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‘ ; live with his epouse and should enjoy, in ad-| com dition, the bigh felicity of the male darling | it, Of the bundreds of hoatile men arrayed of the present. And in pursuance of this | against each other on either side of that run. | plan, the three are now living on triple blies| pot one dured to violate the truce totui tively in Bedford. agreed upon by these two suldiers. This is the raciest instance of domestic | oes our knowledge. The lady is} A Trrrinie Accipent.— Yesterday after- certainly privileged. She has a sober hus-} noon three little children—the eldest girl band of forty five. and she has a g*y young) only eight years—were playing on the top stripling of nineteen. When she turther in-| of the bill, below this city, known as Lover's creases her supply of lovers we trust her| Leap. Suddenly a gust of wind carried the modesty will not prevent an announeement| hat of the youngest to the very edge of the the fact We rejoice ta do honor to precapice, where it lodged. The eldest ran) genius, and we insist that the genius of this| to get it, acd it is supposed, becoming dizzy, | lady, in the way of winning the stronger} fell over the brink from the highest point sex, 8 of & superior order — Detroit Tribune.| She must have fallen perpendicularly frow “*- . forty to sixty feet, then striking the slope ol Raraer Fast.—Artemas Ward, in speak-| the hill beneath, rolled and tambled heavily ing of his return from the wars, tells as the | 4Own a distance of several hundred feet, to : the bottom of the hill, near she river side. following story : 3 ’ . . Some workmen pear by picked the poor lt must relate a little incident which bap- | creature up, and tenderly cared for her. prent ty your humble sarvint on his return | She was terribly bruised and torn, and it is yome fyom the wars. | was walkin’ along! said that her forehead was pierced by a pro- the street, lookia’ se gallant and gay, in me | jecting rock. At fast accounts, the little brass cote and bloo butions and other mili-| sufferer was alive, but so great are her in- tary | @ pews, when a excited femail pusht Out} juries that it is feared she cannot recover.— ov a house, throwd ber pump handles aroun’ | Missouri Courter. me neck—which part | didn t mind much, | as they were very fair, round ones —and ex- claimed, of another fine bark, called the Annie and ** Doo [ behold thee once again?" | Ellie, from the Ship Yard of W. Muirheed ** Youdo—and | think you are holdin’ me | Esquire, at Chatham, and states that there too fastly,”’ sez 1, try to release the ex- are two other vessels, of large size, now on centric temail's arms, ithe stocks in the same yard. According to | ** Oh, have you eam hack—have you cum | the Gleaner, Mr. M. employs from a 180 to) back '"* she wildly cried, bangin’ tighter to | 201) men, and his weekly cash payments are me ack, about £200. Mr. Muirhead’s case is an- “Certainly Ive com back, or else 1) other example of what may be done by woulda’t be bere. But 1 con't shink || steady, persevering industry. We remember know you muchly.”’ him well as a lad in very humble cireuw- ** Not know me—your own Claretta Ro- stances, with but few advantages compared setta Beiletta—she who has not sot eyes on- | po many uround him; the right material to you for morn two years. Yes,” she con | was there, however, and we are mach pleased tinned, placin’ her hands onto me shoulders, | ty find it so nobly brought out.— Halifax Sun. and lookin’ up into me face like a dyin’ (The gentleman above referred to is a brother huee fy —** yee, | eve my own Alired’s eyes, of our much esteemed friend, James Muirhead,

his nose, his ears, bis— -

** Madam, sez I, excoos me, but allow me/| ©84., of Summerside, an enterprising merchant, to correct you. Et | am not mistaken, these} and for several years a member of vu House oI earses and eyses and nuses belong to myself, Assembly —Ev Ex. ]

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individvoally, aa’ your Alired never owned z Murper. — We have little envy for the

them scarcely -"

* Away with this farce."’ sex she. * You! man who could read, without a tear, the cant't deeeve your own Claretta. Cum into | melancholy tragedy of love and death re- the house and see your little sun, Lincoln cently enacted in Charleston. The daughter Burnside McClellan Blazer.” of ex-Guov Pickens, wi» had long devoted

Lc was evident that the temail was mistak-| herself to the alleviation of the miseries made } ed—that it was nut me but anyther une she by this cursed war, and leaving ease and wanted. luxury to those who could enjoy them, passed

