all” Ril 6 ic ‘

ew a see lp tate

: principal provisions in the Award, namely, oe. reference le lewal arbitrations, is open to La ble objections,” which be no to a - tions,” ata future

soe by some “fresh suggestions,

a iay—thes waniteatiig hia desire tuat | jeguiation oo the whole salyeet of the Award tponed ;

Oe eames the recommend atien for a loan af £100,000, #0 varneatly urged by the Royal ‘gaemamieade es, Hi order to buy out the clauns oi iz »prietora, if Lot tavoravly eutertaiued by = Oeil Minister; aud the other principles ~e Award being such a8 are ouly caiculated to firm proprietary claims, Without conferring | = benebis on the tenantry: ee “ Cherefore, Resolved, ‘That, in the opinien of this Commitivce, no advantage would aceree trom | ing a Bill te confirm the Award of the Royal) until at least such time as the Colo-|

Cemniiassicd, istet & eg taeetal Geverameut ov the several ques-| ons submitted to them iu the said Award, and when his Grace the Duke of New castle suali kay e| furnished the “fresh suggestions promised by | This amendment was lost on the same division | as the foregoing. Col. Gray's resolution was then | lw anes the Speaker toek the Chair the question | was again pat on the amendmeuts, when ‘taey were ‘ust on the same divisivu as iu Comittee, the name ot the Chairman, Mr. Suthertand, being inserted in place of the Speaker's. \ question was put on Col. Gray's resolation it was | carried YS to 6, as given in the above division, |

substituting the yeas tor the nays. |

The ‘ Islander’ gives a somewhat lengthy edi- | : , re ; torial in its last ineue touching the debate on the | der’ last semimer—that the people of this Celoay

Award; and while it parades, in the most con-|

spicuous manner, Col. Gray's resolution and the division thereon, it very disingenuously conceals the fact that amendments were offered by Mr. Coles and Mr. Whelan. Those amendments are the ones inserted above. There was, no doubt, a particular anxiety to suppress the amendment of- fered by Mr. Coles. It did net go as far as Mr. Whelan's. It did not propose that the Award should be abandoned; but it was merely desigued to test the sincerity of the Howse vn the principle of the Loan, which had been so strongly recow- mended by the Royal Commissioners—filled so im- portant a place in their Award, and which seemed te meet with so much approbation from many ot those who voted against it, long before the debate commenced. The continual ery of the advucates of the measure was: “ Let us have the Award— ‘the whole Award—and nothing but the Award ;" god after such flagrant inconsistency as was ex- bibited on Tuesday evening, it was not considered prudent to give too much publicity to Mr. Coles’s

plaia and brief test on the Loan question. |

Another cry most frequently beard from the mewbers of the Government and their friends, was finely illustrated in the division on Tuesday evening. “ Tosbew," said they, “ that the Award ia all in favour of the Tenants and against the Pro- prietors, we need only instance the fact that the | istter are doing all ia their power to defeat it” | This bas been the burthen of the ‘ Islandet’s’ cry | for several months, and was frequently beard from | the Tory side of the House during the debate ou | the Goverver’s Speech. But the fallacy of this, argument was clearly shown when every propri-| ewr and agent in the House voted fiercely ior the Award on Tuesday evening. There are five or} six proprietors and agents in the House—not oue |

of them was absent from (ue division — even Mr.

Douse, with all his pretended opposition to, and | eontemptuous disregard fur, the Award, could not) resist the temptation of dving a little service to himaelf and his brother proprietors by voting far) the measure. Tais fact requires no further com | meut; but it will furnish a good answer to the! silly argument about proprietary influence being |

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arrayed against the Award.

We were pot surprised to read the praise la- | ished by the ‘Islander’ on six members of the | Liberal minority who roted with the Government | on this question. It is only due to those gentle-| men to let their friends se how bighiy their cone.

| duct isappreciated. The sweet incense of flattery | is administered in the following short paragraph | from the * islander’ :—

“ It is certainly gratifying to the members of the Government to have the warm support of Messrs. Hensley, Thornton, Sinclair, Wightman, Perry, | aod Sutherland, “ of theupposition,” in the course | which they are adopting wm reference to the! Award.”

