ey or saad

Wea To a

aactioretion of the peonle, and the advance- JAMES WHALEN. ment ard pr sperity of the whole Island. Phe Bill was then read a third time and passe i. jtouse adjourned

The following is a detailed account of)

, Whaien’s bistory. It is from the columns of |

. aes Oe | the Montreal Telegraph, aud is the most com-

HURSNAY. Orr So.

The greatest porrion of the day was ocan-

pied m Comerences wih te Lezeatwe

Coane, relative: to the »menrdmen's made by} soars ate

e * ¥ “3 ® . .

that bide = the uulartnnase 1D bere’ Act. jot Dubin, acd isabout 25 vears of are.

Tre House in Committ:s rageived tae report) io oe not he g

o'r eCommittee on Contingent Exnenses the “ay It is vory evident de eon on which took place with closed may be styled an

Soors } want at all for |

prehensive we have met :—

Whelan has not been long in this country, ving arrived in Quebee ouly some three He was bornin the veighbour hood Whe much education we cannet that ifnorant man, and does not In due time he was

he is not

st ewdness.

Faipery. Apri! 24. } apprentic ed to ataiior in Dubliu, and seems to |

Ow Friday. et half paet three o'clock, Hie! have served out his time faithfully and well Excellency the Lieutenant Governor came; When he became his own master he showed daiwa to the Coune! Chamber, and afser)a disposition to wander about a good dea! ; giving hie ascent to 25 bills prorogued the) went over te Enziand, and when there never

Lezielature. jremained very jong in one place. Now he A. MeNetrt, Revorter. | was in Londou, now in Manchester, and some - short time after at other places. Altozether

he ah t » apoker ot a8 or he yas re tle MISCELLANEOUS. sad Geek a ee ordi ce 4 THE RBRILLIAN r EXPLOITS OF GEN

‘ e .| others as the cause of his troubles, rather than . . oe a a | wt NAPIER AND THE BRITISH TROOPS ty ascribe them either to his own fully or his IN ABYSSINIA.

own jncompetencs

When he got to Quehec, he found employ ment in his own line of business wih Valliere and afterwards with McKenzie, aud seems to have continued about that city for some tine. It was during his residence in Quebec thai he jvined a volunteer troop of cavairy, and for a while behaved so weil as to attain the rank of corporal. This was in 1366. Bye-snd-bye, however, he seems not to have been able t

be better if ta a position diferent trom what he

actually occupied, and always ready tu blame

One of the marvela of modern times is the

rapidity with which the d-tai's of rreat events are made known all over the civilized world. Seidom have we had a better example of thi« than in the ease of the war in Abyssinia. The N.Y. Merald of the 27 has two columns of Cable tele rrams containing all the news known | restrain himself, either while sober or when in i . The | bs cups, from saving very stron things against jthe British Government; and coming out very jdecidedly with Feniau notions and Femas icurses. For this he Was put under arrest, and | it was only from the clemeucy of the authorities that he was not dealt with in a severe and }summary manner. He was, however, set free posed :— jand speedily left the city. The next On» the Mth instant. news was received at!

place where he turned up was Hamilton, and head jnartess from army anies, to the effect that of a tull-tledzed Fenian

on the subject, in London on the 26th. following are the princinal particulars, not already mentioned, and they are of great in- terest. The vietors is far more brilliant, be- cause involving greater efforts than was sup-

very

}nowin the character

Theodorus inte: ded movins immediately on the! feom Butalo, who eould and would do terrible . . . | . 1 } > ° British, Gen. Napier instantly crossed the | things; to whom the whole British Empire was

Judts River to the nlain of T inta, which he conmenced to traverse, many animals were leet in crossing a terrible ravine. It is eirht miles wide having a descent ef three thousand five fundred feet, and an ascent extending four| thousand five handred fret on the other side. |

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a pour, miserable, worn-out thing, easily knock ed to pleers ike a child's eastle of cards. was, as misht be eapected, ayain arrested, bur for some reason or another, possibly from his very insizuificance,silowed ouce more to get off.

