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_- - THE QUEEN'S SPEECH.

On the afteraean of the 2)st ult. Parliament wae The | read the Queen's epoeoh, which ia worded as fulluws:—

My Lonps AND GeyTLeEMeN: [am happy to be ewavled to release you trow tae laboure ot a lesg and mury Chae usually eventiul session, and toollee youroy acknowledgments for the success

provogited by camaiission. ord Craucellor

ful diligence with whick yeu bare applied your- |

seives to your Parliamentary duves

Viy relathems with toreiga ceuutries continue wnat

At the commencement of the present year fears were eniertaieed that differeacea which arieeh between France and Prussia anght have} ied toa Waret which It was impossible to see the uldwmate result. ELappily the advice tendered by | my G ft. awd those of the other neutral States, aided by the woderation of the two} Powers chielly interested, sufficed tu avert the threatewed calamity; and | trust that ue ground at present exists for apprelieuding auy disturd-

auce of the georral peace.

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‘be communications which I have made to the|

Teigning monarch of Abyssinia, with a view to! the release of the British subjects whom he de- tama in hit dominions, bave, L regret to say, | thus far proved ineffectual, [ have therefure found tt weeessary teaddrvss him a pereusptury | demand for their immediate liberativn, aud to! take measures for supporting that demand, | siwald it wliunatel ye leund neeessary tu resurt te force

The treasenable couspiracy in Ireland, te} whieh T have before called your attention, broke | out in the early part of the yeur in a futile! attempt at insurrection That it waa suppressed, | alawet without bloodshed, is due not more te the} disciphoed valour of uy troeps, and to the ad-| inirable conduct of the police, than to the general | doyalty of the population aud the abseace of aay teken of sympathy with the ineurgents un the partot any considerable portion of cay subjects. | feprice that Lee supremacy vf the aw was vindi- | cated without linposing ov me the paiotul ueces._ sity of sacrificing a single life.

Pue bill for the abolition of certain local exemp- | tiene frow taxation enabled me tu avail myself of | a liberal concession made, ia anticipation, by the | Emperor of the French, whereby several taxes Were removed which pressed heavily upon | British shopping. |

I bave concluded a Postal Convention with the Uaited States of America, whereby the rate of | postage between the two countries will be diunin- ished one-ball, and further arrangements are in} progeess for wereasing the intercourse betwees | Lis country and the Contiaeut of North America. |

The act for the union ef the British North! American Previnces is the final accomplishment | of a scheme long cuntemplated, whereby those | colonies now combined in one dominion may be expected not euiy to gain additiona! strength for the purposes of defence against external agyres- sion, bubway be united among thewselves by freet tics of wutual interest, and atiached tu the} Metber country by the enly bende which ean | effectually secure such important dependercies —these of lvyalty tothe crown and attachments te Britieh connection.

Gentlemen of the House of Commons: I thank yeu tor the liberal supplies whieh you have voted fur the public service.

My Lerds and Gentlemen: I have great satis- factivn in giving wy assent to a bill for amending the represeutation of the peuple in Parliament. 1/ earnestly trust that the extensive and liberal mea-| eure which you have passed may eflect a durable | settlement of a question which bas long engaged | the public attention ; and that the large nuwber of | any subjects whe will be for the firat Lime admitted | do the exercise of the elective tranclise may, in tie discharge of the duties thereby devolved upon thew. prove themselves worthy of the confidence whieh Parliawent has reposed in them.

It is gratifying te me to find that che lengthen- ed cunviderstion which you have necessarily given te this important questien, bas not prevent- ed your entering on many subjects Lo which your attention was direcied at the commencement at the esa, and particularly, to sweh as have tewediate reference to the well-being of the andastrial classes.

I have had especial pleasure in giving my Besent te bile tur extending to various trades, with such owdifications av have been found necessary, the provisions of the Factory Actes, the success of which bas proved the possibility of combining effectual proteetion tu the labour of women and children, with w due considera- tien for the interest of the trades immediately euncerned.

I cvotidently anticipate from the operation of the present Acts, be same inuprovement in the plysical. social, and weral condition of the working clasees, which has been found to ae- company the application of the Acts to those trades to which tiey bave been hitherto coufined.

