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ENGLAND. _

' Gentlemen,’ said Lord I'almerston_ at the Royal Agricultural dinner, ‘ I have eard a definition of dirt. I have heard it said, dirt is noth ng but a thing in lItO.Wl’t|I|‘.plflcO. _ ter.) Now, the dirt of our towns presisely corresponds with that definition. (Hehr. 'I‘he dirt of our towns ought to beupon our fluids, and If unto _oou‘.d be such a reciprocal eonimumiy of in- terest between the country and tho towns—-that the country should purify the towns, and the towns should fertilize the cautry—-(lIiugh- ier)—I am much disposed to think. the British farmer would care less than he does, though he still might care something, about Pe- ruvian uano.

The .ondoi\ Times has an Irticlc, urging the _witbdrawal of the griinteto the Cunard and Collins lines ofsteainships, throwing open the championship of tlte Atlantic to free competition. _

The Standard states, that M. de I’ersign_v, the confidential ad- viser of Louis Napoleon, has arrived in London, in order to discuss with our Government. various topics of political and coumiercial interest afleciing Great Britain and France. .

HAltovI|.—'l‘he Hanovsrian Government has just published an order forbidding all meeting all meetings of Auabaptists. rind tlire:it- eu' with im isonment any foreign missionary of that sect who shall

ettsm t to preach in the llanoverian territor General '

odwin has sent in a requisition for 1g,000 men, in ad- dition to the 6,000 or 8,000 now under liitn, wherewith to renew the war, and they had been directed to prepare themselves. 'I‘Iie Governor General was proceeding at last advices, to visit Burmah himself. _ The rendezvous for the Burmese is Proine, at which place, or in its immediate neighbourhood, 50,000 men are said to be assembled. It is reported, that Baridaloo's sosi has placed himself at the head of 50,000 men, and sworn to drive the Fnglish into the sea. There is some intention of placing Colonel Reginald or Colonel Coote in command of ller Mujd‘aty’s I8th and the 40th Native Infantry, and sending this Ilttlt‘ force to destroy Berling, a large stockade pagoda in the vicinity of filartaban. 0

IRELAND.

Mr. Delmege, the Mafistrate accused of ordering the military to

fire upon the mob at Six ile Brid e, has. with the eight soldiers,

committed to jail to take their tria for murder, been admitted to

bail by Judge Crantpton—.\Ir. Delmege in his own recognizance of

£100, and two aunties of £50 each; the soldiers in their own re- cognizance of £20, and two sureiies of £10 each.

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CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

Tu: Kavrnt WxIt.—'I‘he mail packet Propontis arrived at Plymouth on Monday. She left the Cape on the 2nd July.’ The dates from Grahain’s Town, are to the 26th June, and the Intelli- gence is of a very desperate character. On the l2th June 5 ‘wag- guns in charge of Captain Wiadle, and 84 suppers and miners,

roceeding from Graham's Town to head quarters, were captured

y Kefiru and Hottentots. Nine as pure and two drivers were

' killed and seven wounded. 'l‘he South African Advertiser says, ~ “ disord.-r and ilariger, us well as actual war, have become general for fifty mitt-s or more on both sides of a borderline, some I50 miles in length." General Cathcurt has commuted the sentence of «death on Cornet Andries Baths, the rebel Ilottentot, into transpor- tation for life with hard labour.

Major Hod e, one of her Majesty's Assistant-Commissioners for settling a airs on the frontier. died at Bloom Fontein. Orange liver Sovereignty, on the 9th June. He left England I! months previously, and lost his life tlirou h fever, caught by exposure in the rain at a meeting of tho.cl:i-:fs oshesh's count .

The Zuid Afrikan, of the stat May, brings news from the Ca two days later tli.in that brought by the Bosphorus. The fol owing are the only items of interest received:

The accounts by Sunday's post state, that another mnrdcr has Ireeu petruted by the rebel Hottentots upon two herds in Manlsy’s Flat, ten miles south of Graham's 'I‘otvn. These men (a Fingoe and u Iluttentot) were out in the field with the cattle, when they were attacked and shot by rebels who carried ofi' the call .

