Ehe Gxraminer, A Charlottetown, January 1, 1866. aT em 1865, At the mmencement of q@ New: Year the tnind of he man who has been emplove . e . : | } * Guung the preceding twelve months in chron- : , iw my the articular events of noteworthy im- po tance, eney in moulding the future—ig natarally com- pelled to * k@ ® retrospective summary of them and whetiua, progress und results war Paps 6 to the press it wag the ~" Wwe cum? the cumin s, speed the parting guest hy Sorry dsgsrers ol ! cve at the tomy of the wr a ae j ‘ dat und ty celebrate the advent of the fur Jo'T 10 MOT ‘Ss Os Weicumma, the dighom of which misht well be called unique Lut mow, tie lariz iu‘re of M lie re ‘3 Doet yr, *+\ Nous avons change tont ecla”’ and Apollo ud reflecting on their general tend. vf the:r mutual relutionsin their respectis : . : s Sehs ‘ a “ “ cir respecuve | than the unbridled license of the camp during | died in the confirmed possession of the Govern, nh the dare of! ; i ; . custom to Seutiment? and in possession of information which rendere such course not unly justifiable but ubso-lfe! lately essential to the prompt suppression of m& the murderous emeute, Let us hope that the | is freedmen of the States may not be induced to. wi follow in the footsteps of their sable brethven «! in Jamuaicas but we cannot shut our eyes to) w which Mexico was cursed. when rival fteins—Lalf freebooters, half demagogues, whole scamps~—could convulse the country, . . . . iz . . tive, aud educated up to the duties of free men. | insecure by pronunciamentos, each succeeding tweuty millions sterling were paid by the Go | than its predecessor. verunment of Britain — while the liberated | We can hardly spare space for a passing negroes of the South have been prepared for! notice of European events. Aud here our first their altered sterfee be no more fitting process | thoughts revert to the great statesman” who Ta Ulaadt aed Gar, Aa en bee eat & bioody cud war. .La we have jist said, we! ment of the country he loved and served so ' ' ‘ “ar » etna ag - - ri nail “i ; “, hope they way approve themselves worthy of) well. It would be superfluous, after the able j their new padsition, but we have it-on more than pand eloquent “notices of the press of Great "ae ‘ a é “ ee nf <5 . . human “authority that ‘ men do not’ gather | Britain, for us to attempt to do justice to the grapes of therns, nor figs of thistles,"* and an | Life and Character of the late Lord Palmer- jelement of serfons danger*lurks in Ametican | ston. ‘Abler hands ‘than ours must erect for society—a danger greater than that which co-|bim a fitting monument. We reverently lay ;existed with the mainténance of the institution pour stone on his cairn: and that he was wo1 thy j) Of slavery. ’ - { | If their numbers bore any propor-| of the reputation vained by his kife aud of the -ead the Nine mav **haae their fidd'es ow the] 4;., “ade : fe as was } ; 5 : E udueun ) ot ace tk Tlie ant | tion to the Fampainget ox the population, the; sorrow excited by his death, is saying all that vos iy i € its @drving, without their! Mormons misht cause trouble to the Govern-| we need say. Hace ¢ invoked on behalf of that] jon “1 a a Ti Te die direcl dics ok. ‘y will soon be driven from their! The year has witnessed the departure from sgen 3 ti to mortals Known as tl : , , i imtiai Graugut at the * y : hi in Soriny seemed but to ivave his bra n nigre coufised, aid his ink-daubed visazc PITS Gi ry Lindau ) la acevrdaace with our usual practice at Lima S2asou, we will bvie iy refer 19 some Of the oyeurre a« whic! past elosed, excited most attention, either by reason of t.wir immediate imp yrtance, or by the cousaqueneces which naturally flowed from in pretend not to ful j nolo sicz! der Of events, but as trem; aid, in? $0, we low tie chy We ace writi tr mo d-e prominent iacidents of 1865 as ther Ru? fest themselves to our recollection. } ‘ : } : Liest, then, in bad pre-emineuce stands out t\: shociay marder of the late President of a: ’ ‘ ; the Caited States by the wretched man Booth. Atter havin, eadared the protracted and severe ‘ “sooo : a ie ae 2 payaca a 1d meatal — of the gi srantic strurs'e ia which his country had been sv long} jiavolved, he fell ia the hour at which, at last. | be misht suppose the hoped-for end was at hand —tlis promised land ja sitht. But, diy alite visum — Mose3 condacted’ the chosen taro. tht Wildarness, and died ona Pis zal $43: Sat of ¢ 12434 Toh 3 sub wdinat » it Was mrp iitid t a> the full fru tion of past toils ~ ' ' FQ 12 NY DIAC! ‘ mind is wa¢louded by. pa.tizaa feclinzs, who J dacematwiss M:. Johason every suce y eaz-Ousd WOTK OF sfroar aad ae eestiblishin? societr on a pte vie basis. Never had man uw move varied aad difisals tas’s devolved upon I t44 3.taation ha bas bean called Upon to occupy wu dereee of eg hf good sease, which, nore thay ney otter ps uy, is essential to the restoration ot -ovdar out the chags in which American iiattatioss were iavulved, aad from which they a: i f: ym tim: Wha ta? jou e ret tic from free. wists Of Beitish Amorica and Europe, comsicated on paszins events as they aul, our cours: was dictated by We :exp-eassion to our opinions on I TH ptt gicd vur fi ; Ot k satility to our neishdours, lve tu al ¥ ra raatters a ect! but th: Colox f ourselves as British subjects, jta Or other subjects of Great Lvitaia, ayo, aid the mea of the world at large, ean have nothiag to gain bat much to lose fora tie dom>stic distractions ef a great peo- whose ene ry pret, aad enterprise, acting upon wata al advaata res of aaprecedeated mazuitude, have raised their cow itry toa pitch of great- hs beea achieved in equal time by By couutry wit) the history of which we are euuversant. ta pe dole of these Colonies prefer the po- [tiea! machine castumed, Our neighbours ave attached to fem a ! principles. raiied by either seekiuz to influence sectta be éoistitution. There is amole scope and verge knsad, coaterred, ia the pursuit of muterial pros | pe ity aad the e.tivatioa of # spirit of mutual | Teo yest. di-warwot to > expected that icritating dis- { on $3]023'3 ould \ot haye ariseu, out of the ever | sceaes oa war of such proportions as} thet which so la: slp rdsed ia -the-States, and! Wo Lope faat ap steiotie sease of the necessity of ce emsating tie fraymmauts of their country’s | Coidt tation may iadace successful attention to tw? eodsolidation of authurity at home avd the} e . } Soaeott ’ radii eGnnce of ewicable relations-abroad. This bulef vedeceucdtoatueiaternal uTuirs of | t ep Sestes remiatl sus tat, some weéks stuce, we | ek cessed some very Ubvious reflectiuns oa the | 44 Fee likely to ise from the sudden emanci-} patyu of the mi lions of former slaves, and Wi terriy.e justideati on of the probable correctaess | of oar views has been aYorded by the recent | . Ia that as