~ 3 Fass A Weekly Hournal of Literature, and dlews, “'This is treme Liberty. when Freeborn Men, having to advise the Public, may speak free.”*---Euripides. EE =—=— — ——— ee —— Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, | Tuesday, April 10, 1860. 4 Se New Series.---No, 13, isupply it with Students, three or more intermediate or high | Schools might be called into operation. A new and complete | Educational Act, embracing the College, the High Schools, ithe Normal Schoo! properly equipped, and the needed amend- : /meats of Common School regulation, would be hailed as a Published by order of the Honorable the signal advanee in the | interests of the country. Legislative Council. | Ail which is humbly submitt By order of the Lrorstative Counett, March 27,1860. | JOHN MecNEILL, Secretary. ESOLVED, Tat the suggestions of the Board of ee Edaestion wiih regam) to the Report of the Visiter | .ot Sehools, jaid before this House on the 9th March, inst., be published once ip the Islander and Ecaminer newspapers , of this City, for public inforaration. By order, J. BARRETT COOPER, ©, L. C. Loctry. LOSS OF THE HUNGARIAN. Gone ashore among the breakers! Foundered in the midnight gale ! Disa ppeared like some dark phantom ! Who the mystery shall unyerl ? Brief and bitter came the tidings — “ None are left to tell the tale.”’ Boaxp or Epvcatrox, kebruary 23rd, 1860. N transmitting the Report of the Visitor of Schools, the | Board of Education deems it its duty to submit, respect: | fully, for the consideration of the Legislature, certain provi- sious of the ex'sting Education Jaw, which, in the judgment | of the Board, require revision, as well as to offer some sug — gestions, calculated, if embodicd in av amended Act, to im-/ prove, or reader more efficient, the whole system of public instruction ia this Culony. The amendments desiderated are referred to under the | following heads : TEACUERS ; THEIR CLASSES AND SALARIES. | A new gradation, according to seniority, combined with efficiency and merit, recommended. Ist. All teachers now licenced, to be called in, re-examiued | and classified Nos. 1, 2 and 3. 2. All future teachers, on reeeiving license, to receive from | the Treasury Forty Pounds per annum ; at the end of two | years, to be re-examined, on professional attainments, cha- | racter and success in teaching, in order to receive the 2nd | Class Salary of Fifty Pounds; and after three years further | teaching, to receive. on a successful examination, the highest | Salary of Sixty Pounds, yearly. 3. Payments of Salaries to be made quarterly. i | j } Erred her brave chief and bis comrades In their judgment (which so well And so often had been tested, Nor found wanting), that befell Such unheard of sad disaster ? None remain alive to tell ! Did she, crippled by the tempest, With no bel to guide her keel, Throagh the cloud rack and the darkness, Gaward to destruction reel, Goaded by the [frantic billows? None are living to rev: al! Were her compasses unfaithful? With expectancy elate Soon to greet their homes and hearthstones, Were ber throngs of haman freight Thrown at once among tie breakers? None remain alive to state ! Did her mighty engines fail her, When must needed, in the stun Of the whooping storm, whose turmoil Drowned her pealing signal gun, ee _ SHIPPING DISASTERS AND LOSS OF LIFE. Morover oF 4 Stoor’s Crew.—New York, March 21,— Yarmoura, Turspay Niour.—This day we have experi- | The oyster sloop KE. A. Jobnson was found adrift this morn- eneed in this neighbourhood a most awful gale, causing many |!" Off Staten Island, deserted, and the cabin floor cov red seri us shipping disa-ters. The lifeboat proceeded to the | With blood and clotted hair A large hammer was also found assistance of a vessel called the Zephyr, which was observed | covered with blood, There was also much blood on the deck, ‘to have sunk on the Serohy Sands, She was found to be With other evidences of violence. The sloop belongs in Islip, ‘lying in a heavy sea. After much difficulty, the lifeboat | Ll. I, and was commanded by George Burr. She left the |succeeded in rescuing and landing the crew. “One poor boy, city on the 15th for Virginia for oysters, with three hands | however, died of fatigue and«xhaustion soon after he was esi¢es the captain, who had five hundred dollars in cash with brought on shore.— Beaumants, Tuxspay : Yesterday after- | “hich to purchase the oysters. noon a flat, with signals of distress flying, was observed on | #8 boarded by river pirates, and al! on board murdered. the edge of the sands opposite Peumon, Anglesey. It was| Arrest ror tures Murvers.-—Providence, March 24.