannot refrain from remarking thaé [ ex- | Falls, has been erecicd, where its predecessor fell two years | ] ig scre ti ie , » “oe ric 8 ex ile i > j i ee *ejyi ¢ t 2 ey . e a . -* . ne | . . | natiow, us well as our Culonial Secretaries by the people's, perience exhilarating emotion in perceiving that the Revolu- | ago, and is now open for traffic: length 204 feet; height} Anothcr statement adis that the Treaty of Tien-sin was | tionary demagogue is halting in his career of spoliation —re- :

Tux following remarkable letter from the Leader of the Go-

rt. Se ew ear, AN ENGLISIMAWN treating from his scenes of iznominy, and know ie from bed of river 110 feet: cost $28,000. The old year is| ratified, and the Convention signed at Pekin on the 24th of | Charlottetown, January 14, 1861, AN ENGLISHMAN. | sobtens the Ghioes of his edit hous eukitinn _ nas BOW ibe | gone ; and oe successor made - mb mgr sere. : — October by Lord Elgin and Prinee Hung. The same for- | vernment anpeared in the Islander of Friday last. As it is oe ieee ee | No nice extreme a true Italian knows; |° e'ock on Monday night last, of which Sn ee 2 ee ne Were gone through with Baron Gros on the following likely to command some attention, we give ita place in our Bid him gy to he!l—to hetl he goes.” ‘and was ushered in by a roar of cannon from the Volunteers. | day. ‘The indemnity to be paid by the Chinese has been ‘columns :-—

For rue Exawinen. The following is a sum: | To tur Eprror ov The Isiaxprr

> . ‘ A short time since the Cathedral was filled with what might | Calle, calls, interomanges = ervilities, on = ot ce fixed at 8,000,000 taels ia all, Ms. Eptron—it must be fresh in the memory of many be termed, in Irish repeal phraseology, 4 monster meeting, the St. John beauties’ have been t e orcer of the pro- | mary of the Convention :— _ Srr—In the las’ two numbers of the Islander you have ex- that some few years since a mill site on the Worrel Estate,| convened for the purpose of sympathizing with the head of | gramme ; but to tell the tiuth—at this holy season—I dida {, In Article 1 the Emperor regrets the misunderstanding | pressed an opinion in favor of the seheme of obtaining a loan Lot 38. was advert'sed by Government guthority to be offered the Catholic Church in his present affliction, and af giving | feel at home ; however, tempus fugit. 4 ! jat the Taku Port last yeaw } from the Impezial Government for the purpose of purchasing ut public sale, at the Colonial Building, at Charlottctown, | Publicity to their sentiments cancerning the aggressions of| I shall now couclude, Mr. Examiner ; and in doing 80 | Art. 2 stipulates that a British Minister shall reside at out the rights of the Proprietors to the Township Leads ig on a specified day > and-on that dey the property was put ictor mene a pends bel Eke oeting was presided over permit me to wish you and all my friends in the Island a ! Pekin. | this Island. up to pubic competition. and bidders having been exhausted xy the Rt. Kev. and indefatigable Bishop of St. J ity WhO. very happy new year. Let me also present my compliments | Art. 3 arranges the payment of the indemnity by instal-| Believing that The Islander has an extensive influence og Uy : : _ .’| in an address, surveyed the e:uses, and growth, and effect of : ): at Pater a | ° public opinion, 1 deem it not improper to recommend to your it was knocked dowa to the Hon. G. Coles at a certain! snot war w eal aiken to the learned Editor of the Islander, and to the Chief Se-| ments |P F —s ; nk: ¥ is bil: tes thaichiint efead. Take wee that war whose ostensible design is to demolish the most tary ta the < ile of Liat. Goveraée Deudss, | Aisi! : ; » | more seriovs consideration, the question whether an attempt a roant, his bid being the highest ofered. 13 was an opel. vencrable dynasty in the civilized world, and produced irze- | °°°'@TY 1 nf oe a ee ite stalin bot Art. 4 opens the port of Tien-tsiu to trade. | to carry into eT-et such a project a¢ you propose eould Le yen - fair and jegitimate sa e and purchase; but, Mr. Editor, woat futable arguments, fortified by the opinions of eminent Pro- |} Bice, Mr. Pope, to oe remembered at this spicy season, by |} Art. & removes the interdict on emigration. | cared upon, m.re especially at the present time, with a pro- followed this business-like and equitable transaction ? Why, testant writers, in fuyor of the temporal jurisdiction of the , ane who knows nothing of you, except through the reputa-| Art, 6 cedes Kowloon to the British Grown, _per regard for the interests of the Imbabitants of the Colony Sir, Mr. Cules. the purchaser, then Leader of the Govern- Sovereign Pontiff, and condemnatory of the unhallowed policy | tion of that inimitable administration to which you are my Art. 7 provides for the immediate operation of the Treaty | generaily ?