well as in all} redzilion ia Jami i ¥est Tudian possessions, , tas other Britis) s hve-y was many years since abolished by the Yet we now va \ paciie parchase &: emancipation. perceive that got. ithstanding the louz_pessés- | piu of pargoaat f eodom, aud the Fit of free-| ita tJ the fruits of their Joyer ihe biackskin | by suvasory i gin the nesro has ridden | rourh@aod OMe ibe restraints ef education, | and has culminated “jn | fiends might shudder at. | m of tuformation sufficient {»éaad.c ua to for.Tag oSiiidn of the operatins | caaizs of this hideous outbreak, i would. be} tMematare t> dojtoatise on its origin. While} de neitie? ‘ailinit nor deny that the nezroes hive .beéa s-eated withSinjustice, aid We OXPLES$ UO Opinion Oo. | Ay ous souse.juent tho *eonduet’ of tse. to whose interlerence | th froif, el ha: ‘been attributed, we may | Withoyt elence dz are our belief in the innate which lvis. always existed | and wea wil agrent their coaigsciag as equal | ayutacienism of ree: itwaéa the nego aad the white maa, magia e483 OF S2Cict Tie msutal aud moral constitution of the one 4, during the year which has | if wd r, curreate calamoa, we will notice | preseut abodes to find dwellings on some of the | the scenes of their toils and their honors of | Islandsof the Pacific, as their scandalevs or-| other distinguished men-~the most illustrious | ganization is as repugnant to the preeepts and munes inthe record being those of Cardinal spirit of Cliistianity as to the basis of social Wiseman and the King of the Belzians. Among civilization. ithe many eminent Princes of the Catholic We fear that ere enother year shall hav e} Chureh still living it would be difficult to point | passed, servile insurrections —the effects of |to the name of one who has laboured so long sympathy iu a common blood and a common {and zealously in the interests of Christianity | Oppression of the present and by zone times— and Ciy ‘lization, and shed so much lustre upoa In iy supply sad topies for West Indian and letters, as fell to the happy lot of Nicholas | So aah tournaitite ee es) oe 4 ae South Amertean journalists. Already Spain, | Wiseman. By his death the Church lost one ’ ‘3 likely to arise from the | ofher brightest ornaments—and Literature, one abolition of slavery in the Southern States, has | 6¢ itg most a Tn the de- and the | ise of the good old King of the Belgians—an in view of the dange cecomplished votaries. {suppressed the Cuban slave trade, planters have turned their attention to the | event which had been apprehended for some 4 te ae ee . . Re ey ee . oe i : : ‘ gradual abolition of the domestic institution. time—Liberal Constitutional Mouarchy loses a aa s ; ic W < . am: « sore, . 7 ~ . The whites, who live amony an enslaved peo | reat friend, and Karope, a wise and prudent ple, cannot shut their eves to the dan rer which | medi ator in all difficult matters of diplomacy eave him to be served with anex- | riy Mexican Ship's Company, a mutiny ll be anticipated. But any government, erable to the state of chronie anarchy | so47 Gucette of shee Abe pth which cbawakh? : a 7 terms upon which we re likely to get the ANNEXATION ‘TO ‘HE. UNITED STATES OK NO PREE TRADE. —_— ’ Wr take the following article from the Won | privilege of Free Trade with the United States. . * . ‘It is not-one jouraal ouly in the States that the fuct, thut the rebels of Jamaica were born) paralyse comméree, render life aud property | | says the British Provinces must be annexed to ot shee nn — “3) the Union to help the Republic to pay its tre- ey re not the men for whose emancipation) to a larger amount of villainy and absurdity | -mendous war debt; many American journals have long since taken up-the same cry :— The Chicaso-Traunesays that the only terms upon which Canada eat uloy freedom of trade with the United Stats ia hy going into the Uniou, and by paying a portion of the bu thens resulting from the recent ar debt, and hints that if we do net chéose te go'in voluntarily, we shall be taléiy ‘Id tayoluntatily, because the West needs the St!-f:ivrence, and will have it. This is the o!d argument of robber hordes whereverthe exist. ‘Might makes right. Po- pular rizhts are wonderful things, exce'lent thinss for a majority of a great people, but ab- surdities when urged as aplea for the independ: ene+ of a small people, and-its right to do whet it pleases with its own. How glibly these men talk of the aggressions of Britain on diilevent Indian monarehs and their territories, and of Austrian despotism exercised over Hungary aud Italy! Yet the role they denounce in others is just that wich in respeet of Canada and of Mexico they declare their purpose to fulfil. In Mexico, as little fitted as the petty states of India of self-government (although not merece: nary, aggressive, or even troublesome as send- ing out armies of invasion,) there mizht be 'same show of reason for interference, ifa great civilized power had not already undertaken the task. All-Enyland’s recent attacks on Indian princes have been in self-defence—in order to insure from invasion the territories and people already under her gtardianship. Have the United States any such plea of dan zer to render them agyressive.or even minatory towards Ca- nada or Mexico? Do they fear attacks either from one or the cther? Are they afraid to see Monarchical institutions worked side by side with their own? Do they shrink from experi- ment, afraid of this close comparison of the two sets of institutions as likely to result disad- vantazcously to the démocratic system? Or ave we to account for these threats only on the sround that these people wre mere robbers, greedy to enrich themselves with spoil where- ms, W h J8e | ' 633 40 Lis Weare b bODY fu believe he NIN IS to} Ve to time, we have, is common | v I to which they have been ac-! . i We can sce vol alle swindle. the Xciprocity Treaty with the States was, we helieve, given with the view of inducing the an-| |nexation of Canada, and consequently the ab- | to, ussuie us OF continued independence of his | to collapse for. want of funds—hayinz, durin: lof the peuple of. the Island than th» philoso- surrounds them from free nezroes communi- | cating their ideas to the #é@rfs who own a com. daze with themselves. Slavery tlrouzhout America has received its death wound, but the | sot rid of ? L-e we turn our thourhts to Ikarope we must pay the grud sed tribute of a passing uotice ti } the most silly, and disreputable scheme that rozues ever adopted to accomplish the ruin | of tuola.. Need we say that we allude to the wretched swindle of the Fenian orranization ? | 9% eal . jf Tt would be beneath the di rnity of serlous com ment, if it were not for the iniserv it has caused, } and will vet oceasion to those amon, the con- spirators who have been duped into an honest | obj