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by a servant girl. pupers, that the child has been recovered.

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child, and the capture of the woman Ruarry.

She hed been in the service of Col. Aickie for! about two months, and waa under notice to: leave, on account, aa she imagined, of com-!

t imperfectly | related, of the restoration of Colonel Hickie’s |

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out of employment.

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| fOreizners who have served with distisction in the Prusdian army, the Scotch take a high place, though tley Have tiot beén bo jargely represented as the Huguenct hobles of France

flout mil fronting on the Esnlanade.

Un the first page of Friday's @asetle we | Loss estimated at $200,000. Na b.eurance. gave an aecount of the abduction of Lieut-! wo hundred men will be temporally thrown Col. Ho ckre’s child, at Maidewhead, England, TYhs is the largest fire By our Iwtest English | which has occurred here for mauy vears. Two per Moravian, we are glad to learn| thousand head of cattle depended on the dis- The sub- | tillery swill for food, and will be thrown on joined particulars will be read with interest :— | the market in eoosequence.

The following facts, whitch have been oh. | Worts will probably proczed at once to re- om the most .uthehtic source, wilt) uild.

Godderham and

Distytinerissep Scotcnmex.— Among the}

ne llcccnnets 2 . anes > ecileos ae aaa ee Cancale conaaall Se w portion of the dished te PiwWenting | pave eit yeah, hin faith begin: tng te fail, be F axuin sailed for this conntry, and, during a quiet) ~~ [pees in, bis native plage; added another tuil- a

on of dollars ¢o bis gift ta the Southern Sduea i tien fund— making it reach the ntble aggregate of Be 500 HON!

gradually tailed until death clured the earthly career of a great and good man -

In the presence of such a life panegyric iv silent. What over men of wealth planned in their most generous moments, he accomplished

and while others held on to their estates to their

lateet breath, he commenced to dispense his for- jtune with a lavish hand for the good of others | while yet in the prime of life. No worda of ours {tan add foree to the Iesson of this noble career

It was as unique as it was good Beside it the | tesults of ordinary ambition are dwarfted inte

Mr. Peabody returned to Eng-| land ao few months since, and serms to have

General James Keith, who fell at Hoclikireh, | insignificance, and even customary charities aeem was the most celebrated of them allj and; cowmmerniace;, It will ever be. a gratitying though Berlin contains two statues in his hon-/ thought that Mr Peabody was an American, and our, the present King of Prassia has just pre-| ‘bat a Republican Kas outatetpped in generosity

to one lady fer a character. It has been | sented a third to Peterhead, «here he was At oe Pee a nie -tnciieaa ascertained since she stule cae little girl that | at the Castle of Inverarie. The following are ebar ty, and the unborn millions whe will reap

she bad. in two or three cases of dismisga! | the names of the other Scotchmen who have | is. harvest of hia noble donations in the cause «t from employment, threatened to be revenged. j risen to the rank of General in the F russt luniversul education, will drop a tear ever the The simole cause of her being discharved} armst—~Henry iallard EMliot, bee.me Major=| grave, and keep untadingly green the memory of, fron: Colonel Hickie'’s service was that she! General 1678, died 1681, ; John Grant, fist! George PeaBopy. was four d unsuitable for the duties of her po=| served in the Russian army, became Major-! sition in bis household. Ii may be me: tioned | General in that of Prussia 1759, died 1764; | Seeiicdae <a ited tute te as a cetious incident, that, within the past) Francis E Scott, became M jor General and | STTCARY me. SeGHnes SEP PaaS y twely hs, she | b rice of | Commander ot Spandon 17\4i, died 1803 and| day to announce the demise of our respected of TEV, CUES, S09, 208. DEON IB tae SeRvEES OF; E oe i silt agente Pt his discharge as| (ited, Major B. Hammat Norton, United States & well-k own d=teetive and principal of an | Hareest Hamtiton an sonaree S| Consul at Pictou, which occurred on Thursday ‘inquiry office.” Whea E.zubeth Barry left | Majoi General 19¢8.—The moet remarkable |... ing last, after a severe illness of several Colenel LHickie’s house at three o clock in the family of Prussian Seott, is perhaps that which weeks, Major Norton bas been a resident of afternoon of October the 8th, with the child | sprang from Andrew, Baron of Gaudy and | Pictou for over twenty years and during all thai entrusted to her care, she went to the Taplow | Uraiginnie, who died as Major-General in the | time be discharged his official duties, 80 far a i» ark. Statio yhere sh d wo wait nearly | electorate of Brandenburg in 1664. His| known, to the satisfaction of everybody. He

ar tation, where she had to wait nearly ; FS : . ie . half an hour for a train to Lordon. | grandson, Andrew Erhard von Guudy, fell as/| identified himself with every movement destined

