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At that moment, Krautser’s eyes happen. | ed to fail upon his saddle; he saw that his) holsters were gone. corpec, then suddenly his eyes kindied with,

the Ere of incipient madoess, and drew bix|

eword and advanced upon me.

He torned pale as a)

end, making it secure round my body. 1 had left enough of the rope between the bit-

and guide the animal, in e:se the drag upon | my body should be oP: “

* All this while the damb brute seemed to ‘comprehend what I was about. He knew

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Government will direct their attention to the subject, with q view of devising eome means

ring and the girthe to enable me to cheek | by which the Irish agricultutal population

may be induced to devote their capital and) labour to productive employments at home.” It sounds like a melancholy joke to introduce \the word capital in connection with the

* Villain ! thief! it ig you,” be sail; ‘give the natare of the ground on which he stood, | Trish laborer. His oply eapital lies in his

ure the jowels or ['li eut you to p eces.”

* Pat up that sword fool,’ ehoot you down as [ would a Cossack. Ir was that Jew that cat of your ho.sters, and ren dewn thet lane.”

Tae sword fell from Krautzer's hands; bis eyes rolled in their sockets ; he flung up his arms. rose in his stirrups, gave a ghestly eoream, acd then sank into @ hal!-paralyzed heap on the sidile, and rode slowiy off down the lave I had inlicated.

From that hour, the savant’s reason fuil- ed him; that shock had stricken him to the brain: hie conduct greduslly became more wild and raving.

I seed scarcely remind you of the bor- rors cf the Beresing, when about thirty thousand of our soldiers perished. [, bow- ever, passed my wounded over early in the day, sod escaped sefe to Wilna, Krautzer has been with me ever since, the Prussian goverament paying for his support. He will pever recover. J bave givea bim two years to live.

The rascal Jew was never egain heard of; hat & year or so afier my return, [ happen- ed to see an advertisement in sa Amster- dam paper, announcing the sal: of some

valuable jewels, diamon.ts brooches, sapphire |

necklace, and tiaras — ‘rarest water,” ‘great- est lustres,’ &c., the property of Moses Levi The next paper contajned a paragraph statiag that the jewels previously advertised had beer bought in by one of the leading jewellers of Paris for the Rostopchia family, ta whom it bad been diseovered they belong- ed, having beep stolen during the time that the French held Moscow. These were the fatsi jewels for which Krautzer bad com- mitted ¢0 many crimes.

Thanking the doctor for his interesting etory I rose to go, for it was gettiog late. As be opened the front door for me, 2 tall, pale, thin woman, clothed in black, glided into the bouse, and passed into (he porter’s reo.

* There,” said the doetor ‘ behold a proof of the impe. isbability of woman's love! Talk of asbestus—talk of granite; that poor woman, twenty years ago, was engaged to be mar- ried to Krauizer. She visits bim every day, end te does not care for ber visi:s ; still she comes.—Have another cigar to swoke going

howe? You woot? Very well. ‘sood- night.’ TT

MISCELLANEOUS. —

THE HOBBORS YF A QUICKSAND. Meany romentic stories have been told by travellers of the sagacity, attachment, and instinet ef their favourite steeds; but none, perbape, haye surpassed one related by an eminent traveller in North America.

This tlaman was out shooting on the bank of a river, when to his amazement he found bemeclf eaughe by the feet, held druly, as if bis lege had been in a vice. [He made an e@ort te extricate himself ; another more vieleat sad equally unsuccessful, and, with a third, leat his balance and fell back upon the water. Half suffocated, he regained bis upright position, but only to find that he was held as fast as ever. Again he struggled to free hie limbs. He could neither move them backwards nor forwards, to the right or left, and he became sensible that he was gradually going down. The fearful truth flashed wpon him: he was sinking in a quicksand !

