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simuitancously printed and sent to all the beads of different departments and towns of France on a certam day, with erdera that they eheuld be issued and disterbated all over the country on the same morning. These placards were thos headed: © Vive DEa- pereur! Vive Napoleon!!! These three notes of admiration were taken by the people to represent the Roman pomeral ** il,” and he was from that tame hailed as Napoteon /e irotseme; ag euch he has ever since been Brown ; bot it we cqually true that his proper tithe would have been Napoleon I!

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Latest European News. Arrival of the ‘City of Washington.’

(From the News ot the World, Aug. 16.)

The Accouchement of the P: Alice, Princess Louisa of Hesse, is expected in No- vember.

iCeSs

The Emperor of the French, as a mark of

bis hich personal esteem and adaniration of the

character and pubbe principles of ( € late Mr. |

Cobden, has forwarded the handsome contn- “bution of one theusand franes to Mr. Charles Greene, hon. sec. to the committe for erect: | ig a memorial to that distinguished statesman at Camden Town.

It is said that the Empress of the French will be decorated with the Legion ot Honouren the 15th of August, for heroic conduct in visting the cholera patients at Amiens.

Despatches from Rome show that the Pope will be happy to reecive a Preach aia bassador | to eit at the Cbcumenical Council, where Aus tria and Spain will also be represented.

Lord John Manners is spoken of as likely to succeed the Earl of Mayo as Clict Secretary ef Treland.

It is rumored that Capt. Stanley, second son | of the Earl of Derby, one of the member for Preston, and » candidate for the representa tion of North Lancashire, is to be made a Lord of the Adwiralty,

A Prixce Waxten ww Ivpia.—The Anglo- Indians. so far from preparing to be sutistied with Lord Mayo, are trying to persuade them selves that ove of the Queen's sons may some day be sent out to govern the c untry. The!) oatives would be itomensely gratified by having aw Royal Ruler once more, and as the Friend ponds out, “ with the annual migration to the cvol climate of the hills, an Ev glish prince | might find hfe as enjoyable’ in India as in England. There ean be no doubt that an ap- poimment of this kind would take India by storm. But suppose the Royal Vice roy went astray in his policy? Would it be} cvavenient to snub bim in a letter from the tho Ladian Secretary.

Notwithstandins the official denial, there is neo doubt that insurgent bands have made | their appearance in the neighburk vod of Caspe im the province of Aragon. M ltary forces have been sent thither to pursue them.

A great number of arrests have taken place, in the Quartier Latin, Late on Sunday night) some fitty individuals followed by a crowa, | impelled as crowds g lly are by a feeling | of curiosity, preambulated the principal streets, of that learned quarter, shouting +: Vive Roche: | fort! Les mouchards a Ja Lanterne !’ The | police made a few arrests, and the crowd dis-| persed, On Monday the distribution of prizes to the pupils of the various Paris Lycees, who | compete anaually with cach aher tuck place | at the Sorbonne. A large number of students cougregated in the vicinity.and when the Prince | Imperial drove up they indulged in manifesta | tions in honor of Rochefort and the Laaterne, and uncomplimentary to the present regime. | whereon more arresia took place. [nside the | hall an incident eecurred which caused con-} siderable sensation. Among the prizewen was young Cavaignae, the son of the general, at one time President of the Republic: when his same was proclaimed he refuse! to receive the prize, whereon he was cheered. According to the Arenir National, | one of young Cavaignac’s school! -llows, a boy tamed Des Genets, distinguished himself by the vehemence of his applause, whereupon he was turned out of the hall, and his friends were in formed that he was then and there expelled from his college (Charlemagne). The report of this got abroad, and crowds of students went about shouting Vice Cuvaignac! Many more arresis were effected, and « cafe in the neigh- bourhood was closed by the police. Were it not that the Avenir gives se circumstantial an / aeeount of the affair 2% could hard! y be believed. |