— blowing a gale of wind from the north west. The large life- | Alfred W. Hicks. who is charged with three murders on board |boat of the Nationa! Lif--boat Institution was.instantly de-| the sloop E. A. Johnson, was arrested here last pight. | spatched to her assistance. -fhe flar’s crew wished either to | 'to be brought on shore in the fife-boat, or that she would ‘remain by them. Accor Jinglp the Ife-boat stopped t y them. | When the gale moderated, the flat was got underway, and brought to a place of safety. Ayr Mowxvay Nicat vA feleyram has just reached this | a eee conn . — piace from Irvine (twelve miles distant), that a French vessel | Sf +4 - : s ‘had got. ashore, “ that the hands had beeo unfortunately # v 6 V ei) ( ial 2 a v | | a nl t nt . jlost. Another ship was in the bay, with her masts cut away, |. |and in great danger, i — mb ee oe _ here were 1,200 male and 142 female prisoners Jocked ap in the prison at Sing Sing, New York, on the 24th, being the highest number that has ever been within the prison walls. POLO ——_~<Si>— LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. Tuurspay, March 1, 1860 SPIKIT OF DISCUSSION ON CLERKS’ SEPARATION BILL. In the House of Commons of the 9th inst., Mr. Haliburton | ‘complained of the damage whi¢h would be done to the North | |American Colonies by the alteration of the timber dutie: ‘and of the contemptuous manner in which these interests bad | (Concluded. ) | been treated by the Chancellor af the Exchequer. Hewanted| fon Mr. Parurr—t am not, at present, desirous to add any |to know if the decision on these duties could be delayed till | thing further to the observations which [ huve already made ‘the Colonies bad time to make representations. The Chan- | Concerning the principle and objects of this Bill; but a@ | have lecllor of the Exchequer denied the charges which had been been called upon to express my upinwns relative to one or twe brought against him, and suid that every opportunity wou!d i 7 — -_ on Ristal> gnphetdpeentinntm, ibe given to all members of the House fur the statement of |. ee briefly 06 poveible..kilie-Hanse Mes : t OF | Hurchingon has spoken im very strong language, deprecatory as such representations as miglit be made tothem on the subject. | disproportionately low the allowance proposed, by the Bill, to |be made to Mr. DesBrisay as First Cierk of the Executive : | Council, avd disapproving by a strong epithet, the treatme ee tiie vp > g by @ strong epithet, the treatment Tue Expsss's Cosrume.—A Paris correspondent says) wich that geotieman is about to receive at the hands of the that at ihe late ball at the Tuileyies the Emp: ess Wore at once Government. 1 will not comment upon that language; for it a peculiar and beautiful dress, “Over the familiar skirt of | doubtiess sprung from a strong feeling in favor of Mr, DesBrisay. | tulle bouillonne was thrown 2 short upper skirt of white [Hon. Mr. Uuremason—It did.] Tnid feeling, I am very | watered silk, festooned upon both sides with wide bands-of |r from intending to censure: on the contrary, no one can } | | | | | lt is supposed that the sloop up the patronage with which his prerogative invests him; bat practically speaking, it is of very little consequence whether it , be reposed in the Governor or in the Government. ‘The other | Branch would, perhaps, rather see it placed in the Government than in the Governor; but that would not be in accordance with the wish of his Honor, whe desires that the appointment of the chief officers, as well as of th: inferisr ones of the Coure:! shou'd be left to the Council themselves. Now ! hope his Honor wij) not make that @ sine-gua-non, for 1 do not thi it would be proper to place it in the hands of the Council. But I speak iny own sentiments when f say that { would be extremely sorry to see any person appointed to the office of Clerk of this Council who was noi acceptable to the majority thereof; and I believe | may add, without compromising my colleagues in the Executive Council, that when contemplating the appointment they wall be influenced by feeliags the same ae my own. As to the Lieut. Governor's sentimenis concerning the appointment in question, | believe | am fully in po’session of them ; and [ venture to pledge myself that His Excellency | will neither make nor sanction the appointment, to the Glerk-— , ship of this Louse, of any individual who is obnox ous to the | Majority thereof, , Hon. Col. Swanzy—Quite understanding and fully appre- cisting the views of his Llonor the President, | am of opinion that af concession, to the Legislative Counc:!, of the power to | elect their Clerk and their other chief officers, cannot, in con- | sequence of opposing influences, be made to them in this Bull, the only course left to us, by which to claun the privilege, will _ be by an address to the Governor. | His Honor the Parsipent—That would be a shutting of the | door after the horse was stolen. if we mean to address Fis | Exeelieney, now is the time. Lf nis Honor pledges himself that he knows the seniiments of H.s Excellency the Lt. Governor | and of bis colleagues in the Executive so —_ as to be able to | assure this Council that no one will be appointed to the office _of thei Clerk who is obnoxious to the majorit I would euggest, \to his Honor to amend the Bill, and place ey of appoint- inent in the hands of the Government 3 of those of the Governor. If the Bill pass in its p csent sl.ape, the pewer will | rent mae Gorune. ae ~ on, Col. Swaser—The power to appoint t incipa! officers. of the Kiouse of Lords is in the Crown. Ir F art the Royal prerogatives ; and | think it will be best, in accord- / ance with that prerogative, to allow such power to revert to the Governor here. 1 say this withont imending any disparage- ment of the Government. (certainly think it ougit to be conferred upon this ilouse. 