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formerly ; an] that a greater number do consequently necr eter

In Angusta, under the cyes of the very Legislature that

themselves than when they were not exposed to the vigilance | passed the prohibitory law, liquor is just as much sold as in af.an anti-liquor law administration. This, however, 1s only | this city. Two or three persons will go into a hotel, take a an inference, and does not deserve to have the weight or) room. and call for any liquor they want, which at once comes

authority of an established fact. It is,at the same time, a/to order. ‘The necessity of taking rooms by parties who do from the proprie

veasonable and legitimate inference.

Of the character of the crimes other than drunkenness, the progressive jncrease of which [ have shown, [ have said nothing. They consist, for the most part, gf such as result from drink—assault and battery, and others of a kindred

nature,—showing that there are not only more public drunk-| duced the most disastrous results. As liquor is dearer, if of the Worrel \ aris and more offences and crimes in this city and county | hot more difficult to obtain, in small quantities, several par- | people who resi

than before the “ Maine Law” was enacted, but that those offences and crimes generally result from drink,

The eases of drunkenness which I have quoted from the judicial records are nearly all from this city. The same re- ‘mark is true to a great—but not an equal—extent of the other offences and crimes of which the figures are given above.

The question remains—where is the drink obtained that

produces all this intoxication, and so much swells the list of

| not intend to remain all night. is another new source of pro- fit which the prohibitory law secures. to botel keepers. In

Bangor liquor is more openly sold than in éither Augusta or Portland; and in the surrounding eountry the effect of attempting to prohibit its sale and use is said to have pro-

ities club together and purchase a large quantity for their joint use. It is stored in some particular place, where the | owners go to diink it. Lt is not kept for sale; and neither its purchase nor use is a violation of the law.

A native of tent of one sixpence by it.

AMINER.

which is very considerably less than they could have pur¢hased tor or the trustees; and I have no dou

ance of the Islander and its “ faction,” It cannot, however, be too distinctly or too often stated, that whetever gains or losses may result from the purchase

¢ upon that property, and no others.

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positively assert thatit could have been obtataed at precisely efficiency or inefficiency of the brave troops who are fighting the same price. As it is, however, the tenants will not have’ to maintain the great principles of libert y—-who are strug- to pay more than 12s. 6d. per acre for the best farms— gling, and let us hope, successfully, to repel the power of a bt barbaric invader who has leng schemed to overwhelm the that before the elapse of two or three years every settler freedom ani civilization of western Europe? Or, would it on that fine property will be @ frecholder, much to the annoy- compromise its influence and ignore its elaim to respectability, ‘by falsely representing the arms of the Empire as incompetent

to cope with the power of Russia—thereby checking the hopes

roperty, those gains or losses wil! affect the with which all classes look forward to a successful termination The of the war? If the statements of the Times be true, a

rener: 2ve > F > a sc 1 ence b . on o9e ou ‘general revenue of the country will not lose a sixpe Y | fearful responsibility devolves upon those Ministers aad

‘the transaction, nor does any member of the Government | wish that the geperal revenue should be increased to the ex-

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No intelligent man will en-, part of England.

Commanders who have the management of the war on the If false, no language could be too strong

Bangor informed me that that practice, an offspring of the | courage the mischievous delusion, so industriously sought to to reprobate the conduct of a journal that would thus trifle

prohibitory law, has made many sober young men miserable sots. in this State no one is reduced to the necessity of feign-

be propagated, that any portion of his taxes, however small, can be expended ix this affair, Whoever has read the law knows that such a contingency i

offences and crimes? At this port very little liquor is im-) ing sickness and gotting a medical certificate to that eect in| guarded against,

ported. That which is consumed here comes generally by a

order to obtain liquor. It is only too easily accessible every

I am quite of your opinion that the animadversions and

_cirenjteus route from Boston, where also a similar law is in| where. If it is not publicly exhibited, it is publicly sold at | misrepresentations of the Islander—owing to the reckless

operation. None of those laws, which, iu the different States, prohibit the manufacture and sale of intoxicating driake, affect importation. This arises not from the unwillingness of those States whose prohibitory laws exist to proceed to this extremity, but from the fact that the commerce of the country is under the exclusive control of the Federal Con- s, and cannot be interfered with by any individual State. here is, therefore, no legal obstacle to the importation of liquor at this port; and if it is generally brought from

‘the dinner table; in the private room, and the room where |it is kept. | As may readily be supposed, the parties charged with the

office of public informer do not always show an excess of

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| vigilance or carry the system of espionage to a revolting ex- eess. If I am correctly informed, a good deal of collusion jexists between the illegal sellers and those whose duty it is to watch them.

