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- HASZARD'S GAZETTE. DECEMBER 20.

IIILAID LID ITS IIKAIITAITS. The shores of Finland are now the theatre of Mn’ ’ ' It is

WHAT MAKE A TEMPEBANCI KAN. In the early stage of the temperance reform,

. , pobable eeyslhc Boston Telegraph. some tbusy oreven that the of thaws! VH1 be idod twenty cars ago. the men who scrupulously hero;. for the Anglo-[banal .fifi, aided sbelaiue from the use of ardent Iplflll was aux pe, succeeded in takin usually reputed, and might, as things men were,

fortrfisii ted in that part ofthoBa- iuslly enough call himself a tem .reoc_c insn. tio -the 'Cxer Nidsolas will be forced in Of wins he might drink end ivc to his friends as

. tuaoss t ditlosis f peace ’Wes 'w::: finiaiiid also. of which no one spoke a few years ago, has suddenly acquired a very eat i tsnoe. which bears so prominent a part in the desti- nioe_ of tho_civilised world.

as one a fcf

some name,-and on the other by the gulf of Bothnla’. , a ‘ on; oxtudin from tlid 50th to the 65th egroe of north latitude.

wifli lahea,maseb-l

forests which furnish excellent cc_ks rigorous. to only

of granite. The climate is ver Summer commences in June. an the fiinperetnre is so warm, that vegetation pr . There have the _in has been gather- in full maturity at t end of six weeks from the time when it was sown. The provinces of the South-west produce corn,

inland sants fertilize their fie fire to he liriers and forests. They cast the seed into the ashes ; and from this method of culture, large crops are obtained. But the vernment is not disposed to favour these bar- ‘ rous methods; for they sometimes cause great dovaststions. ' ' Fish . huntin . tending flocks, and the fur trade, atill contri rats to support ..the inhabi- tants. The coasts t good harbours for merchant vessels; but the use of them is very -llmi ' water being covered with ice near- In winter all travelling is done in slodgos, which furnish so may and re ‘d means of communication. he popu ation of Finland is not known ex- actly. Some travellers allow one million five ’ hundred thousand inhabitants; others only one million. The people are health , robust, vigo- -rous, laborious men; extromcy attached to their native soil, and unwilling to change it for milder climates. Ths‘origin of the Finlumiers or Fins is not known, end has furnished a subject of long discussion to the erudite. They are called in theiiaown league Souoma, and their country is called memma, which means, the region of lakes and ruarshcs., Greek authors gave them the general and vague name of tlaianr. The Romans knew them under the title of Forum’, and the historian Tacitus has che notarized them in these terms : “ The Pies ought to be numbered among the Germans. The are a ‘people singularly barbarous, living in rightfu misery. They have neither arms, nor horses, nor fioc . , They live on herbs, are covered with skins, and sleep on the ground. All their resources consist in arrows, with bone points, which they use for want of iron. Hunting occupies and en ports the women as well as the men ; for the ormer aoconi ny the latter, and claim a part of the game. n order

wild beasts and storms, the mothers hide them under the thick branches of trees; and here the old and young assemble after the chase.” Since the time of Tacitus, the.Fins have huilded houses, and are partly civilized. They are of a medium height, their hair is white, their physiognomy grave, and even melancholy. They are slow in their enterprises, but firm and persovoring, when they have undertaken them. hey tiently support great privations, and are i ifi'erent to property and the comforts of life. Like alli norant people, oy are super- ‘ ' T prejudices, and attach eat im rtancc to the customs of their ancestors. They persevered in paganism until about the middle of the two fth century. Then (in 1156) a Swedish king, assisted by the bishop of Upsal, undertook a kind of crusade against them, and forced them to receive baptism. the sixteenth century they followed tho‘example of their metropolis and adopted the Lutheran confession, but mingled it with numerous errors. ey are generally moral, upright and hospitsb e. Poetry is a favourite art. They have poets and improvisators who, at a marriage, or-any solemn festival, rival each other in alternate songs, like the shepherds of Virgil. Their puler poems are called Bauer,- tho come inos y from the times of paganism, endyservo to cast light on their primitive istor . Some of their customs are singular. T e marriage season only comes once a year,—in the autumn. Until that time, the ex ctsnt lover is not authorised by custom to a rose in person the object of his desires. His declara- tion is made by sending a piece of moncfi which is accepted or not, according as t young ‘r! is inclined to approve or reject his ofsr. The sending of this ga of love and all the rest of the ceremony are eft in the hands of some old woman of the vi , who s no other occupation than to conduct marriages. The inhabitants of Finland long belonged to Sweden. But the Russians from the time of Peter I, invaded one province after another, and the whole countr was annexed to Russia by the treaty of 1370. he emperor Alexander express- l ptonbod that the religion and fundamental laws, the rights and privileges of the prinehipslily should be respected ; and engaged to assom e the national Diet regularly for the voting of taxes and local legislation. But those fsir premises have not been executed. The Fiulsnders are hostile to the dominion, sad wiIl.seize t op r- iuuiiy of submitting to the yoke of Swedes. be is set citim of Finland _aro Abe, .H¢lu'ng'ors '. Abo is the Sec of a Lutheran bishop. It has a flourishing university, numerous manu- factures, and almost 19,000 inhabitants; but this day was almost entirely raised in IS%_by s cg-glue are, sad has ceased to be the capital of the coast . Helslngfors, the true capital, num- bers Io, souls beside the garrison. The g ogmagsgsllflsl resides there, and tbe- I-‘inland ulvsrsity has been transferred to it. It b situa- mehont 1_ miles from Cronstedt. Viberg con- d slstica of 7000 inhabitants, and is vary fortified; the Rneden ovsrnmenf having established those immense y mags- slass with fsrmids

