pe OE ae. 8 te. pare Wh pie Si oo ae. Ye OG Ec ME ae os gt S a, oF Pe ee Jaw once in force, a divect inducement will be held out for ' . % B community ? ae see ee names; they were put to the petition for them; and | will | appeal to the candor of the ber. member himself, and will | ack him if every nam, annended to that petition is in the hand-writine “a the individual whosé sigvatare it purports | tobe? 4 "y farther, Sir, names are sigued to that petition | so duplicate, s#4 some eten have recorded their autographs | ‘Srice Over, Hon, menrbers hold up this petition as a proof of incteasing public opition im lavor of the law. Why, Sir, | I @on’t think the whole number of those who have signed it | exceeds the list of those who subscribed the petition pre-| gerited Jast vear. As to the argumont founded on the fiet that similar laws have been passed in the United States, | it toald be but fair in those who adduce that as a reason to} eivo ws at foost a true account of their practical working. | ‘ue state of Maine was the first which adopted the law, | rnd what has been the practical result? I appeal to the | ostimony of these who have been there. The Hon. the ‘onial Treasurer was there last autumn, and I ask, did he| 1 that the law was observed? No, Sir, he found quite the | evorse. Ele found that the p@ople could obtain intoxicating , iquors as frecly ag befofe. 1 myself was in that State a) year or two after the jaw passed, and L experienced no a bk e a : * « ya es in difficulty in obtaining ewy liquors 1 might require. Now.) Mr. Chairman, what do facts like these .prove?) They manifest the existence of an active rascality and shameful violation of law, and the total disregard of serious moral obligations on the part of the importer and consumer. The ~ . | fraud and chicavery; and I ask wheiher it would be more! condagive to public morality that 2 man should be 2'lowed| to drink a glass of liquor honest)y aud openly before all mea, | ot that he should take it at the expense of ihe violation of, . . . . . . } the law on the part of him who furnishes it, who will do so| - thdugh he have to lie and deceive. Massachusetts tried the | law, and I have yet to learn that the morals of her! people ig respect of drinking, have improved since its in- troduction. Boston, I believe, is net 2 whit more free from! vice and immorality thanghe was before the State adopted | the Maine Law. As to the state of the question in the| British Lrovinces, | do not agree with the hon. member for | Charlottetown, (tion. Mr. Palmer.) whea he states that! the measure has become the law cf the land in New Bruns- | wick. “Tuere is no foundation for that statement. I admit | that the Bill passed the House of Assem'ly of that Colony, | but the hon. member eannot shew that it has been put in) operation there, or-even found a place upon the Statute Book | vi the Provinces. Last year this Hiouse passed the Bill, and hou. mem ers who did not desire it, yet vetel for it, because they knew the Counci! wou'd threw itout. In Nova Scotia lie sume thiag has oceurre td, The tlouse of Assembly i passed the Bill, and the Legislative Comucil gave it the * go- hy.” But, Sic, L suey, and say it without hesitation, that} even if the prokiditury liw were in force im Canada. Nova} Scotia and New Bruuswiclm that croum-tance would not sew that © wae necessary here. IL speak this not from any desire to encourage habtt. of intemperance oh ft 10 WilAhOiu —notthat 1 would} the evils of | iy most streucus Cilor's to cradicate the vicious iudelyence—not that L would not wish to hold +he| tavern-keepers ated retailers Hable fur the results of their pandecin ie a mor: petite, far L think (hat the immoderate use of liquors 1 rt y highly tujurious te ina. Viduals, but tuat the very presence of drunkards is # positive curse to the county in which ¢ vy | nd; Sut because ] wilitot eousent fo punish aipe:y men cut of a hundred, because the remaining tom yeil not kdact shomse.ves us they-ought. | [cannot consent to prevett the n nety men who do not dis-| grace ‘hemselyes, or vilen | taeir neighbours, by the sober, | moderate and leshimate wre of liquor, from continuing ‘their customary kuvis, merely boeause a few absudoned people e community. The temperate use ) unfurwnate'y diszrace t of liqu rs i¢ no divine Jaw, nor was its | suppeersion ever thought of ia any part of the world until | oue of the Uutiel Siates, too well kuown for a fanatics! desine for extreme inuovations, pat a low for that purpose on its Statute Book, with what result 1 have already stated. t ft rydden ly the } Mr. Elavinaxp.