** How old is he ?”’ sex I. her days and nights in ministering to the

sick and wounded in the hospitals, yielded

rades, why expected to help him to oat

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= > -- The Miramichi Gleaner notices the launch

** Which!"* sez she. ** Them little sou, Lincoln Burnside MeLel-| at length to that fond weakness which ie Jan and sutth.”’ woman's chiefest strengh, and was affianced ** He's just six months old—the little dar- | ¢., an officer of Huguenot deseent, whose sie bead ° , bed she bad tended. They were at the al- ** Well, Madam,” sez I, ** ef little Lineotr tur, and the surpliced priest had just begun M Clellan Burnside and sodth is only six | the sucred formula, which was to make them months old, and you haven't sot eyes onto! one forever, when # bombshell! from our feet your Alfred for mor'n two years, | think burst through the roof, wounded many of the there's & mistake sumewhar, and that Ip, | company, and laid the tair bride a bleeding, not Alired but another man altogether.” dying corse heride ths feet of her betrothed

jhad been the greatest slave.

The woman shot int» the House lke 2: 40 an’ this was the last [ see of my own Claret- ta Belletta, but | pity Alfred.

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To rae Davewrexs or tue Unxrrep Srares. —The following from the Poughkeepsian is from the pen of Josh Billings, who, to use ome of his own expressions, is * limber’’ at giving advice ; but we must say his injunc- tion to the girls not to be afraid to marry, is quite superfluous. We never yet saw one that was much afraid—not mach :—

Dere Gieis—Keep kool. A blessed futer awaits you, enny how. Tuke lessons in the peer at ons ; plannas ure geting skaurse

1 awl means larn to play the new seng that haa jist cum out, * Wien Joba Biown is over, we ate Pauther Abraham cummin with this kruel war several strong.”’ This stanza tuk the fust premium at the stait fare Don't be afrade tew get married, yure ma wan't afrade. Larn how to knit puddin bags tew put yure hare in. Be vartuous and pretty. Eat slait pencils; they will maik you spry atfiggers Eat kalone water that will mark @ good smel. Let yure petty koats drag on the sidewa/ ks, and if enny man steps on them and tears off the rims, slap his chope at onst. If you have got smal feet keep ‘em hid—esmal feet has gone out of fa- shion. Studdy travels; Tom Moore’s and Byron's and Gulliver's, ard wandering Jew's und Vallundigham’s is awl fast rate. Lt you can spare the time be lovely and sweet. Re- member one thing, thar ain't nothing in this life worth livin tor bat « rieh husband ; if you hay gut red hare you had better ex- change it for black; black hare, they tell ne, 18 going to be worn muelily next year Don't hav enny thing tew du with the boys. unless they mean bizness. If you don't no how jo skate, you mite as well jine sum tra- veling menageric at ons, tur yure playea out.

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Suakesreare’s Witt —Messrs Day and | Sons (London) announce that they are about | to publish ** the most interesting wiil in the world—Shakespeare’s will.”’ This precious dvcument, on three sheets of brief paper, has by the direetion of the Judge of the Court ot Probate, beea very carefully cleaned, and each sheet placed in an claborately-polished oak frame, between sheets of plate glass.— The frames are made air-tight, and on the top of each i# a brass-plate, engraved “Shak speare’s Will, 25th March, 1616 ;"' and each one Ww fastened with one of Chubb’s patent locks. This exeeilent plan prevents its bein, handled when shown to the pub :e, and will very much add to its preservation. The three frames fit into @ beaat.ful oaken box, aud the memorial ie now well worth eceing by those who take an interest in the Tercentenary. The Judge has also sanction- ed the taking of photographs, but in the presence of one of the record keepers of the Court. This permission was reiased by the fate Sir Cresswell Cresswell.

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Carvinat Wiseaan on Suaxspeare —In connection with the movement to celebrate the three hundredth anniversary of England's dost illustrious worthy-—Gentie Will Shak- speare—** Dear son of memory, great he.« o! fame,"’ we are glad to be abe to announce that [lis Eminenee Cardinal Wiseman has undertaken to deliver a dieevurse in bis honor during the munath of June, in St. James's Hall. This will be an event in the circles of intelleet, aad under the dome where the first of Britain’s re-established hicrarche speaks the eulogy of the Elizabethan bard, we ex-

pect to see then gath: red the wisest and spvst brilliant ot the men who embe!lish the ] - ature of the day. The argument isa grand one, aod if there be ao orator living capable

ol ciging to the height of its majescry it is he who bas taken upon hirmsell the loving tusk.

