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TUK PICTOU RAILWAY. And eo this hopefal en as a fixed fact, Aftersh away in worse.tban idle sense pl lie eountry. has ight to have Been taken ed atthe very in mm this provitiee, Withoukl & moment tion, but which a policy htthe dese tha raicida§ has so-leng: permitted to slumber, is about to be.awakened into active aud pro- , ; ‘ < ) : fitable existence. As ham frequently been mensely gratified by the semi-sayage ** buimp- Examiner, and upon reading it he ean dycidey remarked through the co mans ot this |, | tiousness '’ of the defiant secretary's in- | whether the Judgment should be aflirmed or the ratiread to eed ee to ‘ha oe.) timations that if. England could not stop refused, ; ceded that to Windsor by many years. Toe }the privateers America would find means to As yet there have been no important pro- | tortuer is one of wise td the Prowitice at make her. The defiant secretary was thought ceediags transacted in the Legislature during | large, the : ; venvence to an inconsiderable section of the | Tashly bellicose, bat the peopie easily oardon | une bonourable member has been quite suc- | western eyunties. So long eypce as thirty ) a faalt in that direction ; j vessful in procuring the enactment of @ sta- years, men of sound judg went “declared that ** Undiplematic,’’ * bellicose ?°’ not the | tute relating to the destruction of tiger cats | & Tine of railway to Pictou would prove a least in the world. Mr. Seward aot only |—a species of the wolf animal, paying, if not profitable, investment to any SW his way olear around the corner before means friendly to sheep and lambs. The ar-| parties baving sufficient evterprise to embark he set his legend on the Downing street door, guments employed in support of this ren in soch an und ing. but, seeing his way clear, went with all)| Ll need not reer to or Comment upon, but it wass howevgr, the misfortune of the

same accunimodating. secretary to floor an nary steps were irregular. The question of, English oppesitisn by stating publicly that guilt or inpocence was, of course, nut examin- | Mr. Séward bad newer uttéred any threats as ed, to what Would follow if England fuiled to apprehension are issued against tho relensed prevent the rebel privateers from sailing out | men;. but they have already dissappeared vi English ports, and by adding taat the from the city, probably from the provinee. ‘pian. ul ralenged American ninisterdid not dare to utter any | The judgwent in appeal is regarded by all s bevita: | Such threats. | parties as a most able and impartial dictum, Here in America we had been edified with and ts shortly to be published in pamphlet Mr. Seward's ** great swelling words’? on | torm. L shall have the pleasure of sending a

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It is said that new warrants for their! decks, if not their bacon, will be

this theme. The popular feeling was im-| copy of this publication to the Editor of the|sball bring my present letter to a close.

st ® mere public con.) 4 little undiplomatic, certainly, and uluost the progress of the present sedion—thuugh | science of even having committed anything

and by no},

celerity around the corner, and set no legend | have ro doubt they were characterised by | years, cowe within the vengeance of the out- |

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bailiffs, constables,&e, will be taught, by pub- | Mdward Island Bavk Act—a Bill to restrict the lic example, that the safest way to save their) payment of silver as a legal tender to the to keep OF amount of six pounds—and a Bill relating to the western side of the County line, ee Anchorage dutiea—were the only measures, we 7? hey at panengoiown - opts a believe, discussed in the House during the past their own and other peaple’s business, accord) adh tose aie a eal ing to their own peculiar potions of mecep | Weck +. ane, Re suseme upon ™ - and suum. tame and uninteresting. We think the inhabi- Having said thus mach coneerning the! tants of Prince Edward Island might dispense administration of justice in Georgetown, © | vith the whole of them without any disadvantage

must express a hope here, that the Vigilance {to their interests, Some petitions were presented, Committee at Georgetown are all men—like ‘dnd the usual papers and documents relating: to the Col. Secretary —of clean bands, whv can | public affairs were brought down by members of turn their mental gaze inwards upon then- | Government. Since the debate en the Address in selves, without being convicted by their coa+ ‘answer to the Governor's Speech, the Session, 80

‘tar, has been entirely devoid of political interest. worthy of stripes.

ee oe ‘$ OF THE DEBATES Your meee RIDDLER. | NOTES OF ee 4 a 0, 3.

Qneen’s County, 31st Mareh, 1864.

P.S. It is charitably to be hoped that) Capt. B. may not, during the next twenty,

Arrears oF THE QuIT RENTS.