1 I feply thet I do not think his Excellency would coneett to give * But if not left in the Governor, I ¢ schools, snpported under this A:t. AVERAGE DAILY ATTENDANCE OF PUPILS. Where 40 children reside in the District, the average dail y- attendance should be kept at the present standard, wz, 20: | acd where upwards of 40, then half the nuwber ia ali cases | Acadian teachers to be put on the same footing as other | | Leaving her the tempest’s play thing ? None are left to answer—none ! In the Widnight, in the darkness, In the wildering storm and snow, When the shoremen in their cabins Shrank und paled, the scene cf woe Was enacting, was completed, ; ; | onterts ai 7 | Wish to propgse tliat, by conference, this House shall-suggest black velvet, embroidered. with cold, |entertain a sirenger conviction of the official worth and high | “'*" t@ Propes » oy i g ra sie . a stem F ve! old, _ Upon her bead was | deservings of Mr. Des Brisay, or be more inclined to have ian 10 the Assembly the propriety of making the annual allowance jplaced a high crown of polighed gold, upon which were | auitably acknowledged, than inyeelf. fad it depended upon | '® their Clerk £100 ins'ead of £75. jerenes in vat enamel some HKygyptian bierog| yphies | nyeeif, bie allowance. would have been much larger: but all | lon. Mr. Bagnatt—Such an increese would only be reason- | s bere were a necklace and bracelets to mateh. ‘The Princess | who have any knowledge of the modes in which, with reference |!€ and just. A quarterly salary of £75, his Honor the |Vlothiide was preseut. Her Lmperial Highness is zr from | 10 such questions, public business is transacted, must be aware | P'#ident says, is avery liberal one. True, it would be a liberal pretty, but a distinguished French political economist, speak- | ‘tat an individual cannot always secure the acceptance of his | °M¢» Provided it were the salary for each of the four quarters ; ing of her at the ball, velar be: considered her the most |»Wa views, but that matual concessions must be made; one | UC! think it quite otherwise when I reiizct that it is for only to be the standard average attendance. This, in svoth, is all we know! extraordinarily endowed lady in Europe. She speaks flu-| ‘vt yield to another. But his (lonor Mr. Hutchinson seems On® darter of the year, and that whoever accepta it will; in Whenever the daily average attendance falls below the prescribed standard, then the amount of salary ought to be | io preportion to the actual average attendunce, say, at the” rate of Thirty Shiliimgs per head, as in minor districts. BOUNDARIES OF DI5TRICTS. A!! doubt should be removed, as to the power of the| Board to alter, enlarge or diminish the size of Districts, | without any forma! application of the inhabitants, or the ne-| cessity of appointing a Commission of enquiry—the same to) be, as before, subject to the approval of the Executive Coun- | ei. Powe: may also be given to iuhabitants to order at ‘i meeting enlargemest of School-houses, aud to assess for the | «sme, as well as for the original building of it, and also for) the final completion of Schvol-houses, if the original specibi-| cation shal! be fouod not to have fully provided for the same. | All School-hou~es hereafter to be built and fitted up ac- | eording to plans to be furnished by the Board. SCHOOL TRUSTEES. Where disputes arise, or doubts exist, as to who are the | legal and proper Trustees of a Schoo! District, the Board | of Education shuld te empowered, by any means they | think proper. to exumine into circumstances, and determiue | who are the Trustees ; and a certificate setting forth the names of the Trustees, signed by the Secretary of be Bourd and two Members, shall be final and conclusive proof of their) appointment and powers. ; Where the Board find it impossible to determine who are, Trustees, they may order, at any time, a new election of) Trusiees, ov a certain day, which be ng posted on the School- house of the District six days before the day of election, shall | be sufficient to cal! the Lohabitants together ; and the Trustees | then eleeted, on confirmation by the Beard, shall te deemed 10 be in office until the first duy of July next after the date | of election, or wutil some new election shall take place. SCHOOL LIBRARIES. Establishment of Libraries, in connection with Dietr'et Schouls, is recommended ; when a certain sum is voluntarily | contributed by the Inhabitants, an equal amount or propor- tiomate rate to be appropriated out of the public