——Mr. Chairman, thie is the first time 1! everheard that the Stats of Maine was characterised by a spirit of famaticism. Maesachasetts, at its first settlement, was, but that State, Maine, Wisconsin and Rhode Island, | huve cach adopted tke prohibitory law, and 1 do not think | the hon. member wili st!gmatize their inhabitants as finaties. | But, Sir, there are so many resolutions before the committee | that [ hardly know which we are discussing. Asito the gene-} ral principle, all men must admit that intemperarce is the | greatest curse that ever aflleted any country; and in this Jeland, at the present time, the evits of which it is the fruit. | ful paveut, bave risen to such a height, as to eall imperatively | for legi-lative interposition. Awd, 1 ask, Mr. Chairman, for what purpose are we here as legislators? Is it wot that we may advance the welfare and improve the morals of the And where is the man to be found who will | assert that the law would injuive the morals of the people ?| Pass this law, and bun lrads of families now in deep distress | Hquors, last year; and I find that it amounted to £11 Necessary to occupy, at least for the present, any further i lishament.of a Court of Hscheat. | sary. of the people, through mistaken zeal and the want of infor- people can be induced to ery owt against the Government, ‘their own chances of obtaining office will be a little more en- | couraging than they are at present. ae ew a ho i wet political stock in tvade which the Tories can make available; | (he may continue to write Tne Commissioners appointed by the Government to exaniine , ‘ ana | Muaiis between Charlottetown, Bedeque and Shediac, the ‘ower, who is now here, offered to the Goverament to em- _viuces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, we trust a like eI I was staying at the United States Hotel in the waiter if I could get a glass of brandy ant replied im the affirmative, brought it to me, and meéney for it, in presence of a hundred or a hunt lifty people, That I thought was carrying out the law witi 2 yengesnce. J have prepared a resolution on the subject, | but there are so many now before.the committee that I shall hot move it, but will onppert that introduced by the hon. member (Mr. Whelan,) as embodying my views. I have as- certained the amount of datics paid into the Treasury on 0, Now we are asked to lose that amount, and no suggested by which we are to make good the deficiency. The ouly way would be by an addition of thirty per cent. to the tariff. The country is not prepared for this, I am sure. Great stress is laid upon the nawber of names signed to the | petition, but, Mr. Chairmen, many signed to get rid of} troublesome applications, and many more because they knew the Bill would wet pass; and if it did, it would be impossible | to prevent suvggligg, without the establishment ef an_ immense protective forec--an open boat can land a cargo of Wine or Brandy from French St. Peter‘s at any part of the’. Island, Jf the hon, member (Mr. Cooper) will withdraw his resolution L will not press mine. I will, however, read it to the commitiee:—— Reselved, That it is inexpedient to pass any Law similar to that now in operation inthe State ef Maine,commonly designated the Maine Liquor Law, inasmuch as it weuld be an infringement of the rights and privi- leges ofa free and enlightened people,and impossible to carry it into effect, Withottt the assistance of a force beyond the power of this Colony to pro- cure, unless the neighbouring Culonies, British and Foreign, combine in its establishment. (To be continued.) = THE EXAMINER. CHARLOTTETOWN, P, E. L. MAY 21, 1855, MR. COOPER'S LETTER. Aw address from Mr. Cooper to his constituents appears in |Country at largo, this day’s paper. The subjeet of it is familiar to every one, and has been thoroughly discussed. on a late oceasion, in the Heuse of Assembly. Mr, Cooper's present address throws not a particle of Jight upon it. We-therefore consider it un- space with a reiteration of our opinicns regarding the estab- It is worthy of observation that the Tories are every day becoming more and more de- sirous for a revival of