It is not our province to find fault with those | gentlemen. Being friends of ours, perbaps we should bope their constituencies will join with the Government in expressing gratification at the | course they havepursued. But we certainly bave veen under the impression that their constituencies expected them to oppose the policy of a Propri- | etary Government.

The other business transacted in the House during the week, is noticed as follows by the! “ Protestant :"—

“Ou Wednesday morning the House took up the | Bill sent down by the Legislative Council, to es-| tablish a Savings Bank io this Island. The Bill contemplated that the money paid in, which might be in sums from Is to £50, was to go into the pub- lie Treasury, and that the Government was to al- low 4 per cet interest thersuo. The business was to be transacted by the Deputy Treasurer, who was to reevive £20 for said service, until the amount deposited reached the sam of £1000, when 2 per cent was to be allowed him. The House went into Committee on the Bill, and atter some discussion, rose without reporting, thus strangling the measure. The principal argument urged againet it was that it would impose tuo great a burden on the Treasury department: in fact that it would probably take up the whole time of the Deputy in that office, wich could not be spared | frou bis other duties. There was taen ue alter- oative left, bat to establish a eparate offive, or to | make the Bank a separate institution altogether, | Which would require the til te be entirely remo- | delled, therefore it was set aside. Ocher ubdjce- tions were made tothe provisions of the Bill, such as that le was toe small, and £50 too large a sum to be received. Another was that the rate of in-| terest was too high, as it could not be made self- sustaining.

“ Several petitions were then presented praying for certain alterations and amendments in the @anall Debt Act, and the House resolved itself in- tw a Committee of the whole to consider the same. When the Committee rose the tullowing resolu- tions were feported agreed to :—

“1. Resolved, That those portions of the Act now in force relating to the recovery of Small Debts, whieh prohibited imprisunment tor debt for sums under £10, be : and that the benefit of the isions of present Insylvent Act be ex-

to all sums under £ 20.

“2. Resoleed, That the debtor shall in no case be entitled to relief wader said Lusolvent Act, if it ean be showu that he has since contracting the debt for which be may be imprisoned, have made away with any property in order to deteat the de-

i ereditor’s claim.

“3. Resolced, further, That no defendant im- prsoned under capias or execution issued under the Small Debt Act aforesaid, shall, under any Circumstances be fed or supplied in prison at tue

of the Goverament.

_ “When the question was put on the first reso- lution, there appeared for it :—Hons. Messrs. Pope, Longworth, Haviland, Coles, Waelan, Wightman, Yeo, Pooraten, MeAuiay, Hensley; Messrs. Douse, tgomery, Beer, Howat, Holm, Ramsay, Doyle,

tr, Courey, MeNeiil, Sutherland — 2). — it—Hons. Messrs. Laird, Kelly and Perry

“When the question was put on the other two Were agreed to without a division. “On Thursday the time of the House was prinei- Pally occupied in dixposing of the ea lying on the . Hon. Mr. Longworth introduced a Bill to cousolidate and amend the laws relating a Labor. The ameudments proposed are ae Wopertant; one provides that forms of peer oo be supplied to the overseers, and an of Re aa ration in the form of vath required “On Frida rs, making it less stringent. ; ¥, the House again went inte the

tiow of petitions. thes | was preveuted f A greater number

rom going into supply.” Oa Saturday the House was adjourned for waut of a quorum. i

Tue Roaps.—From all parts of the Island learn the rowis are in @ fearful slate, sel of esap/ pitches, the suow soft, and the trucks tip hb fields | fel beary ao ey wang nee “ace wy onaie ’ ¥ partadanyerous. (n the foot of slush and

ton to twenty-tivefeetin @ cht aad at one Louse to tie weet-ward, the iekoten wert

compelled to burn candles {: closing up all ibe whelows, darwin! naa ene bank, from the ground to the

of the chimmey, a

of twenty-five feet, ing the boys au ex-

coasting ground.—[yr,

cnlent

| Tespectful to Mr. J.C. Pope, and took care also

THE sry.

