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Eabiisiieu 1823. News by the English Mail!

IIIIIOUD COLLISION IN THE CHANNEL.

We regret to announce the total loss, by collision, of the ﬁne iron ship Imogene, Captain Williams, from this port for Per- nambuco, which was run itito, on the 21st jngtant, by the screw steamer Falcon, bound from Cork to Liverpool. The steamer struck the Imogene on the port bow, and cut her down to the water’s edge. The fore compartment of the lino- gene was immediately ﬁlled with water, and had the vessel not been fitted with water-tight compartments she must have sunk instantly, with all on board. The steamer did not stop her engines for some time after the collision took place. As the steamer let! the Imogene, the captain of the latter vessel hailed her, and requested her to lay by him, as he thought his vessel was sinking; this the steamer did for two hours, by which time it was evident, in spite of the utmost exertions of Capt. Williams and his crew, that the Imogene was fast sinking, and having, at this time, the main compartment also nearly full of water, they were obliged to abandon her in their own boats and take refuge on board the steamer, which they had scarcely done when the Imogene went down head fore- tnast. This vessel had is most valuable cargo on board, estimated to be worth not less than £60,000, and was commanded by aman of great experience and judgment. She was nearly new, having been built by Messrs. Cato and Co., of this port, about eighteen months since, for Messrs. C. T. Bowring and Co., by whom she was owned.

CONSPIRACY T0 ASSASSINATI TBI IMPIIIOR KAPOLION.

The following is from the letter of the Paris correspondent of the Times, dated Wednesday, the l7th:—“There was an unusual stir last night at the Prefecture of Police and the Prison of Mazes, owing to the arrest of about 30 persons belonging to a secret society. This society, compo- sed of revolutionists of the most violent and dangerous kind, held a meeting yester- day, at which it is said that it was decided toassassinatc the Emperor on his return from Biarritz. I understand that the police know all the members of this society, most of whom are old members of the Marianne, inhabitin the 6th. 7th, and 8th arrondisse- Iuents of aris. The majority of them are artisans. Several of those arrested are very young, and appear intelligent and _lot Ineducated. They have been placed ta solitary confinement at Mazas, and are allowed to communicate with no one. The search made at their residences has brought to light nothing that compromises them, but

e police are prepared to prove the exist- ence of the society, and to bring forward witnesses of its frequent meetings. This c_onlirms the evidence, already retty posi- tIve,contiiincd in the details I) sent you concerning the Marianne, as to the exist- ence of a secret society, whose members are sworn to attempt the life of the Emper- or. Fortunately the police are vigilant Ind sharpsighted, and history is there to show us how rarely such attempts succeed.

The organ of the British Prime Minister deems it proper to give a contradiction to the rumors of " growing coolness between France and En land on the subject ot I0rIIgn policy. taﬂirms that "the fullest

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confidence and concord exist at the present ,' moment between the two governments, and that there is nothing to warrant the suppo- § sition that they cannot act together, or.’ have any secret design of acting apart_ upon any European question.” The Post admits, however, that they may not hel united on every small matter of foreign; policy, and imputes to Austria a desire to: isolate England. On the Italian question, France and England underst'.iid each; other, and are united; but " although: England has no desire to stand alone, she I can do so if necessary.” That is what‘, Lord Paliiicrstoti wishes Austria to under-; stand.

'l‘he “ Newfoundlander” expects that Telegraphic communication between St. John’s and the United States, will be estu- blished via Cape Breton, by the otid of the present month. 46 Spanish vessels had cleared from St. John's during the season.

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Captain Penny, Commander of the ship Lady Franklin, has returned with her to Aberdeen, from the Arctic Regions, and reports that when he was in Aogarth’s Sound he was told by the Esquimaux that some of their companions had seen, it long way ofI', in is Northwesterly direction, a circular white tent erected on the ice. The Esquimaux had taken from it on their first visit some bright metal, and on their second visit some spoons. Afterwards they had seen two white men in the tent.

It was reported among the natives that these and other white men had perished from hunger. So far as Captain Penny can judge, he thinks that this may refer to the same party frotn whom Dr. Rae obtained the silver spoons, &c, which identiﬁed the white men with Sir John Franklin and his

party.

