aeoreere = ¢ . , . - ' sense Which ha: disappointed so man confident | them :" auticipations, and has achieved so manv st ling successes, is still existing w ee = eee nor will they repine at the ravage, the —, art-/ outrage, and the slaughter they have endured— hout any the heavy price paid by them for their liberties In spite of all that is advarced cal ° ‘ . ‘ . sign Of adecune. —for Joy that, in themselves, a free people 1s | born into the world. _—~— by voluble declaime:s, we have been unable to fay our hands on ant evidence of inward disor- Om «+ THE EDITOR OF THE EYA MINER TO HIS PATRONS. * Alb, Know’st thon this paper ? Gon. Ask me not what I know. gFarization, of intestine division that threatens ty break up the firm unity of purpose indispen- 1 sable to the success of the great enterprise which the Italians have to achieve. We can free nowhere any really serious s¥mptom ¢ f the Kine Lear. — ie 4 povin BOOK. eTnrp , > es ¢ ra : " people beginning to be untrue to themselves, | 2" “oe - reer Journal course: the facil a had + ity not ¥stimulated public]! 1864, asin | Ts apied by the | MISTER MURPHY?S INIONS; Some little spot of happy ground, i reach of custom prererrec Tt Hee : ot 0 art of the site occupie ‘ ay tin , 3} : and so long as we see ~ a eit ” : . J es n part. f : Where village pleasures might go round and 30 , ny as we s¢ none suc h, Wwe are not) Is breach of ali CyMBELINE, | Meetings, and given publicity to they proceea- | s building were three (or it may be four) | BY D. LARD, ESQ. we pies , prepared to ad:nit the evident and rape coming } ee eS ’ ° ; * i Ir} s heen the cus i “litors blie of an élite dthditen. j ias been the custom with editors of public a | journals, from a very early period to the pre- Cuder the existing arrangement, Italy is} bie : yy i f : ; Sent time, to address some remarks to their States of civided into the the Chureh—the Kingdom of Italy, comprising Lombaody, Naw : ; . ss > of their paper, in which they, with that modesty pes and Sicily, Tuscany, Lucca, Pa ma, aud ’ . is ’ { : . so characteristic of the fraternity, are expecter Modena ; besides the duchy ol Savoy und the : : ee I i to refer to their past career — if evunty of Nice, which were surrendered to : . : | past — and to indulge in hopeful : of the With ns this eG Oras | } bs | ae . | been ynoured mi the ec ouside ration of the present Consulidated state} i‘ observance,” because we feel that it they have a I anticipations 440d. . i a future. eustom hag Suggestive as we naturally find thi **more breach than uf lately divided Italy, to be of the actual pre- i : : re | Smacks of vanity—because we know something sent and probable future of the two great fami: | as . e oa : ing , must be said in commendation, or in such a lies «cf Britain's colonial eupire—eoch now | : . sae a : ; way as to challenge the cormendaticn of the fully ripe for the assumption of national inde-| ..” . ; friendly reader—for no one can expect that the peadzace—we shall yield to the Say zestion, a. . . : ¢ : editor will speak in teyins of censure regarding aad conclude this article by a passing vlance—|,. ae . : 7 _ | himself—and for this reason we have been loch aud, cireumseribed by our linats, a gliace only } * . it » follow the advice of the fair Imogen ‘as wt must ia reality be—at the witical and gov-} a 3 a i OV-l . ‘ ’ ‘ J ! ; E ;given in the play. We promised ourselves, ernmental problem, which each of these fami-|, a . ; ss however, to say a few words on this occasion, 403 Wil, ere long, be imperatively called upon. ue , o I . du | when commencing a new volume of Thr by the force of cireumstances, to settle for it- | Fxamiver, and when presenting the first No. self-aud the world. These two families, which occupy | moet Conspicuous positions in this w ic iag colonial empire, are most advan: ig¢ously | small portion; in the next, the reading matter locuied in twe great groups of plantations. | fills nearly the whole paper—we having taken in the Western Hom’sphere, we have ; rican group; and in the Eastera, the (ustrali- wa. Both groups are rich i: the elements of great and powerful and into great and powerful nations both may most varied kind—embracing news, licht litera- rise. To that hig which we would fain believe they | tlestined—neither of them, however, ean without sezious complications arisi: z from | offered in any one paper in Charlottetown, and questions of foreign policy—without ec iflieting | includes a full measure of verse as well as prose. views of inter-colonial matters—withou: trying | Whether both kinds of composition, such as we crises Within the domain of each colo y- To}here give, are as good or better than have ap- prepare for such inevitable emergencies, the | peared in this or other local journals before— administration of public afairs must attract to must be left for the intelligent reader to deter- itself, and retain the services of the best men. mine. We refer merely to quantity and not This is the problem which now lies b fore both quality. And it is here fitting to observe that the Australian and the American Colon 3; and|the best part of the oririnal composition—bes¢ by their solution of it, the success of their ef. as regards quantity as well as quality—are the forts at self-government well be tested.’ For | contributions of attached friends, who have Som? years past, we have been tauzht to con-| often hitherto lizhtened the labours and cares | jand never backward to meet the assaults of the |! sider all these colonies as jn a state of | aining | Of the editorial chair by the productions of for independence; and of late the | Thus, from th> editorial policy of Britain has been entirely wicsitehaan thal we make to them who ean best under- therewith. slonial | their gifted minds. Ever since the concession to them | stand it, our grateful obeisance for the services ef self-government, they have—except as re- spects questions affecting the interests of the Kaipire at larze—been left, unmolested by the Imperial Goverument, to follow out their own | rendered; and we doubt not that every intelli- tion of them. schemes cf internal improvement; and jt will| past —the lonz and dreary past — through be for themselves to declare when the proper | which this journal has emerged; but the story | time for their complete emancipation lias ar | ‘ ‘ _ . : . “ rived. So long as they shall choose to con-| Examiner's career in the path of journalism — tinue their connection with Great | Britain, |it might be tedious to most readers: and either as separate or confederate colonies, so| besides, the crowded state of our columns “; aie ‘ . . ~ : > | + has lal ed a se » wide , leng will Great Britain feel herself bound to| forbids any elaborate references to former }|™unity has labored so long in the same path of protect them against foreign aggression, and to| days. see impartial justice maintained between colo-| A few lines will, however, be allowed to us, and so long will she feel her- even though garrulousness may be ascribed to self bound to strengthen the hands o/ each | us as one of our faults. Tae Examiner was colony in the maintenance of internal law endl commenced in the summer of 1847 ; — the order, should extraordinary circumstances de. writer of these lines had been for four years mand it. With these duties, as respecis her| before that time —(from 1843)—a very fre- Colonies, ber powers. end. The the appointment of Governors, colonial patron-| encouragement given to our undertaking was : ' ” ny and colony; Save as respects| quent occupant of the editorial chair. uge is no loner reserved for Downing Street; | extremely slight. Public opinion of a healthy the Crown no lonzer retains possession of the and vigorous tone did not prevail to any con- suil; colonial lezislatures have entire eontrol siderable extent. The old Irresponsible Party over their owa revenues; no parts of the colo-|—or, the “Family Compact,” as they were nial legislative bodies are nominated by the| designated —had every department of the| a a a . Ds — hie , rane > the Crown; and colonial ministers are directly re-/| Government and the two branches of the ¢ i | colonists themselves has been committed the! Their influence, it is true, had been slizhtly | | *,1 ° ; wreat task of government, and in their |! ands ! checked by a quarrel with the then Lieut. | it must remain. If in their present position, in| Governor, Sir Henry Vere Huntley, in con-| sponsible to their fellow colovists. T. the! Legislature thoroughly under their control. eonnection with Great Britain, they chooze to sequence of his causing inconvenient enquiries remain, they can do so; but, on the other | to be made into the manazement of certain de- | haad, should they, confident in their own! partments where revenue was collected and re- | st enzth and resources, think proper constifu-| tained. There was some popular sympathy on tienally to declare that the ties which at present | Sir Henry's side; but the influence of the ralinz binds them to Great Britain is no longer asso-| party was more thana match for it. That party | ’ ey | ; a ee ciated with their interest and esteem, (ireat| were dcemed impregnable,—it was clear that no | Britain will instantly acquiesce in their decision; | vote of the Assembly could put them out of /and ifa hot and angry word should eseape “ie und not one blow will be struck, or one drop | office, the nature of the constitution did not | vf British blood be shed, to retain them in un-| prescribe any accountability to the people. | willing allegiance. The Mother Country, in| And it seemed at first sizht a hopeless task to | the event of such a separation, would in:leed | attempt to get a popular vote against them. | long continue to rezard them as her children, | All the petty offices in the country were in the | «though wholly emancipated from her control, | hands of their dependents and clients, and there | und independent of her aid and protection. In{were numerous bands all over the Island, their greatness and prosperity she would re-| known by the name of * waiters on Providence,” Jvice: aad, besides, the interest which identity eagerly locking for an odd job of any kind, | of race would still cause her to feel in their | petty office, no matter how small the salary at- progress, commercial interests, which would! tached to it. It was no labour of love to fire | certainly in¢vease ja proportion to the expan-! the minds of such people with an independent sion Of their national greatness, could not fail} thought; to utter an independent opinion on to have the eect of perpetuating friendly re-| local political affairs they would not do ;—if in arated oM$pring and tlie parent. attain] position is more extensive than was ever yet | gent reader will share with us in our apprecia- | We thought we mizht say something of the | would be along one which would cover Tue | ; azo. was forty years since, are bezinning to be few 7 iment was over and won, and when the Liberal Part¥ — distinguished from the old Escheators. whose popularity had been waning since 1843 The ‘years of labour from 1847 to 1851 left us little —assrmed tangible proportions. four leisure for more congenial pursuits than political acritation little rest from the assaults of our | opponents, — and, we ere ashamed to add, not | much substantial reward from our friends. tif any one will say that had Tae EXxAmiver not so zealously laboured in the four lines — had the reatiis that were written by the left unwritten — had the wearisome task of correct- jhand which holds the pen now been ; ee e ¢| ° ing ar shing » crude productions of} readers at the commencement of a new yolume |™g 2nd pols 5 the my jathers been spared to the editor's over-wrou sht } feves on covntiess occasions if it can be said | that ha? none of these things been done, Res- porsible Government would still have been iestablished, and that the efforts of an inde- | pendent press were merely superfluities — we |shall not combat the saying—we will let it | pass for judgment in the minds of our readers. | There are those, indeed, who think that dash, jand energy, and bunkum speeches to a crowd, }are the very best means of carrying a political | point. iway. But our opinien coincides with that of ithe enlightened world, who believe that a public |journalist, who can labour —ay, in the still jhours of the night when no mortal eye rests upon him — yes, one who can labour with pa- jtience, perseverance, not without ability, and | . . ‘ oe ee 2 ° . ° . in & style far superior to any that have preceded | with a fair share of judgment—is an indis-| : . ‘ . 7 i ia 3 soitaclii MR i : far the it. In the first place, the material on which it | pensabdle requisite to the successful issue of any | oo : : : 2 *q | cause, and wore potential than a whole crowd | “Spread. is printed is quite new, with the exception of a | Cause, and more potenti ren , } lof stump orators, We cannot comment in detail on the various | } } 1e oad ee liberty to exclude most of our advertise. |"eform measures which followed the introdue- | ments for this one week, and for which we trust | tion of Responsible Government, and signalised | in all that constitute our advertising patrons will kindly pardon us. | the career of the Liberal Party until their over- 1ations ; The reading matter, it will be seen, is of the | throw in 1859. These we thought of passing | deliberately in review some time ago, and may | th position—the position to | ture in prose and verse, and instructive articles | do so yet. But it is well known to the MAJOTI | th are/ On miscellaneous subjects. The original com-|'Y ©! our readers that Tae Examiner was the | strenuous advocate of them all. Free Trade, Free Franchise, Free Edueation, Government Purchase cf Public Lands—encouragement to} enterprise and industry in the prosecution of ithe fisheries—the erection of needful public | works—the encouragement of arriculture on the most liberal scale; and, in sh rt, Ab measure that seemed calculated tod -velope the resources, unprove the condition and stimulate the industry Tae ExaMINer a warm Supporter, ready