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from the parish register, a certificate of her charaeter signed | hy ihe,curate, an attestation of her neighbours, § tt forth tat she had, for the spice of three years, lived with an old : _

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evat who was intolerably peevish, and thal , durinz abl that time given ber aunt the least oceasion 01 complaint ; and, lastiy, the goo Iness of her consgitution was) W ' : 7 het certified after consultation, by feur eminent physicians, | withdrawn froni each of those places. B-fore the lady’s departure the London agen oe an Seat Wadi; fe tev onea eek Ol letters of advice by other ships to his friend, whereby he} Is this the sort of return which Russia 1s to make ik informed him that per such’ a ship he consigned to him a ee ee

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young Woman of su th an nfe, charac ‘ titution, & p Maa ner at tl fee ’ i ny} . yan :

i ' | red to marry ljany terms they pleased however harsh or buanitating $

ma word, such a one ag he des Tr @ fo mar ¢ > ae ’ , . } { ; ee } by; ii ith | The letters of advice, the bal-s, and the lady, came safe to} With such examples before our eyes of the infamous bad faith |

the port, and our American, Wi wi ote We is foremost on the pier at the lady's landing, was charmed to} with which she signs her engagements 18 Gry, it may very aie » handsome person, who, having beard him called by bis reasonably be doubted whether ihe an rm Powers did not name, said to bhim— jcommit a grest, perhaps an unpardonab e error, when they Sir, [have a bill of exchange upon you, and as you! allow d themselves to rely for a single moment upon her

al] Reis Reeake wittariy kuow that it is not usual for people to carry a great deal of) bovonr. Of all the European powers, Russia 18 pecutiarly

. . : os vr ” lata liowagay ‘ ’ ft ; ah! money about them in such a long Voyage as I have now wade, | distinguished for her complete disregard of the honourable

I beg you will be pleased ta pay it.” | bond commonly supposed to be included io the idea of a She then gave’ him his correspondent's letter, on the back | treaty, Such an engagement she has never hesitated to re- ef which was written, “ The bearer of this is the spouse you | pudiate when she conceived her interest might be furthered ordered me to send you.” i by doing so. Therefore, when the Western Powers bad her » Ha, madame '» said the West Indian, “I never yet in their grip, so to speak, as they had at the commencement euffered my bills to be protested, and I swear this shall not of this year, this peculiarity in the Russian policy should b- the Grat. T shall reckon myself to be the most fortunate | have been ever present to the minds of their negociators ; of wll men if you will allow me to discharge it.”’ and instead of reinstating Russia In those places from which « Yes, sir,” replied she, “ and the more willingly since I) she had been driven by the allied armies, it would have been Ye had several persons of | better that they should have been retained and garrisoned by reputation ov board who knew you very well, and who, during | a Turkish or allied force, in order to prevent the Czar from my passage, answered all the questious i asked relating to | endeavouring, by open or covert means, to reeaequire the sou iu go satisfactory a manner, that they raised in me alvery rights and advantages which he had covevanted to sincere esteem for you.” The first interview was, in a few! surrender. days afterwards, followed by the nuptials, which were very It is, however, too late now to lament the deficient strin- magnificent. The new married couple gyere contented with | gency of the conditions on which the Czar was admitted to their union made by a “ Bill of Exchange,” and it was the | the peace for which he was a suitor. All that we have to most fortunate one that had happened iu that island for many | do is to see that their lenient conditions are strictly fulfilled ; years. ‘and if the Czar has not the grace or the honesty to act up wemee== (tothe spirit of his engagements of his owu free accord, to take care that be sha}! be compelled to do so by such a prompt | demonstration of British power as Admiral Houston Stewart ‘is ut this moment making on the coasts of the Black Sea. |

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am apprized of your character.

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Gieanings from late Papers.