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Vienna, Thursday, Sep. ‘.35.—Sardinin takes part in the expedition to Naples for the protection of Sardinian residents and their property there. Prince Petrulla, the Neapolitan Envoy here, has tendered his resignation.

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His-roar or run PlNNY.—TIIe ancient English penny was the first silver coin struck in England, and the only one cur- rent among our Saxon ancestors. At the time of Ethelred it was equal in weight to our tlireepence. Till the time of Kin Ed- ward I. the penny was so deeply in ented that it might easily be broken and parted, on occasion, into two parts-—these were called halfpence; or into four, these were called fourthings or farthings.

Bsxao P0‘I'A'l'0II.—" Landlord,” said pn exquisite, “can you enable me to realise from your culinary stores the pleasure of a few dulcet murphies, rendered innoxious by ingenous martyrdom.”

“Papa, how long does the legislature sit?" Four or five mont I, my son,” " Why what a set of eese they must be; our geese only sits ve weeks!” “It’s getting late, my son, I think we had better retire.”

There is a shop kept by a lady, in the window of which appears these words- “ No reasonable offer refused."

NOBHAL SCHOOL SOIBEE.

Srititcuzs delivered at the Soiree, held, Wednes- day 1st October, 1856, for the INAUGURATION oi the Charlottetown Moon. and NORIAI. Scuoot.

( Rrporledfort/te Island Press by R. B. Irving, Esq )

The Meeting having been duly constituted by His Excellency's taking the Chair, the especial business of the day was entered upon by His l:‘.xeelleucy's addressing the Meeting nearly in the following terms:

Ladies and gentlemen. the duty which I am called upon this day to discharge, is one which is, in every way, agreeable to IIIO. No circum-

f stance could have occurred, with respect to the

interests of this Colony, to afford me higher gratiﬁcation, than our meeting here, this day, to inaugurate, with due observunces. the Model and Normal School of this city. Prince Ed- ward Island is distinguished-—highly distin- guished—among the British Provinces of Nort America, for having txiken the lead in establish- 'tng,—for the benefit of the rising generation, and, indeed for the benefit of all who call, or shall yet call the Island their home,—a. system of Free Education : and now we are met to in- uugurate an Institution for the training of teuulicrs, byii. system, the value of which is nowreciignised and acknowledged by almost every civilized country in the world. It is quite clear that this Institution,—tlie lending object of which is to train ouiig persons for the pro- er discharge oftlie uties of teacliers,—should linve preceded the establishment of Free Schools in the Colony , because then, from the creation of the latter, there would have been a supply of trained teachers to conduct them. iood of any kind, nlthougli late, is, however, better late than never ; and this day in which we inaugu- rate the first Normal School in Prince Edward Island, may ‘justly be regarded as the com- mencement 0 an auspicious era, whence to date, in future, the origin of many blessings, nnd the commencement of a. erpotuated course of improvementand prosperity to the people of this Colony. It belongs not to me to expound the principles or to enter into the details of the System we are met to inaugurate; for in fact I am not able to do so : but this inability on my part is of small moment, as the gentle- men who are at the head of the Institution will, I am sure, leave nothing obscure concern- ing it which can be made manifest by words. I will, however, before sitting down, take this opportunity—the only one which I have had.- to state in public the high estimation in which I hold the character and abilities of Mr. Stow, the father of the Normal System. By his de- vising of that System, and y the unwsar iug assiduity with which he seeks, and has oug sought, for the beneﬁt of mankind, to spread it for and wide, he has justly earned for himself a world-wide fame: and his name will, hence- forth, be honorably placed amongst those of the test benefactors of their species. To me r. Stow is personally I stranger. know him,but by his honorable and well- eurued fame; I feel, however, that, on this occasion, it is my uty to name him as one havin a ver high claim, not only to the res- pectfu consideration of this meeting. on ac- count of the services which he has rendered to the cause of education general! ,- but also to our grateful acknowledgments or the peculiar services which he has rendered to that cause in this Colony. Mr. Stow not only readily and ohligingly corresponded w" h my predecessor concerning the establishment of a Normal School here; but he has also most politely cor- responded with me on the subject; and, be- sides, he is espeoially entitled to the ratitude of the people of this Colony. for the iscrimi- nating care with which he selected, for recom- mendation to the Government here, the two ntlemen who are immediately connected with go Institution, for the inau uration of which we are now met, and. un or whose skilful management, it will, I hope, be productive of all the benefits to the Colony, which It is in- tended to import, or which can reasonably be expected to proceed from it. [On the conclu-

' AIBVEEEESEE. WDENESDAY & SATURDAY.

