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THE EXAMINER. —

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ee. end sth a doquisition for a large’ sum of money, if | cht 40,000 livres, and a daily supply of twenty- |

a ST: besides, they had been’ carrying off all the | sheep of the cottages in the neighbourhood that they could |

t hold of. The regiment advanced in two columns on the| town, one by the high road, the other through the meadows | on the opposite side of the river, with + company ettended on the hills ou each flank: A party of about 30 Austrians wo had scén from our advanced posts enter the town to plunder, while we were halted, but they retired’ on’ our =. proach. All the heights were immediately occupied, an

the rest of the day was spent in examining: the enemy's osttion.

At daylight on tHe Srd, the Colonel wis ovum. ~f bic officers sdvanced to reeonnoitre close to Bigni Nuovi. The énemy had withdrawn thoir whole force (computed at between 500 and 600) across the ravine to Bagni Veechi. Here is | the first bridge and tunnel on the Stelvio road. They had barricaded the tunnel and mined the bridge, covering it with fascines, pitch, &e. At 6 a’elock precisely the head of the column of our troops, which had been io the rear, was seen advancing into the eunshine on the plain from tho shadow of the mountains, and was seen by the enemy. They fired the bridge. In a few minutes’ the mine exploded. It was a beautiful sight, the columad of black smoke or fire fying up frota the dark ravine. Théo bridge, which was of wood, | burfied furiously for some hours, when it fell in with a thun- deriny crash. Early in the afternoon’ a company was sent to occupy the houses at Bagai Nuovi. An officer and sergeant had been there all the moruing, to observe the enemy's move-

ments. Just before the company arrived the enemy sent

some of their riflemen to try and approach our engineers, weed of your tenure of office, re-enact those scenes of blood,

who were at work, but on being discovered they were with- drawn without firing a shot.

As soon as the soldiers showed on the road within range, the enemy began to pepper us with balls, so the men were led under some banks out of fire to the baths. The Austrian position was frovt the road above Bagni Vecchia along @ precipitous ravine up the side of the mountain, about 300 feet above, and from 800 to 2080 yards distant from our position. A hot fire of rifles was kept up through the after- noon, from which they suffered much, though [ cannot state the amount, as they carried off all their dead and wounded. Three were shof dead at 1000 yards from: the window at which f was posté#, and a horse and mule which were draw- idg carts we supposed to contain woundvi men were also knocked over. At length, some of our carabinier? wert up a goat path on the mountain west of the rive, and’ got a flank fire on the enemy; this silenced them entirely. Early in the night they fired a few shot, evidently to get us to show where we were, but no notice was taken of it. In the morn- ing all were gone up the road to Stelvio. Our men were advanced under the command of Major Bixio, but saw nothing of them. Several peasants who had been carried off by them to work Upon their defences up the pass escaped in the night, and came in in the morning.

The enemy have blown up two more bridges near the first captiniera, so our work here is done. We casnot follow them over the confines of the Tyrol, though they can come through that country with troops, etc., on us, for by an odd sort of logic the Tyro!, forming part of the Confederation, 1s neutral ground, but being under the protectorate of Austria, she can pass throvgh it without violating the neutrality, though she cannot follow ovr beaten enemies into that coun- try. Itis surprising the terror the name of the General

Se eer ee ee

\ittle more Biblical lore than his antagonist, and asked him if

he clan of McLean was before the flood.: ‘¢ Flood, what flood ?”’ said McLean. s «Ta flood that you know drowned all ta world bat Noah and

family flocks,’’ said Campbell. — yt Pooh vou and your flood,” said McLean ; “ my clan was

fore ta flood.”’ " cm heck not readin my Bible,”’ said Campbell, * of ta name

f McLean going into Noah's ark.” «* Noah’s ark!’ retorted’ McLean, in contempt, * who ever

heard of a MeLean tat had nota boat of Ins own ?”’

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Correspondence. RPL LP PLDI LPI [FOR THE EXAMINER. ]

ORANGE ASSOCIATIONS. «* Judex damnatus ounr nocens absoloiter.”’