The opinions of the Hon. Mr. Coles on this question, as enunciated by him, in the course of

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| Ri ;-| tablish such Court ipon, that having established the candi- refusal to establixh such Court, and a 4 we S + dno ‘the punctual payment ¢ all of the Act spyeeation wa the results vwunee ‘unredeemed Quit Reuts gught be rigorously Vhe House of Assembly iragain Petitionsd the exacted’; and that it will obviously be urgently | Throne, in 1836, for the establiehment of » ‘necessary, in justice to the weneral interests of the Conary

of Excheat, which application was cleo refused [ Province, to the service of whieh the Revenues communicating this refasal, the Right Horor from this sonrrce wouid be applied; and in order to

[rd Glenely recommended that a penal Tax upon prevent defaulters from deriving advantages by

wilderness land should be substituted, their irregularity, from which those who daly | _* Your Committee would farther that as fulfil their engagements would be perctapes. ow J

lain, the tax

the collection of Quit rome will be . rdj during the continnance of the Act collection of these rents sh heneeforwa REL the Memeriaiietn® Four Shillings, Currency, per 1 ness lands, will ut the present rate of

Sth. Hon. Mr. Coles then proceeded to shew | ou jiy exceed the amount wo whieh there | otherwise be liable by abunt Eight pence

that Mr. G. R. Young, in a letter addressed to 5 . . res; and as the max tax Lord Glenelg, and bearing date 4th April, 1938, eel ~ pe gre a cael xt Fon a

attempted to controvert the view taken in Mr. | the enlelaneme tax of Two aie Curre . , Spearman’s letter of the 19th March, 1838, in re-) operate us a bounty en Improvement, whieh is

by wain object of the Act in question.” ’

gard to the interpretation of the terms offered by | “That views enunciated by the Hon

the Karl of Ripon, in 1833, for the commutation | Coles aio a of Ca ae . ‘ut the Quit Rents in Privee Edward Isiand; that acid correct, must, we think, be quite otal Lord Glenelg referred the statements and argu- | te on . am capable of forming 7

ments advanced by Mr. Young in his said letter | ib Ti The Quit Rents were to the Lords Commissiouers of the: Treasury ; | they might forum a special revenue to be

and that Mr. Spearman as directed by their |. ; : rtherance of the general interests Lordships, returned the following answer, duted | ™ he of thy of the

be strictly enforced,” J (Sigued) “A. Y. Spearman.

weres, on wilder.

people of Nova Seotiawo bave toeir attention eliverted from what eould at any time have

checked the privateers, then wrote out the

|great ability and extent of information. raged young chieftain. The tomahawk, ecalp-, This session has been signalized, too, by 10-| jng knife and eel-skins of the [ndian are | the Debate on the Draft Answer to His Excellen-

“ Treasury Chambers, 23rd July, 1838":

been accomplished, withia theaselves, to a dreadful things he wouid do if she tailed to} dulgence in offensive personalities. giganticecl.eme, the accomplishment of which check thei, und then sent his * perilous! Majesty’s Attorney General pas, so far, car-) t 38 beyond the ability of even the combined parchment * to Mr. Adams, and Mr. Adams | ried off the first prize, io this department of | resources of the whole of the British North | kept the same ino his pocket, judging it, says | Legislation. American Provioces. The intercoionial Rail- Earl Russell, with a splendid toss of the head, | sequential little humme de la robe will, it 1s way, to connect Halifax Harbor with the ** more prudentso to do!" : LO ath! River St. Lawrence, can never be constructed Seward, knowing them not to have been’ miam for similar proficiency. Mr. obn- | save a8 @ great national work. I[u the first presented, forthwith printed therm for the stone's attack—or, as his triends term a { place, British America is not in a position delight of the Union, and by way of entreat- | his defence, was direeted against Mr. _ in, | j teenter upon such an undertaking, as the |g the British Ear! to launch the kick which | one of the St. Jobo Tepresentatives, charg | i e@natruction of a properly equipped railroad, be has now so successiully administered! | ing bim with a wilful wisrepresentation ol rubaing through stx hundred males of wilder- Can the force of pidling poltroonery further some observations made by tie former 1p the ness, and even admitting that by outside gv?