The restraints alleged to be imposed on work- men and their employers by trade unious and ether associations, appeared te me to call fer

there the virgin Andromeda, chained naked |

has |

| testimony is that the Indiaus are well armed

|} cavalry, and appear like a regular regiment.

| was a candidate for the Local Legislature, but

jority for the government has already been se-

They gave us notice that they intended to|

commence war in spring. General Haneock | has their statement, which was sent to the, commanders of posts, saying that these posts| must be abandoned in the spring, and that the! Pacitic Railroad must be stopped at Juuction | _ City, as they intended to fight. We cannot) Te ee ee ee have peace on the Plains so long as the Incians} ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL. are allowed to hunt between the Platte and the — Arkansas. It is impossible to control the young men. The chiefs and principal men are nearly all desirous of peace, except ander some great grievance. The young men leave their villages and commit depredations on some pretence, There is no question but that the old hunters receive the stelen horses from the young men.

Gen. Hancock, in reply to a question whether | he supposed it possible that the Indian agents, jsuch as Wyneoop and Leavenworth, ean be j rusted with the diseretion of issuing goods to jany part of these people, said :

I do not know about Wyncoop: I think the | trouble with ayents is that they are all probably | connected with trading interests, and think that

such persons ought not to be trusted with such i distribution. I judge so from what I have | heard of Colonel Leavenworth from Indians aud whites, and from affidavits signed by various | Journals, according to the colour of their parties, and sought for by me, which I have) politics. In some quarters, the Emperor's 'forwarded to Washington. He has been | declarations are accepted as decidedly peaceful, charged in my presence with defrauding them. | 48 lifting the cloud of anxiety and doubt created | L think such a man has no business to be an/ by the Sulgburg Conterences, aud enabling i Tudian agent. It is strapze that these charges | people to breathe once more free from all ap- ' have not been investigated. It would not be a} prehensious of war. Aimost Simul laneousiy | safe thing with an honest agent to discriminate} With the Lmperial utterances at Lille comes an between the friendly and hostile [udians. announcement from Vienna which confirms

There was one case in October, L806, where | this view of the matter, aud testifies to the arms were furnished to the Indians by the| pacilic character of the late interview between azent, after being officially notified that they|the two Emperors. The seini-official paper, were inclined to hostility. Mr. B yey, the the Debatte, states that in purswauce of an Indian Commissioner, gave authority to sel] | #sreement eutered into ou the occasion, France arms after he was notified that the [udians were | !8 to Cuuusel Denmark nut to insist upon the hostile, and defended the right. The universal | '¢trocession of Duppel and Alsen by Prussia. dlureover the Muniteur, referring to the meet- ing at Salzburg, observes, that so lar trom con- stituting for the Powers aa ebject uf preoccupa- tion or disquietude, it should be regarded as a uew guarantee fur the peace of Europe. Fur- ther to reassure the public mind, the Ltendard of Weduesday states that the Preach Govern- ment ia preparing a circular to its diplomatic agents abroad, ** with a view to fix their ideas and regulate their lauguage relative tu the Sluzburg meeting.”

Che Gxraminer.

Charlottetown, September 16, 1867.

The Rt. M.S. China, trom Liverpool, arrived at Halifax on Tuesday last, bringing dates to the Slst ult. The Mail brought over on the following day. The harvest

for this Island was

prospects in England and [reland are repre- sented as being very good. We give some The news, though not highly important, is interest-

extracts from our latest huglish papers.

ing.

THE MEETING AT SALZBURG. The speeches of the Emperor of the French at Arras and Lille absorb the attention of the Paris press to the almdést total exclusion of every other topic. Of course, the language of his Majesty 18 variously iterpreted by the

with pistols and ritles.

The Ludians always pierce the bodies of white persons they kill sith arrows. The friends of persons killing him all put an arrow into him, They never burn powder when they ean use arrows. The principal men are armed with fire arms, and the others with bows and arrows. The [ndians do not fight often unless they are in very superior numbers. They do not fight without an advantaye. Whenever they find their enemy prepared they give up.

The Indians are now carrying on the war with all the uew improvements. They hare field glasses. We found a glass at Fort Wallace. They come up like a regiment of

THE RELATIONS BETWEEN FRANCE AND ITALY.