TO HIS EXCELLENCY GEORGE DUNDAS, ES@:, Lizcrenant Governor, &c. &e. *

May tt pleas¢ Your Excellency :

I wish to direct your attention to the fact‘that att organised body exists in this colony, glorying in the nathe of Orangemen. a by your Sovereign with the administration of tho laws for the security of life and property, and tho develope- ment of the resources of thie Island, permit me to ask your Excellency do you imagine that either life or property cam be secure, or confidence reposed in the administration of the laws where Orangeism —a name stereotyped in the blood of its thousands of unoffending victims — 18 suffered to exist? Do you feel that you are carrying out the Royal Instructions by permitting the organization to continue, whith may, ere the

which, unhappily,» few years since, afflicted a neighbourin province? These thoaghts—these queries are dictated by the rusal of an address éf condolence ‘* from the Boyne Lodge,

John and James Maloney, on'thesudden and melancholy death by drowning of Miss Maloney. ‘The foundering of a boat, itt the lumguage of the Monifor, ‘in the fearful tornado of Saturday last,’’ affords the brethren of the “ loya? order” an opportunity of chanting the requiem of Miss Maloney, an ob- secure individual, and proclaiming, under the auspices of your Excelleacy’s Government, that Orangeism is not a myth in Prince Edward Island, but a reelity, with a ** local habitation anda name.’’ Permit me, your Excellency, to offer for your consideration a few facts connected with the first formation of the institution, its designs and operations ; and then you can ask yourself if you are justified in delaying, even for a single day, in calling your Council together to consider the most effectual means of crushing in its infancy a society fore- beding mischief to the best interests of the Government which you have been appointed to rule. Ireland, like your own «loved Caledonia,’’ the land of the Celt, has inscribed her name in the brightest annals of British glory — enriched the crown of Britain with some of its choicest gems, but she has also, through a portion of her degenerate sons, and ruthless invaders, implanted burning memories in the national mind. The ‘* Battie of tho Diamond,’’ fought om the 21st September, 1795, between the Defenders (Catholics) and the Protestant Ascendancy party (‘* Peep-of-Day Boys,’’} was the precursor of the Orenge Lodges in Ireland. On this day, at the house of a man named Sloan, in the village of Loughgsle, in the County Armagh, not far from the Diamond battle*field, the first Orange Lodge was formed. Any detailed account? of the tests, oaths, rules and proceedings of the Orange Institetion, under the more systematic form which it assumed within two or three years after its commencement, I do not propose to give in this place. Its object was the wholessJe extermination of the Irish Cathoties from the soil on which they grew, the land of their fathers, where they hed suffered the most cruel

occasions the enemy. I read an absurd story in one of the Swiss papers, that the Austrian soldiers believed it was enough for Garibaldi to touck or took at a man, and say, “ Follow me,” and that he immediately, whether he would or no, became a perfect soldier. But true it is they have a most decided fear of him and his soldievs—Letfer in Lon- don Daily News.

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THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF CANADA.

The follewing is fram the Scottish American, published at New York, which has a very large circulation in the United States and British Provinces, ehiefly among persons of British origin. It is a very ably conducted paper, moderate in tone and warmly devoted to British interes:s :—

The period of Sir Edwwund Head’s appointment as Governor- General of the British Provinces expires this autumn, and speculation is already busy as to whe is likely to be his suc- cessor. Mr. Cobden, it is rumuured, has had the offer of the appointment on his declining that of President of the Board of Trade. It is doubtful if he would accept an office which would reinove him from that active political life ia England for which he is so well qualified. Unfortunately, the sare objection is in the way of @ great manv other capable men beitg appointed to this important and dignified post. Governorstips, both in Canada and elaewhere, are for this reason usally giver to the most unfit men that cen possibly be selected, the conduct of the Government of those British corriunities: which do not happen to be within the British islands being entrusted to any insignificant owner of a title or incapable office seeker, whose family or party connection cam Secere euch aa appointmont. This is the great and almost the only surviving grievarce of which the Colonies have reason to complain against the mother country, and now thet responsible Govermments are in- stituted, the ground of complaiut is es great as ever.

