THE EXAMINER, a ciinimimmencntl

The latter company had been out of servive for several years, | loss and imperious of Ferrymen, he haa become all of a sudden but were called out by the Chief Engineer Bartley i& not ;

expected to recover

the most diligent, industrious, persevering and complaisant of

A COMPARISON. Tuk Islander of Friday last contains an article from ,the

“he estimated loss is $2,000,000 jmen. Tnsiead of leading a passenger to think, that, besides | pen of Duncan McLean, as a kind,of apology for, or defence --———— — «sees —__-—_ - | paying, he was under an important obligation for a passage | of, the iniquitous career of the so-calléd ‘* Colonel” Sleigh, in|

[From the Aspinia 1 Courr v's Apra l7 }

TERRIBLE MASSACRE AT PANAMA,

tos . , hs : = ; that the Perryman is the party obliged, without reeviying any with haying attacked the man when his back was turned upon

Another of those terrible fights between the natives and ferriage atall. His employees, from all we.can learn of them, | US, and {hat we dared not have done so while. he remained in

foreigners, which have occurred on the Lsthimus several times | aro models of perfection in the practice of the virtue of polite- the Island.

’ |

since the emigration to California commenced, transpired at —

. 2 ope a ot | as. Panama on the night of Tuesday, the 15th. ‘The result was a | ; moet horrible massacre of innocent passenvers, a great de- i clination for a trip acrose, you are politely requested to go on struction of pessengers’ baggage, and a devastation of property | board of Mr. Bourke's boat, and you peceive a shower of | poth of the Railroad Company and individua! residents near | ,, the Panama Railroad station.

The difficulty originated in a dispute abort one e between | graces of the employees do not insult the dignity of the | aa intoxicsted passenger and 9 native, respecting payricut for apiece of Water-melon. ‘The story is, that the native being much exasperated by the conduct of the passencer, drew a| knife, on seeing which the passenger fired at the native, and severely wounded hie. This brougkt forward another native, who stabbed the passenger, and then the combatants increased oe considerably on both sides fur some time—a number were shot, | *¢ public's filthy luere. and more badiy cut with machetes, accommodate the public, that we should not be surprised to

Throagh the exertions of Mr. J. W. Johnson, the Panama Ratiroad Superintendant at the Panama Station, the fight was , et : , then stayed fore short time. But anon it broke out with re- | @tmed up, pulling an oar or trimming a sail ; and there is no

: ’ ' e . newed violence, and apparent organization and evident inethod. | reason to doubt, that when his steamer is afloat there will be which toid feartully for the natives. About this time it began | to be ‘evident that spite against the Railroad Company and} : plunder were the chief motives of the atrocities and depreda | te season, flanked by sundry bottles of exhilirating fluid, tions which had been end were to be committed. The first|such as thirsty and not strictly cold-water passengers would affray occurred between six and seven p. wm, and but brief IM | Qligl . io : tervals of tolerable quiet occurred between 9 and 10 o'clock. | * rt to patronise—the generous Ferryman inviting, with all

A'l the officials on the station, with the exception of the | bis blandishments, his numerous guests to regale themselves

wiperintendant, lost every thing they had ju clothing and | thereat.

waluables of every description. The Penama Railroad counting. | room (meluding the desks of the Pacific Mail Steamship | Company) was entirely ransacked, and everything of value it would be more correct to say mismanagement—of the carted off ; the books and papers were cut and forn to pieces, Ferry, After repeated verbal complaints, which had no effect, and one of the safes (which contained but little money) was | cu ; : broken open and pillaged, while the other was pierced to the |* Petition numerously signed was presented to the Government ¥oner linings, but nothing taken therefrom, Every drawer and), in the autumn of Jast year, setting forth the inconvenience desk-ead closet was ransacked, and nothing was left in its place Gnigjured. ie : é , ; :

The frerghthouse wae riddied with balls, and all the baggage | Ferry, and urging the interference of the Government with a

Winadt ee a os im the lighters, to go uit to the steamer, | view to prevent its continuance.