the Escheat question, but seeming to be ushamed of the name, they say it is only a * Court of Luquiry,” which they want. Their design in this matter is too well Known to render any particular notice of it neces- They are well aware that no Government can now favorably cutertain the question—that a considerabje portion miution, are stili wedded to it; and they know that if those Escheat is now the only und much as the whole bateb of them detest Mr. Cooper, | they will profess to be his friends and supporters so long as | aud keep np an agitation for itscheat. : _ —/?7. Oe © MALL STEAMER. report on the efherency of the Steamer Rosebud, as a Pa ket lor the eynveyance of the Mails between this Port anc Pictou, having reported that the power ef that Boat would net he fourd sufficient in boisterous weather, the Go- verniment declined entering into the contract with Mc. Heard ; and os tue Lady le Marchant had been engaged to carry the ‘this spring. We find the arrangement of our Post very in- |} deeply regretted, after a lingering tilness, which he bore with | .,Convuaaration In Bosron.—On the 27th SF Vy destructive fire occurred m Boston, and a quan- Seettom, pork and other articles, stored in the ware- , were-burned. ‘The fire originated 1 a wooden store, Conimereial street, near the head of Battery wharf, and spread to and down the north side of the People’s Ferry Wharf, burning the ferry house at the foot of the wharf, amd extended up Lincoln's wharf, burning in its way al] the build- ings east of Commercial street, south of Constitution wharf to the Boston Kngine House and Harbor Police Station, on the north side of the Lincoln’s wharf. The buildings destroyed were of comparatively litte value. The loss and damage is estimated at from $500,000 to $1,000,008. TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXAMINER. Str,—Observing in the Examiner of the 7th instant, an account of the surprising quantity of Grain and Potatoes exported from Charlottetown, with a desire that your country friends would furnish a similar aceount from the out-ports, 1 hasten to comply with your request for this port, which is as follows, viz: —Oats, 4780 bushels; Potatoes, 867 bushels— convenient for dispatch of business ; for, in the first place, the Post mostly arrives at White Sands late in the evening, when the mail bag is delivered, and the return bag is at once sealed and delivered and goes away. No person bas a chance of answering any thing until the following week, however urgent the business. In the’ next place, the Post Office being at White Sands—three miles from the business part of the set- tlement—people engaged in mercantile affairs seldom get their letters until the next day, when the return mail is far on its way back to Charlottetown. But | lately heard of a move- ment in the settlement to sabmit a memorial to the Govern- ment to obtain the establishment of a Post Office at the Harbour, and as this is the extreme end of the postman’s journey, it will allow him some time to remain, bes‘des afford- ing a chance of auswering letters on urgent business. Sincerely believing that the end and aim of the present Government, in spite of calumny, is the prosperity of the 1 am yours, &e., JAMES RICHARDS. Murray Harbour, 14th May, 1855. —_——SEE Se Married. On the 27th instant, by the Rev. T. M. Albrighton, Mr. A. T. Coombs, of Halifax, to Elien Jane, onl¥ daughter of Mr. T. Witter, Charlottetown. On the I4ik-instant, by the Rev. Mr. Phelan, P.P., Mr. John Ngan, plasterer, Charlotietown, to Miss Margaret Burke, of Georgetown, On the 19th ult., by the Rev. Richard Cotton, at the residence of the bride’s father, Mr. Johan G. Rodd of Charclottetewn, to Mary Jane, third daughter of Mr. William Rayner. In Boston, on Monday the 7th inst., by the Rev. M. A. Howe, Mr. George R. Beer of this Town, te Lenora Ann, eldest daugh- ter of J. Weatherbe, Esq, of Madison, Mis. On Monday, the 16:h instant, by the Rev. John Knox, Donald Munroe, Esq-, M. P. P., to Jessie, the youngest daugiier of Mr, Peter Robertson, of New Perth, os ree ee Died. At Charlottetown, on Sunday morning, dearly beloved and fortitude and sresgnation, Nathaniel Cuarlton, aged 21. Wassenqgers. Tu the Steamer Robebud, from Pietou, on Friday last—D Flynn Eagq., W B Dean, Fsq., Messrs James Komans, Fletchor, Fraser, Win Long- worth, James McCraith, Rebert Fraser, k McKay, A