funds, SU PERANNUATED FUND. The establishment of a superannuated fund to form an an- | paity for teachers incapacitated for duty, from any cause— | uch annuity or retiringallowance to be proportioned to) length of service, and to the amount which may be contributed yearly, by the teacher claiming the benefit of such fund. | NORMAL SCHOOL. The Board of Education has more than once expressed a | dveided ecnviction that the appointment of a Second Master, | or additional Teacher, is indi:pensable to the efficiency of the | Normal School. The appointment of this Teacher, either) as Rector oras assistant Teacher, cannot any longer be de- | ferred without. great detriment to the educational interests of | the country. This fact is forcibly impressed upon them on_ every occasion on which they are called to examine candidates for the office of ‘leacher. The term of ettendance at the Normal School should be extended from three to five months. The year to be divided into two terms of five months each ; candidates for the Teach- er’s offive to be entitled to examination ut the end of the fir-t| term, and if found not qualified, io be required to attend the | second term. Aj! candidates to be examined before being admitted into the Normal School. The buildi gs are not such asthe Boar! caa approve. | Tie old building should be removed ; another of isrger and proper dimensions erected in its stead, and with the face to- wards the street, anJ it should be properly furnished. Persons holding receut certificates or diplomas from any | | of Trade, has recently inspected the Great Eastern, in com- jently five languages; ‘and is a thorough Greek and Latin | scholar, is well acquainted with the works of all the ancient and modern poets, and is particularly fond of quoting Shak- ispeare. Her eharacter, in spite of her extreme youth, is 'very firm—this her face indicates. | fond of this her ) oung relative.” Yet, ‘twas not without a struggle? Braye hearts were on board of her, who, W hatsoe’er the strife and peril, Would be faithful, would be true— W hatsse'er the strife and peril— And would do what man could do, oa | her. 2 rie - r - By the etched suneut | Scwamyt axp uts Famug, — The, Kalouga Gazette ‘o have forgotten one decided benefit which, under the proposed | arrangement, will be enjoyed by Mr. DesBrisay,—I mean the remission of labor which, by the appoiutment of a second Clerk, " of what he has hitherto undergone ; and certainly thet will be | Tue Kupress is very equivalent to an addition to his salary. As to the Irish promo- | he will experience to the ainount of one fourth, if not one half, woo spoken of by his Honor, Mr. Hutehingon, it certainly will be open to the Government to appoint a Superintendent of the not follow that the Superintendent, if one be appointed, wil! be all provabilny, have no certain prospect of remunerative em- ployment for the remainder of the year. I am decidedly of opinion that £100 would, in this case, be only a. very moderate allowance. - The questiog was then put on the Lon. Col. Swabey’ motion fur a conference on the suggestion for an increase \the sum of £75, proposed as the salary of the Clerk of the Legislative Council, to £100; and the same wes unanimously i ’ | Office of the Clerk ‘of the Executive Council ; although it does | greed oe When the sixth clause which provides that a salary of £200 pa eee = a = ‘anpounees the arrival ta that tpwaof Schamayl's family, con-{the Colonis! Secretary. (His ILonor the Paestornt—Public i fei panesn oho lt. be pad JA. the rst enraatent Cie of the When ail oo Saal — es ‘sisting of fifteen perso: s, inelulivg his two wives, two sons, |“! "' *!s it is to be the Colonial Secretary.] With public | His we oa Pe a esid : Bh * Dead me nants Tested in full many a peril— jand five duuzhters, with their husbands and children. (''!\°' “® “#¥e nothing to do: our business lies with the Bill. | sd athe : phat ev And whatever mortal power Schamyl was reading when the approach of the party was , announced, and he appeared at first greatly moved by the | tatelligence, but soon recovered his composure, and kaelt | down to offer up thanks to Hleaven. He then sat down to ‘table, and had just begun dinner whea his youngest son, who had ridden on first, entered the room. , Might accomplish. was attempted lan that doomed and hapless bark, Whilst to her brave chief and colleagues There remained of life a spark ! This to know, at Jeast is left us, Thoagh all else be drear and dark ! Alter kissing bis father’s hand, the young man retired to some distance, and, standing in a respectful attitude, answer- ied Schamyl’s inquiries. The rest of the family were received jin the same manner, the men first and then the wotnen. This to know! Peace to the missing ! Vain it is for us to weep! Parent, wife, babe, maid and lover, Un the shore, or in the deep, Never more to know life's turmoil And afflictions, well they sleep. -_--_3oo——___———_—— Hence we hear again the larum, Heard so oft in life’s career ; «« When ye think not,’ saith the Master, Comes the summons—always near— ‘* Watch ! and be ye always ready !’’