W bat is wanted in @ Governos is nct much,—simply enough of common senee to erable Lim to understand His own position, and the spirit of that system of Government of which he is ap- pointed to be the nominal head. It is time this swould be re-

‘ognized as absolutely cssentiai, and the system of sending to Colonies mere aristocratic incapables, men without a com-

. apprehension of tie rules of justice and propriety, speci- the in short, of the egetistical, empty-headed, second. zate mich ‘1, who thinks that in “ foreign parts”’ he is at liberty mens; . > role of a petty tyrant, and the patron of petty ex- John Bu. » others,—-such a system, we say, cannot be too

1, if the slight connection still subsisting with ‘vis tobe preserved. A man of Mr. Cobden’s out be a great acquisition, iirespective of

his views on any special question. Such to be no part of his bus:nese to obtrude rivilege of self-Government. A man we no difficulty in discovering that

S08 ve thi ot ; erose who ha 7 that privilege in the true spirit of

Mbch sense would h,

of av aan » are other men who, both from wa oo ane Mr, eens Oe qualifications, would be well “ hy Soe Petr i

present po Mion and personal! .. <i nie eeaneck ited for the appointment. A an xt in office in the present

a desirable man. It is ‘ikely to be promoted Seutia. But recent Gevernership of ‘ Adiministration in ted with his Lotdshig’s —* render such an + all things, it

vnd practical t he should It is not necessa rains like ronet, though, if he ee having

there can be no objection’ to his’

but whbd’ idm been spoken’ of a .

tite not calculatéd’tu ble

pointment either desira or popular. Ad ®

oe ee fe oe We learn from an exchange that thé debt of Canada, 7

the osha at the two provinces, has increased from six to'etmty millions of dollars, and the annual expense of the goreren x from a million and a quarter to cleven This is paying pretty for a repeal of the Union and a reconstruction of the govern- |, ment. -

Aw Awctent Race.—The following is an instaneé of the

tenacity with which i jiseourage. aatieala a their kindred: A dispute arose between os aie * - a. sufficient toshow the animus of Orangeism bell and a McLean upon this never-ending subject. . =f | 6 eystem © . "ED MURDER and wholesale extermination of |

the Campbells had any right to ran : — — Ss uit a. he insisted, were in existence

| threw down the houses of the tenantry, or what they called

millions and a Half.) in dear for the whistle, and will account for ¢o the agitation now rife in the western section of the province, Beare, coo; bub pada Ian oupeeie Lotta ieee

et ip the protection of the law ~that the Magistrates have

the Highlanders hold to the honotits and-| with contples ot

e Trish Catholies, the Irish Cathoties, » b dec in blood the fairest fie,'ds jp Ulster—a system which depopa- |

persecution for their adherence to’ thé old faith, because

“ They would not forsake Mithros’ ancient ray, To kneel at shrines of yesterday.”

From this fatal 21st September the County of Armagh was the scene of a course of systematio and uncliecked atroci- ties, such as in any other country than Ireland would be con-

sidered as transcending the ordinary licence of ciyil war. Rob- bery, arson, kidnapping and murder ~—carried on as a system for weeks and months together, by day and by night, with the scatcely disguised sympathy of the Magistracy, and the merest make-believe resistance on the part of the Government—were the first fruits of an organisation which, (whetber the ‘ purple test’ or oath of pay ist extermin:tion be historica! or mystical, I do not now enquire), had no other practical aim than the extermination by fire and sword of the whole community of Catholics, from thie who! provinee of Ulster, beginning with Armagh County. ‘The true chatacter of the Orange system, and of Protestant Ascendancy, for Wich Orangeism is but another name, and of the Government which looked on with folded sxms, whilst the Orange murderers were Derpetrating

‘lated whole districts—whose inferna) records | blood of its myri by the sighs of widows,

No. 614, expressed at their last regular meeting, to Messrs. | P

are read in the ad victims—its notes of triumph accompanied the cries of orphans, and the expiring

groans Of violated maidens. To trace the horrors of Orange cruelty in Ireland for the

last sixty years would be to write the darkest page of Ireland’s | story. From its institution tilt’ 1836 it had been st

