We ee sS A WEI ‘S CS XKLY JOURNAL OF POLITICS, LI Away WO EX WS TERATURE eS \ —<Z Ns ANS HIM x ND “This is true Liberty, when Freeborn Men, havin to advise the Public, may speak free.’’---Euripides. yoL. XVIIL. J LIVERPOOL HOUSE. CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, MONDAY, MARCH 9, 186s, THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. MEULMG OFF PERILS AND DANGERS OF THE ADVANCING ARMY Queen Street. WILLIAM FULL, AS received by Fall Ships from BRI- } TAIN. Steamers [1 » HALIFAX TBOS arrivals, Kis Fall aud Wiuter sup Robert Youne’s roN an’ otiner y of British & Foreign Merchandizo, STILL CONTINUES TO BE THE Cow prising & weneral asseriment o Staple and Paney Dry Goods, the various departm a, which will be sold | gt the very lowest prices for Cas iL it ALSO, Chests & Half Chests Ch vice TEA: bhde. AND TO MAKE IT Bright Sagar & Molasses; and a choie assortmeat of Family GROCERIES. Even still more Attractive, The Pablie are } sapectfulty aolicited t: exami: for CASH may be ex will sell the balance of Stock of » sock, ae great barwalls LONDON HOUSE !| UNTER GOODS, FALL & WINTER GOODS. iY Fall Ships & Steamers from England, Halifax, Moutreal and Buarbadves, ¢ Sebserbers have cenpieted their Importations for the Seasea, hich, having been purchased by one of the Firm some of the First Houses in Et gland ind Seo und, they are enubled te offer their large STOCK | OF GOUDS at the lowest prices for C.\ SH. fed. war. 25 such as Furs, Sontags, Hoods, Scarfs, Win- ceys, Dress Goods, Shawls and Mantles, &c. Xe. Kosten At and under Cost Price, so as to insure their being entirely cleared out before the arrival of the NEW SPRING GOODS. White Cottons, The present Importation comprises : Cheats & b if chests prime Bales Wrappine Paper, Compo TRA, ,* Puper Hanwiogs, Cases aA Mba - DS Bugs ny and Grain Now is the time to buy them cheap at “ shawl & Mantiles, Sacks i " sill Lica * Meilinery, (Teas Bar Iren, ROBERT YOUNG'S. Haberdasbery, hiundles Sheet Lron, +: 4 + Ready made Clothing Cuske assorted ¢ ilery, Hoop Skirts, rubber Cuts oes, Shot & Traces : aud Robber Cuas Hoes. Shot Praces, Cheaper than ever at cadies’ and Gents’ Sette Plough Metal, Ue etl el . haw « and Shoes, Phys. Nails and Spikes, ROBERT YOUNG'S. ‘ Ladier’ and Gents)" Ascot ed Paiute ; Charlottetown, Feb'y i7, 1868. Bebber Sidee ant) Hhds Paint, Sweet and a= - ; UOvyemiis, Seal (hi A ‘ “ Téwdeod’s Hats andHhds. Granulated Sugar Seed and Implement Cups, | * Maseevado Molasses, : i TF aaal, WAREHOUSE. WANTED TO PURCHASE, and Beys’ Fur Cupe.,Bbis. Currants, Cr ished Good, Clean Samples of Seed Wheat, Barley, “ Jadies’ Straw & Feit} Sewur,W aeb ing Soda, Hats and lonnets, Epsom dalte Ginger, Oats, Buckwheat, Flax, Clover and Timothy. es Carpetsa W wllens.. Kegs Cadbear, Powder ‘ Cloths & Doeskius Tobucco, Mustard, * Printed, Unbleached Baking Sed and White Calicoes, Boxes Raisins, Lozenges, *“ Cneck and Woollen Svap and Cuudlés, Shirtings, &e, &c, (Bags Pepper, Kiee und * Butlulves, ' Cotlee, * Blaukeis and Horse Dozs. Brooms & Buckets, Rugs, ‘Cols Muntila Kope, &e. 7BNHE Sabscribers are fitting up the Shop at the North-west Corner of KING SQUARE, tora + White--and ..Colered|dce. ée- Seed & Implement Warehouse, Cotien Warp, ' And intend importing trom ENGLAND, SCOT- G. & 8. DAVIES. LAND UNITED STATES, and CANADA, a Ch’tewa, Nev. 11, 1867. STOCK ot FIELD. GARDEN & FLOWER SEEDS, such as are suitable to the svil and climate of Prince Edward Island. A good Supply expected early in the Spring, Speci al luiportations made to order of Farw or Gardeu Seeds, Lnnplemente, Forest or Fruit Trees, Shrubs, Bulbs, &e. &c. Ke. CUIRST FALL IMPORTATION | BRITISH DRY GOODS FoR Fall Season, isb67. JUST RECEIVED AT THE BRITISH WAREHOUSE! PER SHIP “ DAVID CANNON,” 7 Boxes and 6 Bales Cottons A Woollens. W.id& A. BROWN. September 146, 1807 | preted American pallerns, are How betng matu- factured in Charlottetown, and wiil be offered to the public early iu the Sumwer. BEER & SONS. Ca'tow n, Jan. 20, lao _ 60 Flour, Wine, Spirits, Teas, Groceries, &c. &e. NHE Subsertter bas LN STORE and offers for Sale at his Store in WaTek STREET: Bbis. FLOUR jCases Coutectionery,7 ib. Casks PORT WINE, boxes Casks SHERKY, |Bales Corks, common Cases CLARKE TL, \Bales Corks, wine Pauus. Demerara RUM J Bbis Washing Soda CRAPAUD. His GIN, De Kayper'allioxes Liverpool Soap FRRCEIVED, BY LATE ARRIVALS, ee ede ce et ee asks Pale Brandy keys and Tins Mustar , Do Brown do | Coleman's 200 Buls. Extra Canada FLOUR, | 300 Sides SOLE LEATHER, Cases Brandy Boxes Coleman's Starch 2 Pu eons MULASSES, Cases Whiskey, (Tins Sardines Cases Old Lom Gin (Pots Anchovy Paste * Hads SUGAR, 2) Bhis. Kerosene VIL, Chests & half chests TEA! Boxes biack Lead, Nix 44 Bbhis EU RKANTS, Bays Kiee. Arracon ey 8, dc &e. Xe. ALSO, ALWAYS ON HAND: ISLAND MADE WHISKEY, a wood article DOLGLAS M. HARINGION. Water street, Charlottetown, 2 Deceniber 30, 1867. 3m )) Boxes LOZENGES, »*' do KAIJSINS 2 Kes ek tig SOD A, 5°) Grogs MATCHES Bexes TOBACCHO, 4 Bebe apere TURP EN LINE, ; Boxes S e rip PF SIPS TTS 3S? Kegs NAILS, 1 BBL OLIVE OIL, Co-partuership Notice. i bul Labricating OIL, ‘WHE SUBSCRIBES bave this day entered into CO-PARTNEKSHIP as BAK RISTERS and APTPORNEYS-AL-LAW, under tiie | ame, siyle aud firm of ALLEY & DAVIES. OPTICE - - - - OHALLORAN’S BUILDING GREAT GEORGE STREET GEORGE ALLEY, LUOUIs H. DAVLES. Charlottetown, Oct Bales BUFFALO KOBES, 4 Bags RICE | Por aale low GEORGE HOWATT. , 1867 tt Crapand, Dec. 16 Tiovr, «Lea: ‘Sugar, Molasses. Gin and Rum, &e- | Pie Subseriver bas iu Sture aod for Sule— ii Hhds. Bright Porto Rico SUGAR, 26 Pous. Bright Retailing MOLASSES, tS, 1867. tt House to Let. 4) Pauus. Demerara RUM, Pale & Colored, 1M Chests Superior Congo "1 os Hida H aid GIN» TEA, ‘PO LET and posses-10n giveo on the ]st Suu B Supertor Bxtea FLOUR, MAY the House and Shop in Upy er Qnee! £9 Boxes Liverpool SOAP. | Street. at present teuauted by Heury Haszard Esqr 140 Baudies White Cotton WARP, For particulars, apply to Hids. and yr “¢ asks Pale BUANDY, j WILLIAM McGILL Hods. Port aud