An attack had been made on Waterhluof, by Colonel Ilaller, on the 17th inst., at a place called the llorseslioe, where the lamented Colonel I-‘ordyce was Itiiled. The Katlirs Tough! bravely. The Colonel destroyed a number of huts, and the enemy gave way be- fore the troops; but the instant the retreat was sounded, they reap- peared in thousands, and commenced rt dos erate attack on the

rear guard but were repelled h the good worliing of the artillery which Colonel Buller had broug t with hitn. One ofthe rifles was severely, and two mortally wounded.

TIBIIBLI Arraxu A'x"Sssviur.t.—-Letters from Smyrna, of the 26th ult., give an account of a terrible disaster which occurred at Adalia some days before. A finions wolf suddenly appeared in in the midst of the market-place, and bit several persons most se- verely, but, taking a fright at the cries which arose on all sides, he jumped over a wall, and got into a large garden where several hundred persons, who had come to the town on account of the silk crop, where sleeping in the open air. Ilere he wounded one hun- dred and twenty-eight persons, but beinn again frightened away by the cries ofthe people, he got into a s cepfold, where he killed eighty-five sheep and wounded seventy— ve. Unfortunately, the Governor had caused the whole population to be disnrmed it w days before, so that the unfortunate people were without means of defence; but on the following day arms were distributed and the w ' According to the report of the pliysician of the place, the wounds inflicted by the animal are hideous, but the most hor- ribls circumstance in this disaster, is, that several of the wounded have already died of hydropliobia,so that the whole population is is in the utmost consternation.

ma CA LII"()RNIA.

Five years have hardl elapsed since the gold ield in California became a fixed fact, an within that short peri oftinia, between a hundred and ninet and two ltuiidred riiilliona worth of gold dust has been added to t e wealth of the world.

ARRIVAL OF THE ILLINOIS AND SIERRA NEVADA. $I,500,000 iiv Geno Dos-r.

By the steamship Illinois, which arrived at New Yprk nn I2tli iitst., from Aspinwiill, we have received intelligence from San Fran- cisco up to the lbth ult., one day later than that before received.

' emails by the Illinois are in a as state. Six or seven bags of newspapers for New York and Boston, and a like mimlu-.r for England, were received in one complete mass of ul and utterly worthless, the clerks in the New York post ollice being unable to make anything of them.

The letters are also in a bad cond' to their destination as soon as possible.

e damage was occasioned by the mails being so placed on the Pacific side, that the steam completely saturated them.

'_l‘lie Sierra Mrvada has also arrived with the same dates. She brings I60 assengers, and QI50.000 in s ' .

Ilussey, ond and Halo state, that the supply of movie is abun- dant. snd large loans on first class security could be e ected at 2 per cent. per mont

s roads crossing the Isthmus are reported to be in excellent order and the season is fast chs i .

The health of the Isthmus has Improved within the last month, and there have been but few deaths of late.

our 21 per banal at raneiseo.

LATER FROM CALIKDINIA.

'l1isSieauiw Illinois. arrived at New York so Suede last, frets Asgawall with I55 passengers. and Ol,I10,000 is

Illisets brings the_ iuailssf the lltlt Aug. Thu bealthof ‘NI greatlyiiuprevsd dsrisgtbepaquieutli, uudths

ition, but will be dried and sent

The ship Bates Ieufrew bad bees libeIled,fsr laudi ss asks of lane from Chins. without a permit. ller esptsia I elsoliesu snutsd, artjlhjieldug easwer. ‘. ‘ r H

news in l . The dusts weresnragisg .85toC80.|ier”d:y. my "on .

T TNITID It'I'A‘I'El.