to ex- of our people—always found in plain points of governmental policy where ex- planation was no where else to be obtained— jfoes of the Liberal Party when there was no | other journal to repel them. Let all these things pass for the present. | Another time will come for more special refer ence tothem. The six years that, since 1859, | have added their mite, as Carlyle would say, to the Inscrutable Eternities, never witnessed hus once recreant to our party as one of the Liberal Opposition. Our principles and politi- j ‘5 i jeal predilections are the same as they were, at { . jour landing here, twenty-two vears a ro; and | we have the satisfaction of knowin that no | | | one at present befure the public in this eom- ' “41 *? . . | prozress, with like consistency and continuous jstrugsling, as we have done. But as we don't expect to get our reward in this world, *twould | | be folly to press our claim to it here. AMINER: | ; . ain } <A parting word as to the future of Tue Ex- | : : It proceeds On its new career with the best prospects that can brishten the path | of any journal in so small a place as this. Its} |list of subseribers is much larzer, and of a bet- ter paying deseription than it ever had at anv time of its existence,—and its advertising pa- tronage, which is the mainstay of a newspaper, | ; : pay is of the most substantial kind, and considerably larger than it was even very a year This shews that there is some respect for, and confidence in, Tue EXAMINER : and our aim will be not to lessen that respect and confidence, but to increase both. Entitled to all the privilezes of a truly free press, we shall claim the right to pass an independent jud #- ment, without hindrance or favour on the part of any man, touching important publie affairs. On all publie questions we shall state our views with firmness tempered by moderation ;—truth and justice in our dealings with all parties, and with all subjects, shall guide our discussions: now and then, pray let it pass as a small item in the sum of our common bhman infirmities—a | the slisht proof that we, like all the children, have a little of that “rash choler” which our Mother Eve bequeathed us. With these remarks, for the length of which | he apologises, the Editor of Tue EXAMINER | bows to, and takes leave of his Patrons—for | the present. <-> <>< CHARLOTTETOWN FORTY YEARS AGO. | | question of Confederation. THose who recollect what Charlottetown | | in number. In a very short time they will be| ( aay latioas and mutual good will between the « “D- favowr ‘at Court’ they scowled at the asserter | redaced to a small fraction of the population, | | of an independent opinion; if not quite in|: | and no long period will have passed when not Uhe future of these colonies, whatever course | favour, or doubtful of their position, they mizht }even the ‘ oldest inhabitant” will be able to) | 2 | they may pursue, and whatever forin they 1 assume, must, it ay | whisper a word or two oceasionally against the | and upward, both as regards industrial and/| to throw their heads over their shoulders to see cmmmercal prosperity, and the wisdom and| that no one was listening who mizht possibly 2 stability of their institutions, based and modi-| tell upon titem. fied as they will be on the principles of he} The press at this time was all, except our |! Bitish Constitution. fown, on the side of the Government; but it |¢ Uf the many other communities, however, | was not characterised by much energy or which are at present in a state of political par- turition, few if any will be able to realize their hopes, and to establish their freedom and inde- pendenes, with the same ease and rapidity with | largely engaging the minds of the publie men ability. The discussion of the question of Responsible Government, which had been con- eeded to Canada a short time before, was isay what it was li enable the present generation to mark the in-| 1. ike. It may be worth while | | : s iin ST Labiiads , : s + GENERAL like at that time, if for no other reason than to | jority Is a stunning answer to the Government's | ' erease and improvement during the period that The first sesiaila| } 1as elapsed since 1825. of the stranger visiting Charlottetown forty years since was the “extreme quiet, the almost! the York election. solemn silence that reigned everywhere, except | serap of news to shewthat the on the Weduesday and Saturday market days. | The wide grass-grown streets, they looked} one doubt that it would get a most prominent | apprehend that he may have instructions from nearly twice as wide then as they do now. | place in their columns? ‘ | Now, r years acitafion ‘ ¢ { hey are, no doubt, very good in their | every | rest of her | natronaze diffuses its enriching or corrupting | Streams more extensively than in some of the | coming, and we thought its result ought to be | ™Ovement. ! r is quite evident, be onw: rd powers that were, but thev would take care first Ito put down a few reminiscenees of what it was a test. flouse of Assembly, and | Some few formers there have better stock thanis} g@y> We are very much obliged to our This and the then new, but to ba found here; but comparing the stock of the esteemed friend Justitia for the exceedingly onstituted—with the Island and that of Upper Canada all over, we be-| f; iendly letter he has sent us. liewe the “improvement” is more general in this | the Court House, Council Chamber. now old Market House, ¢ exception of the Bartacks Government The subject is all thé | there and Jail ~ House, then Lieut Governor Smell not worthy of his hizh ecotisideration, or any sort of consideration ; rome will publish the letter in our next—it not Colony than ia Canada. So much in regard te public buildmes. stock; and with respoct to vegetables, this Is- wing reached us in duis none: the : : : |land, we believe, would throw Canada into the lived in the south endof the Officers’ quarters shade. W. Murphy, Esq, of the Gas Works, brough’ a specimen of oulons tu our sanctum this time for to-day—appending some notes of our own, = unnecessary to on the Barrack Square ! Sry Of the Barracks ft is All our readers have s it Btrue, but still the same,} would fail to affect their lachrymal glands. Of the Jail, I fear t | {week which would have made the eyes of even a (FOR THE EXAMINER.) .