A sensation of horror came over the hap- less prisoner, as, with a feeling of despera- tion, he renewed his efforts ; leaning first to oue side, then to the other, alunort wrenching hie knees from their suckets. lis feet, des- pite all, remained as fast asever. He could not move an inch. He thus thrillingly nar- rates the issue :--

** The soft, dingy sand already overtopped my horse-skin boots, wedging them around my ankles, so that I was unable to draw them off, and [ could feel that I was still sinking slowly bat surely, as though some eubterranean monster was leisurely dragging me down. This very thought caused me a thrill of horror, and | called aloud for belp. | To whem? There was no living being with- | in miles of me—not one. Yes, the neighing of my horse answered me from tie hill, mockmg my despair.

« § bent forwards as well as my constrain- ed position would admit, and with frenzied fingers commenced tearing up the eand. | eould barely reach the suriace, and the little hollow I was able to make filled up almost as svon agit had been formed. A thought sceurred to me ; my rifle might support me, pluced horizontally. I looked for it; it was not to be seen; it had aunk beneath the sand. Could [ throw my body dat, and prevent myself from sinking deeper? No; the water was two feet in depth, and | should drown at once! This last hope left me as soon es formed; | could make no further effort. A strange stupor seized me; my very thoughts became paralyzed. For a neoment [ was mad.

** After an interval my senses returned. I made an effort to rouse my mind from its paralysis, in order to meet death, which | now -believed to be inevituble, as a man should. My heart smote me. Raising my eyes to heaven, | gazed upwards with an earnestness only known to the hearts of men in positions of peril like mine. Ast cootinued to look up, am ~ attracted my attention Agsinat (he eky | distinguished the outline ot a large bird; 1 knew it to be a buzzard yulture. Whence had st come? Who koca@s? Far beyond the reach of man's eye, “jt bas seen or scented the slaayhtered ante- lopes ; and on broad, silent wings, was now descending to the feast of death. Presently another, and another, and many others, rmoottled the blue tields of the heavens, curv- ing and wheeling silently eacthward. Then the foremost swooped down upon the bank, and after gazing round for a moment, flapped off towards its prey. lo a few seconds the prairie wae’ black with filthy birds of prey, who clambered over the dead antelopes, and beat their wmgs against each other while they tore out the eyes of their prey with their beaks.

** | was soon relieved from the sight, for my eyes had sumk below the level of the bank. 1 had looked my last upon the fair green earth! I could now see only the clayey wall thet cortained the river, aod the water that raa unheeding past me. Once mure I fized my gaze upon thesky,and with prayerful heart endeavoured to resign my- self to death. Again | was attracted by the neighing of my horse. At the sound a thought entered my mind, filling me with Sreoats as my horse!’ I ‘vaited my voice to ita higiest pitch, and eelied the animal by name. I knew that he would come at my call. { bad tied him bat elightly 5 again 1 called, repeating words well known to hiw.

* Por a moment there was eilence. then | board the quick sound of his ho. 's, as though tke soimel was rearing and struggimg to free himself; then { could distinguish the Stroke uf his beels in & measure | and regular

Nearer and clearer came the sounds, ill gallant ereature bounded on the beak atuve me. There he kalted, and fling- ing back hie tomed mane, uttered a shrill teigh. He was bewildered, and looking on

side, enorted loudly. | knew that, having seen me, he would aot rest until he bis nose agsiast my cheek, for

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| for during the operation he kept lifting his

