— ee mma ge “. - ‘ ane ee Any —_—— ™ ee in << eS ef 1 ie: ty } 4 | | ,% & ‘ a 0 +m J / snostly go for this nisht's shelter; but tomorrow must see the business | have come upon cum: | pleted. uncle ? ‘No, the night is sultry and the darkness threatens a storm. ‘Good night.’ And Gertrude tripped away, for fatigue was over, and her heart was rendeged light by the thought of another image that had been en throned there beside her uncle’s—That of Her- bert Hinchborouzh. As the door closed behind her, the old man sat down at the twule: and, drawing some pa- per, pens, and irk dowards hima, he commenced £0 write quickly, seldom pausing, as if he had wil he wished to say ready formed in his mind. So engrossed was he that, bis back to the window, he did not observe the white, eager! face peering in at it and at hirw. Moationless it remained for an instant; then the body it belonged to, slipped noiselessly into éhe room, and, the bwots being removed, stole cautiously to the back of the writer. Leaning forward, the dark, brilliant, epger eyes read the writing on the table. The pen travelled fast; hut the reader kept pace with it; and as he did so a still whiter hue overspread his now fivcce looking features. ‘ it is so—it is so,’ he thouglt. Good night, darling.’ ‘My fears _oesemnan The Whelan Trial. ‘Shall I close the window ‘before I go, THE PRISONER FOUND GUILTY. His Speech before Sentence. ‘TO BE HANGED ON THE 10TH. DEC. Uttawa, Sept. 15. The jury entered the Court at twenty-five minutes past fen The Clerk— Mr. Foreman, have ye@u agreed on your verdict? How do yau fing the prison- er at.the bar— guilty or not waeilty ? Foreman— Guilty. (Sensation 1 Court.) Clerk—diemlemen ot the Jury, hearken to your verdict as the Court records it. Your | verdict is “ Guilty ;"’ so say you all. - a i a a ai IT had no breakfast. It was not ready, and on the sentence T am -aboyt to pass ts ratified, a several mornings, not one only, as stated, it) it must be, iby the conviction of those who read | ury were warranted in| Well, this morning [| bringing in their verdict, when the sentence went to work and worked till 12 o’clock| must be absolutely earried out without any | was not ready when I yot up, and 1 used to go ithe evidence, that the j to work without it. when I came back to dinner. I had mv dinner hope of reprieve, Let me implore you to con " : : 1 and then went back to the shop; when I sider and weigh well found that Eagleson was arrested. I then put | Jittle time left you in this world, py | : . i } on my coat and went up to the own Hall.) duty now remains for me to pronounce on you ' « I wanted to see Eavleson to find out what he | the exreme sentence of the law--that you I could not get in to see,| Patrick James Whelan, was arrested for. ; went to Quinn’s, and after | place where you may be confined to the place jand from there I that I went to the tailor shop next door where Mr. Me(iee boarded. 1 stopped there a | an few minutes and then went to my own shop. | 10th day of December ext, and that you be iThat night I dressed myself and went down to | there hanged by the neck until you are dead ; the society. My overcoat was hanging up. | and may God have mercy on your soul. ¥ . . . . , r | . - . é r R a My revolver was in its right hand pocket, a} Prisoner then said, ‘ Well, my Lord, tha ” . . . * . a box of cartrides was in the left hand pocket, | does not make me guilty. land there was a ramrod. Well, I put the coat | His Lordship was deeply affected while de your future during the!) and Priate Imperial, to-day The solemn Queen daabella of Spain at St. Sebastian. be taken from the to | of execution, between 9 o’clock in the morning 15 o’clock in the afternoon of Tuesday, the Latest News by Telegraph. FROM EUROPE. London, Sept. 18— Evening. | >| Empress Eugenie, made a visit to a The Emperor Napoleon, An Italian Cardinal has been tried by the civil , court at Rieta, and sentenced to pay a fine of 1500 franes for attempting to take possession of lthe Sea of Sabina by order of the Pope without | the authorization of the King of Italy. Metz, Sept. 13. factory in this city te-day. ‘Thirty persons were lkilled outright, and eighty-twe badly injured. t| The building in which the explosion occurred was torn to pieces. : Metz, (Franee.) Sept. 19th—Eve. A terrible explosion took plaee at the cartridge | London, Sept. 25. | The Times this morning has a letter from Paris containing the following news of the insurrection jan Spain :—Gen. Prim, the Leader of the I | eyrgent forces, star Generals who were reeently Govermment at Cadiz. Capt. Spanish ironclad “* Saragossa, for the insurgents, brought bis guns to the barracks of Cadiz and compelled the Royal ‘Troops gatrisoned in the city to surcender. I . city having pronounced for the revolution, each General sailed to pre-arranged points on the ‘eoast, where each raised the standard of insur- l rection and set the movement o& foot at his appointed theatre ef operations. Despatches frem Naples report: that insur- rections have broken out in Calabria and Sicily lin favor of an Italian rebublic — The Italian Govermwment has taken prompt and strong steps o the disurderss re New York, Sept. 19. exiled by the Spaniali Malearaye of the ’ who had declared | ted from Paris and met the} bear en} A closer exawination ef the ruins of the cart- The cricket match was concluded yesterday by victed of the murder of Thomas D'Arcy Me- ree. The Judge—What have you to say, Patrick | James W helan, why the sentence of the Court shauld not be pronounced ayainust you? The Paisoxan thep addressed the Court in a loud and firm veice, to the following etfect: —My Lord and get tlemen of the Jury, | have | been tried and found guilty, of course, for the i } Mr. Reilly—I move for the judgment of on just as it was, and walked to the society. ‘the Court ayainst Patrick James Whelan, con-! After the meeting was over 1 came back ayaiu | deal of sensation in court. and sat down, not thinking of Mr. McGee or {who had murdered him, when Dectective (O'Neil walked in and arrested me. Wel!, on | going up to the police station he asked me | what time I left the House last night. I told him it was twenty minutes past two o'clock, as 'well as I could recollect, and that I went | straight home to my boarding-house. /never indicated in any way what I was arrested for till about two or three hours afterwards, ‘livering the sentence, and there was a good the American twenty-Lwo scormg 35 on their | price to be paid Mr. ‘Todd is thirteen nine pence per acre. The arrears of reat lamount to nearly five thousand pounde | with the estate at the price named. | | now offer this estate, a* purchased *hillings Whies * Play |the Government, at the price at which | beng it, vig.: Das Od, per acre, including ajj areas | Asa pecuniary investment, this purchase we; in my opinion, preve remunerative te me, but q I desire that the Government may have ~ a | portunity vf emancipating the Leaseholders y | Lot 19, 1 offer it to them. pug 1 have the honor to be, Sir, Your obedt servant, JAMES CG. POPE Hon. Joseph Hensley, . Altoruey General, &., &e. Charlottetown, 4th Sept., 1862 Hon. J. C. Pope, Sin; 1 bey leave to acknowledge receipt of ter of the lat September, imestant, inforwnee j He | But the prisoner wore his old look, and be- fore he put his hat on, when leaving the dock, ' brushed it with the sleeve of his coat. Application for a new trial in the case of Whelan will be made to the Judges at ‘Toronto ‘in November. ‘The ground on which it will be ‘based is that the Judge refused to allow chal- ‘lenge of jurors *‘for canse’”’ before the per- emptory challenges were exhausted. <A great have at last become realities |’ . Suddenly stretching his hand over the while L am standing on the brink of the grave, other's shoulder and putting his finger on one | and ghaut to appear before Almighty God for partic ler line, be said iu a hah hoarse haat crue, l swear to you before God, as my Sone. judge on earth, that J neyer committed the o ‘Ts this you atate here true! | deed, and 2 know it in aa heart and soul well, With an exclamation of surprise mingled | Yow, in the next place | have been accused by with terror, the old man started up; but the the Counsel for the Crown of Fenianism. I , wf mn . ' . 