os ee | . | A sg. a o saiap room ae ames ee Re Uy ge cn. sit WE — eT ——— -_—. — ae — impolitic eystem i¢npproved by a pe plo who “wharl, alsy for the The lesser German Princes have passed have not shown themeolves, ao far,nddieted to | some deals. from an aceegs of cholé® into one gf fearsund wanton crucity. We have, however, no he- not without enue. Last summer they were sitation in. stamping it as disgraceful to the| whieh nover coused ruuning backwards and lords of the aseendant. Avecrin was at their arms, and calculated to bring ill-will upon | forwards, barking the whule time. He fol- feet, defending their rights, asking for their, the emuse of the North, among the North's | lowed the apparently anxious animal to the wpport, and offer.ng to sucrifice its supre-| most abiding friends. The wanton destruc. | bole in the wharf, and discovered Mr. Foisy “Hid attention wee at once at traeted by the singular conduct of the dog, vacy to the omu:potonce of the Bund Qn the) tion of merchandize and shipping by the! lyimg at the bottom. A ladder and some | trength, perhaps, of this, the mujurity of the, Alabames of the South, while caralully avoid. ropes were procured, and with the aid of German Diet, consisting of {ose same minor ing condict with Northeru gua-boats, has w some others attracted by his eries, he suc- rivees, raised the Duke of Augustenbarg | chilling effect upon Rurcpenn minds disposed ceeded in rescuing him from the dangerous lt fe strange, too, that this atrocious and This won, it appears, bad come to the An inquest purpose of inspecting London, & ——————— ——_————— a. et wus held recently on a miser in nd on searching hia room leaser, deeds, policies of insurance, movey, watches and other property. to the value of ‘betiveea £6000 and £7000 were fuund lying about and concealed. Awong other articles, seventeen conte. the same number of waistcoats, and seventeen pairs ui bouts, ail nearly new, were fouud in tue place. A Seventy thousana women find ocecpation | in weaving the famous shawls of Uns:mere. ———+ <0 A powder magazine has exploded in Muroc- »spow ther shields, and nut valy proclaumed, to admire the heroic stuutness with which situativo im which he had been for above an out prepared to make him Duke of Uolstein | the South still combats against odds. Sowill bour and @ bulf. And it was high time. Prussia aod Austria @tp in, setting aside these stories of pitiless and brucal devagta- The uufurtunate man, worn out by bis fruit. with igsominy those whom they #o lately tion strike foreigoers as indicative of savage less effurts to get out, and almost benumbed | fattered And Germany, which some months | instincts, as they are clearly ugainst the re- by the icy water, was perfec.ly insensible. ago presumed to be one, shows itevlfeplit in- cognised customs of civilieed warture. It He was conveyed to the nearest Louse, and 9 . | will be held, and rightly, that thedestruction thanks to kind attention, was soon revived, There is one Power, and that is Great: of rail rouds, and of pubic stores and prov - and ina condition tw rcturu home.— Quebec Britain, which, if it hasheld ite hands amides sicns, is wn entirely dift-rent matter from the Mercury, March 3. ali the agitation, bus at least not beld its| indiscrimate application of the twurch. Liocs| en tongue. {thas been must lavish of advice, ovt the fiendiah glee, with whivh thesedevas-| A Loyan Appress reom AUSTRALIAN and even not wg of threats. Lt hus tating processes ure described, fully bear out © Buack Fxitows.”—Sir Dominick Daly warned and warved the (German Powers, our oft made assertion, that war is not and the Governor of South Australia, recently Daxony eepeciaily, that their sole existence; never can be a moral purifier? There is paid a visit to Port Elliot, depends pon treaties aad trealy gucrantess, something hamiliating in the avowal that, he was informed that the aborigines were wad thut si these be dune sway with, they | with huodreds of thousands of brave men in| desirous of presenting bun with au Address are at the Mercy of the first big bally who| arms, a nation should be culled upon to ad-! bis Excellency at once acceded to their re- way choore to invade them Up to the pre-/ mire flouring mills laid in ashes and happy | quesc, end about 40 able-bodied natives drew sent time they have maintained their inviol- homes made desolate. Neither should it > up in line four oe making by signal a sbility, chiefly upon the noced rivalry exist-) forgotten tat, while the seeds of eterval ba-| profound salaam, and saying with one voice, m4 between Aastria and Prussia. Batshould | tred are thus deliberately sown, the narrators ** Good morning, Governor.”’ The Addrees these Powers show themselves united, as they | of these exploits contradict all their previous | was then read by Mr. H. C. Searle. The wave dupe for the spuliatioo of Slesvig, whut| assertions that the South was universally Governor, in his reply, expressed the great chance is there for resisting them. Saxony | starving. co, causing uo vss of life estimated at YU0 persous. —- — 0a ; There was a bloody duel ovar Paris a few | weeks ago, between & Neapolitan and # French- mau—oue an actor, the other a critie. The weapons ‘were aimall swords, and both were mortally wounded. i Tus Fextan Burotasraoop — The Ven. p Pi _P. P. of Cashe!, warned | | his fed ; - Suntes lust naples two emissat | Government in regard*to the Land Question. We | ane ara: gon —< mentioned, joined them or not. Mr. Howat bas the settlement of the Land Question,—if they not, we believe, made any attempt to conceal bis | wayt the leasehold tenure to cuntinue in all its disappointment and dissatisfaction, sv far as out- _ubnoxious aspects, or if they are content to secure door conversation would indicate bis feelings, at their freedom by giving 16 years’ purchase and | the conduct of the Govermuent in reference t¢ | the back reuts, they will continue to support the |the Land Question; but ruinour sayeth that there | preseut Government, and ran with breathless were weighty reasous why he should not be al- | puste at the nextelection tu vote fur the members lowed to kick in barness with the game freedum who thus civet their chains. We bave no pity for as his atubbora companion, Mc. Laird did, and the. May theleasehuld tenure grind such slaves the lash we understand, was applied to bim some- | jnto nuthingueas forever. If, on the other band, what auapariogly. Although the other refractory ‘they are animated by a courageous spirit, they teanster kicked himeelf clear of the traces for 9 will offer, in the exercise of their constitetional day or two, his numervus adivirers will be glad | right, their terme to tie proprietors—they will ‘learn that, by ineans of a little coaxing, he has) manifest no cringing or servility—and, above all | come to bis oats again in the Government stalls. | (hings, let them take care that their terms shall | By the Debate on the Address we have ob- | je enforced throngh a House of Assembly that will ‘tained a clear view aa to the intentions of the | respect their wishes. --—«@4>0-o— _-———_——_ en ot the Fenian Brotherhood. He suid | stated all along, that much as they pretended to; THE DUKE'S vs. THE DELEGATES’ oue of the fellows was from the neighbour- and while there | )Jo4 of New Inn, and bud lately escaped from the bands of the law, the other from | Kilfeacle. In most forcible and eloquen t | them would meet with favour at the hands of our |terms he pointed out the wretched conse- | Government. | be dissatisfied with Sir Samuel Cunard and his PRUPOSALS. brother Proprietors, still the proposals made by | Gon of the Government ‘supporters in the Assembly and in the Islander and Protestant have The members and supporters of | accused us of inconsistency in giving countenance | we believe the Opposition did not care ube straw : the people of thia Island, the majority of whom ! insolent. Terms that would have beta al ‘whether the gentlemen whose uamca we bave gre tenanta, have practically in their own hands | secepted two years ago would now be rejected with disdain, And new, when, through the dig. honesty and incumpetency of the present Guvern. ment, al? parties are relatively in a worse position than ever to effect an amicable and fair adjustwent of their differences, they bave the assurance, in the Speech of the Queen's sentative, to direct the Legislature of the to effect such a settlement of the Land Ques tion as will atweliorate the condition of the tenantry, receive tho sanction of the Imperial Government, and meet with the concurrence of the Proprietors. Who are to do this, we ask? lathe party who now holds the reine of Goy ‘either able or willing to do it? Messrs. Gray, | Pope, Palmer, & Co., would, we have no doubt, ‘very cheerfully make great exertions to effect such a settlement of the Land Question as would receive the sanction of the I:mperia! Government and the concurrence of the Proprietors, but that they will honestly endeavour to ameliorate the | condition uf the tenantry, it is folly to exp, | What has been the result of their tabard i ameliorate the coudition of the tenantry ? been to place the tenantry in a worse Itheg pleasure be felt in seeing suv good @ master | ‘quences which would ensue if these parties | the Government in {he Assembly have said, in the ‘were able to suceced in their effurts.—Cerk | iyte debate, that it will be “ a great boon "—(how Southern Reporter, Feb. 17. | shamefully honest words are misapplied !)—il the tenantry are allowed to purchase their farms at ~ BORRESPONDENCE. (15 and 16 years’ rent, which would bring the ' price of land to more than twenty shiilmys an has subsisted by Austrian lavour against the | i-disguised enmity of Prussia. But if Austria gave up Saxony to Prossia, in return | for Sta The tailure of General Kilpatrick's dering but unprofitable attempt tw carry Kiehmond | at a gallop, was chronicled las: week; as Prossia’s abandvnmer’ of the smaller! was also the dissappearance of three of bis’ to Austria, where is there any safety ? Colonels. It has come to light that one of nd, it ig true, guaranteed Magdeburg | these, Colonel Dahigren—a son of the Admi- Cologne to Prossa. Zorth of « guarantee? Wurzburg to consider their position. And) the mere of this meeting apart from, and in entagopiem to, Austria wud Prussia, is im- portant. They talked of raising more troops, nod of sending them to Holstein. But Bie. | » ark has, it seem~, threatened Saxony witha. Prussian army should it dv any such thing. | tlere ie a disruption. Io what it may end, or how seriously and how far an independent stating that his intention was to fire that) big one gad see you set duwn here little bit.| which the teermany may rise against an Avstro-Prus- But woat is the ral and a much more enterprising officer than | | his sire—was shot down in an ambus-*ade The mivor German Sovereigns have met at ) while trying to * cut his way through,’’ al- lof their tribe, and his greater gratification | ~~~" | ee 'on being assured that og were industiious TENANT MEETING AT TEN jah @ fe Hines :"and the : g » | . to very little less than tweaty shillings; io thar babits, many of them capable of | HOUSE. ’ inee 1858 being compulsory making and carrying vut contracts fur reap-| A meeting of the tenantry of Lots 35, 36 payment of arrears ante syst ‘ing com! 3 ing with satisiactiva and good faith, and and 37, was held at the Ten Mile House, St | before the 15 and 16 years’ price will be taken, promised them that their interes's should at) Peter's Road, on Monday the 21st inst., for) need we ask how many tenants in the Island will all times receive bis best attention, and that) pp, purpose of taking into consideration the | give the least consideration to’such terms?) We tieir good wishes to the Queen of bingland | lung-ayitated and much vexed Land Ques-| suould be forwarded in proper course. The | rion, as will as the dissatisfied and oppressed | MILE acre in very many Cases, 10 the majority of cases believe that not one ina hundred of the wealthiest | to the despatch of the Duke of Newcastle of the jones, wn ateOhedl a Uth July last, touching the land tenures, and | forming & judg tee the matter, <beli ' thas jhave quoted some remarks made by us Tas | is condition has been in the least bettered by the |suunacr condenmatory ef that document. The) labaues of the Gorerument? What but ia | position we have taken and bold in reference to! Vs neud that a settl ude e o | this matter is easily explained. When the Duke's | wien lonows diffcult of attain denancll ‘despatch appeared last summer, it was impossible | Whether thie result is the effect of accident or | for us to look favourably upon * because the first lesign, it shows clearly that our tp ' | proposal it contained was the 16 years purchase. tary Government are totally i tent to deal | The Government party themselves declared that) i+) the Land Question. If the failure is the ‘to be an extravagantly high figure, and they effect of conspitacy and calculation, as there ia jassured us that the Delegation would procure every mn to believe it to be, theldupticity of the Government has been euch as would make it We thought the Delegation ar ter the failure of the expedition was assured. | natives gave three lusty cheers in such gvod Strangely enough, the same New York jour | time as to call forih an expression from his nala, that boast how this Colonel had marked | Excellency, that, at any rate, they could do bis path with death and desolation, whine | that as well as any white fellow. The Ad- out remorcstrances about *uidnight assasvi- | dress was as follows :—** God save Queen nation.’ But this point is a comparative | along England.