1S RUSSIA TO BE TRUSTED ? What is the actual relationship at present existing between | ass T os ) ape 2 y i it 1 | . . . Russia and the Western Powers . Nominally 2 of pronouncing a formal eulogy upon the services of one of the peace, After a two years conflict with the sword, there has |irish regiments engaged in the recent war has devolved upon succeeded a cessation of arms on both sides, and certain | the Earl of Carlisle. His Excellency is to be present in the terms have been agreed on, upon the due observance of which | name of the Queen, a stand of colours to the sth (Royal the future amity of the late belligerents is to depend. How | Irish), in lieu of those honourably ragged banners which they moderate those terms were, as imposed by the victorous de- viges into ee aby ee tsalney _: ' The : : : ca. olour the regiment are to be deposited with solemn : i tig the vanquished viclater of | OPC Cosours egimen ; fenders of L berty and Right upon the vang king- | ttiumph in St. Patrick’s € athedral, as worthy trophies for the the laws of nations and the integrity o! independent yt example of suceeeding generations of Irishmen. The whole doms, every one who "Mer the temperate — mhee ceremony it is said, will be conducted on a scale, of splendour treaty of the 30th of March, must at once acknowledge.) which cannot fail to gratify the national vanity, at present At that time, when Sebastopol was reduced to ruins—when | unnecessarily irritated by well-meant but injudicious re- Bala Clava, Kamiesch, Eupatoria, Kertch, Yenikale, and | flections upon the honours paid by the people of England to Kiubarn were occupied by the Allied forees—when the safety | their national corps. The reception given hy the citizens of of O Jessa was not worth an hour’s purchase—when Nicolaieff | Sheffield to the Royal Irish Dragoon Guards does not look as i : ‘ |if John Bull meant to monopolize in his own person the whole and Kherson were trembling for their existence—when the | ye asin the Bast Russian Euxine fleet had ceased to exist, and when her ex- | © it. Leap in an ' ‘ : LANQU y or IRE —The extri ng absence hausted Crimean army was but scantily and feebly recruited | i ‘aa bead A red alee me i var cn ees . Se . : ; ;crime u rela 0 me Montes past, as OSt 8AUISh r y by raw levies of undisciplined men—at i time it Bown | proved by- the light calendars of the summer assizes, should . t . “re . aye <e nC - . . Oe . “- have been easy for Kngland agd France to have imposed upon |}, 4 subject of congratulation to the British nation. Life and their defeated antagouist almost any terms that they might | property are deemed secure—Ribbonist appears dormont, and choose to dictate. They might have stripped him of all his! the labouring classes are profitably employed. later southern conquests, and have excluded him for ever | ii from the waters of the Black Sea. But England and France, | SCOTLAND.

j O . y A é . . ~ whether wisely or not, resolved to Pas * =— ae part, Sixcrtar Purxowenon in Sxyr.—A correspondent in Skye and consenting to treat for a cessation of hostilities at the jnforms us of a singular phenomenon which took place on the moment whea they had the unquestionable power of extend- | farm of Monkstadt, in the pansh of Kilmuir, Skye, on the ing their victories upon every accessible point of the enemy's | night of Wednesday last. No one, so far as we can learn, territory, they finally admitted him to the peace he sought was @ witness of tie scene, but 7 the mornene a rent ae dis- upon terms of the easiest and most honourable character. jcovered to have been made in the earth about 400 yards long VN docs the Cz ke for the forbearance thus iby about 160 broad. This strange circumstance 1s attributed

N bat retaro ae ee ee oe ye ' | to the effects either of an earthquake or of lightning. generously exhibited towards him? Little more than four | months have elapsed since the treaty of peace was sigued,