Slierry WINE +} Feb 24, 1868 OWEN CONN f 2 to j 3 Gussie. Uarriage builders ong? ’ AN supply themse ves with [RON School Bool. paing freee, MALLEARLE Cast y ‘ae INGS. BOLTS and NUTS, SCKEWS, FILES, Cheap for Cash, |\GAKKIAGK BANDS and AXLES, &e,. ut BEER & SON'S. QUEEN STREET. Worcester’s Dictionary, a | Sam. FI ABER. | patil HARVIE'S BOOKSTORE, wow ie LADY. | HARVI+£’s ‘PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND ALMANAC for 1868. For Sale, Wholesnie and Retail, at HARVIE'S BOOKSTORE, Dec. 30, 1367. Queen Street. | | Dee 90, rer | } Campbell's Geography, Advanced Reader, Lenoie’s Granimar, Thompson's Arithmetic, | Grey's Arithmetic, Speiling Books iv variety, The New Series of School Books The Lrisk National Series of Do, Webeter’s, Joboson’« and Waiker’s Dictionaries, Cop; Books, Slates, Pens, Pencils, &c. &e. bay Remember the Cheapest Schou! Books | Gre to be had at HARVIE’S BOOKSTORE. September ty 18G7 ALTERATION IN BUSINESS, | Notice to Debtors. Pur Subscriber hereby notifies that a} - complete change being about to be wmode in | CORNS and WARTS Bisiness carried ov at Orwell, Heretofore, Bt . : Ye late Patrick Stepleus deceased, apa subse. | A RE permanentiy and (fleetuully Cures +" by the use of qventiy by the undersigned And this is to vive notice fo those parties indebted ROBINSON'S Patient Corn Solvent. to Mary Mepiiena, Executrix, and to the nuder- Sxued, by Judyments, Notes of Hand, und Beok For sale by W. R. WATSON ““eyants. that unless they pay their respective City Drng Stere, December 23. 1867. TOWNEND’S HATS AND CAPS. LARGE STOCK of the above, received ex“ Lorus,” from LONDON, of the newes: STYLES and SHAPES— Good Silk HATS, 7s 6d to IAs. Paris Velvet de, 20s 278 6d. | Townend’s beat do, 328 6d | Boys & Gent's. FELT HATS, in great | | variety. A large Stock of Tweed and Cloth CAPS, Aud alaviv Ladies’ SURAW HATS. &c. &e G@. & 38. DAVIES. Charlottetown. Jane Fy 167. the ¥ aeConnts in full this Fall, they shall be sued with- Ot furtier motice on the closing of the Nu vivation. All kinds of merchantable produce taken in | Pay ment k.J. CLARKE. | Orwell Chean Store, ° | {ou | | i ~ Yarmouth Stoves. — Sept. 39, 1867 Reet eee, ‘EY "WHE Subscriber has Just Kecerven ex NOTICE. Schooner ‘M.E Baxxs,’ direct from YAR "THE Subscriber having been duly appoint: | youTil, his USUAL SUPPLY of those keywoworme for the Kev. MALACHIAS posenge from this Island, requests all persons Néebted to the said Mr. heynolda to pay up their tities withont delay. LL. WM. CUNDA Ch'town, Sept. 9, 1867, ” Joint Notes. R. J. CLARKE. Orwell, October 14, 1867. uf j Camp, Zoula, Jan. 23.—On the 3d of January, just 20 days ago, the Commander- in Chief of the Abyssinian Expedition arrived at Annesley Buy. His attention was im- |mediately directed to the necessity of pro- j viding a large stock of provisions at Senafe This place is the issue of the Koomayloo Pase and the key for an entrance into the high- lands of Abyssinia. It lies at a distance of about 65 miles of Zoula, and is elevated above this camp to a height of about 7 500 teet. The road from Zoula to Senate for the firet 14 miles Jies across the sandy and arid plain which, formed by the delta of the Koomayloo and Haddas torrents, stretched from the sea-coast to the foot of the moun- Lhe station of Koomayloo 1s then where the first water is found in tare reached, He begs to annonnece that on and after this date he wells, for the camp here is supplied entirely by water condensed by the shipping, and two ;eondensers near the landing place. At Koomayloo some troops are stationed to | watch the entrance of the pass, and to help | with working parties the completion of the railroad to this point. At Koomayloo the {road enters the mountains, buat for about three miles further runs nearly level. The defile 1s about a quarter of a mile broad ' The sides of the watercourse, which itself is wide, but filled with large water-rolled stones and loose shingly gravel, are covered with bauboo! trees that run up the mountain side Three miles from the Koomayloo the ascent begins. The roud takes to the dry bed of the torrent, and twists painfully through defis washed down from the hills and Jjarve boulder rocks ‘The mountains draw more towards each other, rising more eee and to a greater height, till at ower Soorvo, ten miles beyond Kvomaylov, they press so close upon the river bed, as to leave only a fissure of a few yards through which the water may force its way. ihe confined torrent, ia its desperate struggles to escape, has washed down rocks, torn out deep holes, and piled mighty stones in wild contusion in the narrow pass, Yet, throughs this chaotic mass the road must be driven, as the cliffs rise up sheer on either side, bang- ing inwards, as if yearning to clasp each vtuer to their craggy bosums, and to clove altogether the narrow fissure which some con- vulsion of rature has cleft through them. So steep and high are the sides that even at widday there isa gloom, and the bigh tropical muon never strikes down to the bottom ty light up the contorted scenery. This narrow defile lasts for over two miles, and till the roud nearly reaches the station of Upper Svvroo, where a few troops are stationed who | are working cn the road, and where water is found in sufficient quantity to suffice for large detachments 0° men and animals. It is in this Soorvo defile that the great danger of the roadlies In the rains it must be impassable, and while it isso ‘he army on the highlands can obtain no supplies from the ships. It must depend upon what the country will produce and what it has stored at Senafe. I'he former is said to be almost nothing = It | 18 with a sense of relief that one leaves the | iron fastnesses of Soorov to emerge again into }a broader though hardly less barren portion | of the pass. A: let of REAPING MACHINES, from *P- | to the station of Nudal Wells. | lost For 13 miles the road, ascending steeply, twines along the stony watercourse Here a well has been sank, from which 10) gallons of water cao be obtained every hour but this is not sufficient