¢ ‘n them in} Canadian water; if uot, most assuredly their own Panytnines a dilapidated state, MISCHIEF MAKE RS. Oh, could there in this world be found Without the village tattling ! Ilow doubly blest that place would be, Where all might dwell in harmony, Free from the bitter misery ‘ey low huts, placed end to end, without : ; one storey log HUB, } ‘* Lafeu Mine eyes smell onions, | shall weep % ” anon, All’s Weill that ends Well, Act. 5, Sc. 3. «* Enobarbus To give them this diseomfort % And I, an ss, am onion-eyed.” Antony and Cleopatra, Act. 4, Sc. 3, | the least pretensions to architectural order or lc « - Pry It was, in fact. impossible to look symmetry. so smile, and without a feeling of What mean you, sir, Look, they weep ; lat it without a Of gossips’ endless prattling. unnt for those who suffered themselves to fe CT ' hich «tociall Tis mischief-makers that remove | be deprived of liberty in a place which, to a War dns iar toned thee wnatnied ties And lead us all to disapprove What gives another pleasure. They seem to take one's part—but when They’ve heard our cares, unkindly then They soon retail them all again, : icke ieces, with the : appearance, might be picke d to pieces, with th 0. speak with Ut Cauiadiad shows?! At Montreal their little go’s is Just filled my heart with saddest throes, | And faith in my opinions, That Canuck people cannot raise Nor sheep, nor ox, nor prancing bays, Such as this fertile land display 8, From stalwart men to Inions. application of a very little force. The Market | House was then newly built, with its white paint unsmirched ; and, standing in the middle lof Queen Square, where the Coionial Building [nos se Adah: SASS Me p Mixed with their poisonous measure. | enlivened the otherwise dreariness of the Square. aurea Of telling ill meant tales: they say, “Don't mention what I've said, I pray, ia a fever, if for mn r ’ (It was well worth a visit, however, if for no Without reproach to Nature's plan, Did Canuck fellows ever scan So fine a sample of a man, In all the Queen’s dominions, As me —a product of this Isle, Where cattle thrive in just such style, And root crops. But in-all their pile | wharfs the transition is easy. Some of the Where is the beat of Inions? ; other purpose than to listen to the lueubrations .| of Clear Lallow, the Market Clerk—an original } I would not tell another.” | character—with whom and at whom the writer, Straight to your neighbour's house they go, Narrating everyfhing they know; And break the peace of high and low, Wife, husband, friend, and brother. with many others, have had many a_ hearty laugh. From pv lic buildings to public , : “ eR ; | present generation Ww ill hardly be lic ve ther Ah! suc h as Mister Murphy shows } Aen, To those who to the Gas House goes,* Or in eur Sanctum put their nose, Provided they’re not Finians.t Speak not of your Canadian lands! "Tis here your watery eye expands — ‘Tis here that your lachrymal glands} Bear witness to our Inions. Oh, ’tis a sad, degrading part To make another's bosom smart, And plant a dagger ia the heart We ought to love and cherish. w. . . : } was but one, the King’s wharf, t and ithe upper third of the now Queen’s wharf. There tacked {which then went by the name of William’s } were a few logs together, Then let us evermore be found In quietness with all around, While friendship, joy, and peace abound, And angry feelings perish, P. E. Island, Nov. 11. nr te (FOR THE EXAMINER.) wharf (since Douse’s); though Williams’ wharf | was once, | believe, the best wharf of the two ; {but the King’s wharf, forty years ago, had The poor, benighted, bankrupt place ! peen recently added to, and, as far as it went, | lis people, like our Gallic race,9 Z May plod through life at Pilgrim’s pace, But not like that of Bunyan’s j Divinely puritannic Soul. — Oh! Canucks, let your peepers roll isels that had occasion to make use of it. In | Through all your scraggy, patchy whole ? ty : | which was to the salient angles that may yet ] be seen, was a very creditable affair, and quit |suilicient, and more than sufficient, for the ves- HNARVEST HOME. | The mountain's icy summits lay submerged, : eaiatigy Midis such Onions? : |most other American towns the houses are Domain, haye you such Onions | And o’er the wreck of life the Deluge surged, i stork atun « he | Whilst on the shoreless waste a lonely ark | s } Ne? os , ater’s re, arn iit . . } i 5 ae 5 oe t numerous at the water's edz and th Back to my own, my native clime, 7 sete {water street the most ‘populous... Not so in| Where root crons flourish —- where the prime Floats, all untended, o’er the waters dark, | i our consul at Kingston, in’ wh; 4 fear that " will ~ quire several manga eetan ene eee ion oh ctnally, He “ Shp. the hope that an American way. at on oes e that put... WAY be outbreak evidently bes been Joy and is tended to be a war of xterm eablated, the are — the Whites ; and the ‘ varity of numbers gives the forme Saha They have, morewver, chases atime there are but tew English Troops gt that Wheg and but ene small English war leamer tent verine, at the Island..... Gold 147%. . Wal. IMPORTANT AND UNPLEASay TRICLIONS. _— RES. The United States auth: ritics are tived to make the trade in'e:course be the Colonies and the S.ates ag di ‘econ as possible. They first connived of oe Treaty, ee secured from Cubed authority for its annulment, but thig have since discovered will operate tore against their own people than q Colonists. To make up for this pj silliness on their part, they are reaurung deviers to make the transaction of so long as the Treaty remaing in unsatisfactory. The followin from Montreal Trade Review is the latest evideugs of spitefulness : ‘* We are informed the United States sular General here bas been j east enforce a regulation which eannot fail to hy a very Serious restriction to the produce between Canada and the United States, is generally known that for the fet ve te j =~ Oe 2 & oe Ge & Ww eae & aw a & «2 &e & os oe SS eee eee yeais the American Government uired Consular Certificates to “coom pany pa shipment of prodace to that : testilying to the tact that the article Was | growth end product of Canada, in allow its admission free of duty Under the Reciprocity Teeatys This has been Sufficient. ly annoying and expensive to our ¢hj : without having further trouble neem It is now announced, however, that in order. to obtain a Consular Certificate for a = ment of flour, it will be necessary for shipper to either have an affidavit from miller that it is ground from Canada whe or that his agent here must have a attorney froi the miller to make an a to the same effect. This will hecessitate every commission agent in the city being possessed of ducumentary authority ‘rom the willers for whom he acts, Also, when i of flour change hands, us they frequently : before being shipp:d, the Griginal receiver the miller’s agent will be compelled to before the Coneul and make the ne affidavit before it ean go into the Uni States markets. There may be some mig understanding ubout the matter, but we are assured four bas been Stopped at Rouge’s 3 = se . re. - , | Charlottetown at the time we are writing of.! Potatoes grow — and where sublime Freighted with life of man, of fowl, and beast, Aaah ‘ “ aly ai ¥ « ~ me: S id i ef j is i " Fe The only houses on the south side of Ws: ea And beatific pinions | In heaven's safe keeping, till the judgment ceas'’d “J —— a oe | Can show you what vou ne'er have seen } The curse inflicted—then, the flood subsides, } And food for all the earth anew provides. God's wrath appeased—the pledge of peace was | . ° ° . | | | Street were, beginning from the east, the house} Gy any dull Canadian scene — Jeete, that occupied by | Such cattle, orchards —all thins green — Myself and Murphy’s