DURING the debator on the Award the Govern- ment, ae a whole, have this Seaton frequently de- vied that they had any knowledgs of the Spy being im this Laland on hie disreputable mission—and that the Lieut. Governor aud Mr. Palmer were the ealy gentlemen whe were cognizant of that But the preduction of the abatract of the Public Accounts threw some light upoo this matter. In this we found a charge of £115 for disbursements made by the Colouial Secretary on behalf of the Land Commission; and when Mr. | Coles asked for the vouchers, it came to pass— after some delay—that the £115 were paid in two

mission.

hall have tally deetared the views Warrants te Mr. George Whitman, the Spy, so | far back as the month of May, which Warrants | could only have been issued in obedience to an |

order in Council, and which must have been known to at least a majority of that bedy—not Mr. Palmer alone, who is only one member. this payment to the Spy was made one month be- tore the Commissioners resumed their labours at

| Rothsay to draw up their report, and to examine |

of the object for which they were giving away one

| hundred and fifteen pounds of the people's money ? |

That object was to shew—as stated by the * Islan-

had given false evidence to the Comasissioners when they held their Court here! and that it was

| necessary to have a Spy, at the public expense, to

| give other testimony besides that furnished by res-

and trustworthy delegates! !

| Couldascheme which required such disreputable

| adjuncts, and supported by dishonorable agencies, escape the storm of contempt and reproation

which it has aroused from oue end of the Island

to the other?

| pectable

<sianinamiesiillaaasiaaabiiine

Tue ‘Islander’ says we have published “a most untruthful statement purporting to be a report of & scene Which occurred in the House of Assembly on Saturday evening,” 22d inst., and thereupon the official editor proceeds te give what he con- siders a truthful report. But Mr Secretary Pope has only made the matter appear in a more odi- ous light for himself and his brother. Nut one ot our facts is proved to be incorrect; while Mr. Pope furnishes statements which should make him

| thoroughly ashamed of ths transaction, even it

| kis moral sensibilities were blunted te a far greater owe than they are. It is admitted that there | wasa “seene” between Mr. J. C. Pope and Mr.

Coles—that it arose out of some words spoken in | debate by the latter; but Mr. Wm. H. Pope goes | further than we did, when he says that Mr. J. C.

| Pope threatened to commit a breach of the peace,

in the face and in the hearing of the whole House, while the Speaker was in the chair, if Mr. Coles

| would repeat the obnoxious words used by him. (If Mr. Coles had tranagressed the proprieties ot debate, it was certainly the duty of the House to | | have called bim to order; bat that was not done; | aud we have no reason to believe, therefure, that

Mr. Coles said anything more than what he was tully justified in saying. But if a member of the Gevernment and a Magistrate for the whole Is- land publicly declared in Parliament that he would “slap the face” of a political opponent—and the

‘Islander’ assures us that this threat was used— then we must say that the member of the Go- vernment guilty of such threat haa degraded his high office, and outraged the psace he was sworn to protect.

But this is net all.

The inteation to commit outrage and violence on Mr. Coles appears to have been cherished after the House adjourned. We quote the words of the ‘ Islander’ :—

“ Shortly after, the House adjourned, and Mr. J.C. Pope immediately walked up to Coles, who was seated, and asked him to say. if he dared, that the words that he used in debate were in- tended te apply to him.

“Coles wisely declined to say one word dis-

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Woeu the | ble that the whole Government would be ignorant jused. These will require revisien and pruning at

disappointed at the result of our examivation of | sorry to learn that an order has been issued from the papers furuished, having found nothing of great | the War Department at Washington, forbidding

aa appear worthy of notice.

ENGLISH NEWS.

From Wilmer and Smih's Furopean Times, March 8. |

the Federalarmy. This isahigh-handed measure,

A very important subject has been discussed in| Parliament this week—the necessity of making tors, or their more unprincipled employers. the colouists pay for the maintenance and cost vi | the imperial troops which they réceive, and the | unanimity of expression on both sides of the Huuse | bave heretofore obtained through this corrupt

hs = eine Commons as it will be — to believe that we It has been determined to erect a monument in | by it. | Dublin to the memory of Prince Albert, and the, We give below the latest telegrams. Queen has written a feeling letver expressive of | . ; * ter approval. New YorRK, Mareb 17. Her Majesty and the Court have returned once more to Windsor—a place that must paintully iu- press the Queen with a renewed sense of the me- lancholy event that induced her to leave it.

An accidsnt has occurred to the Great Eastern, by one of the shores of the gridiron causing an in- | dentation of ove of the ship’s plates, which will require to be replaced.