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A Frvirret Srocx.—There is at present living in War- » Pat . as s . 'roch-street, Anderston, an aged man, named John Rae, a . ont teas . , rite » > 1e8 as | se . S oe . ° and within that period = of the allied wigees ha | private watchman, who has been the father of the rather ex- been withdrawn from the Russian territory—every ship Of tragrdinary number of thirty children. He is sixty-eight the allied navies has quitted the waters of the Black Sea— | years of age, was twice married, had by the first wife twenty- the representatives of the Courts of England and I rance eight children : and by the second and last, two. He is now have hurried into the heart of the Muscovite Dominions to}seventeen years a widower, ond oe. rer teres - honour by their presence the approaching coronation of the | he will not eae ae _ wae greg “tell Ga Gk t. 7 a ¢ ay ce * jas , > the os > > > new Czar—the merchants of the West have hastened to | °F One at a birth, excepting Wie Mass Swo Wy So Eres wale, wine

| were twins. So thickly did the family blessings shower down . - - ‘. ‘ Bai ‘ ana | € Vins. DO i y se J , pg J renew their commercial relations with St. Petersburg aed upon him, that in his first wife's family children were on

e . $ » shite ‘ ° Odessa-—cvery indication, in fact, has been exhibited by the several oceasions born before the previous ones were weaned.

allied nations of a determination to carry out the terms of) tis namerous family has now dwindled down to the ordinary |

the treaty in the fullest and fairest spirit, and by the exchange ‘number of nine, all of whom are able to do for themselves. of courtly civilities, and the renewal of commercial inter-| He does not remember how many boys and girls there were, ‘some of them having died when only a few months old. He ‘is a native of Kirkeudbright, but has been a resident in Glas- | gow for the last thirty years.

course, to wipe away all unpleasant remembrance of the late struggle and the disasters which arose from it. :

W hat, on the other hand, is the conduct of Russia ? Upon the strength of the information which bas recently reached | us we do not hesitate to declare that Russia, so far from) honestly complying with the moderate conditions imposed MARSHAL PELISSIER SENT FOR BY THE EMPEROR. upon her by the allies, has openly and deliberately violated | A notice has been issued by the Mayor, at Marseilles, an- them in the letter 2s well as in the spirit. The second article of | nouncing that Marshal Pelissier, full of gratitude for the re-

€ ' ¢ the treaty of the 30th . vee ome . F the Ottomar | Rhone, would willingly have passed another day there, but and citadel of Kars, as well = 2 nee eo or os - that a telegraphic despatch from,the Emperor ordered him to territory of which the Russian troops are in possession, be | proceed immediately to Plombieres. restored to the Sultan. The Russian troops have not yet) Seats Ticats’ 4% easintlic tee evacuated Kars, and they are preceeding, it is said, with the | . demolition of that ** citadel” which was to have been delivered | On Sunday evening the grand banquet took place. The staat” This, it. will be seen, is'a direct violation of tho] ‘les for the suuaniens sudeetios were iid out slometse Alises

up intact, us, ’ : 7 i. de Meijhan and des Capueines. At the entrance of the allees very letter of the treaty, and such a violation as it is utterly ‘were erected Venetian masts ornamented with banners and impessible for the Russian Government, by any artful wis- | arlands. At the foot of each of these masts were placed, by representation of facts or ingenious gloss of words, to justify way of pediment, mortars, balls and shells, which had been or defend. Again, it was stipulated in the treaty that the | taken from the Russians. At the extremity of the allees, in fortresses of Ismail and Reni, situated in that part of the | front of the fountain, was erected an immense tent richly de- Bessarabian territory which Rassia had agreed to surrender, ‘corated, and under which was laid the table of honour. He ould be delivered up in the state and condition, in which \walked along the ranks, having on his right the bishop, and ~ = Serverer SP Pe eee ‘1 Th on his left the mayor of Marseilles, and followed by a_nu- they were at the time that the treaty ro oa OS¢ | merous cortege, composed of the municipal authorities and the fortresses, hewever, have been complete-y demolished by the | ivi} and military fanetionaries. After the several set toasts Tiussians, and haye come into the bands of Turkey in the had been disposed of, the Marshal rose and said :— Gentle- shape only of a mass of ruins. Here, again, is another |men,—I did expect that somebody would have proposed a Gagtant breach of the terms of the treaty. toast to our brave allies; but nothing to that effect having

‘One of the principal objects of the treaty of Paris was to been offered, I must say that we have acted like ezotists.

