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‘CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. ISLAND, MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 1848.

TRUE LIBERTY, WHEN FREEBORN MEN—HAVING TO ADVISE THE PUBLIC, MAY SPEAK FREE.” = Euripspes:

{No. ‘53.

POMNFIGS ALD UEWS.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC,

General Cavaignac has caused the state of seige to continue in Paris. Certantly, this is to rule the capital

that character, but most of the Republican journals ad- mit the necessity for such a measure. The first object of the authorities, they reason, must be to promote the security of life ; the second, that of property ; otherwise industry and prudenrce would be unavailing, while crime and confusion would again be paramount. That life is still insecure, is evidenced in the most forcible manner: the very sentinels have been murdered at their posts. Disarmament continued, and business is said to be slow- ly recovering from its state of paralysis.

Funerat oF THe Arcueissor.— This ceremony took place on the 7th. The body was not placed ina coffin, but laid ona bier dressed in the archiepiscopal robes of state, the face and hands exposed, as when he Tay in his palace. At the head of the procession was a’ detachment of Dragoons, next detachments of the Na-! tional Guard and Guard Mobile, then the religious com- munities of women, followed by a number of foundlings and brethren of religious orders ; after them marched the different committees, and all the clergy of Paris and the environs; then came four black banners, bearing the inscriptions of the last words of the archbishop. The first, ‘ Lord! Lord! have pity on thy people ? the second, ‘Peace be with you!’ the third, the exclamation of the prelate, ‘ May my blood be the last shed ! and the fourth, ‘The shepherd should give his life for his flock "s These banners were followed by priests bearing the cross, mitre, &c., of the deceased; then the body of the arch- bishop, clothed in episcopal robes, and placed on a sort of bed, borne by National Guards in uniform, the face of the deceased being uncovered ; next came a deputa- tion of the National Assembly, and a great number of representatives, headed by the President, M. Marie, to- gether with deputations from the various bodies of the State, as also some of the foreign ambassadors, among whom was the Marquis of Normandy, the whole pro- cession being wound wp by detachments of the army and National Guard. ‘The cords of the pall were held by six bishops, in mitres and grand costumes. When the body reached the cathedral, the funeral service was commenced, and numbers wept. The archbishop’s

lace in the cathedral was covered with a black veil.

Vhen theservice was concluded, the body was left in the church, and it was not till after vespers in the even- ing, when the last prayers were said over it, that it was lowered in the vault. The crowd which assembled to witness the procession was immense, and but one sen- timent—that ef deep religious respect—appeared to per- -yade the entire multitude.

Tur New Arcupisnor or Panis.—The Abbe Si- bour, who has been appointed Archbishep of Paris, was, born at St. Paul Trois Chateaux, in the department of the Drome, en the 4th of April, 1792. He was elevated to the episcopacy on the 30th of Sept., 1830, and was consecrated on the 24th of February following. He was a canon of Nismes, and enjoys the reputation of being a distinguished preacher. He has composed, amongst other works, a treatise on diocesan institutions, placed in conformity with the civil and political institu tions of modern times.

Inptiexant Lettre From Lamartine.—M. de La- martine has addressed the following letter to the Con- alitutionnel :—

‘Sir,—From respect for the crisis of my country, as well as from respect for the pablic good sense, I let pass, withcut answering it, the flood of malevolence, cajum- nies. and absurdities which always submerge for some time the names, the acts, the intentions of men whom events elevate or precipitate during a revolutioa, Light will, however, make its way, and will show each fact and each man in its true character. Iam not impatient fur justice, for T doubt not the future. But 1 read this moment, in your number of the 6th of July, a fragment of an article taken from the Debats, in which the deli- rium ofcalumay is pushed to the following imputations : —‘In the latter days of February, the paving stones were hardly repiheed when the Government thought of re-erecting, in case of need, the barricades against the National Guard, and against the part of the population which it pretended was animated with a spirit of reac- tion, an accusation which henceforth is applied to all the friends‘of social order. At that tite, a battalion of barricades was secretly formed, of which the members were to serve as instructors in all the quarters, and who tanght them theoretically the art of constructing barri-

them to the utmost advantage. The barricades were fore being handed over finished to their enterprising

marked on the plan of Paris. ‘The edifices, the public'owners. The Europa was built by Mr. Wood, of

buildings, were tracked out which were to be marked Port-Glasgow, and the engines are supplied by Mr. out as central citadels. After this, no one will wonder) Napies, of Glasgow. On Friday the Europa arrived at at the able combinations displayed by the insurgents of the Tail of the Bank, opposite Greenock. She came