Disasters at Sea.—Furtber particulars have been received of the lues of the Spartan (ss), 1173 tons; seven lives were lust. The mate and two seamen Were washed overbuard and drowned, and ee Hand, of the 63d Regiment, with bis wite and child, perished in the wreck of the saloon. A

the greatest enthusiasm. At the late battle in

two thousand Indians. attacked by the Federal forces, supported by gun

| It was the Spartan’s first voyage. She belonged | a of Goltere, te the to Messrs. Pile and Sons, of West Hartlepvol. | we About £30,000 was done at Lioyd’s. The George Marshail, lost at Hass’s Straits, was insured at Lloyd's for £25,000, and at the Marine office for £2u,0W. A despatch received trom Baitinore

New York, March 18.

Confederates have occupied a stroug position | on Island “ Number Ten,”

been received over the Straits, owing to the vio-| tul battles or sieges, or any disastrous losses to) lent storms by which travelling was reudered | the belligerents ou cither side. We are, aa usual, everywhere impracticable. We naturally looked compelled to take aeurly all our information from for a good deal of interesting news after the elapse | that very questionable authority, the electric tele- | of so much time, but we confess we were much | graph, and we give it as we fiad it. We are not)

have been sadly abused by the unprincipled opera- |

shall nut be so often deceived |

I atacand inane eam apemndiiiined

SLOTS aE ae SSO mmr

Curtis ordered the trains to be drawn up oa the

wenced on their rear, portu of our army, by J50t to ZvuU cavalry.

| bodies of the army.

| Waile thus eagaged, Gen. Ssigel was three |

graphic despatches relativg tu the movements of each time. Tas principal fighting on Thursday |

| was done by Gen Sigel. j the engagement became general, and continued

Iu this way on Friday

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to be sure, and shews that the freedo:n of the press | go througaont—the offi :érs behaving with much NeW is quite a myth in the U. States, but it shows also | gallantyy. The most exposed position was ovcu-| that the great powers of the Electric Telegrapit'

pied by Col. Carey's division, aad the greatest joss was suffvred by them. Col. Dadger’s brigade of this division consisted

If} of tae 4th luwa regiment, the 35th Llinois, Col. . ° . i Ppeln’ scoiment ¢z 4+ ( i 1 we do not receive aa much news in future as we | P2¢lp’s regiment, aod the 24th Missouri regiment.

| Tue 2d brigade, under Cul. Vau Dwire of the 9th | lowa, consisted of his regiment, the Dubuque

leaves no doubt that this new policy is as popular | source of information, it may be some cousolation | buttery, aud Col. Carey's reginent of cavalry. A letter trom Col. Carey says that the losses in |

the 4th and 9th Iowa, 35th IL, aud 25th Migseuri are from 150 to ZUU in each regiment killed and | wounded,

Oaly three hundred of the 24th Missouri were

| present, but they lost 29 killed and alarge number

General McLellan has issued a proclaination to! wounded. the army of the Potomac indicating an active cam-| cavalry and sth Indiana lost about 4U each, | perty of Mr. Taomas Noonan. paign, which was reeeived by the soldiers with |

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Arkansas the Federals lost in killed aad wounded | Colonels Gilligan and Uenen | six hundred of the former aud one thousand of the! the Ych Towa.

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|Our ipen. lat Wilson Creek.

The Izth and 17th Missouri, 3d lowa

Amoug the wouaded are General Asbgth, in the arm; tivlovel Carr, also in the arm; Lieutenant

Besides bsing wouuded, Col.

latter. The Contederate surgeons acknowledge a) Henon was taken prisoner, Col. Dodge had three | loss of eleven hundred killed aud avsarly toree! horses shot under him. thousand wounded. TheCoufederate forces num-| Ouio Battery, who was taken prisoner, jumped | bered twenty-tive thousand men, including over! trom a wagou to make his escape, aud was killed. | Hickman, Kentucky, was

Lieut. Smith of the 2d

The Rebel officers killed and wounded are Brig. Gen. MeCulloca, killed ; Brig. Gen. Slack, danger-

| and mortar boats, on Saturday, Waen the Cuuk- ously woitnded ; Col. McIntosh, killed; Col. B. HL! em ne hastily abandoned tueir works, leaving Rives, 2d Regiment Volunteers, dangerously | : : ak sty | baggage and other property, amounting to one) wounded; Col. Herbert of the 32d Louisiana, | fewale servant died trom exposure in the boats.| pe lye , : : .

te ’ possession of the Pede-! killed or dangerously injared; Major General Ster- The Federal loss was fifty killed aad wound- fing Price, siyitly wounded.