sinking. My arrangements completed, with a terrible feeling of angiety [ gave my horse \the signal to move forward. Instead of | going off with a start, the intelligent crea- ture stepped away slowly as though he un- _derst my situation. Immediately I felt my —_ moving, the next moment I found myself dragged out of the sand. | [sprang to my feet with a shout of joy. \T rushed up to my steed, and throwing m farms around his neck, embraced him wit delight. Ie answered with a low whimper, which told me [ was anderstood. I looked for my rifle. Fortanately it had not sunk \down, but I stayed not to look for it, being emitten with a dread of the place | |had left it io, and grateful, [ trust, to a ‘kind Providence tor my unluoked-for pre- | servation."’ | Petersburg ie a city of some eighteen thou- } sand inhabitants, located on the Appomettox, | twelve miles gbove its entrance into the James River, and twenty-three Souta by ; Enae ef Richmond. In 1354 its population ' was 16,000. It contains a court-house, jail, | masonic hall, three banks, with an aggregate jeapital of $1,170,000, an insurance office, several academies, and ten churches. There | are two ete offices, together issuing two daily and one weekly newspapers. The city \is lighted with gas, is well paved, and has ‘an abundance of pure water, nena? from jnever-failing springs in the neighborhood iit is owe of the handsomest and most com- mercial places in the State, and before the war exported largely tobacco and flour. In | July, 1815, a disastrous fire destroyed four | hundred buildiags and property estimated at | $2,000 G00. lt wae aiterwards re-built in ‘an improved form, with three-storey brick | buildings. | ee Tetsnuen tN Iureriat Service —At a late Lord Mayor's dinner, to Dublin, the eminent savant, Sir W. R. Wildie, in speaking to | une of the toasts, said : * The chief dependencies of Britain were | governed by Irishmen. England was govern- ‘ed by Lord Palmerston, an Irishman ; the | Governor-General of India, Sir John Law- jrence, was an Irishman: MeCarthy, an ifrishman, wes governor of Ceylon. Lord | Munck was Governor-General of Canada, and Sir Richard McDonnell had been goveanor ‘of a British dependency in Australia.” | (Applause. ) | To these Sir h | Genera! Doyle, administrator of Nova Scotia ; Sir Dominick Daly, governor of South Aus- | tralia ; and the Hon. Francis Hincks, gover- nor of British Guiana. W hatever grievances Irishmen at home may have, nowhere else in the world are they more highly estimated than in the British colonial possessions. ———

Tue Prrare Sexues aND A NEw VESSEL.— | «* Malakoff’ writes to the New York Times \from Paris under date June 28th :—** The | weeping and lamentation of the Government _Journais over the sunken Alabama continue. |The Constitutionel almost says that the na- 'tion is in mourning at the sad event. La | France, with a proper air of false timidity, | supposes it may be allowed to make known | eee fact—that Capt. Semmes will have an-

other vossel in a fortnight. It even gives the description —a neat corvette, with very five | lines, cuirassed on the inside, and built to carry heavy guns. Captain wee itsays. has ordered at a private house e pivot guns, capable cf throwing shells of 170 | pounds, or solid shot of 220. His comple- ment of men is to be 172 seven more than that of the Kearsage at the moment of the late fight... As The France is in some sort the organ of the Confederate agents here, this inteliigence, after all, may be true.

The description answers well to that of the Yeddo, which has left Bordeaux for Amster. dam, and those who give credit to the state- ment of The France, believe that the Yeddo, is the corvette in question. She has very fine lines, cuirassed inside with two layers of iron, each one-third of an inch thick, and is designed to carry fifteen or seventeen guns of large calibre. This vessel went to sea at the request of the American Minister, under the Freneh flag, and in charge of a French captain and crew ; she will, therefore, cer- tainly be delivered to her purchasers at Am- sterdam. But then she can be sold again as a merchant vessel, and transferred and trans- | formed on the high seas. If La France, | however, does not mean the Yeddo, we can still admit the possibility of the assertion that Captain Semmes is tu be out again with a veasel in a fortnight ; for such is the exas- peration in England among ali classes against the Kearsage, or rather against the flag it floats, that everybody will be ready to lend Captain Semmes a helping band.”

One evening !ast week a festive party given to Captain Maurice, at the Grove Cam- berwell, Eng., was shocked by the awfully sudden death of one of the guestse—a young lady named St. Quentin—who had formerly been a governess ip the family. The deceas- ed had, after supper, danced aquadrille, and had just partaken of an ice, when she was suddenly taken ill, and became insensibie, and though a medical gentleman was present as one of the party, she expired within a few minates. Death was caused, it was presum- ed, by effusion of bluod on the brain.