‘was rifled. he officers al! left the station, except Mr. Center : . . . wod Mr. Johnson: they were on tive premises uatil the ransacking | aon Boarhe took no notice of these public complaints. He was nearly compleved. Mr. Center had several very narrow | Suited it abroad that he was totally independent of the Go- escapes; two men were shot by lis side, and he avoided the | yernment—that no contract existed between them—that there same fate by concealing himself among the rafters of the’ | buildings.

Some twenty foreigners were killed, and between thirty and, had been superseded by a Steamer, and the steamer had a ee a weunded ; ainong the latter were several women | right to run upon her own hook. and children. Fist . :

An Gtiempt having been mado to get the passengers who! this defiant demeanour; and, as if to mark his contempt for were in the wicinivy of the station on board the little steamer, | public opinion and for the Government, allowing the irregu- the natwes ‘forwed a guard at that beach, sud stripped men. women, ang children, a8 they approached, taking the women’. |. : é so 3 rings*from their fingers and ears, and their pins frum their cuffs | Executive patience endured as long as it did. On the 19th of and bosema. ' December, Mr. Bourke was informed hy letter from the Coun-

employer by offering ferriage. The thing is done ** free, eratis, for nothing,’’ and the good heart of the Beneficent Ferryman vould be sadly grieved if he found that any of his supernu- meraries allowed their palms to be touched by any portion of Tnudeed, so anxious does he seem to

see the Beneficont Perryman himself, with coat off and sleeves

always a table on board, spread with the choicest delicacies of

But to return to Mr. Bourke’s past management—perbaps

which the public had experienced from the neglect of the

ad been, indced, a contract for a Team-boat, but that that

Mr. Bourke persisting in

,larities of the Ferry to inerease—we only wonder now that

> oa + NEW BRUNSWICK.

Frarect. Sreampoat Accipext.—We regret to have to| tl winagrer . : reeord to-day a fearful accident which occurred on Thursday | “7°TeUPOR Anpulled. course Mr. Bourke took as little Jast, en ‘board of the steamer J. D. Pierce on her upward | notice of this missive as he did of the public remonstrances, ip from Fredericton to Woudstock. The boat had stopped | and continued to run his boat until a bridge ef ice gaye the atone of the landings on the route, about 30 miles above | public a cheaper, safer and more expeditious passage across Fredericton, and was on the point of starting when the boilers exploded with feariul effect, killing several persons,

—

_cil Office, that in consequence of various breaches of the con- tract the Lease of the Ferry had beecomo forfeited, and was

ithe river. On the 4th January following a notice was issued

and seriously wounding a number of others. The telegraph | from the Secretary's Office, calling for now tendors from per- despatch, says that at least five persons have been killed by | 8008 willing to conduet the Ferry. Mr. J. R. Bourke sent thie me'ancholy accident ; among the number is Mrs. T. H.| no tender, but one of his sons did; Mr. I. Pope. Welsh also dobmston cf Gagetown, and her husband, who is a son of the! tendered ; and his tender expressing, in '

late Hon. [fugh Johnston, was injured, thouzh not severely. rate of ferriage than Mr. William Bourke’e, while it offered

The J. D. Pierve, like the other boats plying above Frederic- : nm Pig: tom, was on the high-pressure principle. She was thoroughly Several important advantages to the publi¢, unnoticed in Mr.

examined previous to her departure up the river by our efficient | Bourke’s tender—such as giving a free ferriage to funeral Steamboat Inspector, Captain Wm. M. Smith, and was) processions and to Church-going people on Sundays—it be-

need to be in good order. The unfortunate accident | came, of course, the duty of the Government to accept it, as is attributed toa want of water in the boilers, a pew engineer having been put in cherge on that trip, who was uot, perhaps thorough!y acquainted with the machinery.