June. They followed out a plan traced out for them under the auspice of the Government itself’ I avow

down from Glasgow in three hours, without touching ground. She again left the Tail of the Bank on Satur-

that, for the first time, the reading of these odious lines'\day forenoon, ona trial trip, She went the length of

has made me depart from that silence which I had im- posed upon myself till the coming of the day for ex- planation. To see myself, for my part, transformed in- to a professor of civil war, and a preparer of carnage —I who have every day for the last four months offered my breast to spare a drop of blood of my fellow citi- zens! There is no answer—there is only a cry of in- dignation, which rises from the bottom of the soul, and which I pray you simply to register. Receive, sir, the assurance of my perfect consideration, ‘ LAMARTINE,

the Cumbraes, taking about the’same time as the Ameri- ca and the Niagara did,~—viz, one hour and eight mi- nutes between the Cloch and Cumbrae Lights. Her sailing qualities cannot be surpassed, The Canada now takes the place of the Europa at the dock, where she is already afioat to receive her engines, and finishes the complement of four new steamers, namely, the .4m- erica, Niagara, Europa, and Canada.—Scoich paper.

Viscount Areutunot’s Case.—The Usher of the Black Rod reported that having made every inquiry for Lord Arbuthnot, ordered to be arrested under the war-

‘Ex-member of the Provisional Government, and of) ont of the Hotise for forgery, he had to state that thé

the Executive Commission of Government’

When General Cavaignac was appointed President of the Council and head of the Government, one of his first acts was to announce that he had no occasion for secret service money, and he therefore declined the 100, 000 francs a month granted for that purpose to his pre- decessors. He has now been a fortnight in office, and his opinion on that point is already changed. He de- mands not 100,000 francs a month, but 500,000 francs

in a lump, which the Assembly grants without a single,

remark,

Dreapru. ConrLaGration 1n Russi1s.—We have received authentic information of a dreadful conflagra- tion which has almost desolated Orebone, one of the first provincial cities of Russia. Of the 3000 houses in the city 2,200 have been reduced to ashes. The fire is ascribed to incendiaries.—Aligemeine Zeitung.

ENGLAND.

Tse Cuartist Tr.is,—Ernest Jones was on Mon- day put upon his trial at the Central Criminal Court, charged with sedition, attending an illegal meeting at Bonner’s Fields onthe 4th of Jane, and with riot.— The trial Jasted the whole of the dey. He was found guilty ; after which the whole ofthe prisoners were brought up toreceive sentence. Fussell was sentenced to two years imprisonment, and required to keep the peace for five years; Williams, two years’ imprison- ment, and keep the peace for three years; Sharp two years’ imprisonment for sedition, three months for un- lawfully assembling, and to keep the peace for three years; Vernon, a similar sentence; Looney, two years

assembling, and the same amount of sureties as the other defendants, (his own recognizance in £100, and two others in 501) to keep the peace for two years.—When the sentence was passed, Looney latghed, and said, ‘Very well—that will do.’ Jones was sentenced to be

‘imprisoned for two years, and find two sureties in 150),

and his own recognizance in 200, for his fature good conduct. When the sentence was pronounced, he said, ‘I wish your lordships good night, and may you sleep with the motto of the Charter round your neck, and no surrender. —In answer to inquiries as to where the de- fendants would be confined, Chief-Justice Wilde said in the New House of Correction for Middlesex.