Murray —4 in the stecrage. In the Lady LeMarchant, on Tucsday, from Shediae and Bedeque— Mexsrs Uladdon, Craig, J C Pope, and 10 in the steerage. Ju the Kusebud, on Wednesday, from Pictou—Miss Jane Fraser, Mrs Jane Mckenzie, Rey Mr Grant, Miss Henderson, Mr A Ried, Mr Hodgson, A C Stephenson, Fsq., Quebec, Lewis Mobinson—g in the steerage. i ftlarine Intelligence. brace the Pictou route in his contract, which has been accept ed. There will, therefore, be-a direct communication between Shediac, Charlottetown and Pictou twice a week — the | Steamer leaving Shediac on Tuesday and Thursday direct for | Charlottetown and’ Pictou, returning from Pictou every Wednesday und Friday, and calling at Bedeque every Friday on her way to Sbediac. The Lady le Marchant is said to be a good Boat—is British built, and classed A 1 at Lloyd's for thirteen years. Lf she attends to the service, and do not waste time ir aeting as a Tug Boat in and out of Richibucton, she may give general satisfaction to the travelling public. As the Le islature of this Colony has provided so liberally for the Mail service between this and the neighbouring pro- spilt will be found to actuate the leading public men in those provinces in making a more equitable provision for the inter Colonial Mail service than they have been in the practice of doing. New Brunswick now gives about £300 towards the s the signatures to the petition, seores of pames of individuals There appears to be no doubt that the Liberal Cabinet, under f of some of the leading minds in the British Isles, and degradation would find the benefit in their improved | payment of .a steamer between that province and this Island wordly circumstances and elevated social and moral condition. | —Noya Seotia gives only about £200, while we have at least As tw the argument on which the hon. member laid so much | £1260 expended in the same service. Now, if a permanent stress, nantely, the loss which might arise to the Revenue | arrang&meut, satisfactory to the three Provinces, could be trom the suppressivy of the traffic, | maintain that should | completed, we feel assured that our neighbours in New not have any weight on our minds on such @ question. If Brunswick and Nova Scotia would give more money than be admitted that jutemperance is an evil, then it must be| they do.at preseuts and we trust that the Government of & sin to raise a revenue from so poliuted a source. Detter, | this Iand will give the fullest consideration io this import- fur better, to run the risk to the Revenue, and cren incur a pant subject. ' debt, than encourag: pauperism and erime, forthe purpose | — of obtaining revenue. I am prepared to join issue with the} [O° The Steamer Rosedud arrived twise from Picton hon. member ou his statement that the majority of the peo- during the past week, with the Colonial and United ple do not desire the liw —that there is no evidence before States Mails. There is, however, scarcely any intelligence usto shew that they wish the suppression of the traffic. 1 of importance in the papers furnished by these Mails; aml ask if the majority are opposed to it, how does it happen that | not an item of European news, by way.of telegraph from New there are no petitions against it, when it was well known that York. From the Colonies the inteHigence respecting trade the Bill passed the Huuse last year, and that the question and commerce is discouraging, while the alarmingly high would be brought forward on this eecasioa? Public opinion | prices of provisions not only continues, but increases.—T'he in favor of the law is rapidly increasing, and [ see, among general election in Nova Scotia will come off to-morrow. at 4-<» o<>-* who have made mouey from the liquor traffic, but who have the leadership of the Hon. W. Young, will be well sustained elt it their duty, as men aud christians, to come forwardand at the hustings——In Newfoundland active preparations are record their names in fayor of the law, well knowing that also being made for a gencral election, preparatory fo the themselves and the country would be the better for it. The introduetion of Responsible Government. hon. member has stated that the law is not observed in| Maine. , I can tell him that not only are the people of that State in fyyor of the law, but that the benefits it has conferred | upon the society there have attracted the serious