I have it on the authority of a gentleman extensively en-

‘conduct of its disappointed and vindictive editor—are en- titled to little or no consideration ; but the statements I have ' made are given upon the best authority, and apart from any ‘regard for the fancied influence of the Opposition press, ‘they may not be unproductive of some good effect, The ‘editor of the Islander writes for bread—he is paid to malign the present Government and its measures. It may be ‘charity to treat the obscure’ animal with contempt—but its keepers and feeders should, by a rigorous exercise of the in-

‘Boston it is that the law may be more surely evaded. © Inj gaged in the administration of the law, and who thoroughly | fluence and patronage of Government, be made to pay for

the late collision between the Ocean and the Canada, the} understands its working, that it leads to the most frightiul | the luxury of keeping such a snarling cur.

vessel bound for Portland was found to have on board sever:.! denijohns of brandy. When liquor is found in this State, it cannot be confiscated before proof is offered that it was kept for sale; otherwise every man’s private dwelling would be liable to be searched. It sometimes occurs that places which do not profess to be taverns or hotels are searchel. That liquor is sold at such places is abundantly notorious ; and so great has been the increase of private houses in which it is sold, since the * Maine Law” came intv operation, that I have heard one of the best authorities in the city estimate the number of places of every description where intoxicating drinks are sold at from forty, the number in existence at the time the law was passed, to four hundred, at the present time. All the places not professing to be taverns at whieh liquor is sold, are mere drinking shops of the worst and most dangerous description. They are free from all those wholesome restraints which, for the good of society, it has been found necessary to impose upon licensed taverns and hotels. The sole qualification required in the keeper of one of these dens is secrecy. He is not required to pyoride himself with anything that is uscful—rooms, beds, victuals, anything in short which renders a licensed tavern or hotel useful to the public. On the other hand, there is, probably, nota single hotel in the State, that any traveller would think of staying at, where every kind of liquor is not regularly sold,—where it is not openly brought to the public dinner-

| perjury ; and he does not think that this immorality can be avoided so long as the law holds out the temptations it does to the comm‘ssion of this crime,

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Correspondence.

THE PURCHASE OF THE WORREL E3taTE.

TQ TEE EDITOR OF THE EXAMINER, Sir—

I beg to call your attention to the following extract :—

“In truth nothing can be more censurable than the conduct of the Suatcher Government regarding the purchase. The Assembly of 1850 was suffered to drivel away until the last Session of 1853 before they pas- sed a Bill for seeuring it, and when passed, its publication was kept /back until after the general election. In the meantime Mr. Pope,” |senior, *.* * * * * “went to England, and in connection with Messrs. W. Pope, T. Desbrisay, and a non-resident gentleman, purchased the Estate as soon as tho Bill received the Roy?! assent, at so lowa figure that it is said they will cloar £10,990 or 12,000 by the transaction, | without having advanced a single shilling in payment. * * * * ° * |* If Messrs. Pope and Deabrisay could purchase it for from £19,000 or | £92,000 Jess than the Governmeat now pay for it, so might the Govern- | ment; and that sum is therefore the loss which the public sustains from

the negligence, the inability, or the scheming of the Coles” taction.”-— | Islander, January 19.

Such is the manner in which the organ of the Obstructive

table,—carried to private rooms where little parties collect, | “faction” continues to mystify and misrepresent the proceed-

and drink in the room where it is kept in a sort of cupboard,

ings of the Government. Its misrepresentations would not

the doors of which are kept locked except when liquor is re-| be deserving of any notice but for the short and pithy letter quired to be taken out. I found no difficulty in getting at | of Mr. W. H. Pope, published in the Islander of Friday fast,

fhe public dinner-tables of the hotels, anything in the way of’ wherein he gives a plain denial"to that part of the statement drink I asked for. indeed, there is no pretence whatever of| which makes reference to his father and the dime of the

‘withholding from travellers any beverave that they may call | purchase. ‘The letter is worthy of being reproduced, as it

for. Iam informed that mary of the most ardent advocates, furnisnes a good commentary oa M‘Lean’s veracity :— '

of the prohibition do not aim at such a degree of success. |

TO THE FDITOR OF THE ISLANDER.