The rumour which has had pretty extensive circulation during the last few days, thut a coolness had sprung up between France and Italy on account of the formation of what is known as the Antibes Legion, a corps raised ia France tor the service of the Papacy, has at length evoked a plain and unequivocai denial on the part of the Italiaa Goverament through the Oficial Gazette of Florence. Negociasious, it is admitted, are pending on the subject, but there is no truth whatever in the statement that threatening notes had passed between the two Powers. La France, alluding to the |same subject, remarks that the relations be- tween France and Italy have never ceased to be of the most cordial character.

The chief stands with a mirror and throws re- tlections as signals, which the men obey. They bave sigoal meu all around. On one occasion I was with Captain Smith, » guide and inter- preter. There was an Indian brilliantly arrayed making signals. Captain Smith puiled out a smal! mirror from his bosom and flashed it on the Indian, who became frightened and ran away.

Of hostile warriors the General estimates that the Cheyennes number about four hun- dved, the Arapahoes four hundred, the Kiowas five hundred. There are but few Apaches of the Plains, probably four or five hundred. Fifteen hundred or two thousand will cover all engaged between the Arkansas and the Platte, that is, leaving out the Camauches, who numbei about three thousand.

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THE ELECTIONS IN ONTARIO AND QUEBEC,

The Diritto says it is informed oa good authority that an arrangement has been con- cluded between the [talian government and the Papal governmeut, in virtue of which, should any violation of Pontifical territory be com- mitted by bands of insurgents, Italy would be at liberty to occupy certain points of that territory not includiug Rome. “ [t is this, adds the Diritto, * which explains the hostile attitude | of France.”

In the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec the government are carrying everything before them All the members of the Adininistration have been | returned, a number of them by acclamation, while in South Ontario Geerge Brown, the ally of Howe, and leader of the opposition, was de- feated by a ministerialist, deapite the tremendous efforts which were made to secure his election.— The tide of victory which set in at the outset may be said to have been uninterrupted, the only exception being the defeat of the Hon. T. D McGee in Prescott, in which constituency he

PRUSSIA.

Beruis, Tucerspay Evextsc.—A special Council of Ministers was held last night.

It is asserted that most satisfactory re-assur- ances have been given to the Prussian Govern- ment respecting the interviews between the two Emperors at Salzburg. These assurances have to-day we have the pleasing satisfaction of re | &SPecialiy emanated trom the French Govern- cording the election of that honorable gentleman, | @¢Uty, which has endeavoured to convince the for the large and importaat distriet of Noutrea)) Prussian Cabinet that no hostile intentions are West, by a mjority of 460 over hia opponent Mr. | entertained towards Prussia,

Deviin, in spite of the desperate and unprineipled —-

efforts woe were — to “ee him. Mr AUSTRIA.

Cartier. Minister of Militia in Montreal East, ale : ve has also been returned by a majority of 340 over Vigwya, Taursvay.—Herr von Becke will the Rogue candidate, Mr. Lanctot. ‘The Aatis|S0rtly lay proposals fur the lowering of the | are crest falleu at thie result. deficit of 1363 before the Austro Hungavinn

Up te Saturday the returne from Ontario and| Conference. This deficit amounts to 50 millions Quebec show the suocess of ninety ministerialiete; of florins, and it is proposed te cover it by the projected sales of State dumaius, for which

aud only siz opposttioniste. At the close of the elections the Autis will net have even a “evr-| purpose preliminary arrangements have been made.

peral’s guard.” Outarie and Quebec together re-

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urns 167 wemubers, and of thet cunter o ae Viena, Taerspay Evexixe.—A telegram received here from Prague announces that the

French Minister of State, M. Rouier, who is in that ¢ity, ia about to proceed to Vienna.

cured, without taking inte account the Nova Scotia and New Bronswick contingent, which | will be large. In order to refresh the memary | of our readers we may state that the House of Coumons will conaist of 131 members, distribu- ted as follow:—Ontario 82, Quebec 65, Nuva Scotia 19 and New Brunswick 15, making a : on an an totalof I81. The government, whieh consiats of | tantinople with Fuad Pacha. hie latter has Hon’s. J. A. MacDonald, Mr. Campbell, Mr.| "ceived the order of Alexander Newski. ‘The Howland, Mr. MeDougall, Mr. Ferguson Blair, | Sultan is about to send some Arab horses to the Mr. Cartier, Me Galt, Me. M. Chapnie, Mr. M.| Czar. General [guatietf will return to the Langevin, Mr. Archibald, Mr. Kenny, Mr. Tilley,| Crimea in a few days to be present at the Sele and Me Mitchell, is now before the electors of | of the Czar.

