Se! eet, ST LE . Z ae teeter cmpaenscstiin, RHE RE gM te Sy ie late oe a a = aa ~ GORRESPONDENCE. It now appeers that Gen. Sedgwick did actually enter Matamoras with a body of Uuited States, edidwrs. Je a letter dated Nov. 2nd, he wrote EDUCATION. to Ocu. Saerdan :—- | "To THe Eprron ef run EXaMtver. “Tre condition of affairs along this border, and) pege Sir; Saas, eae Sesto me the United As the above subject is one of vaat importance, tates t laterfere in order that the lives and pro-| and one whieb is too much vegleeted, 1 trust that ae ‘of the American citizens may be protected jthe public wil wet deem me too impertinent 16 Wansles has just declared tu his men that they |#eriug a low remarks for their perusal. 1 will . hel “thediastove * 'Thia means indie-|*@4eaveur te show eome wt the awany Teen fe village rubbery, breaking open of, vevieners with wiuph bull teachers aud pupils stores, &e. Canales tas af late frequently violated | have te contend in many of eur district schools the neutrality lawe new existing between the throughout the Intand; and whieh retards, in a United States and Mexico: and in view of all) # eat measure, the progress and advancement of , > ‘ i the noble work of Education. these facets, U deem it my bounden duty to inter) - gmp fere, aud s@all this day Vemand of Caualee the | , : 1 condition—wer ie : souses are in a dilapidated condition—ttmere —-, ney . ee = ne . i shal! i hovele—wholly wadeserving of the pare, and allo- beld vet receeve to? tructions Treiu you. | gether unfit te be vecupled us imatifutions in Sheridan wrete to Grant that he used every) which is imparted to the rising gQeration moral ao e@int to prevent Sedgwich's carrying ef | gud intellectual education. Lal, in the more en- is intemtewws. He says he though! Sedgwick wae! terprising and intelligent settlements, new, res deceived by some persons whe had furnished oe peetabie, and spacious buildings are occupying plies to Canales, aud wanted security fur pay met) the place ot the old ones; and, L trust, ere many which Excobedo, who was besieguig the place, | years shall have elapsed, we shail see all the oid fewed te give, The following i¢ tie account of ‘dilapidated huts seanoved, and replaced by new Sedgwich's expedition, and of what followed: | and commodious buildings, which will be in ac- GaLveston, Dee. 5.—By the arcival of the | cordance with the requirements of the laws relat- steamers Blackbird and Elizabeth Read, we have | lag te Education, and a credit to the districts. | Mesican dates up to Saturday evening. She lett) I am happy to be able te congratulate the in- Brazes at 5 P.M, aud the Blackbird at @P. M,, | habitants oi Big Cape and vicinity, on theirs siccess wu Saturdays J in erecting, dugag (he past season, a scluml-honse, At eleven o'clock on the 25th a pontoon bridge | well eatitied te the vawe—comtortabie _ = _— lie NT. commedation of teacver and pupils, and a ¢ redil wae thrown trom Brownsville to Matameras, on ua yee ’ Sey anode which detachments of US. forece under Col | to theainseds os and the district, Mue ay took comuns >My ras. | ; : ees enneoand en | ed the contract faiintully aud eatistacturily po - , * ee . ¥ i ‘ concersed, also m aceerdance «ith the speciica 3 — ee, — Ts Tien, Much oredit le alse due the lrustees, W he mon , ee teok an nefive part m the werk, and whe were Gen. Sedgwick then escorted Geo Canales out) pgirumontal in cosivaiaa Sume of the other for an interview with Geu. Escobedy. No terms) gistrigts in this, as well as the other sections ol Were agreed Upon. ithe Isiand, would require to fellow the example fien. Sedgwick then took Geu. Canales back to of Big Cape in the scusel-house line, People re- the city at halt-past five o'clock. Next worning quire te be energelte and willimg; as the saying Becubede opened Gre on the city. His forces) is, * When there is a will, there Is a way,” # teen charged Monterey and were repuised and | that if people bad ts will, they would seen find pursued by Canales. Escobedo's loss was 450! means to erect a school-louse, and that at a very kiiled and wounded and 300 prisoners. Canales | moderate cost. Nothing speaks better of a com lost 25 men killed. Late in the alfernecn the Ame munity than fe see 1 adorued by a respectable vicars withdrew outside the cily. M. Cauales, a) sechool-roem ; it shows that They are possessed of brother of the General, was killed intelligence, aud tial they are desirous of nistruct- We are without information of (he operations |e and educallig their children, thereby lara ou Thursday, but we bave private information that | thew ft to becewe wsetul members of socie ty a telegram wae sent te Brazos on Saturday, at 3) When ibey grow ta the age of manhood. Se much BM. that Escobedo and Canales suet as trieuds, | tor the se liverl-lanimes : wud Escobedo is now in command of Lie city. ge det the re = - - or . ¥ . ne, tb requires fe be Turis ere ere ois The special bearer of dispatches on the read ae ae iG