atteation | » [7 We have again, this week, issued a separate edition of The Examiner for our country readers, in time for all In the ‘#e Mails, so that our friends in the most distant parts of North British Review for February there is a splendid arti- the Island may get their papers within a day or two of +he ele, which proves most clearly the great decrease of crime and me of publication. We shall continue to publish in this | consequent improved morality in Malne,the results of the pro- Way: and Arust-thet-our country patrons will ePerereey Cer | hivitory law, and it gives “the evidence of Lord Shaftesbury, | labours by promptly discharging the-small obligations which who had been chairman of the committee of Lunacy for the | 2e¥olve upon them. long period of fifteen years. That high authority stated that | no lens than three fifths of the cases of Lunacy were trace- | Cuantorrerown Gas Liant Company. — A meeting of jet drunkenness. In addition to that, the Admiral of the | the recently appointed Directors of this Company took place - . ee fleet stated that since the supply of grog to on Monday last, at their office, at the Gas Works, when D. i@ men bad been stopped, erimes and offences on board the | Hodgson, Ksq., was elected Chairman for, the ensuing twelve ficet bat decreased seventy per ceut. i . ' Shocking as are the months. A resolution was, we have been given to understand, | casualtics of war, the author of the article proves most clearly, | afterwards entered into by the Board, having for its object and [ confess T was surprised at the assertion, that more lives the reduction of the price of Gas from the present rate to anil property are sacrificed to intemperance in a single year 20s. the thousand cubic feet than will be lost by Russian ball or bullet in the present next.—Isé. gigantic struggle with Russia, Ifon. Cou. Trrascner.—Mr. Chairman, beeu opposed to the Maine to chauge my opinion. Staic of M nine shows it is all humbug, and as the bon. mem- others, Committee of Concert in aid of the Fund. Jer (Mr. Whelan) hes alluded to me, I will state, that while , May 10, 895. | to begiuv from the Ist of June. 4 ~¢ , I have always) The Treasurer of Patriotic Fund begs to acknowledge the Liquor Law, and I see no reason receipt of Twenty-six Pounds currency, from Messrs. Watson Totd A My own bricf experience in the Duchemin, and George . Tanton, on bebalf of themschves and | ae PORT OF CHARLOTTETOWN. Extered. May 12—Schr Saxe Getha, Webster, Boston; goods. William Nelson, Chappeil, Bay Verte; beards. Rusebud, Matheson, Picton; mails. 44—cophrouia, Babin, Halifax; goods. 15—Native Lass, M‘Innis, Picton; bal. Stranger, Siteman, Halifax; goods. _Eilen, Mattatall, Tatemagouche; iumber. . Ciearea. Mary ti-—Schr Trinidad, Sutherland, Rustigouche; produce. Joseph, Fdward, Newild; produce. Fanny, Finlayson, Halifax; do. M— William Nelson, Chappell, Bay Verte; bal, Steamer Rosebud, Matheson, Pictou; mailsand goods. Schr Favorite, Babin, Newfid, produce. 15—Queen of the Isles, Fougerie, St John, N B; produce. 16—Reward, McDonaid, Richibucteu; produce. Brothers, Hubert, Halifax; produce. OXYGENATED BITTERS. We ask nobody to believe anything respec‘ing this wonderful medi- cine, further than can be attested to the eniire satisfaction. of every intelligent citizen. ‘Those who put ne confidence in published state- ments, can have access to numerous letters in possession vf the proprie- tors, from individaats of the highest tespectabilily, and be reierred to parties who have proved the efficacy of these Bitters. their names and residence wil! be freely given on application to the agents. Dyspeptic sufferers can satisfy themselves beyond a doubt of the supesiority of this medicine asa remedy for their complain's. 4 linia REED, BATES & AUSTIN, Wholesale Diuggists, No 26 Mer- chants’ Row, Boston, Genera! Agents, Price $1 per bottle,—six botties for 85 ' For Sale at Charlottetown, by W RK Watson, T Deesbrisax, and M W Skinner. THE HAPPY RESULTS FROM THE USE -@F Da McLANts CELEBRATED LIVER PILLs, Are daily forcing themselves before the public. Our citizens will speak out. Read the following— This is to certify that I was troubled with liver complaint for six months, and being advised by « friend to use Dr McL-ne‘s celebrated Liver Pills, I got two boxes, and by the time I had finished taking , them, the disease had entirely dieappeared. 