7 . 4 } > : other’s hand was on bis ,broat, clutching |.can assure you, my lord, and you, gentlemen wurder of Shomas D'Arcy Meee, and now | 'when he informnd me that Mrs. Trotter's son lhad seen me running ground the Queen’s |Printing House block after shooting Mr. | |McGee, when 1 knew in my heart and soul that | I did not shoot Mr. McGee, J knew dhat better ‘than any man. Well, after they got all they could out of me, as they thought to convict, they jexamined my boots and compared them with ‘the warks in the snow on the stairway behind | many prominent lawyers think the ground is a good and substantial one. It is stated that in the Notman cage in Montreal, the éudye al- lowed it to be done. "Latest European News. ridge factory in the official investigations as to the number of persons employed in the works, lead to the still more sorrowful conelusions that forty-six persons were killed and 110) badly) wounded by the explosion which oceurred this morning. second innings which with 61 on their first ‘innings made a total ef 140 against 175 by the English in one tioning. Nine of the Englishmen played a gawe of base ball with nine of the Americaus. The score stood 33 for the Hugtishmen and 10 for the Americans. They left for Montreal to-day, Gold 1448. London, Sept: 20. John Wilson Patton, member of Parliament for North Laneashire, has been appointed Seeretary of State for Ireland, vice Earl Mayo appointed Governor General of India. At a meeting of the Roman Catholic clergymen of Galway a resolution was adepted pledging thease present to oppose all candidates for Parlia- ment who do not support Mr. Gladstone s re- solves for the disestablishment of the Irish Church. Queen Isabella of Spain made a visit to the Emperor and Empress at Barritz soon after the return of the latter from St. Sebastian. An insurrection is reported to have broken out in Andalusia, Spain, A despateh from Madrid | Che Examiner. SORIA PRAIRIES EIR IIL LD OD OB I Charlottetown, September 28, 1868. THE LOT 19 ESTATE, We publish below the correspondence be- tighter and tighter every eifurt he made to free af the jury, and every loyal subject in the daupael lf ‘Answer by word or sign—is this true? | demanded the other tiercely. 4 And,take care, | old man, how you trifle with me! WYour gray) hairp shall have no effect upon me.’ ‘Midnight assassin !—robber!' gasped the | other, whatever you may Le, J will gaswer| vi shat question, ford am here to proclaim it | o the world! J declare by the Heaven above that all [ have written there is true." ‘Madman,’ hissed the other, ‘* Those words | | country, that I never was a Fenian either at ithe house opposite Mrs Trotter's; but that home or abroad, I have never belonged to | charge was not produced against me nor the any organized body here or elsewhere, The | charge of having been seen running around the Hibernian Society | never belonged tou, and the | Queen's Printi g Office. Now, ny, Lord on suciety I belonged to here | belonged to ouly | the 22nd day of April, I was in my cell locked for a shoré dime. The Counsel for the Crown |up. ‘They brouzht Lacroix up and ¢ was alluded to my being marshal at the progession | deliberately pointed out to him, but he did not on last St. Patrick's Day. ft is true [ was, | know me; when I was pointed out to him he but it came about in this way: I was asked it | suid, Je ne connius pas. He did not know me, I could mde. I said 1 could, having been in| my Lord; and I knew he did not know me. He never saw me in his lite. Three hours i f the ‘City of New York.’ al th 7 Arrival o y announces the resignation of the Prime Minister | ee" the Government and the Hon, J. ¢ and most of the Cabinet. The Marquis of Havana has been requested to fill their places ad interim. The Queen is returning to Madrid. Martial law has been proclaimed in the capital The Paris journals have reports that a general insurrection against the Queen of Spain has been commenced, teaded by General Prim and the genecals who were recentiy exiled Some ae- counte say that the rebels are moving on Madrid in force, Pope, relative to the purchase of the Todd The transaction de- cidedly quiver took about it. Mr. Pope is, during the dog days, suddeuly seixed with a (From the News of the World, Sept. 13.) The Emperor of the French made no speech Estate. whole haa a at Chalons. The spirit of tive army at the camp is said to be very warlike, and the Em- peror paid it marked attention. On the oc- casion of the sham fight his Majesty sent round champagne go <he officers and a copious supply od red wine 10 the men, benevolent desire to benefit the farmers of Lot 19. for he has been for many years Mr. Todd’s He knows perfectly well who owes He knows all about their circumstances, The Moniteur states that at the camp at Liverpool, Sep. 21. avent. are your death-warrant! Two know the secret | reason I was appointed Certainly it is true | the Cavalry at Quebec, and that was the only | ‘ fet afterwards he was taken down stairs and shown | Chalons on Tuesday numerous experimental ‘my clothes, and he asked that I should be | trials of artillery were made in the presence of Apprehension» of war have partsaily eubsided | back rent, and how much he owes; who are in now—you and I; before many minutes have jam # Roman Catholic, but that does not make paseed it will be only known to one!" + Who are you?’ gasped the old man, in vain attempting to wrench the strong grip from his throat, ‘who are you that thi gecres can so in- terest.’ ‘You shall never kpow’’ gather, his grip tightening as he spoke. ‘ Suf. fice it that it does interest me, and that your lity is in my way, and it must be removed.’ £ Would you, then, kill me.’ . | eeclaimed the | | me any the worse, in my opinion. — 1 was in Quebee during the last Fenian raid, working jou Lavallieres street, but knowing that the } work would not last for long, | weut up to the | barracks of the P. C. O's Ritles, in the citadel, where i was engaged Dy the master-tailor of ithe Ritles. I was there in company with a man named O'Brien, and we had some drink |together. #¥e were not there very long till ‘sume cogyersation came up between O'Brien ’ 'dressed in them = 1 was then brought down land placed in front of him with eight or ten | irespectable gentlemen of Ottawa. ‘The Sheriff} }was there and said, “ Turn right about face.” | Then he did me an injustice in the sight of God. | | man. isitting on that bench. croix, ‘Show me the man you saw that night, and he of course came oyer snd pointed me He did that as sure as you are now Ile then said to La- a | Ny lord, he deliberately pointe d me out to that | met everywhere with a cordial reception. the Emperor, The intuutry were also put through some manceuvres, at the termination King of Prussia at Kiel have proved a failure. of which the Emperor visited the encampment | {¢ is evident that peace is sincerely desired by the | | and inspected the corps of ambulance aud) Governments and people of Europe, with the sole | , other military establishments. His Majesty! exception of the Emperor of the French, whose purpose is unknown and perhaps undetermined. | | Growing indignation is manifesting itself at his | | ambiguity of indecision. According to the tenor of the last adviees from Ceutral Asia, the resumption of hostilities on the part of the Russians at Bokhara is expected in A correspondent of the dudependance Belge says that a difliculty has just arisen between the Governments of France and Switzerland, out of a naturalization case. A Savoyard of | during the past week. The efforts of the Parisian | ood circumstances and who are not. | Press te extract a warlike signiécegce from the) © Mr. Todd visits the Island, and, with the most disinterested and purely benevolent intentions | in the world, Mr. Pope sends his brother, the) Hon. William Pope, to find out from that gentleman whether or not he is willing to part with his property oa Jot 19. The ingenuous, unsophisticated negotiator has no thought of that you bad agreed with AndrewThorntog Todd Keq., for the purchase of his estate in this , comprising about 12,000 acres of land, situaty 0’ Lot 19, at the price of 13s. 9d. per acre, thea rears of rent, ameunting to nearly £5 » ing with the estate, and offering the purchased by you, to the Goverowent at the price with all arrears. The Government fully appreciate the ex, sion of desire, upon your part, that they WKY hag an opportunity of a the I upon the Lot in question, and are exeeed Polen w! Saar themselves of it. In ondat! arrive at a final and seund covelusion ¢ course, require to have seme further parti ; connected with the eetate Communicated to 1000, yan, a adie =\ whieh d naw request you to furnish to me wi | | aw little delay as possible. Ist. Particulars of the agreement between jm and Mr. Todd. i ake >a Zid. Reat roj] with names of Tenants much land #soder leasxe—how much wi id land—arrears of rent due trom each Tenaut. Grd. Plans of property. Commissioners have been appointed to ving and inspect the property #0 soon as the above particulars shall bave been received, and their report be favorable, the Government will be prepared, on the tithe being approved of, iy couclude the purchase. The Commissioner of Public Landa is aj rent in the country, but if you wall be «gle to let me know when you can furnith the abuy particulars, 1 will send to him. and request biy attendance in Town, so as to expedite wattey as much as possible. The agreement will, y F course, speak for itself, but T wish alse, i deutly of it, te koow trom you the terme of pay. meot of the purchase money, in case of Ue mg ter being finally arranged between os. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your obedt. Servant, JOSEPH HENSLEY, Attorney General, * Aye, Inke a doz, unless you declare by all ‘and some genilemen belonging do the P. ¢. your “hopes iu the world to come to destroy |0"*, aud accordingly it happened that O'Brien this, and never let the secret pass your lips!’ | offered $20 to this man if he would join the out asthe man. There was a deposition made by Lacaoix and I asked to see it, but | would not be allowed to ask him a question, I ithe uame of Boyrgeois has long been settled lat Geneva, and was naturalized there before the annexation of Savoy to France. He has any advantage, pecumary ov poljtical, to him- self or to his brother iu the trausaction. The October next. Despatches from Madrid via Paris state that the Spanish naval forces stationed of Cadiz had ‘Never! The crime has been burden enongh | Fenians. I was sitting at the time this occur- | knew I could put to him a questton which he could not answer, but they ran me out of the office and upstairs to my cell. Now, I know in my heart and soul that that man did not { } | revolted against the Queen’s Government. The genevals receatly banished had returned and joined in the revolt. Marshal De La Torre headed the morement, a son still a minor, and the French authorities maintain that the naturalization of the father does not carry with it that of the son, and as yood of the suffering tenantry of Lot @9 is his He finds Mr. Todd disposed to sell, and as the Hon. William has a circuitous mode sole aim. Charlottetown, 7th Sept., 1868, Sir; I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt gf your letter, dated 4th Sept., mestant, in whi after communicating to ime the gratifying intel genee that the Government appreciate my & sire that they may bave an opportunity of emane already. I would not live a day louger with it | ed at the table. I was arrested and brought unrevesled.’ | before Judge Maguire, but no charge was ‘Then you shall not !” made against me. | was asked my name and |the young man has refused to submit him. The grip became tight indeed; bus ike old man aroused, strengthened by the thought that five secret must perish at his death, collected al! his powers fur one last cry for help; aud so shrill, so piercing was it, tha: the whole house yang with the sound. he next instant hurrying feet were heard on the stairs and in the passage. With a frightful expletive, the man threw hia victim, now senseless, yjolently from him, epreng to the door, turned the key; then colleeting all the papers writen Upon the table, hastened to the window, lept into the | spreading branches of a tree, by which he had) managed his ascent, dropped from bough to | bough till he reached the ground, resumed his) boots, then rushed trom the inn yard by a back | way, 33 he heard the duor of the roym above, burst open, and sped like a hunted bare from the place, muttering ; *T have nearly killed him if nat quite. He} is old. It will be long before he recovers) conaciopaness, so to-morrow I must have re-| gourse to gnother plan. My future depends | oe ig.” j { To be continued ) " ww deal of moucy here, and [ took a house and spite in any shape or form. I know be was a Judson’s Pills. /eamne, I think in Qetober. J took a house in | talented mar, an able man, and a pride of his : ji ; : ithe warket, and insended fo settle here. Well, |country, and is it to be supposed then that || probably have an interview with the Emperor imines —~<£>- ™ NEW ZEALAND. | MORE TROUBLE WITH THQ NATIVES. a Aceou.ts from Platea state that an attack | by the natives had tven made upon the re-| doultt at Turo Turo Moki. The Times extra. geves the following account :— “The attack on the redoubt gt Furo Ture | Moki was made before break of day. Private Lucey was on sentry outside—challenzed | twice and then fred—received a volley —was_ shot through the shoulder--aicceeded in load-| ing his rifle, but could not fire it off. “Went tu the gateway and saw Captain, Neuss in his shirt. Handed his ride do huss, | »ho fired it; Ross then fired off all the (pombe of his revolver, and part of another. e then called ount—‘I am done for. Men, you must do the best you can for yourselves !' | The men then seemed to have had # panic, and some of them attempted to escape. ‘s Four gen jumped over the parapet, one of them #48 cauyhs aud domahay) o*) Svht- fijly mutilated. Three others, Caimi jig, and Burrows, to Wajhi~ Four men got awa held one angle of theorcaouht, and two of these men, Milme ena Johnston, being armed wath davO kept the natives from getting vver #,, parapet. The latter had cut steps in the parapet, aud as soon as oye glowed his bead he was baynotted. These four men hel¢ phe post until Vou Temsky arrived. The uatives never got beyoud the gateway of the redouht. “+ Casualties.