Among all the devices to muke memorable

the tri-centenary of the Swan of Avon, this is the most meaning—the greatest tribate which has yet been paid to the upiversality

of that genius whieh iw the property not of

a country but of mankind, and the pride not of w day but of all time —Lendon Universe Ae. -

Sivectak Wak Lyewenr —Amidst all the horrors of war, many incidents oceur, amus- ing io themselves, and which sumetimes, wader the must try.ny cireumstances, are prosucative of mirth, nod jorm subjecta tox eump stories monthe after. I have seen soldiers chase hares and pick black-berries when a shower of leaden me engers of death were falling thiek and fast » ound them, and

muny other evol and foolish things But the lollowing, whieh actually took place at Mine Run, surpasses ‘ything I rewember te have ever seon or heard: On one of those evid, biting mornings, while the armies of Meade and Lee wer staring ut cach otaer seross the little rivulet knuwn as Mine Run when moments appeared to be hours and hours days, so near at hand seemed the hour of deadly strite, a. olitary shoop leisure. ly walked along the ron on the Southern pide. A Contederate vidette fred and killed the sheep, and dropping bis gun, advaneed © remove the prige. Ji ap ‘nstant he was fuvered by a gun in th. bands of a Union Vidette, who suid, + Divide is the word, or you are a dead Julnny.”’ The pr it Whe nemented to be penn p to. and there, between the two

‘Tuwhieg lines, Mr. Covtederate skinned

: e sleep, fovk one-lall and moved back wit st to his Peet, when his challenger 1 te : dropping bis gun. erowcd the ton, not tt?: other half of tie ahoep, and again eee She duties uf Lis post, wud the ebeers of hig

What pen can pai it the agonies ul father, mo- ther and bridegroom at that fearful moux nt? She had yet two hours to live; and the sad ceremony was concluded while the life-blood | welled from ber trae heart and stained ber bridal robe. She tried to smile upon ber nus- | band as she yas. cd uerins vers in the service, | promising to be a true wile ** till beara us do }part;"’ and breathed her last amid the sobs aod wailings that could seareely drown the curses low but deep, that showered upon her murderers.

The death of that sweet girl was murder Why are those guns fired on Charleston? Not to weaken its defences. Not with any erdinary purposes of war Not io a fair fight with armed men. Not to aid the siege or lessen the imprububility of its success. Why then? Yo murder innocent noncomba- tants like this fair victim to a thirst for blood. What wonder is there that her broken heart- ed busband should have sworn to die in bat- tle with txe Yankees? Thousands of rebel hands wil! cluteh the sword with # yet fiercer grip when they shall hear this woful tale ; aod once again what wonder? If we must fight, and wound and slay, in God's name Jet us Sight with mea, not women and ehild- reo. Letit be in the fierce heat of battle, not to glut « devilish as weil#s useless thirst tor blood. Meanwhile, that gurl’s death was uusper.— New York Daily News, Mag 20.

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A man named George Nixon, aged 60, who had been engaged in sketching, was tound dead near Dorchester, N. B. He belonged to Nova Seotia.

Ce Oe A man named Isasc Phrew was killed at the Pictou M.nes vn Munday, by the faliing of @ piece of rock

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A wan named MePuail, who keeps a rum shanty near Pictou, brutally murdered his wile a few days since, when under the influence of liquor.—Z/s/.

oe — ee aeons A workman in Paris has succeeded in meking barrels without hoops, as solid as the best hooped barrels in the world. The discovery, which has been » desideratum for some three thousand years, is undergoing ex- amination before the Academy of La Rochelle oo The latest fashion in Washington of ask- ing 4 party what they will take to drink is, ** Please nowmate your poison, gentlemen.’’ —27eo ”

The expenses of the Northern States are thirty-five dollurs a second.