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much as ho plessed, provide he sloppod shun of evident excitement. We have been assured by a member of the old original Massachusctls Society for the suppression of iuteuuperancs, the but so- ciety oftho kind. if we recollect origin, in 1811, that for many years, at the animal meetings c

that society, it was customary to discuss the abutting of the grog-sliope over a bottle of old Madeira.

The American Tsinpersncs Union and lh_e advocates ofiolsl abstinence from all that lnl0Xl- eatse, introduced a new test; and after a severe struggle, the wine-drjnlfcrs, who ihought_ihem- solvcs very badly treated. were obliged to give up their claim to be called temperance men.

The next step in advance was the pledge.. was not enough for a man to abstain; he must give in his adherence lo the principle of total ab- stinence openly before the world, thus reaching out as it were, a helping hand to the unfortunalc struggling in the gutter, who might be induced to take hold of the offered pledge. and so draw. themselves out of the mud ; while this firm hand- to-hand union of all the temperance men would prevent many of the weaker brethren from being drawn in.

But it was soon found that all these means worcquile inadequate to the great objectin view. As long as grog shops stared the public In the face at every corner of our ciliee; as long as every hotel and grocery offered fscililies for drinking, lhere would be, so and experience showod._msny, even of the pledged men; unable to resist the temptation. l‘he idea of abolishing intemper- sncc, as a ualiooal and domestic institution, or even of holding the ground already gained was evidnmly chimcrical, unless these» grog-shops could be shut up, and a cry was accordingly raised by ihs men of the tompeisnce party, for stronger legislative acts of prohibition. 'l‘hese acts were readily enough passed by the concur- rence ofmen of all parties; for .in those days (say fifteen years ago) almost every body not an habitual haul-drinker or a seller, belonged (nomi- nally) to some total abstinence society, and claimed lobe s temperance man. But no sooner were these new acts pssscd,'lhan the tug of war came. The sellers forthwith carried the ques- lion into politics, refusing lo vote for any candi- date fbr any ofiice, who would not give them, pledges public or private, of hostililily to prohibi- Iivo legislation. The politicians, like a flock of frightened sheep, all began to jump out of the temperance fold, though they still insisted upon calling themselves temperance men ; an h friends of temperance, in pure self-defcnc, were compelled also to carry the question into politics, and lo adopt the resolution of voting for no man for any State oflico not pledged, not merely to lhe abstract principle, but to the efficient practice of prohibitive legislation.

And that is the ground on which the matter stands at present. No person has now a right to claim fellowship with the temperance party, or ask votes from them upon the more ground of personal abstcmiuisness, or of his good wishes for the general prevalence of temperance. or even of his admission of the abstract right of prohibi- iive legislation. Porsousl abstinence, good wishes for the cause, the admission ofabstrecl. principles, are all very well, but to be called at this day a temperance man, one must go a step further. One thing. 0 politician and candidate for ofiico, solicitor of lhcvotes of temperance men, thou yet lsckert! You cannot have their voles and the votes of the rum men loo. lfyou wish us to vote for you, you must declare your readiness to sex with us in the matter of prohibition by law.

5. L. 'l‘i|ley, Eeq., says the Telotallcr, the acting most Worlhy Patriarch of the Sons of Temperance, who formerly resided in St. John, but now in Fredericton the capital of New- Brunswiclr, has lIlely' been elected to the responsible not of Provincial Secretary of the! Province. *'Phis is the chief office of the Ministry. and is one of high responsibility. Mr. Tilley is a self made man. Only a few years ago he was a a quiet druggist; hcJ‘oined the Sons of Tempe- rance, and was foun to have a gift for speech making, and from speaking in the Division room, took the field and public platform, where he was most elllectivo; was elected to Parliament on the Maine Law issue; last June was elected M. W. P.,of the Soils of Temperance, and has been elcvatcdlo the honourable post of Secretary of Slate of his native Province. ‘