— ‘* Death runs with a liited spear !”’ | separat-ly to the public at this sinall charge. up to 1858, twelve million sheets had been euld, weighing up- wards of 335 tons. —_———— 0 The Emperor Napoleon haseconsented to allow Marshal] Me- —_—+- EARLY SPRING. Oh. sweetl w the seasons change! . : See Gale aaa grim to ligiineana dves! Duke of Magenta is no more an Irishman than the Duke oi The happy birds have longer range, | Port'and is a Dutchman. And later twitter on the cayes. — Captain Lambert, of H. M.S Vixen, has been murder.) in Peru. He was 20 years of age, and distinguished him- |: in the Crimean war. eo 80 — The face of nature still is grave, The dint of biting frost is there ; But shining laurels boldly wave Their welcome to a milder air. ~~ eee | There is nothing important from the Moroceo war. The earth looks soft, as if, beneath, } 7. ce Aa The sun’s increasing warmth had power : Sratistical.—Kighty-one American vesse!s, measuring And soon shall pierce the tender sheath Thi ; | 80,049 tons, and carrying 36,015 standard dea!s, cleared at Which bo ds the perfect snow-drop flower. St. John, N. B., for Kurope, in 1859. The approximate Dear is the earliest dawn of spring— | value of vessels, cargoes aud freights, was $5,399,863. This hint of future ecstacy — silie~tpeeatiittiadiee oxi The thrushes feel it first and sing Lord Brougham has introdaced a bill in the English Enraptured on yon naked tree. iug guilty or uot guilty to indie:ments. I would that I like them could pour Songs sweet as in my beart’s delight ! And when earth's winters all are oer, ——— On the authority of the Quebec Gazette, it is stated that i hope % hal 6 Gpying' se bright. a suite of some tweaty persons will accompany the Prince of | “Gleanings from late Papers, #8 Poke of Novels ad Major General Bruce a | THE GREAT EASTERN. Parliament to exempt prisoners from the necessity of plead- | = | Wales to Canada, among whom will be the Duke of Cam- | Reuic or tae Huxcanran.—The echr. Sarah, Capt. U; ton, | | poturaed bere yesim jay from the wreck of the Hungarian. ' the office of Clerk of the Execuive Council shail be separite \ The reception was | ‘igwating exercise, he will thankfully apprecia’e and cheerfully | ny wr ag Assistant Clerk, his salary should not be lees than | very ceremonious, though both were evidently much affected. |"cknowledge the great and salutary relief afforded him. His) ; Honor Col. Swabey had alluded to the extra grants which, by | but, [ say, with respect to the diminishing the amount of Mr. DesBrisay’s lubors, the diminution thereof wiil sffurd him opportunities,—Opportunities which have been too long denied 'o him—of making excursions into the country for the benefit of his health, and the prolonging of his life; and, f trust, that, when he shall have had experience of such relaxation and in | the Legislative Counci! had been made, out of the contingencies, | to the Clerks of the House. | adaut that they were made for a praiseworthy purpose ; but being made in an irregular way, |without any .statutary authori'y to make or limit they have | When all were in the room, Schamy! directed them to join sweiled to large amounts, | him in returning thanks to God for their prosperous journey. | left to be wade in so loose a way. [His Honor the Presrpent | i } A ‘* Penny Shakespeare”’ ia among the latest English |itera- | ty eulerprises — well printed copies of the plays being furn shed | It will probably |the Legislative Couneil 2” | be very successful, like the twopenny Waverly Novels, of which j altogether independent of the Bill, which leaves it as itis at |the Executive Board. calling in the Colonial Secretary, a8 a servant of the Govern- i i | i 7 } No official allowances should be —Certaimly not.} They should be consolidated in a Statute, and made certain. With respect to the question asked by his Honor the President—* Will His Excellency or the Govern ment consent to surrender the right of appointing the Clerk to present. What His Exceliency’s intention is, with respect to frat epoointment, I will not say just now; although an early spoortomity may, perhaps, aliow me to give a more satisfactory vuswer Now, as to what your Honor has said about a change Mahon to accept the sword of honor offered to him by the ade! +! policy on the part of the Government, and their comin med C ' miring patriots, whom it is impossible to convince that the ):covnd to embrace the political creed of their opponents, | know |. “tee, epprinted by the Logisietive Cusnci Wir thet pitpete coton what he cap, with any shew of reason, base such pre- sumption. There is nothing in the Kill which in any way militates against the rules by which the Government are guided or against the principle which excludes salaried officers from The circumstance, should it happen, of ment, does not constitute him a member thereof. As to the salary proposed, by the Bull, to be paid to the