Oficial intelligence received (rom Cochi:-| China states that a French outpost of 25 sol- | diers at Rah-gia had been surprised by « roving! party of 1,000 Anamite robbers on the 16th of

go up to} tremendously |

| well treated. sick, and trom that time all they went oa the

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HORRIBLE TREATMENT OF STOW. | Attempt to Kill a Roman Catholic AWAYS. Prievst—L; nch Law in Vermont. A story of great cruelty to hoy stowaways Is ihe tie. . reperted from Scotiand. According to the From the Troy Times, Aug. 5

accounts #iven in the Glas sow Herald, the shin Arran, of Greenock, sailed from that port tor Quebee it the beginning of last Ap il, and shortivy alter sailing seven stowaways were i How they were treated Cilas-

disc overcd on board. afterwards ts deseribed as follows in the Herald :

‘The officers gave them some work to do, and for a number of days the lads wee pretty The boys ultimately became sea-

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ice they Were treated, it is alleged, ia the most barbarvus manner. The crew state that the chief mare, James Kerr, was more conspicuous in unifurm cruelty to the fads than Captain Watt, but the latter was often present, and re-

Saturday evening last, a man named Farrell

lealled at the residence of Father Ryan, in

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tused to tuterfere when severe punishment was |

being inflicted upon them. The lads were only supplied with about halfa biscuit w day, and when it became known that the crew, compuasion with their emaciated appearance, were supplying them with a portion of thei own food, the officers ordered the steward to place the crew ona fixed allowance for each man, in order te prevent any addition being

made to their scanty supply. The stow-aways

iu} | made use of stones to shatter the windows, and

; commenced

luee of stoves in the same manner. lenyaged, Driscoll left the house and proceeded itor aid, and soon returned with a dozen men

had no beds viven them, and were compelled |

to sleep in the hold in all weather, on the top

Bennington, Vt., with a young babe, and re- quested that he would baptize ut. The Father refused, for the reason that the offspring was illegitimate, whereupon Farrell threatened to take the Life of the Priest.

six-shooter, Went to the priest's house and rang the bell His visit had been anticipated by a

a : friend of Father Ryan, named Driscoll, who |

appeared in response to the bell, and warned him to leave; but he refused to go. meantime & servant had notified Father Ryan vf the presence of Farrell, aud he weut duwn Stairs also armed with a revolver and a sword

cane, but be did not use either, as Farrell in|

some way was put out of the door, when he firing bis pistol through the window and @ischarged all the shots. He then

weut from front to rear, where he also made While thus

Farrell threatened to take the life of the first

man who approached him, and for a time the |

new comers were intimidated —Vinally Driscoll

Sunday evening |

. ° : | about eleven o'clock, Farrell armed with a)

In the |

jing a portion of the flour. ' | , é legved, they were unmercifully fiogged, and{ force to assist him; and, at the close of the |

idraw a bucket of water, while another with a/ head with a stone and severely wounded,

| till blood er 'then turned on his back, and his stomach and, bly beaten, and would surely have been killed

i with ice and the cold was intense.

jofthe’lads are described as being horrible. | having been paid by them to his commands to

| with the lead line. } ust /was continued for a length of time till the/ the trying erdeal was that of a man of extra: |

» have been heartrending.

of the coals. By day aud night the boys were brought on deck. and were compelled to march } about, carrying a handspike, and every time | they crossed the deck were made tv cry out *Atswell,’ ‘fce ahead,’ &c., and if they failed | tu vive the monotonous cry they were instantly

logged. The cravings of hunger becoming su keen the boys eventually burst the flour barrel and appeased their appetite by swallow For this, it is al-!

blow felled him to the earth, when he was seized and bound with ropes, and removed to the lock up.

Monday afternoon, at two o'clock, he was

ing the evidence, in default of $8,000 bail, leommitted him to await the action of the grand jury. would be lynched, deputized a large special

they were afterwards placed in irous. One of | examination, touk him ina bugyy to return to the lads, named Jumes Bryson, was ordered to| jail. A large and excited crowd of people liad strip while the suow was talliny and lie down! assembled and soon atter the sherilf started on deck, and one of the crew was compelled to | from the office of the justice he was hit ont The broom was forced to scrub the poor boy's bedy | prisoner was then seized and drag sed from the trickled from his back. He was! Wagon to the ground, where he was most terri- breast were scrubbed inalike manner. While| but for the interference of Father Ryan and the ship was laboring in a heavy sea the boys W. HL. Nuttia,. They rushed in upon the were put in irons, their hands being menacled infuriated mob and drove them back, but not behind their backs. They were then placed) ™! ul Farrell had been nearly kick« d and poend on the fure castle. The decks were slippery | ed to death. He was then removed to jail. The sex! During the melee, Father Ryan broke his cane wae washing over the ship, and the suflerings; over the heads of the rivters, no attention E.ery time they slipped to the lee side of the disperse and leave the prisoner in the hands of vessel they were layhed with a rope ull they the law. The reverend Father, we understand, manaved to crawl to windward. For the most| then drew the knife from his cane upon the trivial uBeace they were lashed by the mate| crowd, and by great exertions succeeded in _ This kind of treatment | keeping them at bay. His conduct throushout

