- that dislings sited slstesmsn the necessity of 
     
    
   
   
    
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     HAS'[.At{.l)’S ( 
     
    
   
   
    
     .-\7.i«:i'ri-., MAY 14.. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ran czsn’s asrssraiicit 
     
    

    
     The Emperor Alexander the Second evidently 
     
     sgpreciates his new position. With the war 
     
     w ich has just closed, he has been read in in- 
     
     structive lesson. The drums of con nest in 
     
     which his predecessors, from Peter to N cbolas, 
     
     have indul ed, he has deliberate] abandoned. 
     
     Large shn ing arinies, he now tin s, eat up the 
     
     resources of his might empire, and two years 
     
     of actual conflict witi the Western Nations 
     
     have left him a sadder but a wiser man. The 
     
     money pressure in Russia has induced him to 
     
     disband the militia, and henceforth he seems 
     
     determined to recruit his exhausted resources 
     
     by the legitimate operations of trade and com- 
     
     merce. "o attain this desirable object, he has 
     
     wisely ordered all the light-houses to blaze. 
     
     ‘and uoye to be laid down in the Gulfs of 
     
     Botlinia and Finland, and in the Baltic and 
     
     VVhi‘te Seas. 'l‘he export from Poland of the 
     
     produce of that country is permitted, and no 
     
     trader, anxious to bring " grist to his own 
     
     mill," can display a more laudable anxiety to 
     
     atone for the errors of the past tlnin the son 0 ‘ 
     
     the man, whose soul, during his lon reign. 
     
     was constantly occupied with the thoughtol 
     
     conquest and with subjugating the nationali- 
     
     ties of Europe. Adversity is sometimes :i 
     
     painful schoo in which to graduate. but it is 
     
     also an instructive one, and to the present 
     
     ruler of all the Russias belongs the honour of 
     
     accommodating himself to the altered circum- 
     
     stances of his situation. 
     
    

    
     But the most remarkable proof of the since- 
     
    

    
     rity ofliis new course of action is to be found 
     
     in the sentiments of a speech, which the C’/.:ll' 
     
     has recently delivered to his nobles in the old 
     
     Mnscovitc capital-Moscow. An extract from 
     
     this remarkable document is worth quoting. 
     
     “ \Var” says the Czar, “ is an abnormal state. 
     
     and the greatest success obtained by it scarcely 
     
     compensates for the evils it occasions. it has 
     
     caused an interruption of the commercial rela- 
     
     tions of the Empire with most of the states of 
     
     Europe. I should certainly have carried it on 
     
     had not the voice of neighbouring states pro- 
     
     nounced against the policy of late years. Sup- 
     
     posing the fate of arms should liavo remained 
     
     constantly favourable to us, as it has been in 
     
     Asia, the empire would have exhausted its 
     
     resources in keeping up largeurmics on diile- 
     
     rent points, the soldiers of which would, in ii 
     
     great measure. be taken away from agriculture 
     
     and labour. in tho (iovcrninent of Moscow 
     
     itself,many manufacturers have been com elled 
     
     to close. 1 prrfer the real ;)r0speril_i/ of I e arts 
     
     of coca to the vain glory of co ls. 
     
     thrown open the ports of llussia to the com- 
     
     merce of the world, the frontiers to the free 
     
     circulation of foreign roducc. wish, hence- 
     
     forth, that the greatest facility shall be afibrded 
     
     in our markets for the exchange of wares of 
     
     every origin, and of the raw materials and 
     
     manufactures of our soil.” 
     
    

    
     We have called this a remarkable speech, 
     
     and no one who ponders on the large and libe- 
     
     ral views enunciated in the passage we have 
     
     quoted, can deem it otherwise. The olie 
     
     which it foreshadows is in direct opposition to 
     
     that of the late Czar, who was so essentially 
     
     Conservative, that he desired_Russia to produce 
     
     every thing she wanted for herself and to be as 
     
     inde eudent as possible of foreign, and even of 
     
     neig bouring states. in point of fact, the con- 
     
     trust‘ between the past and the future of Rus- 
     
     sia, as regards commercial developement, is 
     
     quite as great, as was the old English protective 
     
     s stem to our present ree-trade notions. The 
     
    