ment, was assaile) by the opposition party, headed by the’ of his — en iis Lordship 8 speech, on the bright an ornament ? P. Bo. hef Tien-tsin. As one member of the Legislature, and more particularly as

Hon. E. Palmer, with virulcat donunciations, and stigma-, Sees a oe apap eae temearpaatonteedy, Bowed ME roe saat January 4, 1861. | Art. 8 orders the promulgation of the Treaty throuzh- |* member of the Government, I should most assuredly refrain

alee teed j bher, uaing bis public positic Lon eevee Wis adversaries of the Papacy, and has elicited commendations ini ~eemmadaie _ ©" | from sharing in such a serious r sponsibility ; and in this view : rb Z io . sR NAST NE

: ~ from the leading Protestant press in this city.

private interests. Resolutions, cow posed in language ** pregnant with celestial The Leader of the present Government, the Hon. Edward fire,’ were submitted, and stamped with the concurrent ap- |

Primer, so horrified then with a legitimate act, and fierce in probation of thousands of Catholic hearts. Then came the!

nis anethemas ou Mr. Coles, thinking the time bad arrived subscriptions, which rolled in from the high and lowly, rich |

to abandon lis public principle of that day as obsolete, in — ere = oapee < ae eeeaites donations in

° > . 7 . a” ‘ é ulfp ause . >» PSSe S. : # ete

eonsideration of a jvb preseating itself to bis cupidity, whieh | Uv/enee of the cause lor which they professed so warm an at

ould be effected and served, through the position he holds a ; ; : shen. |

. vs aioe. ae ’ .. | The amount eollected on this oceasion—being the cantribu- r 1

inthe G:vernment, availed himself of the opportunity to! tions of only one muiety of the Province. reached the handsome Messrs. Boulby, D: Norman, and Anderson have been

oe. Me deine . ; 7 2 ha ; eas

mt money in his parse, although another man would be de- | figure of four thousand dollars; and which, | an erstand, has : : buried with great solemaity. Grabuzon was beheaded about : ; : {3s Page .. ow | the Borgo. having becusht beridlac? gunn ! ith the = , .

prived of bis right by the transaction. been already transmitted to aid in replenishing a treaaury ‘"° wore, Sarena eae ee ee Seem ithe Siat/al September. The Abbe de Lne also met with Tis ‘Givemetanccs under which Me, Palmer perpetrated robbed of its legitimate and time honoved tyibutes by a rabble for that purpose. The fire of the Picdmonte-e azainst the

the unjust operation are. I believe, as follow :— and profligate soldiery. fortress had inereased. A large shell burst in ane of the

“== cut China. : | ne a | av - euso t - Art. 9 stipulates for the evacuation of Chusan by the | | _bave every Feaues to Deliv) 2 Gn Sle Sar ae on

British foree. The Allied Armies were to leave Pekin on the 8:h Nov. | sar Say . , . sar ; ~ P. h . “2 ! SJ wu ee . RE-COMMENCEMENT OF THE BOMBARDMENT [tis reported that the Ist Koyals, the Sith, the Queen's, the | OF GAETA | Buffs, and the Marizes proceed to Kagland, oe | Lord E’gia resides in Pekin. Tue Emperor is at Zichol, | Advices from Gacta announce a suecessful caup de main jo Toriary ' : made by a small body of Royalists, The? succeeded in sur- | prising the Predmontese outposts, and blew up two houses of

leagues in the Government.

ic snot my purpose, at present, to give reasons why Lag still, as l always have Leen, opposed ta the scheme you haves adverted to. | have always done 80 when the question was dis- cussed in the House of Assembly, and nothing has since tran- Spired 40 iimluge we toalter my mind, but much to confirma mein the epinton L had formed against the prapositen, Zo cocntenanes such a measure in the Lezisla are would, b think, be a breach of faith with the {.operial Government, whe have granted the Land Commission prayed for by the Hewes of m~ sembly, anckibiaut. tune when we are loosing forw urd tothe award of the Commissioners aa dkely to settle, upon just and eqiitatle terms, the questie abotwe mn Proprietor and Tenant,

News by the English Mall,

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the same fate. The sum of £100,000 has been exicted for

a rs poe ee oa ; ne the families of the British officers who have been murdered.