1 therefore cheerfully | recommend «them to a! afficted with liver complaint, or any other disease arising from excess of bile. Mrs CARNES, No 5 Clinton street, New York. P S—The abave valuable preparation, also Dr McLane’s celebrated Vermiiuge, can now be had at al) respectable Drag Stores in this city. | {> Purchasers will please be careful to ask fur, and use nene but Dr McLane‘s Liver Pills. ‘Mhere are other Piils, purporting to be ‘Liver Pills, now belore the public. W R WATSON. Agent for P E Island. WEY AD ISITISSUISUTS. Sale of Valuable Estate. O BE SOLD by Public Auction, at the Colonial Building | in Charlottetown, on Wednesday, the 24th day of Octo- | ber next, at the hour of 12 o'clock noon, (if not previously dis- | posed of by-private sale) ajl that valuable and beaatifully situated Leasehold Farm and Estate, known as Saint Cuthbert’s, the pro- 4+ the store of perty of Charles braddock, Esq., containing thirty-eight acres of land, together with the commodious Dwelling House, Grist and other Miils, and Premises situate thereon. ‘The above property is} - ‘bounded on the North by St. Peter*s Road. and on the South by the Hillssorough River, and is about five miles distant from Charlottetown—and is too we!!.known to require further des- cription. Itis held under lease for a long term of years of which 978 years ure unexpired, subject to a yearly rent of one shilling sterling per acre. ‘ “ For ies comin apply to the Subscribers (Trustees for sale, &c., under deed dated the sevenieenti day of May, 1855), io Charlottetown, or toe-CHARLLS BRAN DOCK, Esq., on the Premises. JOUN LONGWORTH, Charlottetown, May 21. JOSEPH HENSLEY. For Sale or to Let. mpuat pleasantly situated COTTAGE and Out- Buildings—together with about seven acres of Land —on the Princetown Road—one mile from Charlottetown ow JOHN S. BREMNER. Days. mnene tactile a :; : way ADYsavIs2 Sale at Auction, On Tuesday next, 22dinst., at il o'clock, witout reserve T the Store lately occupied by Mr. Cuaxges So cnonne, the whole of the Stock lately owned by him, coinpro og on part of Cloths, Fiaanels, Printed Cottons, Ladies’ Dresses, Co- burge, elaines, Grey cottons, Tailors’ Trimmings, ti ats, Caps, Room Paper, Hardware, Dyewood, &c, &c. Terma, Cas. May 21. WILLIAM DODD, Auctionecr Shingles, Shingles, Shing}es. " re BE SOLD by Auction, TO-MOKKOW, Tursras, 22d instant, at 12 o'clock, on the Queen’s Wharf, just arnved (roux Bay de Chaleur— 200,000 SHINGLES, (good quality.) JAMES MORRIS, Auctioneer a ee Charlottetown, May 21. c AUCTION. HE Subscriber will se!) by Auetion, on Wenxespat the 231 inst., at Frogmore, ihe residence of Colonel A nee) ), his HOUS“HOLD FURNITURE, Soap stone Stoves, Sacuicry, Harness, Garden tools, Wood, Coals, &c. W. DODD, Auctioneer. Charlottetown May 17, 1855. Isl. bx. 1 ins. {F"Cotonet ANsene being ebout to leave the Blend, re- , quesis all demands against him may be een! 10 for adoro cu., ee - . . Books, Books, Boo.is. BY H, Ww. ELOBBAN. _ bis Auction Mart on Friday the st of June ny xt, ef four o'clock afternoon, the Books comprising the Libray of ‘ae Hon. Cuarces Henstey—ihe whole of which may be viewed at any time previous to day of saie at the Auction Mer. May 21,1835. A. TL i, Important Auction of Household Furziture, 9 * BY H. W. LCBBAN,. HE Hon. CHannes Lensrers HOUSHTIOLD. PUR -~ NITORE, Horses, Cows, Heifers, Way vou, Gig, tony Carriage, Sletghe, Farming implemeurs, ée., will ve cold iw Auction, on TUESDAY, the 10th July next, at-his residence, situate on the Malpeque Road, about 1 mile from Town. <ou- mencing at 11 o'clock. Further particulara see Handbi » Term:.—Sums to£10 Cash,—from £10 to £20 three months, —from £20 upwards four months. Where credit is given, approved Joint Notes will be required. May 21, 1859. IRON, IRON, LRON. rok SALE, by the subscriber, at his Sale Room, Queen Street— . 