Desuu'rtow.—We find the follow in the Ogdsnsbargh Daily News of Pride last :-

' Bight British soldiers, eonsisting of a sergeant, cor ral, and six men, forming an prtillery oornpariy, and attached to i an branch of the Iirltlsls servles stationed at Quebec, appeared here yssterd

that they ltsd been ordered to the Fort at Prescott, as u re- islbrusuteut; but passed ever the river sortie miles above. before Prescott or rsporii themselves to the otlcsr there in

. They were due loolt g yousg sieu, sud asld and exchang- ir selliirm, which eau be seen is some houses about The circulated a variety of purnoura, sud ' spus ' sortie queer ‘yarns’ es_tetIie intention of seeding there to Prescott in of setlslpsssd dlleeltiss wltli the ' Yankees,‘ yew-,

~ euefthsflzyquestieu; sudihpy saidageod ineuy humo- seesiblsp bust qsssiioaaltspibsr. Theylehfur parts au-

ihs a0erssss.' Iteswbsat, every bed. Indie rubber l,

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as at

, wdl-lxeil, elastic eta . nttress er with a strap attache . the ship logupshbsr article that the wrap, and P

thsuult

evsrswrd.

Ilavana dates to the 29th nlt., received at New York. |'»'“°- ‘I'" it was thought that Ilia nine persons arrested on the charge of being concerned in the publication of a revolutiortary paper, would bl gurrotod on the lat Sept. _

At Alexandria. Louisiana, a terrible 1-unllagration occurred on this 23th ult., which nP.:II'I_V cmiiuinod the entire place. A IleIl|’||¢'r tive fire also occurred at Bayou Sara, where a large amount of pro- q perry was destryr-d.

Susi-iciovs I)s:Arit.—Nuw Yorix, Sept. 3.—The death Of Miss Laura Addison, a young and beautiful actross rccetitly from England, was clirouicled iil tho inoruiiig papers. Aa.there peetlted to be souie inyatery connectod with the utliiir. her fiiernls insisted oti havingu par! Irtrrleln exzimitiation, but when the Coroner ur- rived at the house this morning, he was informed, that the body had been interred last evoiiiug, against the earm.-s_t remonstratice of the sister of the deceased 'l'he object of the. parties very evidently was to prevent an examination. The body is to be exhumed to-

morrow. Wx:s-rutur Potts Citoi-.—-"he Vincenries, (Ia.)Ga1.ette sayl. that the crop of pork ii-:tt fall, will be very heavy throughout ‘the

\Vabash Valley. It is now pretty certain, that the corn it _ yield an imirienae harvest, and farmers, stimulated by the good prices of last year, seem disposed to produce as much pork its possib e.

There were I-I8 deaths in New Orleans, last week, of which H were by cholera, and II by yellow fever. . _

A new violin of 'I'riaiiguliir form, and said to be ofsaporior tone, has been invented by a Mr. Boburn, of Savanna i. _

The Province of New Brunswick contains a population of I93, 000. The city and county of St. John contains 38.,~I.75. In I8_I0 the total population of the l’rovince was 154.000-—gtvmg as the in- crease of the last eleven years 39,000. _ _

Il.ut.tioAn Accinx: N1-s.-—'I‘wo frightful railroad accidents have just occurred—oiie on the Michigan Southern line, by the breaking of a car axle, whereby 23 persons were e _. The other was on the New York and ‘rie line, where a collision took place owing to neglect in giving notice of a tIt!l.BnIl0I| and five er- sons were killod---I mortally wounded, and a iiuiuber of ot iers slightly injured. .

ltuuoaun Rucsu. or Lotto Er.ai:v.—'I‘he Montreal pa- pers puhlish a telegraph from Quebec, dated on the afternoon of the Nth. suitingiliat Lord Elgin had been recalled. We give the

report without vouching for its authencityf

Zijj CANADA.

CANADIAN Pxux.uxseN'r.—'l‘he llon’. Mr. Ilinclts has in- troduced u resolutions for an address to the Crown on the subject ofthe secularization of the Clergy Reserves. and informing ller Majesty, that if the wishes of the Canadian Parliament are not complied with, ‘the refusal (oftlie Ilonie Govoriinieut) would be

viewed as an invasion of the constitutional rights of the Colonials, and would lead to wide and deep-spread dissatisfaction among ller Majesty's subjects."

Mr. Cauchou, M. P. P. for Montrnoreiici, who may be consider- ed as the organ ofthe Roman Catholic Clergy. is strongly opposed to the desire to take from the Home Government, all coiitrou over the Clergy Reserves. and rest it entirely in the Provincial Legis- lature. Besides his speeches in the Assembly. the articles in his paper are strongly in favour of the Church of England.