: ; eek . ie The ++ Emigrant’s Aid Society’’ is the name of an association squares close to the King. Some of the houses have suffered : af A Mr. G 3, 0 Ve Creek, made application at the od see 7 alee teed . | Squa Aung red Office of the Commissioner of Public Lands for some 45 073°" oe ger: F ng eS as = ag tee Dr. cons derably, and 15 pegsons were wounded by the Lursting 5 re cay °c * ™ a i F > . . ve ° weres of land on Lot 62. unoceupied and ungranted; and Sweeny, and ineiyding, besiced many influential citizens, of a sheil iu the haspital. “Lhe King has issued a proclama- 3

; ge some two hundred of the humbler classes, Its chjects gre to ,- ‘ 2 i oaths * offered. at the same time, as | am informed, payment for the promote colonization, to facilitate the means of procuring for a to the troops, prateing their cvurage, and valling np = them to defend the fortress to the Jast.

property. The Commissioner, it appears, was absent from emigrants titles to lands in the most available lucalities, and : Pt ; ; the City, and the gentleman in charge of his Office declined to afford information and pecuniary assistance to all persons Tue bombardment of Gueta will recommence in consequace to take the proffered money ; but he, at the request of | desirous of becoming agriculturists, but whose circumstances of the bon-acceptance by King Braucis LL. of the proposed G s, entered his, G's name in the regular way for the on life oe been ee from competence to penury by the conditions to surrender Gaeta. The King has issued a mani- right t¢, und purchase of the land. Mr. G., baying bad his. oo 7 page outrageous fortune. E : festo, eallivg upon the Neapolitans to mike a last effort to) tual 4 : “ e society bas provided 500 applicants with the essentials serve their nationalit Rd dudktestcdn wiitetd thet

name pro erly recorded, left the Commissioner's Oitice, Pet of immetiase farming operations, and who, under the pro- preserve 1e1y national y. © guarantees to maintain t eir seetly satisfi u that he being the #rst and only applicant, the | yisions of the Labor Act, ean attain ta the position of thes libertios and. graat distines Parliaments vi the Two Sicilivs, Jond was s cured to him. A Mr. M u, of the same lo-| holders by the performance of a small amount of manual | He also Prone? a fern. it compelicd to succumb he eality with G—=:, su-cquently made application to the, labor on the pablic road most convenient to their premises, will maintaia the firm bope of returniay to his domisious,

Hon. E. Palmer to purchuse some glebe land, which he, Mr, | 1t would redound to the eredit of quasi-proprictors of land in y". owned, and whch lay immediately adjoining the land another colony were they to fallow, eyen to a smell exten’,

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; . ‘ le of this association, and place within the reach of h ( s had recorded his name for at the Office ¢ 2 | the exam} ~ one } . Ba 'Or ae x oe sett r. Me. Palmer was read Ne 2% : 7 a every honest man an incentive to honorable exertions, anda The correspondeut of the Delats at Turin says :—-*: Gene- vissioner. Mr. Palme ‘ ady iispose 7 : : ' . 6 : : JOM ission was ay 50 Gispo - or his prospect of realizing that, when his days be spent, he leaves ral Bencdek has informed his troops that they must be pre- plebe to M p, but he, M., informed him that the glebe