None of the officials noticed hers bet jt} Colonel at Habelschwert 1745. E. W. Ernest! to benefit the community, and took great interest happened that a young woman, who was her} YOu Gaudy, the eon of the latter, became | and pleasure in the pnenes ot = eeeenal - f-llowe passenger, @id so, and efterwatds re«| Major-General in 1779, and died as Lieutenant | * private citizen he was untversaily respected an

ae al os an a te ‘General in 1788. His brother, Leopold Otto | ©#eemed, as well aa for hie aniformly honorable

eg See CHOI, weete Colonel | et aol ts ‘Wicsttien Mitel cia ot Vico. | cot duct as tor hia many acts of benevolence, The llickie a letter which he received lust Sunday | ven Gandy, was ewan Sentero BNE vce | fact that, through euceessave changes of Govern Qn the nicht of the same day on which Bary} President of the General Directory. FY

plaints which were the subject of hints with | the other servants of the house. During the} last sx or seven years she had been in as) many dhiferent situations; but usually referred

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; ; lanent mm the United Statea, be waa maintained in left Kidweli’s Park, tke residence of Colonel

Hickie. she proceeded by the North-Western | ae. > . DD Railway ¢ » Liverpool, aud took lodgines in St | Merit; in 1806, he was made Precertor of the | faction of the Government be represented, but . A little girl who lived in the| Crown Prince in 1814, of Saxony; in 1815. he! that be also had a strong bold on the affection of name duce read in one of the local papers a jbecame Lieutenant-General, ard in 1823 he) the people of Picton and Pictou County. He

Jude's pleve. description given of B>rry, and in particular | was struck by the fact that the strange woman | had a mole on the rizht upper lip. The girl told her father, who communicated with the | police: and a dective, assuming the character | of a lodginz-house inspector,went to the house | and asked the new lodger her name. She said | Jt was Taylor; and the officer, who had not| heen i:.formed of her maiden namie, asked her | whether it was not Fox. She answored that!

coufessed that her name was Barry, and that she was the person who bud taken away the| child tective, * i] you are in my custody.”’ Barry, | so far from having taken affectionate care of | the little gil, had cropped its hair close, | pawned it: clothes, and, for some days at. least, neglected and half-starved it. Indeed | for a week previous to her discovery she| had given way to drunkenness. 1 to have £2 103 in her pocket when she left; | aud the litle that was left of this, after pay-| iog her rai way fare, hud been spent in drink |

The child was in such robust health when | taken from its home, that a few days’ des privation of proper and sufiicient nourishment | had had no seriously ill effects on its ptysical} condition, Barry had no mears, as we have | thown,of paying ker passage to America ; and | hee assertion that she did not intend to make | the voyage may therefore be ered'ted She} States that : he had p-oposed supporting herself | and the child by needlework, Too obvious tor | any elaborate comment is the simple truth that | 8 little girl, aided by a newspaper, was practi-|

cally the *¢ letective who arrested Elizabeth |

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Barry, and the police had but a secondary |.

part to pley in the basiness, At the same, time,the earnest desire of every member of the | foree, whether in Liverpool or in London, to aid Culonel Hickie's pursuit of the woman who had stolen his child, may be acknowled zed.