ets of the association. }usion ! under which they lab wr, who belheve : 3s . ; that any good can arise from their efforts, ux } i, at) r mhtone r - bonest, 1 &rroneous, Opuiions of every man are rs nese renee + a : as . ' jentitied to respect, but pity for miszuided peO-) Jays—uare the only other memorable eveuts ot } ; 1 . * j ple whose hardly acquired-substance has heen situins kuaves, is ulmost merzed in ridieule of osed God knows that Irish history is not barren of records of the misery arisiug from unsue- | cessful strugzles with the power of Greet Britain, and we would be the last to ignore that pressions Ireland has endured from British ruie | iu by gone times. But when we reilect upon | the result to-our country of previous efforts at separation, made by a far mure united people, led by men of talent and probity, fighting in | 5 . . . + . . . and for their native land, with the opinion and | ; resources of the most military power in the | world in their favor, with Great Britain greatly | exhausted by foreizn wars and weakened by | intex.ine divisions, we can but raise our voice, ‘humble thouzh it be, in dissuasion of the miser- : We hold it to be the duty of : levers honest man to discourage attempts at in- wwe wiinl of th other toa chanze of political | troducias political changes by physical force, 'where the means are clearly inadequate to fi. Worh for qe itude to God ang advantaze tO | effect the object. Such is the case here, and} Lasuree.ves by tae meaas He has, with lavish) pone but the most gullible of mankind ean | anticipate any other result than individual suf- fering and loss from this aboicive scheme. The robbery of a Bank or two in Canada or New Brunswick may be very pleasant and pro- fitable excitement to those eoncerned in the practice of this not very orizinal branch of the science of political economy, if they should for- tunately escape the hangman's rape; but we wonder if the most sanguine of those whose ,money has contributed towards the enduing those heroes, * Arraved in helm and blade, And plumes in the gay wind dancing,” expect that such dchievements advance the in- dependence of Iveland, or will result in re-im- irseament of the amount subseribed ? With the vexed question of the Confedera- tion of these Colonies, our readers have beard | aud read so much, that we shall notice jt The present occasion merely for thefrurpe se Of SUp- plementing the argunenis in its favor, by the sug sestion $b? ae notice for the termination of sorption of all the North American Colonies into the already overgrown Republic. If con- federated, we would form the nucleus of a na- tion, with the elements of nationality sufficiently advanced to enable us to make national pro- yess; but, unless some political amalgamation unites our destinies, we will be at the mercy of a neighbour whose scruples oa the subject of extending his borders aie not so well calculated politieai embraces. We have had out own little civil war in the shape of the silly Tenaiit Learue, which, much to the dis rust of its promoters, appears about its b.ief and highly beneticial existence, caused |; more loss to the Treasury aud to individuals, and brought more diszrace upon the characte: phers and’ patriotic appropristors who originat- aud is being squandered into the pockets of de- | history by denying the many wrongs and op-| j trade regulations with the Unjte? States, init ey : i > -} e uP - | Brazil, Mexico, othe West Indies, so long as | have been ipfyrmed by the Secretary of State | between rival States. | i sin cular suecess——his poeple have been prospe } ‘ of other cicnaieirenngueonasinpeesillinia | - - yore ;to be solved in the year of grace 1866; | fate thaa that of Denmark dark cloud over the future of Bel rium. {through the barn yards of Britain, tu the con ; i vee ie - aa” {sternation of cattle i | For more than a gener- ‘ation Kiaz Leopold has governed Belgium with | mon country, aud have shared a common bon-| $68 ou ; {measure of liberty, while the wisdom of his difficulty remains how are its evil resul bef oa: eee : : are its evil results to be | policy secured the respect and friendly alliance | tigus are not entertained—will be able to pre- | there is mucl reason to apprehend that a worse The devastatigons of the Asiatic Cholera in| canbe a a | may parts of Eastern aad Southern Europes) 3953,000,000. Wey revief ia the practicability of the professed *} : i . ) Cavity OF the projessed/ and the terrible scourze which has swept | average for the yearg Gross as is the de-} owners, and tec the sere! ever and by what everinfumoes means te he acquired ? | Let us see the terms on which we are asked -; to go into this blessed Union. We stated the rous, happy, aud in the enjoyment of the fullest | fxation yearly levied on the citizens of New | York to be $28 to $30 per head, on very geod | authority, $18 of this being for Federal pur- noses. We subjoin some remarks upon the Europea 1 Powers. Whether his suc- subject of this taxation from Harper's Week- cessor—of whom the most cheeriaz anc. | Y: Inthe five monthwending November 30, the | General Governmentis said to have received serve his kinrsdom from the grasping ambition | from iuternat revenué over £151,000,000. Tu }of a powerful nei shbour, is one of the problems | the same period the receipts from duties at the bur} port of New York alone were $58,291,000, | which implies -an-apyrexate receipt for the | whol country for’ the tive months of about masts even now 4) $74,000,000 ia gold) ‘cqqual to, say #112,000,- 1000 in currency. .Thesin five months the Go- vernment drew fromthe pedple, in the shape lof direct or iudiréct TaNts,"a Sum hot less than s¢ five months a fair annual income of the | Government would toot up not less than $630,- (000,000. As, however, the income tax is paid in the full, and as the importations this {all }discomfurt of Joha Bull, whose sirloins and! were unusually heavy, it may be properto make {rounds have not been so plentiful as in former | the year that we can now recall. We care not }upon them would tax even our in seunity at | this festive season of New Year's. } OF local aTuics —local potitics included— | we thousht ut settiug out that we mizht ad. | But the scautiness of our space warns us to be- | ware of wandering into dreamland. As re- | gads animal comforts—bread aad butter, amd l the other wants of poor eravin zs human nature— this Colony has abundant reason to be thankful to the Almishty Dispenser of Bounties. Whe- ther our people live in blissful contentment with their lot, is a matter which we had better leave, for the preseut, to the sa zacious counsels of the Tenant League to determine; and as to the local’ polities—so called—the coutest be- tween the ins and the oufs—there is such a tangled web about the whole affuir that we honestly