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The Paris correspondent of the Journal of Commerce says that after Capt. Semmes re- ceived the chullenge from Winslow, he sent to Slidell for advice, and ** to the latter gentleman's egregious want of discretion or resolution in giving his consent, the North is indebted, next to the good guns of the Kear- sage, for the signal victory.’ The Paris vorresponden’ of the Daily News says Capt. Winslow has demanded of M. Bonfils, the Confederate agent at Cherbourg, the ren- dition of his prisoners who escaped in French pilot boats. M. Bonfils says that the prison- ers have a right to escape if they can, and that he will have nothing to do with sur- rendering them.

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A Tres Hews Down ny Beiiers.--Most people have doubted the literal accuracy of the despatch concerning the battle of Spott- sylvania Court House, fought on the 12th of May, which alleged that trees were cut down under the concentrated fire of Minnie bullets We doubted the literal fact our- selves, and would doubt it still but for the indisputable testimony of Dr. Charles Mac- gill, an eye-witness of the battle. The tree stood in the rear of our breastworks, ata point upon which at one time the most mur- derous fire ever beard of was directed. The tree fell inside our works and injured several of the men.

After the battle, Dr Macgill measured the trunk and found it twenty-two inches through and sixty-one inches in circumference, actually hacked through by the awtul ava- lanche of bullets packed against ic. The fo- liage of the tree was trimmed away as effectu- ally as thoagh an army of locusts -had swarmed in the branches. A grasehopper could not have lived through the pelting of that leaden storm, and but fur the fact that our troops were protected by breastworks, = would have been swept away to @ man. — Richmond paper.

Easinc Meat tx Scuuer. — A celebrated New York physician says that, commencing with May and ending with September, he restricts the members of his family, and all his patients, to two ounces each of animal foud per day, requesting them to use freely, during the sammer months, the vegetable

nature lavienes wpon us sv abun- dantly. Ue hue kept, during twenty years or more, @ record of the mortality in the fa- milies of those who followed bis advice, and estimates the deaths in the meat families as four times more numerous than in the house- holds of those whe curb their desires for snimai food during the summer months. —— 0 coe aes Inisa Exopus.— Tis on is ing on so | a scale that it has elicited a dmanhn in Parliament. Mr. Henuessy moved that * thie House observes

William might have added, |

Commissioner, “ an I will give the “shob” tu the other bidder,” a1 the same time pulling out bia watch to note the time. The five minutes expired--Donnel

told his bid could not be i tity, consequently hands of the Coununissioner's triends.

bell

bones and sinews, and these be is taking to

I said, ‘or [’l} feet alternately, to prevent himself from | other lands, where they will be better ap-

preciated. Lord Palmerston took the right \ view of the subject when he said that emi- gration was entirely due to the levelling law /which attracted the population all over the country to those places where they obtained the highest wages and most permanent em- ployment. His Lordship also dwelt upon natural fact, the absence in Ireland of coal and iron, which will always prevent it from becoming a manufacturing country like Eng- land. It seems, however, according to the showing of the First Minister, that the cheap- ness of labor across the Channel is attracting capitalists to a small extent, for the carrying out of certain manufacturing processes, but a long time must elapse before it can pro- duve any serious eff-ct upon the chronic des- titution of the people. ** As long as the Irish pesantry can improve their condition by going to America,’’ said his Lordship, **it would be unkind to attempt to prevent them by Legislative interference.”

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The New York Herald says :—A movement is on foot among the business men of New York to simplify their transactions by trad- ing on the standard of gold and silver—thatis. to buy and sell their goods exclusively for coin ; to receive nothing as money but what comes from the mint in return for their wares, and to meet all their ordinary obli- gations, even to the payment of their clerks, workmen and servants, with the same de- scription of currency.

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The New York city daily newspapers, on or before the first day of August, will raise their prices to a five cent standard. The advance would have tuken place ere now but for the disinelination of one establishment to venture on the experiment. The increased and increasing cost of all the m iterials that enter into the manufacture of a newspaper has made this step a positive necessity, and one which ean no loozer te deferred.