    
     mperor Alexander ll. is evidently a convert 
     
     to t e doctrines of Messrs. Cobden and Bright, 
     
     and he may be said to stand in the same rela- 
     
     tive position as the late Sir Robert Peel, who 
     
     turned a great national calamity to account- 
     
     thc failure of the otato crop in lrelaud—in 
     
     order to repeal the on Laws. The war with 
     
     Russia has not been roductive of unmixed 
     
     evil, when we lind,thst one of its earliest fruits 
     
     is the annihilation of the old and the substitu- 
     
     tion of a new and more enlightened system in 
     
     the exchange of commodities, and thus it fre- 
     
     quently hsppens, that what we regarded as s 
     
     scourge to punish and humiliate, often proves 
     
     a substantial blessing,-the’ inauguration of; 
     
     new and better on for the advancement of the 
     
     human race. . , 
     
    

    
     Before the sittin s of the Paris Conference» 
     
     co in m for one of the Yorkshire 
     
     boroughs addressed a letter to ‘Mr. W. E. Glad- 
     
     stone, the 0 ‘cm or which‘ ‘yes to urge ‘upon 
     
    
   
   
    
     9 
     
     43 
     
     0 
     
    
   
   
    
     Lord Clsreivdon's sttsntionto the ex- 
     
     ifof Rhesh. with a view to render 
     
     The repl of_ Mr. Gladstone, 
     
    
   
   
    
     dirsotin 
     
    
   
   
    
     the various 
     
    
   
   
    
     the advantages which the British Government‘ 
     
     were prepared, in return to extend to them. 
     
     The appeal, in nearly all the cases‘, was s 
     
     failure—it was not responded to. These Pow- 
     
     ers t'eared,that they might be overreaehed- that 
     
     they would have t is worst half of the bargain 
     
     -—and, impressed with this idea, they stood 
     
     aloof. The Government of that day, then, 
     
     saw that the best and wisest course for this 
     
     country to pursue, was to abandon altogether 
     
     the special treaty system. and with it our pro- 
     
     tection to British products,—to throw open our 
     
     orts to the commerce of the world. and to 
     
     revise our fiscal system solely with reference to 
     
     taxation and to production. Mr. Gladstone 
     
     roceeded to show his correspondent. fill}! the 
     
     success of this great experiment on our inter- 
     
     nal prosperity, und the enormous augmentation 
     
     0 our imports and exports which followed its 
     
     introduction, and which has only been arrested 
     
     by the war, has had the ellcct of inducing 
     
     imitation on the part of other nations, which 
     
     rcvious persuasion could not induce. We had 
     
     given them the best practical proofof our dis- 
     
     intcrestedness, and the success of the result 
     
     dissipated all doubt, and fully coiilirmed the 
     
     wisdom of the principle. llitlioutattaching 
     
     llllllCCCSS:ll'y importance to Mr. Gladstonc's 
     
     timely exposition, we cannot hel thinking 
     
     that his unanswerablc arguments, t It} result ol 
     
     personal cxperit-nee, supported by the tables of 
     
     the Board ol"l‘r:ide, to which be referred. must 
     
     more or less have dictated the liberal policy on 
     
     \vl:lL'll Russia has now entered, and additioinil 
     
     proofof which iuay be seen in the text of the 
     
     treaty o icace which is now given 
     
     to the world. Certainly, these enlarged and 
     
     statesnianlike views were hardly expected from 
     
     the young l-Emperor, who L‘('l:ll‘Cd, on his 
     
     accession, that ho was determined in his own 
     
     person to carry out the policy of Peter, of Ca- 
     
     therine, and of Nicliolas,—a policy which has 
     
     humbled the military pride of ltussia, iind 
     
     brought her to the verge of liankriiptcy and 
     
     dismembcrmcnt. 'e regard the Moscow 
     
     speech as an acknowledgment of repentance, 
     
     not in an unworthy or ignoble sense, but as 
     
     showing, that the head ol :1 great empire, to 
     
     whom is committed the lives and fortunes of 
     
     sixty millions of human beings, is 11ota,sI11u11ed 
     
     to acknowledge the errors of the past, and tol 
     
     ursue for the future a course which llllllit: 
     
     iring bles.-ings to his people and honour to" 
     
     himself. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Messrs Baring Brothers and Co. are 
     
     at the head of the English companies 
     
     who are seeking the privilege of being 
     
     allowed to establish a bank in Russia. 
     