} assistance the undertakiv,, was consummated, . ’ - venlied with fierfect | ' the interest on the capital invested, and the | §ivus pride of a man who might have been | liberate liar. Lhe latter replie uA 1 e aa] wt of keeping up the pluntand rolling stock, bullied-but has not been ; Burl Russell chinks | sang froid that such language was benea would swamp the resources of the United | 8 kmghtly spurs with the air ofa champion; | the notice of a gentleman ; that Provinces long before any return could reason- and all Easope is regaled with a spectacle of against the precepts of his Church, ably be hoped for. A calm retrospet, since | cheap and cheaply detected brag, > ; the commencement of the agitation of this) makes the ideal of Jetfersoa Brick @ piece the natural emanations of a ae vexed question of railways in this Province, of very indifferent realism, | blackguardism. Mr. Anglin is an co arma} can scarcely fail tocunvince any unprejudiced | - <>- - /wod his countrymen express astonis sala od mt person of the utter fallacy of the multifarious TTT E WAR IN. THE STATES. |» suff-ring such insolence to go unpunished , | eaculation of those whu bave from time tw a, t argued, from figares, that a railway TReT NEWS FR THE SEAT OF WAR. : ona Halifas to Saline would be a pay LATE MONS Oe sen | Robert Peel to offer ample reparation ee ing concer, even allowing that the capital) Gen. Sherman left Vicksburg with a force | terances reflecting upon the integrity of his) required to construct it bad been procured of about 30.000 men. He had two objects ; | Opponent. i ut the low rate of three and # ball per cent. first to desulate the country through which | A few days ago the stability of the Go- | per arinvin.. Thinking men had no hope in| be marched, and to destruy its railways 10 of-) vernment seewed doubttul, Tats aspect was) the great Intercolonial Kailway, other than | to make a rebel campaign in force impossible produced by the introduction of a Resolution | as a great national work, the objectof which during the Summer: second to go to Selma. wus to more speedily settle wp the interior | [n the first object he has succeeded ; in the se- | the building of «1 Railway from this city ad of these Provinces, than they can possibly cond he bas tailed. —But be bus succeeded 80 | the Ameriean Foundry, hich purpesed en- | be witheut such artificial aid, and the con- completely in the first, and has done his | terprise has taken a firm hold of the popular sequent exaltation of British North America) work with such unexpected and extensive | mind. But the a onieanamamaae* | into a worthy rival of the adjoining Great thoroughness that his failure to reach Selma ily, and advocated the L[ntercolontal construc: | Republic. in order to attain this much , need not be deeply deplored. The Southern! gon instead. When, however, Nova Scotia coveted prosperity, it would be absolutely | Mississippi Railroad, crossing the State at and indispensably necessary that the mother | right angles to the river, is destroyed. The country should be prepared to make very | Mobile and Onio Railroad, ranning through | nial road, the leader of our Government ao- eonsiderable pecuniary sacrifices. A trifle the easterly part of the State parallel to the pounced bis intention to submit in some | compared with the cost of even what, to the| river, has been turn up and irreparably injur- | measure to the popular clamour, ond to bring | British public, might be a little war, would |ed for a distance of fifty-six miles north and jin a Bull that would prove acceptable to the | sufSve to make the North American wilder-|gouth of Meridian. The immense supplies | friends of Western Extension. Tuis moder | nese to blussom as the rose, afford bomes to) accumulated by the rebels at numerous lated the opposition to the Government, and | millions, and consolidate British power io the | pointe on the line of these two roade bave | perhaps wil be the means ot securing its tar.) Weetern World above and beyond all pre-| been burned, and the mills, manufactories, | ther existence. Lt is proposed by Mr Tiley) eedent. But who could hope to convince the | machine-shops, public buildings—in a word, | tw give a bonus to any Company who shall) ‘powers that be of the truth of chis great fact everything which contributed to the militury undertake to construct Ratirvads from &t Tiwrefore there can be no doubt whatever) power of the Rebellion—have been anathilat- i Jobn tu Fredericton, to Woodstock, to St. | that the Legislature of this Province hasacted}ed, There are no longer the means of ‘Stephen's, to Holton, and from Shediae to well and wisely in waiving, fur the present | transporting or of subsisting any considerable | Chatham and other places in the Province. at least, all bope of securing what is upat- force of rebel troops—cavelry perbaps eX-| Should this work be commenced next sum- | tainable, and applying the credit of this | cepted—in Southern or Centrai Mississippi | wor, it will make good times in New Bruns- | eouutry to the develupment of its now hidden | Che aninterrupted navigation of the Missis- | wiek. and afford lucrative ewployment to resources. To this end the contemplated | sippi Kiver and the security o. Louisiana | chousands oi its people. eonstruction of the Pictou Railway 1s pre- from rebel invasion are results of this Expe-| Ship-building has been prosecuted on an) ewinently a step, aye, and a very long one,/dition. Between the forces of the Rebellion | extensive scale during the winter, and looks | in the right direction. Weare notsurprised east and west of the Mississippi, there can promising for the ensuing summer. | that the people uf Pietou, and the Easter heueeforth be ne co-operation — seareely any | Au reverr, 2 Counties, should have rejoieed with exceeding regular intercourse. For all military pee | St. John, N. B., 19th March, 1864. j great joy when the news came over the wires, poses the state which Sierman has traversed | : sill merino ten that the Llouse of Assembly had decided by 1s a desert—its vast territory not merely use- | an altagether overwheluung mrjority to con- | jess to the rebels, but an impassable barrier | nect the coal fields of that rich county with | between them and the region in which they