Iship got bound in the ice off St. George’s Bay, | ordinary courage aud hervism.

on the coast of Newfoandiaud. The lads} a " were badly clad, aud two of them had neither | Carlton's Condition Powders. shoes nor stockings. The crew could not| - —--

spare them any portion of their food, as their | Tue FeNxians acian.—We have positive in- allowance was comparatively small. The | formation that extensive preparations are being mate is said to have kicked them upon évery! made on the vther side of the lines for a Feman occasion, and exposed them to ali kinds of raid. When and where the attempt is to be made dangers and hardships. While the ship was) we have not yet been specifically informed, but it éwbedded im the ice the lads were for several | i* probable the reports of a simultaneous move days ordered to take exercise on it. On the | ment on the Niagara and Chateauguay froutiers 15th of Mag, after the ship had been about a| are not far from the truth. [tis possible i week in the ice, some of the boys were ordered | aa ped eer ee or eae a , ; . | : American tov »

to make for the land, - hich was distant, _— heas, but we trust and believe that the Goverment cording to pipe r-neerece util winaee five to 15) wilt have every thing in readiness. The Velun- miles. About 8 o'clock in the morning six | teers are in admirable candition. We hope = t ot the boys left the vessel, a biscuiteach being

thrown after them. Two of the littie fellows) that the Weliaud and St. Lawrence Canals may were barefooted, and their cries are stated toj be reudered sale trom attack —Torunto Globe.

Land could be seen | nsnchilipibanics Judson’s Pills.

from the masthead, but between the ship and | +<<—_>-

the land it was ascertained by the aid of the | glass that the ice was detached and that a broad sheet of water intervened. After the

ted of the course he had adopted, and glossy ?”’ We tell them its the easiest thing and he went to the masthead in order to see it, i! We world; give * Suerdan's Cavalry Condition he could discover their whereabouts. One of Powders” two or three times a week,

the crew, Magnus Tait, who was subsequently drowued iu the St. Lawrence, was also placed at the masthead, im order, if possible, to make them out; but the lads were never again seen Vn the ship's arrival at Quebee the crew were | informed by the crew of the ship Myrtle, of | Greenock, which had also been detained in| the ice some distance from the Arran, that | It having become known to the Swiss authori only tour of the boys had survived, aud they | ties that an atteaipt was intended to have been were taken off the ice by a Newfoundland | made upon the life of the Queen of England, schooner. Que of the lads were reported | during ber recent sejouru in this place. A drowned, and another had died from exhaus. | strict search was made by the police tor parties tion. Another is stated to have been severely | concerned in the diabolical plot.

frost bitten. The names of the two lads who) Te-day a man whose name ie not given, but

are believed to have perished are John Paul whe it is ascertained 18 & Fenian, was arrested, and Huch McEwen or Stevens The «names ‘and upeu eXamination made such statements as

appear, repen

Latest News by Telegraph, FROM EUROPE, London, Aug. 21.

made a rush for him, and with a well-directed

taken before Justice Lyman, who, after hear- |

The sheriff, fearing the prisoner |

the |

aterce will be placed eany on the frontier, so |

A great many people have asked ua of late, | | boys had left some time, the captain, it would “ How do you keep your horse looking so sleek |

June last. _Guly one of the so! lieve escaped | of thuse heiieved tn be still alive are David | with his life. Wheu this news reached the Brand, Huh M'lun garrison five days afterwards an expeditionary J aa lie force, creased by bodies of uative militia, who volunteered their services, was sent out to) & pursue the perpetrators of the massacre, whom they inflicted severe loss.