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The problem of suspending life by freezing seems to be necumulating data. Perch and | mullet have been brovg!t irow Lake Cham- | plain frozen perfectly solid, and on being pat into a tub of water, have come to life ** as \lively as ever.’’ A female convict in Sweden | is in'ice on experiment. A man wag found lately in Switzerland who gave signs of life after being frozen for nine months. The power of stopping while the world goes on |may be the next wonder. Ice houses may soon be advertised with comfortable arrange- ments fur skipping an epoch, or waiting for the next generation.

The Philadelphia Press think the capital is safe: It says—** Washington we have re- garded, for the last two years, as the strong- est city in America. I[t is surrounded by line after line of entrenchments, aod is guard- ed in such an intricate manner that it seems as if man had exhuasted the genius of war and engineering in securing its safety. Bal- timore is naturlly a strong point, and has been well defehded. Both of these cities may be protected by a naval force, andin any event would be untenable, if held by the re- bels.””

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EXecuTion oF McPHai..— We learn that ithe murderer McPhail suffered the extreme penalty of the law at Pictou on Friday last. He |is said to have been hardened and vobdurate in | mind to the last; showing no regret, or compunc- ltion for his crime, aud no thought of a future state. The place of execution was a retired spot, near the shore, on the northern side of the en- trance of the harbor, about three miles from the town, being the same spot on which the murderer McFaydeu was executed some filtecn or sixteen years ago. It is said that over two thousand people assembled from different parts of the country to witness the execution. — Halifas Citizen, July 23.

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CORRESPONDENCE,

DEEL LPL LL A LA LOA LL AANA AA A AAA A (FOR ‘THE EXAMINER.) THE LATE P. STEPHENS, ESQ. Mr. Epiror :— Seldom has any locality been so shocked as

Orwell, oa learning the sudden aud altogether

unexpected death of Patrick Stephens, Esq.— one of its most active and energetic inhabitante. * Patrick Stephens fell dead upon the wharf! was in everybody's mouth, scarcely two hours after the sad eecurrence tovk place, yet no one could believe it. Patrick Stephens dead! bustling, so active, so familiar to all, sv cheerful, almost present everywhere, ever on the alert, could he be dead? No one could believe that his busy career was forever ended. But so it was. The good Patrick Stephens was gone!

Perhaps there was not another man on the Island who had dealt so much with the public and enjoyed such a@ spotless reputation. Every- body had dealt with bim, and every body loved him, because to deal with him was a sure way of discovering the noble qualities of the wan. The writer lives in the widst of hundreds of his customers, yet never did he hear one sentence uttered against him. soul, an off-hand disposition, a forgiving nature

with him. ‘The poorest boy in Orwell, if met in the streets of Halitax or Charlottetown, received a hearty shake hands from P. Stephens, Every good object found in hima hearty supporter. The cause of Temperance may well lament the death of such a friend. Belonging to the order ot “Sons of Temperance,” was with him a qualifi- cation of the highest order. Hiad he stooped to the man-degrading practice of liquor selling, he might have added wealth upon wealth. But his philanthropic spirit vould not allow him. He despised the bait, and would be content to drink the dregs of poverty rather than “ deal damnation round the land.”

Mr. Stephens was a consistent Catholic. And whilst he was ever ready to suppert his own Chureb, he never withheld bis band in giving freely to any object baving a tendency to further the interests of any denomination. He was no bigot. Ile was ever ready to shield the oppressed, to feed the hungry, to encourage the forsaken, and stimulate the active, regardless of creed or country. In politics he was liberal, yet no ledger influence was ever threatened against those who voted directly in oo to himself—ever will- ing to allow to others that privilege which he clammed for bimself—the liberty of judging and acting for himself.

Seldom did Mr. Stephens put any of his de- linquents to trouble. Yet he prospered in business. He rose from an humble position to adorn the higher walks of life. The weans he employed to accomplish this were, economy, justice, integrity, energy, and punctuality. But he is goné! ‘The Island generally, and Orwell-particularly, will pay a tribute of profound respect to his memory. Yet their loss will be irreparable and not: easily supplied. Patrick Stephens is no more! That wan who supplied this section of the country with everything, as he well might say, * frem a needle to an auchor,” is gone forever! We shall no longer meet his encouraging approval to praise- werthy objects. The enterprising Stephens has away, we trust, to that blest abode where the “ wicked cease from troubling aud the weary are at reat.” I now can only hope that his amiable partner, his loving family, the writer and readers may prove faithful to the end, and one day jvin the redeemed m glory, 1s the sineere wish of A PROTESTANT. Orwell, July 19th, 1864.