‘wan, and that he compelled the haugbty Sir)

followed in the wake of Canada ,wnd abrogated | the joint contract concerning the Intercolo-

To True Epitor or rus Examiner. Srr.—'There is rather a novel chronicle in |

Her | terrible realities, and if Captain B. does not | cy's Speech, in brief, are these ¢ That—as not one

place a vigilant sentry over himself, and keep within the limits of Georgetown proper,

Mr Skinner, a young and con- he may yet have reason to rue the day ia) which be ventures to expose his athletic per- mela W hereupou Mr. supposed, be entituled to a second class pre-| gon to the tender mercy of Indian retaliation. . of the present Session, our Laud Assessment Act

h. R.

Mr. Waetan :—

Six,—On Tuesday next the annual general meeting of the Union Bayk will be beld.

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Perhaps it would not be, too much to say) immense ameunt will then be due to the Colony, ‘cuurse of debate upon the ‘* tiger-cats "ball, | chat upon the decisions then will very much | the payunent of which it will be the ounden duty John Bull swells, of course, with the con- | and denouncing him as a poltroon and a de-| dvpend the future prosperity of this infant) ore Government to endeavour atonce to entoree.

institution. The Shareholders, in making choice of the Directors, should not only elect

duclling W488) thc9@ business men whomay be liked by their) and that) jej;,ws in town, but they should. also be fa-| commented upon, by Mr. Coles, as affording whivh | the expressions of the Attorney General Wee | vorites with people in the country ; and as | authoritative evidence of the correctness of bis a mind fall of | gyere ia much uoney belonging to the coun- | viewa on the subject, are as fullow:—

try which will be invested in the new Bank, and get it into early operation, it beboves its friends in the City to make good selections ;

they say that UO Donohoe is as good aa Trish- snd jt then depends on the Direetors to make |

& proper choice for President—one who is a favorite wita the people, bas been some years in business, has tad some knowledge of banking, and withal knows, and is known throughout the Island generally as a person of standing and integrity. We folk in the country are somewhat timorous, and preter

into the House of Assembly recommending | placing out hard earned means in the bands sixth year, of the tax imposed by the 2nd George

of men we respect than in those we do nut; and trust ** a word to the wise’’ at this time will not be taker amiss. A VOLCE FROM THE COUNTRY. Queen 8s County, 2d April, 1864. - = o> o-er (FOR THE EXAMINER.) AFFECTION. More beant’ful than that rich light The sun emits in budding sprivg, Or sparkling stars of balmy might | That prompts the nightingale to sing Sweet notes of gratitude ty Nature's King.

More beautiful than rainbow shade, Of mingled texture mild aud grand, Or azure of Heaven's great nrende, When clondless seeu. by zephyes fann'd,

While sunsets gold aad crimsen greets the land.

More beautiful than the soft ray Shed by the unassuming Queen

Of Night, in fall unhiddeneway, When mourning anguish lone and keen To angel solace bows, and quits te scene.

More beautiful than virgin goid Set forth iu buruislisd purity, Or littering diamond, out the cold Recesses of the Indian seit That forme and decks the'crowu of Majesty.