profess our inability to unravel it. The cloudy atmosphere of local politics may, how- ever, become clear to our vision by-and-bye when the Legislature will meet; but in the mean- time let Local Politics be bowed out of presence, especially on this anniversary ; and in the meantime, too, pray let all the world and his wife accept our conzratulations on the ad- vent of this auspicious season, whose many re- turus will be earnestly prayed for by the Editor of Tue Examixer. tii ta ANOTHER IMPORTANT DESPATCH. j | We find in the Halifax papers of a late date the following important despatch from Mr. Cardwell, the Secretary for the Colonies. Jt clearly indicates that the British Government will not give very much countenance to & the*Cylyres remain in their present separate Condition, with conflicting tariffs and conflict- ing Legislatures. The ‘serious difficulty” apprehended may not prove insuperable, inas- wuch as the Reciprocity Treaty of 1854 was carried into effect by “separate action of the various Pyovincial Legislatures.” However, the British Government seems determined that the Colonies shall not much longer remain de- pendent upon the Mother Conntry— that they must be confederated, if possible; if not, they will be entirely thrown upon their own resour- ces. The issue then will be — Confederation In the present condition of the neizhboring Republic, we cannot conceive a more terrible calamity than thet of annexation. the despatch referred to. has, ought to have published it fyr geueral iufor- + or Annexation to the United States. Here, however, is Our Lieut. Governor no doubt, received a similar one, and mation :-— Downing Srreet, 24th Nov., 1365. Nova Scoria, )- | ; Nu. 10, f ; d Sir,—T think it rizlit to ac juaint you that J tor Foreizn Affairs that in the opimion of Her Majesty's Representative at Washin ston, the | to linrer over these. Cholerw and the Cattle | Pest are things to which we love to give a| the inadequacy of the nreaus »€ ro-| .: : . ; 1€ inadequacy of the mrcaus to the end pro-| wide be:th: and to pin a moral to ® discourse | venture some remarks upon these hazy topics. j allowed it to die a natural death, and hastened .| some deduction from this estimate, and to set | down the annaal ineome of the Government |from taxes of all kinds at something like | $455, 600, 000—say 15 per head of the total population. Tu nrany ‘localities as much more is paid for city, county, and State taxes. That taxation to this extentis oppressive, is obvious. | It is heavier than is borne by any other people jin the world. That it has been borne patiently lis wonderful, and proves the law-abiding char- acter of the people of the United States. Put | it Goes not follow that *it will be so always. Durhrz the year 1865 people's minds have been so fall of the all-enzrossinz tonic of the restor- ation of peace, that no leisure has been aTorded for the consideration of fiscal matters. Pros- perity, real or fictitious, has been so general j that the bardeus that in ordinary times woukt | have been intolerable, have been endured with- out a murnwr. This: will not last. The war aud peace excitement is passing away. The exciting prosnerity, aad the present hizh wages of labor are dependent on the larze volume of paner money afloats: when that comes to be reduced labor will fall, and we shall azain taste ‘hard times.” Now the whole debt of Canada is only about $25 per head of our population. For the sake of arrument we will suppose that the people of Canada are less rich by one-sixth than the averaze of the whole people of the United States, which is assuming far too much. Then we should be forced to pry, if annexed, $12.50 per annum per head of Federal taxes, and should pay in two years into the Federal Treasury as much as could pay off our whole Provincial debt! What vossible gain could compensa‘e us for this? © Under that weizht of taxation Canada would seon he depopulated, its people crowding into, the richer lands and | more genial climate of other parts of the con- jtinent. The prozress,of Canada denends upon | comnaratively cheap taxation to counterbalance | the disadvanta tes of herzeagranhical nosition. To quote Mr. Holton onee more—“ The man who talks of annexatloit: now is little better than a madman.” ome.) anneal mat ipr Tue following short article from the Halifax Reporter of the 19th wt would seem to reanice | passing round here. We give +a place in our columns, remarkig? that the “D. Currie” in- —iedafter in the last sentence is no other than the veritable ‘* Tonalt x I & To ovr P. E. Istaxp Reapers. Some few weeks since we noticed the fact that the Charlottetown Monifor lad been superseded by the Weekly Bulletin, and expressed our gratification at the marked improvement in sty!e and tone exhibited by the latter over the former journal. This scems to have provoked the ive of some fellow iu Charlottetown, who tigures rather-ridieulously ini the Patriot of the 9th inst. over the signature of * D. Currie.” Now, as we made no referénce whatever to “D. Currie,” in the notice Jn question. we are as much amnsed as surprised at his Quixotie at- tempt to draw us inton titing match with him. But while dismissing this individual, we cannot help remarkins, and ovr numerous Charlotte- town readers will hear us out in what we as<ert, that the defunet Monitor was’ “ spurred’. to its doom through the ateney of *Tona't's” productions more than anything else. They well know that while thaf military gent had free access to the columns of the Menifor, no person who chanced to differ ftom him in matters po- litical and relizious, was free from the slime of his “fishv-tailed’’ pent: that the sanetitv of the domestic circle was invaded. and the private affairs of individua's: were made the subject of public. comment, and gidicale throu sh its en- lumns. — Such cis. the reeord of “Tonalt’s’’ editorial tareer, and well may he he ashamed of the part he acted. Tn faet, we helieve that the proprietors of the Monifor, finding that it failed to sueceed whi'e laboring underthe disa creeahle odor produeed. by the ‘fishv-tail” aforesaid, to make amends to an outrazed public for the Le necessity of having to submit a Treaty of Com- | unbridled license they gave “Tonalt’” to de. —Afgjean is seusual,to that dezrée that the ani-| political horizon, indicative of a coniins storm, x 4 ed the benevolent Scheme could have at first Meowsss Uy ; Vos wild & SUK ial superiority to| whieh the other, #.ve im very exceptional in- imagined. © stances, caunot a.d- aloes nevaspire, for the While in Eurepe there is nociénd on the | ; nial prupebadieg aTéid’ to him the suman) this continent appeurs to be ina fair way.oi| bowum of carthly dcsiveg, and tiopical fertility | signalizing its advance in the pursuits of peace by | purpose ™f-aseertaining in what manner the and