The Q en's army havir marched over the - K

wide, onward reeonr

accomplished both.| ing snip misht very naturally not be regarded as it very. formidable

British authority, and prosecution, it misht he

r a road,”’ thirty feet then halted and at Mardala in person.

pany way a enemy Gen Napier itred the positi thousht, would simpiy entail expense, and sive II> sav the King’s camo, with intrenched de im a little noturety, ' fences * hic! anneared more sna! le On the the ngwis Fenianism to an end, Sth of Anril Mr. Rassam, forwarfed a letter to Gen. Napier, dated Mardala, Gth, in which he said:—** Beware, | Wialen bold. Like poor Train, | the King is At this date King!sibly have zot into the idea that Theodorus had 28 guns mounted inside the! Gover

without having auy in- jenee in bri one of the eaptives,| Eseaping in this way, once and again, from the hands of the authorities, seew to have made l he may pos- the British ment, or at leist the Canadia

moving.

works, and mostly in frontef his camn, bearing) ment waa afraid of him, and had not th en the Enclish advance. Gen. Nanier for-| couraze to take that course azainst his freedom wa “de j ‘ letter to the kK w, offiel allv dem mi or his lite, which they were onty too at X1ous |

ing te release of the cantives. The Evglish to pursue. The deusions under which very army was concentrated on the Besnelo River, sai men sometimeslabouraieo thest aizest, the troons were furnishe 1] with sealins-ladders, and it is tornedses and other engines of assault, and) stances as possible trat this tailor and Fenian were held in reatiness for an attack on the | shou!d persuade himself that tear, abject fear, fortress of Mazdala. was at the bottom of all this clemency.

From Hameton

just as likey a thing inthe circume

what |

He

A notvery sober talking, swaggering, bluster: ;

to]

in Govern: !

: | he seems to have zone to

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PAA EOL LOL LD LOLA AANA A NANA NAA

the

| correspondence of 4 Montreal paper:

We clip the following from

i Sevecal influential from Nova

eutieimen

Scot ave about to have an interview with the |

Minister of Finaice with the object of present iny aed supporting & petition teom the Luter {colonial Coal Mining Co., of Cape Breton, on jthe subject of a nulway. Tt appears the Com i pany owns some exteusive and valuable beds

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on the Island, twelve to fourteen miles from | Sydnev, to which fine harbor they desire to liuild a railway for the purpose of openmy up the interior resources of Cape Breton; thei: own, of course, included. They represent that the harbor near their mines at which vessels now load, is too exposed and unsafe for ship- ping; and that in the present depressed state ot the wmoney market, it will be impossible tor them to raise the money required, unless ata

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iof $400,000 at 6 per cent; a sum which wil j put them in a position to buiid the road, stock hat with three joeomotives and 150 cars; as also to erect piers and slides, and such other accom

vessels ata time. The requestis not unreason able when you come to retiect on the tendency f the present conciliatory policy, and cousidur that the raiwag will be used by the othe: Mining Companies oa the island: that it wil! enable them to lay down coal at $1.50 to $1.75 |per ton; and that the Company's request is fhacked by all the clerzyinen and leading mes of Cape Breton; and not less than 1,300 tax- | pavers, who state,in a supplementary petition, |

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| that owing to the present lack of employment, |

they are frequent!: ina great state of destitu- ftion, and will likely continue so, unless the |Dominion Goverumest vives this suarantee, jand incidentally furnishes them with perma lnent employment. Should the Dominion Gov lernment grant their request, the Company wil lyive ita first lien on the whole of its property

| as security for gwarantee.

| THe Lave Me. McGer.—We extract the | folliowtag trom a letter addressed by the late

VMs. MeGee to MJ. HL Dales, the Emigrae

jtion Avent at this city, principally in answer |

to enquiries as to the formula to be observed the inteaded presentation

of a porteait to the deceased statesman on. his |

fia connection with

funera! The letter melanchoiy

possesses a

iiterest as bein amony the last he ever wrote: |

My Dean Dar gy,—The Mayor would be th \ ery Dest I think

sul weriber

peisou to make the preseutation, hui a preliminary meeting of the sourht to be held, nore ot them, and they ourht t yinvite Aim to * % * (At Bester, April 13th, is mv hitth-day, the presentation might be left tiil then. * * © [Tam vlad our friends are s

You

prineipa

sav twelve «

‘tas their Spoxesman,

T shall be sure to be devn,

leased with the Patrick’s Day speeches.

lmay tale teleyraphic rumours about mv aecept ing ofhee with some grains of salt: when [ zo down at Easter it there is anything to be told

tek od ae il ' ‘ - I shall then and there subnut to my friends first . . 7 + + “* Yours always, Signed) 7. Dd. McC e. J. H. Darey, Esq. — Montreal News.