0 8 To THE Epiror oF THE EXAMINER.

Sig:—The conduct of the Governments pet official, the Commissioner of Roads for the 9th District of King’s County, is every day giving proof of the incumpetency of that highuminded in- dividual. 1 do not, fur a momeut, think that any thing that may be written or said will have a be- neficial effeet; still, for the information of the public, 1 will state a few facts that have occurred within those few days past. A few days ago, the repaiiing of Montague Bridge was suid by aue- tion. The bidding was between an Irishman naiwned George Donvelly and a few friends ot the Commissioner, The job was knocked down to Donnelly for £41. ‘The Commissioner asked Donnelly for his securities. “I will get them di- rectly,” said Donnelly. “I will give you five minutes to fuund your securities,” said Mr. if you do not found them

ly was wecu-

a en for want o * shob

Now, diay Lioein, wee Mr. Commissioner Camp- to draw a bond and accept securi-

with regret that the ltaral Treland are va i nae ‘ Tapidly anne mele

So

He possessed a generous

Although a inan of wealth. poverty was no crime

vernment contracts that this nut do, or even pags an one, was £3 allowed for repai

MecFarlane’s to thegAlbion

said,that his woney was dor wore this year, although our

ately after the above sale

again met by a few friends ;

be sold by public auction ?

fill the office, but for theird

the Liberal party.

advantage.

in the right place.

this road, and a balance was it yen ot £12 7s, to be applied where most required in the district; and at the end of this road, where the money should be applied, a new bridge is required, for it is not safe for a horse and cart to go over it, especially after dark. Now, sir, I will endea- your to show where the money weul.

in lote of 10 chains; A. Me 4 tt chains. ‘There was no opposition to this bid, al- though there wore plenty of mea present. Then Mr. Commissioner and Mclunis entered into a private contract to open up the read for £15. You will also observe here, that there was olhy £10 laid out in the road scale for this road, but the Cowmissioner cut other places short of that which was allowed them, in order to bring it near- er the doors of his favourites. ; Now, Sir, I would ask, is it right for Commis- sioners to take money that is appropriated ior one part of a district to another, when it was really wanted, as in the above case? Again, are Commissioners allowed to make private contracts with the public money, when the Act says it must Again, are they al- lowed to hold their sales, especially that of open- ing new roads, a mile er two from the spot, for fear of the mosquitoes biting them? time that a Union of the Colonies would take place, so that we would be stronger to bear the effects of such extravagance. B . cost the country £5 last fall to repair the bill at Beer's Mill Pond, and could be well done for 3U8., is ne less true thaa the foregoing statements, al- though it was allowed to pass without much notice. No wonder the papers are filled with complaints about such officers; for there are, no doubt, many such throughout the Island, whe are not put into office because of their ability te

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nership with others, has performed many Go-

Commissioner could opinion en when

‘Again, in the road appropriations there

riug the read fror

road. The Commius-

sioner came and sold to the amount of 18s 4d, and

xe; he could give ne metabers got £3 for left from ‘ast year

Inmedi- the Commissioner

halted on the main road, in front of Mr. Duncan Campbeli’s, to sell the opening leading from Montague road to th You willobserve a mile anda quarter of this road was already opened, so that the Comunssioner was a mile and a quarter from the place where the work was-to be performed. Here be was

of a new road e Whim road.

the sale was opened

eeds at elections. If

when the Liberals were in office, such could be said of any of their efficers, the Tory press would he crowded with abuse of the extravagance 0! But this Orange officer will be allowed to go on as he likes, ne doubt, the same as the officer on the St. Peter's Road. But it is to be hoped the day is vot far distant when men will be chosen to fill public offices, not be- cause of their babblings at election contests, but because they are competent te fill them to public Sir, should you thiuk this worthy ol a place in your widely circulated jourval, you will oblige one who Wishes to see the right man

TRUTH.