ames Bryson. The Seventh boy, eter Currie, was kept on board the ship whe:

UPON | on the ice, and he has returned with the sf). | te Greenock. No official information relative The following is an extract of a letter from | to the fate of the boys has been receiwed by the Rev. J. B. Giusburg, dated Alyiers, July | the authorities here, but immediate inquiry 10, 1865 :~<* The famine brourht on by j wall be made at Newfoundland.” F dreusht and the plague of locusts and cholera | has exhausted the native resources, g assuming most distressing prop literally decimating the native They die, uot from any disease, but from | atervation. They first fed on the grass of the field and the leaves of trees; the filth colbeet oo 4 in dust-carts was a luxury. Whey then dug), Some months age, a gentleman advertised that

ont and ate animals which hed died from |b had ducuvered a true speeific tor the cure ot Starvation. Tn travelling I saw these creatures, | drunkeness. He would not divulge the secret 1 shrunk to skin and bone, surrounding Pt Vacs ne ra oe oe er dwarf palms and thistles, which they thought | deeeer Coated aise sb noes ad as delicious fare. Voracious jackals are depriv so wany applicants for cure as he expected, cou-

, : | widering the extent of the disease. In fact, the ed of any chance animal lying dead in the | more waliguaut cases did not eeem auxioue tor eountry, Men atiack carts |:.den with manure, | relief, They rather appeared to enjuy the mal- and pull out the cabbaye-stalks and turnip-| ady. A tew, however, placed themmselsce under Bops. Woanen grub in the herse-litter for the Ureatanent, and some meee cured—whether by wadizested grains of corn and barley, and wash | thie We avedscive or by vet taking any strong end est them with avidity. Children throw | dri, “We ave mot prepared to say. One of the themselves upon the sweepings of the huuse heured ones bad taith in the medicine, rigidly car-

: : | vied out the directions of the doctor, and now has aud diapete with the dogs the bones and other hot the least tasie tur mtexicating drinks, where-

pitiful refuse found upon the heaps of rubbish, | as, one year age, be wae an inebriate, and could smash and guaw them. This appalling dis-| yot get along with less than a pint to a quart of tress at last impelled the famished beings to! whiskey a day. acs of violeace and unheard-of violence and! He said he had. at some trouble and expenee cannibalism. They attacked mon and beasts,| procured the receipt tor the preparation of the aud even killed their own children, salted, and| wedicine, which he has published tor the benefit ate them. Ja spite of hundred thousands of vf stfering humanity. It is as tollowa: francs sent ever from France, the famshed | Suipbate of iron five graina; peppermint water, Redeuins perish in incredible numbers, | ‘lesen Grachine; qpiut wt pulineg, 1 drachm ; Bodies are still found side by side in the {Wir 8 aay. This preparation acts a8 a tonic ditches en the hig rou, onthe rock |Srimulnt aa partiiymyig the. plage rene by hyenas or jackals, Poor wretches! | 6.1 (¢ physical aud moral prostration that tol- be stretea themselves ow the ground, wrap-| tows the sudden brecking off from the use of in their razs,their faces covered,and await | stimulating drinks. It is to be taken in quate the lJast hour, murmuring* Allah.’ Babies. | tities equal to an ordinary dram, and as olten as too, in no swail numbers, have been picked up, adesive tor @ drum returus. Auy dreggist can = still — os necks of oon dead prepare the prescription. anothers. id 8 & icture indeed, of the : co ee fumine of Akes."’ . : ADDRESS TO KISHOP ROGERS. The Queen, Princess Louise, Princess! Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, attended by the | Marchioness of Ely, MajosGeneral Sir. : : : : Tuomas and the Hon. Lady Biddulph, Wing Adress congratulating bim upon his gale arri- Bauer, Sir William Jenner, Colonel Ponsonbs, | vul among his devoted people” from Eu- and Mr. Duckworth, arrived at Lucerne at, "@P® The address amoug other things =e 10.30 0n Friday night, and drove immediate. | dy te the Pension Wallace, at Lucerne, which Your Lordship to fill the office of first Bishop

| "Phe Master and Mate have since been com gradually | mitted for trial at Greenock, where they nar tious, ard rowly escaped rough westaent at the hands ot

populatiou. | a mob. — teen

THE ‘DEUNKARD'S CURE.