more rampant and itftolerant by the anneal immolation of its victinrs, the poor Catholics, :an ‘rhore defiant of the -wore le- nient administration of the lawy, that acknowledged the con-} atitutjonal existence of the ‘* Iristi' papist,”’ which had’ been+ legally ignored for so many years, until the Government thought fit to arrest the Molegh of bigotted religious persecu- | tion by the enactment of the Procession Act. On the passing of this Act, the disloyal faction, who strove to set aside the claim to the throne of our present beloved Sovereign. and lace the royal diadem on the guilty brow of the then Grand [aster, the Duke of Cumberland ;_ they disobeyed the law in | every instance ; and the Judges going cireuit had for several | years to'pass sentenes of imprisonment with hard labour, for. wn open vidlation'of the laws upon those rebels, who boasted ah exclusive loyalty. In 1839, three years after the passing of the Party Processions Act, the Hon. Justice Moore addresed a batch of Orange banditti at the Assizes in the County of Tyrone, in the following language :—** You stand charged with disobeying an Act of Parliament, intended by the Legis- lature to give repose te this unfortunate country, from the periodital outrage and murder resulting from the commemora- tiot'of the Battle of the Boyne. You profess exclusive loy- alty, but you are exclusively and particularly disloyal, because you disobey the law, and ate rebels'in intention aad act. While there wag no law against your processions, and’ that men of standing and respectability publicly united with you, you had some apparent semblance of justice on your side iti commemo- rating your party anniversaries ; but now that any respectable man obeys the law, you are an isolated class of disobedient and disloyal subjects to the throne — socially the SCUM OF SOCIETY.”

The opposition to the law om the part of the Orangemen roceeded so far that at last it was found expedient bythe body to dissolve the old organisation, and reconstruct it on anew principle---to hold no armed public processions, &e. ; yet still the system became 0 obnoxious and was the cause of so many sanguinary conflicts with the emancipated Catholics — grown great, powerful and not to be trampled on with impunity— that under the Administration of the present Premier, when the Orange riots in Belfast threatened the peace of the king- dom, the Lord Chancellor issued a circular to the gentry of the country, informing them that to be an Orangeman was & disqualification from holding the commiesion’ of the peace. Orangedom, of course, felt insulted and buckled on its armour to make war upon the Queen’s Government, who denied its blood-stained champions and defenders on the bench the power any longer to pervert justice by punishing the innocent and allowing the guilty to escape. To give vent to the outraged feelings of Orangeism, a deputation waited upon Lord Pal- merston, composed of the Granp Mastrr, the EarlLof Ennis- killen, Lord Claude Hamilton, &c., &e. And haying said ‘their say,’’ his Lordghip replied at great length. Space, however, will only afford a few extracts. ‘* I think it would be better to look to the present thar: to the past, and [ would beg leave to ask what is the good of this Orange Society? What is it that it is intended to accomplish? Even as re- organised, it belongs to a time which has fone by rather than to the tive in which we live. Does it not, in fact, rather belong to the middte ages—to a period of social anarehy— when one part of a nation was compelled to organise itsel together to resist some outrage or violence, or illegal proceed- ing of another party ; and when they were not able to trust themselves to the general Government which ruled over both, for that protection and that security to which they deemed themselves entitled 7 But ali that has passed away,and what, I ask, is the use of this Orange Society?” The Earl of Ennis- killen replied, “ for’ self-defence.’’ Lord Palmerston: ** you say ‘ for self-defence’;’ but that, I consider, is an offensive insinuation against the Government. It is really an insult to the institutions of the country to suppose that the Govern- ment of Her Majesty is not able to protect every individual in the country, or that persons are really obliged to combine together for ‘ self-defence.’ ”’ The most extraordinary state- ment on the part of the deputation was that made by Lord Claude Hamilton, ‘* that since the re-organisation of the Orange Association there have recently been no armed pro- cessions.”’ ‘he Belfast ‘* Northern Whig’’ replies: ** Why, there has not been an assizes hardly in Ulster, since the Association was re-constituted, at which Orangemen have not been arraigned for appeating armed in illegal processions.” But how could any man think of denying the fact with the tang of the Dolly Brae affair and the Beers im his mind,

Some member of the House of Commons should move for a return of the number of persons indicted since 1836 for walk- ing in Orange armed processions, and then leave the member for Tyrone to explain away his assertions as he best may. On Monday, 7th June, 1858, Lord Dungannon, a violent Orangeman, in the House of Lords put several questions to