A telegram received from Maidenhead on) Wednesday uight, says :— The prisoner, Eliza-| beth Barry. in the custody of Constable Hoid- | way, arrived at Taplow station at nine o clock. | She stepped lightly out of the carriage, and |

was promptty placed in a cab that was in wait-| ing, and driven off rapidiy to Maidenhead. On| the cab drawing up at the police-station, there | was.a great rush of excited people to gain a! sight of the prisoner, but she was so speedily | and cleverly taken from the cab and conducted | to the cell, ‘hat no time was given for any dis-| play of public indignation. Barry wes respeet- | wb'y attired in a black dress, black Astracan | jacket. aod black bonnet She is a sharp-| featured woman, of dark complexon, binek | hair, moderate height, and of middie aze The | constable reports that he got his prisoner away from Liverpool without marked observa. | tion. At Paddington they were reengniged, | and @ crowd of two or three hundred persons | quickly gathered around. The woman was| securely transferred to the local arain and | taken on to Tuplow. To ensure the safe-| keeping of his prisoner, Mr. Superintendent | M'Grath has srranged that an attendant shall | remain with her during ihe night iw the ward | of the prison

ee —- “ EXPERIMEMTAL”’ POISONING BY A| SCHOOL-BOY.

A most singular and diabolicel case of at- tempted poisoning at Rossa! College, in North Lancashire, has just come to light The son| ot a Dublin towa coune Hor, named Hogan, | hus for some time been studying at Rossul | Colleze,oue of the most flourishing educational | establishments in the north of Eagiand : and a | few mornings ao, whilst at breakfast, he was seen to get hold of a sugar basin and put} gomething into it; but the person noticing | him --a monitor named T horpe—nct suspecting anything serious, fancied that what was put | into the basin might be a litt!e suzar which iLogan bad bad in his hand; and consequently thought no more about it. Not long after- wards Hogan asked one of the coilegians if he had seen Mr. Sleip, a master connected with the establishment and whether he had heen siek or not. Mr. Sleip bad, fortunately, been called away for some gutpose at the ordinary breakfast hour, and was, of course, in his uscal health. Thorpe, the monitor, having heard something as to the inquiry of Hogan, be- thought himself of what he had seen at the breakfast talie, aud subsequently the sugar basin — still upon the table, and Inckily, un- touched by an yone — was taken possession of, conveyed to Dr. Williams, ibe resedes.tial medical attendant at the college, and by that entieman its contents were examined. Ue found the sugar mixed with the arsenic — in fact, that it contained as much a8 would have poisoned nine or ten persons. Hogen, when this was made known, was secured a:.d placed in one of the reoms, avd his father was com- municated with. It seems that Mr. S.eip was one of the masters of Hogan, and that the latter had been heard to complain somewhat ef his strictnese towards him; but he had never heen heard te threaten the lite of any one, Hogan ie a quiet ycuth, about 16 years old. When osked why he had put the arsenic into the sngur which Mr. Sleip had to use, Hogan replied that he had done so out of curiosity, that he wanted te make an experi nent, and that he considered Mr. Sleip the likeliest person to operate upon. Yourg Hogan, when his tather arrived at the coileze, stated that be had more arsenic, that he brought it over with him from Dublin after his midsummer holidays, and that it was se- eveted in a certain chimney at the college Thie chimney was searched, aud # bettie con- taisigg encugh arsenic to puison all the peopie at Ee collone. was found secreted in it Hogan was uf-erwards conveyed ome by his father.

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; DESTRUCIIVE FIRE IN TORONTO.

Toroxto, Oct. 27.—The mwin building of Gooderham & Worts’ distillery vas destroyed | by five lastniz it. Phe fire was caused hy the etplosion of « lamp ia the paint shop. A cask of Berg'ne was instantly igeued, and the five spread wit: fearful pier in spite of the strenuous efits made to keep it in eheek., 400 009 galions of spirit in process of manu | facture were Consumed. Sireams of the burn-| ing lignor were running ia ail dizecions, and |

HK was at one tiue feared thi t the confiazration |

would extend \@ the udjvining buildi: g, oc-|

cupid aa @ iectifying house, malt hovse ad

@ destructive character, tis: firemen the fire

| chosen.

| bia visit here im 15GG, tie public is ow generally |

® : : $1 S00 000 to tarther the cagee of education im eo au “meets of high wines @Fe we South. An appropriate agkuomiedgment of ep’, the rr of which would have been uM this lest generous gitt Was made by the Goverue By the! went oi tke United States in the Was prevented clegan an : een ecoePryg te thn ' au act of Congress. lo

| Leopold von Gaudy was born in 1764. In the

| Rhine eampaign

died. One of his sons, F. von Gaudy, became |

a celebrated Lieutenan'-General, and another

Lieutenant-Colonel. F. von Gaudy, after hav- |

ing distinguished himself on various occasions,

teil at Alt Rognitz in 1853.