——..—Po We are pleased to hear that the difficulty with the Sydovy Miners has been adjusted. - oe —-

Tae Srroncest Bank 1n THE Wortv.—The Bank of Genoa, which bas been in existence hundreds of years, has, perhaps, proved it. self the strongest institution of the kind in the worid. Lt is a rowarkable fact in ite history, ‘hat ite administration has always been as permanent aad unchangeable as that of the republic has been agitated and fuctu- ating. No alteration ever took place in the mode of goveraing and regulating the affairs of the bank ; and two suvereign and indepen- dent powers at war with each other, have been within the walls vf the city, without producing the slightest shuck to the bank, or causing it to secrete any of its books or treasures.— Appleton s Cyclepedia of Com-

mercial Anecdotes. >

Monon View or tux American War.~-- Brigham Young, conversing with an Amer.- eau traveller the other day about the * Cop- perbeads,’’ whe are leaving the States for Ucah and elsewhere eaid:—*+ Many of them stayed with us. Thus the Lod makes the wreth of men to praise Him. The Abolition. ists—the same people who interfered with our institutions and drove us out into the wildcvraess—iaterfered with the Southera Lp- stitutions antil they broke up the Union — But it is all coming vut right—a great deal better than we could have arranged it for vurselves. The mea who fee from Abolition- ist Oppressiuon come out here to our ark oi! refuge, and peeple the asylum of Gud’s chosen. Fightmyg only makes matters worse. When your country has beeome desolaciun, we, the saints whom you east out, will for- get all Jour sins aguinst us and give you « home.’

Being asked how the’ orthodox pumber of wives was tu be vbtaimed for these new con- verts, Kider tleber Kimball replied : — * Why,”’ said the old man twinkling his lit- tle black eyes like a godly Silenus, and nurs ing ove of his fut less with a liquorish smile, **yen't the Lord Almighty providen’ for His beloved heritage jist as fast as he anyways kin? This war's agoin’ on till the biggest part o° you male Gentiles hez killed each uther off, then the leetle handful that's left and comes a-Geein't our asylum ‘Il bring all the women 0’ the nation along with ‘em, so we shall hey women eusugh to give away every one ©’ ‘em all they want, and hev a large balance left over to distribute among God's caimts that hez been bere from the be ginnin’ o’ the tribulation.”’ The sweet taste which this diaboheal redection seemed to leave in Heber Kimball's mouth, made me long to knock him down worse than I had ever felt regarding saint or sinner. But it is costly to smite an apostle of the Lord in Salt Lake City ; and I mereiy retaliated by telling him I wished I could’ bear him say that in a lecture room full of Sanitary Cou- mission ladies scraping liut fur their hus- bunds, sweethearts and brothers in the Union army. I didn't know whether saints made geod lint, but I thoughe I knew ove who'd

svurces are comparatively dried up, we have

Tas Horriacea Trearwent or Stavae.—A correspondent at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in a late letter, gives some sad facts concern- ing tho furmer treatment of slaves. He says: —** In a company of 250 blacks in this city, thre are not seven able-bodied men. | nev:r saw so many cri; ples in my life as among the negroes here. We often meet thei with one arm, one leg or a shoulder broken, or a hip out of joint, or an eye out. Chese are «oO amon badges of the slave. It isawfal. One woman, who was formerly a slaveholder, told me that she bad been culled mistress by twenty slaves, but she herself She said :— ** You of the North know nething about it. I have often begged my husband to lighten the tasks of bis slaves, and not to visit them with tortures. But be would answer that my Yankee whim were the ruin of his ne- groes, When I married him Lt thought him an idol, but he turned out a libertine, as are most wen of Louisiana. One slave woman had five children, half brothers and sisters o! my children, and to torment me he often compelled my sons to call his malatto chil- dren brothers and sisters, At length he brought their mother into my part of the house, calling her his sweetheart, and thus adding insult to injury. I often wished I could die, 1 have often seen Mr. C. assist in irun- ing & poor man whose back had just received # thousand lashes, and was a perfeet jelly— had been washed in strong brine, then burn- ed his quivering flesh by whipping his back over with a whip of corn husks in a tull blaze. The next morning while being driven vut to work he was given a blow to make him keep up with the rest, and he fell tw risenomore His master’s name was Samuc] ei Lay. Une slave who attempted to run away was whipped, ironed, and the bottums of his feet gashed, so that the blood followed his steps for a week, when another whipping ended his days. a