We learn that the Government have ordered an investigation | ~ : of this unfortanate affair, and that the whole circumstances | Tips, a8 before, and to be punctual in the exacting of the fee emuceted therewith will be fully made publie. Capt. Smith, | —but to be ever watchful and ever ready for passengers, taking rnecompanied hy Mr. Flem'ng, will proceed to Fredericton | them without charge. and thankful for getting them. Of to-day, fir the pur,o-e of reporting upon this sad casualty. | course the intention wae—to spite the Government (that was —Newbrunswicher, May 10. | the main ohject)—to ran Mr. Welsh off the Ferry, and to

i being by all means the most advantageous. No sooner, how- ever, was the river again free of ice, than Mr. J. R. Bourke's boat appeared upon its bosom,—not te be irregular in its

| cripple his resources.

EE ee pene tm e ¥e eH 2 # at ue % #t iN nt © | Last week, the Lessee, under the authority of the Ferry Act,

brought Bourke’s men before the Mayor’s Court for running a

Ferry for hire and without license. Richard Heartz, Esq., Seetainemnnntinninaiimeinte Common Councillor, &c., aided the counsels of his Worship THE BENEPICENT FERRYMAN. on the occasion, and refused to give judgment for the plaintiff,

Ove attention has been directed, by a communication | on the ground that the parties were not ferrying for hire, al- signed a‘ Belfast man,” as well as by the common talk of though they admitted that they were regularly paid for pan the City, for several days past, to the extraordinary cireum- | STVIC As the Mayor, who took a different view, could "i stance of there now being a free ferry between Charlottetown | S'¥ judgment by himself, the case fell te the ground; and and Stratford on the opposite side of the river. For several; Mr. Bourke’s boat is still doing the agreeable for those who

years, but particularly during the summer of 1855, nothing | ™°Y he mean enough, for the sake of three-pence a-head, to itake advantage of his obstinacy and envy. It is confidently

asserted that Mr. Bourke is borne harmless, in a pecuniary

CHARLOTTETOWN, MAY 19, 1356.

services.

was so much complained of as the irregularity which character- ised the management of the Charlottetown Ferry. Almost every day the Seeretary’s Office was beset by parties who had gape: a heen subjected to much inconvenience and delay in getting subseription from some of the principal Poriee of Charlotte- across the Ferry. Mr. Bourke, or his employees, not only town. Of course no one who knows anything of Mr. Bourke punctually exacted the established rate for a passenger, but | ever for a moment imagined that he pays the shot out of his seomed as if he or they were desirous to impress the passengers | Own pocket; and all we need say about those generous, bene- with a sense of their mighty obligations to them in getting | ficent men, who stand behind him, afraid to show their faces, across at any price or under any circumstance. It was a|is—that if any poor wretch wanted a shilling, they would matter of no concern to Mr. Bourke if a poor countryman, in| not be so ready to give it as they are to sacrifice their pounds a hurry to get to or from Charlottetown on urgent business—|to Mr. Bourke’s spleen. We firmly believe that Mr. Coun- were compelled to wait perhaps for an hour, and sometimes! cillor Hearts is a handsome contributor amongst the precious longer, before the little steamer pufled her way across to his| lot. If he is not, he has given the most unmistakeable evi- relief and satisfaction,—he never fretted or flurried himself at | dence of his total unfitness for the office in which the citizens the thought of delicate females shivering in the cold or rain, ! of the Fifth Ward have so heedlessly placed him.

while kis Boat’s crew took their ease in their inn, instead of| The question is—shall Mr. Bourke continue to defy the conforming to the time and regulations laid down for the | Government in the matter of the Ferry, and damage the pros- Mr. Bourke evidently felt—much | pects of the Lessee, who obtained it by honorable competition ?