Inions. i/now owned by Major j Mr. James Dancan, (then called Water's & Bir- ie’ Brecken | of J. & T. Morris now stands, | | | Nores by THE AUTHOR. given, | The rainbow arch, that spans the vault of heaven— *lam doubtfal as to the correctness of the gram- | And words of mercy —promises te cheer— marin this case, bat the rhyme reqnired the verb ; : to be put in the singular number. [I would be| Fell from the lips Divine on mortal ear; ingular, indeed, ju comparison with all other) « teneeforth no woe like thie shall eer befall great poets, if I sacrificed good rhyme to mere} | : ; | seraMMAr. | Phe race of man, though ingrates from the fail: |} nies store), a barn beloagine to Mr. | where the ' j and a store on the site where the store Bank of P; E. | 8] | 4 > j Island has since been built. | This is all tedious enough, you will say, and |perhaps the great majority of readers will t See a brilliant article in the “ Patriot” of the | The seasons, as of old, shall be the sane, 2ist October, in which there is a plentiful supply | Seed time and harvest, both unchang’d, remain. ft hot and cold water thrown on the Fenian move- | | be of the same opinion; but, at all events, re-| i¢ . miniscences of this sort are useful in showinzg|ment. It won't do to suy too much, all at once,| In wrath shall mercy still remembered be : -1) | against the Fenians, because they sympathise with the progress that has been made, and js stil] | ##iust the Fe a . eee jthe anti-Confederutes, and the anti-Confederates | : : Age after age has flown, and still we find | t¢ The reader is referred to the “ Patriot” of the The word of promise kept with all mankind; } 28th October, in which there is a learned disq wisi tion on Canadian products generally, and a stun-|} : : : that most Atlantic cities have made, there are | i" #!lusion to the subject of the foregoing poem. | And tints the landscape with prismatic dyes, it OS uantic Cc C3 > ace, re are i . : “ag Mh rs . ee ete: as — ” a welt the Onions er Inions— (itis hurd to tell which is that may be adduced to account| the right spelling)—don't bring water to their eres, | ' ' . : rod pr i : : (1 am afraid their jaws will ache should they at-| The wide benevolence of Geox proclaim. In fact, | tempt to pronounce iny Jaw breakers. By Noah's sons and their posterity. 1 making, and may go far towards a refutation of | have rather a kindly feeling for the Fenians. | the charge of Charlottetown being a sleepy | , »s : The bow still shines beneath the darkened skies jhollow. If it has mot made the rapid progress . i Still do the fields, all rich with golden grain, many causes (for the tardiness of improvement. | Heneeforth let grateful songs from earth arise niany are patent, and some amonz them so| § ‘* Read my letter,’ says Lord Byron in one of his defiant prodactions, but I eommend to al! en-| a fl : ’ quiring minds, to read a certain letter in the ** Pa-| The mellowing rays of yonder setting sun the Island were, at that time, with very few ex- | triot’’ of the 7th October, dated Montreal, Septem-| Show the tired laborer that his work is done. Ss | ber 27, in which it is proved conclusively that the |) : I will not, | French people of Ganada are a miserably back ward | Phrough russet paths he makes his eager w ay, race, like those of Miscouche i the only advantage which the To him who every craving want supplies. much so as that the whole of the Townships in ceptions, in the hands of absentees. and Kustico; French however, weary you with this. at the present c Menez While Philomel pours forth ber evening lay; : re anadians } time, rather stale grievance, nor will I trespass | haye over their Gallic brethren iu this Island eon- | And timid hares their ferns forsake, to feed further on the patience of your readers. | siete te the former having a Itttle more white-wash | On the rich clover in the fertile mead. | . on their “ cabins. liere is an extract from the er tate ot bile Wie lk i) | es i. BS | memorable letter referred to, which the auibor. er laen teaves he treads the well known roa¢ i who has not the least particle of vanity) will! That brings him, nightly, to his loved abude, nevertheless be delighted to see reproduced :— aa thes | | Withont knowing where we were, or the charac. | 20d Me jter cf the settlers along the line of railway, but! A waits his glad return at Harvest Home. i | judging cimply from the peculiar build of the farin e 3 j houses, and the mauner they were huddled to- : York County, N. B., by the over- | Zether, we immediately said to our companion that Charlottetown, November, 1865. | ae é . : the place before us was a French settlement. We | Whelming majority of seven hundred and eleven | were right. The locality wasa few miles from io : : : | fi . r . | St. Hyacinthe, in Lower Canada, aud all the way | votes, the election having become necessary bv | ya ; 4 aa ¥) I wing become necessary by [thence to Montreal the train. pasted throngh | 1 9 ’ . 1° la -+ ; ; : | | Mr. Allan’s elevation to the Bench. Mr. F isher | French villages and settlements, the latter looking | Beste os | just as if Rustico or Miscouche had been transport. | was one of the Delevates to the Quebee Con- \J wi ‘ ELECTION IN NEW PRUNSWICK—DE. | FEAT OF THE GOVERNMENT. +, a welcome, cordial as his own, | The Hon. Charles Fisher was elected last Monday in LATEST FROM EUROPE. | ed, like the house of Loretto, and lighted in Cana- | | « vention, on the part of New Brunswick, and | la, with this difference that the cabins bad receiv: | t ‘ ed a cout of white-wash en pas | windew and saw Lord Palmerston’s remains were interred at | present report resembled that neare Point, and that the officiais of the Consulate here will grant no more certificates until these requirements are met. stentless ; TERRIBLE CALAMITY IN NEW YORK HARBUUR. BOILER EXPLOSION ON BOARD THE STEAMER “ST. JOHN,” — TEN KILLED AND MANY WOUNDED. On the 30th, about a quarter before 6 clock, and while abreast of 20th street, North river, the port boiler of the steamboat St. John, of the People’s Line, exploded, and without ay instant warning, hurled seveu innocent beings inte eterul and before the bar of God, and sixteen others, many of whom were quietly dreaming in their berths, were thrown inte the most fearful tortu and one poor fellow, to save a worst fate, plonged into the river and probably found a Watery gra All this death, this suffering and misery ; caused in an instant of time and Without the fiightest warning. As there were but about 100 passengers on board at the time, the caswalties were sinall in comparison to what they wight have been had it bees at the beight of the sumer travel. As it is, one quarter of all the passengers are sufferers by this sad calamity, THRILLING ACCOUNT BY AN EYR WITNESS, — A gentleman whe was on board{the boat atthe tine of the explosion gives the lollowing thrilling. account: T think the aecident occurred a fow winutes before 6 im the morning. At least [ remember that it was just 20 winutes before 6. when Larose from my berth to dress myself, aa I thought we must be neariug the city, and T wanted to be on shore as Seon 28 possible. M state room was situated in the forward part of. the cabin, on the port side. IT looked out ot the that the western sky was juag brightening from the reflection of daylignt from the east, and then, opening the door, stepped ont ite the saloon, which was dinly lit, ouly one or two burners of the main chandeher being lighted, I had hardly reached the centre of the Saloon, on }my way out to the open air, before 1 heard @ strange countable apprehension, BY STEAMSHIP CUBA. | was deep and terrible. report which thrilled me with una It was not so ond as it I once heard seme gun ‘otten explode in a close apartmert, and the _ Pho tank Ww : Abl ihe 37% ~ypceageth ing I r than any- bt nee : : : nt.” 1¢ habitans | Westininster Abbey on the 17th....