More bexutifal than all that art, Of truth or fancy, can portray, Is that atlecticn of the henit ‘That wends to kindest soulsits way

“The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury having had under their consideration the representation from Mr. Young (herewith returned), on bebalf of the proprietors of lands subject to Quit Reut in Prince vo Island, transmitted with your letter of the 23rd April last, IT am commanded by their Lordships to request you will acquaint Lord Glenely that they have not seen any sullicrent srounds for altering the views in regard to the terms on Which tiose Rents are redeemable, which were stuted in the letter from this Board of the 19th March last, or for assenting to Mr. Young's propo- sition — the adoption of which, it appears te their Lordships, would operate as a premium to the Pro-

af the Proprietors has effected a commutation ot | his Quit Rents on the terms offered by Earl Ripen, or in any other way — when, at the end

shall expire, during the continuance of which, as | therein specified all claims to Quit Rents were | to lie dormant, these Rents will revive, both pros- pectively and retrospectively ; and, of arrears, an

to defer the redemption of their Quit Rents to the close of the respective periods specitied in the Earl of Ripon’s Despatch of the 27th January, 1833, iu- stead of holding out an inducement to effect the same without delay. * (Signed)

“Jas. Stephen, Exq.”’

6th. Hon. Mr. Coles, in order to shew that no proprietor had effected a commutation of his Quit Rents, read from the Journal of the House, 15th February, 1838,°the following Message from the Lieut. Governor, Sir C. A. Fitzroy :—

“In reply ttheir Address of the 8th instant, the Lisateuant Governor acquaints the Honseof Asem bly that no commutation of Quit Kents bus, as yet been made by any Proprietor of land in this Island in accordance with the terms contained in Lord Ripon’s Despatch of the 27th January, 1833.”

The hon, gentleman then further called the at- tention of the House to the answers to certain queries relative to the terms offered in Lord Ripen’s Despatch of 27th January, 1823, for the commutation of Quit Rents in P. E. Island, transmitted by Sir C. A. Fitzroy with the above Message to the House of Assembly. They are as follow :—

“ The first point submitted to his Lordship’s deci- sion” (Lord Glenelg’s) “ is, whether the Proprietors of lands in Prince Edward Island, apon payment of the compositien specified in Lord Kipon’s espatch, at the periud therein named, are dischanred from all clain of arrears of Quit Rents, aud of all eondi tions as to settlement prescribed by the original grauts. Upon these points Lord Glenely considers it hardly necessary to do uwre than to refer you to the terms of Lord Ripon's Despatch. The reimis- sion of Quit Rents was therein specified to extend only w the expiration of the Colonial Act. LL Geo. , cap. 17, Any Proprictor commuting within twelve months from that date would extinguish bis Quit Rents altogether; but if the coumrmtation were delayed antil a later period, any Quit Rent whieh should have become due during the interval, subsequent to the expiration of the above men- tioned Act, mast be paid previously to the Proprie- tore obtaining a full disehiryge. A release from the conditions of settling their lands in the proportion of one person to every 200 acres. was a boon held out by Lord Kipon to such Proprietors, as should couuunte their Quit Rents within the term for which they iad been foregone ; and in this respect Lord Glenelg would be disposed to adopt the inten- tion of lis predecessor,

“tu regard to ie second query which you hve

The excerpts from Despatches and Correspond-

ence on the subject of the Quit Rents, read, and a. ¥. Sreanuan.

Ist. From a Despatch of Lord Glenelg’s, to Sir 'C. A. Fitzroy, dated 28th July, 1838 — “J transmit, herewith, for your information, copies of correspondence/which has passed be- | tween this department and Mr. G. R. Young, | relative to the arrangement agreed to by the Ear! ot Ripon, in 1833, for the commutation of the Quit , Rents in Prince Edward Island.

“The principal points discussed in this corres- | pondence are — First: The apparent departure

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from that arrangement, in the collection, for a | the 4th cap. 17; and secondly, the claim of the | Proprietors to be relieved from Quit Rent retro- spectively, as well a8 prospectively, by the pay- ment, at any time within the first period of fifteen, and within the second peried of eighteen years’ purchase of their several Quit Rents.

“In regard to the secoud question raised in this correspondence, I thought it right, before pronouncing a final decision, to obtain the epinion of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury; and 1 accordingly addressed to their Lerdships, through my Under Secretary, the let- ter of which a copy Is herewith enclosed. Their Lordships’ decision is contained in Mr. Spear- man’s letter of the 19th Mare last; but Mr. Young having, in his letter of the 4th April, cou- troverted that decision, I thought it necessary to ‘submit his arguments for their Lordships’ consi- deration, before taking any final steps in this janatter. You will observe, froia Mr. Spearman's jletter of the 23rd imstaut, that they do net see any sufficient ground in Mr. Young's communica- / | tion for altering the opinion which they had pre- | viously expressed. Is this view I entirely agree, and you will, therefore, consider the decision con- tained in Mr. Spearman's letter of the 19th March | last as a rule for your guidance iu this matter.” 2nd. The hon. gentleman read trom the said Correspondence, a letter to R. Stewart, Esquire, trom Lord Howick, dated 14th February, i833, as fellows :—