—To his Excellency Sir Domi- trifle. Richmond jouroals say that on young | nick Daly, Governor of South Australia, all Dahigreo’s person were found papers, plainly | same Queen. We, Port Eliot black fellows, erty and put the Con‘ederate Cabinet to the | You very good man came Por: Eliot. We | state of the tenantry of said re j the Island generally. The meeting and | thants would agree to them. aving | tenant population of the Island, Mr. W. H. Pope As for the whule been duly organiaed by the calling of Angus) says that 40 per cent. of them, or nearly one half, /MeAulay, Esq.. to the Chair, and the ap-| | Secretary, the meeting was first addressed by | Mr. John Mooney, who explained to bis fel- pontuent of Mr. Joho O. Kelly to act as) | are scarcely able to feed and clothe themselves, without paying any rent at all; and yet he advo- cates a principle which imposes on them the per- i jlow tenants the nature of the oppressions | formance of an impossibility, the only alteruative ‘continue to suffer from the persecutions of run one, depends upon tie conduct of the sword. Now we must retuse to believe this| should like give you something, we very) Landiords and tyrannizing Agents, were they Princes. Had these the beart to fling them- | assertion, although the dvcument is given at| poor, we no got wa!laby, no kangaroo, only | themselves aot to withiuld the further li- selves on the lar party, to encourage it, | to protect it, on lend ie. Che armies of hen tria and Prussia would scarcely suffice tu ex- tinguish the conflagration. There is no doubt that France would take the advantage of it. And thas a civil war would arise and be cur- ried ow throughout Germany between the pepper and the militery parties. Even | whether the obnoxious phrases ut rance circumatance, Italy certainly would. Haun. | gery aud Poland would sesreely de quiescent when the armies and populations were en- gaged in strife upon a neighbouring suil. To see une’s way thruagh ali this, or to desery thevwnd of it, would sarpass every power of whiels ® political writer might length ; but cur belief in the authenticity is) piceaninny wood fur fire now, white fellow immaterial. ‘The main point is that its pub- cut all up; but we very good black follows, leation at the Southern capital has caused | we no steal, no kill white fellows like north, great indignation, avd given rise te a ery of We no know them. We wish you live and retribution upon the Union prisoners who) no crack him back big longtime. We wish were captured when Col. Dahigren waskilled | you ask whitelellows in big wurley along Vhether the story be all trumped up, or) Adelaide, let us have tomahawks and shirts. interpo-| We be very glad. We wish you send big did not take udvantage of such «| lated, we cannot decide; at least it is pain- jone letter along England ask Queen send ful to contemplate the possibility that such a | tobaceo and tuck out. ‘Tell Queen we very murdervus pryject could have been conceived | good black fellows. You very good map, 10 culd blood by one of the instruments em- Governor, we wish you well, no wore, now ployed tu execute it, or that the ducuments good by. Our pames—Povle, Tankey, Marry, in question could have been walignantly in- Brady, Luley, Billy, Tommy, Frank, Bred, vented fur the parpese of iuthiming the | Morley, George. Jack, Frauew, Old Wil- public mind.—N. York A‘bion, Mar. 12. liam, and King Joho. pretend to or indulge in. A Conference is w be beld in London for the settlewent of the affsires of Denmark. | What it may do with respect tu Denmark, | we shall not bere discuss. But the effect of | that Confercuce u iTuany is surely to be looked to. The German Diet is to be) asked to send a plen:potentiary. Will it do’ eo? And if it does, ve diplomacy to behold for the first time a representative ut inde pen- dent G-rmany, sitting, speaking, and voting | im strong opposition t) the German Powers ?| This representative of the Diet, should he, come, stands a great chance of being isulated. Mie will be like Prince Tallevrand at the Congrese of Vienna, withuut a friend ut. _—— ttl i ——-— —_-_—_-_-_—> @---———— WHY SHOULD ENGLAND GO TO WAR?! Tax Barsarisy or rux War —That the We way be permitted to ask what) Country is fust running into a& state ot bar- interest has the people of England in these |#Tism we have every day evidence in the disputes, which Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli | work of retaliation as practised hy the dif- are so anxious to thrust in upon them ?| ferent commanders. The lutest case has What difference will it practicaliy make tw | occurred in North Carolina. The rebel Ge- us whichever way the contest 1s decided? 9¢Pa! Pickett bangs a negro for shooting a Du ppose by something little short of a miracle rebel colonel. The Union General Peck Poland were restored to some portion of its #Warte confirmation of the report before he old wud turbulent independence : what sub. | proceeds to hang in retaliation a white rebel jeet of the Queen wouiG find himself any | PTisuner. The rebel general responds by de- richer? What policy would be nearer its | Caring that he shall hang every negro that accomplishment? What danger would be | 5¢ can catch shooting his officers or men, and averted? Has Poland in times past ex- | for every rebel Peck hangs Pickett will hang | quidation of rent and arrears of rent, until | the Proprietors would come to some satisfac- tory conclusion with the suffering tenantry | dressed by Messrs. Samuel Lane, Francis MeQuade, Johu Acorn, Juwes Millar, James | MeQuaid, and several others, who expressed their sentiments and views on the matter, and indicated such steps a3 would best secure their independence. Moved by Mr. Charles Stewart, and se- eonded by Mr. John Hughes— Resolved, as the vpinivu of this Meeting, that the tenantry generally throughout the Toland should be placed ou an equal footing with the oc- cupiers of lands ou the Worrell, Selkirk, Let 11, and Lot 54 estutes, and that the tenauts residing in this locality are willing to pay for the freehold of their farms the sawe prices as were charged tu the tenants on the estates above mentioned. Moved by Mr. Donald McLaughlan, se- conded by Mr. James Millar— Resolved, hat, as the opinion of this Meeting, contemplated in the lovegomg resvlution. Moved by Mr. Jonn Stewart, and seconded by Mr. James Millar— Resolved, That the tenantry Colony should repndiate, in the pai the propos#la submitted by M ,of this Colony. The meeting was also ag-_ there never will be conteutment in the Colony | : : PSS Ge until the principles of the Land Purchase Bill are | 08st with coutewpt the proposals of the Colonial | wore widely extended, so as te effeet the object | Minister. Que of the members for the City (Mr. | y bad long suffered, and wowld | of which is, that they must remain in their present condition, wherein they are only balfted and balf- clothed all their lives ! Qur readers are aware, from the lengthy votes of the debate given in this paper, that the propo- sals contained in the Duke ot Neweastle’s des- pateh of the Lith July, 1863, eecupied a prominent place in the speeches of the Opposition members, and particularly so in those delivered by Mr. Coles. Those proposals have been so fully set forth in the letters addressed to the Tenantry of the whole Island by the Leader of the Opposition, that it is not necessary now to particularize thean. Saffice it to say that, according to Mr. Pope's statement of the large umount of arrears due en the principal estales—namely, eight years —the tenants so indebted wonld, according to the Duke’s plan, be entitled to the privilege of pur- chasing their farms at eight years rental; and on the other eatates the average