George Etienne Cartier. Minister of Militia,

THE ATTACK. Montreal and worked there for some time with and leader aud representative man of the a ntrei ale om ner ne ne t . . ) . ‘ A despatch fro:n the /eral{'s correspondent, | Gibbs and others. His Fenian proclivities |Prene® or Lower Canadian element in the . ° . * : | ' 7 e ' oe ' hy. sles ns Re ile ee : ‘ dated before the fortress on Good Friday, re | pecame more and more de ‘ided, and his de- Dominion, bas heen cievated to the aisnity ot

Pp grted that th Br tish army had arrived there

and and Ihngiish rule still in f ont of the Kin ¢’s stron shold,

expected, aud

nunciation of Eng

The troons m

re vivoient As was to be

were six miles distant trom the fortress. The | s the case with only too many, he was never more appropriate, more wortay, or in Kio2’s camo was situated on a great hei cht, in| pore eloquent apon the wro! 18 of Treland than every sense more just and politic. Isis an ac fall view. The third despaten of the 13th of | whee he was more or less intoxicated ee ee ee SS Te a ae A vil said a truce which had been ag eed on} When Whalen was in Mo treal, he joined BOTT o! the recijnent, buta recoznition of the between (reveral Napier and Theodorus termine the St. Patrick’s Society, and became a rather | 4/8 Gue 7 a name which is both wationa ated early that morvi Immediately after) active ; He|* id historieal, the proudest name in fact which |

f. , OUStiing Memoer of that frateroity. the ter ‘ he Ke rr } ing surrender . Le NMinawtion th fnot having surrend: t 2. General Nat ier

1 the ed the ves,

placed him al d second b if 1 t¢ s in the hill towards the This portion of the surrendered to Genera Napier by the chief in command after a brisk attack in which the African troops were defent et Phe sthe Fuslish advanee,

and it, first fruits,retreated into the centre of the f the Marshals at the procession on the Mardala works on tl

va to bea respectable person, al d conti:ued i Moutreal bis home till the morth of October or November last. when

acifat the head of his army and m fortress as fa

afrone

ft the first we d

ii lass.

Iria kt

as S

works Wis ’

He Thust Patricks Society

evidence, he has heen ever have joined the Ortawa St.

srce

worns observi

iteau, having first

planted five gure at the hase. When Gen. jin a phot nfraph taken at the time of the pro- Never came in sight with hs beizades the) misent personazes in that display.

Kias’s atillery opeved on the advance with} Mrs. Whalen has not removed to Ottawa, these sauna inthe presence of Theodorus. The! but according to Eagleson she meant to do so

gritizh relied immediately with 12 pounder: Armstrong suns and 7 inch

Mountain mortar} rocket runs, throwing

wckets into the place.

The King’s works were carried after a vigor ous resistance. Theodorus lost durinz the en-| yazement sixty mer killed and two hundred | wounded, he English had fifteen rank and; ! After the works were complete

arian rements.

Ww eek,

fil . wounde j hi Ex stish soldiers in the centre of bis strous.|

hod. LATER, | Province. Two despatches from Gen. Napier to Sir S.| N oetheote have been received. The tirst says! tere had been an ensa cement on Good F ides, | vouse, and that on another, after speaking very Lush Agel, when Koug Phesdorus was defeat-| harshiy of the deceased statesman, he pulled ed with heavg toss. QO. the Enczlish side Capt. out his pistol, shook it, and clenched his asser- Roberts, of the 4ta Tufantry, and 16 men, | tons with a ts by G—,” leaving the threat were wounded, None of the British were kill-|to be inferred. Rumor, of course, with its — aring the next two days Theodorus sur. | hundred tongues wi!l be hasy enou sh in cireula- rendered ali the European captives, but had/ ting, and magnifying and distorting everything He | he may have said, and very possibly may be was alioved 24 hours fiom the 12th of Apritin| giving him eredit for some thinss ke never the morning either thournt or uttered; but enough is un questionable to show that ins antecedents wot made itunhkely that he would such a desrerate ente prise.