Tue Sream-sair Ecrora.--The great steam-ship, the Europa, is now completed, and is about to take her station amongst the Liverpool, Halifax, Boston, and New York liners. The Europa is of the same build and dimensions as the other transatlantic steamers which have been lately constructed forthe company which owns these noble vessels. ‘The length of keel and fore- rake is 250 feet; breadth of beam 38 feet; tonnage 1840; horse-power of engines 650. The hull contains, in addition to the spacious accommodation for passen- gers, stowage for 700 tons of coals, and 500 tons o goods. The saloon, which is gorgeoursly fitted up, is 50 feet long, and 18 feet wide. Below the main deck, fore and aft, are the state-rooms, and sleeping berths for passengers, having accommodation for 180, or, includ- ing sofa beds, for 196. The fittings-up of the beds are of the neatest and most comfortable kind, and the utmost care has been bestowed on the ventilation of the sleep- ing apartments, The steward’s department, on which so much of the comforts of the passengers depend, at- tracted the attention of all visitors by the variety of its means and appliances, and the admirable economy dis- played in the arrangement of the silver-plate, crystal, stone ware, and other articles, which are disposed in such a way as to economise space, to be readily got at, and to be secured from the exigencies occasioned by a

¢ades with the utmost possible rapidity,and that of placing

pitching sea. Each of these vessels cost £80,000 be-

imprisonment for sedition, two months’ for unlawfully |

noble lord could not be found, and that there was every reason to believe that he had left the country.

The new House of Commons, it is now stated, will positively be ready for members next Session.

Maurice O’Connell, Esq., M. P., is to be nominated Lord Mayor of Dublin. In the course of Friday, the unprecedented sum of

40,0001 was paid at the ports of Greenock, Port-Glas- ‘gow and Glasgow, on account of sugar duties alone.

DisrurBaNnces 1x Epineures.—A riot took place at Edinburgh, last week, arising out of the sale of two tradesmen’s furniture, who had refused to pay a local impost, called the annuity tax, which is levied for the payment of the city clergymen belonging to the estab- lishment. The police and military were called out; the auctioneer was injured; the goods were purchased by parties from Glasgow, and were forwarded to that city under military escort, amidst the yells and hootings of the multitude.

THE COLONIES.

| The London Times charges the Free Traders, tte \Cobdens, Humes and Brights, with a desire to shake off ‘the Colonies. The following excract is from the reply ‘of the Daily News of the Sth July:

The free Traders do not undervalue the importance jof our Colonies. They are fully aware of the conse- /quence of Colonies. They seein the extra tropical ‘colonies cities of refuge for all who in the over crowded ‘mother conntry fail to find sufficiently profitable invest- ‘ments for their capital, or sufficient demand and adequate ‘remuneration for their labour. They know that in the ‘Colonies heads and hands which here are unavailing to ‘earn subsistence for their owners can acquire rapid ‘fortunes with moderate exertion, They know that the

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‘markets of these new settlements are the most rapidly

lextending, and the most inalienable from the industrious .

producers ofthe mother country. They know that the (demand for our products has increased, and is increa- ‘sing, nowhere so rapidly as in our ci-de-vant colonies, ‘which now constitute the United States ; and that even ‘the embittered war of independence has not been able [to overturn old tastes, old habits, old connections, so far as to deprive us of their custom. They know that lin the infaney of Colonies the protecting regis of the mother country must be extended over them; and that ‘in the family feeling—the sense of a common. citizen- ship engendered by mutual profitable transactions, and by assistance lent in the day of weakness—an enduring affection may be generated that will prolong the exis- tence of the band of Colonial dependence long after it is absolutely necessary. Nor are they insensible of the importance ofsuch a prolongation. When this country is assailed by foes, it is better that the English races descended from our brave and enterprising Colonists should be united with us in the bonds of common citi- zenship, as is the case with the Canadas and Australia, than that they should constitute a rival power, uncertain in its friendship, like the United States. And in times of peace they see in the subjection of the mother coun- itry and the colonies to one common government a bet- ter guarantee that the private rights of each individual citizen shall be maintained than can be afforded in the ‘case of two independent governments, where the tribu- ‘nals of each may naturally be disposed to favour their own fellow-subjects.

But the free traders Jook to other means of perpetuat- ‘ing the colonial nexus than commercial protections and ‘restrictions. They know that these specious devices

work not for the benefit of the general community, either at home or in the colonies, but of a few gorged ;monopolists in both ; and experience has taught theaz

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