Ai.aioir’s sons. The following Patriotic appeal we copy from the New Brunswick Cronicls, it may not be inappropriate to Pr nce Edward Island, at the present junclure:—Old Albion's Sons are in the tented fiold—Englsn¢.’e best blood are sheathed in mailed slcol.—'Iho British Lion, so long ccuchsnt, has risen from its lair, “ to right the injured and reward the brave.” The savage hordes of Russia have inundated the fair fields of the South, but the chivalry of France and England have crossed their path. and stayed the tyrant in his unholy purpose. The Allied Armies, like a wall of sdamenlino fire, have on the heights of Alma taught the Bsrbqrisn forces, from the cennon’s mouth, what ‘lie to war with civilizs‘ lion. That Brute must succumb to intellectual force. Forty years has the British sabre rested in its scabbsrd—fssty years have the nations of Europe repooad in But now the “ blast of war has blown s sin." The blade is bsred, and in the hands of ight, and Might, will not again return. until bleeding and ‘prostrate Poland, and Hungary an , d T000 fwd among the nations of the earth ; until the unsati- stod and bloody Cssr has disgorged his ill-gotten unitary and Austria, and Prussia. partners in the spa , with fear and trembling,shall humble themselves to the dlctslion of the Illustrious and Invincible Powers of the West. The plscidity of ' Empire sisse the using scene_ of alaughtsr at Waterloo, has caused the vsunungini- oils, to taunt her with cowardice and pusillani- miiy, bcasiisg that her glory hsd depsrted,_ihsi with Nelson and Wellington had died the nation's glory. But the booming gun and the war cry of " St George and our rights,” on lhe heightsof Alma, have told to the world that the spirits of her departed heroes live in ten thousand British hearts, and that the immortal part of a nation's chivalr and devotion will be found alike

.4 by 3 e drum-boy and the Royal son ol Bum- wick's honored line. With a union of France and

zgglaud, " come north, come south, some sll the werldis arms," and they Ilinst fies before the combination. Who is be, born before the Blood "A Cross, that don not feel the bnor of hlshirlh, up-ass, proodsrwrssisv. burl-er. ..l... his emu; is uusodl. , in-0 by-rt-94 sword, with s lsssnss ‘start. lssps rom

sheath in vindication of s rl htsous cease, Those

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5. real tlsll shes siiniolsls every Bri- :i='ubyat,'ii'bcthsr native or Coleslsl born ; and

_sence of rock from the soi

as such, he should, aller the mitades of valor per- formed at Alnia Ly British arms. step out of the ordinary court-o of nationality, and feeling lhsttlie British soldier lays heart and soul on A_llsr_of 1,3. ommu-,.’s causo.cllcorfulIy throw in his mus to assuage ‘the grief of the housclcss widow and the tears oftlio helpless Olpllllli “"“l'|‘°d d°‘“‘ lulo by the devotion of their natural protector. We of" who Colonies should doubly feel the obligation we owe to the ,Ns_uon’s ilaross, while we .l.ould also doubly conlrlhulp lo ‘Ilia bereaved of lhose who have wulclied over our inlcrosls. and protected our bombs and homes from_ WOW“ interference. We have never yet contributed I fsrlhing towards the sup rt ofthc Army or the Navy, and a subsciiplion now would be esteemed the first fruits of our Liborsliiy sod Pstriciisin. To evince which we would propose that in addi- rion to the promiscuous and trifling somunt already raised, every man in the Province. from the highest to the lowest, should contribute a “-day's

ay," according to his income. This. will: a

iberal Grant from the Legislature. would prove to the people of England, that slfhougp our lot is cast in the Colonics,our hearts are essentially British. and elill in the Laud of our Fathers.

This call is especially made for the consideration g

of ship-builders, founders and mill~ownqrI. Who are exlensive employers. it is he d not only that they will call upon their operatives, but that as an earnest of their sincerity, they will head the list with such sums so their circumstances will guarantee. _

As a stimulant to which we have the noble example of Canada. the Legislature of which have subscribed the munificent sum of $100,000, while the beans of Britons of all classes, have melted with benevolence. Almost every factory, and establishment where operatives ere cmplo , have come forward with the " heart's gills ’ of the unwsshod—in Manchester alone lo lho amount of £3,000. The Corporation of London, £2,000; The Bank of England, £2,000; T Goldsmith’: Company, £l,000; The Grocers’ Compsnv, £1, . The Mercantile firms through- oullhc Kingdom, from a Thousand down to Ten Pounds, making in the aggregate a vast sum. “ but all too little for the sscrificc.” Let" it not be said than that the hearts of New Brunswiol('s sons, do not respond lo the glory, and msgnani- mity of the nation whose tlsg we bravely wear.