King’s County, July 16th, 1864.

Innis bid £4 tor 10

If 80, it is

The work that

| ‘The Danes appear to have held out obstinately legaheit peate, only to show their utter incapacity ‘fur war. The defenge pf Duppel was the poorest

thing that could be infagined. The Prussians

are now in possession of the whole Island, and, i as far as we can see, there : nothing to preveut their going te Copenhagen, if so minded. We aee that the King of Denmark's brother has ar- rived at Berlin, cw renté to Carlsbad, where the King of Prussia is staying. {[t is the object of his mission to come to terms with the Allies, now that all hope of British aid has vanished.

The Earl of Derby is wae | from a severe attack ot gout, and was compelled to keep bis bed.

The Dockyard Committee have recommended to Parliament whe construction of a first class Dockyard in the barbor of Cork. Lord Palmers tun is favorable to the project.

The Pope has been thoroughly restored to bealth. Y ane

The Emperor Napoleon is said to be again in ill health. ‘

Despatches arriving from Greeee give & sad picture of the political and financial position of tbe duminions of Kmg George. The Lovian Is- meee threatened with anarchy.

The Emperor of Austria hesitates to send an envoy to the new Court at Athens, and there 1s no disposition on the part of the Austrian Govern- ment longer to recognise the King of Greece.

Another naval engagement between American vessels is anticipated off Cherbourg, between the Confederate war steamer Florida and the Kear- sage. The Federal man-of-war Niagara has been ordered from Antwerp to Cherbourg.

Diplomatic arrangements are being made at Madrid tor the settiement of the dispute between the Goyernment of Spain and Peru.

We have very deplorable news from New Zea- land. On the 29th of April General Cameron at- tacked the “ Rebels,” or, as we prefer calling the:n, the vative enemy, in a strong position, and was repulsed with heavy loss.— No less than ten officers were killed, including the Lieutenant Colonel and six other officers of the 43rd regiment, and three naval officers, and four officers were dangerously wounded. There were also 27 men killed and 70 wounded, and to make matters worse, the enemy escaped during the night, leay- ing the troops to follow thei and meet again with another sharp reception,

The depopulation of Poland cortinues, and let- ters from Warsaw and other places describe acts of the most atrocious eruelty on the part of the Russians. Another batch of prisoners, 300 in number, has been despatched to Siberia, and the *l entire population of a village in Lithuania has been transported and its property confiscated, be- cause the inhabitants had bastiuadved a man who had merited that punishment.

The rumour that the King of Denmark has made overtures to Austria and Prussia tor the re- establishment of peace, is confirmed. He is said to be opposed by his advisers, wo think that the contemplated course would lead to a revolution. In the French papers the abdication of King Christian is thought to be the most prebable solu tion, butit might bring about the unexpected de- velopwent of a united Seandinavia, to which Russia is 80 vivlently opposed.

A totally fresh pretendes has taken the field for

Che Examiner.

nounced his claim on occasion of the London

tive,

question.

four days debate.

agaiust the Government.

reaction.

victory. It is not a vote

exerted with a degree of aupled.

tion at large.”

the absence of so. brilliant pledged so deeply to the cau

the debate. The House of

and the vital importance of

or Opposition. our Parliament.”

graph says—‘‘ The break positively imposing, but proach

again and again.

victorioas by 18 votes. The quietly and resignedly.”

of 9 fur Ministers in the twe

Parliament last night.

mons. was that the majori and the Minister

dulged

in circulation Prussia

How the result wil country we can with littie difficufty anticipate; but at all events it will not long delay the appeal which must be made from a hooting and raving majority of 18 to the cuustitueacies and the na-

Charlottetown, July 25, 1864.

LATEST FROM EUROPE. ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPA.