their blood > orgies on the defenceless papists, appcers sufficient- ly from the following often quoted address of Lord Gusiord. as Governor of Armagh, to a meeting of the Magistrates of the County, on the 28th of December :—* It is no secret that a persecution, cccompanied with all the circumstances of atro- cicus ervelty, which have in all ages distinguished that dread- fal celamity, is now raging in this country. Neither age nor zex, nor even ccknowledged innocence, as to the late disturbances ‘alluding to the conflicts between the ‘* Defenders”’ and.‘‘ Peep- of-Dey Boys’’) is sufficient to excite mercy, much less to afford profectior. The only crime which the wretched objects of this merciless persecution are charged with is a crime of easy proof, it |: s mply a@ profession of the Roman Catholic faith. A lawle-: banditti have constituted themselves judges of this new species of delinquency,.an@ the sentence they pronounce is equally concise and terrible—it is nothing less than a con- Jjiscation of cil property and immediate banishment. It would be extremely painful, and surely unnecessary, to detail the hortors that attend the execution of so wide and tremendous |@ proscription, which certainly exceeds, in the comparative number of those it consigns to ruin and misery, every example that ancieat or modern history can afford, for where have we neard, or in what history of human cruelties haye we read, of more than half the inhabitants of a populous County deprived at once, at one blow, of the means as well as the fruits of their industry, and driver, in the midst of an inclement winter, to seek a shelter for themselves and their helpless families where chance may guide them? This isno exaggerated picture of the horridjscenes now enacting in this County ; yet surely it ie sufiicient to awaken sentiments of indignation and compassion in the coldest heart. These horrors are now acting, and acting withimpunity. The spirit of impartial justice, without whicr law is nothing better than tyranny, has, for a time, disapear- ed in this County, and the suppineness of the Magistraey of a is a topic of conversation in ever y cornet of the bing- In the month of February of the following year, the « Ora- tor King,’’ the great and glorious Grattan, was allowed to say in his place in Parliament, without the slightest contradiction in the debate, and without the slightest influence on the divi- sion, that ‘the object of the Armagh disturbances was the extermination of all the Catholics of that County. It wasa persecution conceived in the bitterness of bigotry, carried on with the most ferocious barbarity by a banditti, who, being of the religion of the State, had committed with the greater audacity and confidence the most horrid murders, and had roceeded from robbery and massacre to extermination—they ad repealed, by their own authority, all the laws lately passed in favor of the Catholics—had established in the place of those laws the inquisition of a mob, resembling Lord George Gordon’s fanatics, equalling them in courage, and sur-

ing them in perseverance and success.’” And he adds urther, that, ‘‘ in many instances this banditti of persecution

‘ wrecked’ the houses, so that the family must fly or be buried the grave of their own cabin. The extent of the murders mitted by this atrocious and rebellious banditti I have |

*, but have not heard them so ascertained as to state to

Catholic inhabitants of Armagh have been actually

or partial, and that the horrid banditti have met. * suceess, and, from the Magistracy, with very

, dominion over matter that there is nothing too stupendous for

the Ear! of Derby with reference to the state of insubordina- tion to the laws existing in Belfast, and charged the Catholics, as a matter of course, with being the disturbers of the publie peace, to which the noble Earl replied : ‘* The oniy cause, in truth, for those occurrences which could be assigned was that religious rancour and animosity which existed between the Protestant and Catholic ages in that locality, which was with equal justice to be attributed to the lower classes of both, and which had rendered Belfast, the large majority of whose inhabitants were Presbyterians, notorious for the tur- bulence and violence of the proceedings by which from time to time it had been disgraced.”’ I find, your Excellency, that this letter has already grown too long for the space available in the Island journals, and must conclude for the present, but will return to the subject again. Before closing I may ob- serve, and it is with pleasure I do so, that the brethren with their chaplain, who, I presume, penned the pharasaic cant in the Monitor, which has been copied into the Protestant, feel ashamed to exhibit themselves in the light of day; but like the owl, that bird of evil omen, conceal themselves in the loom of obscurity. While the Js/ander, the organ of your Excellency’s Government, has not sullied its pages with the infamous record of religious bigotry issued by the ashamed, there is still hope that the public sentiment of the celony re- pudiates the Orange bigots, and that there is still prospective prosperity for the inhabitants of Prince Edward sland. Queen’s County, August 16, 1859. MENTOR,

(FOR THE EXAMINER.)

MODERN SCIENCE AND INVENTION.