Charlottetown, P. E, lslaiid, Sziturdiiy. October ll, I866.

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The llossu. CODONIL Swasar, on bein called upon to propose the first Resolution, rose and said: I am indeed proud of the sta- tion which I now occupy. I am, perhaps, selected for the distinction of opening the pro- ceedings of this meeting, by proposing the first Resolution, on account of my long connection with the Board of Education, of which I have been an active member, for the last seventeen years: but whatever the considerations may be, which, have led to my being so called upon, [certainly feel that an honorable distinction has, thereby. been conferred upon ine.—To the Normal System, ever since I acquired some knowledge 0‘ its princi les and working, I have always been lavora le; but I must con- fess that, not until lately, when, by my having an opportunity ot judging of its merits by see- ing it in operation here, was I able to form any thing like a just conception of its worth. It is not, I have found, a system by which the memory alone is cultivated. It is nuts system ofmere question and answer, in which the answers are got by rote; but it is a system, calculated to open and expand the mind,-—to exercise and cultivate all its faculties.—to draw forth, and give polish, beauty, and utility, to all its latent treasures; and to excite to a right use of them. It is a system which will, when duly carried out, enable pupils or stu-

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dents satisfactorily to discover that they have tulcnts, (of which they may long have been the unwittin , ssors,) which may be pro- ﬁtuhly and honorably exerted; and capacities for kiiowled e, which may not only be ﬁlled, but enlarge . It will, in fact, by nwiikenin and cultivating all the intellectual faculties o the soul, teach and prepare such young per- sons as shall be trained under it, to think for, to speak for, to draw conclusions, and make The encourage- ment which has been given to Education in this Colony, by the establishment, of Free Schools for the beneﬁt of all without distinc- tion, places it far-—with respect to the march of iin rovement-—in advance, not only of the neigh ring Provinces, but oi] almost every other country, Prussia erha s excepted. "he esolution which I ave een called upon to propose, might very well have been submitted simply as it stands, without any observations in so port ofit. I will now read a part of it-—-the rst part; for it is two-fold. The honorable gentleman then read as follows; “ Resolved, That the system of Free Educa '

tion now in successful operation in this Colony under which one sixth of the whole population is receiving instruction." The Resolution consists of two parts, as I have already said. The ﬁrst speaks of what we have done. It states the gratifyin fact, that, in consequence of the extensive an libe- ral provision, made by the Legislature, for the dilusion of learning and knowledge through- out the Colony, one sixth of the population is receivinga round and useful education. Is not this a proud position for this little Colony to have attained to! Examine our Island sta- tistics, und you will see that all our youth who are capable of being beneﬁted‘ by school instruction, are now enjoying it advantages; and every family in the country experiences the unspeakable blessing of having education brought to its ver doors. But the Resolution might have gone arther. Besides stating that one sixth of our pulation is now under toi- tion in our Free istrict Schools, it might also have stated the fact, unparalleled in any other country, that one third of our revenue is de- voted to the encouragement of education. Tell me, if you can. what State can rival this eu- lightened Iiberality. None can at all com re with it, except Prussia. In Be 'um, in it- serlsnd, and in the United States, they have, in the true spirit of enlightened liberalit , done much for the cause of education ; and t e Schoolmaster is, in fact, abroad ever where; but no country has equalled this in ta exer- tions and appropriations. oonsiderln the smallness of its ﬁnancial resources. '1‘ e o ject which has called us here to ther to-do is one which, I think, cannot fa l to interogt all who have enjo ed the beneﬁts of agent! education: for we persons best know the

sion of his speech, His Excellency was greeted by the hearty plaudits of the Meeting]

value ofit. It siirel cannot but be most gra- tifying to the min of every well-disposed.