After driving through the city with a gentleman resident. Sir,

here, to whom [ explained the object of my visit, [ asked |

him to go with me into some of the hotels and sce the actual | terday's paper. you remark “that Mr, Pope shook himself clear working of the machinery. I was stopping at another hotel;|.f the Snatcher faction, went to England, and in connection and so we went in as mere casual passers-by—apparently, in| with Mr. W. Pepe, T. Desbdrisay, and a non-resident gentleman, fact, having no object but to take a glass of brandy. We) purchased the Estate as soon as the Land Purchase Bill received

went tq the office,—the bars have all become offices now,— and, on making known our wants, were shown into a room not far off, on the same floor. The waiter who accompanied us took a bunch of keys in his hand and walked up to a sort | of cupboard, and, having unlocked the door, handed outa | decanter of questionable brandy—saying, as the liquors were | éxposed to view,—without any remark from us other than | the order for the liquor—* The Maine Law illustrated!” | The deczatey had apparently had recent heavy drafts upon | it, for the brandy had got very low. The waiter, therefore. | produced a large demijohn, out of which he replenished the |

nearly exhansted decanter. [ do not profess to be a judge, |

but L should call it indifferent liquor. Indeed, from all the |

evidence I can collect, nothing else but indifferent liquor is'

now imyorted into this State.” Importers, in view of the! risk of seizure, will not import a costly article; and the re- sult is that the public, which will not desist from the use of stimulants, in spite of the law, is served with a rile, dele- terious, poisonous compound, which passes for pure fqnor. Tie effect of swallowing such abominable fluids must be

reatly injurious. [Instead of prohibiting the use ¢f liauor, | he real effect of the law is to cause a very bad article to be | consumed.

From all the evidence I can collect, I believe that the! sellers of liquor not only derive great benefit from the pro- | hibitory law, but that they are so fully convinced of the fact that they would not procure its repeal if they could. They | charge about twice as much for liquor as they did before the law was enacted, and that for a vastly inferior article; thus making their profits three or four times as great, as before the law was passed, on the quantity sold. And that the quantity sold is much less, the statistics. i haye quoted give no indication. But the advantages of the law to retail liquor-deglers do not stop here. They are free from the license tax ; from theobligation to provide stated accommoda-

ions for their patrons ; in short, they enjoy a lawless freedom

from everything hut the fear of detection, And, in point of fact, they care very little for that; for society having con- spired to defeat the law, the liquor-deulers are held haripless |

of all fines, penalties, and forfeitures, which are u!timately |

borne by their customers ; being raised by a sort of voluntary assessment. When a fine for illegal selling is announced, the regular customers of the house mulcted contribute each his proportion to make up the amount.

The conspiracy into which society has entered to defeat the Jaw does not end here. It is the most difficult thing in the world to get evidence to convict a party of illegal selling. The seller and the buyer are in league to defeat the law. The buyer equally with the seller deems himself au interested party. Whether it be the honor that is said to exist among thieves or something else, the purchaser would Ceem himseif disgraced if -he disclosed the violation of the law to which he was a party and of which he was the cause. The law holds out a premium to the drunkard to become informer, by

iving the judicial functionary who is to try the case a iscretionary power to remit part of the penalty te which he

the face of Mr. Lord.

the Royal assent.”

The above statement is partially erroneous — the estate in|

question was purchased by me in February last, on behalf of Mr. Desbrisay and myself — my father was not consu'ted pre- viously to the purchase, and was-entirely ignorant of my views or intentions respecting it until the purchase was completed ;

he then became a shareholder. As Mr. Pepe supported the |

Land Purchase Bill in its passage throuzh the Legislature, I tuink jt proper that ihe above error should be corrected, I am, sir, your obedient servant, Wa. H. Pore. Charlottetown, January 20, 1855.

Falsus wn uno, falsys in omnibus, is a little scrap of hack- nied Jatin which Maclean recently purloined and threw in It would make a better motto, and a truer one for the Islander than its present absurd declara- tion about being open to all parties, and the application of the new motto is well illustrated by the quotations above given, The facts relating to the Land Bill may be stated in a fer words.