    
   
   
    
     AUSTRALIA. 
     
    

    
     The Royal Mail Ship Becmali, Captain 
     
     Piclternell of the “ Black Ball” line, ap- 
     
     pointed to carry the liomeward Austra- 
     
     lian mails (in lieu of the Schomberg) ar- 
     
     rived in the Mersey this morning, from 
     
     Melbourne, with advices to the 31st of 
     
     January, and 18,000 ounces ofgold, and 
     
     a cargo of wood and copper-ore. 
     
    

    
     The average yield of gold is about 50, 
     
     000 ounces per week, and in addition to 
     
     this, says the Mlebournc Herald, “:1 cer- 
     
     tain amount of gold still continues to be 
     
     brought to town by private hand, more 
     
     particularly from gold-fields to which 
     
     no escort runs, such as those of the 
     
     Woody Yallock, near Bzillarat, Mount 
     
     Ararat and Pleasant Creek in the Wim- 
     
     mera district, and the minor ones of 
     
     Caledonia and Anderson's Creek on the 
     
     Yarra, near Melbourne, Steigitz Forest, 
     
    

    
     in the neighbourhood of Geelong and 
     
    

    
     Lake Omeo in the Australian Alps. 
     
    

    
     We are of opinion that about 3000 ounces 
     
    

    
     per week is brou ht into various towns 
     
    

    
     on the sea-board to these sources ; and 
     
    
   
   
    
     before the departure of any favourite ship, 
     
     ' old- elds are inundated by 
     
     the agents 0 Melbourne and, Geelong 
     
     houses, who wish to buy gold to make 
     
     reiniltence; and who.in order to save time 
     
     bring down their purchases in some one 
     
     or other of the well-appointed coaches 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
        
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     it is a matter of certainty that iminediately co 
     
    
   
   
    
     naszannis Gaznrrn. 
     
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     Wednesday. Kay 14. 1856. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The British Mails arrived at 5o’clock on 
     
     Monday Mornin , in the_packet, ll. Ingram. 
     
     Tm: treaty 0 peace is concluded and the 
     
     terms made known, but John Bull does not 
     
     appear to relish the matter. The majority of the 
     
     English nation seem to concur in the opinion 
     
     that it was rather premature, that the nation 
     
     had a right to expect more glorious results 
     
     from such magnificent preparations the great 
     
     naval review displayed, and which must iave 
     
     given foreigners an idea of the wealth, power 
     
     and resources of Great Bi-itai_n, that would be 
     
     likely to remain permanently impressed. it is 
     
     natural enough for those who contemplated 
     
     the vast and imposing force there assembled, 
     
     to regret, that it had not been brought into ac- 
     
     tion, and the naval power of Britain made to 
     
     be felt by her aspiring foe; and yet when we 
     
     rcllcct, it would seem better as it is. 
     
    
   
   
    
     peace to your adversary while on have the ad- 
     
     vantage of him, and will tell ettcr in history 
     
     than it peace concluded after years of contest 
     
     harassing and impovcrishing to both parties, 
     
     so that it had become more a matter of neces- 
     
     sity than of choice. As it is,the nationbas 
     
     had to restrain her own bellicose propensities 
     
     in deference to the wishes, perhaps the neces- 
     
     sitics ofher allies. The battle we are told is 
     
     not always to the strong, and the truth of in- 
     
     spiration is abundantly confirmed by facts in 
     
     the military history of every nation. Take 
     
     Napoleon before Moscow. lie thought and 
     
     Europe thought, that the immense Russian 
     
     Empire was destined to be subjected to his 
     
     imperial will. The burning of Moscow would 
     
     have been unavailing to have stopped his pro- 
     
     gress, had not Providence it woul seem exert- 
     
     ed itself to crush his presumptuous wish. 
     
     Think nothing gained, he cried, till neughtremnins 
     
     On Moscow‘: walls. ’lill Gallic‘: standards lly, 
     
     And all be mine beneath the polar shy. 
     