—()ne officer ang mne men killed. Cuptaig fons, Sergeant McFadden, Corporal Bjake, and four privates, namely ; Shields, fiulder, Kershaw, (mutilated) and Lennon (trightfully mutilated) Ross, Swords and Beamist:.’’ The Volunteers were called out, and ordered to be in readiness at a moment's warning. --=»>- —- --—— ~— Carlton’s Condition Pow ders =_-.- Acry fur immediate relief from impending starvation cawes fromthe people of the Red River Settlemeng. Jt is said that within the whole Colony not one bushel of any kind of grain will be harvested, owing to the ravages of the grasshoppers ; and the root crop will be Short. In addition to this, the byffalo hunters auetead of furnishing their large share of pro- gisions and leather, have come back starving: from their usual hunting grounds. Many of them had to eat their horses and their oxen before their return. ‘The condition of the set- glement is described as a “plague,” and the okdeas ler has no recollection of so terrible @ state of things. gr this dive strait appeal hax been tu the Canadigis.— Halifax Col onist. — -2- Morse’s Indian Reot Pills. | gave it as Sullivan, my sother’s name, be- |cause | gid not wish to have my sight same lappeer in print. While in Quebec, | joined Capt. Scott's troop of cavalry. I got to be | sergeant, and Capt. Scott and other gentlemen {knew my character while I was there, whether I was inclined to Penmamay or not, | still | retained the same name in the cavalry, but | bear it in mind, the name I go by now, I went | by in Quebec. 1 came to Montreal from there ‘ufter they were dismissed and was there 9 or /d% or 18 months. I did assist there in the represent at first that he saw me, but I know what was working against me. The prejudices thyt arg created against me in gll quarters. Men of opulence formed prejudices against me, }und talked and acted in a way that I would) jscorn to use tuwards any one in my position, jand why was this, because I was a Roman 'Catholic. I dave been taunted in the jail, | 'gloated over, threatened in my cell by that! gentleman who is sitting there now (pointing | to Sheriff Powell, who was seated near the | He suid he would beat any 7 Fenians } j Jud se.) /annexed to France he has never been a French- | man at all, and that his son, being a minor, is self to the conscription, he has been condeian. ed as refractory. The Federal Council has re- quested the Swiss Minister in Paris to explain to the French Government that Bourgeois having been naturalized before Savoy was in precisefy the same position. France can- not, therefore, claim mihtary service trom a person in no way belonging to her, It is thought that these explanations will have aid the leading men of the old O'Donnellist | Of doing things—even a charitable action—he party sustain it. Several towns have joined the insurrection, and the most intense panic prevailed at the Court in Madrid. Troops had been despatched south, Gen. Coueh taking command. A rumor prevailed in Parie Saturday evening | | that Queen Isabella had abdicated. would be under no such obligation, who might London, Sepi. 21.—Midnight. The following news has been received from Spain. uses his influence and his eloquence to persuade the proprietor to sell, not to the Government, who, in purchasing land,is bound by statute to resell it to the tenautry at as cheap a rate as wssible, but to his brother, the agent, who hold it as long as he pleased, sell it to whom he pleased, and at the highest price which the in- their due effect. Other cases of difficulty,| The resignation of Gonzales, Bravo and the | tending purchaser could be induced to pay for it. pating the Leaseholders upon Lot 19, and the they are exceedingly desirous to avail themsely of such opportunity, you request me to turnig § ‘you with further particulars connected with th leetate offered for sale by me, in order thatthe | Government may be enabled to arrive at a fig and sound conelyeion. The further particulars required by you, stated in your letter, are: Ist. Particulara of agreement between me ani Mr. Todd. 2ud. Rent roll of estate with names of Tenants The quality ef land wader lease—the quantity of wildernees land, avd arrears of rent duc frop |L noticed this to my friend who was with me, election between Mr. McGee and Mr. Devlin, like me, and that on the 4th of May he would | ag stated by the counsel for the crown. The get out a fifa for me that would finish me. | assistance was this:—I was asked by a man My Lord, Lt am no Fenian. I could sacrifice | named ©'Meara if I would be a serutineer, | my last drop of blood for that noble woman | I did not know what a scrutineer was, never | Whose portrait stands opposite me, and looks | having been at an election before; but I went }down upon me now. (Pointing to the portrait | to the polls, took down a few names, and |of the Queen.) 1 served nine years aud six | stopped there till dinner time, when I went months vf true aud good service too—4 years home. That ended my elections. In the/of them in India. And if she wauted my course of time I came to Ottawa. Here, there | services now | would give them willingly and | were four young men boarding in the house | gladly, but when they speak of me asa cold- | with me; English ebaps, whom [ had known | hearted assassin, and I remember the services | in London. { came up to Barbrook to shoot ‘I have done, my blood runs cold. They will | for a time, but I did not like it, and came | take my bluod for that crime, but [ was never | back to Qatawa. I found I could earn # good | guilty of it. [ never owed that man the leagt on Christmas eve, after 1 had written several | would take away his life? and L say, my Lord, | letters to my wite, saying 1 would go for ajwe who are Catholics are looked upon as | visit to Montreal, I left. 4 supped with Bagie- | traitors—alwuys traitors, and why? — because son atone o'clock, und ag balf-past one o'clock, | party feeling myus higher here than I have c . . | Porra< 2a daiois aa 3 S Qe. ‘I was on the train for Montreal. I got to! ever known it to run in any other country, and | lerragon and Badajois have been dismissed on | Montreal between iweive and one o'clock | | say that is the curse of the country. Pstand | that vight. Mrs. Scanlan's house was the | here a victim to that party feeling, and they | first d went to. I stopped there in Montreal} may find me guilty as they have done, but [| | two or three days, after New Year's. On| know I am innocent of the crime of the murder | New Year's night | was drinking in a house in | of the Hon. Thos. D'Arcy McGee. J] must | Montreal—a house that is well known; but ig | Say at the same time that if [ was placed in the not a dance house as bas been represented to } posifion of any one of the gentlemen of the | you. While there I heard a conversation | jury, with such evidence brought against tween iwo men who were setting there. j another man as they raked up ayainst me, it Thexe was a board between them and me, and | would certainly bring in the same verdict as) I owverbeard them. (ne of them said “ This jis | they have done,and I fully exongrate them from the night Mr. McGee's house is to be burned.’’ | all blame whatever in the matter. They could not know and were not told the means resorted to to bring the crime home to me. They did not know the way evidence was got up agains oe But I ania iicman Catholic, aud as | am an frish Roman Catholie, must suffer I sup pose. In England we are accused of being Fenians, aud as ig Pogland ang freland, go 2 is here. Any of the Jrish race who stand up in defeyce of grish liberty are liable in some way or other to be caught in the meshes of the law, and perhaps hung, diawn or quartered, or else sent to some terrible hell, to drag ou a life like the living damned. His Lordship said— Prisoner, we jave given you full liberty of speech in yuar defence There has been no restriction put on you. But what you are speaking about has no reference whatever to your case. Prisoner—I am speaking the truth, my Lord. I speak because I feel as I speak. They found wne guilty it is true, but that does not make me guilty in the sight of God. and nothing would do him but be must go up to Mr. MeGee’s, and tell him, and if he was to the fure now he could tell you that what I say = true. We Mem there, put that man never ieft the house when I went in as repre- sented. Mr. John NeGee was not there when IT went imo Me. wediee’s houses he did not hear the conversation between us — not one word of it; and I swear solemnly before God and the world, that I did not give my name as Smith. My friend gave his name as Smith when John McGee came to the door. It has been asked why I had been watched going up to bieGee's, and knew that my life was threat. ened for going there to warn him. In fact it was well known I was threatened there; and tuy couusel knows it, and so I made up my wind two days afterwards to come up to work here, neyey phimking of Uctee, never giving him @ thought, until, my Jord, when here | | used to go to the House on nights when I was not very busy. On the night of the 6th April| The dudge <hep proceeded to deliver gen- L was at the House. I got three or four, |tence. He said, you Patrick James Whelan, — it was tive tickets, altogether, from | have been found guilty upon a fair, full trial, | uckley on that night. I went to the House according to the evidence. This you have | between ten and eleven o'clock, as near as | lacknowled sed yourself. Everything has been | can recollect. I had several occasions to go ‘done which could legally and reasonably be | down stairs, and Dr. Sweetland can tell you \done, to put your case before the Jury dis-| the same, for he has been ettending me ever | passionately, and secure a fair consideration | since in the jail, [ cage each time to the |of your case,and the Jury have just pronounced porch, and did nut go beyond the door, and I la verdict of guilty, on evidence which you say can tel! you on my oath I was not away from | yourself would have induced you to give a the gallery more than three or four minutes os yerdict had you been in their position. | each time. I then came upstairs into the | As far as our Courts and system of judiciary is gallery, I stood there like this, (the prisoner | ncerued, we must assunse now you are guilty. | here feaned his arms on the front of the dock With regard to many of the observations you | and stood iu a bent position) and I can assure | have made, being @ native of the country my-} iself, and knowing more of it than you do, [| you, during the whole time I was there, McGee | | bulk of these young men were born in Swit- however, are constantly oceurring. The | other members of the Cabmet have been ae: 6 sted.) The terms of this bargain are kept a profound French Government, for instance, claims A parley has been held between the Roy a! « flieers | young men for military service whose fathers | and some of the rebel leaders, the result of whiek | F gr were really Frenchmen until they became | #8 net known. A body of rebels, 14,000 atroug, | point blank to reveal it, and it is more naturalized as Swiss. And yet,’’ says the cor-| have gathered near Vallodold, tu intercept the | than likely that the public will never know any ; ; | Queen and prevent ber trom returning te Madrid, | . : . a : > > ° > 5 » . . respondent of the Independance Belge, “ the ''The whole of Andalusia 18 in the handa of the | more of that secret than they know at present. zeriand, and it seems strange to them that they | ead ae nag ences awe mel | No sooner has the bargain—whatever are to be fettered to a nationality which their! Duke of Montpenzier. Great excitement pre- fathers repudiated for them, and which they | vails in the city of Madrid. themselves are disposed to repudiate also Paris, Sep. 21. upou reaching their majority.”’ The Federal! Some reporta say that the rising in Spain ix Council, desirous of seeing these difliculties | not a movement of the Liberals alone, but is aup- put an end to, have charged M. Kern to nego-| ported by all parties secret. The Hon. James C. Pope refuses it is— been struck than the beneficent design of the The Hon. | James writes to the Leader of the Government /brothers Pope is made apparent. that as he desires that the Government ‘* may tiate on the subject with the Paris Cabinet. volutionists bene failed at sume points, owing to m ‘ a TC a) the want of leaders. i The rumour that the Queen of Spain will ‘The Moniteur publishes the exciting inteiligence | This is what we call a very elaborate way of : ; ; pee" | received yesterday trom Spain, and saye : daring his sojourn at Biarritz is | ~ The a eonaaiad of some ines of the revived, i : | fleet of Madrid to the revolutionary movement Phe Duchess of Tetuan died on Monday. | gives gravity to the news; but the accounts se| years we never hear of his having advised that Several officers stationed ju the yarrisyns at | far received are imperfect. |” aa a ee Bi ae ageing ies nena gE gentleman to seil his estate to the Government. suspicion of being implicated in the late re-| Bravo Ministry has resigned, and Gen. Concha | When Mr. Todd at last felt inclined to sell, he volutionary attempts,and a number of sergeants | has been suinmoned to Madrid te form anew) would pot permit him to make the best bargain of artillery in the Madrid garrison have been | Cabinet 5 at last accounts the Cabicet remained | Sqea"gar ee ; ae : ait c ; quiet. | he could with the Government --for it must be arrested on the same charge Strong bodies | 9"* Sal : of the Garde Civile coustantly patrol the | Phe Moniteur adda, * this event prevented the | remembered that when the Goverument buys streets of Madrid. | Queen of Spain trow meeting the Emperor Na A enue despatch Ciesla: te tat spe 0 Dh Mga lett St. Sebastiaa on Satur Patrie states that Garibaldi had left Caprera | _" . : for Malta, from which be intended to proceed to Naples. The *Corriere Italiano’ states that Garibaldi’s resignation of his