sense, in conducting this notable enterprise, by a handsome

management of the Ferry in the spirit of Alexander Selkirk—that he was monarch of} We should not have to put the question if there was a healthy all be surveyed, that is, of the expanse of waters lying direetly | publie opinion abroad in reference to the subject. But so long between this goodly city and the thriving village of Stratford, | as Mr. Bourke can find congenial spirits amongst that numerous and that na one could or should qnestion his right to act upon| class of cheap passengers, who can afford to sell their honor or in erer ~ to it, just as he in his sovereign will might! and their independence for three-pence a picce, the question think fit todo. To complain to the Government of his mis-| will remain an open ore, until such tine as the Government management of the Ferry, was to be guilty of unwarrantable | shall pursue a vigorous policy ; and if they cannot immediately impertinence and presumption ; and for the Government to re- | drive away the shabby opposition to the Coutractor, they will Femonstrate with him, in reference to such complaint, was! make Mr. Bourke or his backers pay for it, in one form or only to elicit from the great man’s Jips the defiant exclama- | another. Minchin’s Point Wharf, on the other side of the tion: “ )——n the Government ! what do J care for them ?’’ | river—the only place where passengers can be conveniently Mr. Bourke, no doubt, thought that the Ferry, with all the | landed—is placed by Act of Parliament under the control of Tights, profits and advantages thereunto belonging, was his | the Governor in Council. They cum make what rules and re- own inalienable and indefensible property ; and there is some | zulations they may deem necessary as to rates of wharfage, Feuson to apprehend that the great man yet labours under the |e. Now as Mr. Bourke presumes to use that wharf for delusion. landing and /aking in his respectable passengers, he should be

But if he does, it must be confessed that he has made great; made to pay for the accommodation it affords. A code of advances in th ; F ‘al seite in the regulations has just been issued by the Government on this aoES Ce Se ene ee | head, and we shall see if Mr. Bourke’s subscription is large

character of a Perryman—that is, consideration for the con- enough to enable him not only to carry his passengers free, but Yeriones of the public. From being the most dilatory, care- }to pay the W hariinger a shilling a Lead besides.

. . to ° } r . we rope ey , in } . ; ory fe | | thanks for doing so; but if you want to keep in the good | Oly those who were doubtful of his honesty, but the very few! who clung to him jn the wreck of his fortunes and. his hopes |

knave. From the very first, we had no faith in the preten- sions of the ‘* Bogus’? Colonel—as our Yankee neighbours

inspired Sleigh with anything but friendly feclings towards us. For his wrath we cared just as little as we have eared for that

wished the ‘‘ Bogus’’ Colonel 80 much harm as to have his character entrusted to the keeping of a person like Duncan McLean. The one played the part of a blackleg, in the dis- guise of a gentleman, with some success ; but success, fur- tunately for the Island, has never yet attended the effurts of the other. The one was driven from the Island—the other from its Hlouse of Assembly,—knavery defeated the schemes of both.

Draper's gold,—the other, not fortunate enough to get any- body’s gold, made no display—was simply tolerated by a handful of bushmen, and when fairly found out, was thrown aside like a squeezed lemon.

the other in this Colony are generally shot into the rubbish heap as such,

of Troops than was ever siationed in it.

and the old regime. leas reason will now be assigned fur the return of the red coats.

Saturday evening, from the papers by which we glean a few

calamitous accident which happened to the Steamer J. D. Pierce ow her way between Fredericton and Woodstock, on the Sth instant, by which several lives were lost.

life and activity to our business transactions—dull for so long a period of the year.

Shareholders of the Bank of Prince Kdward Island, held atthe Court Honse, on Monday, the 12th day of May, 1856, in accordance with notice published in the Royal Gazette, pursuant to the Third Section of the. Act of Incorporation, Thomas Heath Hayiland, junr., Esquire, in the Chair.

appointed at the Public Meeting held on the 17th March, reported that said Committee had agreed to a number of Bye Laws for the management of the Corporation which he then submitted,

were agreed to with trifling alterations.

Share list was filled up—which being read—the Meeting then received the greatest number of yotes were as follows :

Longworth, Esq., John Kenny, Esq.; who where then announ- ced by the Chairman to be duly elected.

the Chairman, be transmitted.to His Excellency the Licut.

of the war, referred to the several battles which had been

of the British and Irish Soldier had been fully sustained on its crimson fields.

showed that these embraced the whole Eastern question, about which the war had commenced ; and that the Western

ditions, the lecturer was of opinion that better terms could not have been exacted from Russia, although their naval and military power was such at the close of the war, that, had they postponed the negotiation, they could have easily exacted better terms from the enemy, and so humbled and checked his aggressive spirit, that a permanent peace might have been secured, which is by no means certain under present circumstances, and the down-trodden nationalities of Europe be placed in such a position as would enable them easily to

expressed his regret that the war bad been so prematurel y brought toa conclusion. After which aa animated discussion followed, which was well sustained by Messrs. F. Brecken, Haviland, J. Tanton and others, who concurred in general with the views advanced by the lecturer.