of which Prussia has a rizht to be proud. _ <> -

’ fourssared hoat race took place at Worcester, it was, and on being further interregsted she! Mass., on Thursday last, in which a crew of |

four young men belonging to St, John. but now living in Boston, were the winners Their)

“lata looking for you,” said the de-| names are Thomas McGuigzan, Thomas Mc-/® beliday ia London, and the Exchange will not

Anulty, Andrew Connors, and Patrick Me-| Anulty. They rowed in a boat in which the! Wards beat a St. Juhn crew a couple of years | ago at Springfield. She was on this occasion | named the Neptune. The opposing boat was | the Salisbury Stakes $500 a side. The same

She is sapposed | crew is matched against a Worcester crew iv jor nearly two minutes better time than that

@ race to take place on Monday next.

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(From the New York Albion, Nov.6, 18 €8.) TRE STATE ELECTIONS:

The autumn elections which were brouzht to a close on Tuesday last, in this State, Mas | sachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland, [ilinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, were tame and | spirttless in comparison with the heated polit eal eonflict of a year ago, when Gen Grant} was chosen to the Presidential Office. Of) their general tenor, including those in Penns;l-| vania, Ohio, and Lowa, it may be said that the | new administration has been endorsed,althouzh | the issues have been rather locai than national |

in their character, and a full expression of opinion, even in these, has been by no means | elicited. The States of Pennsylvania and | Ohio were carried by the Republivans by de-| creased majo: ities, as compared wiih last year, | while New York has gone Democratic by some | ten to fifteen theusand majority throughout | the entire State. In this city, however, the| Demogratic vote was unexpectedly reduced | some 2(),000—a result, p:obably, of the defec-| tion of the German element which voted “mit! Sigel,” that gentleman having been the Re-| publican nominee for Secretary of State. The | chief interest of the contest in New York, cen-| tered in the election of the new Legis!ature, | which, for mary years past, has been strongly | Republican. Owing to apatny of the adher-| enta of that party in the rural districts, the | Democrats have probably secured a majority | in both branches, and have thus became re- sponsible for the legislation of the next twelve | months. It is tu be boped that they will! seize the opportunity to redeem some of the) promises so freely made at the poles, at reform at least a few of the crying abuses which have | marked the legislation of the State for the past | decade. There is a nuble work before the new Demceratic Legislature, and we shall look! with interest to its future proceedings. As we huye said, the recent elections have | been local rather than national They partook more largely of the latter character in Penn-| sylvania and Ohio, where Governors were | But even in those States the Repub-| licans cen ouly be said to hold their own, and | Gen. Grant's administration to have received | Only a quasi endorsement. It may safely be | asseited, however, that no very great or gene-| ral dissatisfaction exists thrcnghout the cou..-| try with the Soldier-President’s conduct of | affairs. If not very bsilliant, his record, since | assuming of—ce, has at least been a safe and | conservative one—qualities that, in an age in| which all teudencies are towards :adicalism, | and among a people fully as progressive as | the spirit of the times, should not be despised | When it is considered that Gen Grant, sue! March last, has had abundant opportunities, if | not excuses, for plunging the country into a} war with Spain, on account of Cuba, his con- servatiom almest mses into a virtue. Then there are the unsettled Alabama claims which Mr, Johuson so persistently kept before the public of both countries, and weich mihi easily, in the hands cf an equally indiscreet diplomatist, have led to serious results. Under the new administretion they have been very wisely allowed to sleep, waiting, for their fina! settlement, *¢a more convenient season ’’ And while the foreign »olicy of the government has been thus non-agyressive, its management of the naticnal finances has been no iess cautious. Altogether, therefore, we can see no reason why the people of the United states should not be satisfied with the present condition of affairs, and when any symptoms of discontem are manifested, they are probably little move than signs of the constant struggle going on in this country between those in and out of office ~ the greed of place being, after all, the Mainspring of political activity in America. Let us hope the day is not far distant when the government will be administered on some moe patriotic principle, :