c.imate supply is physical wants with too] sund-y appeals to the arbitrament of the sword. lithe neceséty fur itu zgles to elevate hime Resides thie’ 8Krt" lived rébellion’ in “Jamaica, to which-we “have “uheady referred, Brazil and Paracuay are at each. other's throats.. St. Domingo has been the scene of intemecine jstrife—Spain has sent her ships across the ond in their f-steta-m have adopted measures! ocean to bully Peru and Chili — Maximilian, of un@ue and wi ustuieble La:baness in repress we think, sits not too securely on an Imperial tag the outd-egk. Certainly the d: portation of the unhappy) more sybstantial foundation than the ill-com- man Gordon, to the district where ma tal law! bined debris of sever! successive revolutions. ta « bi sher step oF the sues! ladder, It may be-that the authoyities bave been * Roased opto toon veo Wrath whign follows o'er: | grown teats.” was iafores, thet tu be wied and exeeuted, | If it be, as has Leen asserted, that the Emperor | appears "puacconnt ole, except on the hypo- | of the French, having set his protege fairly On| Lieut. Governor pilawiy cherie cos: Alnwut of the Cylon; were | Ms vovace, iutends to hid him adicy with a Bon, | British Nurth. Atherica-can: he extended, shall | throne, the foundations of which rest upon no} merece sto the separate action of the various fame all who came within geone of his venomons Provincial Lezislatares would he a serious difli- culty in his way, and that the Union of the! Provinces would afford the best hope of ob- taining such a Freaty.- cog : It is evident that if the gentlemen who are! now about to proceed to Mexico, the British and Spanish West Indies, and Brazil, for the trade and. commercé of those countries with bring tlieir journey to a surcessful conclusion, ard shall be able to sugzest to Her Majesty's Gnvernment, on the pat of the British North American Provinces, any new arranzenients with the countries in question, for the bene®t of those Provinces, a similar diffeulty may he expected to arise in every such ease; and, on the other hand, the Union of the Provinces would, in every such case, afford the hest hone of brin zing such arrangements to a speedy and satisfactory conelusion. I have the honor to he, Sir, Your most obedient, humble servant} ; (Sizned) Epwarp Carpwett. vapourings. Hence, v8 presnme, the existence of the Bulletin with amproved principles and manners. ‘Jonalt’’ hqing no lon ser in receipt of the £100 ner-apnnn that.gnabled him-to lay hack’ in his officeehaw and whittle his finer nails, (he was. dismissed Pear office on acemunt of his *‘lealry * provensities), ‘can ill brook the idea of having the ‘show od. is victim presented to his. gare, hecais* ttrlow’t “ay near se wel! as it did formerly. _ If the Bullefit-man has had reason to exclaim ‘sayesme from mv friends” with reference to thé notice alluded to, the Monitor-man has. zreatef reasen to say. “save me from sueb ‘ friénds’ as §Tonalt,’ for to him T am indehted for the itnominy that the Monttor wrought upon mr name.” (Mr. Conner’ may or may not he the editorof the Bulletin; if he is, it is 2 mutter of wonder that such a reat chanze has taken nlaceain his nrincinles; het who is this individual who styles himself “ D. Currie” ? OS Oe > oe Oo Tue Eilitor of the Bulletin seers to be sadiy | distressed at our having published, “ without. Sir F. Wittiams, Bart., K. C. B. peared in our columns from Wm. Cooper, Esqr, fyvouring Confederation, as the first step, in kis opinion, to political union with the United States. The Bulletin is scandalised that we did not “counteract” “by # single editorial remark’? “the pernicious tendency of such scribbling.” Well, we have yet to learn that it is the duty of an editor to combat every new or wild opinion that may be advanced by a cor- respondent. For many years we have been in the practice of publishing the communications of our venerable friend at Sailor's Hope, ond although we often dissented from his views we never thouzht it necessary to couple the pub- lication of his letters with an expression of our ‘dissent. If the letter, lately published, which has given such horror to the Bulletin, had been written by an unknown hand, we should have seriously hesitated about publishing it; but every body knows Mr. Cooper, at Sailor's Hope, and ready to make every allowance for him. If his namesake of the Bulletin really wants to get a little yi zorous exercise for his loyal wrath, let him turn his attention to two or three papers, that need not be named, in this City, throuch whose columns their editors are, from week to week, infusing the poison of annexation in the shape of gleanings from other journals. Scnpay Macazixe.—We have received from the Publishing House of Messrs. Strahan & Ce., of Montréal, an elezantly bound volume of large octavo, being a copy of the Rey. Dr. Guthrie's Sunday Magazine for 1865, and since then a copy of the Monthly No. of the same work. So far as a limited perusal of these works enables us to judze, their pages seem to he filled with very choice reading 5s? admirably suited for the family circle; and, as one great merit of the works, they appear to be fiee from that canting bigotry and intolerance which so often disfigares religious publications. Tue Nortn Britisn Review, for October, has just come to hand. Tt contains the follow. ing articles:—Cathedrals of Enzland, the Mariner’s Compass; the Resources, Condition and Prospects of Italy; the Poetry of Praed and Lord Houghton; Blind People; Field Sports of the Ancient Greeks and Romans; the Gallican Church; the Rassians in Central Asia. We refer our readers to the advertisement in another column for the terms on which the North British, and the other Eagtish Reviews lare furnished by the enterprising publishers, | Leonard Scott & Co. A Great Mistake. —In the letter of the Hon. Mr. Warbuiton, published in the Exant- xex of the tath wit., on the cultivation of Flax, the honorable gentleman was made to say, when speaking about seeking for information on the subject :——-“ T consequently wrote to my father-in-law, who has one of the largest ma- nufuctories in Ireland, at Roserea,” &e. In- stead of father-in-law, it should be brother-ia- law. ‘had a wife iu Ireland at one time or other, and that soft impeachment he very properly aud The mistake would imply that our friend positively denies. Tue Mats.s.