EE ~ Tuesday last being her Majesty's Birth-day, the public offices were closed, aud a royal salute was tired by Capt. Morris, Volunteer Artillery and Bifle Company, from St. George's Battery. The public buildings, the residences of many of cur citizens, and the shipping in the harbour were gaily decorated with buuting in honor of the oe- casion, At 2 p. m. there was a Levee at Govern- ment House, which was pretty well attended, and in the evenmyg a number of gentlemen dined with ‘de Excell ney the Lieut. Governor at Govern- ment House.— Mon. «a

The Madras Times gives some curious in. formation respecting the notorivus fraudulent banker, Sir Juhn Dean Paul. Immediately atter he was sentenced to penal servitude, Lady Paul realized all the property settled upon her and proceeded without delay to Sycney, where sie ee & beautiful seat in the suburbs. Her husband baving ar- rived at & penal settlement in another part of Australia ss ome of a gang of convicts, the wife of the convict baronet applied to the Government for his services, and was per- mitted to employ him as her ** assigned ser- vant’ We need scarcely add that, having thus released him from this unpleasant res- treint, she placed all the newly purchased property in his hands, and has since led a very quiet life in bis company.

mb chistes eid A correspondence of the Chicago’ Times says that one of the ordinary fine wire gauz- masks, suel as are frequently worn at mas- querades, put over the lace, is a sure protee- tion against the cold. The writer says he tested one, in a ride of three wiles against the wind, with the thermumetor sixteen de- grees below zero, and therefore he knows whereof he affirms.

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THE ROAD TO RUIN. (From the New Y rk News.)

In the midst of the flushed and riotous pro- digality around us, there is an ominous

something in the very air perpetually prompt-

ing every man of sense to ask himseli— What does it mean? Where and when is it to end? The commonest necessaries of life

are advancing further and further, day by day, beyond the reach of ordinary means

Iu every department of industry, labor is clamoring for increase of compensation, which is hardly granted before increasing prices create a necessity for new demands Tae relations of employers and eaployed are thas perpetually unsettled, and antagonisms are rapidly and surely springing up, from their uncertainty and complication. What such antagonisms way result in we may learo trom the darkest annals of sucial eon- tusion. The spirit of gambling meanwhile has passed from William street and Cal Hole into every channel of trade. Legit. mate busiuess can scarcely be said to exist anywhere, and the prudent and regulated spirit which such business demands assuredly exists nowhere. Buying and selling, im por- tativoa and exportation, every piovision for the future must depend upon Guctuations of value, which renders all transactions as un- certain as if regulated by the turn of a card. A single unlucky shuffle of the pack which 8 being perpetually shuffled, may convert the millionaire of to-day into the pauper that he was six momshs ag», and the yachts and the villas, the dinners and suppers and fowers at Delmonico’s, the horse pulaces with the equipages and the studs within them may , by the same shuffle, to the Aladdins ef to-worrow, the paupers of to- day. Nor isit merely the hasty wealth of the gambler and the speculator which trem- bles in the scales. All the accumulations of honest und patient industry, the pittance of the helpless thousands who ‘orm what may be ealled the retired list of society, the little savings of the thrifty poor, all are subject to the sume contingencies and the same catas- trophies.

et, while every \aan's house rests upon a somes searce any man appears to heed the peri! which is underneath him. Society rushes on as if there was no to-morrow. The wildness of speculation grows madder every hour. Luxury and waste go reeling in **bacehanal profusion.’’ Purple and fine linen, diamonds and p'ate, feasts and de- bauchery, are the staple of thought and life. The ingenuity of extravagance is racked for new devices of splendor and display, which could only be justified if wealth were endless and boundless. And yet po one but an idiot can think, and no one but an imposter wiil pretend that we are as rich as when the war began—much leew, that we have grown or are growing richer. We have lost the enor- mous production of the Southern States, the chief and once exhaustiess fountain of our wealth aod prosperity. We bave lost the commerce which that production required