to water the large convoys of pack animals which daily pass towards Senate. Above Nudul Wells there is a small plain in the pass, called Guinea Fowl Plain Here the previous desert character of the pass is and a beautiful vegetation Commences. Animals are abundant. The ancelope vc- castonally bounds across the road; tie boar and elept ant have their baunts in the hilis beside. Baboons and monkeys bark and vibber from the cliffs, and crowds of bright humming birds flash their gorgeous plumage in the dazzling suniight. Guinea Fowl Piain passed, the road quick y ascends, and, after leiyhteen miles of steady elimbing, reaches Rara Guddy. This station les more than 6 000 feet above Zoula, and about 4.000 above Soorvo Erght tmties of quick ascent ieads on to the tableland of Senate As soon as the sun goes down the heat ceases Warm clothing and heavy blankets are immediately required, and at night the same coverings are required as in an English winter. The nights in the high land are very eold, and the days are nearly as hot as on the sea coast This geeat variation of temperature of neces- sity causes an increase of that which ia the least desirable to merease— baggage Yet the men must be elothed for two opposite climates, and, as their health must be pre- served, their warm clothing and heavy blankets must be carried. Senafe was vc- eupied by General Merewether with an ad- vanced detatchment on Dee 6. Sinee that date every exertion bas been made to open la practical road between Senafe and the sea | which will be seld cheap for Cash or approved P coast. The epidemic’ which attacked horses on the Jow ground: has required that the cavalry should be removed to the pleateau The 3d Bombay Light Cavalry and the horses lot Murray a battery of artiliery are there, and the Scinde Horse are moving up by daily detatchments. A line of eommunication 400 miles long must be held open between | Magdala and Zula. and a chain of fortitie: | posts established to cover the stores and depots along it It must also be borne in mind that. though the natives are friendly lus long as we are saccess(ul and have power, the slightest reverse would raise theo all against us; that among the Daubali tribes of the Koomayloo Pass the taking of human | life ta the sole proot of manhood and the sole | passport to marriage, that the uncertain Kaseai, Prinee of Tigre, hangs upon our flank with 10.000 men at Adowa. that. the prisoners secured. we shall quit the country, and cur alles, will receive no aid from us against the vengeance of Theodore So with the other provincial chiefs, they naturally have a dislike to commit them- | selves too deeply with an ally whose suecess | will be the signal for their desertion. {fany |reverse should be our misfortune, it is more than probable that all those who had at any ‘time dallied with our proposals would unite against us. and seek, by an attack on our flank or rear, to strike us a heavy blow, and avert by these means the coming wrath of | Theodore from themselves Ve must have ‘our line of communication well guarded and firmly secured. and the only means of having | it so is by strong posts, which entail garrisons, ‘which entail troops. On the 18th a detach. ‘ment was poshed forward from Senate, and ‘occupied Goomgooma, twelve miles beyond In the intermediate plain there is a large supply of grass, which is of great advantage to the cavalry and artillery horses. A general advance is expected in a few days. | Jan. 25.—The British forces in Abyssinia stretch to-day along a line about 77 miles in length from the sea coast through the Koo- | mayloo Pass to Goomgooma. To-morrow there ig to be a further advance. A brigade | will leave Senafe at day-break, and warch on Aotalo. This brigade will be under the com- mand of.General Collings. The Commander. in-Chief has left for the front. All eyes are now eagerly tarned to the high land. and all “are anxious to push through the pass and press forward into Abyssinia proper. Yet a eon- | siderable force must be left on the coast with ‘Sir Charles Stavely. Porat Zoulla beats the DS Jate of DeSuble,during his temporary | Celebrated Cook and Box Stoves, heart from which the life stream flows that nisates through the tong artery of the line ‘of communications, and carries food to, the \furthest outposts. At present the army de- ;pends for everything except firewood and lle fears | | to befriend us, as we have openly proclaimed ga stored from the barbor. | country so unfavorable as this for war, The very base of operations must be supplied with water from condensers and the shipping. Ao accident to a delicate piece of machinery, or the breaking of the valve of a pump, causes the stock of the precious fluid to run short, and inflicts great inconvenience on the whole camp. For water bere must be doled out im daily portions of limited quantity, and a re- duction of the ration telis heavily on man and beast. There is no timber in the country, every beam of wood for the construction of piers oz store-houses has been imported ; every inch of rope bas been brought from the ships; every yard of road bas had to be made to allow the convoys to pass; every boat has had to’be brought to the coast for the dis- embarkation of troops and stores, for none were found here, though a liberal supply was expected. Those that have arrived cannot approach within a hundred yards of the shore, for the water shoals slowly, as the beach is very flat. The unfortunate tax payers in England have to bear the barden of all this. The railway bas not made such rapid progress as was expected A locomotive bas, however, been landed, and is dving good service in the removal of Commissariat s8up- plies from the pier to the store-houses. The health and spirits of the troops are excellent, ' Never was there a (18 noisy and malicious, an] very often an- not mprobably because a certain Majesty, | sable as Theodure’s selt, fiads no idle hands for mischief. The following letter, dated Dec. 23, has been received trum one of the captives at Mag- dala:—** The imbecile proceedings of Men elik, the absence