sot surrend=red himself aus beates in war.

tu decide us tu lis course. |

is dated the L4th. Tt}

v ; Pae second despatel Was then sreatiy dis- |

amy

wartleued is Ceise puence of ts severe luss, a. d t

hare eugage in He is upon the | whole, not illooking, as may be seen from the | avcompanying portrait, is vain, reckless, daring

SAVS sue lug g§

tleat the Chiefs head suv-endered the most fore midable position on the approach to Mazdala Caled Shuloose, end many thousand mative a ed jad down (heir arms. Theodorus retived to Mardata with the troops which bad Sei taithtul An assault was ordered on tee doin, under cover of the Armstronys stee! guns roceet battery, The ascent to the gates

most formidable des-

and excitable; not very well able to manaze his owu weekly income to any good account; but entirely persuaded that if he were put in | charge ot Ireland for a week ov two he would } 3000 right the wiougs of centuries. That he had any personal quarrel with Mr. McGee is

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vf Mazdaia was of the wot sad. Tadced it does not apvear that they compton. The Ker was kilied inside, defend [over came in contact with each other ar all. ing timself and ois position to the last. The| But that be bitterly hated the murdered man as ives of the British was small, and the army|# titer to what he was pleased to think the Gini tlh a oo in eines ote eh. * | best interests of Leeland and Irishmen seems unquestionable. LATEST. | We have already referred to the chain of Later advices, duied Zula, the 18th, state | evidence which connects him with the murder that 14,900 native trooys had surrendered to | for which he will in due time he tried. His Gew Napier, Theodo us had 300 killed and] tral, of course, will be a fair one, and every 1500 wounded. The European captives, num | vpportunity will be atforded tor clearing bim- berias OJ, uciudiog men, women and children | self from the odious charge. While, as we Were already ou tueir way to Zoula for home. | Dave said, we do not wish to prejud se the ease, we must say that matters at present look very badly for the prisoner, and his whoie course of life since he caine to this country seems rather : ; ito confirm than to weaken the likeishoed of his Wer, Which was read f r the Must part, from guilt. Noone, however, convinced of Whaleu’s printed Bis, & d whieh occupies sixteen | Zuiit, helieves him to be alone responsible fur Coluss ts of the Boston Journal, was an extra-| the deed of blood which has made his name 30 ordiaary eifort. It deat with the evidence and | promineut the world over. The authoritics it with the law—alao with early constitutional | i, said, have evidence which goes to show that h story i “& very masterly manner. It cuu- | he is but one of a larze number handed tove- cieded a follows: I ther for this purpose, and that it havpens that Senators, as far as Tam concerned, the ease | he now stands in the positiou he now oc uples is now in your hands, and it is syon to be! sunpiy because it was so determived by lot. hh clused by my associate. The House of Re.j such conspiracies this is ygeneraily the plan. presentatives hrve presevted ths c.iminal at PAG are mors ly guilty of the murder, and the your bar with equal coutidence in hig guilt an J! owe who kills is simply the iustrument detailed iu your dispositivu to administer exact justice | acco ding to a prea anged plan for the work. between him and the people of the United | Such then are mere prominent facts in the States. | histury of dames Whalen. The followin few His conviction is the tiumph of law, of or-j weeks will supply more for bis history than al! der, of justice. I do not contemplate his ac-| the past year. It remains to be seen whether quittal—it ig impossible. Therefore I do not jook beyoud. But, Senators, the people of A:qeriesa will never permit an usurping Exe- cutive to break dowa the securities for liberty | provided by the Constitution. The cause of} est of midnizht murderers, or as one who with the country is in your bendg. Your verdict of | much cireumstantial evidence azainst him, was gusty is peace to our beloved land, on the eve of securing a permanent thouzh fai Judge Nelson was next heard on behalf ot | from honorable, niche in Canadian history, the President. Hos arcument oceupied neariy | OM which, throush his own innocence, he iwodars ad wae mainly of a hard legal kind, { “ter al. made good his escape. Fo-r or ive more Counsel are tu he peard.| Tue prejudhee excited arainst Chief Justice | (we, seems to he subsiding, The Bosto:

esciaiicallitaa Na itiiciiinstniien the President draws The apeeeh of Manazer Buut