—The route for the Winter Mails appears to be now in good travelling condition, and the Couriers pass backward and forward with their accustomed regularity. No less than three Mails were received during the past week, furnishing us with immense fyles of papers, from which we have made many selec- tions that will be read with interest. —_—_—_—ooOoO D> (Te following Verses have been palmed of upon ve as the production of gur News-Boy, but we are extremely secptical as to the genuine authorship. Onur clever Runner—the 7s clever, and probably aspires to wear the ‘scallop shell and sandal shoon ’’ as laureate for this Island at some distant day)-— has, we faney, (judging from the great merits of this performance), been in collusion with some ofher Poct beyoud the precincts of the Printing Office; and we might be inclined to think that he has hada “lift” from the prolific pen of the “Island Pard,”’ only we know how prudently that great writer treasures the productions of his genius for the purposes of traffic. The “ Bard” has just now favoured the publie with some of his usually exquisite versification. The. ‘-News-Boy”’ seems to be desirous of competing for the praise if not for the pence which reward a literary performance suitable to the season; and let the public judge who is the betier ‘* Poick’’ of the two—he or the “ Island Bard.’'} RHYMES FOR Rw _ a BY THE YEAR. NEWS-BOY. There wae a time, since the days of Queen Bess, In which the News Boy us'd Lis Parroxs address, At the etid of each year, with a bird’s eye view Of what bad been wonderful, funny or new ; But. hike many good things in ev'ry nation, Such mode of addressing is near out of fashion. This season, se rife with its startling news, Has induced your Boy to invoke the muse, And bring to your vetice a portion at least Of what some may term “an jutellectual feast!” But where to begin, your Boy scarcely knows, Sinee Unele Sam's sons have tied up their blows, And sent down to vur Island to purchase Pork, Geese, With other things needful for a “ hotch poteh” peace "Mong themeelves; while they itch to the eyes To have a slap at John Bull, and take asa prize A big sliee of that old gentleman’ Canada cake! But they'd feel © rayther siteaked " should they meet a mistake, Or, ** what ud be wuss "—as the Yorkshire boy snid— “Tf nid weaak upsum morner and find urselves dead!” With Canada’s name comes to mind Federation, And the ins atid the onts of the great Delegation Sent dewu te our Island, in secret, you Kaew, To hold, what soye Indians would call, “a pow wow e And then our Delegates. like old fashioned mugs, Weut te sit in palaver with Quebec's “ big bugs ;” Bat when ours came home, they open’d our eyes By telling each other that each had told hes! However, one thing is fact—Federation’s untried, And we muestilive this winter “in the cold outside.” Well, if we've had pretry plentiful crops, Witha sprinkling of money, Why Clese are vraps ‘Which may keep us, as they have dove many a a. With our heads above water, then why need we eare !é : “The world owes us a living,” and that we wil get, If we don’t through the cold, we shall threagh the sweat! Englend’s and our dear Queen these two years, "Mong her subjects moves more thab sue did, it appears, A pronf old King Time possesses the art To mollify wounds in a Sovereign's heart. “Tis not with the rie. the noble, the gay That Her Majesty usually spends the day,” But?uod the poor, the sick, rarth’s sorrowing ones May be heerd ber. Queeily, yet Christiau-like tones ; ‘ Theit bedily wants she at first supplies, “Phen their mruds strives to draw trem all éarthly ties : To the Saviour who died, their sunts to obtain, And keep them for ever from sorrow and pain! Long may she live, the King ef Kings to own, Aud gather souls into bis fold to star her hea- venly crown | On the poor, the rich, the unlearr’d and the wise Death calls in his rewnds, and closes their eyes Poe things of this world; henee it has to be anid That wonderiul man -- England's Premier — is dead ; And wen in all nations, rennd the political warld, Regret that his Lordship out of Uime should be | burl'’d. Rut who is there here, as a prophet, dare say nena eee — nal bone of content = E Winietnted thet mage who escaped four ticneae prison, Dublg’ “The Rent “ = to thrive, Under which Tevants die — on which Landlords | has arrived in Paris. Byrne, the wutebgp “dives who is supposed to have aided Stephens, wag ¢ Yankee has offer'd a large sun, they *9Y,) Saturday committed f. ial. For the horses’ bones he may dig out of Washing- Panes fer Cae ton clay. Great pity it is he don’t “vamnonse” down here, And get our bLone—'twould last him many @ year. Passengers by the Cuba state that afew minutes Our ehurehes in gen’ral are in a calin state, Not urach te depress sor the epirits elate ; The Free Chureh Goliath and David the Laird Sling stones now and then, but the lion dyn't beard ; Round inthe mighty brick church, twould appear, Alteration’s beet: nade, with a theatrical flare, Making the singing vow sound as if from a tense, While two or three singers bieat like sheep thro’ a funnel, With an occasional dash, or half Indian whoop, Like a patient let ont who was nureing the ereup: They may think it sounds nice for men stuck ap there To torture their voiees above natore’s sphere ; But if they sat belew, and sach discordant notes heard, Thev'd quickly condemn and call such music absurd, Then why shonld they foree on fine ears any noise They'd be first to chastite if “twere made by their boys? gians, uncle of the Queen, had breathed hig dangerous character of his illness. British nation, of many thousand years. The following announcement from the Obser- ver may be regarded as semi-official :-—« Jz jg the representation will be a simple measure enfranchisement, and a correction of the sean. dal of inequality in the number of voters, pared with the increasing population, Gai and intelligence of the country. Earl Russell declares that his Government will take care to he fortified by facts as well as arguments for the pre change. quiries have been going on through the Onr “ God-fearing Government, with its so- lemn face, Some may think in this rhyming should have a place ; ' Bnt its acts so deceptive, tvrannical, mean, Wold make Hottentots binsh, if nong them they were seen. So we'll just let it pass, its ‘only taking its turn,” And when its defanet, few about it will mourn. voters, and the number that may be added in the inhabitant householders, although it will be also possible and expedient to add those who and rental, although not in the sole of an inhabited house. We believe it will be found that those paying a certain amount of taxes—one of the qualifications Onur schools wernt designed to educate hogs Rut the system is yoing qnite fast ** to the dogs ;” The funds which should have been for the poor teacher's pay, On the Prince of Wales College are quite thrown away: And Arbnckle’s duties are left or half done. the number of those who are alveady rated, or While he “poekets the siller’’ and langhsat the fan! : qualifications. There will be no fancy fren Just so are onr City fawds fritter'd away Keeping a Mayor, Recorder, and stat on fall pay, While no publie work, in return, meets the view, Save digving aoe ont ni a or st