the Dominion, and being warmly sustained by Another C 3 at Min: f er Council of Ministers has been held, the three Provinese of Quebec Ontario and New!) which the Sultan presided. The question of

Brunswick, wkat folly then it is fur the self- Turkish ref, it! ; > a atyled “ Party of Punishinent,” in Nova Bcotia| £¥tkish reforms anc the result of the mission of Fuad Pasha to the Czar were discussed.

TURKEY. The Russian Ambassador returned to Con-

| campaign. Not that it is verr far off, or, as far as its 6bores are concerned, ge mes but there is hardly a spot cn the habitable | globe of which we know less than we do of its | interior, Of course there sre maps of the .country, but they serve onlr to render the idarkness visible. Tracks of enterprising ‘travellers, ancient and modern, are carefully | laid dewn, aud marked at intervals with | somewhat indefinite specifications of ** wells ”’ and ¢ villayzes."? A “great forest abounding jin elephants,” and «a “country producing frankincense and myrth,’’ are notable features in the chart, as are also a point where a certain river is lost in the saud, and another designated as the probuble source of the blue Nile. Beyond these distriets—that is to say, on the south-western frontier of King Theo- dare’s dominions—we pass on through @ “country inhabited by pagan negroes” to the Mountains of the Moon, a spur of which mysterious range seems actually to enter the Abyssinian kingdom. The ‘ preparations” now announced from Woolwich are excellent ly adapted to the occasion, We are making ready for a battle, not against man, but against nature. The object is to send out not merely artillery, but oes artillers—guus which can be carried oa mule’s backs, or possibly, on meu’s shoulders, over hills and through passes where no carriage could move. The contrast between the implements and the service in this case is most extraordinary. We are actually building miniture cannon and miniture carriages of polished steel for work iu an African desert. ‘These weapons, hard!y bigger than children’s toys, and weighing no more than the lusgaye allowed to a first-class passeager on @ railway, will nevertheless throw a projectile of Tib, being thus more effective than the cumberous fieldpieces of sixty years since. [t has been discovered that they will ride best oa a mule at right angles to hie back, instead of in a parallel line, and so new-fashioued pack saddles are to | be manufactured accordingly. The troops }will carry their own arms, but in some way or other there must be carried for them food and drink, as it appears to be quite uncertain whether water can be had on the march or not. The great obstacle in the matter is its mystery. We shall be marching into a region without any means of conjecturing what we may find. [t is understood that there are mountains in the way; indeed the maps tell jus that; and we are making preparations for 'warfare in passes and defiles. But, beyond that, the campaign will be equivaleat to an exploring expedition conducted on an irresis- tible scale.

THE INSURRECTION IN SPAIN.

Accordiig to official despatches published at Madrid it is believed that the rebel band of Prierot has been dissolved, and that of Priorati has surrendered to the authorities. The insurgents have disappeared from the district of Valeacia. According to vilicial de- spatches 1,000 insurgents in Catalonia have taken advautaye of the amnesty and surrender- ed to the authorities. Contreras, with 100 men, forming the remnant of his band, has passed into Arragon. The bands in Arragon, which a short time since numbered 1,200 men, do not now exceed 400, and the rest of the in- surgeuts under Pierrad aud Contretas are moving towards Benasque and Confrane on the frontier pursued by the troops. ‘The rest of Spain is quiet.

Telegrams from Madrid of Wednesday con- tinue to represent the successful advance of the Government troops and the dispersion of the in- sargents. Nearly the whole of the Arragouese band is said to have fled across the French frontier, where they were at ouce disarmed by

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THE INSURRECTION IN “CRETE.