Wuar pigmies in intellect, however gigantic in statu

those old rebellious Carbonari, the Titons, with Sheik clasen expedient of piling Pelion upon Ossa, and their hopeful project of taking the skies by escalade! It is the moderns, with their diminutive bodies and Titanian intellect:, piling up one dis- covery upon another, and bringing all matter under the dominion of mind, who have dimbed wp, as it were, into the heavens—detected all the laws, motions, and distances of the celestial bodies, and brought the whole system of the universe as much within the grasp of our apprehension as if it wore as tangible as the planisphere upon our table, by which it is re- presented in epitome. Having found for our moral lever what Archimedes wanted for his material one—a basis, we have performed what he threatened, by raising the world. Have | we not rammaged and ransacked its uttermost corners? Have we not mounted above the clouds in balloons — made ° descent upon the earth in parachutes, like so many Apoll with umbrellas above our heads — drawn sheetuic are f; +h heaven, without incurring the punishinent of Pranatisae sported beneath the waves in diving bells, and constru ted subaqueos edifices with as much composure as if we were r hi up a coral palace for Aimphitrite—crawled into the ye y bbtrels of the earth to extract its riches, by the assistance of D ts Wire-gauze lamp, mote wonderful t Aladdin’s—sunk ahs with as much perseverance as if we wete digging to u Rood 1 that fresh-water mermaid, Truth? By wielding the cade | tence of an impalpable vapour, we have acquired such the all subjugating gra of our ines ; i | im el nderous cent rough eile cine a wien and tide, with the velocity of a thunderbolt Se cea

, which decimated the millions, and soaked |

oil we have extracted a subtle gas, which, being conducted for

and retaile

petual light. By means of the telegraph we can conyerse

- nore

a few hours with persons stationed at the distance of a whole continent ; and by the magic writing, we can eternize our own thoughts, sentiments, almost our very voices, and transmit them unimpaired to‘the latest posterity. If we are alread prone to leap out of our materiality in the vain glorious aspi- rations of the spirit, what shall restrain us within the bounds of moderation when all improvements now projecting shall have received their full accomplishment, and the new patents for which applications have been made shall have been prac- tieally developed?) The company for realizing Dr. Hombug’s suggestion of moderating the burning ardours of the torrid zone. by towing a large portion of the icebergs from the nérthern to the southern latitude, is already in a considerable state of forwardnes#, and the shares are sellitig'at a handsome premium. From this most ingenious process a double advan- tage will'be derived. First, in so tempering the rigour of the Arctic circle, by withdrawing the frozen barrier in which itis immersed, that the Esquimaux may be enabled to crawl, for three whole months of the year, out of the holes in which they live,—while the Laplande1s may turn the woolly side of the skins in which they are clothed outwards instead ef inwards, to the great comfort of the inhabitants of the country, and the paramount discomfort of the inhabitants of the fleece — videlicet, the fleas. (Such are the terms set forth in the ap- plication to the House of Assembly for a ebarter.)

Secondly, by effecting such a modification of the torrid tem- perature, the negroes who now produce wool upon their heads, and the sheep hair, may effect an exchange, to the manifest advantage of both parties, and the obvious inerease of com- merce. It is calculated that the inhabitants of the great Desert will shortly be enabled to grow blackberries, sloes, and crab apples, where the soil now produces nothing but figs, melons, and pomegranates. Perkins’s apparatus will be usd, and by navigating the vessels by Carbonari from the neigh- bourhood of Mount Vesuvius, who are accustomed to coals and explosions, it is caleuJated that a pressure of fifteen hun- dred atmospheres tu the square inchenay be safely experiment- ed, at which charge an engine of the smallest dimensions will attain such a prodigious concentration of power, as to drag an iceberg of a mile in circumference, supposing the requisite impulsion and velocity can be communicated tou it, at the rate of twenty miles an hour. As the whole of the shares of tiis splendid invention of Dr. Humbug’s are not yet sold, a few subscribers muy still be taken in upon application at the proper ofice. A second undertaking, nut less gigantic in its concep- tion or beneficial in ite object, has been suggested ; it is well known that all bodies contain a certain portion of caloric, which they give out by pressure, indep -ndent of the quantity of this subtle element with which the moon, in common with all matter, is pervaded, she must have absorbed. almost to saturation, the ardent rays of the sun which have been play- ing upon her surface for such a succession of ages ; and we have thus an immense reservoir of quiescent moonshine ready to be reconverted into active sunshine, if adequate means can be found for its expression. To effect this purpose it is pro- posed to raise, in patent baloons, a sufficient number of hydraulic presses to compel the moon to give out caloric in the proportions that may be required. Froim accurate caleu- lations, it appears that a sufficient quantity may be easil procured to double the attraction of that planet upon the ocean, and of course to enable ships to work double tides,—an incalculable benefit to commerce. From the known influence of this luminary upon lunatics, some unfavourable symptoms may at first be manifested by our amateur spouters al gists, believers in the ontbotony of Fitz's preachin and that he is oot pon. fe an Orange Lodge. weewes religion, sincerity and stability, March hares, partiz: ; > aides ok Gas and Bank Stock, and all ope ne aaere sak notes of the latter to be worth what they represent, &c. &c ke