P er Which lays on the streets, ull the first winds arise. . eT 3 When it enters your honses, your clothes, and WEST INDIES. your eves; diatininas The chief crossings on the muddy streets that are piehins Pe made, P r. 4 Are where the Clerk, Recorderorthe Mayor parade ;| Dates from this place are to the 234 ultima, Other persons in mud to their etbows may go, There had been heavy rains, which retarded As there's no reyval track for them, you know. the manufacture of sugar. There tote Oar public wells ave the City’s disgrace, 17 enans of vale levee atlitad ai thee And ev'ry Councitler shonld benehanid in his place | *! a} To rise, and show he’s less sense than brass, pital ning November, but only one death had oecur e Instead of getting pure water, to vote for street gas, 2 ; Or useless tinks; yet there's some mad enongh here The markets were liberallr supplied with of acquirement and of ascertainment. Deata or tue Kixe or te Petetays last. The news in the papers merely stated the . . The 7 cas 4 ed has been in receipt of a pension from the _ annum, for a period extending over nearly 2 now ascertained that the proposed reform of law authorities as to the present number of 5 the new bill. The addition will mainly soni . are equally eligible from sufficient residenge — will be, in nine cases out of ten, included io who will be admitted under the new residential chise, but all will he straight-forward, and esey To say — earth never own'd such a Corporation or Mayor! Of the imnshroom species sprang that Govern- ment plagne, Which its friends have styled the “Tenant League,’ Whose roturies, nsiny the force of the brute, Gain'd the anenvied stand of disrepute ; And what's of wore worth. to each sordid elf, Their poekets were ens'd of enrplins pelf ; And mere than this, they ll huve to fork ont When the cost of Invving the soldiers abent Iscall’d for. and all their: tin’ from them’s seoop'd They’ devin to believe they've really been dup d! And so with the Fenians, that hot-headed race Will continve nneasy till they meet with disgrace, And “trail round their eoat tails,’ till they get their heads broke ‘With a sprigo’shillale” from Johomy Bull's oak! When they'll find to their sorrow, howe'e: fond thev’re of joke, That a blow from ‘tonld England” would be worse than sun stroke! Will Unele Sam's boys then help them ont of “the suds?” No, they'd rather strip them of their cash and their dnds ! “ Well. each to their liking,” as aant said witha how, When she'd hugg'd and kiss'd her old brindled cow The lawless pranks of “the Leagne™ just relax, When up springsa project for beets hempand flax ; With a prospect, some day, that our city will shine With rope-wulks, bleaching linen, and all kinds of twine, Fit to hang any Government, Leagne or Corporation Whick might be charg’d with disloyalty or de- fuleation.. Consterration ene day rose far ‘np in alt,” When the papers bronght out the Jamaien revolt, Aud people to’this day cannct see the rights The blacks had to rise and knock down the whites; Nor did the darkies e’er dream ‘twould round the world he evied As the bluckest black deed these blacks ever dyed! Some vouths, whose monotonons Jives make them bine. Are subscribing. and have a Gymnasinm in view ; If their time and their money ure to them a great Lore, Let them bnv and saw wood for the sick, Jame and poor! Thie will exerciee xive, and their charity cherian, And they'll gain the blessing of those “who were ready to perish.’ Yon'vea telegraph Hneand Express Office intown. Bat why should’ut you have an Express of your own? And such vou may have juite early next Spring, If the teams and owners t6 life that long cling. Tom Wilson, Mick Hickey and John Valley, yon ' know. With their splendid berets, form a donble trio : Why shonld'st these juin — (now your langhter snppress) — And start in fall ery “a Lightning Express?” Then clear the track, boys. to the Thander Depot For this royal streak ine — Wilson, Hickey, Vulley & Co.! There’s many more subjects might here find a sluee, Rut yvour Boy fears he’s already trespuss’d on space, If not on vonr patience ; and therefore he now Wishes each a Harry New Year, wud aukes bis Lest bow. _ -- LATE ENGLISH NEWS. THE CATTLE DISEASE. We vei y much regret to suy that the ‘as - raming but recoming | more maliznant as it spreads. Its ravages are extending everywhere, and the accounts from Buckin shamshive, Essex, Gloucestershire, York- shire, Cumberland, Lancashire, Norfolk, Ely, Oxfordshire, Staffordshire, and Suffolk, are most deplorable. All attempts at cure seem to have been abandoned as waste of time and money. Slaughtering seems the only means relied won for stemming the torrent of infec- tion, while the attacks and the mortality have increased tenfold within the Jast five weeks. In the week ending the 18th of November, the re- ported attacks were 2,669, and in the follow- ing week they rose to near 4,000 or near a third of all the attacks in the first four mouths of the plague. The Foreizn Office has sent to the papers letters from the Consul General at Odessa on the cattle plague of the Steppes of Kherson which exists permanently in that district, and is cured by suporifics. Inu the return of the cat- tle disease issued for the week ending Dee. 2, the increase of cases compared with previous weeks is 298; the increase in preceeding week was above 100. Scotland and Yorkshire shows the greatest ravages. Many counties present decrease. Since the outbreak, 39,006 cases ; 19,900 died, 10,700 killed, THE MEETING OF PARLIAMENT. At the Counci) held at Windsor on Tuesday it was resolved that Parliament should meet) on Thursday, the Ist of February, for the des-| patch of business. We are informed that Her Majesty, instead of using the state coach, will occupy what is called a ‘‘dress carriage.”” The robes of State, instead of being actually. worn by Her Majesty, will be laid upon the throne. The speech itself. instead of hein read by Her Majesty, will be read hy the Lord Chancellor. JUSTICE POR. JAMAICA. It is due to Governor Eyre, no less than to publie opinion in this country, that a full and searchin enyuiry should be made into the his- tory of the Jamaica rebellion, and we Jearn with the utmost satisfaction that such an inquiry is to be institoted forthwith. The announce- ment of this intention by the Government - | mails, and 738.000 in treasure. provisions. The demand for sugar for the American market was great. heen established for the purpose of growing the rice in the colony, and a tract of land near elizible for that purpose. BOMBARDMENT OF THE TOWN OF CAPE RAYTjEY. In the recent bombardment, the Galates and Lily took up positions attacking the defences on the land side so that the town might not be injured by the fire. General Salwane and the leaders of the revolution, finding their cause