deputyship was owing to a pressing letter from Mizzini. The Patrie says that Garibaldi has gone to j *. ° ° | leaseholders upon Lot 19,"’ he offers it tu them. Napoleon i doing good. | confidential agent of Mr. Todd, yet in all those self a middleman, buys the land and then offers Hamburg, Sept. 21. Will the tenantry of His Majesty, King William, of Prussia, arrived in this city yesterday. He came up the river : aba Elbe on board the steamehip Hammonia . Wh: .vuble for nothing? Wiil the people of the | Hear the Gily the steamer ran aground on a sand | Island believe that Mr. Pope is pertectly dis- bank and was unable to get off. After some) |it to the Government. ly It is stated that the re-| have the opportunity of emancipating the | Ile had been for many years the | land cheap, it sells it cheap—but becomes him | | Lot 19 heeve that Mr. Pope took so much | Malta, and is expected at Naples, * ~amaur rent hand iiiued with needle-guns, and commanded by a Russian officer, named Salzman, is stated to be watching an opportu- nity of crossing the frontier of Turkey into Bulgaria. The Turkish Government, having received information of the proposed expedi- tion, has appealed to the Servian Kegency tor assistance ayajnst the insurgents, and, jt is said, he has also asked for the expulsion from ihe country of some Russian ageats known to be connected with them. The insurgents are so well concealed, however, that the efforts of the Servian authorities to discover them have hitherto been unsuceessful The marked honors paid by the Emperor Napoleon to the Couut and Countess ol Gir- geuti are attracting some little notice in Paris. The Count is a younger brother of the ex- King of Naples; the Countess is a daughter of the Queen of Spain. There is no special reason, it is yrged, fer treating them with marked distinction, unless as a rebuke to Italy in the person of Prince Humbert and the Princess Margaret, who recently visited sever- al German Courts, but did not go to France. A grand fete was given to the Count and) Countess of Girgenti at Jountainbleau on Monday, most of the Ministers and several hizh functionaries being invited, The Monileur de U Armee publishes an article refuting the assertion of one of the Paris correspondents of the Nord, who stated that orders had been given that special gure ments to be used by the truops in time of war should be made. Line Monileur also contra- dicts other assertions of the same correspond- ent, and says:—** There were never more in every direction. The news received is un-| marching on the eapital. i; oe ter i is ar * ost ass > » oy delay the King and officers of the royal staff em- interested in this matter? Most assuredly they barked on a small steamboat and were brought | will not. to this city. The King meets with hearty | cinate the leaseholders of Lot 19, he would welcome from the citizens wherever he makes | ; pat his appearance. To-day His Majeaty made a| have advised Mr. Todd long ago to have sold visit to the bourse, and im reply to an addreas,| his estate to the Government. If he wished said, “ Peace is desired by all. I have the surest! 1 . : hope, that it will not be broken. My speect. at | those leaseholders to look ypon him as their Kiel was intended to give the strongest assurance | real friend, he would have been the last man of that hope, and ] cannot understand how op: | : ra in the their posite impressions eould have been derived trom | : the words J used on that eceasion”’ This ex-| !andlord and she Government, The conclusion planation was received with great cheering. London, Sept. 21, midnight. The following additional intelligence has been received of the insurrection in Spain. Gen. Cor- chia is at the head of the Royal Troops. Gon-| zales Brave, the Prime Minister, who recently re-| signed has fled. Queen Isabella is at San Sebas- | : : tian. The road between that place and Madrid. tressed to pay up the arrears of rent which is infested with revolutionists to suck an extent| they owe, aud if they are compelled to pay a that the Queen will not make the journey at present. Martial law has been proclaimed throughout the wile of Spain. If Mr. Pope really wished to eman- n eountry to come between that the tenautry of Lot 19 will come to, and the conclusion that the tenantry in all parts of the country wall come to, is that if the tenantry of that Lot are kept for any length of time longer under landlord bondage, if they are dis- | high price for their lands they will have to | blame Messrs. William and James Pope for Paris, Sep 22. | their misfortunes and no others, If Mr. Pope The Patrie yesterday afternoon publishes the! oayyiite : op 2 following, turuished by the Spanish Aubaxsador | admitted that he bought the Todd Estate to in that city :— ‘make money out of the transaction, people Madrid is quiet, though the people are excited.) while they blamed him, would believe him ; if The troops are faithtul, but the garrison has been | ree a bili , reinforced ag a precautionary measure. Other xe allowed the public to think that he pur- towne throughout the country are quiet. chased it for the sake of the political advan- London, Sept. 22ud—Noon. | tages which the ownership of part of the Fourth The Telegraph wires in Spain are disordered | certain and contradictory, Generals Prim and) knowing ones would pronounce it to be a deep Devoda, at the head of the insurgent turces, are aud well laid scheme ; Dublin, Sep. 23, | to believe that he had any thought ef the good A party of about 60 persons, all armed, many District of Prince County would give him, the | but if he wishes people | lof the leaseholders when he negotiated the | did not speak either pro or con. Just when | ynay be permitted to say, that every man is! soldiers absent from their re simeuts on leave of them mounted, made an attack on the house! Tut. the Jfouse adjourned | went down stairs, and | held equal jere in the eye of the law; and in| than stood with my back to the door, as Buckley | Courts of Justice in this country of which you < said, gnd thought he was coming down, J] speak, the administration of justice is fuir and | Chalons and Launemazen,’ saw him coming down and saw John A. impartial. No man's religion or antecedents Macdonald come out. I then went, from a) of birth, or country, go to prejudice kim in any | call of nature, ang stood outside, and during | charge comiug agaiust him in a Court of Jus-| that time John A. Macdonald's carriage drove away. I did not leave }y dhat way nor did I tice. Your countrymen in this country are pre- cisely on the same level and enjoy precisely | go down the stairs at all in front of the |the same advantages as any others, and so far buildings. I went around by the sjde walk, on | 4s regards the man whose death has been here the left-hand side, asd always did whenever | | the subject of inquiry, he, as a Boman Catho- a , : | purchase. No one is 80 silly « “ of a Mr. Justice, near Cork, last night, and strip. | I ily as to en pedit of arma, which they earried off ‘The, Sertain such an idea for a single moment. movement was led by an American. Xo arreste | page | The editor of the Islaader blames the Gov. M. Magne, the Minister of Finance, was| Patrick Doran, and Daniel Morisrity, who| tment for not purchasing the lind from Mr. present at a Banquet at Dordogne, on the 26th | were convicted of complicity in Feuian outrages | Pope on his own terms. He is, no doubt ult., and proposed on that occasion a toast to | in Australia, some time ago, have been pardoned | ;. : : ae : : sip «ace, In he course of his speech he said— |" condition that they do not go to Ireland displeased and disappointed that they did not. * Peace will be lasting, because Kurope needs Michael Hanley, of this elty, a convicted Feuian,| The terms offered are, in our Opinion, suf- it and the Emperor desires it. France is has been pardoned, | ficiently liberal, Mr. Pope would have had at present, and the only military exercises now taking place are those at the camp at London, Sep 22. /strong enough ¢o abstain from war without | danger of beins accused of weakness, for no It is rumored that the Spanish fleet off Cadiz, | his own price, and the whole of the money ; went to the House, aud went aut of the grounds that way that night. 