“Sir: In reference to my lettter of the 22th | Government cannot undertake to make a fresh ultimo, respecting Quit Rents in Prinee Edward | grant to Proprietors redeeming their Quit Kents.

| prietors, at the expense of the I rovincial Revenues, |

submitted, | have toinform you that His Majesty's

Colony; and for no other end or pucpose have they ever been legally available. Te appropriate them to any other use or serviee, was net im power of the Crown. Hence it follows ide came not within the prerogative ef the Crowa te extinguish or forgive them, either im whole of in | part; and if such power did not reside in the | Crown, it most assuredly could not be exercind | by a Colonial Secretary — a were servant ef Crown. By nw other means than a fair comm \tation of them—say at 16, 18, or 20 youty _purehase, according to’ circumstances — was it possible fur the Proprietors, tenants of the Crown,

to free themselves from the,obligations, imposed upon them by their original Grants, to pay these Rents. But, in this way, not even by a

proprietor have they been extinguished ; EP the exaction of them was to be suspended only

until the expiration of our present Land Assess. ment Act, which will take place at the close of ihe present Session, the claim to them — now im mediately that of the Colony — will then revise, both prospectively and retrospectively. i To maiutaia, as seems te be done by some of the Gevernment party, alias the Propricta in the House of Assembly, that a Celonig! Minister, by a mere Despatch, had it in his pewer te grant a remission of arrears of Quit Rents to the Pre prictors, is just about as absurd as it would be to argue that our Colonia! » Mr. Pope, has it in his power te stay the collection of Land Tar, by a mere letter, addressed by him to the Treasu- rer, directing him to remit that Tax. Aud, be it also especially nated that, as only upon their acceptance of, and compliance with, the terms of commutation offered to them, ae a aver by the Ear! of Ripon, were the forfeited titles of the Proprietors to be confirmed or made ‘good, the furteiture of their titles is actually ‘declared by ihe tact of their having tailed te eow- ply with the conditions, by the fulfilment of whieh they would have been alluwed to redeem them. ‘That this is really the case they well kuow j and, | therefore, it is that, by Sir Saynuel Cunard’s pro- _pored Bill, they are endeavouring te procure a | statutory confirmation of ther tithes. i Hon. Mr. Whelan said, as respeeted the manner ‘in whieh the Government kad dealt with the ' Land Question, he knew pot which to accouut the \gteater—their insincerity or their i . | Certainly no Government so extolled by them _selvew—claiming to stand so high in the estimation of the people—aud arregating te themselves so tnuch influence with higher powers, had ever se , Completely, 80 miserably failed in the execution ‘of their desigus, and sunk se low even ip the estimation of those who, erewhile, were their most ardent aduirers, and their firmest sup porters, as they bad dene. The very men who, pst | long ago, placed the greatest Upon their | prouises—-wheo bad the fullest faith in their hateg- Fity of purpese—and whe were the most eulogisie:

the capital. All honour to the men who have thus carried this hopeful measure through the Liouse. Tle,Pictou Railway is fraught with promise in the present and future of this Province ; and this is so clear to en ordinary mind that a wayfaring man, even though he were a fool, can scarcely err therein. ‘The rise and progress of New York, both City and State, afford the most illus- trious example of the benefits resulting to a whole people from the prosecution of public works. De Witt Clinton's pame wili ever

Jemeain at the head of the list of those who) aspire to be public benefactors on this great |

coatinent. Since is day railroads have ecumpeted successfully with canals and rivers. What railways and canals have done for the State of New York, proportionately. railways east and west will do for Nova

Scotia In 1820 the ec mmerce of New York was 50 per cent. greater than that of B stun.

In 1860 it was full 200 per cent. greater

expected to have pursued an aggressive cam- paign.

It is said that Gen. Sherman felt hintself |

able—notwithstanding the iwability of Gen. Smith tv join bim—to have marched direct from Meridian on Mobile, and to bave cap- ‘tured the city. We have known befyre that the rebels expected him too and that the city was slightly defended on the land side. Pro- bebly it would have fullen bad it been attacked, but the responsibility forthe failure | dues nut jie at Geo. Sherman's dvor. ope

LATE EUROPEAN NEWS. Arrival of the English Mail at Halifax. NEWS BY TE LEGRAPTN.

Hatarax, March 30, 7.30 p. m.