The Catholics of the Parish of Chatham, presented the Right Rev. Dr. Rogers, with au

dias been prepared for her Majesty's reception, | of Chatham is confirmed by the happy results |

The Queen was ewch fatigued by the of your Apostolic labors during the last eight journey and great het, but has been able to years of your episcopacy. The increase of the 4 rive out in the ueizhborhood sinee her ar-) number of devoted priests, the multiplication rival. The other menbere of the Rayal efchurches and relisious institutions, the es- family have also taken drives. On Sunday/ tablislwvents erected for the edacation of youth the Queen and the Royal farnily, with the | —all proclanm the efticacy of your incessant Lede and gentlemen m waitins, attended labors. The high order of ‘education and divine serviee in the buwse. The Rev. R, | scholarly refinement imparted fo the pupils in Duckworth officiated. both the male and female acadeagyes which you sittiniie, é j founded are manifest, and our Cathodic parents Holloway's Pills —¥uteebled Existener —Thia STtetully appreciate the advantages thus pro Qnedicine embraces every attribute re quired ina vided for their children.” arneral and domestic remedy; it overturne the | foundations ot disease laid by deivetive tood aud iuwpwre air. lo obstructions or Congestions of

The Bishop in his reply makes the following allusion to the bappy state of feelmg existing in bis Diocese:

es, Bernard Riley, wand |

tu leave no doubt that it was hiv deliberate design to assassinate Queen Victoria, He bas been | committed to prison to await a requisition trow |

named the British sutuorities.

| London, Ang. 25th. | snyastier, especially if some ot the theories ad-

A Constantinople despateh says a grand dinner {was miven inv hodor of Parragut ou Weduesday |

last by the English Bisbassader, | Loudon, Ang. 25.

trial be correct. They held that, to coustitute | high crimes and misdemeanors in the aeanin the constitution, it is net necessary that

in other words, that a high crime or wisdemeanor |

Netwithstanding the sharp opposition ofa large} would be whatever the court would please te de: |

portion of the British press. the appeiatmwent of

yu of, hand, the sive to pursue a liberal and an eulizhtened

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vooated by the radical managers in the reeenl) which we had made for ourselves. Ou the other |

offences committed should be indictable at law— | commercial policy towards the United States, |

orany other foreign power with which Great

—— mitted to lie unmolested on the very hard bed

if we evinee a sincere and a general de-!

RECIPROCAL FREE TRADE WITH Typ UNITED STATES, (Continued ) Cnharvorrerows, 2ist August, 1468, Freperick Brrcken, Eeq., said that the duty develving upon him would be very light ‘after the very full and comprehensive state.

Earl Maye to be Governor General of Tndia bas) otare such, They beld also that the court WOs) Peitain is on friendly terms, we may depend /ment juet made hy his co delegute,Mr Heard,

been determined —Lord Maye wall leave for) pyyad hy no law or precedent ; that it was abuve India iw October next, to sssuime the duties of his} all law; that it was, in the language ef one of the

| hew office, jinanagers, “a law ante itselt.” Aceording to Londen, Aug. 26. these theories, the President can never know The charred remains of the thirty victims of whieh of his act# may be “a high erme and wie- the terrible raiiread accident at Abergle, in Wales | demeanor” until the court shall declare it such; were buried to-day, | aud the court net being subject to any. law, can) lremove him for merely entertaining different poll- tical views from the dominant party io Congress. If such iniquity as this were perpetrated, i might produce au insurrection or even a revolu- tion, Let the American people be tully satisfied, | however, that the trial is to be fairly conducted in |

Carlsruthe, Aug 25.

A grand festival was held here yesterday to celebrate the anniversary of the establishment of the constituuion, Phe Minister of War wade a speech at closing of bauquet, expressing a hope that the Southera States of Germany would soon unite with those of the North, aud thus complete the series of gredt events which commenced it 1306.

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President is to be removed tor read crimes, and | hot for inaginary ones or mere political offences |

FROM THE STATES.