- sord Jotun) thing I can compare it to. It was immediatel | was rejected by his constituents at the general appear to be as backward in the art of agriculture | Russell is the new Premier, aud as bis colleagues | followed by a terrible shock. which shook onal lelection in March last—he being last on the} ** their brethren in the Ishind | concur in the arrangement, we have the cld Cabi-| plank in the steamer, and before Poaa wihoten hs ‘ Phe orthography and rhyme in this stanza! net with a new Chih The cattle plague has! wy mi Y 4 uw . a poll, and far behind any of the other candidates | slightly differ eres Net a ms ih é e cattle plague has| my miod what it meant I saw the side wf the Most) been materially and vigerous action of the Government pica ee are happy to find that the cholera is disappearing in | t Paris, and in the southern cities of France. The | 5 |for York County. The cause assigned for his | persons spell the word with an 0, but I pronounce » x as ee ee é jit as if spelled with an I. However, my pronoun- defeat was his advocacy of Confederation. ciation of the English language was vever good ; Deetertiniin } tee } a jand if the reader is not convinced of its correctness | : ous he a ele ‘ ay , > nine © ” rade ha ve ell hes ; Previous to the late election the Government in this ease, Lean only refer him to thousands of | 2™perer and Evipress have won ali hearts in the | t learned people who have come from places North | Country by visiting the hospitals in Paris, in order | r lof New Brunswick, through their organ, chal- to sve how the cholera patients were treated, | ¢ "ae bi a aise - | of the Tweed who can’t pronounce the English a enzed—defied, < adyocate +deration | | nged—defied, ny advocate of Confederation | bit better than 1 do. | to contest the County. They put forward their | 3 2 ; . man, a Mr. Pickhard, and they demanded for| | hima majority of votes not less than any of the | | | for their safety and comfort was accomplished. | ¢ | .--. It is amusing and curious to see the uses to! r | which Fenianism has been tortured in Ireland. | Lord Enniskillen Siezes English Mail, per Steamship Cuba, | for the extension of Orangeism, and Archbishop | u rt eI On THE ENGLISH MAIL. | on present Government ¢andidates had at the last | Tue felection in the same County. checked in France by the bold! saloon, | and that all that human skill and eare eould do | flying across the eabin. I heard the engines stop. spon it as an argument) the saleon through the drifting steam, The Govern.| ®"tived at Halifax on Tuesday evening, the Tth| Tench puts it forward as a ground for the pre-| atir. The Govern- | . ' servation of the Anglican Establishment in Ire-| ed by vast bodies of het wate a short distance m front of the wheel ouse, sinashed in as by a cannoy shot, with a errible crashing 8. und, accompanied by one wild ell which rings in my ears at this moment with errible distinctness. A great clond of steam ushed through the aperture, speedily filling the utire saloon; but first I saw a shapeless mass This proved to. be the orpse of a child, whe had been sleeping in state oom No, 123, 1 think, although I am not certain. A great light illuminated I yave iyself up for lost, and for a moment could not The steam was almost immediately follow. . ’ ; ia ee ae 1 ; r, Whica seemed to — 'ment and their papers worked hard for Mr, | /"t- The Mail for this Island reached here on Fis The Archbishop of Westminster was ex-| burst into the saloon in a perfect deluge. It ickhard ; but notwithstanding all their efforts, | Friday morning. pected to arrive in England on the 23th... .. Gen. Cameron has reported himself at the War Office. | notwithstanding that the election was held in| The news furnished, to which we devote some re > } » +} © : Ore - > , ' . * a + . was conducted with august cere mony — the) French Chamber ef Deputies.tae Government in-| d 4 ue A vines gl Oh late’ eine AN Jvomier were | tends announei 3 “di . other Counties—Mr. Fisher, the Confederate, }"™ins of the late venerable Premier were | tends announcing the iumediate return > ) maintained in Rome aod Mexico. : ‘ ; resting place of many other) pertal intentions with regard to the French army | ri great men, and few if any greater than himself. | mn no doubt vow exists, tor all rs aoe : fa ool : ._» | agree that the Emperor Napoleon intends faith- inglish journalists, periodical writers of all fully to carry out the terms of the Franeo-Lahan pO Tee i | kinds, are. exercisin: ay dort line-tuse vers | Couvention. change of opinion in New Brunswick on the | Kinds, are exercising their intellectual a . ° re | Abbey —— las Government nominee by the overwhelming Abbey — the iast number of 711!!! We said, some time ago, that there was a But it is otherwise m regard tu the | tl : ‘ i ; French soldiers in Mexico: for ‘ The St. John|" Commemorating the great qualities of the | Tacos Ger, Wotwithetending | F : : | the continued unpopularity of the eecupation, the Freeman denied it with a most supercilious | departed Statesman, and some brilliant articles | opinion gains ground in certain quarters that the : ; , ime sineimedl tei on he ‘ith his demise, | PVUTe withdrawal of the French troops trom Mex- air—the Patriot here, about the same time, have appeared in connection with his de mise. | } x t : The Neen dhe ‘enianism,;: has ceased | made an assertion to the effect, that there was | That unclean thing, Fenianism, has ceasi d| Maxis uilian. no chanze at all in the publie sentiment of | t° excite any alarm on the other side of the] - . : : . . j lantie New Brunswick on the question of C onfedera- | Atlantic. tion. We knew the York County election was|™€"t put a most effectual st ypper on that wild THE CHOLERA. “ An English journal says.