of all intelligence from the coust, and the distressing conjectures about the advent of the King have not added to the assurance and comfort which we felt on the first news of the ap- proach of our hoped-tor deliverers ; these and | a Variety of minor disappointments imparted | a sudness and gloom to the mind which in- | vasted with its sombre hues our present and | future prospects. On Friday, the 13th inst, tidings, bowever, reached us which caused our hearts and nerves to quiver with ecstatic delight. England has «at length determined to show that she has pot only the means and the power. but the will also, to chastise an | unreasonable and cruel barbarian, who, in bis vanity, imagined that forbearance 1s | weakness, and waynanimity is cowardice. | [he invading torce, we hear. is strong enough, not only to conquer every province in Abys-| ‘sinia, down to the utmost limits of the Galla | bama question, which bas a moral as well country, but it will also carry terror and dis- | may to the remotest corners of Africa Ail | those allusions about the forbiddmg aspect of this land im whieh fanciful speculators bave su protusely indulged will vanish like a vision | of the night so seon as the troozs leave the pareted and feverish plains around the coast Che difference Letween the climate of interior Abyssinia and the west coast of Africa 1s as great as between an oven in the capital of Kogland andihe airy ballot an English noble- nao in the country, The atmosphere here is in every respect bracing and salubrious; the | vegetaliun exuberant, but pot, 98 In the low jands. rauk and steaming ; and the scenery checkered and picturesque and most lovely. | Our trends, the joversof the sparkling and not inebriating, need not, | can assure them, fear an inveterate drinking of the pare liquid, | vr be sparing in their libations from the rivers apd spriozs of Ethiopia, which are at least equal to those in Europe. The guinea worm. Liat agonizing apd disgasting disease 18 as little Kuownun the mountains aud plateaux here, as on the banks of the Tuames. We) have the tapeworm, a discomfort which every loreiguer cao avoid, if he does not, hyena like, rivt in reeking col ops ot raw beef — It our eXpected liberators who come from the suupny climes of Tndta ean appreciate a little trost, they will be enraptured with Magdala jand the adjacent provinces. Ever since our second Captivity on this rock, which is lower tian the Gulla and Wadela Plains, we baye | regularly had our fires. morning andevening ; and, i! we were deprived of the cheering blaze, it Would, bext iy trun chains, be one of vur greatest bardsuips. We yearn, yeuro most | intensely, to hear the sound of th bugle and the roll ot the British drum. Our garrison, if the tyrant ts pot bere, will nut offer much resistance to the British legions wuen they their glittering arms and witness tier | noble martial bearing = [ hope and pray that | the Britis iron will forestali the Abyssinian | tiger, tor should that buvaye anticipale bin we shall have a boisterous funeral of the old | apd a tempestuous entrance into the new | year. The King i8 at pres-nt three days’ journey trom bere, but with bis gisanue tuys. wich he Calis Cannons, it will take bio at least a month tu reach the Magdala. If te accoluplishes this object it will be one of his! most triuinphant feats, He is siterally en- compassed by myriads of insurgents Un- fortunately they ali dread the big mouths ot His barwlessartillery. lL wish that Abyssinia had never beard of such inventions as guns | the temper of our captor bas not improved. He has of late adopted a new and most cruel wethod of execunon Formerly he used to duro bis bumMerous Victims In therrown Cabins ; but this mereiful mode of despateh be has abandoned in disgust as unbecoming a The- od ros, vow grave offenders be pros down with an iron tentpeg, and thus allows them to } perish; while those whose criues is of a lesser mangitude he stretches on the bard groand, and then drives his clumsy ammunition woggons across ther gory and writhing bodies till they are Crusted, mangled, and reduced tu an uudistinguistable mass,”’ | => THE ALABAMA see QUESTION. HAVE THE UNITED STATES ENGLAND? A QUARREL WITH {From the New York Tribune, Feb. 8 ] We have not paid much attention to the ru vors from Washington in reference to the Kaglish question. There i really no ** ques- von’ with Wogland. We have in this coun- ‘guard of liberty destroying each otber for a) |tu select their Own company, and so have | ‘+ belligerent jand sought. ——- NE WS. { NO. 18 cease on the ships and on the Senafe depot | has many—we know that from her womb we I have given opposite opinions entire liberty, and issued ; thatuntil the last century her his-. I request from you (turning to the left) the same tory is our history ; that we speak her lan-| silence with which you have been beard (hear, he put forward, was one to the effect that all | great cities should be swept trom the face of the ,earth, because they were the centres of demo- guage, observe her customs, and obey her | laws. Cromwell and William and Marl- borough, Bacon and Shakespeare and Milton, are as much Americans as Washington an Irving. Our differences, like the differences | of the Rebellion, have been intense, bitter, | and deplorable. There is no quarrel like a) family quarrel. The strength of present | hatred is only equalled by the strength of past love. There are, no doubt, many Eng- lishmen who regard America with jealousy. Men as eminent as Bulwer and Gladstone | hastened to express it during the war. The | dominant aggressive Yankee Republic should | be carved, they thought, for the good of man.