The following letter has been addressed by the insurrection goverament of Crete to the consuls of England, France, Russia, Austria, Prussia, Italy, Greece, Sweden, and the United States of America:—Askyfo de Spbakia, August 9.—Messieurs ‘es Consuls— The Generalissimo of Turkey, Omer Pacha, having faiied in his !ast expedition in spite of his immense military preparations, his numerous army, the strict blockade which he instituted both by sea and land, and his promise to the insurgents, abandoned himself without restraint to the dictates of # ferocious heart. He burned all the villages of Sphakia, with the exception of Comitato and Prosjals, which were partly destroyed. He cut down the trees and set fire to the bee-hives, searched all the caves in which the inhabitants lad hidden their small properties, opened the tombs, and scattered ihe remains of the persons who had been lony interred, while he cut off the heads and limbs of corpses recently buried. He surrounded caves where women, children, and old men, and sick had taken refuge, and, having induced them to come forth by promises and protestations, caused them to be subjected to the most cruel tortures, and this at the momeut he had assured M. Boutacoff, the Russian consul, that he had treated them with lenity.

Omer Pacha also put to death the nun Trajina, blind from her birth, Cali, Papinicola, S. Vergaki, N. Parlaki, and Jeau de Trivara, whose bodies he insulted. In the village of Colocassia he had an old man named Giam- oulakey and a priest slaughtered. During his return to Heraelion. on the 28th and 30th of last month, Reschid Pacha committed even greater atrocities ayainst the defenceless, to revenge himself for his defeat. This leader ravaged the property of the Christians and burnt the convent of Prevels. At Metampes he masraacred an old man named Gianacachi Christephoraki, and a girl, whose bodies he cast into the flumes, as well as the monk Gedeon, whose head he impaled upon the cross surmounting the church. Other persons, whose names we have not been able to learn, also fell victims to his fury. The Cretan Go- vernment, while deploring these brutal and ferocious acts, which enlightenment and civilization condemn, protests in the name of humanity to your Governments, and implores their aid, that the weak and the defenceless may be saved. We embrace at ibe same time this opportunity of denying the false statements, spread by Omer Pacha, concerning the pre- tended submission of Candia. Far from such being the case, not a child has given in its sub- mission, not a weapon has beeu delivered up, not a signature has ratitied any such proposal ; and let it be well noted that in Sphakia alone he has been carrying on war agaiast us for an entire month. Omer Pacha has attenipted to delude his own government, and to mislead Kuropean opinion, but the Christians of Can- dia oppese to his meudacious words the rattle ot their arms and the report of their askets, which have not ceased and will not cease to re- sound from one extremity of the Island to the ether, until our deliverance, aud our univn with independent Greece. We bey you to lay this present Communication before your gov- ernment. (The signatures follow.)

Marseitces, Tuvrspay.—The steamer from Athens brings accounts from Candia, stating that the Turks attacked the iusurgents at Omalos, fighting continued for three days. Upon the fourth day the Turks entered Omaivs. The insurgents set the houses on fire and closed the wells, and the Turks were then obliged to leave the town. The insurgents beiny reinforced, pursued and compelled the Turks to descend into the level country. Several were killed on

the authorities. Others, again, are hiding in

been surpressed in Bejar. On the other hand, the insurrection has extended to the province of Cueuca, acd the Paris Temps puts the entire insurgent forces at 18,000 men.

Zuniga was beaten in a hard and fair fight, but his overwhelming numerical superierity would have insured for him the victury had uot his troops gone over in masses to the enemy. The bases for the operations of the insurrec-

jtion in Arragon have been skilfully selected. |

The iusurgeuts under Contreras bold the valleys which run direct from the French frontier. Tey are dotted with little fortalices, aud are peopled with a race of fierce contra bandiatas, who defy the Custum-house authori- ties when they do aot think it worth their while to bribe them, Im case of reverses—it would net do for Contreras ty burn his ships — he keeps a retreat open to the French frontier at Lescun, where the imsurgents would not meet with @ very hospitable reception, since they well know that, however pleasiug might be the discomfiture of Queen Isabella to the Em- press of the French, her consort will put his veto upon mnany of the successors who mizht be proposed for the heritage.