Tue R. M. Steamship Europa arrived at Halifax from Liverpool, G. B., on Tuesday even- ing last, with dates to the 9th inst. tor this Island reached here ov Thursday evening. The debate in the House of Commons on the Foreign Policy of the British Government, but especially in regard to the war in Denmark, ter- minated in a vote by a smail majority for Lord Pal- merston’s Government, The main question at issue was, that the English Cab:net had ruined Den- mark, and brought dishonour upon England, by its gross mismanagement of the Dano-German The House of Gommons negatived thi- question by a vote of 18 for the Ministry after Such a small majority in se | large a Parliament is a practical defeat. House of Lords a similar question was put te the test, and resulted m a vute uf @ majority of pin

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The Times speaks of the majority for Govern- ment of eighteen in the Cognuens as more deci- sive than there was a right teexpect. As regard< the debate in the Lords,.and the defeat of the goverument by nine, the resuit of the Commons division deprives the debate of mach of its im- portance ; but it has been useful as giving the statesmen most concerned in the administering of affairs an opportunity of vindicating their policy

The Times, in another leader, says: “ It is some satisfaction that nobudy has attempted to ‘| impeach the motives and temper of the Cabinet. They have been put on their trial, not for any sin of intention, not even for want of diligence, tor indifference, for carelessness, or any of the secondary faults said to! be more misehievous than the cardinal vices, but merely for failure The crime in this case has been pure and simple peace-waking, about as successful as peace-mak- ing usually is on any eeale, great or small Happily tor the sake of peace the verdict has been on the side of honesty and gvod intention, though not gilded by success.”

The Daily News hopes that Lord Malmesbury’s majority of nine will console Mr. Disraeli for the Government majority of 18 in the Commons. The comparison and contrast will not surprise but rather reassure and satisfy the country as to the progress and prospects of the Conservative

The Herald says: “The division took place amidst intense exciteraent. Notwithstanding the egotism which thrust Mr. Newdegate with the abortive amendment between the House and its great purpose, we cannot think this is a political

i The Government has escaped across the narrowest path, propped up by iuflaences which have been

of confidence.

prersne rarely ex

The Morning Post remarks that, owing to cir- cumstances which are notoriously foreign to the | point at issue, the majerity in favour of the Go- vernwent was not considerable, but still the fact that under those circumstances the Government did cominand a majority, is a convinein that in the minds of the people of Great at leat Lord Palmerston and his colleagues are the men best fitted to govern the State.

The Star says— The absence of Lord Derby robbed the debate in the Lords of much of the interest which it would otherwise have had. Early in the evening it was reforted that Lord Ellenborough, too, Was unable té be present, and

‘an orator, and one se of Denmark, dealt

another heavy blow to the Conservative side of

Commons had there-

fore as much superiority last night in the elv- quenee of its speakers, ag it had in the reality

its deeision. As the

debate in the Commons pregressed, more and more keenly marked beeame the eagerness of party. Almost in the upper house might be heard the ringing cheers which now from this side and new trom that declared that some effec- tive hit had been made in the cause of Ministers The night was on the whule one deserving of long recollection in the annals of

The parliamentary reporter of the Daily Tele-

fur the division was en the moment ap-

at which the tellers could come in, however it may have been in the body of the house, the spectators held their breath for anxiety. The “ Noes,” that is, the voters for the Gevern- ment, came in first, but were followed instautly by the “Ayes,” and the numbers being known, a stupend:us burst of loug-@ontinued cheermg was raised on the Ministerial side, which was renewed _When Mr. Brand took. the paper in his hand, it was long before he was en- abled to announce that the Government was

Oppositica went out

The number of votes given in the Lord’s divi-

sion was 345, and_in the Comwmons 608.

this total of 953, there were 481 voted for the

Government and 472 against, leaving a majority houses.

Taking

There was unusual excitement in the Houses of Seareely had the division in the Commons taken place, when the Lords began to — ie members of the lower house passed hurriedly t! the passages, the

were simultaneonsly A se. and hissed by /- large number of persons assembled in the Com- Throughout the evening the impression would searcely exceed ten, whippers-in shared that opmion. Betting om the result was freely in-