Thus termivated the present course of Leetures al the } he appreciated.

Now this is not true, but if it were, we|

Go to the wharf on cither side aud shew the least in-| @ight quote Sleigh himself for an example. In the nyt

book which he published, after his back was turned upon this |

island, he libelled and slandered in the foulest manner, not |

were the parties most foully libelied by that consummate

would designate him—and of this we made no secret, which

i&3

HMavine Intelligence. | PORT OF CHARLOTTETOWN, Entered.

; . » . »| ° . . 2 2 . ' ‘ 5 eRe 1 - ‘, : p jfeross, he now leads the passengor into the comfortable belief |connection with his affairs in this Colony. We are charged May 15.—Schr. Curlew, Mattatall, Tatamagouche ; lumber.

Sophia, Delory, Antigonish; bal. H. Pagram, Lund, Pic tou ; mails, Catherine Elizabeth, Le Blanc, Arichat: bal

Active, Le Marchant, do.; do. Reward. Gunnes, do.; dk

Victory, Hfureau, do.; do. Father Matthew, Boudroit, do.; do, 16.—Sovereign, Purdie, Pugwash; limestone Matilda, Le Blane, Arichat ; bal. Bee, Oulton. Bay Vert

lum. Brigt. Bishop MeKinnon, Boudroit, Boston ; goods. Schr. Bee, Oulton, Bay Verte ; boards and plank. 17th— Maria, Muree, Arichat; ballast. Guoyhiend, Barret, Avichat ; ballast. Queen, Foagere, Arichat; ballast

Virgin, Martell, Arichat; ballast. Mazeppa, Landry, Arichat ; ballast? Olive Branch, Bouchie, Arichat ; bal- last. Barque Isabel, MeDonald, ‘Liverpool, G. b.—34 days; merchandize t6 Dunean, Mason & Co. and others. ’acket H. Ingram, Land, Pictou; mails, passengers and goods. Ship Ellen, Hunter, Liverpool, G. B.—32 days ; inerehandize to W. Welsh and others. 10th — Schr. Ploughboy, Rebertson, Pictou ; coal.

Cleared.

of his lying apologist. But we must confess that we never May 15.—Sehr. Lively Lass, Robertson, Pictou. Olive, Dixon,

The one was trusted, courted and flattered for a time, because he shone in plumage purehased with Simeon

The writings of the one in Eng- land have been declared a public nuisance—the secribblings of

the-wisp’’—deeciving a few of the ignorant, and attracting the admiration of none. The brilliant star has dropt from its high estate ; the ** will-o"the-wisp’’ may be still seen, however, about the New London bush ; but it has no longer the power

to decvive. -? =eeom >

THE MATS. We understand that the Government has concluded arrange- ments to forward the inter-Colonial mails four times a weck

Buctouche. Glory, Le Blanc, Ilalifax ; produce, 16.— Hi. Ingram, Lund, Pictou; mails. Olive Branch, Goud- win, Tatamagouche ; produce. Lady Jane Grey, Paul, Newfoundland; do. Father Matthew, Boudroit: Pictou : bal. dJuseph, Elwood, Newfld. ; produce. Catharine Klizabeth, Le Blane, Batharst; do. Bee, Oulton, Bay Vert; lumber, Favorite, Babin, Halifax; produce. Maria, Murie, Pictou. Unity, Green, Halifax ; produce. Ke- ward, Grimes, Pictou. Mary Jane, Terrio, Bathurst ; produce. Ariel, Moore, Halifax; prodace, &e, Sarah, Moore, Pietou. Petrel, Marehang, Pictou. Olive prance’, Bouchie, Buctouche. Native Liss, Gerrior, St. John’s, N. F.; produce. Amelia Adelaide, Fe Slane, St. John’s, N. F.; produce. Curlew, Mattatel, Tarumageuche. Sovereign, Purdie, Pugwash. 19th — Margaret, Delory, St. John’s, N. F.; produce. Brigt. Bishop McKinnon, Boudroit, Pictou; ballast.