Many ingenious mechanicians entertain serious doubts as to the feasibility of the third scheme, for which patents have been taken out. Volcanoes are now universally admitted to owe their projectile power to steam. Water a th fi of the earth, or f od ah , or from some of the caverns of the deep, comes in contact with the subterrancan fires, producin Sach an ener expansion of vapour, that, in ite efforts to escape, it tears open the surface seit aaa forming a sehen’ steam ames: sa an beanie dred gp woe

itherto its tremendous power, being le i ;

lar energies, has either ated in rien ron os oe havoc, and destruction, by desolatine yl: P Sennen? . wa , yy olating plains and overwhelm- ing erties, It 8, therefore, proposed to fix an apparatus over the crater of Vesuvius, so as to convert the mountain into a regular steam-engige. The direction of this inealculahl | power, which will give the shareholders the eommand of the | whole rld, is a matter for future consideration. The pros jector ie decidedly of opinion that by this enormous engi . can. if necessary, stop the diurnal motion of the eat ; its axi8—an invaluable security to our Asiatic ' ose ead 4 in the event of another mutiny or rey lati ik thet naan he eocli dere a ee revolution in that quarter,

’ p them in the dark for six months and go rai

them in the cost of candles ; or renew the days of Phac ; rar scorching them in the sun until they allowed = we = <A roast. <A certain theorist has suggested that we ak ht wan raise the earth nearer to the sun, provided it was - omni lightened by embarking in balloons all our saci aa bulky articles, such as the Reverend Editors of the Pro = newspaper, the debates in both Houses, the Mayor; ron agg agate : -ayor and Corpor- tion, 2s sermons, and all the tomes of controversial

divinity, more particularly the most Christian erus: ice se Catholicism, &c., but we confess we are dis ad t eonaliite this scheme as the chimera of a visionary cool oie

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CHARLOTTETOWN, P, E.1., AUGUST 23, 1859

FACTS AND QUERIES ABOUT THE LATE AND PRRE- SENT GOVERNMENT.

Howryrr much we may dislike the present Government— and we are the last who can be suspected to haye any weak- ness towards a party at whose hands, both in and out of the press, we have received an overflowing measure of selvelind cannot help admitting that the state of public inion is @ —_ significant fact in their fayour, let it be taken for a it is worth. That they govern the country in a better and wiser spirit—that they show more regard for the feelings and interests of the people than the same party did before the change in our constitution—is a thing which no one can be a enough to assert; and their inferiority to the Liberal Government, when in the heyday of heir power and popularit could be proved by the most irresistible evidence With, perhaps, not more than two exceptions, the present Cabinet does not possess anything at all like the ability, influence and education which belonged to what is known by the name of the old Family Compact Government, with the resent Chief Festics and the elder Mr. Haviland at its head - a itiseven inferior in every respect to the Governnset which had so short an existence in 1854 under the name of the Holl and Palmer Administration. Why, then, with less ability, less influence, and less regard for the public interests ee the people submit to their rule with less apparent dlajeiitioss than was shewn to their predecessors? This is a question worthy of some consideration. We may give a few observations to it, though we cannot promise a satisfactory solution.

For two or three years before the change occurred in 1851, the people evinced the greatest anxiety for the es- tablishment of the new system of Government which had been

| put in successful operation in Canada and Nova Scotia a few

years previously. The leading-members of the administration were personally well liked, and it was this circumstance alone which prevented more than ones a tumultuous expression of the public feeling against the old system. But the doom of that system could not be averted. The person then at the

From coa] and head of affairs w 1 was one of the most skilful, ingenious, and miies through i iti ne . r ug a oe chshenem, or brought to our doors | plotting politicians that ever governed a Colony and attempted y pint or half-pint, supplies at will a per- | to enslave a people. He did not spare any pains to discourage ~ in the agitation in fayour of Responsible Government iu the

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