THE DEATM OF GEORGE PEABODY

Mr, George Peabody, the philaathropist, w hese name is fawiliar as a heuscheld word, both in England and America, died in Loudon on the night of the 4th inst. He had but recently re- turned to England from the south of France. whither he bad gone to make a last effort te re- tain his faring hold on lite, Mr. Peabody was burn in Dangers, Mass,, Feb. 1s, 1795, and had, therefore, nearly reached the patuarchal age of seventy-five at the time of bis death. After ene gaging extensively in commerce in this country, Mr. Peabody took up his residence in London in 1637, as the representative of the house of Peabody, Riggs & Co,, engaged in the dry goods trade In 1843 he diasolved bis con- nection with that firm, and estubtished himseli in London a8 a merebant and penker avd his counting-room seun became the ceutre of Ame- rican ii.terest in the Engiish wetrepolis. In 1807 iter aa absence of twenty years, Mr Peabody vieited hie native land, and was everywhere ree ce.ved with manilestations of respect ae one who had werthily upheld the ienor of the American name in a foreign land Before returning to England be carried out a long cherished design by donating $300 O00 to the city of Baltimore, where bis first success in business was achieved, for the purpose of furnishing a tree library, coyrtes of lectures, a gallery of art, and accow- aedations for the Marylaud His orical Sueirty Tins sya he subsequently inereased to ove mil hen, With the cetails of bia more recent charities to the City of Lenden— £350,000 tor the benefit of the poor of the metropolis—and lis princely bequests to American societies during’

acquainted to mike tgtetided reference to thea becersary, [lis crowing dyegtion wae that uf

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t und costly gold medal be Myisy

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he received the Order 1}

jas sbe has nol a eclitary relation in the country.

This is a family}

jinade by the Oxterd crew in their late Inter-

} aud passed away without apparent pain,

| Despatches from Constantinopie report that

| French and Austrian Ministere, there is a pro | Speet of securing the free navigation of the Dar-

extract, utiixed with a grain of any mineral or Kiven with the utmost confidence, and with per-

dren,

you rheumationm in any form? ueek, or bunches caused by rheumatic pains? Ifo, “Johnsons Avedyne Linmeut” is a ape 4 eric remed), and is alsy the best pia killer in of Wie, the world.

| tie office of Clanenl at Dietows «berwe Chat fe not ouly discharged bi official duties to the satis

was in the seventieth year of bis age, | pathize with his bereaved partner in her afficticn, whieh must be all the more keenly felt, inasuiuch

We syu-

— Eastern Chronicle.

LATEST BY TELEGRAPH.

Acqvatic.—Another crew of St. John oars. | men have heen gaining victories abroad. A

FROM EUROPE,

London, Nov, 5. To-morrow (Saturday) wili be recognized uz

be open for business.

Queen Victoria will visit the city to open s new viaduct

A ‘eat race between the Thames and Tyne four oared crews was rowed to-day over tbe la- miliar course from Putney to Mortiake.

The race was won by the ‘Tyne crew in 20 43

national race,

Auother race will take place on the 17th in etuot.

London, Nov. 6,

There is no Stocks market to day.

Liverpool markets quiet,

On account of the death of Mr, Peabody, flags are fying at half-mast. Buildings draped in va- riove parts of the eily and other evidences of mourning attest the public serrew.

Madrid, Nov. 6

Admiral Topete 8 resignation baa been accept- ed, and the political situation in Spain is greatly implicated thereby.

Much anxiety is ielt concerning future politi- cal movements.

The opposition to the Duke of Genoa increases dai!

Sess troops have been sent to Crba

Londen, Nev. 6,

It is rumored that Victor Emanuel in ill,

: London, Nev. 7,

The Queen opened the new bridge and via- duct yesterday with State ceremor ies,

Crowds of people thronged the streets, and the houses in the neighborhood were gaily decorated,

Consols 93 1-4 U, S. Securities firm,

Liverpool markets steady, Cornu 29s, fornia Wheat 10s. 7d.

Cali-

London, Noy. 7,

The concession for the proposed Cable be- tween the United States and Belgium wae sigaed yesterday in Paris. by the Belgian minister,

The Cable is to be laid from Osiend to some point between Maine aud Georgia, by an Aweri- exn Company,

London, Nev. 7.

Despatches from Florence aunounce that King Victor Emanuel is dying.

The Prinee and Princess Napoleon hare been summoned to his beds:de, aud Lave left for Fivrencee.

Constantinople, Nov, 8

It is announced that the Sulla, will not attend the epening of the Sucz Canal.

Lendon, Nov 9.