PORT OF GEORGETOWN. Entered.

The one appeared in our social and political | yay 12. —Sclir. Daniel P. King, Gillis, Port Hood: bal. 15 horizon like a brilliant star, attracting the admiration of all while it led them astray by its unsteady glare ; the other simply flickered in the ** darkness visible,’? like a‘ will-o’-

—Sea Mlower, Hubert, Arichat; do. Manly, Forest, do do. 16.—Spec, Paint, Ship Harbour ; salt. Elizabeth, Landry, Ariehat ; bal.

Cleared.

May 1.—Sehr. Montano, MeAskill, Halifax, grain & produce

New England, Gay, fishing voyage. ¢.—Rapid, Thomp- son, Picton; oats. 12.—Aun, McKinnon, Newfonndtand : grain & produce. Mary Elizabeth, Bourke, Halifax; do. Lydia & Polly, Eldridge, Salom ; lumber, Lively, Martin, Cape Breton; produce. Isabella, Tarnball, Portemouth, U.S. ; ship khees, Kwily, MeDouald, Ualifax; grain Jessio Ann, Sonsabaugh, do.; do. 13.—Sarah, Gillis, Cansy , produce. Danicl P. King, Gillis, Halifay ; grain Brigt. Thomas, Bourke, Portsmouth, U.S.; ship knees.

from this Island, during the summer, the Postmaster General haying, we believe, effected arrangements to receive the mails from the other side as often as they are dispatched from this

W2W ADVERTISZWMaUTS,

side. The communication between Bedeque and Shediae is Valuable Building & Pasture Lots for Sale

also to be considerably extended. This frequent intercourse with the neighbouring Provinecs will more than compensate for the loss of a steamer.

> ee +--——-

ONE OF THE GOOD KESULTS oF TNE War is, that P. E. Island

FAXUE Building Lots unsold on Friday, the 16th instant,

situated on Common Lot 32, in this City, (Lon-worth’s

corner), will be sold by Auction, at 12 o'clock on FRIDAY, the 23d instant.

Also, immediately after, the FOUR VALUABLE PASTURE LOTS

is aout to be favoured by the presence ofa larger detachment | on Paul Jones’s Hill, formerly advertised,

The Obstructives used to say, that we lost the Troops formerly because the Liberals and Responsible Goyerament displaced the old hacks OF course some equaity silly and ridieu-

> o- +

Tur Colonial and United States Mails reached here again on

items of general news. Amongst these is the account of a

nn PO

_

MONDAY, 26th May, inst., at 12 o’cloek.

Terus— 20 per cent. deposit, and the balanee by good ani

approved Notes at 12 months.

j@° For plan of Building Lots, see Mandbilis May 19, 1856. A. IL. YATHS, Auctioneer Freehold Property in the Suburbs, BY A. U, YATES, O BE SOLD by Auction on FRIDAY the 9th May next, at 11 o'clock on the premises, the remaining portion unsold

of those

VALUABLE PASTURE LOTS

fronting on the Brighton Road and near Government Farm, lately the property of the late Lieut. Col. Lane.

This property being contiguous to, and delightfully situated

80 as to command in one view from almost any part of it, nearly the whole of the Pablic Buildings and City, strongly recommend it as one of the choicest situations, possessing both Town and ForTHeR ARRIVALS FROM Exctanp.—The Majestic, whose | Country advantages. f

arrival we announced last week, has been followed by two other arrivals from Engliand—the Jsabe/, to Messrs. Dunean Mason & Co., and the Ei/en to Mr. W. Welsh. Theve vessels arrived op Saturday, and had not 80 favorable a passage as ¢'re first. However, they are weleome arrivals, for they impart

It will be offered in lots of abeut an

acre cach, or less, to suit purchasers, according to a plan which will be submitted at the time of Sale and may time previous at the office of the Auctioncer.

be seen any Terms at Sale Charlottetown April 29.

ra The sale of the above property is postponed until May 1%.