price would be from ten to twelve years. The Goverument party, who, it was evideut, Were wuxious to secure the | very highest price for the landlords, treated al- | Breeken,) said the despatch of the noble Duke was of nu wore value than a picee of worthless waste paper, The reason alleged by the majority for discarding the proposals of the Colouial Minis- | much better terms. | ould not possibly propose worse terms; but we The terms proposed by the De- legates are very much worse than those offered in ‘the Duke’s despatch. The Delegates and the | Duke alike propose the 16 years’ scheme; but the | Duke's proposal bas this advantage over the ether |—that the 16 years purchase should only be ex- | were mistaken. } { ‘acted from the tenant who is not in arrears. If |a tenant be in arrears four years, be shuuld be required to pay only 12 years; if in arrears for eight years, only exght years purchase should be demanded trom hin; because, as the Duke plainly shewed, the annual value of bis faru: was wourth only eight years purchase to the proprietor. Delegates made no such condition in favovr of the | tenant encumbered with debt. The lowest price i j ' due on the estates owned by Sir S. Cunard, Mr. | E. Cunard, and Mr. sulliven, amount te £44,000. Now, if the Duke's plan had been adopted, and ithe estates mentioned had been purchased under | jit, this enormous sum of £44,000 would be re- | mitted to the tenantry. If, on the other hand, the proposals of the Delegates were made law, | the £44,000 would be taken from the pockets of ithe tenantry in the shape of purchase money. | This conclusion is inevitable—that the Govern- ment Delegates made an offer to the Proprietors | by which the tenantry on three estates would be ‘required to pay for their freeholds £44,000 mere | than the Duke of Newcastle thought they should | be required to puy ! A great deal of nonsensical stuff has been The jhe should pay, accurding to their proposal, was 16 years. Could there be any doubt as te which proposal was the most favourable to the tenantry ? We are told by the Protestant that the arrears ter was, that they could not be made bindimg on | madness to trust them again. If the fadure is owing to causes that were not foreseen, and therefore not provided against, their want of people that whoever are capable of devising means toameliorate the condition of the tenantry, the present Govermment are vot. If it be said, in excuse, that the want of success that has hitherto attended the echemes of the Governmeut, is not owing to any want of desire on their part to benefit the tenantry, but to difficulties that lay in the way of a settlement, which no Government, howerer honest and patriotic, could have sar- nounted—we answer, that it argues either ag unpardonable amount of stupidity in them not te have foreseen these difficulties, or of recklessness im plunging inte a course of expensive kegie lation from which no practical good could pos- sibly result. Either on the score of incom- | petency or dishonesty, the present Government stand condemned as vne of the worst with which the Island was ever afflicted, aud as such we have no doubt it will hereafter be characterised in the annals of the country. That our conclusions are just, is tacitly adimit- ted by the editor of the Jslander hunself, when he bases his claims to the support of the tenantry, not on the sagacity of his party in devising measures for their welfare, or on their success im carrymg them out, but on his sectarian aeab> acd whew, iustead of answering the arguments ef his political opponents, be appeals te prejudices and feelings that have not the remotest beariig onthe question that new agitates the publie mind. ‘Phis trick of travelling out of the record is one which every dis- pettitegging lawyer has reoeurse to, ia sugacity and prudence is enough to convinee the . ‘ \ercised any sensible inflience for good or fur |" Yaukees. Pickett commenesd the ba-i- vert But France may come to the Ger- ——— oo | eval over the destinies of England? Is chere nese by hanging some twenty or thirty loyal man vepres wtative’e aid And the result! tie slightest reason to suppose she will do ey | North Carolinians, charged with desertion vf the London Coaterence may be what was| in times to come? We should have nothing ‘em the rebel ranks ; and now, we suppose, | that of the Vienna Con zress—those who tu show for our efforts in ber behalf but the te work of banging will be commenced in came together as friends anf allies, separated gratification of a vague and unpractieu! earnest by the two commanders. Lin old ba enemies i | sympathy) euch ac may be orented slant as; times the war ery was. ** Hang out your This; ~onneenene o—y All the better | well by the perusal of » well-written work | !#euers ,’’ but in these modern days, in this fue Denmark. When rogoes fall out honest | men come by theirown. Lut the power. the | republic perishing through those anarchical | 4P Your wen ;’’ and it seems that one section of fietrun us of the tragic history vi an ancient | horrible modern rebellion, the ery is, ‘* hang | iudependence, and the baisace ia Germany is | «f even wider political importance than the | state of Denmark, although worally there ean be ne question more iv portant than that raised by the German soldier-burglars of free | Jicense lor rapine sod impunity of wrong. | The Cenfereace in London two settle Danish | affairs may ;ossibly be followed by the usach | readed Congress in Paris to regulate the, affairs of Central Europe lt may happen, however, that the minor German Prinves will be cowed, and many of | their powertul neighbours may desert what} is consudered te be the popular cause. In) that case the Dies, instead of continuing in | opposition to Aystria and Prussia, would | succumb and bow duwn, as their accomplice | nud slave. In that case the insurreetion | wzeinst the two great military dyoust e:| would be deferred. Some even might deew | it adjourned altogether. But the national | party in Germany cannot thus be ex-| tunguished hy the leaders proving reereant. | On tLe contrary, the confirmation of the | liberal mind becomes stronger, and their ad- hesion tv it more universe! and more formid- able. Aod the elemencs of discontent and Opposition to the existing system uf Govern- ment, gathering strengt!: in Prussia and throughout all Germany, must infallibly produce sooner or later an outburst and a etraggle, whieh would be one of life and death to the princes ov the one hand and to the people and sheir cause on the other. This isa strogzle we should be glad to see avoided. And itcould be avoided if te Prussian Government were to strike onee more into the Constitutional path. Of this, however, there seems 6 little chance or possibility that we eannot look forward with hope to @ pueific solution of the manifold cu barrassments now tormenting Germany. The untoctanate Danivh question has brought matters there to an extremity, and the | combat between military sod popular aseen- dancy may even be'ore lung have to be fought out.