) ed in this last encounter. | Thirteen pieces of artillery were captured by |

A.woug thew is one lost by Gent Svigel Our loss is regarded as 300 or

1000 killed and wounded. The rebel loss is not |

Gen Seigel with UU men pro- tected the train for several huurs, aliernately re- | treating and stopping to hold thy rebels ia check, | wale the trains pushed backwards to the main:

and Major Coyle of |

aunounces that the Cremona, Captain Fulmer bound from St. Thomas’s to Liverpool, ashore at Pedrv Towa, or Tetroua, St. Dowiugo, | and was totally lost. Crew saved. ‘The xchooner Star of the East, of Lowestoft, from Santander to | Liverpool, is a total wreck at Tacumshem. A! portion of the cargo (flour) is saved.

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Went |

| From Lloyd's Weekly Lindon N-wapaper, Murch 2 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. j

j

The rush of goods into the building has not yet) commenced. The most remote of our colunies seein | to be the first in the field. St. Helena followed | close upon the yoods from Siberia. On Saturday, | the collection from Prince Edward Island wae de-

sited iu the Freuch court, and on Wednesday that

to retain his seat; and to this circumstance is to be attributed his escape from a sound drubbing | at the hands of the member from Bedeque, would, very likely, had Coles pursued any other | course, not only have pulled bis nose, but have kicked him out of the room.”

We shall give ne opinion on the probable suc- cess of Mr. Pope's belligerant designs; but most people who know the parties will readily believe that the “ member for Bedeque” never attempted a more difficult feat in his life than he would if he tried to “kick” the Leader of the Opposition out of any room. But is it not eminently dis- graceful to have this announcement made by and on behalf of two persons high in the Government, that brute foree would be resorted to against a member of the Minority in a IIall where the free- dom of speech is supposed to be held sacred, if that member attempted to rise from his seat? When ibrooks, of brutal memory, struck a mur- derous blow at Senator Suwner while he calmly sat in hie chair in Congrees at Washington, a few years ago, the civilized world was amazed at the atrocity of the deed; and only a short time after the intended assassin found refuge in bis grave from the execrations of the world. Was the chivalrous “ member from Bedeque” admonished by the fate of the Southern chevalier? And does the Leader of the Opposition owe his life to the cireumstance of his keeping his chair, after the the world had condemned the act of an intended assassin whose murderous design on a public man who did keep his seat was vnly foiled by a merciful Providence! It is, indesd, paiaful to think that we live in such evil days as would encourage per- sons in high places to pollute by their sanguinary passions even the sacred precincts of legislation.

We have only one word to say as regards the part taken by Mr. Secretary Pupe in the matter. ‘That officer thinks that Mr. Coles should not dis- parage him in the House of Assembly where Mr. Pope cannot reply. Does Mr. Pope forget that he slanders Mr. Coles in the ‘ Islander,’ where the Leader of the Opposition can offer no reply? Mr. Pope must remember also that he is a public man, actively engaged in political warfare, and must take, wherever they are adwinistered, all the knocks which his meddlesome dispositien is caleu- lated to provoke. He accuses Mr. Coles of rude- ness in debate ; and adduces, in proof of this alle- gation, the circumstance of the latter having, sume years ago, applied the word “ false” toa atatement utvered by another member in debate, for which Mr. Coles was most tyrannically placed under arrest by a most tyrannical leader of the House of Assembly. We have not space, nor is it necessary, to say all that we could on this subject; but we beg to invite the attention of Mr. Secretary Pope to the debate published in this day’s paper, wherein be wil! find the same offensive epithet “ false” applied by his own brother and another member of the Government to a statement which fell from the lips of one in the Opposition ; and there was neither a call to order, nor a word of condemnation uttered against that unparliamentary phrase from the polite, cour- teous, and dignified members of the Government.

a TO CORRESPONDENTS.