Africa arrived Wednesday foreneon.— Parlia- mnentary proceedings important and exciting.

‘the last Moxitor, of the pudlie fogging of a}

| young Micmac, Louis Nicholas, for stealing {three Aannel shirts from ‘the clothes-line of

ast—ot which he probably was in need—-and fadorning his “savage” person with the jother two. A few days previously, one |MeGilvray, for the erime ot beating and lrubbing a poor old man, whose confidence he |had abused, had received his ** forty stripes ‘save one,”’ in the public administration of justice. It would appear that the good | people of Georgetown and yicinity had their lappetites whetted by that spectacle for | another exhibition of the same sort; and in ‘their eagerness to gratify their morbid “cravings lor this species of gratification have | presumed to use the lash of the lictor with- ‘out the license of the law. Under any | circumstances, the punishment of a criminal |hy public whipping, is revolting enough ; und te the eredit of tallen humanity it may |be written that public flogging is not nearly

one Capt. B., selling one to procure a break-|

‘Yue difference was the result solely of the

Paliwerston declined to produce the opinion of n as it formerly was. There are superior public ap ritof one compared with oe J

the law officers of the Crown. respecting the li Sothee canta! fe, Seoti ; Palin Ok el tl |few men, I believe, out of the capital of | the other. We, in NovaSeotia, bave loitered seizure of the “ Tuscalousa. King’s County, who will puad the scnouss 0! |

along by the way, but it is nut yet too late, Party motion to refer the subject implicating a _ : | te cabet the ae time andes, Let us| Stantield, member of Cominons aa of Govern. | the Monitor's eomvapen tons “, the Sune ot construet our own local lines, by whieh alone | ™"t, in Greeee plot to assassinate Emperor | Judge Lynch and bis suppor edhe ees | the interior of the country can be improved, Napoleon, lost ; Government sustained by ten of | town, without coming to the cone usiom that) and its real resources develuped.and these eow- | * majerity. Stanfield had tendered his resigna-| the fast people of that thriving place have, in leted. th lk be n : it f : tion, but the Government refused to accept it their eagerness to save their flannel, them- eee eee ay ee Seen ape ee | Elleuborough consented to postpone enquiries | celyes violated the law which they supposed the adjacent Proviness and States unity | relative tu Danish affairs, as Russell said it was | pad been infracted by their Indian brot‘er. ‘ with oar people io sharing with each other | desirable no discussion should take place, as the | ,, Every one is innocent” in the eye of the in the general prospericy.— Halifax Reporter, Government entertained fond hopes Deumark ), a do he is proved to be guilty“ by ' March 19. | would agree to Couference, and that armistice | . ccend peel - coe Gk miami! tie ; sa be ' would be acceptable to all parties. pene: a 5 . "he ht ref. ; } eigen } SESRETARY SEWARD INVITBS A KICKING,| Announced Lords would give judgment in | JUsmess of which, with reterence ts crimina AND GEYs IT. ‘aeousations, it would be unjust to eall in

Alexandi ia ease soon after Easter. | ' 2 : (From the New York World ) At Cork, nine men couvieted of illegally | question. What legal right, may I not ask,

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; : ; ; ‘ ened | practising wilitary exercise. | Mr. Etitor, had the burghers of Georgetown The ++ whitlizig of time b |P Ae — irligig of time brings in its reven- | Suspension of Mails via Galway officially }to em ower Captain --— publ.cly to flog | gee." There is no mau se ugiy who may not | announced. lone whom they designate a savage, but who. expect, if be will but persistently keep alive | Jourvals report that Denmark accepts con-; was, nevertheless, a subject of our beloved ‘ aud moving about the world, to encounter | ference without arnuistice.. Builigerents shew | Queen, and as yet uncondemned? Was the t sovther man ugiier than himself. There is | increased activity. ' | redoubtable Captain who inflicted the stripes a be ‘worban so scandalised, who, with patience | Germans vigrously prosecuting sieze of Duppel. | as we are told, with all his ** strength add ; dk >} } | Prussiaus had captured Islaud of Femeren. | Vi : and keeping her ears opes, may not hope to os : | muscle.’’ he whose property was supposed to j -hedus WorseGhings atid uf sone hapless sister, Prussians arrested all officials within that | : ca ie . If : than have ever been said of b iP And | portion of Jutland which they occupied. {have been appropriated by the savage ¢ i ro * e L en said o ts : ai nd so | Heavy firing exchanged at Sunderborg.—Sharp | 69, let me ask was he the proper person to ; wussell, after enjoying for a whole ge-| naval engagement off Rugen Island, between five | select as the one most likely to temper mercy | ;