3 : } i , scall to your recollection the lela le achments she had made on | Y°uT silence compels me to recall y é

ons one ae on = aes Sar all fatute ‘firmness and the valour of the British army, which showed us the lett bane ~ the fears: ye nape tat apTyve Der © as f how to conquer or to die, the constant spirit of concord and control over the = mt 8 ot that linportant river 5 an one o | confraternity of which it gave us so many proofs, as well as the means by which that object was sought to be obtained was) the eagerness with which the Sardinian army, but recently by stipulating that the two strongly fortified places—Ismail ereated, joined our ranks, and the noble courage with which and heni—should be delivered over to Turkey, in whose | it fought. Iam confident, gentlemen, that these observations kcepiug they would present a powerful bar to any subsequent | will find an echo in your hearts, and f consequently propose to

2 | : } ’ ‘ 2 20 om ; . ’ attempt om the part of the Czar to recover the territory on Las Me here - mare Sea oer Cisoss Destain, wand the bank of the Danube which he had agreed to surrender. ‘nee aahe ere E

This object of the Allies—an object to which they attached |

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: . i j v the highest importanee—bas been completely frustrated by | SARDINIA. that scandalous act of bad faith which has laid Ismail and | pigments MOVEMENT—PRESENT OF A HUNDRED PIECES OF Roni in rains, and left the left bauk of the Danube open to CARBON ‘10 THE SING.

any assault that may be directed upon it from the northern| A patriotic movement has just taken place in Piedmont

districts of Bessarab'a, which still remain in the possession | which is worthy of attention, After the close of the parlia-|

fF Rasaia. mentary session the Government, by extraordinary decree, Nor has the audacity of Russia an) her open defiance of | took credit for a sam of one million franes to be applied to the faith of treaties ended even here, Resolved by fair means | the fortifications of Alessandria. Recourse to this step was or by foul to retaiu that control, which the allies says she | justified by the necessity of meeting Austrian encroachments shall not have, over the mouths of the Danube, she has bad | in violation of the treaty of Vienna, and a bill of indemnity the hardihood to make a descent upon the Island of Serpents, | will be moved for next session. Publie opinion hss, however, @nd to insist upon keeping it as a portion of territory not| anticipated the approbation of Parliament in a manner as expressly named in the treaty, as coming withia the scope of /apirited as it is practical. Subseriptions have been set on the territory she agreed to surrender. foot for purchasing 1U0 pieces of cannon, which will be pre- Under these circumstances, our readers will rejoice, in| sented by the nation to the Sovereign, with the request that @ommen with ourselves te learn that the English Gevera-| they muy be mounted on ihe fortressof Alessandria, When

} oe . . ne ae nent has resolved to act with firmness and determination. The re-entranee of the British fleet into the Black Sea, with | ° ‘ , ' ' a orders to remain there until Kare shall Rave been given up,

f the Czar that England is in no mood to be trifled with ; and | f we shall conse tt utly soon hear that the Russian forces have} resolution : But is this the way

° i . vy wnii if ¢ | wlon agent sent several; in which the terms of the treaty are to be complied with ?

i happened to be one of the! with which Russia is capable of acting, even before the ink

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hat “ the town ception given him by the chief town of the Bouches-du- |

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: r ce | “e-tidin {itbat to cll ib With, Goverement.ow: the. eumeetenneae | Sovereign and ministers, and Parliament and people are thus | that to oS MOveremees on ae ae ee identified, the liberties of Piedmont have nothing to dread other party, will do him no injury, but contribute largely i from thé hostility of the enemics, and they are powerful, | to the welfare of those dependent on him, and at the game | . oe saa af vnrofesac riends as 1 wae Bs : ( while the lukewarmness of profess d fri nds, ae le 5 pows ,| time tranquilize —as every good subject should wish ‘to do ul, is counterbalanced by such unity of sentiment and | the imindel"ts ace. ble'eun eatin * . "4 - , ‘ ’ Faye as - v 3 - ‘