The Journal de Comercio ofLisbon relates,

the mountains, and a seditious movement has |

|the Mussulmans continue to massacre women

‘Fenian sympathisers in Lower Canada, (now|

both sides. Fighting still continued in Spha- kia. Fever aud dysentery prevailed among the | Turkish troops. Greek accounts maintain that

and childron, Russian, French, Italian, and Prussian vessels were bringing off ar of women and children into Greece. The bluck-

several of the St. Johu papers, and has been copied into the Patriot of Charlottetown. Mr.;}

LATEST NEVS BY TELEGRAPY FROM EUROPE,

CorennaGen, Supt. 5, eve.—The , that the Govgramer of Denmark had Danish Islands in the West Ludies tu the States, is ollicially denied. Beaux, Sept. 5.—Reports of the elections trom all pars of Prussia, and the other States of the Cenfederati that the Liberal caudidates for the German Parliament have generally beeg tue. cesstul, aad the Liberal party will wndvubtediy have a large coutrolling majority during thy coming session. ; Bapex, Sept. 5.—The International Teeny were continued at [iTreheiin yesterday, The attendance was better than even on the dey before, as the contest was to take fur the grand prize offered by the Duke o Baden, created great interest among the throng visitors at Baden. Some of the best borees iy Europe were entered for this trial. The race was verygelosely coutested, and caused much excitement among the spectators. The PF horses “ Kug-Blas ” was the winner, ang his owner takes the grand prize of the Duke of Baden... ..Gold 1425. Beaux, Sept. 6th.—John A. Kassoa Iowa, who mpseuiane the United Ststes, ao present negotiating with the Prussian Govery. ment for the establishment of a pestal treaty similar to that just concluded between Great Britain and the United States.

Caruspury, Sept. 6th.—The Grand Frederick Wiliam made a speech at the ing of the Baden Diet ta this city He took strong ground in favour of the union of Baden with the States of North Germany,

Naprip, Sept. éth.—Strict orders bave issued to the proper authorities at all the ports in Spain, requiring vessels hailing from United States to be subjected to a ri quarantine... ..Consols 945. 5-20's 733. Com 35s. 6d. Wheat 15s. dd. Oats 3s. 5d, Paris, Sept. 6.~—M. Moastier, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, has iseued a circular in re gard to the conference recently held at Sale burg. He states the mecting of the Sovers) was merely one of condolence over the

of the Archduke Maximilian.— To be sure there was a general interchange of views on the situa. tion of European politics, but no alliance or combination was pianned by the E:aperors as has been stated.

Pants, Sept. 6, even.—lIt is stated that M. Drouyn de Lehuys will soon re-enter the F Cabinet. Itis thought that be will take. Moustier’s place in the Foreign Office.

Loxpox, Sept. 6.—Recent despatches re_ ceived from Alexandria seem to discredit the reports of the release of the English captives in Abyssinia. In the meantime preparations for the expedition to Abyssinia continue,

Berwix, Sept. Tih, (eve.j—A pacific note has been issued fromthe Prussian Forei vifice, in which the recent note of Mr. Moustier the Freach Foreign Miuister, is alluded to ag being satisfactory to the Prussian Government,

Loxvos, Sept. Tth, (eve.)—The yacht John

1. Ford {rom Baltimore for Paris, before re. ported capsized at the entrance of the Raglish Channel, was found ov the coast of Ireland near Queeustuwn with valuable papers on board,

Fiorexcs, Sept. Tth, (eve)—Garibaldi on his way to Geneva to participate in the radical peace couterence passed through this city, and during his stay here on invitation of Count D'Usdaue, Minister of Prussian at Florence, dined with him at the Palace of the Prussian Legation.

Beaix, Sept. 10, (eve.j—The second Par- liament of the Confederation of the North Ger man States, met in this city today, and was formally opened by hire William, of Prussia, in pergou. In his speech trom the throne, the King commenced by addressing a warm wel- come to the Representatives as members of the first German Parliament which had met under

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Tue following impressive letter appears in

Anglin is the leading auti-Confederate in New Brunswick, and his paper, the Freeman, is the organ ef the anti-Confederate party. He must have been dving strange things, indeed, when he could provoke the dignified Archbishop of Halifax into the utterance of the sentiments contained in the letter below, If Mr. Anglin ipmroperty used a relizious question to promote his electioneering projects, he certainly deserved to be censured; but 1 is nevertheless a great pity that any prelate should take an active part in a political contest, more particularly is it to be deplored that ssmething likeasledge hammer should exercise the arm that held a crozier to knock down an erring son of the Church. Mr. Anglin’s paper pretends to believe that the Archbishop’s letter is a spurious document ; but if it were such, the Archbishop would have long since announced the fact under his own hand—postal communication and electric tele- graphs affording the most speedy facilities for the correction of so grave an iinposture. The Hon. Peter Mitchell, Miuister of Marine forthe

New Dominion, and from whom, evidently, the letter found its way to the press, is not the man

who would allow bis name to be coupled with a gross torgery. We must, therefore, accept the letter as genuine. It is as follows :—

Halifax, N. S., August 19, 1867. How. P. Miromece.