+—»_e em +

Bank or P. FE. Istanp.—At the first general Meeting of the

John Kenny, Esq., Chairman of the provisional Committee

The said Bye Laws, having heen severally put to the Meeting, The Secretary, T. DesBrisay, Esq., then reported that the’

roceeded to ballot for Directors. After the ballot, it was announced that the persons who had

<p trnaseipting etrertanapmenpnatlieae em ee

1856. MAY! 1856.

HE subseribers beg to inform the public that they wili open their Business Establishinent on WEDNESDAY

next, the 2{st instant, when they will have much pleasure in vflering for sale their

FIRST LARGE AND WELL SELECTED STOCK,

including a great variety of Spring Fashions and Goods suit- able for the season—and hope, by strict attention to business, to merit a share of public patronage.

W.W. LORD & Co.

May 19, 1856.

For Liverpool direct.

_ i) fast-sailing regular re Mayest:c, —M. Walsh, commander—will sail from this

port for Liverpool on or about the 10th of June

next. For freight or passage, please apply to the

W. W. LORD.

ey

Captain on board, or to the owner—

Ch. Town, May 1%, 1856. Freight wanted

James Peake, KEsq., llon. Danicl Brenan, Ralph Brecken, ro any port in Great Britain, for a Brigantine of about

Esq., Daniel Hodgson, Esq., Lon. Joseph Hensley, John

It was then resolved, that a copy of the Bye Laws, signed by

Governor in Council for his sanction.—Jles. Gaz.

_<e >

cargo on or about the 20th June next. BenJ. Davies, Esq., Charlottetown, or to the owner,

«44856.

130 tons, new measurement, will be ready to receive Please apply to

DONALD McDONALD, Pinette

May 19, 1856. Zi. 1856.

Mecuanics’ Instirute.— On Tuesday evening last, T. 1, ar for Sale per barque ‘Isabel’? daily expected from

Haviland, Keq., in the Chair, Hon. EK. Whelan, delivered an

instructive Lecture on “The events of the late war against | Please apply to

Russia, and its Results,” The lecturer gave a condensed review of the principal events

fought in the Crimea, and shewed that the ancient renown

Hic then alluded to the Treaty of Peace lately concluded in Paris—gave a synopsis of its conditions—

Liverpool, Eugland, delivered alongside. Terms good DUNCAN, MASON & Co.

Charlottetown, May 19, L856, hi

For Sale, IiAT well known Property, the late residence of the Hon. Francis Longworth, on St. Peter's Road, with immediate possession. For particulars, apply to JAMES ANDERSON, May 19, 1856. No. 1, Queen-street.

Powers having agreed to negotiate a Peace on those con-

have taken the store lately occupied by Mr. Neil Ra have opened it under the above title with a magnificent and most extensive Stock of DRY GOODS of every description.

for taste, —— by that of any ; t in the limits of an advertisement to particularize, but on in- spection it will he found to contain everything that is supplied by the most extensive houses in the first cities of British orth

ALBION HOUSE.

TREETLY & COUCHMAN beg respectfully to inform the inhabitants of Charlottetewn and its vicinit = they nkin, and

This Stock having been purchased with great advantages— quality and cheapness, cannot be surpassed It would be impossible

[ouse in the Island.

regain their independence. For these reasons the lecturer | America, from the minutest article in Haberdashery, to those

Mechanics’ Lnstitute.——Cor.

courage us in our undertaking, carry on this business in a spirit offer to purchasers adyautages w

of the more costly character in DRESSES, SILKS, SHAWLS, MANTLES, &e.

aki i cement, we trust the public will en- In making this announ Prd pire npr ictal

of liberality, and continue to hich will, we have no doubt,

May 19, 1890. STREETLY & COUCHMAN

z = lat Be

. : ee 5 " X Seater 7 ee ci tN aOR erie ini “ oa ae 5 r ns "

Victory, Iuron, Picton.

SS ere renin ees