-~Exvaminer, Feb 27. _- --——-e@me —---— THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH. The passing week has been devoid of im- portant movements among the hoatile furces, | arrayed agsinsteach other on aseore of points | Indeed, the only operation on a large scale that has been announced, since our last issue, is the bombardment of Fort Poweli at Grant's Pass, one of the entrances from New Urleans inte Mobile Bay. Acting Adwiral Parra am has, therefore, verified the prediction of bie acquaintances, who declared that he would pot remain long at tae mouth of the Missis- rippi, having an enemy within his reach. The attack i@ said to have been commenced on the 24th ult., by a futlla of gun-boats and mortar-beate, but without any decisive resulta. From Eastern Tennessec the accounts are still misty ; but the U.S. hero of Clatta:oo- | g4, General Girant, has beea on a visit Washington, where the President, in secor- dance with @ yute of Cony ress, has eunterred } | | he offer us in exchange for a war in which, | _ off diplowatie relations. jealous of the influenco of Prussia in the | Pritessional prejudice opposed him. He hus broken to | a singular accident, which oeeurred at Point | Exraess. passions which aid it at the feet of a country | 7! the country is likely tw grow as wnuch always the object of its abhorrence, and, | hemp as the other. This is a most sad and until the days of ite weakuess aud disruption, jshocking spectacie. Hundreds, ,erhaps of its contempt. theusands, of lives have been immolated upon Suppose we go to war with the United | this bloody altrr of retahation, and bo good States tur the sake of Mr. Laird.his Alatamas "#5 been gained for either side. Is there no and bw Rams, that he may be enabled, by “#Y 0! humanity to step in and stop these carrying oa private war trom an English | Useless. brutal and revolting buteheries ?— port, to amass a colossal fortune founded on | V- Y. ferald. the troubles and thed ficalti-s of bis country. ci allabdle | tid | : | Mé SERN CRUS NG. Who but himself will be the richer tor his} MODERN CRUSADING PRETENSION VANQUISHED. ' profits?) What honor, what advantage does | Men of intellect, who have the pretension to | detect. aud the inclination iw reform, the talse BYS- pursly a3 4 walter of business, he has almost jtemm trausuitted to us from a darker age, adapt involved us? Supposing he succeeds 0} dilferent methods of accomplishing the proving that ean Act of Parliament is so | tiropic tasks. Cervastes lauy ved Middl esaacars curelessly drawn that it fails to lit the very — the field of Spain : eee the great Bug case against which it vaght particatarly to | UM) sutécomstof medica! pedautry is overwhelwing 5 . g ; ; | aud dewolishing the old weru-out nea etlective bave been pointed, is that an exploit for | System of practice, by curing t. e multitudes it has which he 1s entitled to ask us to invulve our- abandoned as incurable, with his inestimable pre- selves in a conflict with a kindred natin, | paration. Of this extraordinary man it may be said, and add new horrors to @ war which is d-ev- | that if the honor of buving produced hin belongs to . | England, the benefits accruing from his discoveries lating the whule surisce of the Western | are the eummon property of the world. His Pills Continent ? jand Ointment have acquired an immense popularity Ur, lastly, take the case most earnestly with the whole Spanish race. The government of preseed aguinst us, the case of the invasion ot j old Spain, the presi anf least pliable of all the , ; . uropean monarchies, has waived its general pro- Benleowig, a seg vl Jutland. Grant that | scription of foreign medicines in their favour ; ea @G Outrage bus been committed whicu, if the less exclusive republics of South America have persisted in, must create w breach in the | with one Voice approved und nationalized them. In triendly relations between Austria and | te cities of the coast, on the Hanos and p:unpas of | Prassie aed thie country, and may even call | the interior, in the valleysuf the Andes, -ndon the ; : . j alluvial borders of the Amazon, the Urinico aud La | on us.to evince our displeasure by breaking | Plata —j fact, in every part of South America, Yet, what is there | whether thickly or sparsely populated, these medi. even in this case which ean fairly justify us| clces are in constant demand. In the centres of te pruceeding further? Taking, ae we ae ae —- ph ym ores ao : : eria medica, among the Indians aesume We ure bound to do, the interest of | they have supplauted the traditional remedies of England as our guide in deciding whether we | the native doctors. shall enter into a eunfliet to be fought vut | | Had Professor Holloway introduced his two ape- with English bioud sud English gold, what | Se we tele < = am tt saucuon . dia fo Le 1 eC leal colleges of urope; had he been sup- om can we promise ourselves equiva ported in his efforts to disseminate them by the eat te the amount of joss and misery 2 is | whole wealth and influence of the profession; had Denmark necessary to Our Commerce, is she | re salar physicians, surgeuns and apotiicearies every- a bulwark against invasion, is she any | Where advocated their use—still the progress nade i ; w : . i by his Pills and Ointment, in a period of rome material part of the Kuropean sy stem for the twenty years, umong all the races of the earth, preservation of which we have so often and | might well have been deemed extraordinary. But sv vainly fought and bled? Are we afraid of | none of these elements of popularity were at his the naval superiority of Germany? Are we | command. On the other hand. a solid barrier of ; }itdown. Medical dogmatism bas succumbed before isaltic ? Dowe consider that when increased | the wonders secomplished by his remedies. His by this paltry piece of plunder ste wall be- | arguments bave been cures. The million, no longer come dangerous to the liberties of Europe ? | # blind Samson, as in the slavish past, but intelli- if'ef the ether parties to the Treaty of 1852, gent and independent in thought aud action, has f Bea m }vaised him with its broad hands te eminence and = bg determined to brewk it, and the | wealth, x8 6 grateful return for the precious lives other hali equally determined nut to enforce | saved aud prolonged through his instrumentality. it, are we to leap like Curtius alone into the | It is the curse of various drugs relied upon by the gult?) We can afford to leave to others the | a seen, et - aes dinnane, : é . / they lay & To ation oF another—the cotip glory See aisee peg | originated by the medicine being very treqasetly ‘ P ‘ ithe more dangerous of the two; Mercury mav own engagements, ever to raise our voice on | relivve un affection of the liver, bat it imperils the the side of truth and justice, and to show by | soundness of the bones, und shrivels the tendons. our own unwillingness to take offenee how | Opi may ve oll but ite - ction shatters the sincerely we are in favour of thet pence hervolls systein. OCU CUI WAG arsenic Way witl- which we continually, if sometimes vainly, | substitute palsy and paralysis. There are no snch preach to others.