- | kind. Six Republics (we believe Bul wer’s im- agination was content with six) would make the United States very much like the Repub- lics of South America— neither to be courted nor dreaded. ‘This feeling corresponds with | the anti-British sentiment in America. It! nuying. But we do not believe it is the sen- trment of England. | Where, then, is our quarrel with the Eng- lish nation? England and America are too strong to indulge 1a mere menace or recrimin- ation. A war with England would be the | wost deplorable calamity that could hap-| pen to civilization. We do not speculate | upen the material results of such a war. We might capture Canada, and bold it; we migbteven send Gen. Sheridan with an ex- | peditionary corps ty seize Dablin and rouse the Irish nation ; we might iavade Australia ; we certainly would sweep the Englih flag from the seas, and see our own go down with it, and the vast commerce that now covers the ocean would pass under the flags ot France and Russiaand Germany. All this would be very ylorious, and would make capital rhero- | ric for w bundred yeurs But what good would come of it? Here would be the two nations of the world which hold the advance- | Let ovr war with! seDtiment of passion. We can fight | Kogland be a war of peace. ‘her in the arts and sciences, aod literature, | and political economy, and wise government. | Already we capture huodreds of thousands of | ber soldiers every year—as much captured as_ though taken in arms—taken withvuc blood- shed, and who come to us as allies and friends. Could we do better with war? All this time we are reminded of the Ala- | asa water! meaning. England did not deal tairly wtb usduring the rebellion. But she | had a perfect right to do as she pleased with | her sywpathies. Wewould most gladly have | wad ber friendship: we suffered because she | withdrew it from us; but men have a right | } England chose to sympathize | with the South, very well. She sees what | her sympathy amount ed to, and if ever) like extremity betaile her we can do what| nations If we please Ibis constant petulent grumb- | ling at England because she did not) takeour part i8@ unmanly. We mude) | We throw back challenge to challenge.—The | and material prosperity ; conquered in the Crimea, | present | expedition failed, perhaps that result was some | violent spirit which bas recently manifested itself bear).— Baron de Benoist: The balanee-sheet of | eracy and constitutionalism. At the latter end the Emperor’s Government has been drawn up, ' of the year 1851 be was nominated Ambassador but what were those of the regimes that existed | to the Diet of Fraok{ort-on-the-Maine, where for under the despotism of a free press? In 1833 | the firet time be came into personal collision with : ae said, Bag oe is killing = and at tee Rechberg, and his inveterate dislike, we the close of the reign M. Desmousseaux de Givre may almost say hatred, for the influence of Aus- exclaimed, “What have you accomplished at) tria in Germauy, became apparent. home or abroad? Nothing, nothing, nothing!” | [¢ was not until $362 tt . : W hat is the baiance-sheet of the Republic ? Abroad phectee “7 ene 8 rr wan, mane Evins Risquons-Tout and Chambery, at home the 15th years he had beld the post of Siete: ane — - ems A te omg Mey Jeera at the Courts of St. Petersburg and Paris, Dur- a ; ] - eae . ing his stay in Russia he conciliated the Czar, oe ae eer, sae Satan Mu. S iieeant Eee with the order of St. Alexan- ) os puts B2.| der Newski. The Cri Pelletan, calm yourself. Your friends have been | and in > ae ee ane ban ae a ambitious schemes. But during all thie time he I approval—noise) — evelans had not been idle; no less than ten yeare were oo ;, , , spent in maturing bis plans, in preparing the onan pre ae See eee a oe ‘ Prussian army and bringing it te the bigh state of this n ie I => t hear what ie said m M. Jules | discipline whieh so astounded Europe only two a ( 0 be wai Baid.— ML. 8 short vears ago. Tere is new no doubt but that aoe a preg Re gv ow aot a | Count Bismarck was the real author of Pruasia’s Deceasber way ‘be et. off ditllageattinaniaith success in 1566; able generals, perfect organiza- Garnier Pager It was a Bonapartist agent, Min rey ee it was rather the ' ° ” >| Ministe j ie Huber, who directed the act of the J5th May. | oer cel pase irre nae policy Do not impute to the Goveroment of 1848 that) among nations, it was be aa jusctede’ tw suas from which it suffered (fresh noise).—Toe Presi- | golidat Y i or oe dent: Allow the revolution of 1345 and its govern- Sendiean mit Sawn dence ieee: went to be spoken of—you who are continually ‘ oe 7 Be tee ra discussing other governments hear, bear) — | even his dutractors mart allow thet weit vaatiot Baron de Benvist: The Emperor's government in the widest sense of the term. If he bas he restored order, bas given to France tranquility | Prussia of ber freedom by raising her army to its ' formidable dimensions, he has done so wip the object of restoring the Gerwau Empire ) wnder th I c y what due to the friends of Mexico in the press. | Prussian Richeliee, Gout ie eetiel wil eodeocd ia The imperial rule has given to the journals liberty | pis schem i ; : ; sufficient, because discussion outside the walls of ota ee deliberative assemblies is Only a source of dis- It was in 1865 . order. Prussia, Italy, Juarez, Russia even, have | greated a ae Cat fe Yon, Bimapeek wae found advocates iu the press. Is that not liberty | : enough? 1 do not see the necessity of a measure, | which, in wy opinion, wiil disarm the government. F would have voted for it a year since, but the at Magenta, and Solferine; and, if the Mexican | A curious correspondence between him and the meubers of a Conservative society in Pomerania was receatly published by the Vossische Zeitung. | This society asked the Count for an explanation iu the press convinees me that this pili would be | of bis conduct, first, in abandoning the Conserva- a disarmament of the governmeut. The oppo-| 7 Pe t¥5 evcvnd, ip allowing bimself to be sition attacks the penal provisions of the measure, | ? rotographied along with Mile. Lucca; ans. led, which siows that they intend to disregard it if |" wegen ceased to ag eburob. The Count at passed : and because they vote for it I will give | VUC® 84¥e & categorical reply, with wany thanks ey ‘vuln agnibet it (Sadvement ). aaa with which his * dear friends” ’ had addres 3 1 M. Thiers bas prenounced a grand oration in Sooke meetin