My Dear Sir,--I have been so completely taken up with serious business matters that your kind letter is still unanswered. Yester- day our mutual friend Mr. *** gave me the benefit of bis professional services, about twen- ty-two miles from Halifax, in coauection with a grand undertaking inthe shape of diking in a harbor, and [ had uvs till now w single spare moment on hand.

[ deeply sympathise with you in all you say oa Confederation in New Brunwick; [I am sin- cerely sorry the Bishop is not likely to be home on Electiou day, as [ know he looks on Mr. Anglin, as Mr. Dollard, the former Bishop of New Brunswick, leoked on him, and as I now regard hin, as a Priest hunter and a re- viler of the Catholic Clergy, wherever and whenever he bad a chance of assailing them. He has done more to blacken the Catholic Religion in the persons of its ministers, and to make Catholicity and Catholics—and especially the Irish—hated in New Brunswick, than all the Orangemen in the Land. I[f the Catholic body are now politically low and degraded. and counting tor nothing as they really do in New Brunswick, I blame Anglin and his rabid paper for the sad resuit. It is melancholy to see so good a peuple, so utterly prustrated by a policy, which may be very good for the sale of Mr. Anglin’s paper, but which must end as every sensible man sees in public disaster.

Permitting you to make auy use of this you please,

Iam, my dear sir, Very faithfully yours, t Tuomas L. Cownoury.

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Tue How. Mu. Hexsiey, Attorney General, having beeu # passenger in the R. M.S. China, We

have yet learned uothiug further than what we

arrived in town during the past week.

have already coiaunicated to our readers res- pecting the object of Mr. Hensley’s mission. That he haa been successful in getting a remis- sion of the [mperial claim for Garrison charges, is, we understand, an established fact; snd we believe be has put matters in connection

ade runner, Union, continues her vovazes, | conveying aid to the insurgeats and bringing | off Cretan refugees.

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DUMINION BLECLIUNS.

ALL the Provincial papers are filled, to the exclusion of almost everything else, with re-

ports of the proceedings of the elections |

throughout the Dominion. Inu Canada they)

| are now very nearly all over, and the rout of the Opposition has beeu aluost universal. Phe | Rouges or Red Republicans, Anuexatiouists and |

the Proviuce of Quebec,) have been thoroughly overpowered and crushed, Iu Upper Canada, (Province of Untariv,) the success uf the Federal er Coalition Governmeut bas been aiso in the highest degree satisfactury. The only fear is,

according to its correspondents, that at the moment the King of Portugal entered Madrid, | 20 insurgents, who had been brought to the) capital from Valencia and other provinces, were about to be shot. The King. Dom Louis, | sent to General Narvaez to bey « pardon for | the unfortunate men. The General replied that he could not ask the Queea to extend her clemency te them, but he promised that they should not be pus to death during the stay iu

that Sir Joho A. McDonald's Government will have too imany supporters.

To New Branswick many of the elections are over, aud the rest will be finished this week. | Nearly the whole Province will return strong, Contederates. In St. Joho, the Hon. J. H. Gray—one of the Quebec Delegates—was re- turned by acclamation—his opponent not being

| stand, again visited other portions of her | extate, considerably less attractive, from the