Piedmont promises to become the saviour of Italy. , I mM, of * the

4 eee sc aaga cua 'lieges ;’’? and were we in the position of those who can do it | Weer Inpirs.—The Merlin arrived at Halifax on the | we should infinitely delight — in aadition to thee two sounds 2th, brings Bermuda dates to the 13th. Yellow fever of satisfaction—to contribute to the overthrow of the attem

. « ‘ > ' « | e . . which she has been treated by the powers who | raged at Cuba, Jamaica, aud had appeared at Bermuda. some in operation, some in embryo, to make & profit of the

Stare had hehe at St. Thoms 1 gislature of| .... ‘ia ; Choleva had broken out at St. fhomas. The Legi , | existing state of affairs, at the expense of an industrigus | Bermuda was, on the 7th inst, porogued by Llis Excellency,

Mr. Freeman Murray, in an extraordinary manner. His | wees struggling “game the dificultics and vicissitudgs Excellency prorogued the Houses by simply posting up a incident to their situation.

| proclamation in one of the principal streets. This step seems | ela ‘to have been taken upon his own personal responsibility. | THE RECORDER. 'The cause of this proceeding is said to be dissatisfaction of ‘the Executive with the decision of the Assembly upon a con- ‘tested seat. ‘'o prevent a successful petitioning candidate | | from taking his seat, as be would have done, on the Sth, the. Liouse was prorogued on the 7th.

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Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong, " Was everything by starts, and nothing loug.—-Darpgy

The whole debate in memory I retain, When Thyrsis argued warmly, but in vain. —Porg.

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creep TS LT AL AOC OID | Desraverive Fine.—New Orleans, Aug. 16.— | The British schooner Manchester, from Belize, Honduras, |

ashore at South Point, reports there was a large fire at | a oe Bare re : ' fit to the City resulting from the labours Relize, four days before she sailed from there, aud that the a dinenicen es ee of our 26@lous ang

loss was estimated at half a million of dollars. | indefatigable Recorder ; and we have no doubt that 88 800n 2 as he sees this paper—we have the gratification of gayh A Sreawer on Fine ag Sra.--The Norwegian Bark Bertha, that that distinguished functionary shows his good taste }

Captain Erkert, arrived at Quebee on the 18th instant, from |, ., ) Sutherland. Captain E, reports that on the 18th of July, | being one of our most constant readers — he will readily ace

about midnight, and when in lat. 46, lon, 40, he saw large knowledge that we have not forgotten our prom{s9, Tho

black steamer on fire. A ship was going from her, which he | evidence of the great man’s worthiness is no mere supposed had taken off the crew, as he bore down upon the idle,

is . “ ‘ 7 burning vessel and hailed, but received no answer. He thinks | ng and indefinite statement, but the deliberate judgment of the steamer was built of iron, as the inside was burning gentlemen who conferred upon his Honor the office he ao ad. Ser ee the outside appeared entire. She was a side- _vantageously fills, and who, by sitting frequontly in eolems

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pat tials a "S. Basilisk, 6 . , conclave with him, listening to the sublime bursts of big ora.

Commander Crofton, of H. M.S. Basilisk, 6, steam-sloop, | 4... and beholding the brilliant : : . now on a craise.to the eastward with the flag-ship, has been a" a oe cneanine of his genius, are promoted to the rank of Captain. jou qualified to give @ true and particular account of the oe eminent services he renders to the City. It appears then Tur Rarway Worxs.—The Westmorland Times says that that ea Monday aieht die Cane : ; * over four hundred men are now at work on the line between : ae : ~— Fathers had a big talk over Shediae and Moncton. an account which the Gas Company sought to recover from the Corporation for certain injuries alleged te have been done ‘to the pipes of the former in streets where the latter had been | making some most essential improvements. The fact is, in

We promised, a short time since, that we would rondily ging publicity to any and every well authenticated 1nstauee of beng.