     One of the earliest and severest winters ever 
     
     known became pregnant with horrors that 
     
     were scarcely to be conceived, and that noble 
     
     army of gallant and devoted souls perished, 
     
     miserably perished and its leader forced to fly, 
     
     not from the battle field of mortal strife, but 
     
     before the all-powerful arm of the God of But- 
     
     tles, before an irresistible, iinpetuous, mighty 
     
     force,against which. all his power bent and 
     
     quailcd, as does the willow or the rush beneath 
     
     h 
     
    
   
   
    
     the storm. And so it mi ht have been wit 
     
    

    
     that proud arm 0 floating batteries,‘ 
     
     Croniitadt might have been reached and every 
     
     preparation might have been made for securing 
     
     its surrender or completing its destruction; 
     
     and yet even then, these terrible messengers cf 
     
     the power and might of llini who holds the 
     
     universe in his hand, lightning and tent est, 
     
     the storm and the hurricane might 
     
     strewed the adjacent coasts with wrecks and 
     
     cor see, and not a vestige of the power so late- 
     
     ly eemed irresistible be left. It is better as it 
     
     is. Blessed are the peace-makers! 
     
    

    
     But it does not follow, that because war has 
     
     ceased, that there are no victories to achieve. 
     
     “Peace has her triumphs too.” The electric 
     
     flash is yet to be spcedcd beneath the Atlantic‘ 
     
     wave to the shores of the new world and Ame- 
     
     rica and Europe brought within speaking dis- 
     
     tance. New leviathans are yet to be set afloat 
     
     which will make the now weary waste of 
     
     waters but a railwav track to be traversed in a 
     
     week. Science which converts the dull cla 
     
     beneath our feet into lustrous metal has stil 
     
     greater wonders in store. Who will venture 
     
     to predict what a half century of universal 
     
     peace may not effect. What changes have taken 
     
     place since the battle of Waterloo. llow many 
     
     may take their date from the treaty just signed 
     
     before our grandchildren’:-1 heads are white with 
     
     a e? We trust, that the day is not far distant 
     
     w en religion and reason aided by experience, 
     
    

    
     ' shew to men. that war is trul an abnor- 
     
     mal state; thst the energies, wealt and talent 
     
     which are wasted in its service, if devoted to 
     
     that of peace, would eflect chsn s mighty and 
     
     beneficial. such as the world as never yet 
     
     he imagination of man cannot 
     
    
   
   
    
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     BANK OF P. I‘. ISLAND. 
     
    

    
     t the first neral Meeting of the Sharehold- 
     
     ers of the Ban '0!’ Prince Edward island, held 
     
     at the Court House on Monday, the 12th day 
     
     0 May. 1856, in accordance with notice pub- 
     
     lished in the Royal‘ Game, ureusnt to the 
     
     Third Section of the Act 0 Incorporation. 
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
    
   
   
    
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     There is something magnauimous in giving 
     
    
   
   
    
     After the ballot, it_wss announced that the 
     
    
   
   
    
     persons who had received the greatest number 
     
     of votes were as follows : 
     
    
   
   
    
     -limel Puke. 31-. Hon. Daniel Brenan, 
     
     Ralph, Breeken, lhq., Daniel liodgson, Esq., 
     
     Hon. Joseph Ilensley, John Longworth, Esq., 
     
     John Kenn , Esq.; who were then announced 
     
     by the Chairman to be duly elected. 
     
    

    
     It was then resolved, that a copy of the By 
     
     Laws signed by the hairmsn be transmitted 
     
     to His Excellency the Lieut. Governor in Coun- 
     
     cil for his sanction. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     'l‘o 'l'Hl: Eniroii or ll.uzann’s GAzr:'r-rr:. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Sir, 
     
    

    
     In otfcring a few short observations upona 
     
     letter of the Rev. Mr. Lloyd, which appeared 
     
     in_your lastepaper, it may be necessary to pre- 
     
     mise that as the Congregation of St. Pauls 
     
     were invilcd and not “ direcled" by their cler 
     
    

    
     to appoint two Lay Delegates for the Sync , 
     
     Vigil has to tender an apology to the Reverend 
     
     Gentleman for the mistake c has unwittingly 
     
     na 9. 
     