Clerk of this Council, | certainly myself think itis very low. and will, there- fore make no objection to any suggestion which may here be made with a view to its increase. [1 is quite open to the Board to ascertain the general feeling wit respect to it; and, by their doing so, the Bill, in such respect, may be made acceptable to both Houses. | aim happy to find that there is no objection to the principle of the Bill, and so little to any of its actual pro- visions. pad his full salury so soon as it shall have been duly certified that he has discharged ali his sessional duties, [ think it wil! be right to do se; anj f be'ieve the other House will comply | with a suggestion to that effect, if it be made to them. House in Committee | The Bill was then read a second time. thereon. Hon. Mr. Walker in the Chair. The J:t, 2nd, 3d, 4th, and Sth Clauses of the Bill were unanimously agreed to without any discussion. The Ist clause enacta the separat.on of the offices of Clerk of the Executive Council and Clerk of the Legislative Council The 2nd. that the Road Correspondent shall cease to be Assistant Clerk of the Executive and Legislative Councils. The 3d repeals so much of the Civil List Act a9 enacts that Another effort is to be made to give the Great Eastern an | She brings 4 few items of pallies of interest. The cloek | ani distinct from the office of Colonial Secretary, and that they : hg ; of the \.\-(.ted steamer was fo opportunity of realising the great things which many expect |°, “ pee oere fet her. At» meeting, held this week, the eharcholders jot. ane did Valden ater passed resolutions authorising an increase of the capital to the | thick oad eaiiinaiie ee 7 ad ; sili ee aC CLOCR. . extent of £100,000. It is proposed to raise this sum in 20,000 | : ere snow Storm was prevailing af that time. It shares of £5 each, and the capital so raised is to be entitled hema ust > the omer ote: tide, which acvounts for . a ws : : the fact ‘lat no more of the ies were found. They weie toa large preferential dividend. It is believed that this sum, | : as ae : if it be forthooming, will'be amply sufficient to weet all the Carried by it out to sea, Most of the goods recovere} were |picked up from nine to fifteen miles outside of Crye Sable, requirements of the Board of Trade, and enable the big ship) : ; ; ; , te do full justice to herself. Captain Robertson, of the Board and to the eastward of that point. Bu eight bodies have been could be identified. pany with the directors, and there is every probability that order, and run weil ‘on heing started again. ‘his clock fixes d, whose hands indicated 11 | shal! not be held by one and the same individual. The 4th enacts that it shall be lawful for the Lieut. Governor or o'her Adminis‘rator of the Government, by and with the advice of the Executive Council to nominate and appoint an | Assistant Clerk or Cierks of the Executive Council; and that sc Assistant Clerk or Clerks shal', in the performance of their respective duties, be subject to the supervision of the 'Cierk of the Executive Council. | recovered in all, only one of whieh, that ef Mrs. Woods, | Singularly enough. the clock was in good | When his Honor, the Chairman, had read the fifih clause which provides that there shal) be paid to the Cierk of the Legislative Couneil the sum of £75 as end for his salary, the 1 reply that that privilege is | As to providing that the Clerk of this Board shall be | whether it would not be better to put down the present incuni- bent of the office at £250, and his successor at £200, per aanum. . . | Hon. Me. Hotesixson—In my opinion the present incum- | bent, Mr. DesBrisay, is justly entitled to a retiring allowance |'o the amount proposed as his salary ; but if he is to be kept i His Honor the Parsipent—lI beg leave to move tha: it bea suggestion, to be submitted, by conferénce, to the Huuse of | Assembly that the salary to the present incumbent be £250, and that of hie successor in the office per anvum. | Hon, Gol, Swabcy seconded the motion, which, having been put from the Chair, was unanimously agreed to. The seventh clause which provides a salary of £100 per ; annum to the second Assis ant (Clerk of the Executive Council | was unanimously agreed to without any discussion. | When the eighth clause which provides that the salaries of | the Clerks of the Executive Council and of the Clerk of the | Legislative Council had been read by his Honor the Chairman,— | His Honor the Presipent proposed ihe following amend- ment : | “Strike out, ‘to the Clerk of ihe Legislative Council,’ and, is after the word ‘ paid,’ insert ‘ and also to be paid to the Clerk ‘of the Legislative Council the said sum of 75 pounds, by * Warrant on the Treasury of this Island, so soon as the Com- ‘shal! ceriify that the said Clerk has fully completed his of- ficial dutics.”” | Hon Mr, Bagrart—Should the mode of paying the Clerk of ‘this Council be allowed to remain as it at present stands in the | Bill, it would, at all tines, be unfair to