dnatenastos oe same — a 7 the press. It was most | caynot judge of circumstances which must peees- sasaskccts ori al eatstess ot [aa aiceeesteemeeeeaeeeeen "be >| man, tha mu He sketched the history of the world during the | aan aan oo ar aka eee last * thirty ceaturies ” for the purpose of show- | and that if his correspondents knew how difficult presage gonramect” Canig| Steet, ae carn a haan 1 . : go e on his shoulders, they weuld acqui eee re a tbvnoots help prasod | him t = oeertiee ot his party. In explana- ;' é t ; | tion of the second point the count reminds bis eatin modety™ sed tapas oe |carrnaet te gy eetaione we had been thrown backwards by a reactionary | je says matters came toa dead lock. and iif wc at, Free hed tere feed aray| ee aan Smt dl ek . now w - ; sort ot government, aud it could not fairly be | Mile. Lenin, acheatl tees ee = said that uoder any : them she was ungoversable. | that she should relieve the tediousness of our She was sensitive and impetuous,but wiihal subuis- | existence by giving a concert. ‘ Perbaps I will,’ sive, a8 long as her national gevius was not too | she auswered, ‘ but only.en one condition.’ * And loreibly compressed. People of this uineteenth | what may that be 7” century, now fast approaching its termination, ‘That your excelleuey will allow yourself to be photograpbed along with me.’ were apt to think the age in which they had lived |« wtp pleasure,’ I anewered : and thie was the was the most important in the history of the | origin of the picture. world. Every age bad thought the same. the trath was that nan was constantly progress- | I now leave it to you to But | judge whether you should cast a stone al me on this account.” As for the count’s non-appearaace our owo fight aud fought it, and claimed | ing trom the time when, as admirably eaid by | gt church, he explains that hie doctor forbide him ielp trom po one. So lar, then, a8 the Ala-| bawa questivo represents moral sympatty | with the South, we dismise it scurnfully. “? iar as it represents material aid to the rebel- lioo, it is another question, and must be met | differently. We say England injured our commerce Enemies under the protection of the Briusbh crown committed piracy. We) say that, if Kugland bad taken due care in executing ber iaws, we should have been spared this loss. comm pensation England’s recognition of | rigats is mere moonshine. B-iligerent or not, we whipped the South ; aud some day we may have the Chance of extending ** beiligerenc’’ recognition to Can- ada, or Austraiia, or Ireland, or even India. | Time will settle that There is no use of | going to war about it, One year of war would be mure expensive than a bundred Alabawa elaims, and we cao well afford to wait. Lhe mght of American citizenship is another question. Lf we thought that Kog we shouid insist upon immunity abd repar- lation even with « war of twenty years. Li) we cannot protect our people we are unfit to) bea nation We have as yet sven no evidence | of wanton interference with peaceable Ame- rieans. ‘The arrest of Mr Train was invited Pliny the Elder, be was “ born naked into a) ouked world.” Human improvement bad been | evelved by dispute, discussion, and controversy. He was not for unrestricted liberty. He adit ted the necessity of many of the checks contained | in the bill. He thought it right that cautien | money should eusure the solvency of the responsi- | ble editur, who might be judicially sentenced to | pay fines. But be wanted what he did not find | in the bill, an independent tribunal to try press | offences He did not desire to speak agaiust the | papers. en. He was qutte sure they were very honest | But that was not a sufficient guarantee. | | They were io reality a special commission ap: | | pointed by government, and the public was not | and ought not to be satished with their judgments, | Nothing (he contiuued), is more simple than to | iv attend Divine service, as he has become so exhausted through working night after night that be is uut equal to the effort. captivate eed A Uavunrep House at Kensinctoy.— Since the middle of last October a very singular system of persecution has been goin op in Kensington, which has hitherto baffled all attempts to discover the author, or the weans by which the annoyance complained We claim so much | judges who now heard prosecutions agaiust news- | oi 18 effected. Ip a small house, about twenty yards trom the main road, live an old lady, eighty-four years of age, and ber daughter, with one servant. They have lived in the same house fur nearly twenty years without any annoyance; but for the last few months say that the chief of the State is uot to be brought | they bave been constantly startied by asharp, under debate; but then he ought to be exempt loud knocking upon the panel of the street- on the same conditions as in England, where the | door couipensated for | queikly, no sign of any one is to be discover- royal irrespousibility is by the responsibility of the Ministers. Private individuels should also be guaranteed agaiust abuses of the press; Ctheir tranquility and that of }jand unjustly put a finger aupea ao American, | their fauthes ought to be secured (hear, bear) These great interests being protected by a law sufficiently clear, nething wore remains than to grant tull lberty to the press to discuss public meo and public acts. The conduct of Ministers, it is said, way be treated of. Yes, but a writer is guilty if he excite to hatred and contempt of the government. Yet how can the tault of a Upon opening the door, however ed. No sooner are the ladies quietly settled again than rap-rap-rap! comes upon the 'dvor. And this is repeated at irregalar iter- |vals through the evening. For some time | it was attributed to school-boys, who are al- _ ways ready for mischief, but it became at | last @ serious nuisance. A few evenings ago, | the son of the old lady called, and tound them quite ill from nervous excitement, and was comforting them as well as he could, ‘Train is @ mere adventurer, Minister be exposed without exciting to hatred | when a quick rap-rap-rap ! at the front door who hives on a Cheap-dack reputation, and and contempt of the Government? According to| made him jump up. Lo two seconds he was hig arrest is money in his pocket. wouldn t bave missed it for a good deal oi money. We would bave done the same thing during the rebeilion. Lt any Englishman | janded in New York as Train did in Cork— | anenvoy tu thé rebels aod their loud-mouthed iriend—be would have been iw Port La'ay- ette in two hours. ‘Traim’s arrest was either an adverusing trick or mistake, and doves not involve the question of citizenship, which should be discussed calmly. [t is new to modern laws, because the opening of tresh | couptries bas induced unusual emigri.tion. | Che governments of Europe all show a desire ‘to make a law to meet this new problem, and we are sure it will be satisfactory tu the United States We desire to discuss our * English ques. tion’? calmly and peaceably. We have no sympathy with this constant clamor for war it President Johnson ts abvut tu adopt a ** rigurous” policy: toward Kazland—it he is to have threatewing letters writcen to Lord Stanley—it simply means that be desires to | cover the disastrous failure of bis home policy | by menacing England | cept it try @ sort of snti-English sentiment, which | is always noisy and occasionally mali¢ious. There is nothing national about it. Armeri- ca ive's strongly ubout Ireland, mainly be- cuuse there are so many Irishmen American citizens. America is also a ‘* sympathizing nation ’’ What we Irke is a rebellion against monarchy. Se—we-nave in turn ** sympa- thized’’ with Poland, and Germany, and Greece, and Hungary, and the South Ameri- | can Colonies of Spain We feel that Ireland | hus been cruelly wronged, and we trust that Mr. Bright and bis friends will succeed in| compelling Parliament to bill. pass the reform Then we have a desire to chaff England. We like to tease John Bull—to annoy bim, | to swagger about him, and abuse George II1., and recite revolutionary history, avd vaunt our achievements at New Orleans j It may give him a) certain.popularity among bar-Toow politicians, | but it will find no respynse im the heart of the American people. He | th's system, the greater the fault the greater the |at the door, repeat that there caunoet io this matter be any question of more or less. Where discussion is permitted it must be allowed fully, otherwise you are taking away with one hand what you give with the orber. [ now come to the tribunal Heaven forbid that I should doubt the impar- tiahty and recititude of the Freneb judges; but the tribunal is in the hands of the governmeni, | and may theretore be regarded as a Commission (various movements). Aud publicity is torbidden * Posterity,” sala the advocate who detended Louis XVI, * will judge your judgment.” The real judge of the Judge is public opinion ; why. theretore, interdict pubheity?) As dong as this yower is retained the liberty of the press is in the hauds of the government. That liberty has been restrained trequeatly during the Jast 50 years, and, [ admit, on the demand of the country itself—A voice: OF the intelligent portion( vetse ). —M. Titers: But the same liberty has always been called tor again by the conutry (interrup- tion). —M_ Javal:—By intelligent France (fresh noise) —M. Thiera: —Always intelligent. Let us be sincere. It France does net new again ask tor freedow of the press, why is this bill brought before us (various movemeuts)? Taw eonvin- ced that France desires it. She has seen during 1S years what @ government is which is not controlled by the liberty of the press. [M. rushed out, looking in every | security of bim who bas coumnilted i (bear, hear). | direction without discovering a suund or a ‘trace of any human being in any of the ad- _jacent roads. No sooner bad he gone back |to the littie dimmg-room and placed a chair in the open door-way with a big stick bandy than rap-rap-rap! sent him flying into the street to the astonishment of a cabman, who must have thought a madman hed just es- caped bis keeper. This happened tour or five times more ; in fact, only ceased about a |quarter to eleven ile went round to the | police station and bad an officer put on | spectal duty Opposite the house tor the next 'day and spent the following morning in eall- “ing upon the neighbors, and carefully examin: ing the gardens and walls which abutted upon the ** haunted ’’ house. Not a mark of any sort was to be found, and be was quite cun- vineed that by no imaginable device could the door have been reacbed from any point but right io front from the street. There is no _ceilar or drain under the house. The more carefully the eXaminatiog was continued the greater the wystery appeared, In the even- ing be took a friend down with bim. and two | more of his friends looked :n later. The ladies were found in a paimful state of nervous lt war ever becomes Garniers Pages: Let ber above all. interrogate | iright, as the nuisance had already been ge- neceseary to defend our honor, we shall ac-| tue finances on the subjeet!] (Reelamations.) | ing on, and the waid-servant was erying. In ences with England can be quietly arranged Neither party wishes bloohshed; and that being the case, we hope there will be no j —<—_- a FRANCE. | EXCITING SCENE IN THE FRENCH CHAMBER. | ¢)o Government felt that the arbitrary system of | The Legislative Body sat on Tuesday, M Schueider in the chair The order of the day | was the adjourned discussion en the Press Bill, | is Dow an acclimatised power = Whether loved or feared, itis everywhere; the journals may be ; " ein | superficial reading, but they are universal. es uster. ’ j ‘- residenta e M. Jules Favre also distinguish-d bimself in a! speech on the press bill. He agreed with M. (hers that this bill had been presented because 185z was mest dangerous to itself. Therein was a confession of the hollowness of these principles which M. Pinard and the other ministers still It is not necessary now. Our differ- In such cases society has a right to detend itselt | the course of conversation