—We must now pre-| i pare to battle with the grim visitor on this side of | “ ithe Channel. down and carried off the medical officer of health, a. Cooper ; a young lady has also been attacked ee ; : ) and succumbed; and a great deal of alarm pre- Fexwick Win IAMS, lately vails at the seaport so janiecens to the emer tt Governor of Nova Scotia, } tal ports, the sanitary condition of Which does not at : : ; came Out in the last Zaglish Steamer to Halifax, | #PPCar lo be 1 the best possible taste. Still it is It is noteworthy that neither the Patriot nor ‘ - oto Halifax | satistactory to koow the cholera loses its viru- “rT , . . ié€ ( vas swor j flice j “lis ly is | . * . : , i any of the other anti-Confederation papers in| and was sworn into oflice immediately on his | leuce eve ry tine if comes west, and, though it | il s . a "lee i * : or t ; f - 4 ‘. a " l arrival. » cannot be viewed at any period with indifereuce this place, have published a line in reference to | "8 heel ms oa The vigorous measures of the Govern- ————__—_—_—~-- <.o—_ Sir appointed Lieut. The Seven Hundred and Eleven ma challenge, and an undeniable test. The papers are engaved in a teil : — a a . ste : iunproved medical treatment may make it as little ot it. If there had been the least | SP@c¥lations on his future poucy. Those OP-| fatal as the run of erdinary fevers. wind blew vices | posed to Confederation, knowing that the | ~—-r tment ncmeenpngs oe te am art | oe < Fdnwkt tes : a Bi ta a e717 Pp , 2 CNrrp "Taming | re ously from the anti-Confed. quarter, can any | General is an enthusiast in favour of it, seem to| LATEST FROM THE UNITED STATEs. ‘a c A a “ New York, Nov. 6.—There has been one or } arial + "ar a ress lis ‘ et} a2.° the Imperial Government to press that question | ty, additional cases of cholera on board the saloon—it absolutely poured in. ; os Sg ‘ i arge ’s of occupation which Franee has! the appearance of being b Hing b av ee |deposited, on the 27th ult., in Westminster| MT° artnies race fas | the appearance of being boiling bot T should have j one of the party foolishly challenged, beat the | Ceposited, On he 27th ult., in Westminster Of the Im-| thought that we were sinking, and that the broad covered the floor so rapidly that I had just time enough to spring and gain a hold on the main | te answer for his conduct in the New Zealand | chandelier before it was seethin metropolitan County, where re elsewhere, is not very important to the | war..... The cattle plague in England shows | g under my feet. ; a Tn a few seconds I was securely perched above © general reader. The funeral of Lord Palmerston | *&08 0! aruda disappearance... . +he rumor is} the water, but I wituesse ; jeurrent in Paris that, at the first meeting of the! and horror which will abide with me to my dying da scene of destruction ay. The water did not spout nor gush into the Had it not had © ver itself was engulfing us. Then there vecurred terrible seene among the passengers, most of _ whom were asleep in their berths at the time of the explosion, The impulse whieh nearly all of vem obeyed, upon being rudely awakened and terrified by the shock, was to spring to the floor, and their sereams aud yells as their feet went ankle-deep iute the scalding flood indescribable. ico would jeopardise the throne of the Emperor) mind ‘ are literally Pew of them had presence of enough to climb again mte their bunks: but ia a few moments, or raiber seconds, the saloon > as peopled with terror-stricken and agonized wins, most in their hight-clothes, splashing ildly about in the boiling water, One man, in At Southampton it bas struck | 18 agony, tried to pull me from my perch; but, by repeated directions, ] at length induced him te get upou a chair, cliid on either arm, dashing I saw a mother, with a little frantically threugh ie water, and every time she would Jift up her naked feet IT could see that they were boiled toa erimson hue. Reaching down, I lifted one of the children to my side; but she let. the other one tall lute the water, sealding it severely, but not fataily, I think, before 1 eould also possess myself I then seized her by the hair, and assisted» | her to a position ona chair, where she managed »stand until the water had tubsided. I] might ‘late numerous other instances, but, in all eon-,, » ‘ience, the above are horrible enough. The | ater subsided very rapidly—it baving all run out f ina very few minutes after its first appearances ©! which the people of the British Colonies will) in Nova Scotia. atialy to positions of national prosperity and greatness. We declared ourselves in fa- vour of this question at the very out-set of our Long and severe, most certain! y, 1a Some cases, will be the trials and suferiazs, whieh peoples will have to undergo, before they will be able to free themselves from “the base laws of servitude.” But the aspect of the ae is such as fully to persuade us that Heaven, career. The violent old Tories, who had places they desired to keep—and the craven many who bad axes to grind, and thought they could nowhere get a job except at Tory hands— laughed at and abused the advocates of Respon- sible Government—they were “ seditions dema- now at the appointed time, has imparted such gogues,” nay, “traitors’’—and Responsible i cht and euergy, even to the minds of mon | Government was nothing more nor less than who have long grovelled in a state of degraded | «& Responsible Humbug.’ Such were the terms i gsornnee, aud been held in most cruel bonda -e, | in which our present Attorney Genera), amongst us sha!l enab'e them effectually to redeem them-! the rest, designated the boon, over the pros- scives, both from the chaius of mental Gian! pective loss of which, accordinz to his erroneous and the physical thraldom of tyrants, and he-e on earth to prepare themselves for translation to those ren!ms * Of haprluess and wonder, where the mind, Tu cudioss erowth, aud hifinite ascent, Jijess from state to state, and world to world.’ perceptions, he now pathetically mourns.* It would be easy to count scores amonzst our Yes, for atime their trials and their sufferin +s may be severe; as ave the anguish and sorrow of a woman whoo she is in travail. But as ase, when the child is born, remembereth vo more her anguish for joy that a man is born which stimulated the action. present population who then rezarded the new |town, or Hooper's Corner, as it was then de- system with great disfavour. They are amongst | 8igoated, seven miles from Charlottetown, and in| its greatest admirers now. But their conversion | the church there they will see the picture of the is entirely owing to the healthy action of pub-| one that then graced Queen Square—nay, the lic opinion; and let us say, with pardonable | Windows and part of the interior finishing are pride, that it was a free aad independent press | pacts of it. We are not writing a history of this period, [doep now, The number of streets, as compared with that! of houses, and the scattered condition of these. gave signs of anything less than those of pro- But intended to enable some future historian yet unborn— some Hume or Macaulay in future days —to gress. as this article is a : ; refer to as an authentic picture of their state, it will be well to enter into particulars a little more minutely. The first ebject of enquiry, in coming to a strange place, is the public buildings, churches, etc. Now, at that time, these consisted of the English Episeopal Church and the Roman Catholic Chapel. Those antiquarians who are anxious to know what the first was like may satisfy their curiosity by paying a visit to Mill- are called, being a portion of Lower Canada. and AS I Oe y } PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND CONTRAST. | ED WITH CANADA. [From the Charlottetown Patriot, Oct. 28.]