manulactures which the producers afforded us. We have annihilated, for the time, the agricultural riches of the Border States, by overturning the whole system of labour on which it depended. We have grievously di- minished the productive eapacity of the Northern and Western States by withdraw- ing nearly all their young and vigorous manhood trom the plow to the shambles. We have squandered and are squandering un- told millions apon army and navy contracts, and have given over hundreds of millions more te destructivn in military exigencies The expenditures of & month are now nearly twice the whole revenue of 4 year in normal times. We are taxed besides for S:ate and Federal ere to an amount which would have created a revo.ution ia the palwy days of our unive and prosperity. Whence comes the wealth, then, for our spendthrift satur- nulia? Iv it real? When we were in the full wr pase of our unimpaired resources, we could not build a railway or a canal with- out borrowing capital abroad. We had not money envugh for the business of the country, and hence we became borrowers {ur every a outside of it. Now that our burdens ave increased a thousand fold, and our re; what is called money so abundant as to over- run the most licentious éaprices of pru-

digality. Can meu of the commonest intel-

ligence look upon sueh a scene without trembling fur the convulsions it forebodes ?

Can they fail to see that their wealth ie a phantom and not a reality, and that whatso- ever is substantial in the abundance of money around them, is but the result of that productive and legitimate business is at ao end, employed, so happily, in fostering and porting industry yum bled with is sv blind as

the fact and thut the capital which it once su} and labor, is now idly tu : and wasted? What blindness Dut to perceive that our feet

9* sexaped u litle.

wust be upon cia) pit-iall,

the crumbling edges of a finan- when the Secretary of thy

and supported, as well as the market for our,

Treasury of the United States 1 among = coniessedly to join in the hiner 9 the gold market, with all the coin of the) Government, and ean so affect that market by his game as to bring down the standard of all valves ten per cent. in & morning.

We are afraid chat it is too late to ery be- ware! The song of the siren is in the ears of men, and they will net heed the destruction to which they are hastening. — rhe crash may come on us at umy bour, We are inviting it, hastening it, deserving it—doing every thing but preparing for wt. That it must come, all the parellels and warnings of his- tory teach us, unless Providence bas endowed | Mr. Chase and ourselves, with a miraculous | faculty of blowing bubbles which cannot) burst. Alas! that the road to ruin should be so plain, and that a whole pray should still walk in it as recklessly as if no other people had travelled if belure in recklessness to dvom.

Che Examiner.

Charlottetown, May 30, 1864.

LATEST NEWS FROM EUROPE.

Tue R. M. Steamship Asia arrived at Halifax on the night of the 24th instant, (Tuesday,) with dates to the 14th inst. The Mail for this Island arrived bere on Friday morning, ria Pictou. The following extracts give pretty full details of the news.

GREAT BRITAIN.

The Channel fleet sailed from the Downs on the 12th to the westward, being probably bound ww Portsmouth. The conclusion of an armistice in Deumark renders it unnecessary for the fleet to procved to the Baltié, tor the present at least.

It is mentioned as a sign of the times that Go- vernment officials have been at Southampton in- specting sume of the mail packets there, ty ascer- iain their fitness for war transporte.

The appearance of the crops had been greatly improved by abundant rains. The hay crop will be early and good, and the grain crops promise very well, The farmers never bad a finer season tor getting in their spring crops and placing their land in the best possible condition.

A Garibaldi meeting on Primrose-hill, London, was held on Saturday evening, 7th. were passed denouncing the interference of the police with the first meeting; declaring that the hurried departure of the General from England was brought about by undue pressure for political purposes; aud deprecating the couduct of Mr. Gladstone and others in exacting from Garibaldi a promise to leave this country without visiting the provinces. A Mr. Sheen, who moved one of the resolutions, profeseed to give an authentic account of the motives which were wade by those in authority to drive the General from England. He asserted that Mr. Gladstoue had distinetls said to the distinguished visitor, “ The Govern- ment is certamly desirous you should leave.”

Queen Victoria had a state reception of Cabinet ministers, officers of state, &c., at Buckingham Palace, 11th instant, and in the evening, by Queen's command, a state concert was given, the Queen being represented by the Prince and Princess of Wales. It is worthy of remark tbat in the list of persons especially mvited to attend the Queen's Court, not a member of the Sutherland family is tu be found.