The Impeachment ot fiear

#& Close,

trials a great offeader, who pursuaded himselt ihat he was playing the pact of a hero, when he simply proved that he was one of the mean-

——_—- 2 > -+ oe Activity AmMono THE Fexiaxs. — The Washington correspoudest of a Boston pape

A lvertiser aad its correspondents at Washiog-} writes that great activity prevails amony the}

toy state that nothing move dignified vor more} Fenians, and that there is reason to tear a for hike what justice ourht to he has ever been! mrdable attack upon British America during wituessed in a Court of Justice than the culings|the coming summer. H+ says O'Neil, the ast Dea toss of the Chief Justive. It is alleg

{ that Gen. Butler—who ie not mach tin favo: ing man, and though he has little administ:a | hore or in New Ocleans—has distin suished him. | tive power, would not hesitate ty stoke a blow & fuece than any ofthe other eounsgel. Ih dows} if there were the shohtest chance of success u tannear what the result will he. That the! [t seems probable thar the attack will be made

P-vsident acted ao offe sively ag to ehaflenge| on more than one pow.t. ino@achment thece is no duuht. also that he! jofriased the letter uf a law which he held was! Hot constitutional or binding, That he is; me ¢ in 1865, but were restored to the Fenians linh'e ty impenchwent iy the sense of the con-/a few months ago. Ia | sutatioa #@ more than dwht. E.anthe result) creat activity among the Fenicus, and much) of the trial will wat settie this point, History| apnrehension prevailed at Victoria, the capital

may yet do so. —3i. of Vuucusver's Leland, |

:

us

as0 married one, who, froin all accounts, Seems

he removed to Ottawa and obtained work with E.cleson, in whose employment, according to Eazleson's

a'most humediately for we tind that he was one L7th of March fast, avd as such fizures on horseback

f very soon, aid had heen up to the city making Whalen’s employer gives: bin ay vod character, SiV3 he was well liked hy his shop-mates, and could earn from $12 to S14 a Aithougit neither Eazleson ror his brother, according to their own account, ever beard him refer to McGee, it seems uuquestion- able that winle he always used very strong ¢ tuken Theodorus was tound dead by the | language against English domination in Sretand. he was peculiariy bitter against that sentleman whom he rezarded as its great upholder iu this It is said that on one occasion, at any rate, his language was so stronz and dis- loyal that he was turned out of his boarding

he will live in the history ot Canadian ciiminal ;

present Fenian President, is a brave and dar-|

At Beale, for in| stanee, there iga larse quantity of Fenian arms, | which were serted by the Washinzton Govern |

> ' ub Baro et of the t

Tnited K iedom, No Coin

mat distinction has been couferred, which

could be

eould be borne by a Some three hund ed vears ago Jacques Cartier discovered the St

Canada,

Canadian.

Lawrence and the eountry kuown as

has alter ihis wide interval of tume, made to himself a distin ruished position m that

colony b

rreal

vizgouro his twents. Every Freael: Canadian Is justly proud of lim, partly On his Own ac count, but largely ou account of the honoured Of what other discoverer, o: this side the Atlantic, can it be said that ever the name survives ? " bua has been lon:

name he bewrs.

The posicrity ot Colum extinet, nat any descendant could be traced ot Sebastian Cabot, of Cortez, of Henry Hudson, or indeed of a: y ot the dariu.s explore

adveniurers of tue

nor have we eve

heard, Ss anc ifteenth and sixteenth cen turies, wit the single exception of Jacques Cartier who discovered Camwada. How tittine the time and the sceasion! The first Baronet created, belongins to the Dominion of Canada, is George Exieune Cartier, descendant of the first European who set eves upon the land, and whose pinnace first broke the waters of th m ghty St. Lawrence. Long may ke wear the title su hunurabiy earned ! and we trust he may be spared to add additional iustre tu the houvur ed same he bears.— Hz. Express.

