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Wednesday, October 17, 1866-

(iouncil ()thee, 16th October, 1866.

' IS Excellency the Lieutenant GoVernor in Council, has been pleased to appoint Mr. Roderick McLean, of Township No.

16, Commissioner of Highways tor the Filth District of Prince

County, in the place of Mr. Donald Campbell.

CHARLES DESBRISAY. C. E.C.

Colonial Secretary’s Olliee, 16th October, 1866.

IS Excellency the Lieutenant Governor has been pleased to

appoint Mr. Murdoch Meltae, of Point Prim, a Pilot for the Harbor of Charlottetown and Hillsborough Buy—in terms of the Act 17 “111.4, cap 19.

T. HEATH HAVILAND. Col. Seey.

LATEST BY ’1‘ Ii] 1. Edits-xvii.

GREAT FIRE AT QUEBEC!

Oct. 16, 1860.——-Terrib1e ﬁre in Quebec. Whole district next to Crow Street,and on to St. Langural destroyed. Two thousand houses burnt, besides seventeen Churches and Convents. Capt. Anderson, of the “ Great Eastern," and four others knighted. The seizure of the British Steamer “ Tornado" by Spain, and the imprisonment of her crew on supposition of being a L'hilian Privateer, 1s assuming a serious aspect. The “ Times” suggests that England and the United States should revise neutrality laws by a united commission. Gold 150$.

LATEST.

Wednesday, Oct. 17—A large quantity of military stores ar- rived at Toronto on Monday. Military at Fort Erie all night under arms. Special police sworn in. Full Cabinet meeting called to consider the position Canada would take if President Johnson demands settlement of the Alabama question. ‘Scotia’ arrived at New York yesterday. Gold Hill,

SALE OF VALUABLE FREEIIOLI) PROPERTY.

f ‘0 BE SOLD by PUBLIC AUCTION, on the premises, in

Doaenssraa Sracnr, CHARLU'I‘TE'I‘OWN, on FRIDAY, the 28th day of DECEMBER next, at the hour of I2 o’clock, noon, under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in a certain Deed of Assignment, by way of mortgage, dated the 4th day of DECEMBER, A.D. 1862, and executed by THOMAS Lrscu. of Charlottetown. in Prince Edward Island,Trader, to James Renew, of the same place, Merchant, and which said mortgage, and all the right. title and interest of the said James lteddin, thereunder, in and to the Lands and Premises therein mentioned and described, were, by the said James Beddin, assigned to Alexander Brown, of Charlottetown, Esquire, by Indentnre, dated the 3rd day of March, A. D. N363, ALL that tract, piece or parcel of Land, Situate, lying and being in Charlottetown aforesaid,and being part and parcel of Town Lot No. Thirty~nine (39) in the First hundred of Town Lots in Char- lottetown, aforesaid, bounded and described as follows, that is to sayz—Fronting on Dorehester Street. and commencing at the divi- sion line ofTown Lot No. Forty, in the same hundred, and running back on said line eighty feet. to the division line of James Pcro kins’s ection of said Let; thence at right angles west, forty-two feet, or to the division line of Henry Palmer’s portion of said Let; thence at right angles north, along said line eighty feet, or to Dorchester Street aforesaid; thence along the South side of said Street forty-two feet to the place of commencement.

Dated the 15th day of October, A. D., 1866. '

- JAM ES REDDIN, ALEXANDER BROWN.

D. O. M. Runnm, Solicitor. _ Council Ollice. August 14, lb (:6.

IS Excellency the Lieutenant Governor in Council was this

I day pleased to ﬁx and determine the rate at which the

amount of the [undue of Dutiable Goods imported into this Is-

land from the United States of America, shall, in estimating the

duties payable thereon, be reduced into current money of the Island, as follows:—

In all cases where such Invoices shall be made out in Dollars and

Cents of the paper currency of the United States. the amount of

such Invoice shall be reduced into current money of this Island, . by allowing for each Dollar the sum of Fonn Suitinsos, and in the like proportion for any fraction of a Dollar; of which all Collec- tors of Impost are to take notice and govern theniozlves aceor-: di" "v. CHARIJN mtSlllHSAY, C. E. C.