    

    
     Mr. Lloyd is erfectl r’ ht ' ' sh 
     
     Vigil “ intended pto souiid  allaIi'naiulv’m rid: 
     
     an apprehension of danger, silence would be 
     
     held inexcusable, but that the alarm is ground- 
     
     less remains to be seen. If Synods are to be 
     
     established with an infusion, as it has been 
     
     termed Of -- the La element.” The " privi- 
     
     loge" of sendiii dc egates from so important a 
     
     '0 as Char ottctown, must merge into an 
     
     unqucstioiiablo right. But enough of this. 
     
    

    
     be far from a majority of the Parishes having 
     
     agreed ‘to the constitution of a Diocesan Synod, 
     
     that point was cai_-ried,an.d has since been acted 
     
     upon by a minority consisting at most, of 28 
     
     Ller_gym_en,. and 20 Delegates ! l is the act of 
     
     a minority indicative of the wishes of the whole 
     
     population of the diocese, or to compel obedi- 
     
     ence to its decisions? '1‘hut also remains to be 
     
     seen 
     
    

    
     Vigil applauds the people of Halifax for no 
     
     negative characteristic, as Mr. Lloyd would in- 
     
     pinuate, not because they waived their rights, 
     
     int sim nly because they fearlessly maintained 
     
     them. no. worthy Rector indeed overstops the 
     
     limits of fair controversy altogether, when he 
     
     attributes to Vigil a “meaning” which he 
     
     never entertaiiicd, respecting the treatment of 
     
     the Halifax Curates. U on that subject he ex- 
     
     pressed no opinion; in act he did not allude 
     
     to it in the slightest degree. The flourish 
     
     therefore about -' noble resistance" is gratui- 
     
    
   
   
    
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     “Unh_app diocese" is perhaps an infelieitous 
     
     expression ut do not the very tiumactions in 
     
     question go far to shew with what justice it 
     
     has been applied! 
     
     _ Vigil's letter has been totally misunderstood, 
     
     if any man of reflection deems it suggestive 
     
     ofyelousies; nothing could have been more 
     
     foreign from his meaning or alien from his 
     
     heart. lle_would inuch rather avoid any thing 
     
     that would yustly give ofi'ence,and advocate what 
     
     would make for peace, but he is fully convinced, 
     
     with others that the surrender of private judg- 
     
     ment to the “teachings” of the Chufoh nd 
     
     the investing its chief‘ pastors with irreh on- 
     
     siblo power are far more likely to pro uce 
     
     “unhappiness” than a tem erate and fearless 
     
     maintenance of Christian Li erty. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Vioir.. 
     
    

    
     Charlottetown, May 12th, 1856. 
     
    

    
     (For Hsszurd’s Gazette.) 
     
     ENIGMA. 
     
    

    
     I em composed of 26 letters. My l, 5, 3, B, 
     
     21, and ii, is the name of a son. My 16,17, 
     
     id, the. the name of s qusdruped. My 20, 25, 
     
     lb, 23. is a men’: garment. My 1, 2, 9, 8 is 3 
     
     lillden wt-t. Mv 9. 4. 7, is a reptile. My 13, 
     
    
   
   
    
     3. 2. ll. 93, ?5, '14, is the title of a prince of one 
     
     of the countries of Europe; also ofs large pro- 
     
     portion or British subjects. My 1, 13, 10,20, 19, 
     
     means the eesshare. My 20, 5, 7, 1.. mun 
     
     ‘l“3d‘f"P°d- M I. I9. 14. 96. 13,25. is an 1.. 
     
     land in the Pacific. My 3, 4, 14, 21, 11, 10,,’ 
     
     =c'""in°m- M16. 1!. 19.19. 3. 22, M. is . 
     
     "3"" -'|Pl'"€d equally in the child at his a b c, and 
     
     to the finished scholar. My whole is a body 
     
     cslctlleted to armies and" develops, the Ilsntsl 
     
     faculties of those under in influence. 
     
     T. Y. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Belfast. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Died, 
     
     On the ldth March, at the Windmill, near Rain. 
     
    
   
   
    
     eey, isle of Man, John Monk. ., aged 08 you-g,_ 
     
     ','l0ntlemes~ttessrvedl reepsei b ell who knew 
     
     him. Mr. Ilonli r ' in this lslhnd many years‘ 
     
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