On Monday last, ‘. highly important discussion took place on the commercial prospectsof the Colon . Mr. Merritt moved an s - dress to her Majesty, pt-s ing for e imposition of duties on the agricultural. mineral. and forest produce of all nations which con- tinue to impose duties on the like products of Great Ilrimin or Ca- nada. Though some members, who do not appear to realize the exact state at home. were sanguine enough to express a ope of a return to colonial protection. the llouse generally coincided with Mr. Ilincks in ileeming the address simply useless. 'l‘he Inspector General suggested t closing of the I'roviiicial canals to American vessels. as a far more likely method of obtaining reciprocity: mid while he forestalled the opposition by acknowledging the (Il:n.tld!- faction such a policy would excite, and gave no distinct pledge either way, the tenor of his remarks was such as to render it not unlikely that the Cabinet will ultimately resort to that course, as the only coercive measure within their reach. There is little doubt, that the cries of Oswr-go, Ogdsnsburg, the other western parts, and the railivnys would arouse Congress from its in itlbrotice; mid taken in conjunction with the amicable settlienii-nt ofllic fishery dis- pntt-, might lead to the granting of this lozig-wished for boon. If Congress persisted in refusing reciprocity, the suggestion of the

comfort either of living or apparel, and who, when the unfavourable season arrives, must depend on credit obtained from the merchant, on the pledge ot the next year's catch. And this goes on from year to year arr season to season: sortie take advantage ‘of a years luck, and relieve themselves from the gripe of their creditor, but they are -few in comparison, and thus it happens that while those who pupply the fishermen get rich, they themselves are always poor. The agricultu- rist is subject to the same vicissitudes, but. with this ditl'ei-encc, that ifone article of roduce fail, another is improved perhaps, and at ul events, every _uct‘6 reclaimed from the forest, is permanent capital laid up for somebody, and is an addition to the common_stocl_t. Look to the persons engaged in ship-building in this Island, for the last thirty or forty years. How many oftlicm have increased the general stock ofwc-.tltl_i, and to what amount ?--Whatever has been made is centered in Charlottetown, where there are a few men who are comparatively rich, whose money hits been acquired by supplying ship builders, but have the persons whose time and labour have been expended In the construction ofthcse vessels benefitted themselves in an equal ratio P No ! Where one line been successful, an hundred have failed, some totally, some partially, all of whom will confess that if the ‘same capital--the same energy—-the same determination to get on, had been displayed in agricultural. pursuits, they would at this day have been in possession of ex- tcnsivc and highly productive farms. The returns for the cultivation of the soil are slow and gradual, but they are on the whole sure, and all that is wanting to raise P. E. Island to the station she is destined to fill, is to supply that capital to the operations of the agri- culturist which will become permanently fixed, yielding a fair but moderate increase, and enabling the holders to bring up a healthy, vigorous and sturdy popultlllml. who may continue their labours until not an acre is lefl that does not yield its due proportion of agricultural wealth. In the mean time let us encourage toreign cu- pitul and foreign fishermen, by so doing, we shall find a market for our surplus produce and procut-c_wlmt fish we want, at less cost, and at less risk of capital, than we would be able to do, if we were to spend some thou- sands in the lottery of fishing. If by admitting_the Americans to a participation of the Mackerel fishing, we can induce them to open the towns and harbors on their coast, to our produce, duty free, both will be the gainers, and the foundation will be laid ofn commerce, which will be ever increasing, and which, based as for us the Island is concerned, on the produce of_ its soil, cannot fail of being of the highest bcncfil. VVe Ield to no one in the Island, in untir-ing zeal SI. fervent wis es for the public good, and we have ever shown ourselves friends to every project, that we conscientiously believed had that object in view, nor will our best aid and asstdunce ever be wanting to promote it, but we choose to exer- cise our own judgment and to proclaim our own opinion of what will best conduce to the present and ultimate welfare of the Island. \Ve are well aware, that popu- larity hunters, are ever getting up some particular project by which they hope to gain the vulgar applause, and the prosecution of the fisheries is one of these, and has been one, since we rccollcct. If the benefits and ailvaritugos of an o.\'tcnsi\'c lislicry are so obvious, there is no fear but that in due time it will be undertaken, but