Covaols 93 3-8; Liverpool markets unchany d.

George Peabody died of congestion of the lungs,

London, Nov, 9, By order of the Queen, funeral services wi'] be held over the rewains of the late Gearge Pea body, in 12. Paria, Nov 9, An toknown man while parading about Com- peigney yesterday, was taken into custody, Up op being examined he was found to be armed Hie adlinitted (hat bie intention was to aseassinate the Ranperor. He has been teken care of, London, Noy. &

ewing ta the combined efforts of the Britrsh.

dane:les fur the Merchant Marine of all natious. London, Nov 9. On the 27th of October a severe earthquake eecurred at Manila, Philipine Islands, All tbe houses were shaken, Fene of the city walls fell and there were many accidents, but no Euro- peaus were killed,

FROM THE STATES,

New York, Nov. 6.

Foreign Exchange dull at 108 34. Gold 196 34; Exchange 169 1 25 Money eaay

New York, Nov. 8

Late advices from South America says the vol cano Panahace in the State of Canca, about twenty miles frow the capital, burst forth with terrific violence at midnight on the 4th ult., vo- miting immense quantities of smoke, flames, sul- phar and ashes,

It was feared that all the towns and villages in the vicinity bad been buried in the ashes and thet few if any of the unfurtupate inbabitaats escaped destruction.

A short ticse after the eruption the river Can ca was observed to rise suddenly, bringirg down the dead Lodies of men and animals in great numbers,

New York, Nov, 6

The money market opens with more stringen- ey.

"Gold quiet. Exchange 100. : New York, Nev, 8

Foreign Exchange quiet at 108 7 1.8 on gold for bankers 60 day bills on London, and Com mercial bills are about $33 in currency,

Gold 12658

New York, Nov. 9

The Royal Canadian and Dominion Banks of Toronto have been consulidated

The steamer “ Her Majesty,” plying between Nova Scotia and Lake Ontatio, went ashore in a fog iv the St Lawrence. The vessel and ear- ge are a total lose,

New York, Nor, 9

Advicea from Havana etate that the cholera continues to rage inland. while the yellow fever has appeared at Puerto Principe.

New York, Ney. 9,

A severe storm has prevailed on Lake Ontario sinee last Saturday night, and several disasters to the shipping are reported.

Exchange steady 3 Gold 127 7-8.

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nexious substance, They mays, therefore, be

tect safety to delicate females gud young chil-

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" QORRESPONDENCE.

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Por the “ Examiver.” Mr. Editor,

I perceive, iy your periodical of ,the 25th _ that tie irrepressible and natorious Jingling Joe, of Lot 11, has avaia been blustering and bellow ing. in his usual biatagt style, about he carrying of the Western Mail As customary, poor Joe spices his pie with ialeehoods. Iv je not trne thai if the people of Lot IL get letters ou ae that these letters catnot be answered until the fol- lowing Monday. Tie detuiled oF braneh Courier, ue usual goes for te Lot 11 mails on Mondays, and returns om Tuesdays with the Charlottetown mail He then retirn®.abd takes away tl & Lot il thats On Thukscdtysjand betarns with the Ch'town until on Pridays. - :

Pook Joe hus more than once beeh Knocked into a cockkb HAT for his scurrilous ecribbling in the ne wapapers, and for poking his proboscis into et people's affairs} but it eee that his iteh fer such low weddling cannot be cured by scratching. L rut vie Gobverument will fee the propriety of quietly whispering to the present Postmaster Govern! to resign. 10 make room for the great Ve- locipede of Lot I, “at any rate” If there was any canse of complaintin the carrying of the West- erp Muil, it hus been removed; for Mr. McDonald, who, everybody knows, is an obliging public otticer, has been on a tour to the West for the par pose Of putting postal matters right, and mails now arrive ut the different localities on the usual days only, 1 believe, somewhat earlier,

The people here wait patiently to ree it Gazetted that Mr. MacDonald has made his bow and walk ont of the Pest Office, and that the great Vetoc! Pepe hus been installed in his place “at an) rate."

Yours respectfully, “ Josepu JACKSON Spup.”

Alberton, Nov. 2nd, 1869.

Che Gxrawminer.

Charlottetown, November 15, 1869.