7 HR MAILS for GREAT BRITAIN, the WEST INDIES, and NEWFOUNDLAND, will, until further notice, be made up and forwarded from the General Post Ollice, Charlottetown, every

; alternate MONDAY morning, at nine o‘clock.

SUPPLEMENTARY MAILS will also be made up and forwarded the following WEDNESDAY evenings, at 8 o’clock, viz: Monday October 22, Wednesday, Nov. 7, Wednesday “ 24, Monday, “ 19, Monday, Nov. 5, Wednesday “ 21,

P. DESBRISAY, Postmaster General. General Post Ofﬁce, Charlottetown, Oct. 17, 1866.

ROAD COMPENSATION ACT. PUBLIC NOTICE.

‘VIIEREAS a Commission has been issued, directed to us, under and by virtue of an Act passed in the fourteenth year of the reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled “An Act to regulate the laying out and altering of Highways,” and of the Acts in amendment thereof, whereby we arecommanded to estimate the damage or advantage that will accrue to the parties through whose landa new line of ROAD is intended to pass along the line dividing the Farms of Peter McKenna and Peter Aylworth and through William McCallan’s farm to the Palmer’s Read,

Now we do hereby give public notice to all parties concerned that we wull commence the execution of the said Commission by attending on the said line of road, ator near William MeCallum’s on Monday the Nineteenth day of November next, at the hour of eleven o’clock, in the forenoon of the same day, and proceed in accordance with the terms of the Act 14th Vic., cap I, and of the Acts in amendment thereof.

PATRICK DOYLE,

BENJ. HAYWOOD,

JOHN PRESTON, Nail Pond, Oct. 13, H506:

A PROCLAMATION nr ms sxesnnnscv GEORGE DUNDAS, ESQUIRE,

Lieut. Governor and Commander-in-C/zitf in and over Her Majesty’s Island Prince Edward, and the Territories t/zcrcunto belonging, Chancellor, Vice

[Ls] Admiral and Ordinary oft/re same, 40. (5‘0. (5'6.

Gannon DUNDAS, Lieut. Governor. v

HEREAS the GenoralAssenibly of this Island stands pro- , rogued until Monday, the First day of October next:

I have thought lit, by and with the advice of Her Majesty’s Executive Council, further to prorogue the said General Assembly, and the same is hereby prorogued until Tuesday the Sixth day of November next, of which all persons concerned are required to take notice and govern themselves accordingly.

Given under my hand and the Great Seal of this Island, at Charlottetown, in the said Island, this 27th day of September, in the yearol‘ our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty Fix, and in the Thirtieth year of Her Majesty’s reign.

By Command, T. HEATH llAVILAND, Col. Secretary. Goo save run QUEEN.

CONVICTIONS.

At Georgetown, Oct. 10, before Justices W. B: Aitken, W. San- derson, and J.C. McKeown, Esquires, Daniel McNeill of the ﬁsh- ing schooner Lodi, was ﬁned 10s, with costs, for violating the Law made for the due observance of the Lord’s day—he being ﬁghting on shore on the Sabbath, Oct. 7. And Capt. Ilennesy, master of said vessel was fined Ills, with costs, for aiding and abetting.

The said Daniel McNeill was also lined 58, for being drunk and diSorderly. R. MUN HO, Clerk.

Board of Education,

September 27, 1866. V ‘IIE following Extract of the Minutes of the Board of Education was ordered to be published in the Royal Gazette newspaper:

“ The Board having approved of the introduction of NELSON’S SERIES of Schoolbeoks, instead of the Series heretofore in use in the Public Schools of this Island, recommend School Trustees and

g Commissioners.

,Teachers to take the earliest opportunity of supplying their ,Schools with the same."

JOHN McNEILL, Seo’y B. E.