THE request conveyed te our correspondenta in last Monday's paper—namely, that they would withhold their favours while the Parliamentary debates are crowding our columns—does not ap- pear to have met with much attention; for we have received a greater number of communications during the past week than in a similar period for mauy preceding weeks, while some of them have been of a most unconscionable length. Our co- jumus in the present No. will shew, however, that we have uot been chary ef our space; but this mast, in part, be attributed to the absence of in- telligence from abroad until a late period in the week, and to the fact of our having finished the very long debate on the Governor's Speech. We shall, at all times, give preference to the Parlia-

| may be fuirly calied a wonderful natural curiosity. |

rom Newfoundland. These latter, of conree, con- | siot entirely of colonial produce, but among other!

Iv is the largest and longest spar that has ever been

seen in this ur any other country. That at Kew-, gardens, 10 feet Lieb, was thought to be the lar- | gent single stick that ever was seen, but this vigan- | tic pole from Prince Edward Island completely | dwarfs it, being no less tuan 240 feet from end to! end. Placed straight on end by the side of the | Monument it would overtop even that lofty column | by tuirty eight feet. Of course, it cannot be put! upright as it ought to be in m7 part of the building | itself, and, as leaving it on the ground would be, simply to lose all its beauty of proportion, x good suggestion has been made to erect it, supported by ay ropes, asa monster tlag statfin the veutre of | ine Horticnltural-gardens. It will be a work of no — difficulty to rear this spar on end, but in order that there may be no excuse about its not ata wo the fullest advantage, the colovista ure themselvea sending over a party of riggers to hoist it on whatever sile they may get. + me --

ITALY. FALL OF THE RICASOLI MINISTRY.

Ratazzi has been charged with the formation of a new Adiministration.

M. Ricasoli’s difficulties are said to have been greatly increased by the generally assumed wish of the King for his resignation. contend with that courtly intrigue, which it is confidently asserted had prejudiced the King’s mind agaiust him. Matters seem to have come to a crisis in that quarter. There was a King’s ball on the previous Monday, and bystanders remarked that the Premier, although present, bad no con- versation with the King, and withdrew ata rather early periud without leave-taking—a behavior on his part which was strongly com uented upon by some of the uufriendly courtiers in the King's im- mediate retinue. The King signified bis pleas ue

The Ricasoli Ministry has resigned, and Signor |

Forty-six rebel gun-) known, but it is supposed to be 2000 to 3000, A os wee ween Ba a an large number of revel prisoueré were taken ; pro- Eight ae a apied m, batter- bably 1500 were brought in. ‘Two thousand In- ies above the Island on Sunday. ine Confede-' gians were enzaged ia the battle: Eighteen of rates lett them several times, but returned, ! ie kill rl et ved by them. Gen Brice with

General Pope's heavy gins comvand the River “1000 1 7 ; i ' 80 that no gunboats of the enemy cau pass.

Firing was beard all day in the direction of New Madrid. It is supposed tuat the Confederates are | orice memete trying to force a passage. } - ey :

.S a . i NE N< s Si cViEw

Geperal Halleck Jast night announced at St. | Tas Xoata aeeeeee Reves be Pobrusy Louis the capture of Isiand “ No. 1" with all the | Presents a bappy variety of topics which the poli- ae eae enemy's trageperts there. He) tical and pilusopdical student may read, learo also announced another victory gai Arkan- | ak alte . i ton, Soke Geatedctete a ae No and digest with profit. Our want of space forbids particulars given. hi "4% | us extracting from, or referring at auy length to

New York, March 21,€ p.m, | the dierent subjects which are so ably treated in . ' rhefore “4 The Confederate: fivtiila, between Commodore | tbe Bumber before us. We may mention, however,

boats were counted.

} took an easierly direction. Gen. Jeff. C. Dasisis after bim.

who | specimens from Prince Edward Island isoue which Foote, uear Island No. 10, and Geveral Popo, near! that the critique on the writings of Ruskin, and

New Madrid, made anetber attempt to escape down river: The gunbeats engaged Pope's bat- teries, but were repulsed with severe loss, and one

| the novel comparison of the peasant poctry of | Austria and Scotland, have afforded us much gunboat sunk. :

- pleasure. We have not had time to read the other General Garfield attaeked 5000 Confederates, | 2: 01a j .