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HcIlow.ry's Pills, a Wonderful Remedy for Bile, Jaundice and Liver Complaints -’—-Extract of a letter om Mrs. or Wood, to Mr. Jenkins, chemist, Christchurch, dated September I2, I852. Sir,—-l sufi'ered for seven months from a liver com- plaint, jsundice, and a severe bilions smack. During the whole of this lime l was h or medical treatment, but experienced no relief whatever. I was at length recommended _to Iry Hollowuy’s Pilis, and am happy to say this invaluable medicine in the course ofa very short period. effected a perfect cure, and res- tored me to hoellh so that loan, with confidence, recommend these Pills to others similarly afllictsd.

(Signed) Mary Wood.”

EASZARD’8 GAZETTE.

Wednesday, December 20, 1854.

CIIARLOTTETOWN GAS LIGHT COMPANY.

We were as much surprised as either the Erananer or Advertiser could be at the immense rise—25 per cent-—in the price of Gas, fur- nished by the above Company. We are not of those however, who pass sentence of condem- nation without having first investigated the charge, and without havin first ascertained what were the causes which find the Directors to make an advance, which, like all other addi- tions to the price of necessaries of life, cannot fail to be unpopular. We have taken the pains therefore, to enquire of the proper oflccrs the reasons for the alteration in price of Gas. It must. however, have been apparent to every one, in fact, no one who burns coal can beigno- rant of the great advance in the price of this article, whether it arises from an increase in the price of freight, or other causes, we shall not stop to enquire ; the fisct is, that coal, the foundation of Gas, has risen to a full 25 pe cent above what it was when the Gas Works commenced o ration. As haltum has risen 50 r cent,i not more. u very carts of these articles has increascd50 r cent. fiow, these circumstances alone would be sufiicient in thcmselve's to authorize an increase of price,

cause it is self-evident that if the raw mate- rial has advanced in cost, it will of necessity compel those who have the management of the concern, to cause a like advance to be ut on the manufactured article. To the public it is of no manner of consequence, that the Gas is supplied by a company, or a private individual, in fact, the ver act 0 incorporation makes the aggregation 0 persons connected, but one in vi usl with whom the public must expect to deal on precisely the same terms that it would with a private person.

The baker raises the price of bread, and when you enquire the cause he answers, “ the price of flour ii,” and we are contain, as we needs must be, with the answer. ],_t is said that the expence of furnishing the article of Gas here ought to be less than in the neighbouring colonies, and the reason given is, that the ab-

enables the con: ny to lay down their pipes with less costo out- lay. This at first sig t a peers to be c case, but strict examination oes not bear out the conclusion. it is true that in Nova Sootia, cw Brunswick and in Newfoundland, the soil is hard and rock , and costs more toox- osvate, but it must remembered that the towns lighted with Gas in those colonies stand upon lessoomperative s cc, and are much more densely peopled than Lharlottetown, and the consequence resulting from these two circum- shncss, is. that long lines of expensive pipes have to be laid in Charlottetown without a corresponding number of consumers, insomuch, that from a calculation made, there is, in the adjoining colonies and in Newfoundland, ten consumers in a given length of pipe to flora in of pipe in berlottetown. yards 0 male pi

in Charlottetown and 1,000 ya t 0 dis

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laid down of service

pips, this of itself shows portion ween what is the consumption of in the pro of 0

seat sts harlottetown, and what would be the case if the town were more thick- ly inhabited. Wore town as ly built a n as is lielifex, St. John N. B. or St.» John . F. or even Plctou, the length ofesrvics pipe would equal, if not exceed that ofinein pips. When therefore a comparison is insti- tuted between ourselves and the people of other pleceskws must take care not to suit

ourselves to dscslveflb false ml.ses,and in this caee.eIl things cousi cred. Gee Com could rhsps,'bevs better sllrdedto be

vs l the ad tlonel sum for laying down the shine lsngtheflasin pipe iftheir onhed been three times as hold the Covyi a). $8501’ blsnulop ill tl-if getter. e thunk that bone e prenil

eyhevsnoth, sssliito _- luthe Irst place, Ileir custom

an advance as 25 per cent, was laid on. _In the second place, there is truth in the assertion that the inhabitants were induced to _ a great cxpence in gas-fittings on the implisdif not express understanding, that the gas was no to _oxceod £1 per thousand feet, and it would but seem to be but reasonable in an unexpected contingency like the present. that the lou should for sin moment, be equally at least borne both ties. ifnot who ly by the Com o say or the moment. because it is fol y suppose that the Gas Company could go on for over lssi : it were better for them so close their wo , sell ofi', and confess themselves bankrupt atoms, (as they-un nostinably would be_in the course of b little while) and declare a dividend while there is anything to divide. In the third pl , we think that in common cour- tesy. they oifgdit to have