1 left my work a eight The Oawa correspondent of the Torento Telegraph supplies the fy owing under the | date of the 12th :— “ Patrick Buckley and ijoyle, were arraigned after the other proceedings. Qu being brought jntu the deck Buckley was dreadfully excited, Flies bearing was like that of a man aut of his senses. When the indictment was being read over, he cried out ‘My Ged! to think that J would hurt the man who was Use dacling of my heart. The man whow I loved like my own o'clock. The clothes I wore were black | browsers, the black cout I have now on,and acap. I had no pockets whatever in the coat or pants except a pistol pocket that I put in the black trewsers pocket on purpose for carrying the pistol, IL went straight down by the left-hand side to the Russel House. I went in there to |gee Doyle. J called on him before I went to the House that aight. and told him I was going to leave Eagleson ; he said, No, don't do that, dou’ t leave yet—you had better stay, and in a lic, pronounced in language which has been well deseribed as most eloquent, thai ia this | °"“ land his fellow-countrymen were well treated,| The Gaulois talks of a proposed union be- and had not reasonable ground of complaint, | tween France and Spain, in which the latter And in fact just across the river here, not only | power engages to find 40,000 men and a naval has any interest in disturbing her,” do they only enjoy eqyal, but actually superior squadron for the gupport of the Pope, in the rights and privileges to those enjoyed by them jevent of anything happening to take France in any part of the world, So tar, therefore, | @Way from Rome, and in retarn for this, I should say none of your countrymen have France isto protect the throne of Isabella any ground of complaint. But this matter is | ftom all attacks from within and without. foreign tq the present inquiry. What we have | The Emperor, says jhe Gaulois, hesitates to to consider is the terrible position jp which you undertake to protect Isabella ayainst her own has opened fire on that city, where at last ac-| eounts the citizens and troops remained firm to_ the Queen. The rebels are very strong in the) Provinces of Barcelona, Carragona, Cerida and | Gerona. Itis said that the eovercignity of the | people, and an appeal to the Nation, are the cries | of the Lusurgents, : Paris Sep 22 Official despatches from Spain have been re- has broken oat at Madrid and in Seville, but. its: existence in Marcea and Gallicia is denied. The * Moniteur has the following in regard to the. would have been paid within a twelyemonth. | If the Islander thinks to make political capital out of this failure to purchase from the Hon. J.C. Pepe an estate which, for reasons best known to himself aud his brother, he prevented the Government from parchasing directly from : a 7 : . . . a ! ceived here. ‘They admit that an insurrection “¥@ proprietor, he is, in our opinion, very | much jnistaken. The people are not easily deceived in these matters, and they will, no have been placed by the verdict pronounced suhjects—bence the visit of the Count and soul! I call God and Heaven to witness, | would not burt » hair in his head! The man [| loved above all uthers! HH. was my friend and a was his.” He broke down here, bein, thoroughly prostrated. Flic tones of bis voice were most pitiful. Doyle losked like # poor raven creature, awd whined out, ‘Oh! my God! | Sure [know nothing about Lhe man! Sure { wouldn't burt « baw of bie oad! | fought for the | Alueen and country aug quyhtn’t to be placed) here now charged wok a crime like this!’ Being asked by the cows @ we dard any counsel | he suid, *Sure [don't care. J know I'm inno-| cent. I don't care what alyy do with me.’ The pleas of not guilty wore entered up, aud further consideration postpowed ttl Monday, Prisvner’s counge) qt beiay present.” We woald ut med the frequent or constan zz gue any medicine. It ie inven W tike even i ee jadicivasly. ~ Parsons’ Purgutive tb “Pills” wre sufe, prompt, uud reliabe us w laxative rats |oecurred that night between us, ia in the morning few days you will be starting in business for yourself. ‘tree was all the conversation that He was on watch that night Waiting to see some members after the House adjourned. I called on him at the Russel House because I thought he might be on his wav howe. Jt is true I have been in Mrs) McKenna’s dyo or three nights. The first time I went there jt was for vyle. J was there, ae the wognan truly represemted, till two o'clock in the morning, and was drinking there. ertaiuly, tonal was in Mrz. Trotter's, but J hag no gaoy know- ledge that Mr. ¥cGee rded there than ehe child unborn. T made no enquiries apout hig, and did not know that he lived thege. “The first time I went there it was with Bryce; he is the man who brought me there. My Lord, on the 22ud of May last in my cell, (a pause) gaging beyond my story. The day ee was red I got up at seven and went out to my against you. The evidence given on the part Countess Girgent, who have been sent to | bas been ordered to command the centre. Gen- Royal Arwy of Spain: —General Conchas brother doubt, view Mr. Pope's interference in its trae each Tenant. 3rd. lan of the property. 4th. The terms of payment of the purchap J money. 1 have now to enclose, fer the information a the Government, the rent roll of the estate, ig | whieh are stated the names af the Teyante—th | due upon each farm respectively. ja plan of the property. | The purchase money will be required in eas upon delivery of the deeds of conveyanee. The | particulars of agreement between we and My, | Podd I decline at present to furnish, beeause I dy not consider them necessary in order to enable the Government to arrive at a sound and final cove jston My desire is that the Government should they | decide upon purchasing the property which | bave ollered them, shall have it at what it may Cost me, I do net intend to receive one shilling ever and jabove the cost ef the estate, nor to desire any | pecuniary advantage theretrom, and [ beg toae leure you that I shall be most happy te afford the | Commissioner of Public Lands the fullest info | mation relative Lo the estate which is in my power (to impart, and should the Goverument deveruine upen purchasing, will lay before them an abstract of the title. | [desire that the Government may give this offer immediate attention, and that at as earlya day as shall be convenient | may