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Tue crisis of affairs in New Zealand, and the action of the Home Government in the conjuncture, has, by arresting public atten- tion, attracted to Colonial matters generally, more consideration and study than the press and people of England are in the habit of bestowing on such subjects ‘The dispute between Downing Street and Auckland, in the discussions of the Press, naturally spreads itself over a wide area, but there are currents, here and there, which it is worth our while to observe.

The impossibility of a minister, removed thousands of miles from a Dependency, di- recting ina satisfactory method the interests of that Colony, is now a conceded peint. Responsible Governments have been intro- duced. It would seem, however, that the Imperial Government, not content with making this concession, had fully made up its mind to proceed further, and leave to the Colonies the task of providing for their own defence, whenever or by whomsoever they might be attacked. It is at this point, that the press in England is heard warning the Government that it is proceeding teo far

—that its see ming generosity is undermining the greatness of the Empire—and that it is

not a legitimate corrollary to draw from the fact that because Earl Granville cannot see things in the same light as the Colonists of New Zealand, therefore the Colony should ve cleared of all British troops and subjected cither to extermination or forced to look for foreign protection. When this has been effectually done, ** we shall,” it is maintain- ed, “have satisfactorily convinced the world of our impotence and want of cohe- sion, and have taken the first step in the downward road. We may console our- selves with the thought that we are about to give birth to a flourishing progeny of Anglo-Saxon, States, but the Decline and Fall of the British Empire will have begun.” It would appear from this that the posses- sion of Colonies is not the effete mark of Empire, that some among us were inclined to think. The loss of them, in the above theory, notes the first step in the Decline, which issues in Fall, and this opinion is held by men in England now. It is satisfactory then to think that we are not the helpless creatures we deemed ourselves. cares for us.

Somebody There ig still a motive to live, nay more to hope,

Not unreasonably,a belief is prevalent,that

; some adjustment of the relations between Westiwwinster Abbey, on Friday, Nov.:

Great Britain and her Colonies will be ar- rived at through the Royal Colonial Society, at its forthcoming conferences. The cir- cular convoking the Conference, as we re- marked last week, has been favorably re- ceived by many Colonial Governments, and a good attendance of representatives may be anticipated. It is to be hoped that min- isterial routine will not interfere to bias or warp their deliberations, but that the dwell- ers in Downing Street will accord them fai, play. The traditional tone of the Home Government, when addressing the Colonies, has been that of a magistrate. There could be little harm in trying the opposite policy, and endeavoring to effect a more intimate union with the Colonies by gaining their confidence, by giving them a con- sciousness, that they are not in name only citizens of the great Empire, but that they have a legal right to be heard in the Im- perial Council.

A scheme of Colonial Representation in London, is set down as one means of bind- ing closer the Colonies and the Mother Country by the Secretaries of the Royal Colonial Society. The advantages of such a measure are apparent. The Cabinet and the Legislature could never be at a loss how to act from ignorance of Colonial sentiment and opinion, At their hand they would have an accredited Diet to consult. The feelings of the Colonists would thus be orought to bear upon the discussion of all le- gislative enactments which concerned them, and legislation would not then be, what it is too often at present, a leap in the dark, or @t best only faintly illumined by what infor- mation can be gathered from former Colo- nists. The merits of this, as well as of the other schemes set down in the programme we hope to see fully brought out during the ensuing Conference. This scheme of Colo- nial Representation in the Imperial Parlia- ment by means of an Elective Diet sitting in London is not now proposed for the first time. Some ten years ago a Lecturer in Britain propounded, as a means of consolidating and binding firmly together the various portions of the Empire—this same plan of Representation. He entered minutely into details—was well armed with statistics—settled on these the number of Representatives, and described, in glowing colours, the assembling in London of a Par- liament the most numerous in members and most varied in race that the world had ever yet seen. His auditors were few, and of those few many shook their heads despond- ingly at the Lecturer's scheme. The plan to be discussed in London is less gigantic, yet it has every chance of meeting, from a

great many, the sume reception. The dif-

ficulties which beset it inspire fear at the very outset. How, it is asked, can a scheme