wou'd not be valuable to him without the adjoining jand;/Jandlordism. But. as it is, those overweening gentlemen and whereupon Mr. Palmer offered to sell M——n that land obsequious servants who, ‘ frozen at heart while speculation wlso ; and conclud | a bargain, and sale at 17s. 6.4. per acre | shines,” misgepresent the condition of the people subject to ‘tion must be settled, aud no Ministry could stand for a single ta M noftheloudG 8 had applied for, and to which, | their reatal exactions, can, instead of Lenedictions, expect but die chi V ti hich Jy ee Th ’ Ma - : o ow M Mr. Pal ;' | | arses from an insulted and impoverished tenantry, by the in- 9°Y WHlco gave up \ euctia, which 1s quite true. SEROFR, ° we the time of sale to M——=n, Mr. Palmer had no legal | : ere ydicentheatied if diplomacy wishes to avoid a conflict, it ght nor private claim. Mr. P. subsequently bocame the | t¢TPositon of superior authority, become disenthrailed from the P J a t 's aad G J — 1 f hi - - y 7 . --- fetters that clog their progress, they wil regard such freedum, | best use of the months of danuary and February.’’ ‘ — - 8 Was deprived o is right and ¢'aim to not as a favor bes owed t.rough{philanthrophic motives, bat,as: The Constitutionnel publishes an article, signed by its teat land, “ee 2 ; _ Catholic Ireland did her emancipation, as a right extorted froma chief editor, Mr. Graudguillot, on the above question. tn this unjustly jolbed land speculation, Mr. Palmer's fear. parse found about £22 profit withia its clasp, he having, A declaration of war has been proclaimed here against the p arehased from the Government at 6s., and goid at 17s. Gd. | existence of a theological doctrine which has hitherto main-

to crush Garibaldi and his adberents. The Turin Gazette,

M.|

| behind him a posterity liberated from the trammels of haughty pared jor war in the spring, and that it is at Mantua he means to go to war—to take a leaf out of the Cainaman’s book, | eae and to frighten the Celestials by a parade of great ships 9¢ in his senses ever dreamt thata loan, or any other mersure

a very moderate jourual, likewise says that the Venetian ques- and armies,

read at Pekin, hardened the hearts of the Mandarins there, ‘and kept up their courage to resist. ! uiilot, o1 *» Impossible” Grandguillot states that it is instinctively felt that a decisive | everything to be impossible, and wno are now demonstrating ‘crisis is approaching. All Europe seems to haye apprehen- to

fie summer palace of the Emperor was barmt by the Bei- | tish on the 18th of October, Tae insurgents are still levying tribute ia various places, | and are eaacing Nougpo. '

The common sens2 ef the Huglish people and the folly of the Court of Pekia have brought the war with China toa happy termination. It is not our statesmen or our dip!o- matists who have done this; nor is it the Chinese people. Vur statesmen were divided among them-elves. Que section of taem denounced ia strains of indignant virtue all inter- ference with the Hmpire, anil if they had been listened to; we should have bowed our neeks to the barbarians’ iusolence, and allowed every little Mandarian to tax our tea and our exports, yuiul our poorer classes were altogether deprived of this necessary, and until our artificers worked no longer for

the Chinese trade. Another secticn desired to make believe |

which were never to do anything but ocke huge |

Their speeches and their writings,

There was also the section, whose siugle instinct is to declare

all who listen or read that it is clearly contrary to all

which have unhappily so lng been the subject of discuntcat

“among so many of the Luuabstaets of the Colony.

} remain Sir, your, &e., Charlottetown, Jan. 16, 181. EDWARD, PALMER.

When the Island_r recommended the. sdoption of the poliey vf the late Government with respeet to. a purchase of Town-, ship lands, it did ec, we presume, net in anticipation or in-

dependent of the award of the Commissioners, but as

supplementary tv thataward. Mr. Ps, mer’s question is there- fore out of place. Ile asks the Is/ander to consider * whether au attempt to carry into effect such a projees’ (aaa lean) ‘+ could be ventured upon, more especially at the present time, with a proper regard for the interests of the inhabitants ef this Colony generally? ’’ And he states that tie adopt on of such & scheme would be a breach of faith with the huper a} Government, pending the Commissioners’ award. Now, no

affecting landlord and tenant would be entertained by the

defici's in our public accounts. These were among the most | Legislature until after the Commissioners finally disposed of “sae - |

effectual, although the most unwilliog, instruments to effect

must make the | the result now obtained.