Heration an unquestioned pre-eminence as the | Panish steatuers and two Prussian wen-of-war | with justice in the infliction of the illegal | TH ost tumidly truculent of statesmen, has at |and several gunbeats. Prussians withdrew, | stripes ? To a civilized community, taking | “ last met with a more soltiy ruaring sucking- closely pursued by Danes, but reached port salely. | an itn partial view of the matter as set before ;* dove of & lion than bimeelf. Twenty years) The Pope confined to his bed, seriously ill.| 5. jn the columns of the Monitor, the Cap- |

ago bie little earl was immortalized in Punch | Collision between French and Papal troops. | tain of the Georgetown Volunteers in the. for the manner and form of his graud de- | Continue. : ilies ne hie ta} monstration against the soa of Ko-| Nothing important from Poland. a ong lien. lon ig: Barre Soe gersrien, Pot

teanisin, in England. All Protestant Britain | wathhiul gad sotive.

Insurgents | 1 ind, Juying it on the naked back of his un-

sf fortunate victim, appears to be the greater r he 4 3 t ae i | trembled to the inmost recesses Of its remo aavage of the twa.

test grven-grover’s shop with rage at the au- CORRESPONDENCE, If the Georgetonians are justiOable in this ne ean ee eee Catholic | eek ea a. _.|mode of distributing justice, then, in the| ishops titular British sees. uri Kusse 1 . ge A away en- tuok ap thé insvlent cl alleage of the Vatican | NEW BRUNSWICK AFFAIRS. | le Of ool Leeey of wil by hile and conceived a bill ol pwins and penalties tu ( From our own Correspondent.) ca hey a all its expensive concomitants,

: be inflicted upon Cardinal Wiseman and his| The excitement and discussions which have and let there be one rule in the new regime | confederate. prelates. Dut wheo the bill| prevailed here for the last two months about | for the white ‘ savage’’ and his less favoured | came to the birth it was so very mild and| the Chesapenke affair have at length quite |Indian brother. If Hagh MeGilvray is to)

gently remonstrant a tail tiat Punch, with ie " . oi bakin * ’ he is whipped, why in ti the applause of all England, took up the pa- subsided ; aud now the all-engrossing sbject | be tried before he is whipped, way ib be

rable of his cartoon agiinst + Finality Joh” under the guise of @ swall urchin who was making bis way at hot speed aruund the eor-

of Provincial Railways. You will have | be whipped before be is tried? learned before this time that the three men| It would appear, Sir, that the people of | apprehended on a charge of ;1racy and mur-

; oon se Cardinal's h ‘use after chalking up | der have been discharged from imprisonment. | County, ; P Sn ae ee against Le Cardinal's duor**No|'They are now enjoying the ** biessings of | entertain some very remarkable notions PI ‘ opery . Such terror in the successiul liberty.’" When the evidence was taken and | specting individual rights and public rectitude.

urehin’s wizened countonanee—savh mingled indignation and amusenent in the rubicund "9 ¥isuge of the prince of the church looking out of the window after the offender ! And now, behold the steamer brings us news that Barl Russell, has boldly ‘boxed the eurs of Mr S:ward and tweaked the nose of

the arguments of Cuansel heard before the | They are not disposed to linger any longer Police Magistrate, that officer ordered the ac- behind the age in the tardy course cf common cused to be committed and to be given up to | law, but strike out for themselves—as in the | the Federal Government on demand. This | case of flugging the Indian—snech bold and | | decision, however, did not satisfy the pirate's |

at least three fourths of our citizens—though | The mhabitants of Lots 61 and 64 are des-

Fane, requesting her to grant such concessions

p4 4 : 7 . | . : ° . >. » ¢ 2 y » : is the mitiation of policy for the construction | name of common justice 18 Louis Nicholas tu | Vert their Leaseholds into Freeholds on just and moderate terms.

her Agent, until a decisive and satisfactory ‘answer to the Memorial which we are about | the Island, in the year 1830, provided for the pay- to forward to ber, be received from Lady | Fane.

Vigorous measures as must be matter of as- | pearance, the meeting was dismissed about

Oo d ; | toni : i | half-past six o'clock. Counsel, and was as gall and wormwood to | tonisimenttoevery one excepting themselves! P | Juneary, ISIS, the Earl of Ripon tae es

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