New York, Aug. 21. The tide of Sanpedro, on the coast of Lower) rE a poy ee 7 a pojnted by the law to suceved him would take his water mark. Thies strange phenomenon Wae several tines repealed. ie Collyer aud Edwards bave arranged a prize,

fight to come off on Virgina soil next Monday. A gang of Adama’ Express robbers are on trial |

Whole proceeding was in strict accordance with the provisions of (he coustitution.

Your readers will new perceive that the differ- lin Toronto, Canada. j ence between Great Britain and the United States Gold steady, unchanged. jin this respect is, that in the former country the

New York. Aus. 08 trial of the Chief Magistrate is evidence of an , CW POTK, AUK S| existing revolution; whereas in this country such

The disease among the cattle continues to | proceeding ix an evidence of the very contrary, create alarm. Enghteen head infected with the beca@se it shows that there is still some regaré disease reached bere yesterday, aud uiany of the | paid to the forms of (he constitution — T hope that same herd died on the way. |

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Gold opeued at 1443. to the minds of your readers.

New York, 22nd. In November 1867, U. S. Consul Dabwey at) vast preparations by the Fenians for avether in Payal, chartered a Portuguese brig, aud shipped | yasion of the Dowiuion. The whole thing, hew- oF American seamen, mostly deserters frou | ever, will probably end ui * sound and fury, signi W hiting veseela, tor Boston —As nothing has been | fying nothing.” Lf they should visit you again heard of the brig. she is supposed lost, with all ou hope that you will, as Voltaire would way, hang @ board. few of the miscreants tor the encouragement of The British brig Lotus, from New York for! tye rest. It is difficult for me to see what my

| Trucilo, with a cargo of provisions, was wreeked | poor father or brothers have ever dene to oppress)

on West Caicos Reef daly 22nd. There were! or enslave Treiand, or iow it is necessary te the five of the erew aud part of Lue cargo saved. liberation of Ireland that they should bave then | Gold 144. throats cut.

New Aug 24 With earnest wishes for the success of the | One thousand dollars has been raised in| Examiner, aud the prosperity of the “right little, *Mootreal tor the entertainment of the all England | Ught little Island” of Prince Edward.

| Kleven Cricketers. I remain, my Dear Sir,

The reyal artillery now serving in Canada, Ever yours, (has been suppled with ew breech-loading JOSIAL MeLEOD.

carvines aud Arustroeug Canuou, have been | P. S —I see that seme of your papere give their

ordered tu Prescott aud Toronto. readers crude atd disturted views of Atwerimcan

New York, 24th. | mel hich. if lt flicient leisure in’ the : : ‘ > olities, which, if 1] have sufficient leisure Mail advices from Europe to Aug 10th, state | iauite [ shall endeavour to correct through the that active preparations for the tortheemine | a : f the Examiner elections Were in progress throughout Great en ip sa : / Mcl | Britain. The question is the disestablishment of b j the Trish Church, and the Liberals or Tories are jobliged to declare for or agaivst that measure betore their constituents, W. E* Forster, M. P., of Bradford, made a ) speech in which he coudewned D Israeli and his | | policy, but praised Lord Stanley's course with | | egard to the Alabama claims aud the vaturaliz- ation question. Douglas Cooke, editor of the Saturday Review, | is dead. | A telegraph eable is to be laid between Don. | jmark aud Prussia. | Money quiet at 3 te 5 per cent, j strong at i454. | New York, Aug 25. Ordera have been iasued for the forcible expulsion a Indian tribes trou: Kansas, owing to the recent == paneer committed by them ou the while RECIPROCITY. selllers, en New York, Aug. 25th. Mvcn has been said and written of late on Some Deputy Sheriffs entered Broadway Theatre last uight, during the performance of * Foul Play,” to serve injunction on the Manager, | and writers. | When resistance being oifered they fired pistols, | o¢ p.ago yj » United Su rould, if ob- killing a boy and sounds sonata Se of trade with the United Bret 3 would, if ob employee of the Theatre, | tained, very greatly benefit: the inhabitants of Gold closed at 409. New York, Aug. 26 ; The Fenian convention continued in secret session. The annual report of the chief execu- tive was read and Col, O'Brien the permanent )president made an address. “Phe military meuu.- bers of the Brotherhood are alse holding a con }veution, with Gen Dennis Bourks as temporary | Chairman, Gold 44}.