the individual holding the appointment ; and, in the event of bs. dying at any period ‘within the twelve months, it would be grossly unjust. His | widow and children, supposing him to have been a married | aan, and to have left a widow and children behind him, would be denied the balance of what the deceased official had hardly earned ; and which ought to have been puid to him in full, as soon as his official labours had been faithfully and fully com- | pleted. ' ‘The question having been put on his Honor the President’s motion of amendment, it was unanimously agreed to. The House was then resumed, progresa teported, with the ‘suggestion of a conference with a Committee of the House of | Assembly on the subject of the Bull, and leave granted. The house was then adjourned until 12 o’clock the next day. Frivay, March 2, 1860. House in Cummittee again on the seid Bill; hie Honor Mr. Walker ir the Chei-. It having been intimated to the Council that the House of Assembly had declined to accede to the suggestion of the Council respecting an increase of the a: presses for the annual salary of the first Assistant Clerk of the Executive Counne |,— His Honor the Presipent said, Lam sorry that the Toure of Assembly have not agreed fo our suggestion proposing a more liberal allowance to the present incumbent of the office of Clerk to the Executive Council, because what we have asked for him is positively a matter of right. The power of fixing the amount of salary resis wholly with the House of Assembly. Wecan diminish, but w2 cannot increase. 1, therefore, move that the clause as it si#nds in the Bill be agreed to. | His honor Col. Swanexy—All that we have to do is to justify ourselves; and that we have done by the suggestion we have made, aiiiouch ut has proved abortive. _ Hon. Mr. Jouxson—Although the friends of Mr. DesBrisay _ have, for the present, failed to procure hin as large a salory as they think him entitled to, the contemplated change wall eti!! | prove very beneficial to him. His having a Assistant will British or Provincial training Institution to be placed on/ the sam named will be fortheom ng, seeing that those who the same footing as t holding certificates of attendance | at the Normal School. Two of the City Schools might also be merged in the Normal School. Instruction aod training in morality, being an essential, and the highest part of Education, and the Bible—God’s | revealed will to man. irrespective of pation cr language,— | being the ovly infallible standard of morality, it 1s necessary and proper that all the youth of our land atteuding all our publie schoolg, »! every grade, should have their minds mould- ed and regulate! by its sacred teachings—therefure the Board recommend thatthe introduction of the Bible into ail our| tained that more blood will flow in the spring ere a compro-/the late election, on Thursday evening, the 15th inst., by | txcellency giving his assent thereto. public schools, of every grade sud class recciving support | from the Public Treasury, be aythorived ; and that the teach- ers be required to devote one balf hour of the former part of each School day to moral traiaing from the Bible—no sec- | tarian teaching being allowed; and the teacher’s remarks to, be simply explanatory and practical ; the children of Roman Catholics to be allowed to use their own version of the Bible, when preferred ; and no ¢hildren being compe led to receive and Austria will come to blows int’ course of the spring, young man near, by the name of Kimball, who touched it! as befu « = instructions, whose parents or guardiaus may abject to sane. ‘Tbe Board would also take the liberty of stating that they conceive the (ime has now come when our Elucational esta- blishments should be completed by the crowning addition of a Provineial Co! ege—past Acts and educational progress have paved the way for this bighest and necessary addition. To} | and bis Minister is the man to carry it out. have te advance it havea strong pecuniary inducement beld out to them. The interest which the public took in this spe- culation was a good deal damped by the untimely death o | Captain Harrison, but the old sympathy for the vee=!"s suc- cess is fast reviving, and before the autumn sets i wc ma p-ssibly see decided the great question of her success or failu, asa nautical experiment. _--- 3eo——_——_— THE ITALIAN QUESTION, Sardinia will not accept the proposals of Louis Napoleon | for tue settlement of the Ltalian question, and fears are enter- mise has been effected. Count Cavour is willing to draw the sword to secure fur his master a great kingdom in Northern and Central Italy.