Me:axcnoty Occurrencs.—A sad, and in|

his case We must say mysterious eccurrence, tuck piace in town on Monday last. A man tamed Allan McDonald, trom the Gulf, came to town on Sabbath. Ta the evening he went tu West Acadin Mines, and on Monday morn- ing returned to New Glasgow. At about ts o'clock he went out in company with M Thomas Smith to Smith's house. When in the nenzgnhborhocd of Mr. Roche's house he sudden ly exclaimed “Tam deunk,’’ and on reaenin Sinith’s house he fell to the ground. Mr Sunth endeavored to get him into the bouse but the ma: violently resistins, he desisted, wliowing bm to lie on the ground supposing that he woud become sober in a sho:t time — Two young men laid bin on a piatform, placed a buidie under his head and left him. M: Smith passed him several times, and seeing th: wan apparentiy asleep, be concluded not t disturb him. About 11 c’ clock it was diseuve: ed that the man was dead. He was immediate ly carried mto Smith's house, and iwedicai at called, and after a long and careful examin ation it was found that life was extiner. Ed ‘ward Rach, E3j., Corover. suminoned a ju ¥, and Dis. Mitche) acd Murray were calied i to make a post mortem examination. The jus ealied in ou Monday night failed tu arree on ; verdci, and a new jury was summoned o Luesday mormug. The post mortem examu.- ation proved that there were nu signs of th: manu having suifered violence. It was proves that he had diunk no liquor at Acadia Mines, but that be had drunk two glasses of gin at MecKraracher’s, one at eisht, and the other at Th medical men stated that there was no food in his stomach, that it contained nearly a pint of Lqud, wiich en ited strony fumes of aleohul. It was fousd that his brain was completely con gested, and also emitted a strong smell o! aleohol. The man’s heart, liver, and lunes were in a very healthy condition, and it was evident that the mana death was caused by in | tuxicatins lquors. The Jury, theretore, wave fin a verdict, that in their opinion, “the de- ceased came to his death from couvestion ot the brain, superinduced by the use of intox:- Tiis agreed with the opinion ‘expressed by Drs Murray and Mitchell, why , conducted the post mortem examination.— Vew | Glasgow Chronicle.

at about ten o'clock, Mouday forenoon,

callus i guors.

A man named James T. Shand, an employee liu the Saw Mill of George McLeod, Esq., on ithe Kouchtbonguae River, was accidentally | kiliea 1a the Mil on Thursday evening last, junder very distressing circunistances, having lheen struck by the connecting rod, knocked junder the crank, and his head and body | horribly bruised and manzled. Decease: |was about 36 years of are, and a native o! | Seotiand, aud leaves a family of four smal! | children.

A terrible aceident oecurred in Montreal, o: tthe 25th ult. An experiment was beins maa hat the Re-ervoir with a new explosive sub jStanee, when a premature explosion oceurred, jkiling one man instantly — fiterally blowing | his head 20 pieces—-and seriously injuring six or seven more | Sir John A. Macdonald, K. C. B., has hee jappotsted the via: d represeutetive of the Grand Lode of Enstand at Lod re wf | Cannda, which sits in Lo eudan on the 14th) Jody vwext. fiis said that there will be ahout fom hand ed and Uifty dele cates from ali parts of the Dominion; aud further, that in is the intention of the Free Masons of Loudon to

the Grand

nesent

Tuliferuia theve ig | @tertain the wrand lode at a banquet.

Colane! Kelly, one of the Fenians reseved frem athe Manchester Police, has arrived at

New York,

Uuawa |

jyreat loss, aud they therefore ask the Dominion | Government to gua antee the interest of aloan |

inodation as will enable them to ioad six large |

bith-day—Easter Monday—the day of his}

he foree of his character, and the ;

then an every Way the honor, how appropriate |

and Mi K Get i

| day

eee

aunt of destitution in some parts of Nova Scotia, aud especially im the Island of (Cape Breton, is great, almost beyoud pre: | cedent. ‘The mere fact that such i the case ousht to eall forth the eifurts ul the benevolent, | oug bt to Command the alteation ot the yuvern | ment at vace, without stopping to enquire lr tu the cause. Jt is enough that such is) the jeagse, and our dury now is to give relief hivst hand institute enquiry afterwards. The tacts jstuted are at once alaruing aad depivrabie, | | We ave told that in a part of the county vf Ta

i veruess, the cattle will be nea ly all lost) from

waut of food, that inde d they are wiready youe, | that the people have consumed all their seed | outs and potatoes, and that dire necessity is

| | | ' |

compelling them to feed upon their horses. Surely this is a state of things which bas oniy tu be made known, in order to obtaia instant i consideration aad relet in a civilized Not a day should be lost in ascertaining the tacts of the case, and acting it accui dance |

country.