Mr. A. H. Sv. Geraaiyx, Proprietor of the Canadian Advertising Agency, Toronto,Ont, is our sole Agent for procuring American Advertisements, and is authorized also to receive Canadian Advertisemeuts for this

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SPN RIN NIRA NARA ARRAN SEL INE

Charlottetown, August 31, |

| this subject by Prince Edward Island speakers

this Colony. There exists, however, some

| sible means of procuring this good thing,

| people of this Island to expect to obtain ror themselves alone the advantage of free trade

'with the United States. The Domiuion, at

least, suy they must be included in

| CORRESPONDENCE.

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Washington Correspondence.

Government of that great country.

iu vain for any other reason for this assertion,

} | | | | i | | }

Colony, and that the Isiand is a small and in-

j { 2xp Avpitor’s Orrice, Wasaineron, D. C.,

| Aveust Tru, 1868. siznilicant one.

| Editor of Examiner,

tainly a small and not very populous country, | ) ) )

fupon it th | ment and assistance froni the free trauing Gov-

seat without any public commotion or excitement, | | simply because the people would kuow that the) doubt, seems, we find that a separate arrange-

| |

at we shall receive both encourage- ernment of the Old Country. We are quite convineed that iu this matter of free trade our

“ jusignificance™ as a Colony will not stand in

ithe way of the accomplishment of the well-

understood wishes of its people. The editor of the Islander expresses his amazement with

all the emphasis that capital letters and notes

no spirit of persecution or oppression—that the | of adimiration can express, that any one should

be so silly as to suppose that * with this little

—and they will acquiesce in his conviction and Colony, with a population of less than 100,000 removal as quietly as yeu would in the removal) bof a judge or other official for mial-administration. | : In such a case the President would vacate his | Goverumeut will propose

office, and the Vice-President or otber officer ap-) which shall not apply to the other parts of

inhabitants,it is tikely * * * that the American a Reciprocity Treaty Unlikely as this, no

British North America.”

ment with this little Island has been proposed

in Congress, that it was not there looked upou

‘a practical man in commercis! matters, and }wueh better qualified to address the meeting lon matters of trade and commerce than he was. Mr B. was happy to be able to state that within the last three years a great change had taken place in the Amvcricay mind with reference to the question of Rei. wocity. At the Detroit Convention, which & attended, a very unfriendiv feeling ty. wards the British Provinees wae exhibited, The general fecling there was, that as the Mother Country and her Colonies had, by the sympathy whieh they had shown for the South during the late civil war, conduced ,, protract that struggle and make it more bloody and costly than it would otherwise \have been, they, the Ameticans, were not disposed to continue liveral trade relations with as. But that unfriendly feeling, jy was glad to say, was fast disappearing. Tay. ‘ing the views of the Portland Convention as an indication of the general opinion of thy American people, he would sav there wag every prospect of a Reciprocity Treaty being |entered into. Atthe Convention at Portland

I have succeeded in making this difference clear

There are a thousand rumours afloat here of|

All are agreed that Reciprocity |

| iTerenceof upiaion as to the best aud most fea | It! |is asserted by some, both here and in the |

| nvighboriug Colony, that it is absurd for the |

ang trade arrangement that may be made with the | We searcl |

}than that the Dominion is a big aud important |

Prince Edward Island is cer-|

jas so supremely ridiculous a measure as our) only one delegate was found in opposition ty teciprocity, a Mr. Prentiss, from Bangor, Maine Ilis duty appeared to he to proteet | the matter, a Committee hus been appointed to bic ceukl tenaetee — antile | visit the Island to collect information, and, no owned that he did not think there was one | doubt, to submit proposals. Now, if great | delegate present who sympathized with him, upon little | He urged many Fedsons OF rather ubjections,

a dew oC bevehib or to” ee OP why Reciprocal Free Tride should not be }country, does it becot revived with the Provinces. Among others | Would it do for our tell) that labor was dearer in the States than jn General Butler and his coadjutors that the | the Colonies ; that on that ground the Ame. | rican lumberer could not contend with the | Colonial: that Reeiproesty with these colonies | would interfere with the Treaties entered in. to by the United States and other countries, | Slates; that they could not presume so much as | by which it was re that thoee coun. itu whisper about terms; that these distinguish- tries ehould enjoy all the aa reind advan. : tages and privileges conceded to the mort ied visiturs had better go on to Ottawa and! fayoured nations; that indeed to make ony ‘hear what Sir Juhu A. and Mr. Mitchell have | distinetion would amount to a breach of faith | to suy about the matter, and afterwards send om the part of the Americans. Another ob. ; . : | jeetion was, that the lumberers in the Pry.