. ' : + articles ia such manner as would enable us to form entrenched on Cumberland Mountains, at Round). eel h Gap. After twenty minutes’ action, the evemy | *J4¢s ent Upon thei. flud, abandoning everything. | nT

It is supposed, after the late successea the Tex-' Carmoutc Young Men's Lirerary Insti- ans will march ou Santa Feo, Port Uuioa. Tae | rurg.—Tae isual weekly lecture betore the above Sanne property there umouuts to several yamed Lustilute was read by Mr. Dovald James willious. CeDonali 3+. Dunstan’s College, on ’

ae es Kani Wick Grate elas tate i | McDonald, ut St Danstau’s College, * an . . Candy bods Fors Cra wits lew roguiars. | evening last. Tue Progress of the Mechanica The Coniederates are fallivg back on Richmond. | Arts was tuken by the lecturer as bis theure, and

y handled in a manuer alike creditable to the young , sh O S ; . 7 . * ‘inti = - ae won e aie | geptlemen and the bostitytion a whieh he a . nF ciday last \senera! Durnside attacked New=! student. During the course of the lecture, whic! burn, voor Carolina. It was detended by about | was compoesd San admirable manner, the gentle 10,C0U a Vv batteries. T ‘8 We ; ; hi terly tre . ’ the pect yeasty ag Aan ppt flay an aveng ae ee ee ee ae ry -s oo ee finally driven out at the point! subject, while his pleasing,unatfected delivery was of the bayonet. the town, they escaped in the cars to Goldsbo-| ing in any way to flatter the young gentleman, we ge IB id ait on 1 light & | say that, judging irom what we have see, from

SO SETeares Gaewes Sees ight at) this, his first essay in the lecturing field, if he but teries, 45 siege guns, 2000 stand of smail 3TMS,) continues as he has commenced,he will eventually and 2U0 prisoners. The Federal loss is 9U killed, | pecome a credi: to his friends and an ornament

}about 1UU0 men retreated northward, aod then;

Burning the bridges, aud hring | universally remarked and extolled. Without wish- |

Ricasoli had to|

and 490 wounded.

tions caused by the sinking of over twenty vessels | by the enemy, but did not reach Newburn in time | to participate iu the attack.

Genera Burnside is to proceed against Beau- | fort. &. C.

Fight at Island No. 10 continued al! day on! Monday. The Confederates had six batteries on

and their guns dismounted. On Tuesday, Admiral Pope repulsed the Cor: | federate gun-boat fleet at New Madrid.

net to be accompauied to Milan by his Prine Minister; and the Prince of Carignano paid a visit to Baron Ricasoli at his private apartinents in the foreign office te break to the Premier the pleasure ot bis Royal cousin, and prevail upou him to shape his course accordingly. Toe letter of resignation is suposed to be sent in soon atterwards.

THE NEW ITALIAN MINISTRY.

The new Ministry is com as follows :— President of the Council and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Signor Ratazzi; Minister of the Interior,

Minister of Public Works, Signor Depretis ; Minis- ter of Agriculture and Commerce, Marquis Pepoli; Minister of Marine, Admiral Persano; Minister of Public Instruction, Signor Mancini.

THE EMPEROR AND THE DISTRESS.

The Moniteur contains the following announce- ment :—* The Emperor in view of the present difficult position of the workmen at the great in- dustrial centres, has ordered the minister of bis household to send 250,000f, from the privy purse to the Prefects of the departments of the Raone, Loire, Seine Inferieure, snd Nord, to be applied tor the benefit of the workmen.”

The Moniteur also announces that the applica- tions fur the conversion of the Four-and-a-Half per Cent Rentea now amount to 110,000,000f., and that the numberof Obligations Trenteunairee pre- sented for conversion, is 423,173.

SERIOUS ASPECT OF POLITICAL MAT- TERS IN PRUSSIA.

At Berlin political matters are beginning to look very serious. The attitude ot the chamber of de- puties in questions of foreign policy tends to ex- ercise & pressure upon the Government, which the latter wishes to cast off. Thus the Committee ot the Chamber having, with the exception of one vote, unanimously adupted the ——— relative to the r ition of the Kingdom of Italy, Councillor Hebke, in the name of the Minister ot Foreign Affairs, declined to take part in the deliberations, “because the Government could not cogsent to subject its foreign policy to the influence of Parliaweut.” The German queation has also given rise to very serious com- plications.

ae é THE INSURRECTION IN GREECE.