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making excavations the Corporation pat the Company's pipes out, and the latter were determined that the former should be é ‘reminded of it in the mos effective manner, so that the LAND JOBBING. mere PE they might - | put that in ther pipe and smoke it. The aldermanic indigna. NotwitastaNpInc our long practice in exposing the intrigues tion boiled up to fever heat at the presumption of the Company, of the Obstructive faction, there is one now in motion more | who, though they had a monopoly for making gas of one de- disreputable, perhaps, than any that has yet come to our scription, were reminded that others in the community could knowledge. It is this: the Legislature of this Istand, under | produce gas of a different quality, though not the kind gone. the auspices of those who have laboured long, steadily and rally in use. His Honor the Recorder appeared to labour ‘consistently for the people’s advantage, passed the Land ander the impression that the depredations committed on the Purchase Bill with the desire ef converting discontented | pipes would have a tendency to place the City in darkness, and } . * . ° . * ° . ‘leaseholders into happy and satisfied freeholders; amd this! his Ronor, conscious of his being the only luminary that could Bill, while under the consideration of the two Houses of throw a flood of light upon the subject, entered into an in. ) . . i > .. . . . * ' Legislature, received almost unanimous support. This sup- | genious, subtle, learned and eloquent dissertation on the lisbil- port was given beeause, forsooth, no one at that time dared to jty of the Corporation towards the Company. Although it! | Oppose @ measure 80 obviously calculated to set at rest jarring | may be painful to record the fact, a sense of justice impels us” interests, and to place persons whose occupation in many in-| to narrate the truth, and to state that the Recorder's oratori- stances was but precarious, in freehold possession of the lands | eal exhibition was received with inexpressible and unbounded ‘on which they lived, and give them, on easy terms, a title in disgust by his auditors. Indeed his Honor was placed ina . y _ a, i 9 2 ' 7 sae . fee simple. No movement could be more liberal. Indeed, somewhat awkward position. He is Recorder to the City, im

jeuch a its Rens that no one dared openly to Sppure tt. | virtue of which office (not for the services rendered) he receives” | Notwithstanding this, however, there was a fixed determination | ¢75 per annum ; but then his tenure of office is a very unsatise ” |e the part of some of the opponents of the Government to factory one— he is at the

_ throw every imaginable difficulty in the course of its execution. |

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merey of the Common Couneil, who may send him to Coventry when they please, and from all the

v } ¢ ‘ gaojte | The effete escheat humbug was resuscitated, not th: ; : r © ed. not that any of accounts that reach us, there does not appear to be a very

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those who united to re-animate it, had the slightest shadow of a thought— however passing and ephemeral — that it could) be obtained ; but it was to be agitated to prevent, if possible, | : . saad | | tronary is standing Solicitor to the Gas Company — bis salary the tenantry on the Worrell Estate from availing themselves | ' . Aid :

: : : Hi | we understand, is about £25 per annum; but then this s ipend of the humane intentions of the Legislature in passing the |, tyes ; P . cae 7 ; Brg : 1a8 a more certain tenure, or rather gives promi Land Purchase Bill. It is, indeed, true that this attempt! . ; we preehe roa |longer duration than the other; while it must be remembered

| pretty generally failed, and had no effect except on the most | ; | that his paymasters are men who are fashioned — politically | speaking — after his own heart. When these facts are con- etaitiiihs'et tasks ei: sidered, no surprise can be felt at his being a zealous defender i } Lf } nn si y , Wi i _ But there are other attempts to render the humanity of the a i = oe a ne feo He was not exactly Daa Legislature of no effect, which, though they will have oi eS aur eas Pee see of hay, for he seemed to | general success, are yet sufficiently in progress to exhibit the preciously well on which side the best clover and timothy were ‘cloven foot of selfishness, cruelty and despotism in unmistake- | © be found; but if any of his friends wish to assert his claim to the assinine quality in the matter under consideration, We

ignorant and most deprayed. Few, however, remain who are ‘not sufficiently alive to their own interests to spurn the