— Times, Feb. 27. | drawbacks to the usefuluess of Holloway's Pills and Ointment, More certain, direct aud thorough in their remedial operation than any other medicine, | their general effect upon the system and covstitation is not merely harmless but beneficial —HamesHike Sincutar Accitpest axp Escarr. — The Courier of iast evening gives some deiails of Pope, the Delegates from this currespoudeice with the Coleu | means for settling the Land Que | the very extraerditary Brit subu muel Cunard on behalf of himself | prietors, for the consideration of j i . | wf thie Eolend.;...lialth Sthecigtiees of the Dela. | #8 high as 15 and 16 years purchase. gates and the Bill of the Proprigters weution » | dent the proprietors will consent to be bound by oe else Llores taelaniadl Sad as ’ ~ | nothing but what they may choose to propose | besides, the shart leases under which the greatest | themselves. | } Office icin the proprietors. This is a mere quibble. The on, as Well as | Proposals of the Delegates themselves could not ed by Sir Sa-| be made binding. Certainly they were rejected nd other Pro- | Goveruuent The wain question then resolves it- | by the proprietors, although they contemplated | It is evi- | , bolster up a bad cause, and to divert the attention of the jury from the real merits of the question at issue. ‘Pbis dishonest course is pecu- liarly agreeable te the crafty nature of the Colonial Secretary. No one knows better than be bow inppossible it is for our Proprietary Government to concoct any scheme that will fulfil the three conditions required in the Governor's Speeeh; but jepoken in the House of Assewbly — and in the | Legislative Council, too, by a high persouage— about the Duke of Newcastle's proposals not being | compulsury” ou the proprietors. We should like to Kuow what proposals can be made compulsory upon those individuals. They propound terius of their own, and declare they will have no others. The question is— shall they be allowed tu have philan- | iu the Delegates’ Proposals as well as the Pro- sious to Proprietary interests whi¢h are extrava- gaut and unreasouable. Moved by Mr. Donald MeDonald, and ge- conded by Mr. Donald Me Aulay— Resolved, ‘Vhat a Couunitice be appointed to 4, &e., iu carrying out the proposal which we have made to the proprietors, namely, to buy at | huve been sold by the Government, eet To THE Eprror or THE EXAMINER. Sun,— Peruit me to say, through your columns, that if the writer in the Vindicator desires to know Whether or not music set to words should be sting so a8 to be “ comprehensible” to himself jand other “ rusties,” in order to answer his questions it is necessary for him te name the pieces of music to which he alludes, and also to inform us of the neme of the language which he does understand, He lets us kuow that he is not ae- | quainted with the Chinese, and he seems to have almost as little knowledge of the English language. Thus he speaks divparagingly ot “guttural sounds,” He evidently does not know what guttural sounds are. Ne person ean either sing or spea& without using them. It be consults au English dietionary, he will tind the word “ guttural” explained as prietors’ Bill; and the latter demands conuces- | correspoud with the other tenants mi Lots 4s, 63, | the sane price as the Selkirk and other estates | ail the demands of the proprictors ?—Must we let them have their own way in every particular ?— Shall they be allowed to secure by taw econfirma- | tion of their titles and other concessions, and es- tablish by the same law a rate of purchase which is utterly impracticable, and the tenantry submit with slavish huunuhity ? diapored to Lave these questions practically an- | awered in the atlirmative. The course they have | indicated goes to shew that the proprietors shall | have their awn price and their own way in every | thi “hey reject whi “yy cased : | thine ae ee oe ae ” we ae equal, Seotinng, add beinllewrdd.46 duley glee re oi, WP rie TT) eer e | similar to these accorded to the setilers on the style of thing which will be perfectly agreeable | to the proprictors. feudal! lords have their own way te their beart’s | content, we know wot what is. Aed this is what the Governinent people call | settling the Land Question! We look upon it as | the surest method that was yet devised for un- | settling the public mind,—tor unsettling the strongest safeguards of human society—the rights of property. A pitiful threat of armed mercenaries being poured into the land will not—should not— The Government seem | : . | Worrell and Selkirk estates—but if, we say, the Lt this is not letting our petty | : : | proposals of his Grace, though thus comparatively gate the pangs of = and rbeumatism, but they | © belonging to the throat.” As “ Rusticus” has a dislike to tones proceeding from the throat, it is probable that the only sounds which are pleasing tu his ears are nasal ones, and only such as come through the proboscis of himself aud bis “* rusticr.” This would-be wag assures us that the musical efforts of bimself and his “ own rustic circle” are “far more pleasing” (to themselves) thar the awe a fee people into contemptible submission to abject slavery. We believe that the laws of the | country will not be violated by the tenantry in any | one instance, so that the bloody bayonets with whieh the Leader of the Government has con- ditionally menaced them may find employment in some other part of the world; but there is no tnoriern style of singing adopted by the vocalists of) reason Why the tenantry should net agitate Charlottetown. He forgets, however, to give us . a : the name of the locality in which such musical | Ces, energetically and uneeasingly, until the | souls as himee!f and friends “most de congregate.” | object be accomplished, for a redress of grievances. | Let us hope that * Rusticus” has a loca! babita | Public contentment and the leasehold tenure can- tion, if net a name, and that he will give the public a chance to lear his “excellent songs.” | ans onanteh.... She lonsebold Seoure bas bom os) When once his style of singing becomes known, | uitful parent of many crimes, and the source of other styles will, doubtless, seon be superseded. | never ending discontent on the other side of the | Let bin continue to entertain a good opinion of | a —T ‘ oe himself, and to“ regard” his songe as the “ moat | Atlantic. On this side it is less endurable, where pleasing.” The Turk regards the sound of his) We see all our neighbours breathing a freer atmos- drum as more musical than the strains of the | phere than ourselyes—and where a little sand- | Movlian barp. ‘Lhe Fegeo Islander regards his | bank in the Gulf of St. Lawrence is the ouly spot | own wild yells as “more pleasing” than the 7 ; . musical tones of an Alboui, : inde or & Picco) | Which the leasehold tenure is allowed to disfigure lomini. ‘The warble of thé lark and the thrill of. by its blighting influence, because the wretched the nightingale are doubtless not half eo sweet tenautry are too weak to shake it off. But we as are the brays ef a certain auiwal to bis own, : ; long ears. Leaving the Vindicator's “ Rustieus” | PY8Y they may gather strength fram the new at- with the above