}sume one to the Duke of Buckingham, in |'vinces could obtain ligenses trom their Gor, | Downing Street, Lundun, tu bez him to give “ernments fora nerogies to cut a8 muck lus both leave to talk about free trade aud un- | lumber us they required, ra the United j restricted fishing; that the Islanders are no- Rsuae ane Se ieeeedann ae | were compelled to purchase the lands over upon, they would, of course, be obliged to sub-| whieh they ent. Another argement was, ‘that while the eurreney remained in its | present depreciated state, they could not ex. pect successtully to compete with other coun. we do believe that were our Executive to bold | tries. ‘The Colonial delegates did not take such language tu the Congressional Committee, | #0 active part in the deliberations of the Convention; they thought it better, frow y ; ‘ _* | motives of delicacy, not to act on any of the would justly mevit the contempt of every in- | Committees. Indeed, the delegates from this Island were so hurried that they had no time to cclleet statistics; they were indebted to |, ,, ?| CU. Hall, Exq., and two or three other gentle. nor the people think of assuiing sO very Geler- men, for the information, keunty us it wax, attitude. They honestly say to mas they were able to take with them, The im.

Awericans, * Qur pesition is a dependent one

| contemporary affects to consider it, and that, | } * . . ° . j arnest of the sincerity of Congress ing

| as ane

lness 18 thus thrust our modest

Government to

|Island is too smali—~ualtogether too insignifi-

boy a place—to ment the notice of su great

und so powerful # country as the —t

| bodies, aud that what the otlers should agree

mittu. Well, though we consider modesty to

be a very good aud a very becoming thing,

they would be so very ‘umble’ that they

dependent man inthe Colony. But we are |

proud to see that neither the Government, |

ential an media‘e objcet of the Convention appeared to be, to further certain reslway projects. Rail wav communivation, and the improvement jwe can do towaids establishing tree trade | of River, Lake, and Canal pavigation, en. irelatious between our country aud yours, we | grossed the greater part of the time of the Convention, and seemed to be regurded as of : | greater importance at the present time than you may | Reciprocity. Ue (Mr B.) could not but rest assured that the fault will not be ours.” | admire the couragetwith which the Aweri- Itis said by some that we should not be ¢an8 approached large undertakings. A

’ great public work was no sooner *poken of than it wasatonce commenced. They seem. ricaus see that we are so very eager to deal ‘ed to think as lightly of building a trans. iwith then, they will become eareless in pro- continental line of railway as we did of f building a steam ferry-boat The battle of : : : Free ‘Trade was being fought between East prudent aud impolitic ardor to drive a hard) ory and Western men. The latter contend It seems to us, that in deal- for Free Trade opening of the Coasting Trade, ‘giving to foreigners the right of rv gistering hs deed eektieteed ‘entities at anne their ships in American Ports, while the for- | the petty aud transparent artiices oF (be smal! mer shrink from conceding these privileges. traders will avail us nothing. They are mach} Looking at the vast extent of the Western States, their resources, the vast tide of im-

| migration that was flowing in there, and ag er ee their capabilities of further development, and a loudly expressed depreciation of what the | there ean ve no doubt that the policy of the other party las te offer, may succeed indiffer-| West mustat po distant time become the policy of the United States. The coasting trade and the registry of Colonial vessels ap-

our powers ave exceedingly limiled, yet, what

will do withall our might. If our exertions

do not produce the desired results,

/too precipitate in this matter, that if the Ame- |

portion, avd will take advantage of our im- bargam with us.

ing with our Ainericay neichbors in this matter,

too shrewd net to sce through al) such tricks.

A well counterfeited indifference of

j a s ently wellmalthough we doubt it—amougsi

ignorant and inexperienced traders; but “peared to be thought more of in Nova Seotia

when we come to deal with intelligent,| and New Brunswick than with us. Here j . . .