be made aware jot their decmon., The season of the year a which rents and arrears of rent are usually | deeted is at hand, and as I shall refrain trom et 1 enclose alo | forcing paymentot either rent or arrears, Wm | hope that the Government may purchase. you ‘will readily appreciate my desire to be acquainted | with the decison of the Government as soon m | practicable, 1 have the honor to be, Sir. Your obedt. Servant, JAMES C. POPE. Hon. Joseph Hensley, Attorney General, &e., &ce. Charlottetown, 14th Sept., 1868. HIon. J. C. Pope, SiR ; of your letter of 7th inst., relative to Lot and of the plan of the property, and list of arreant from cach Tenant referred to in it, and whiel you handed to me personally. I have not, bow: ever, as yet, receivedthe rent roll containing names ot Tenants and quantities of land beld by each, with terwes of their leases also referred to in your letter. Lobserve that you decline at present to furnieh the Government with particulars of your agree ment with Mr. Todd, but, asin your letter of Ist Sept., you informed me that you had purchase the estate from Mr. Todd, and that you offered # to the Government as purchased by you, | telt ne hesitation in asking you to furaish me with the particulars of it, as 1 thought you would have 0@ | ubjection to do so. “As regards the purchase money, you state that it will be required in cash upon delivery of the | deeds of conveyance. The Government are | prepared, nor do they think it advisible, to ae cede to these terms, nor if the fact is, ae they be heve it to be, that you have five years allowed bY Mr. Todd to pay the purchase money, do they | think that you will, on consideration, avk 90Y | other terma of payment from them than those lw | which you are yourself subject. The Government, provided the Report of the | Commissioners appointed to view the ‘should prove favorable, would be prepared @ pay the purchase money in five annual i ; jtents with interest, if your agreement § _ that interest is to be paid or,as they desire tym | your proposal and views as nearly as they thik | they can conveniently to the general public service | they are willing to agcee, subject to said Repor', ito pay the purchase money thus, if it turne ot | that you are bound to pay interest, vie :—£ lat executionof deed, £3,000 and interest Ist | Mareh, 1569, balance, say £2950 aad int | Ist Sept. 1869. | Thus redeeumng the whole purchase mone? | within a year from this date, | been furnished. Your obetd. servant, JOSEPH HENSLEY, Attorney General Charlottetown, 17th Sept., Ine. Sir ; Ihave the honor to acknowledge receipt of your letter of 14th inst., in which you inform me ) that the Government are net prepared, nor they think it advieable, to accede to the terms uantities of land held by each, and the amount & I have the honor now to acknowledge receipt — io The rent roll, you will reeollect, has not yet ot the Crown, some of which has been eutively uncontradicted, leaveg it undoubted that dure ing the heat of an election contest, you did make use of strong language against Mr. Mc- Gee. Then there ave the ojher facts ot your carrying the weapon—having frequently visited the neighborhood in which Mr. Me- Gee lodged—having been iv the Parliament buildings from time to time, and beiny alto- gether in a@ position to commit the act. Other evidence was ulso presented to the jury, and Atiey bave, in considering it all, brought in a veidict against you. That being the case the aw declares emphatically that you aw the guilty aman, and it only remains for me to warn you of the dreadful position in which you stand. {tere his lordship was much af- fected.) Your natural impetuosity, has, I must assume, diiven you so take the life of the 1 you eulogized such a little while ago, and persuade him. The whole thing is probably ,the tone of the rumours if not in their sub- | stance, A letter from Rome, in the Libertg, says :— Arrests continue in Rome. The police have discovered the printer of the two proclama- tions of the “* Popular Roman Club.”” Advices received from Milan, Florence and Naples say | that a fresh attack ayainst Rome is inajinent. It wsaid that Cattibini is at Sora with a con- siderable force of Garibaldiaus ; that Canzio, Garibaldi’s son-in-law, is recruiting volunteers in Genoa and proposes to march; and that Menotti medifaies a desceiyt upon a point of the ontifical coast. St. Petersburgh, work, having a dark coat and light trowsers on, me His son, who is seventeen f — done that, you must -be warned that the; who is now residing at faw allows no glternative to the Court, and fi enccaal Dis oi P a fyment, hut there is a certain significance in | Lelegrams received here from Central Asia announce the death of Emir of Bokhara- ears of age, and Schchr Sebs, will eral Chesle commands in Catalonia, Arragan, and Valenzia, and General Novaliche in Andu. | lasia. General Jose Coucha, Acting President | ot the Spanish Ministerial party, seut a circular’ dispatch to the representatives of Spain at all the | Foreign Courts, assuring them that the insur- A French fleet is under orders tg saii for Spain, residents and their property. main entirely neutral in the affairs of Spain. It is reported that the leaders of the peswiution are undetermined as to the form of government to be adopted for the county. Paris, Sep. 23. The city of Madijd is quiet, and ‘Trada has been made Minister of Marine. News from the provinces is contradictory, The Queen attempt- ed te return to the capital, but finding the roads in possession of the enemy, was obliged to re- _ to — Sebastian, where she stil! remaine, The Rebels are everywhere laiming Espar- terp President. “Ex Prime Aeoister Breve aud kis colleagues have arrived gy Fiance. “1 rection will be suppressed. \ for the purpose of affording protection to French | Franee will re-! light, and estimate Mr. Pope's philanthropy at jis real value. CHARLOTTETOWN, 2ist September, 1863, To the Editor of the Herald, Sie ; fenclose for publication copies of the corres- pondence which has lately takea place between the Government and the Honorable J.C. Pope, | relative to that portion of Towaship No. 19, re- ) ceutly purchased by hien frou Mr. ‘Todd. Your obedt. Servant, JOSEPIL HENSLEY Charlottetown, Ist Sept , 1863. Sir ; Fer the information of the Executive Govera- weut of thix Islaud,I bey to inforw you that I have, within the last few daya, ag with Andrew Thornton Todd, Psq fay the purchase of his estate an this int, which comprises about twelve thou- om, 19. Dhe’ my offer to sell that portien of ‘Township No. formerly owned by Mr. Todd. _ TL have, therefore, to request that you will cote sider the negotiations for its sale as terminate and return we the plan of the Township and of arrears, &c., in your possession. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your obedt. servant, JAMES C. POPB Ifon, Joseph Hensley, Attorney General, &c., &e. —_— OP Oe Tue Hon. Joseph Hensley, has,we understand, gone to New York, to see what can be done watter of telegraphic communicatioo with the Continent. We hope that he will be able te make some satisfactory arrangewent Company. It is bad enough now in the st season, When the beats are running regu ¥ have no telegraph communication with the world. but it will be a 4 times worse the winter time, when eur only meant of i -s once. to ’ ‘od