the duty entrusted to them; bat it 1s very proper to prepare the public mind for entertaining such a project at that time. The award of the Commissioners, if it be ever furnished at all, cannot be delayed long after the meeting cf the Legislature; and it appears to be well understood on all sides that a prin- cipal feature in that award will be a recommendation to

sons for the coming spring. He is convinged that the wis-| rule that any one of our expedition should come back, and dom of the Government af the Kmperoy will know bow to itis nothing but the “ accident” of our Armstrong guns |prevent a struggle, hencefirth without any object. The) which has saved the whole force from being ridden down by situation of Austria in Venetia, is deplorable. Kverything | the Tartar cavalry. What with ethics, and mercy, and ter- is possible in Venetia, except that which now exists. M.| ror, the old-fashioned votaries of plain commoa eense, who Grandguillot expresses his conyiction that Austria, who knows do not pretend to see beyond the surface of a mill-stone, had how provinces are gained, will also remember how they are hard work to hold their own. Not to go to war if you ean lost. lie believes tuat Baron Von Schmerling sees things help it, but if you are. foreed into it, then so to bear your- | in{a different light from General Benedek, and that the Baron self in it as to make your adyerssry sick of it, and to indis- | pose him to renew it, is wach too common-place and simple

heg already weighed the chances of a new struggle. |a doctriue to have mavy adherents among very clever men. | . ‘It has been against all these impediments, in the Cab net reasonable enough to expect that the Imperial Government

and out of the Cabinet, in Parliament, in the press, in the Would, ifearnesjly solicited, contribute a very considerable

| purchase the claims of the proprietors, at a certain fixed rate. flow can that purchase be effected without money? The local Government is very considerably more in debt than it “was when it passed into the hands of the Tories, and that Government have not a shilling to spare. There bas been a disposition on the part of the Lmperial Government, for a long time, to guarantee the payment of a loam; and when the Com- “missioners shall have made knowa the oppression and hardship under which our tenant population have suffered, it may be

per acre to M——n. J’vor G——s has no legal redress, | tained the most amicable intercourse with the enlightened ond wtst submit to the power of the Leader of the Govern-| nations of the earth. Tt is a scheme devised for the pious ment, unless he, G.. should, as in contemp'ation, submit his purpose of exploding the labyrinths of Holy Writ in a more , hard case to the ecnsiderarion of the Legislature during its’ liberal and consis eut manner than has yet been canjectured ; Lext Session. and one that promises to be productive of very indulgent

‘bhe fucis rel.te| in this ease are substantially true, god | consequences to all who enroll themselves under the banner carry with them their awo comment. lof its iamed and original champion, who, be it remeubered,

SPECTATOR. | undertakes the enterprise entirely on bis own hook.

———— | The erudition and persuasive faculties of this accomplished scholar—all the way from Scotland's romanti¢ hills—have |

Sin—I am not certain th ere is any particula in been employed with marvellous great zeal, ign the enforce- | At Ae labs lor the se ection ot Fire ice bet belies ete ment of his opinions, and have enrapture | delighted audiences | TU AUSTRIAN FLEET.

iv the month in which they are generally appointed, and [| with the vigor and profundity of his illustrations, the bril- | he Archduke Maximili: : — ; : ; j A : ji ‘ hope for the interest of the Fire Department there will be a lianey of his rhetorical phrase, but above all with the grati. | aa : ae a rey ree = command club-room, in society, at mob-meetings, and in the streets, on of the sum required for che parchase of Township landa whole mew bateb made. even a new Chief ; for this depart | ¢.in¢ deductions of his dastwalted retiodiailtin. es ‘ “wae : squa - fui te ‘ as been place 7 a War that plain people have won this great game. in this Island. If Mr, Palmer thinks that the questions whieh ment has decided y suffered under the late engineers. We |? The abolition of the observance of the Sabbath doctgres | worur “sttcamer al line Pe 2 mg on = ae a have unhappily so long been the subject of discontent between

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eee ae te sone ap ap sm Sak sae this reverend and scriptural ambassador, is a command from | Bourguignon is second in ae with his flag on board | PRENCH BOOTY IN CHINA. proprietor and tenant, can be set at rest by the latter pur- how mach of this quality bas been displayed of late? None the Giver of all laws, and may be found in various parts of the Schwartzenburg steam-frigate. The Archduke was to. The recent arrival of news from China, via St. Peters. | chasing his farm from the former when he can raise money whatever, unless it ve to drive the department down hijl, and the inspired writings, For instance; “ It Js bigh time to) jeaye Pola on the 20th, on a visit of inspectipn ajong the | burgh, observes the Constitutionnel. has onee more demon- for the purpose —he is grievously mjstaken. If the tenant this has been evinced to an interesting degreo ; for instance,| awake out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than Austrian shores of the Adriatiep | strated how rapidly land cohyeyance ean bring intelligence left to desl directly with the propri ;: is matter S he y proprietor in th , the discontent is sure to become ten times greater than ever it