with its requirements. Lt nothings etse can be done,

let the Road |money, fur the year, yo for this i

purpose. I

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}vur pevple are sullering as represented, anoim

| ve ulive duty is upon the Goverument to pro vide the remedy without delay. Let not the

epoach be upon us that aay of our fein w icreatutes ins this Province died from = actus iwaut, or that whoie districts are famine stiica- en and unrelieved, white we and those about us ace Coguisunt of the fact. The past winte

has been the longest ard most severe tor iiss years. It set is euwny du Uctuber, and hi been now liogerng tai iate in Apri. Ther is uot yeteven # sign of vegetation, aud 4 will probably be six weeks betore the cattic fean find a mouthful in the helds. If assist aics {is not atforded to thuse Who are utterly dest- ltute now, what wiil become of thei befor Tm isa sort of thing to which mere private be nevoience Is ailogether unequai, however wil ng U tay be. Under ordinary circumstances, we would be the last to advocate Goverument |bounty in this way, but from the accouni> |which reach us, itis evident that the preset is an emergency, sv pressing and exceptional, that all hesitation shouid be thrown aside. We say then, to the Goverument, vive what is really needed, to tide over the present severe triai,—give road moaey, school money—it ab | solute y necessary—borrow if you have not got invuey; but turn wot away from the cry ol fanumsbing women aud cuidren, tu say uvthin, ;O. Strong Men,

feveu that short time will have elapsed ?

Tue Fraser Crax.—A meeting was held i: Fraser Haiti, New Uilas sow, On Mouday, tne | 27th dav of April, 1565, at 11 o'clock, ‘a. it... hiv organize the * Cian Fraser’ for tine County lof Pictou. ! Joon McI’ Fraser, Es }-. Chairman,

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re 6) ined t 29 3d.; other ar- he upon whom «“ Observer’ 80 plentifully — heaps his abuse, and to none did # greater says that Prue share of unmerited obloquy fall. Bot Catholic new and astrange advo-

ticles unchanges ae

A tong Kongletter of Feb. 26, sin Wae negociatng ror the aceession of the Island cigims have fount a of Cheuson to Germany and thus place the an- | eute. c tereste of the Confederation in command of @) 10 4s he das proved to his Protestant friends, great highway of the Choa and Japan trade.

time alone can tell. As an humble but sincere and tried friend of the Catholic community of } this Island, | advise them keenly to scan ae motives of their new friewds, and to consider well their antecedents. It is godlike to forgive uur enemies, hut it is the extreme of folly to! trust them,

I cannot conclude without saving I have | formed a very different estimate of our educa ltional system from that arrived at by “ Observer.”

FROM THE STATES. New York, May 2 In the Impeachment trial the Presidents Cour eel closed there aigumenta te dav. Cotgresetat Bingham ade final argument tor the prosecution on Monday, andit is theught a decision will be reached on Wednesday Gold steady at previous quotations. New York, May 4th.

Smidt lett: Bremen

North German steamer Hacen early on April 4th, with « tull comphiunent

of pasaengers, and haa not arrived up to this date |

SPECTATOR. Mav 8 1868.

Che Gxaminer, Charlottetown, May 11, 1868.

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Pears ace entertained tor he satety, the more as the cable bas net reported Ler anywhere,

Gold 1354.

The North German Steamer Smidt has arrived

| | i New York, May 4. | |

FROM CANADA. THe vewspaper is a wonderfal institution.