The publication of the land purchase bill was not kept hack to serve any clectioneering purpose. It was sent to Ragland as s06i) 28 printed, and was printed as soon as it came in order. If there w2* @ny cons‘derable delay in_ its receiving the Royal assent, that delay’ Was owing to the oppo- sition offered to the Bill by the Tory party, wha petitioned Her Majesty to disallow it. Nevertheless, that 11! received the Imperial sanction at least twelve months before Messie. Pope & Oo. effected a purchase of the Worrel Estate, and nearly twelye months defore such purchase the Liberal Go- vernment caused advertisements to be issued, declaring their readiness to purchase, under the provisions of the Bill, any property that might be offered. Mr. Holl’s Government came into office in Mebruary last. The Bill formed part of the law of the land at that time. Mr. Holl was, himself, one of the Trustees of the Worref estate. He knew that Mr, Worrel was desirous of selling it. How came it that neither he nor any of kis friends in the Government ever made the least movement inthe matter? Nay, more, short- ly before the advent of the Holl administration, Mr. Havi- land offered to sell to the Government a portion of his pro- perty. That offer was before Mr. Holl and his colleagues when they took the reins of office. Why was it suffered fo remain a dead letter? Because, I presume, it would not have been convenient to mak any purchase whatever while Messrs. W. H. Pope and Desbrisay were secretly in in treaty about the purchase of the Worrel estate. There is no doubt—there ean be no doubt, that Mr. Ho:l, as leader of the Government and the managing Trustee of the Estate in question, acted with culpable negiigence in allowing an ap- parent advantage to be taken of Mr. Worrel, whose wind had beeu prejudiced, no doubt, against the land purchase act, and in losing a fine opportunity for the country over whose des- tinies he had been permitted to exercise a brief but pernicious ecntrol.

The Islander and its emissaries haye taken great pains to decry and misrepresent ‘the principles of the Land Purchase

OBSERVER. Jannary 29, 1855.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXAMINER, Sir—

realized £120, I perceive that £20 of this sum have been handed over to the Irish Society for the relief of the poor

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‘expended towards building a Poor House, into which the | Protestant poor only will be entitled to admigsion. I hope | this report is not correct, and if so, I think some steps oyght to be taken to remove the bad impression it is likely to pro-

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| liberal Protestants as well. There should be no selfishness | ceenes of individual suffering, and expatiating upon the ‘

(or bigotry in this matter. Genuine charity gives preference

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with the hopes and expectations of a great people. If false,

s strictly forbidden and | the criminality of the conduct of the Times should be

estimated in proportion to its influence and popularity. A

journal of inferior note~-exercising no influence beyond the boundaries of a County or a Province—might publish such

statements as those contained in the Times, if wntrue, with

The pavers have announced that the late Charity Buzaar |

poor connected with the Protestant denominations, [ wish | to ask to what purpose are the remaining £80 to be applied ?| : It is currently reporte] that this balance is reserved to be Jord Raglan and Gen’l. Canrobert would make known to their

respective Governments the actual condition of the British

comparative impunity ; but when they emanate from a press ‘which stands at the head of the newspaper literature of the ‘world, the offence assumes an enormous ‘and diabolical cha- racter.

Heaven knows we cherish no love for the Times. Its

our creed and country, while liberal opinions in politics have never found great fuvour in its eyes. We cannot, therefore, but ardently hope tiat it has misrepresented the condition of the British army in the Crimea, But how can we say that |it is misinformed, or that it wilfully substitutes truth fur ‘falsehood? It has better facilities for obtaining reliable in- formation than avy other paper in Europe; and by the eloquent, graphic and picturesque accounts of the battles of

who may have claims upon that body; and J have been in-| Bala Clava and Inkermann, which its agents and cor- formed that £20 have been applied towards the relief of the | respendents have furnished, it has manifested a deep interest

in the success of the allied arms. It was not to be expected that

army, if bad,—and as regards the correspondence of subordi-

nate officers and private soldiers in the Crimea, it is chiefly

duce not only upon the minds of Catholics, but upon those of | occupied in recounting exploits of personal valour—describing

'to neither creed or country. The late Bazaar was creditable |

to the philanthrophiec feelings of all religious deno x inations. | official sources

| Catholes on that ogcasion, as well as on all previous ones, |generously co-operated with their protestant neighbours.