congenial company to enjoy a tempt that is made to crush them. Let them goad concert of themselves, | unite te protest against the wrongs inflicted upon 1 remain, yours truly, } hold : bli ; MODERATO. them. Let them hold their publie meetings, and Charlottetown, March 24, 1864. | pass their resolutions, whensoever and whereso- ever they please. It is their constitutional right to do so; and it is a miserable piece of tyranny annie ~~ ae > Mr. Eprror :— A public meeting was held at Campbelltown, for any man to attempt te frighten them by saying Lot 4, on Saturday, the 12th inst., forthe purpose that they will be devoted to wilitary butchery it of ascertaining if the establishment of a Court for | they violate the law. We are confident the the recovery of Small Debts would meet the ap- | : 1 wi proval of the inkabilanis. About fifty ssidapebianl tenantry of this Island will violate no law; and Levi on Thursday last, and which, in od ene atal eonihrebealnttiianialens bability, would have been attended with Ee" The Portland Press of the Ist inst., says upon bim the grade of Lieutenant-General, | consequences but for the instinct of a faithful tt Bebemian sits firmly upon the rock on which the bighest that can be burse. This appoint- dog. ment virtually puts General Grant wt the pears that Mr. ‘Theodule Foisy, a local head of all the land fureve of the Univa ; but | resident, bad gone about half- there is no evidence at present that he will | supersede General Halleck. Om Thureday|one of the WG. T, Company's wharves. ful. he was on @ visit ty General Meade who still beads the urmy of the Pocomaec, but whose | reputation iy in the hands of the erities, | where we ourwelves shali assuredly leuve it. i Ys sterduy, Gen Grant's departure lor Nasli- | ville was telegraphed. —A ad as with Kastern | ‘Teanesees, sw with Northern Mississippi. the movements tf General Sherman, U. 3 «| ure still shrouded im obscurity. The only | porot, whereupon itimerant scribblers aud stay-ut-lome editurs agree, is the immense. amount of dawaye inffecud during his raid, | fv private nu less thau to public Southern | Property. No matter in what direction Taid takes place, arson and plander are now fous. dered ty be legitiaate oiders of the day. Parning @) plantations cod farms, demolish- 6 grist wilie, wad turning belpless inbabi- Saute vat to starve— which ought to bring the Per petratore vt such deeds to court-martials | sre triumpbhantdy quuted as prvois of eater. | Pte and valour. jem the growed of « wan ua she firat settled, with trom thirty to fifty leet of | Water under the bow and store, the centre of tie | vessel only touching. The arrangements are nearly | : A past ten On | perfect to commence raising her, in which the | Thureday morning to inspect some deals on wreckers are very confident they will be suecess. | Ove of the divers went jute the cabin and | Puasing over the wharf the snow gave way | recovered the Purser’s drawer, containing some underneath him, and he fell through # hole | 5U0 sovereigns, and secured other valuable articles. in the planking toa depth of about twelve, |. Torre fevt, wlighting on & hesp of ise, which his | Execution oF 4 PoLtsi Leaner. — The | weight immediately caused to sink, ulmost | , aa a ace of the gallant in- immerging him to the neck in water. eee let Jankowski, at the comment prayer ot ‘ , several Russian officers, one of whouw tad owed | eo wae now perilous in the extreme. his life to Jaukowski's magnaninity, has given. u be enclosed ia & sort of cage, in the form | tie jussian Journals occasion ty boast loudly of | of w cone, with ite sides evated with emooth the merey aud generosity of their government. | ioe, and twenty feet of water beneath his feet, The execution has nevertheless taken place. was anythiug but # pleasant plight fur the = Cokious.—The Philadelphia Age notices the | uo-ortunate man. He repeutedly, bat vainly, curious tact that the unmber of men who were | endeavoured tw seule the icy walle of his killed, crippled, or captured in the receut Plarida Frivoo. He es soated for help until be was disaster would have about sufficed to re-organize too hourve tu shout wuy wore, and at last, that state under the amnesty proclamation, Four- with bie hands all cut and bleeding, and |e? hundred votes were more than way required, ata ‘ | perfectly resigned to hie Sait; ‘bonne Bieta and about that number were placed hors de combat. upon the underlying ice. In this eoudition,| The New York city Journals are out in) te would undoubtedly have met hie end. full eliorus on the arming imerease ol crime | but tur the jusiuet of a litte dug, which hud in that city; crime of all surts from eoll-— fullowed him. and the providential agrival blooded murdere dowa to vulgar highway wed Morency | robberies. Those details are as follows ;—It ap- sembled at the school house, and after some that by their constitutivnal demeanour they will Sea ae treme ree rer appeared | brand as slanderous and unjust the imputation T were is no doubt that the “aiesioad peiey tage | that they are prone to insubordingtion. But we aon? 5 ie district is conveyed in the fore- | assure them, ey sangtangs ae bnew - +8 eee | power to ameliorate their condition, The Go- pes Mae A. HALLORAN, See'y. | ane the Proprietors, and the Colonial Minister, have all severally proposed their plans | for abolishing the leasehold tenure. The only one that was favourable te the tenautry—that of the SSS» Colonial Minister—bas been set aside,—the Go- Charlottetown, March 28, 1864, | vermwent plan and that of the Proprictors differ ateatiated _very little from each other, and beth are inpracti- THE CLOSE OF THE FLRsT D EBATE. cable. Now, let the tenantry propose their plan— — | they havea perfect right to do so-~and let them use THe Debate on the Address in answer to the all their strength, within the bounds of the law, Governor's Speech closed on ‘Tuesday last, the | to press it upon the Legislature. We apprebend Government party having all their fores on the | that the present House of Assembly will be some- division, exeept the Hon. J.C. Pope, who is out what deaf te their appeais and remonstrances ; of the country, and the Hon. Alex. Laird, who, it | and then, of course, the only remedy is to prepare is said, purposely abstained from voting. A ‘for getting © House differently constituted. A rumour was current for some days that both Mr ‘bad Government and a bad Parliament, with Laird and Mr. Howat intended to withdraw their |all their train of evils in the shape of bad laws, support from the Government on the Land Ques- | must sooner or later succumb to the will of the tien, and te join the Opposition. We did not | people, when the people are united and vigorous attuch the least importance to the rumour, and | enough to demand a change. Therefore, we say, Che Examiner, a ww jantry? If so, the sooner we have our constitution jsuspended the better. Col. Gray threatened us | with thatcalamity it we resisted their High Might- esses, the Proprietors—but the suspension of our | constitution and our annexation to the other Pro- | eons weuld be a blessing, if we were thereby relieved, as