hopeless, embarked on hoard the United States steamer De Soto, which vessel conveyed them away toa place of safety — su peed Mou Christi. Before ad they a fire to ed town in several places, t inci ion of which was mae Preidect 3 Jeera took possession of the town, and published an Am- nesty to the rebels, with few exceptions. The common soldiers were disarmed and sent to their homes, but the oflicers were danished from the Island. One of the leading Genevals in Salwane’s army, Paul Isidore, was taken a few days after the occupation of the town, court-nartialed, and executed. The man had heen previously sentenced to death for attempt. ing to murder the Minister of Finance, but he eseaned and joined the rebel party. It is now positively known that the Havtien refugees taken out of the British Consulate were exe- cuted during the bombardment of the town by H. M.S. Bulldog. Salwane had an army of Amazons, armed with pikes, in his service. During the bombardment they were employed in conveying bags of sand to the fort. MARTINIQUE — DISTURBANCE AMONG THE SOLDIERS. On Friday, the 29th Oct., in the morning, the transport Allier arrived at Fort de Franee, under command of Capt. Barron. She was from Brest, having called at Alviers and Ma- deira, leaving the last on the 12th October. There was 1039 men of 2d and 3d regiments of Zouaves on board for Mexico, with five offi. cers. These men, on bem landed, were placéd m Fort Desaix, where they were to remain during the time the transport continued in port, with permission to go into the town in ecom- panies of 25 to 30 men. The same day, in the afternoon, the mixed transpot Var from Mexico, with about 660 men of various regi- ments going home to France, having served their time, also arrived at Fori de Fiance. and the men were put in barracks at Fort Desaix. On the next day, in the morning, the Zouaves began to show signs of insubordination, de- manding leave to go into the town altoyether, and complaining of the high price of the wine and charyes in the canteens of the Fort. Later in the day the dissatisfaction rose to a mutiny. The men threw themselves upon the jruard, consisting of a company of the Ist regiment of marine infantry, disarmed the few men taken unawares, and threw them outside of the railing them, thus ge , ‘ 1 - guard fell back upon the draw bridge, where they held their ground without their perms, until joined by others. An eye-witness of whe followed, savs—* The affair seems to have heen oceasioned by the refusal to allow more than 25 men te go into the town at the same time. Added to this was some complaint about their pay. The company of marine jnfantry en guard having refused to allow them to pass, the latter made a sudden rush upon them, knocked them down, and forced them outside of the fort, seizing abeut 20 carbines. The Zouaves then attempted to get out, but the company rallied outside with the captain at the head, charged them with the bayonet, and stretched out a dozen on the square, which gave time for others to come up to their as- sistance. Had they used grape, they would have gone back into the fort in the twivkling of an eye. But they abstained from such a butchery. Between 4 and 6 o'clock in the af ternoon the musketry firing continued, the re- sult of which was three killed and ten wounded of the marine infantry, of the artillery one killed and one wounded, and of the Zouaves 17 killed and 40 wounded. The seamen of the vessels of war, although drawn up iu a line alongside of the infantry, were not hurt, having none killed or wounded, it being observed the Zouaves would not fire upon them. At 6 0’clock the firing ceased, and on both sides the men lay down on the ground, but the treops already had recovered the drawbridge. The Zovaves, who were very drunk, towards midnight fell into a heavy sleen, seeing which the troops nuder the command of M. Regad of the staff erent over to them on tiptoe, as if performing on the stave, and in a moment seized the re- doubt, and surrounded the Zouaves, whilst the seamen, throwing themselves imto the passage from one court to another, cut them mto two.!’ FROM SOUTH AMERICA. THE WAR IN CHILI AND BOLIVIA —- ANOTHER REVOLUTION—CENTRAL AMERICA, New York, Dec, 13. —The steamer Balfir, | from Aspinwall, has arrived with the California The news is ! not important, "here was no change in war mafters in Chili, A company had Chinese Settlement had been spoken of ag of the entrance, and shut the gates against should co far to allay excitement on this sub- ject. Now that all the eireumstances upon which so many hypothetical verdicts have heen passed ave about to be investi zated impartially for the first time, we may hope that our na- tional habit of not prejud zing a case will resume its sway once more. It cannot be too often re- peated that we are not yet in possession of suf- ficrent information to justify us either in acquit- ting or in condemning the civil aud military au- tho ities of the Colony. The sister of Governor Eyre complains of mean and cowardly persons who send her anony- mons letters, and even telesrams, denouncing her brother. THE FENIANS, The vial of O'Leary had tken place before Judze Fitz era d. It oecupied three days, and resulted in the finding of the prisoner gui!ty on all the counts in the indictment. He received the same sentence as Luby—-twenty vears penal servitnde. Luby is a Unitarian, and son of the Rev. Dr. Luby. Moore, the principal manufac- turer of pikes. was found guilty on Thursday, noteor comment,” the letter which lately ap-| Yedr News ley shall not be a Premier some day 7, and scutenced to ten years penal servitude, and the blockade continued. The Spanish | fleet was supplied with provisions by a trans- ‘port. The United States steamer Woterce iwas at Valparaiso. | In Bolivia the fighting continued with more favorable «for the’revalutionists. The latter had taken Cohya, killing the command. er. The President was occupying Potosi with 1500 men. . Pern was at peace. The new Government ; was heing rapidly orzenized. Causeco has j Suis" ended the ministers and consn)s of Peru in | Enrope and the United States. All the officials _at home would he susnended and tried for poli- | tical crimes unless they have, by their acts, rome themselves in favor of the Revolution- ary party. A demand has been made on the British Minister for President Pezat and some _members of his Cabinet who had taken refuze _on board a British ship, on the ground that they were guilty of treason, and criminals. The Mitish Minister's renly was only that the , vessel had sailed. The Spanish Minister was | living on board a Spanish frigate, owing to the discovery of a conspiracy amongst some Chi- | tians to assagsinate him, before the steamer !of Queenstown, the a graph brought the news that the King of the - hs gilt Marchi 2 - es