Ottawa, May 5. By no other

It is a complete library ia itself. means are the same amount and variety of

He who

In the House of Commone Jest night. E.M MeDonald (Lunenburg), in the abeonce ot Croke coved fer reurna relating to the St. Petes’ Canal. Carried

oir. Oliver, (Oxford, O -) moved that the Gov- leu nt be an ignorant man. vecnor General's salary be reduced to $5,000 iter the betef Judy next. Mo Dariersae mowed po” : a ; Wp amendment (bat it be reduced te 832.000, A |elimate, the productions of its soil, its mineral jong diseussion ensued, in whieh mriomtere ad | poconrees, its manufacturing capabilities, the

~ vera ot the leading menbers on the mineterial i : sie ae ee ee lextent of its trade, its facilities for commerce,

| iknowledze wiven in an equal space. ai rezularly and carefully reads the newspapers If the render

wants information about a country - about its

sie epoke, opposing the reduction Amendment | , oo : dnaliy carried by YO te 45. The mete. a* lor the political, moral and social condition of voended, Was then earned by 108 to 2 Minis | 49 sahahitento~stet ties nes eefer Gn Gamitivers

ers ia beth cases wellag ma Coe min oty. Heuee |

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md adjourned Bayle and Hynes editors and publishers of the ‘Trish Canadian Nolan Seeretary of the HH: ermian Suciety. and Owen Cosgrove, were artes! | read them with eare and attention, From cd im Toronto yesterday for Bevianisu Phe | ni if he has any discernment, he will be papers have been seized aud their sale forbidden. | : Ottawa, May 4ih-. 7 inatituten {the country, and of the condition of those who

of travels or question living travellers,

but let him procuce a file of its newapapers and

able in a few hours to form a herter idea of

It is rumered that avether Banking f Ovtario is haely to tail, and lead to tresb finan: | cial embarrassment. lu the Commons thie afternoon the Commiattee |- ' on Fisheries aud Navigation reported. recomend [ing and eontradietory statements. The news-

ing the construction of @ large additonal nun | paper, better than any otner species of modern oer of lighthouses. ae

Mr. Joues (Leeds) moved a reduction of the | literature, Privy Counen to mine. Neither nitiistertialists | vives the observer who has eyes to see, a better vor opporition neticed bis arguments, and ;

thet . " : “| view of even the faintest and most evanescent mollon was declared lost. Deue debate took place on matters relating to

old Canada,

live init, than if he had spent weeks in hunting

up authorities and in comparing their conflict- holds the mirror ep to nature and

| Hineaments of her countenance than he ean ob-

i tain by any other means. Toronto, May 4.

The “Trish Canadian” newpaper has been

We have heen established in the ahove eon-

Johu A. Fraser, Secretary, | Hon, Jaines Fraser beiuy called upon ad | dressed the meeting, and explained its import, ius la Conmnection with a similar movement | aleiy taken place in the P:ovi led by Donald A. Fraser, Exq., and passed Jauanimousiv, that itis desirable that the family | it Frasers do organize themselves into a Claw | vith a uow proceed te such organization in sympathy

and accordauce with the \ it | eT ‘ hee.

It was moved by James Fraser, Esq., (Dow

late

Fraser be the Cinef of the Clan for the Counts f Pictou, and also be a deleyate to the Cun ventinn to be holden at Ottawa on the 14th | day ot May next.

ed by Mr. Murdock Fraser, and passed aeani- Inousy, that Johu McP. Fraser Esq., be a Chief tor the Eastern District, and Donald A. iraser, Es J» tor the Western Disinet of the County ot Pietou.— Pictou Standurd,

A Parliamentary return shows that expenses of the Fenian prosecutions in Canada to have been $86,620.

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ond one of his collateral descendants, |

The miil-steamer Verlin arrived on Sunday from St. John’s, N. F. The Ge: eral Assem- bly of the Province was prorogued « day the 29th ult. The total avriva trom the ice, to date, are as follows:

n Wedaes

of sealers

i} St. John’s, 30 vessels w i sea! ryt vlace biaisell of the truth of w! . | o. ee.

} Std » 30 vessels ith 134. I seals. coud a ’ iat he utturs. 7 We ttt tye the ebiication aid eens

{ fi. Grace, 21 sé ‘“ 100,240 * * Observer’ vow states that Mr. Coles. amons ee

| 3 eae auhece, vuted sieint: the stuat—ta cams. 1 Of renders, a:€@ to remind them what! US, ay alii 1! ola CHS.

! Total 69 vessels with 254,370 “ Weil, if Mr. Cowes did not vote against the | valuable things mewspapers ace, vive them a

| —Halifax payer.

Monday lust on the reeention of the wood news trom Abyssiwin.