the new Confederacy. Alluding to the posi tion of the South German States, he said the national relations with the rest of Germaay nad been fixed by the treaties of the Zulvereins which they had assigned. He assured the members that the floancial condition of the Confederacy was execlleat. fis revenue, so jar, bad been quite sudicient to meet all expen ditures. —He promised that bills would be in- troduced, providing for a complete settlement : : : of the tems and couditions of military service, personal inspection of the state of her tenantry, | making ali necessary regulations ia regard tw there is no doubt that they have been go -atly | passporis; promised a <ysiem of weights aud measures for the conutry, and regulations af porial matiors, acd evoking re-establishment } Of consulates in all Toreizn ports, and to the her to devise improvements as tu the manasze-{ protection of the commercial marine of the ment of the estate, aud amelioratons in the| Confederacy everswheve on the high seas, | The King concluded his aldress with the fol- | lowing peaceful aspiration -— Buitish Pentovicais.—We have received | ibe quer Wiki ge is to be the great . der ‘ ° -¥ form the Avwericuspabinhers Blucheout «| Srniba wnessing all sur dacusiont; Sor Magazine for August; also the Edinburgh Re- blessing the Fatherland wiil, in peace, enjoy view tor July, aud the London Quarterly Review the fruits of your labors.” These standard periodicals appear te have—judzing from the attractive tables of

with the loan in a fair way of completing that

measure,

Miss Sc.tivas.— wis lady ues, we under-

than the Whatever im-

poor condition of the tenautry,

locations she at first visited.

mediate timoressions she may have formed by w

cheered by the presence of their landlady, aud that her own generous uature will prompt

condition of its settlers.

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or July FROM Tilt STATES.

' re | Brrwincros, Vr., Sept. 6.—At 1 o'clock content:—inost interesting reading tor the lonz | this afternoon a frightful accideut occurred evenings. The works are too well known to during the races at the Chittouben County Fair

: . . _| grounds in this city. Seats which wer arran soquin amend dh te te, quality of theit, gee jin form of an amphitheatre, while pe

ea peuple wats the Plains. Everybody had to ed onl prepared to fight. It is not

tu persist in the mad effort of returning men op. posed to such a government su strongly fortified by the sentiment of three Provinces out of the group of four? What influenee could a few factioniats from this Province wield in the House of Commons at Ottawa, with such fearful odds against them! Nove whatever. The very in- significance of their numbers wauld beget con- tempt whenever they attempted tu throw any obstructions in the way of the government macbin- ery. The party of punishment” tell its deluded followera that the Anti-Union coutingent from Nova Scotia will be enabled to exact justice trem the fears of Canada,” but we would like it shown how even nineteen members tn opposition, out of a House of I3!, could frighten a goveru- ment fortified by anu almost unanimous support of the representatives of three Proviaces out of the four comprising the confederacy We all know that in our Provincial Legislature, under every administration, Conservative or Liberal, the pat- ronage of the different constituencies has been entrusted to the handa of the supporters of the government, and no doubt the same principle will obtain in the General Parliament. Is it not clear then that it is to our intereste to send to Ottawa supporters rather than opponents of the govern went! If there is any punishment te be done cannot it be more effectually inflicted by nineteen nen, Whoee interests are bound up in the pros- perity of Nova Scotia inside the eawp, than a like number of prowling wolvea without? Why cous won sensu tells us that all the advantager would be with the former. Although the members of the government, and their must prominent sup- porters have secured their seate, the rewaining elections in Ontario and Quebec will be watehed with net a little anxiety until the numerical strength of the administration is fully determiaed. —iHalifax Express, Sept. 9

enquiry; and the revelations derived from the @¢xaminations before the Commission, to which you gave your legislative sanction, have diselused a state of things which will demand yuur must @arnest attentivn.

The administration of the poor lawa, which generally bas conterred great benefit on the comtounity, cod especial y on the poor themselves, Fequires constant superviswn ; and | have readily assented to a bill which, applied te the metrupulis alone, will tend tu equalize the pressure ot! taxation, and improve tue treatment of the ack} a whese evudition will be greatly bewefited

y your well cousidered legislation.

The bill for the regulation of the merchant shipping, contains important provisions, caleuiat- ed tw add te the health and coudert of those engaged in the mereantile marine.

These and other valuable awendments of the law have been the result of your labours during the preseut sesvion > and in returning to your hemes, you will carry with you the gratifying Conscivusuers that your time and pains bave bet been qisappled, and that they have resulted ina eeries of measures which | hope aod eaarnest- ly pray may contribute to the weilare of the country aud tle coulealtinent and happiness uf wy

peuple. oe THE WAR ON 1

HE PLAINS.

WTAE INDIAN COMMIASION— GEN. HANCUCK'S TESTIMOZT.

The following contains sume of the interesting points in Major General Hancock's testimony before the commission at Leavenworth, bearing upon the present Iodiau difficulties : —