—to annex Parma, Modena, the Romagna, /and Tus.any, if the people of those States express the desire | through the medium of universal suffrage and secret voting. Victor Emmanuel embodies the idea of Italian nationality. We learn without surprise, that an impression is gen | in Paris that Sardinia and it would not greatly tax the imagination to suppose another conflict on the plains of Lombardy before the month of May has run its course. Sardinian agents are busy buying horses in France and wherever gise they can be fuund, and Austria, notwithstanding her pecuniary decrepitude, would only be tuo happy to gird up ter loins for anothor struggle, if she had not | the current nedr Cape Sable on the night the Hungarian was | 7 \er- She may have run into the same field of ice, and thus in | J storm have got upon the rocks.— Portland Argus, sadve | havins same to be in lieu of all fees of office, allowances, and emolu- | relicve him from the my re drudgery of the office, and leave him ments wharever,—His Honor the President said he had an | time for proper relaxation and needful recreation ; and, ult.- amendment to propose to that clause ; bat before submitting it,| mately, he may retire from office upon & competent allowatice he would like to ask his hon, and jearned friend, the Premier, mar é@ to him on account of past services. ‘if he thought that His Excellency the Lieutenant Govertor| His Honor the Paesipent—Mr. DesBrisny may yei retain would be inclined to coneur in the course pursurd by his last sufficient strength and beal:h of body and mind to dischatge (two predecessors by so far giving up the prerogative of the the duties of his office for ten or twelve years to come; afd I ' Crown, as to consent to this House appoiming ue own Crerk. hope he will; but the visivn of a retiring allgwance, which fis If so, the tact could be ascertained ether by his Honor.as a Llonor, in eo consolaiory & manner, haa set before the mental member of the Government asking bis Excellency or by an | vision of that gentieman’s friends, he will, [ much fear, never beyond question the hour of the disaster. If the reported loss of a vessel by getting into the ice and being carried ashore by | / wrecked be true, it may affurd.a clue tu the loss of the steam- : UNITED STATES. a i address to His Excellency from this House. Should His Ex | realize. No: i is much more likely he will be allowed to die Two Men Krar nee Worrpono’ AnD SEVERAL W OUNDED. | cellency not object it ioe then be embodied in the Bul, and | in harnese, | —The Repablicaus of \\ulfboro’ celebrated the victory of | the prerogative of thy Crowa would then be waived, by His Fen davers on motion of His Honor the President, was then agreed to, {cannonadiog. They had an old iron cannon, and putin} 1-2) Hon. Mr. Patwer—! answer that J think neither mode| Lis llonor the Paesiwnsr then moved his proposed amend- ‘Ibs. of powder the first time, aad the second time 3 1-4 Ibs., ane ee ~ Sreation =o ane be ee I think aaa Cenc SonMhe - vis oA, see ‘8 is ogee 0 me land rammed it i ; ; ; ; _| the right to make the appointment which has been some years | Clerk of 1 gislative Council the full peymen ie salary | ploded sedctating a seauniie iia. eg ey in the Government, wit not be relinquished, 30 F00n ng it shall have been duly certified that he hes fully A wha man from Great Falls, by the name of Garland His Honor the Presipent—lt is not in the Government, but discharged the duties, the performance of which is to entitic | twer 2 e ld b : h ‘W »|in the Governor. His Honor will perceive that by the Civil | him thereto, : ie a and another by the name'o arren, Of | 18: Act the Government is invested with the power; but by the | The motion having been unanimously agreed to, the Hou-e | Wolf boro’, seventeen years old, were instantly killed. A partial oy | of that Act, the power ie reposed in the Governor | was resumed, and the Chairman reported thnt We wae directed Now, | wish to Know whether the Governor wil! | to authorise a conference with the House of Assembly on cer- ff, was seaseless yesterday morning, and it was thought he | consent fo waive this prerogative Or not? ; tain suggestions ; and on motion of the Hon. ‘Mr. Walker, a ‘gould aot live. Four or five others were severely injured. Hlon. Mr. Pacaier —L was under the impression #t the time | further conference, with Committee of House of Assembly, on | Une pieee, weighing thirty to forty pounds, went through when the Bill was introduced im the o her Branch, that the | ihe subject of the Bill, was then unanunotivly agreed to, ithe side of Dr, tHali’s house into the parlor, One piece, pues to. npoaios ‘be. chial officers of, thie Hoves Faq be taf W gpxsspar, March 7, 1800. Luni send a od “4 as it was, that is in the Government; but the fact which hi- weighing aboat twenty pounds, just gra the cheek of | ijonur the President has just called to my notice shews me| House in Committee again on the eaid Bill: His Honor Mr. &@ whylesome dread of again encountering the heroes of Sul-! Daniel Horne. Several others narrowly eseaped. ‘The fir- | jist, afier the passing of this Act, it will be in the Governor, | Walker ip the Chair. [ing was at Wolf boro’ Bridge.— Manchester Mirror, 17th. ferino on another battle field. St haying b-en reported to the Council that the Louse of and not inthe Government. In answer to his Lonor’s question, | |