able nakedness. | Fearing that their occupation may fail, the work has com- mae be polite enough to withdraw from the controversy. -menced among the Agents of certain Proprietary Estates of We now beg to direct the attention of cur readers to the ‘buying up the interests of their Principals, in order that they | OPServations made by the members of the Common Council, 'may enjoy, pro tempore, from those estates profits which were |on the interesting occasion referred to, as we find them report- | never transmitted to their employers, and bide their time until - in the Advertiser of Thursday — the report being unques- | they can realize, piece by piece, an enormous advance on their | tioned, we have no doubt of its essential correctness. Mr. outlay, by selling to the occupants at a price three times as | Councillor Rigg is there reported to have said that “ he had ‘large as that at which the same property could be purchased certain definite ideas of his own as to the merits of the demand ‘from the Government. | before the board,’* but since his Honor the Recorder had given | It is represented to the proprietors that their lands, under , his lucid explanations on the subject, ‘* the thing’’ had become ‘the very Government which has prevented escheat, are worth- | ‘* wrapped in obseurity.’’ Mr. Rigg, being a novice, wae less, as being a prey to tyrannical legislation ; and indeed the evidently not aware, as we recently showed by an extract from amount of ret, in a majority of cases, remitted to absentee the records of the Fudge Family, that one of the most remark- proprietors, is so small as would seem to corroborate this re- | able traits in the character of the distinguished member of the | presentation. This is the stratagem resorted to by many of Island Branch who assists in the deliberations of the Civic the Agents with the view of making themselves suddenly | Board, is his ‘rich. ‘The political and economical arguments so pertinaci- ously urged — (neither the one nor the other capable of the | least demonstration) — are believed by the easy-going and But Mr. Councillor Barnard painted his Honor in g ‘eredulous absentees, and in steps Mr. Agent to clutch in his colours, when he represented him as ‘‘a perverse man,"’ whe | harpy grasp his prineipal’s property. And should this not be | g2ve his opinion “in opposition to what appeared just and altogether and universally the case — (for we trust there may | reasonable ;’* while Mr. Councillor Davies capped the climax, _be a small remnant of honesty amongst the class to which we | by stating that he could have no ‘ respect for the advice of # refer) —land speculators, versed in all the mysteries of the | gentleman who bad s0 often given deliberate statements 0m _ Agent’s craft, will enter eagerly into the scheme, buy, give ‘important questions referred to him, which were at variano® ‘security on the property, and, by hook or by crook, become | with the laws, and opposed to the dictates of common sense.”” dominant in the land, at the expense of the tenaniry. | The only member of the Council who manifested any sympathy We warn the tenantry that they never were in greater peril | for the Recorder was Mr. Stewart, and he vindicated his claim

| ftom iniquitous jobbers and deluded proprietors; and yet,! to the possession of common sense by emphatically declaring: amidst all this, which is So patent to the meanest capacity, | hia dissent from the legal gentleman’s opinion, and merely | between escheators, interested agents, some of whom have “deprecated the severity of the remarks which had been made seats in the Legislature, and designing politicians and land | by other Councillors on the subject of the Recorder's conduct. re — rw coaan fools enough to be foung whoj In fact, the Council unanimously agreed to differ from the

eny their support to a liberal Government, without per-| opinions of t! n— ; hat, in Scotland, oe that they are thereby contributing to their own de- - oe #4 re of aaa en js the bird of struction. :

. : lwisdom). The most amusing part of the affair was the display poet that there oe offer on the part of Lord jaade a his ability and veatieadia to sustain a multidude of a co Sa is week on Sa to the Government. It characters in the same play. He argued the case for the Gas

é seen whether this offer will be defeated. We) Company as their counsel, then presto! as Recorder he @ are aware that his Lordship was petitioned by a Jarge number | the right of the City against a first clients, and wound up of his tenantry to take this step; and surely humanity will | by assuming the judicial functiona, and giving judgment

dictate to his Lordship, ae well aa his duty to his country, against the supposed defendante. Shakespeare telle us that

* glorious lawyer-like delight In puzzling all that’s clear and bright.”

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great extent of love lost between the Civic Board and its loga’ , adviser. On the other hand, this eminent and impartial fanee