8 tous Refined and common LRON,, (assorted sizes.) Charlottetown, May 21. JAMES MORRIS, Charlottetown Horticultural Socicty- HERE will bea Public Meeting of the Memiers of the above Society held in the ‘Temperance Hall,on PXINAY, the 25th inst., at 3 o'clock p.m., when an alteration of the con- stitution of the Society, and various other matters of inporiance, will be submitted. j (Fr All persons desirous of prometing the Horticelture: improvement of the Island are requested to attend, ° ‘The Lady Patroness of the Society has int#nated an intention io attend, and the Lion, Charles Young, the President, will deliver an Address. : Committee, May 21. J. LAWSON, Sec'y. - Westmorland Bank Agency. Y the arrival of W. S. Uarris, Esq., one of the Directors of * the abeve Bank, we have this dsy been put in possession of funds, and will be ready at auy time to go forward with the business in coumection wna the above agency. . JAMES PURDIC. By order of the Charlottetown, 21st May, 1855. Ail the papers, Li. Yorkshire House. VPIUE Subscriber begs to inform the Inhabitants of Cher lottetown and the public in general, that he hes opence « STORE in the premises lately occupied by Mr. Thomas Garren, Kent-street, and that he has received per Jsadcl, from Liverpool, his SPRING GOODS, Consisting amongst others of CiLLOTLS—Olives, blues, blacks, fancy Does, Greys, Fianuc'», Moleskins, Cords, Black Cotton Velveta and Veiveteens. A large variety of Cottons — cotton prints — canvass — brow) Hoiland—black do—diapers—damask table covers—greeu & blue baize—bed-ticking—wide-awake, alpaca & lawn hats— boys’ belts — braces — Beaufort ties — neck and pocket cilk handkerchiefs—ladies’ riticule bags and baskets—psrasols — dunstabie, rice, straw, Tuscan and fancy bonnets—purses— silks —satins—lersians—lining-cotton—buttons in variety for coats, vests and pants—white and printed fancy shirts—black silk velvet—a variety of ribbons and artificial flowers—fancy vesting—merinos — orleans— Alma and Kagian dresses and Circassian robes — white and colored muslins ~- organdie dresses—bdlack silk capes—black aprons —a large assortc.ent of Berlin wools all colors & shades—ladies’ boots & slippers —ladies’ and gents’ gloves—plain and embroidered veils— muslin collars—habit shirts— hair nets & wohair caps—every description.of tailor’s émmjngs. HARDWARE, CUTLERY AND JOINERS’ TOOLS of first rate quality, consisting of table knives and forks, and carvers and steels, all sorts and sizes—pocket and pen-knives— razors —scissors-—table, teaand desert spoons—meta! & nickel, silver, bread, butcher, oyster, palette and shoe knives— gente’ dressing Cases—rasps, files—screw and pod augure—-planea— hammers—horse, shingle and other astls—saws—aad @ varicty of other articles, including an Engtish Cooking Range. Also—Shortly expected from Halifax, an assortment of Wes: India and American Goods, all which will be sold cheap for say 3i NICHOLAS BROWN. London House. i856 1665 NEW SPRING GOODS. ER “ISABEL,” from England, the sedscrider begs to announce the arrival of a jerge and general e*sorciment of Spring end Summer GOODS, eomprising « varied essurt- ment in the newest styles of—drese gouds, shawls, bouuets, children’s bats, ribbons, neok-ties, miliimery, hosie y. gloves, mantles, boots and shoes, white and biack satin and tmoroces slippers, broad cloths, doeskins, summer clothe, gem>roons, drills, ready made clothing, india rubber coats~—'spestry, bros sels, kidder, stair and crum) carpetings—hearth rugs, sizir disper, worsted and union dauask, long cloths, cheap prints, cotton warps, ladies’ work boxes, writing desks and dressing cases—together with a great variety of viher Goods, ALso—A large assortment of Hardware, &c. GROCERIES.—Tea—loaf, crushed and moist sugars-—cof- fee, ground end ungrovad—washing and baking powders— washing soda—soap, starch, blue, spices, &c. &e, The whole having been carefully selected and purchased on the most favorable terms, will be suld at the lowest Cash price H. HAS? ASZARD. ‘Great George Street, opposite the Catholic Chapel, City of Charlottetown, May21. Apothecaries’ Hail. THE OLD HOUSE, ESTABLISHED 1819. Charlottetown, May, 1855, T. DESBRISAY & Co. AVE, just received, per late arrivals from London, Dublin, United S:ates and Halifax, their supplies for the season, comprising in the whole, an extensive and varied assortwent of DRUGS AND CHEMICALS, PERDUMERY, Combs, Soaps and other Toilet requisites; Paints, Oils, Colours neni, © Dye-stutts; Fruits, Spices, Confectionary, Medicata _ otber Lozenges; with ali the Patent Medicines ts repute, @ every other article usually kept at similar pene > Great Britain. [See Apotheearies’ Hall Advertiser. The whole of which they Cau with confidence recommend to the —s — if quality be considered, at as low, if -, lowcr prices, than they cad be red elsewhere ia the Charlottetown, May 2!, 1965. >. te a