adventures and mishaps incident to war. All we know from about the expedition to the Crimea, is—that three great and glorious battles have been fought, in which the arms of England and France have been covered with

fiercest anathemas, in times past, have been directed agninst .

| ‘THE EXAMINER. — |

| In your article on © The Worre! Estate,” contained in yes- |

| Surely, therefore, it caunot be seriousiy contemplated tg pro- scrike the unfortunate objects of charity connected with that | ; nd git ‘denominatign, by deyying to them any advantages yet to-be | force has been terribly diminished by those victories and by ‘derived from tne expenditure of funds realized by the late | discase—that reinforcements are absolutely necessary to Bazaar? The rumour [allude to, [have heard twenty times) enable the allies to maintain their position before Sebastopol within the last week. I will be glad to be credibly informed | : that it has no foundation. |

more than ancieut glory—that the strength of the allied

-—and that this obstinate fortress, after a protracted siege,

Yours, Ke. in which the beat blood of Britain and France has been pro-

CUARITY. a of the enemy.

We have been informed that Lord Raglan,‘ for some offence

jwhich has net como to our knowledge, refuse] net long

Py <s ‘ * (since to permit the Times’ correspondent to remain ubout the

January, 1855. | fusely shed, stil! defies the allied nrms, and attests the power

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STATE OF THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE EA

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T. | haye aroused some ill-feeling in the mind of the editor against |the commander-in-chief; but it is hardly possible that ho

| Wu alluded last weok to the strictures recently published by | would on that account be so base as wilfully to misrepresent the London Tmes, respecting the alleged disorganized con-

dition of the British army at the seat of war, and we pro- mised to transfer that article to our columns.

ithe condition of the whole army, and in seeking to do an in-

- jury to Loyd Raglan, compromise the honour of the nation,

a We now | and strengthen the hands of the enemy at this critical time,

proceed to redeem that promise, he deseription herein | when the siege of Sebastopol is drawing to a close. Many

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toda of the es Ca army, panting for martial | days, however, cannot now elapse before we shall be made

enterprise, which lan at Kupatoria in September last, | ...,.54; : ‘ - ' : oof

and which, on three memorable occasions ai achieved “1 pamapgatteras oe . a seg emai

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the most splendid victories to be found in the annals of an-! <1); ‘heii. ates ek om tes

soldiers of the besieging armies may have attained the desired

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7 modern warfare - indeed by meg means calculated consummation ; and if the sequel prove that Sebastopol has

to excite pleasurable emotions in the minds of those who fullen into the hands of the Allics ae . ~~ ,

may be desirous that t! j > Cri cpediti : i , Fe iF s a ” object Te Crimean expedition has, the glory of its eapture will sho crowned with success. Anis : : i i imini u , , we SS € disorzanised state of | viewed in connection with the sadly diminished strength of the army is deseribéd with much particularity. “Can the captors the description be true,” is the question which many a one| : will ask when he has read the article annexed. For our own. (From the London Times.) part we should—with our preseat not very reliable sources , Se 6 ee ee oe of inforination — decline answering the question either nega- Pe een = ye hoe eae aa : : = taining some trifling reflections on the inevitab] dialy 6c desley: oe j AA heer con g z > @ inevitable rita he: ely It 13 we the Temes 1s not steadfast | mishap of an army on the march or in the field without being in ts political predilections—it is true that it seemed before | laid under the most solemn obligation not to publish it, or at the commencement of hostilities to adyocate the eause of the | least to disguise the source of our information. Now tke | whole army rushes into print. Parents, wives, brothers, the whole family circle, as if they no longer cares i aoe 7 ae E aly ; ger cared fur promotion utmost severity—that it has, for the most part, in its referencés ' and had forgotten the Horse Guards, urge us to publish and to Lord Aberdeen’s Government, given evidence of a friendly | tell the waele truth, It is dife that is mow uppermost in disposition, while on other occasions it has not disguised a fro- | their thonghts—life, excepting only that a still sadder alter. ‘native than even death will occasionally obtrude itself. It oe is possible to purchase life by disgrace, but there is not a the acts of his Lordship’s Administration. Nevertheless, the | soldier’s wife or parent in this country who would not rather Times is an authority which, in discussing imperial questions, | hear of his death, even by famine, by cholera, or at his post

cannot be well despised. It may err like other journals, but no | in the treaches, than that the honour of England had been