In the House of Commons, on the 11th, Mr. Baines moved the second reading of the bill for extending the frauchise in boroughs to £6 house. holders. Mr. Cave moved the previous question, explaining that he objected to the bill because he thought it might lead, uot te a moderate reform, but lo a dangerous refolution. Mr. Gladstou« made a most important speech, going so far aa even to advocate manhood suffrage. Alter a de- bate, in which Messrs. Whiteside, Newdegate, and several other wembers took part, the house divided, and the bill waa rejected by 272 voles against 216. The Liberal journals are jubilant over Gladstone's position, and regard this Go- verninent defeat as the pormmencement of a great reform victory.

The Globe says that Mr. Gladstone's opinions are not shared in by the Ministry.

Mr. T. Baring called attention to the fact that

the Georgia was again in British waters, and asked whether the permission given ber to remain ma British port was consistent with our profes- sions of neutrality. He complained of the inetfi- ciency ot the Foreign Enlistment Act, and urged the necessity of amending it. The Attorney General defended the eduduct of the Government, and stated it was not their intention at present to propose any change in the law. He reminded the House that the Federals were not entirely blameless, and referred to their enlistments in Ireland. Mr. Cobden warned the Government that the policy whica it was now pursuing would recoil on them at some future day, and that, in the event of our becoming invelved in war, the Americans would retaliate. Lord R. Cecil thought that the Confederates bad a right to complain that immense supplies of rifles and muskets had been supplied to the Federals, and that the house of Baring & Co. was instrumental in bringing this all to them. The discussion ended withuut any definite resolution being proposed. In the House of Lords, on ‘Thursday, the Earl of Elleuborough complained of the practice of Federal agents entrapping British subjects in New York and other places for service in the Federal army. Earl Russell said that Lord Lyons had addressed repeated remoustrances to the Federal Government, but hitherto no satisfac tory reply had been received.

The Pope is said to entertain the intention of appointing a Roman Cathohe Archbishop of Edinburgh.

Resolutions

THE DANISH WAR.

Information was on Monday received from Heligolaud of a naval engagement between five Austrian and three Danish war vessels, in which the brave Danes were victorious, having destroy- ed one of the enetny’s vessels and compelled the others to take refuge in British waters off the is- land of Heligoland. The announcement of this information in the House of Commons was re- ceived with loud cheers from all parts of the House, in which the strangers in the gallery united.

The disparity between the German and Danish

fleets engaged in the naval fight off Heligoland was greater than waa at first supposed, On the side of the Germans there were two Austrian and three Prussians vessels, with a total of 121 guns; the Danes had but three vessels, with an aggre- xate of 74 yung: yet they gained a victory which bas been bailed with delight throughout this kingdom. The whole disposable force of the Danish army does not now exceed 24,000 men, whilst the Austro-Prussian bedy in Denmark consists of were than 81,000 troops, As the circumstances of the late naval engage- ment become known, the higher is the opinion formed of the naval skill and bravery of the Danes. Iu the management of their vessels they must have displayed evusiderable tact to inflict upon their opponents such serious mixchief, the number of Germsns killed aud wounded being 170, whilst only one Dane was killed and 53 wounded. Notwithstanding the defeat, the com- wander ofthe Austrian squadron bas been ap. pointed Viee-Admiral by the Emperor, in recog- aition of his brave exploits off Heligoland.

ENGLAND AND GERMANY.

most important features of the Danish war is the estrange went it has brought about between Eng- land and Germany, whilst the German feeling towards France has daily become of a wore friendly character. The writer also adverts tu the impossibility of anything like an amicable continuance of the union of Denmark and Ger-

ject. That petitioners do pot accept the sxid

A letter from Frankiort says that one of the jects.

have been framed. Other resvlutions, we learn from the repavt, were adopted. If they have any bearing upon the Laud Question iu its puble as-

many to the Duechies, and pointe out the impor- tance of seperating elements sv important and conflicting.

Some of the German newapapers are indignant at the course taken by England in reference to the Austrian fleet, and attribute her policy to jealousy of her dowinien over the seas. Should the armistice not be effected, or fail in procuring peace, the writers of these articles urge Austria to send ber ships inte the Baltic, even if tor their partial destruction, that thereby “ the long-s:ueul- dering displeasure of the whole of Germany at Knygland’s hostile injustice way be kindled inte a blaze of flame.”

RUSSIA AND THE CIRCASSIANS.