the following facts | The press, I will not say ihe liberty of the press, | game out. It began on a Friday, the lsth of | October, and bas never miseed a Friday since |then, it has never been heard on Sunday, | seldom Saturday, never before the gas-lampe | are lit, never alter eleven. Just a6 all wera | talking at once, rap-rap-rap! In an instant all four gentlemen were in the front garden ; the police wus quietly standing opposite the door; the lady of the house opposite watching the door trom her portico, and an- } —The President: The part of the measure under | convulsively clung to. The system of personal | other gentleman from the leads. All declared consideration is Article 1, whieh runs thus:— | government which the press had not been alowed | that not a living creature had been near the ‘Every Frenchman of age, and in the enjoyment | to criticise. had brought the foreign relations ot | house for atleast a quarter of an hour. The of his civil and political rights, cau, without any | the country lute @ daugerous state, and had pro- whole thing seems inexplicabie, and has cre- previous authorisation, publish ajournator periodi- | cal writing, appearing, either regularly or on a} fixed day, or irregularly and in numbers.”— Baron de Benoist: The majority of the Chamber, which | last year was disposed to associate itself with | this great measure, is now hesitating; why (in-| terruption)?—M. Josseau: Speak for yourself. —M. Segris: No one haa a right to speak iu the name of the majority (approbation in some den- | ches).—Baron de Benoist: Allow me to tell you. | | Foo and corner-lounging American delights | to speculate upon a war with Eogland, when sporting matters are dull and there is nv im- mediate prize-fight or rat-eatehing agitation Mr. Dickens caught this feeling wien be made some of his grotesque and impossible Americans tell Martin Chuzziewit that we were an ** elast’c country’’ —-** a young lion”’ and that our ** bright home is in the setting sun.’’ Martin got off rather easily, consider- ing that be was a foreigner and in the hands of Western politicians. When the boancing Mr. Train proposes to take Irelaed in pay- went of the Alabama claims, everybody knows that he is swaggering It is a were surface feeling. It has neither strength, dignity, nor character; and does not represent the American sentiment. The true American feels a glory and pride in England. Wath all ber taulte—and she ial |—M_ Picard: There t no majority until after | Lhe bar- | the vote —DThe President: Listen to the speaker; do not interrupt bim at every word —Baron de | Benvist: Phe reason is that during the last’ year | the press bas shown neither gratefulness nor | mederation. We have found that we deceived ourselves. Suspicivus, unfounded distrust, and calumny have appeared, abroad, at home, and even in this Chamber (reciamations from several benches).—M. Bethwent: That is for the Presi dent to say —Baron de Benoist: We all possess the ngbt of judging what takes place here (wvise). —M. Thiers: I request to be beard.—Baron de Benoist: For me itis enough te refer to the speech ot M. Jules Favre. M. Thiers, with greater woderatiet in the form but the same andacity in the ideaa—(tresh exclamations; uoise).—M. ‘Thiers: | interrupt the speaker op that word “audacity.” What style of discussion are we coming lo When such a term is applied to vpiions, bold, perhaps, but vot exceeding the bounds of parliamentary debate (bear, hear aud noise ).— | longer be behind Austria and Prussia. 'manded and would have self-government, the | Gottingen, berlin, and Grietswald. duced impoverishment at bome. The empire had doubled the national debt, and now there was to be a new luan. The “prosperity” boasted ef he would call a “disaster,” and the loan of 440 millions was the latest evidence of it. France would no looger tolerate instituvious which placed her in the rear of civilized nations; she would no She de- In that and inv n- right to think for and exist by herself. way ouly could she be great at home cible abroad. ipstiaiasiliiailiaitaai (oe COUNT BISMARCK IN His STUDY. The Prime Minister of Prussia divides with the Emperor Napoleon HI the leadership ot political events on the continent of Europe. There is much in common io the career of these men, io- asimuch as in the early days of their power they were both regarded as insignificant, neither hav- | ing given any earnest of the confident Sulduess in self that has marked their later days. Karl Otto von Biswarek-Schonhausen was born at Brandenburg, April 1, 1814, and etudied at He entered the army, and was promoted to be a lieuteuantin the Landwehr; he then studied tor the par, and step by step advanced onwards in the race of ite. La 1546 we find tim a member of the Diet of the province of Saxony, and on the following year of the Geveral Diet, where the baldness of bie “ated quite a sensation in the neighborhood. |The cruel part of the trick is the effect pro- duced upon the venerable lady, whose age makes @ change of residence @ serious diffi- culty, and whose nerves are likely to give | way altogether if some means are not dis- ‘covered to put a stop to the ennoyance. The | police are doing weir best to discover the | plot. j ——— > a ; | In Boston ffurts are being made to send relief to the three fiandred thousand people in | Sweeden, who are in @ starving condition from the failare et the crops fur several years | A Sixty Houks’ Sks1inG Matcu.—A man at | Detroit has skated sixty consecutive hours for 500 deliars. Towards the last, blankets bad to be held up about him tu keep the wind from blowing him over. j -—~ — ee — The New York House of Assembly has twenty~ eight assistant clerke, seventeen messengers, | fifty pages. The House couwprises ove bundred and twenty-eight wembere, su there is vot quite an officer for each member. } —— The President: Allow the speaker to go on with- | speeches aud his unpopular ideas reodered bim | out interrupuoa. Let him cbeose bis expresswus. | remarkable. Among theextravagaut propositions | Awe od ma 9 ya ee age ge. sR ee ee