} America) —-it is quite 1 | apon the people of Nova Scotia; and should any ‘ coercion ’* be used — (“ coercion” is now | the word in vogue to siznify a manifestation of | Imperial policy in the Government of British | evident that the ery of | * Perhaps there is nothing that strikes the eve i] ; ca g ; will be raise r 2 of the stranger vistiing Canada for the first time | . ied by. the more forcibly than the decided improvement of | 24:contents, who are the condition, appearatice and quality ef the farm stock of the agricuiturists of the Upper Provinces! . .. ° over that of the Lower, Tie farmers of Canada. foolish march be ever undertalen, it will only | especially those of the Eastern Tuenskips, as they ‘be after Great Britain has entirely cut her con-| “On to Washington” now casting longing, | >) | } ye ° . . : ° lingering looks in that direction. If that | ‘ ; : we | aexion, in the most formal manner. wi er | of Upper Canada generally, are fully fifty years | roe mort, formal. manner, with, dey ahead of our people.” The above we copy from the Halifax Unionist of the 23d inst., and we are perfectly astonished British American possessions. _— —_— keg~ Ovr finend, Mr. at the bardihoed of the man who could write | Putriot, will please excus such statements. Asa “stranger” we recently ; according to its deserts, his article in his last visited Canada “for the first time,’ “and we were| No. about the Tracadie bu Laird, of the é our not noticing, rning, in which he | ; The Chapel is now the school-| house, and then occupied the site the Cathedral | The only other place of worship, ! iuto the workd, so they, when their trials a.djand we must pass on rapidly from 1847 to) was the Methodist Chapel, and that still exists | remem'ver no more the time when, in the dive ‘eae bales ; : Ta , See his speech ata public meeting at Temper- @uncht, “their lives hung in doubt before guce Hull lust winter st ugzles shall baye rogulted in success, shs!l| 1251, wheu the battle for Respousible Govern-|in the front part of the store occupied by Mr. | } Sinclair as an auction room. What is now the City Hall and the Post Office was at that time | of the condition, appearance and quality of the | | Provinces over that of the Lower.” As for Nova ! to horned cattle, Upper Canada is in advance of | Of a man who can honest] ; ane ¢ with the “deci re Ms : by nomeane struck with the “decided improvement | still labours to shew what a truthful, disingen- juous man he is, and what a rash one we are. | If we find we have any taste for the controversy | a . } * . . r , 7 {we shall give the subject a Hitle Seotia and New Brunswick, we eannot speak #0 | ti t * hi ocho Hien " xe rite s | ext N positively —they may be “fifty years’ behind | {22° t@ Write something for our next No. In jthe mean time we bez to assure the pior farm stock of the Agviculturists of tne Upper attention in their neighbors — but as regards this Island, the AS | | tt wal ‘.. iM ae, fi . e | “appearaneaand quality” of our farm ateck as a. Elder, that prevarication and interpolation of) whole equalled that displayed at the Montreal | another's writings —of both of which we can| Exhibition; and while we adwit that in regard | prove him guilty —are not the characte ristics y lay such enormous us, yet they are not one-tenth of fifty years ahead. pretensions to Sanctity as the Elder does, | morning lo emit emoke. jand fitty But the groans and sbreiks of the scalded and mutilated was the most dreadful experience of my lite. In about fifteen minutes after the ex plosion the ferry-boat Merristown came alongside and took off about 50 of the passengers, tt ‘ NEGRO REVOLT IN JAMAICA. Paes! 3 The following article, in reference to the Negro. insurrection which has broken out in the Island of Jainaica, we find in a late Canadian paper: * A recent speech of the Governor, addressed to a deputation of negroes who made complaint A of their sufferings, gives a clue to the cause of this ilk insurrection. Laziness, he told them, was at the bottom of all their troubles, Too lazy towork ~~ either for planters or themselves, they muet o> starve ; but the negroes. instead of going te work, it seems, have taken it into their heads to destroy, property and threaten vengeance. If the effeet. + steamer Atlanta in this harbor, but the excites ment mn the city has subsided A box which had been left by a sojourner at a Greenwich street betel, in New Yor k, as a securi- ty for his board bill, was observed yesterday Two porters carried it to the street where itexploded with a loud report, killing the porters and injuring nive others. The force of the explosion was euch as to spatter the front ef the building, aud break all the windows in the block. All the ogcupauts of the hotel have been arrested. The Herald has a despatch from Toronto, Canada West, dated yesterday, which Says the ex-Graud Master of Orangemen, Gowan, has published a Manitesto, declaring that the Fenians are arming, and calling Orangemen to arm. The Orange organ the Watchman, declares that it has positive information ef a contemplated invasion of the provinces, and that 600 armed men were in Toronto, that members of the Government are , of | frateruising with Fenians ;that the Premier winks | of the jnsarrection be to cause the Island to be com at the contemplated attempt to tuke the Provin-| verted into a Crown Colony it will be all the better” ces from British conpeetion, and that the Feuiaus| for Jamaica, Representative government doe ; drill in Toronto at night. : not do well in that island. The contrast between a New York, Nov. &—A San Franciseo des-| Jau.aica in its present condition, and Trinidad, patch gives the following:—A despatch yester- | a Crown colony, is deseribed by visitors ae = day trow Victoria states that the party construct. | most remarkable. la Jawaica the sugar ve : ing telegraph lines to the Russ.an possessions | tious have become deserted, owing te the al a were setting telegraph poles about one hundred | ingness of the negroes to labor en them. ~ ' ‘ tiles perth of the mouth of Queen's nidad the negroes are stimulated to work | ae i Rover. They there struck dirt, yielding feventy- greater rigor of the laws, in making kr ater . five cents to one dollar worth of gold per pan full, | Negroes have no band or part. The planters, ----Gold 147. moreover, de not depend altogether on negre et eee bor, but, aided by the wise Court of Policy, hase a THE INSURRECTION AT JAMAICA. _ | introduced coolies in great numbers, and by thei = . geo labor keep up explorations on the island. lu New York, Nov.8 —The consul at Havana maica the introduction of coolies bas: in encloses to the State Department a despateh froin tempted, but is not sv heartily entered into as i eth ~~ =— ese ~ bee = oe oe oe Oe Ee wee & es