The result of Russian barbarity is not confined to Poland. The cowpulsory exodus of the brave Circassians, driven from their country by the tyranny of their Muscovite oppressors, bas been marked by atrocities of the most harrowing and revolting character. Instead of reeviving some 50,000 ur 60,000 persons, as the Turkish Govern- ment imagined, when it agreed to this scheme oi immigration, the whele Cireassian population, in number vearly 300,000, is hovermyg ou the banks of the Black Sea to cross to Trebizend. Sick- ness, starvation, and every other kind of misery are experieneed by them; and, notwillsianding all that the Turkish commission can do, the peo; le are perishing almest by thousands. To provide for their permanent establishment, the ‘Turkish finances will be taxed to the amount of a million sterling ; and, in addition, a private subscription, headed with £50,000 given from the privy purse of the Sultau, has beeu opened tor their immie- diate relief.

AFRICA.

By the mail from the West Coast of Africa, news has been received of the defeat of the blood- thirsty King of Dahomey. dn an attack upon Abbeokuta, with a large foree, the King was re- pulsed with immense losses in killed and wound- ed. Upwards of 1000 of his nen were made pri- auners.

THE EASTERN QUESTION.

Alarming news continues to be received frem the East, symptomatic of the revival of the Eastern question, “ Moniteur ” states that the Russian army on the frontier of Bessarabia amounts to 100,000, and that Genera! Rotzbue has arrived out to inspect it.

TUNIS.

The Freneh, English, and Italian squadrons have arrived at Tunis, and bave detached ship» The insurrection is thought

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to guard the coast. tu be subsiding, and some of the tribes, satisfied with the concessions they have obtained, are giv- ing in their submission.

ALGERTA,

France has been called upon to quell an unex- pected insurrection in Algeria, not dissimilar in many respects to our own Sepoy rebellion in In- dia. One of the principal Arab chiefs in’ the Province of Oran withdrew lately to the desert, but returned shortly after at the head of a large following. This created some apprehensions among the French authorities, and they desa- patched a comparatively small force to the pout where danger was feared,asa reinforecment of the garrison, On their way they halted tur rest, and in the dead of the uight were beset by the foe, whe were joined by most of the irregular cavalry who turned traitors aud joined the insurgents.— The French fought bravely, but were overpewer- ed by numbers, aided by the deserters. and were terribly cut up.

Their commander had been ill in bed when sur- prised,—but he immediately rushed out of his tent, and seizing the tirst horse he met, mounted without bridle or saddle and in his shirt, thinking At thi- mowent he was fired npon and seriously wounded in the shoulder by the leader of the insurrection. Ai the date of the iatest accounts the insurrection was crushed out. Like the Sepoy rebellion, ii Was suggested by a prophecy that this year th: Arabs were to regaiu their independence, and the

te take his place at the head of his men.

whom, howerer, he shot dead on the spot

French were to be terever expelled trom Atrica.

sik tinct cigilallialnitigemininin TENANT DELEGATION MEBTING.

A iengthy report of the Tenaut Delegation Meeting, which was lately held at the North American Hotel, appeared in Ross's Weekly, oi Thursday last. Several columns of close print are occupied by an address from Mr. G. I’. Adams, who seems te be the most prominent leader in the Movement, and whose statemvuts appear to be accepted as a declaration of the views of the whole body of Delegates. We have not time at present to comment on these views, which are, we think, in seme points, very extraerdiuary and indefensible; but it is nut unlikely that au early opportunity will be affurded us to offer some eb- servations on the whole subject. In the mean- time, we inake roum for the following draught of a Petition to the Queen against the Fifteen Years’ Purchase Bill, which the Delegation

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hope, will have the desired effect, be more legitimate and constitutional than to petition against any legislative enactment: which may be deemed injyrious.to the public interests ; and it is most certain that the Fifteen Years’ Purchase Bull will not promote them :—

To THE QUEEN’s Most EXCELLENT AND Gra- ClOUS MAJEs'ry ;

Charlottetown as Delegates chosen at various public meetings throughout the said Island, to consult on the present state of the Tenantry, and the measures lately passed through the Legisla- ture affecting their interests and through them the interests of the Island generally.

That in the Just session of the General Agsem-|} , bly of this Island an Act was intreduced by the | 5 Government, and passed, professing to be an Act