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dittering so widely in numbers, character and mterests ? That there is great difficulty po one will deny—that it is unsurmountable has vet te be tried. Let it be once ad- mitted that there is an urgent need for the different portions of the British Empiré being more closely bound to the Mother Country, and a means of doing so shall hit¥e to be devised io matter what difficul- ties surround the question. To reject a measure of policy, because time and skill are needed to overcome the obstractions in our way; is not wisdom but pugillaniinity. The easiest solution of the problem is cer- tainly that set forth in the treatmentof New Zealand. When mismanagement has thiown a colony itito dangers, withdraw your troops, and leave it to find its safety as best ic can. Suppose the Colwnies would take the Ministers in Downing Street at their word, and aqply to Russia or any other of the Great European Powers for protection, would not England's position before the world be one of shame and im- potency? Whenever a Great Empire has of itsown accord cast off its Dependencies, history has always assigned grave reasons for the act, and these reasons we almost in- variably find to be decay. The Roman Em- peror Aurelian evacuated Dacia; Hadrian gave up the Parthian conquests of Trajan; but the Roman Empire had then reached the bounds of its resources. It was im- poverished in population, and had to retire from conquests through lack of men to hold them. But Rome's Dependencies were created by the sword. They were founded They had to be maintained by the sword, and the presence of a prepon- derating majority of the conquering over Not so Britain. Her Colonies bear few marks, and these even slight, of early conquest. ‘The abori-

upon conquest.

the conquered element.

less from the action of the sword, than from the sudden introduction into barbarian life, of the manners and habits of civilization. Britain settled, rather than conquered her Dependencies. The Colonists are, in the main, flesh of her flesh, and bone of her bone. Their loyalty is beyond question, and they are loyal not from constraint, but If then, Britain cast off her Colonies, she will do what Rome did, with- out Rome’s good reasons for doing so. For she needs no armies to keep them. De- ferse in their industrial pursuits, their husbandry, their trade aud commerce, is all they need.. In name they are part and parcel of the Empire ; but the homologation is incomplete, without an identity of in- terests, and rights. To bring this about, and weld together into one compact body, the present hetrogeneous mass, is the object of the London Conference. Even should the measures proposed for this purpose not meet with approbation, the discussion may tend to show what urgent need there is for adopting some measure.

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LITERATURE,

Biackwoop comes to us for the month of October without its customary Political Arti- cle. This is the less to be regretted, as the contents otherwise are fairly up to an average standard of merit.

‘* The Od Monk in the Belfry ” is the title of a somewhat pretentious poem, It were well, did writers, before depicting a scene in which Catholic rites are inireduced, make themselves acquainted with the rubrical laws on the subject. Such a ceremony as the poem describes taking place while ‘streams the days departing glory,’ is perfectly ridiculous. The production after all is much ado about nothing.

The article entitled “Toventus Mundi” seems to be intended by its author to act asa sponge or Mr. Gladstone's Homeric Studies. W-th a versatility aud piquancy to be met with, only now and thea, among the con- tributors to Blackwood, he rubs away ihe varnish which poetic fancies have spread over these old heroes, and sets them before us very plain and coarse individuals indeed. Parsuing the thought farther, the writer combats the viten-combated Jament usually uttered over ‘good old times,’’ and the wailing which well-intentioned persons pour out over the loss of ihe simplicities of life, while they are striving with all the eagerness of their nature to secure to themselves a fyll share of its refinements. Take for example, he says, ‘- the common out- cry about domestic servants, about their love ot finery, their constant desire of change, the increase of wages, and the decrease of attach- ment to theiremployers. There is consider- able foundation in facts tor such complaints. It is disagreeable and sometimes inconvenient to find them copyinggthe style of dress of their superiors, 80 exactly, thatthe lady's maid, if she has a good figure sometimes looks more ofa lady than her mistress. Your kitchen maid is writing up her correspondence when she ought to be washing her dishes. All this 18 very provoking and very unlike the yood old times.’’ Where are all the good old fasbien- ed servants gone? We ask each other querulously. The question is answered thus : “ If our own tastes and habits of life were the same as those of fifty years ago we should find servants much the same as they were then, It is unreasonable to suppose that all the lower strata of society are to stand still while we move forwards, yet there is no more common mis- tuke.”’ Again, ‘we hear mistresses protest against the incapacity and indifference of modern domestics, adding not unfrequently the remark, that if things go on at this rate in a few years it must come to their doing the work theinselves. A cynical bachelor might be tempted to reply, madam it is what your grand- mother probably did!"