we would be, from the coutrul of au | irresponsible faction. | If the Duke of Neweastle’s proposals were passed into a law — and we do not approve of | them very highly, because we think the whole j tenantry of the Island ought te be placed on an unfavorable, were embodied in an Act of our Le- gislature, there is no reason to doubt that such an Act would receive the sanction of the Crown The Colonial Minister could not set his face against it, seeing that it was the offspring ot his own mind, And an Act thus stamped with the approval of the Sovereigu could not fail to have its effect even upon the most stubborn and refrac- tory proprietors. It would propose terms of settlement to them such as the Crown approved ; | their own way, to the perpetual injury of the ten- | ; z° i evils and oppressions are endured, were set aside | selt into these minor ones:—Must we aceede to) ; ? yury “| ithe can amuse the people by means ef impracti- cable projects, or distract their attention by | pseudo-religious questions, and arouse therr fears by lying reports, he will gain time to betray the people, and establish the Proprietors in all their assumed rights and privileges. This bas hitherte been the tendency of his exertions in favour of the tenantry. Whether he intended they should have this tendency or not, we leave a discerning public to judge. The qnestion for their decision is— whether W. H. Pope is such a fool as not to understand the business in which he was engaged, and the character of the parties with whom he had to treat, or whether be is such a knave asto appear to advocate a cause that he bad de- termined beforehand to betray? We ean ouly | say, that had the latter been his aim, he could net have resorted to means better calculated to attain it than those which he and his party have been using. NOTES OF THE DEBATES. No. %. That, on the part of the Government and their immediate supporters in the House of Assembly, there exists a disposition to stifle every thing like free and searching enquiry, or full and fair diseus- from the vice regal throue, the assembled | jot. What use would it be to them to say: “ We | 808, 80 far as concerns either proprietary asurpa- reject those terms—we shall enforee our own de- | tionsand defalentions, or the motives and palley Wy inands against our tevantry.” The Crown would | es = Bormann arent nave oeee htesneed say, nut by direct words, but by most significant on Cais — oe om omen indifference and inactivity—* Do what you ean, aan as aaa poe a commence- under the law, and its feeblesupporters, but don’t | pent eth phdviat Session, they lave uttempted to ask us to interfere in your quarrels with ‘he ten-| annihilate the Opposition, or at least, by denying antry.”” The tenantry would become bolder than | them liberty of speech, to -ender their constitutional ever—and they would be miserable slaves if they | ¢fficacy altogether nug itory. did not — in view of this silent conflict between | The Honorable the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. the Proprietors and the Crown; and the end | Cvles), Mr. Warburton, Mr Kelly, and Mr. Whelan, would be, that, before many years, throngh a, %* Well 4s Mesere. Conroy and Howlan, bave each, active and general agrarian agitation—conducted | = tong ene ieaniow: language, wroutet Ce Cee. on perfectly constitutional modes, and net dis- ee ee ° aes a couraged by mercenary bayonets — many of the ‘in summoning merely their an section of the proprietors would be only too glad te part with Legislature to determine upon a course of action their lands on any terns. with respect to that munentous qnestion upon the | determination of woieh depends the establishment PROPRIETARY. of the essential interests of the cultural country, or the destruction of general prosperity for : These gentlemen have shewn that _ “T trust your best efforte wil i : : somes maturing asin sideeniat wn ee a, Pema Fan payee ~ — = — a preatr tu the amelioration of the condition of the tenantry, | am, _—s they do it, todispeuse with, or weber but also receive the sanction of the Imperial Go-|' probibi:, the attendance of the Opposition ia vernment aud the concurrence of the proprietors.” | any Session held for the despatch of the general So addresses his Excelleucy George Dundas, Esq, | business of the country. | The. Leader of the Opposition and Mr. Whelan members of the House ef Assembly and Legislative Cunt east atte Sagens the angle doclasation < Council. The Governor must not be supposed, e ae eit rpemenaranente in the speech of which the above is an extract, to ta : ok ergata at the ones wa is give utterance to his own sentiments. He ia but | : a om or cee - , . ing what course of action was to be pursued ca the mouth-piece of the Government. The ideas | , Me cerning the question of the laud tenures, apon the it contains are those of hie advisers. The very issue of which the temporal weal or woe of # language in which those ideas are clothed is most | many thousands of the people depends. These me PLANS OF THE GOVERNMENT FOR CRUSHING THE TENANTRY. probably theirs also. After all the boasting and self-laudatien of the Governnent—atter all their tine promises and coufident predictions, it has come to thi, We are to-day as far from 2 ecttlement of the Land Question as we ever were. The whole business hts to be done over ayain, de novo. The Land Commission and the Delegation have been beth miserable failures. The Award of the one and the Report of the other are so much waste paper. All the expenses, buth direct and indirect, of both these projects, are a dead lass to the Colony. ‘Tae eause of the tensotry is not in the smallest wnaginable degree advaneed. So far froin it, through the blundering and insincerity of the Government, they are in a worse and ‘more hopeless state than they hare veen at any thne since the agitation of the Land Question, The wanner of the Colonial Minister is more indifferent and more coutemptuous, and the tone of the Pro- prictors wore defiant, more confideat, and more thereof, in the Supreme Couct, ia cauctly the sae gentlemen plain!y declared it to be their opinio®, that, for so opeu and coutemptaous a disregard of the sentiments concerning that question, ed by those who, although the minority in the Leyislature, represented « larger number of the venantry than the Government majority, the wduni- nistrative leader, if not the whole administration, deserved to bs impeached. British ministers of State have, we believe, been impeached, aye, and pronoanced guilty too, on less tenable grounds, of having conspired against the liberties of the people + und we also think that every man in the Colony, possessed of an independent mind, must agree thes the conduct of the Government on the occasio® alluded to was, if not actual treason against the people, yet very near akin to it. | The Honorable the Leader of the € )pposition (Mr. Coles), when maintaining that arrears of Quit “Rents are sow due to the Colony from the Pre _prietors, to an emount considerably exceeding £100,000, and that the Goverument ought to whe _ proceedings against the proprietors forthe recovery ‘*. ae