ate Oe bine Tie : |compromised, and this vast human sacrifice wholly thrown other journal pretends to possess any thing like the influence ‘away. While such, however, are the thoughts that distract

which it has exercised, not only in Europe but America, for | half'thenobleand gentle households of this country, no wonder more than half acentury. Its unrivailed success as a com- | that reserve and the fear of official anger are cast aside, and mercial speculation is at once a testimony to the extraordinary | we o smears to pentien monn piamcalle semaine scrawled a U.S 6) git the camp before Sebastopol. undreds of letters tell, i ability with which it is ¢ 0 oP P po ! s rs tell, in | ability with w te¥ pentetl et and a proof that mach ‘uniform language, the almost total disorganization of our army confidence is reposed in its statements and opinions. There in the Crimea, and its awful jeopardy, not from the Russians, is no statesman in Europe who has left so deep an im-| but from an evemy nearer home—its own utter mismanage- “pression upon the age as the active, vigilant and ubi-_ anal = a be doubted, - even denied, that tho [Pre arg edition e Uriuea is ina state of entire disorganization. — censor and commentator of Piiuting House Square. | All attempts to deny it only end in oiaitien the f fact, and > 3 : . re ’ . . o

| His influence is recognized and felt in Paris, Vienna, | a!l excuses ouly throw the blame from one department to and even in St. Petersburg, nearly as much as it is in |#ether. There is not a single thing requisite to the efficiency | London. Hie pries into the secrets of every cabinet in Eu- - rp a me the perens’ ee of officers

te a nd Men, thatis not goue almost beyond the reach of remedy | rope—attends every military or oth ing i ; 8 nee: rl oh - ; ce ao expedition, noting its) At the last date the army was on balf-rations ; sonfe regiments “movements with the closest scrutiny, nor disdains to turn; Were two days without food ; the soldiers, and even most of

as God knows we hope it be ali the greater when

Czar, and subsequeiit’v to denounce his pretensions with the

ward and peevish, if not posit'vely sulky temper in reviewing

is subject in case he turns evidence against the seller. (ases| Act; and one of: the most mischievous delusions will be | Bis attention from such august proceedings to chronicle the the officers, were miserably ill clad and iil-shod ; still without

are very rare in whieh the buyer becomes informer or witness ; and this danger is especially small with respectsble hotels. Convictions therefore are most difficult to be obtained. The great majority of complaints for infraction of the law come

to nothing. _But when conviction is obtained, in the lower tribunals, it is seldom acquiesced in, when it is possible to

“yaise some leg nt on which to appeal it to the Circuit Court. “Neatly the whole loga fraternity has joined the con- spiraey to-defeat the law ; and there are few cases in which it is not possible to 4

that the ee ere _ — or £12,000 by the Go- vernment ving been able to effect as a bargain as Messrs. Pope & Co. The pudiie will not co. hrthinge- the Bill is, or is to be, a seif-sustaining measure. If Hoil’s Government had not been soculpably negligent in the matter the Estate would probably have been purchased from Mr. Worrel at a lower figure than that at which the present Go-

‘on the estate, and: not the public generally, 4 1 ly, svould. have becn the gainers by the transaction. But novcnevean.

vernmeut has hi 7 one : ‘some flaw,” When a case is appeal- | ants ; 2 papa aretha ae in tee

found in the quotation at the beginning of this letter, vig, ,P®8eantries, the amusements and the follies of the time. |) Suflicieut protection from the rain over-head and the pool

under fuot; they live in perpetual water and damp; there ape upase in. | Was bo drainage, and the whole camp was a sea of wud and Its meddling disposition may, and filthy the hospital marquees being surrounded by the worst does not unfrequently evoke the fiercest indignation, but the nuisances. There was still no road from the port at Bala

feeling it awakeih’ $a: telhies Wiby’ thud aici . « |Uiava. Three or four thousand horses had perished, from ig ncontempt, while its hunger, exposure, and over work, and the ae few were

| good opinion is estimated beyond all price. . reduced to mere skeletons; several regiments had been “Can the description of the state of the: army ia the draughted off to do the work of beasts of burden, in carrying

| There is not a crowned bead in Europe unmindful of the in. fluence of the Times. 7

Crimea be true?” my be met by andther question ¢ Would | c4. and other, supplies from the port.t0 the camp’ the

winter clothing that had arrived at Bala Clava could not be

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