The Precurseur d’Athene of the 26th ult. as- serts that the following is the position of affairs: — “The insurrection at Nauolia is limited to a sinall area. A serious engagement has takeu place be- tween the insurgeuta and royal troops. Griva commanded the insurgents. Forced contributions have been imposed upon the inhabitants of the town, and provisions are scarce.” Tae Precurseur remarks, however, that no military bulletin has been published reeeutly by the Government. The King bas demanded that a Council of War should be summoned to judge the rebel soldiers. All Carnival festivities - the Court and in the city

have been ’ Letters at i from Athens assert that

Signor Cordova; Miniater of Finance, Signor Selia; |

the insurgents io Nauplia are in po way blockaded, |

Oa Wednesday Commodore Foote telegraphed | that Island No. 10 isa stronger place than Colum- | bus. The shores are lined with forts, each com- | manding the one aboveit. The Federal gun-boats | ing upon them. Successes depeuded on the occur- | rence of certain events.

It is reported that Yancey had been captured in eudeavourihg te rua the bivckade in a schuoner. Considered uareliable.

The Ella Warley ran the blockade from Char- | leston, Feby. 27th. Several other cotton laden vessels are awaiting @ chance to get vat.

St. Augustine, Florida, is occupied by Commo- dore Dupont. The enemy evacuated Jacksonville inasimilar manner.

The Governor of Florida recommends the en- tire evacuation of East Florida. Acquia Creek has been evacuated by the rebels.

THE LATE NAVAL VICTORY.

The Boston and New York papers contain full accounts of the late victory gaiued by the South at Newport News. This eogagemeut appears to have been far more disastrous to the Unionists than we were led to believe by telegraph. The whole affair was managed throughout in the most admirable manner by the Confederates. The Cumberland was sunk; and the Minnesota, the Congress and the Oregon were totally disabled. The priucipal loss of lite was on board the Cuim- berland, where it is thought as many as 150 were killed or drowned. Ouly six were lost on the Minnesota, but the Cougress is supposed to bave lost over 10U men and I officer. If it had not been for the unexpected and opportune arrival o1 the Ericsson battery called the Mouitor, the loss of life and vessels would bave been far greater.

The Northern press allude to the victory in ra- ther despondent terms, and censure the Naval Authorities very plainly for their neglect of taking the ordinary precautions to guard against such a contingency. We copy the following extract from the Boston Advertiser, a leading journal :—

“The telegraph, with about its average saga- city, informe the public, that ‘naval men’ at For- tress Monroe ‘are generally of the opinion that, considering everything, the rebels had the worst of it, in the combat of Saturday and Sunday. Sueh will not be the general opinion, however, either here or in Europe. It is no smal] thing to heve destroyed a fifty-gun frigate and a heavy

a -war at the first dash, to have kept steam and sailing frigates and gunboats at bay, and to

have successfully detjed land batteries at the first attempt. The rebels might well be contevt to draw off the Merrimac with a hole ia her side, after a success which was so startling and porten- tuus as to call bigh officers of State aud an ex- oe in engineering from their beds at an untimely

ur, to consider the neglected subject of harver defence. Even in the were matter of the imme- aiate result, there seems to be a heavy balance in favor of the rebels, inspite of the opportune arrival of the Monitor, which, like the rich uncle from In- dia in the fifth act of a drama, came in to rescue

i to his Alina Mater. The Federal Fleet had overcome the obstruc-| ture

' are hampering on them day and night, and gain-|

At the conclusion of the lee- a very spirited debate topk place, which was taken part in by Mr. E. Roche, Mr. Rielly, aad a number of others,and kept up until the usual hour fer adjournment. Mr. James BMeKenna, of St. Dunstan's College, will deliver the next iecture.

| Subject, “ Astrouomy.”

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At Montague Bridge, on the 23rd instant, of con- eumpiion wtter an illuessot eiziteen montis, Willian Jotustun, Blacksmita, in tue dist year of his age. Deceased was youngest son of the late Sergt. Wil- liam Jobnston, of Cumberland Hill, Dundas, and of the 42d Roval Highlanders, He has left a wite and four swali children to mourn tbeir loss.