ferential duties imposed on Luropeati produce imported via the State 1' A1‘ 1-its: Sovs-ii.-—'I‘he New York Express of Tuesday rtftcrnoon says, that an extraordinary change in the atmosphere had taken place within the previous 49 hours, and th.it yesterday morn- ing overcoat: were in order. and lites were burning in Inust of the h A severe frost was experienced in Coluriibia county on Manda nigl . The Pliilndelpliin North American records a heavy frost in that vicinity on Sunday riig . . isuAr.—-The best Porter Apples, are selling in Boston mlrlicl tit 75 come it barrel. The hrirn-ls cost 2.’: cents, and the cxpettce ofbringing them to market is 20 cents more--leaving as the pay- nieiit for the apples, tliirly cents.

iaasfnaaois common.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28. 1852.

Tut: Editor ofthe Royal Gazelle has again raised his ridiculous cry of “Obstructiveness,” because we have ventured an opinion, that the Island will not for the next hnlfcentury, be able to spare enough hands from her surplus population, to prosecute the Fishery around her coast, on an extensive scale. As we made this nvownl of what is with us a settled conviction, we are not at all unwilling to disclose the grounds, on which that conviction has been founded.

Every individual possessed of capital, seeks to lay that capital out to the best advantage, but in so doing, he cotisiders only his own peculiar benefit, it never forms it part of his calculations, as to how the community will be affected, either mediately or immediately, now, or at a more remote period. Nor is it at all necessary, that he should 0 so. The maxim ofcommerce, that each man should attend to his own interest, is productive ofthe best results; and every man who expcndil ~his capital or his labour to ii. purpose beneficial to himself, generally speaking, benefits the commitnity in which he lives. But as there are men modes, in which the expenditure of capital may be more profitable to individuals than others, so there are cor-respon _ent modes, by which that expenditure by those individuals, may rendered more beneficial to the community than others. A Merchant for example may cotne into a countr , with a large quantity of merchandise which he se Is at a reasonable rate, but with the roceeds of which he immediately departs to another p see: now, though the buyers are to a certain degree benefitted by his coming, that benefit is ep emerul, and leaves little or no trace behind it, b which it ‘may be reco nized. On the contrary, another with equal cupita , pursue the same course, but instead of-cu ing them away, invest the profits of his trade, in buil ing whurves, warehouses or mansions, or in leading to others, who after payin him a reason- able tnterest, are enab to me e a profit to themselves, be not only raises a beneficial capital for hims_elf', but adds to the capital of the nation, state or province, of WIIYCII he may bearesident. Need we ask which is the most valuable man to the commitnity, or which ought most to be encouraged ? Now the question of advantage, between the expenditure of capital upon fisheries or upon agriculture, rests u on the same pri'iciple—which is most for the benefit of the community at large P When the fisherman is the sole pro rietor of his boat, lines and nets, the profits both of cup tal and labour centre in himself, and if he be prosperous and prudent, he may make not only a living,

at accumulate a capital, not we think a very extensive one; for in the first place, his trade or business is precarious, a species of lottery, on the whole a gainful trade, but to make it so, the gains of one year must be carefully boarded, in order to meet the probable losses of the next or subsdquent ones; but how few are thus

sag‘ and how many are there,‘ who trusting to goodlu .oousuiuetbepressstgateiainci-saga

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Trade Convention at Quebec might also be acted upon, and dif~ ,

at present, we reiterate ottr former opinion, tlint_wc have neither capital or men to spare from the more tin- portant, because more certain, pursuits of agriculture. We are of the some opinion with Capt. Campbell, whose letter on the subject, we now publish, that these fisheries are a mine of wealth to the inhabitants, and it is a question of policy and self-interest merely, whe- ther we work the mine ourselves with our own capital, or suffer otheb to do so, on being paid an_cquiviilcnt or more than an equivalent in free trade, with the United States. It is u quiistion of the greatest importance, and merits corresponding attcqtion. II. M. S. S. H D:v.is-ratios,” Clnrloitetown, Svpt. I6, I852. Sin;