lurnitare Iw many of our echuula, arrived on the Such wit, at Brazos, and it is) gin is a serious deaw-back to the progress of Cums thet the Pederal Gieps went subse: chiidren. A tradesman cannet work at his trade (getty to the Aeeeriuan ane. . ‘ without be is first provided with proper tools ; & = yet — ae baltt- . Gen. Albine | neither can a seclool-tmaster wake such advance- me etre was fighting with Lxcupedu, died | nent in learning as he ought, unless he is fur- — Me. ‘ninhed with suitable hooks, de. Tf pareuts would 4 Woechinaten letter to a Movamuras paper | provide each aud every ove of their children with at "Fee os = — Se | suitable schol requisites, tt would cost a . ' mei ‘ rr OUST) ile aid the result, te the eluldren, would be ou tate oe . ee Gee nuk See }wery beneficial. Again it ie paintul te Witness the , betthe i recegiize, any geverniment in) luct that many of our youths, vanensed of intellec- Mexico thau that of the cousutuiioual President | tus) tinds, are ge up : ignorance, woolly eee that they du watt propose — eapreere _ the erenwas anne ot cana, m i _. | Cotsequence ef the carelessness of parents, who pe eeaane a andines aah oe tere) would pretee indulging them in idleness about ; : a 0 eee ely ings bi vcapn homes, sooner than lake upon thetuselves the claime of France, and that they are wall te) puta ef preparing and an these te ettend to Mesice ary aid with the object to quell) i Phe esusequenee ix, that many teachers local diserders wheuever required by the con- Dae | etn it at Si ail ae tt etitutional gotermuecut of Mexicy or —<atesie eo & teake up the required average atlen- danee of their schoel, thereby causing the Govern- ties, without! proposiug (olntertere to any wanes ment salary, which, Gud knows, was small enough me tm the domestic dilflerencees of the coun eteity, tu ie lessened me mitch for every poliiae : : deficient, all ewig te the negleet of parents rated The tod 4 p-tel eee Another thing which IT wish uetice to be taken , ee re * ot is this—a mean sends bis child te school a week drawu trom the Mexican side of the river. or two, then keeps hiin home a month ur se. Cat Ee . jachild make any progress at that rate? Most Teanwsre Exrtostoxs.—Lat- despatches certainly wet; se that at the end of the year, that over the Atiantic Cable bring accounts of ter-| ehiid is very litthe or nothing better Vian at the tidle aecidents which occurred in York aud | begmning; and very often the fault is attributed, Stafford Counties in England, last week. Three | very unjustly, te the teacher, whereas it realy lies explosivns oceurred in Oaks Col very, Barusley. with the parents themselves. The notice of one At latest accounts the mine was on fire, the | mere tact will suffice for ibis Hine, which is, a flames bursting from the mout) of the main | Mxleet in supplying fuel in the Spring and Au- shaft. It is estimated that three hundred and | tatuH seasons, which ought tobe remedied at ance ; fifty lives have been lost by this catastrophe. | tor fuel is as inueh required at these seasons of the ‘pthenee dt ote : year, which are cowwonuly cold and wet, asin The work of drawing out the dead had to be) inter inselt. [will not say any more at present, suspeuded, and the mine is ty be Hooded with) fearing that L lave already Urespassed ou your water. The cause of the aecidet is unknown. | valuable space Vu Thursday night, the 13th, a fearful explosion | I remain, dear Sir, took place wear Hanley, in a pit belouzing ty Yours, respeetfully, the North Staffordshire Coal and [ron Com-| TEACHER. pany. Two hundred men had one inte the} ae Big Cape, Dee. 12th, 1866. due te the eMterprisiug contractors, whe periorn- — “Majesty, however, orders that all further judi- cial proceedings against these yenerals or any other general, or officer of the staff, on account of similar accusations, should be entirely dropped. | THE CANDIAN INSURRECTION. The latest private advices report a defeat of ‘the Imperial troops in Crete. The 1 urkish |Government are Sapatchiag fresh reintorce- ments of troops to the island. Fiee hundred and forty Cretans, of whom 340 were women and children, closely besieged jin the convent of Arcadia, south of Rethymnos, lfired the powder magazine, preferring to die rather than surrender. By the explosion 2,000 Turks were also killed. Constaxtixor.e, Dee. 6.—Government ad- vices received here trom Candia, dated 30th ult., announce the submission of the most important districts and the entire dispersion of the insur- vent bodies. The Turkish authorities in the island had been reinstated in their posts. ALLEGED SPLIT IN THE CABINET. Rumours have been in circulation of a split in the Cabinet on the subject of a new Reform | Bill, and it was asserted that Mr, Disvacli had ‘resigned, A considerable minorty of the Cabinet is said to have objected, in the first instanee, to the iutroduction of a Reform Bill at all next session, and two or three Cabinet iCouneils were held before the Chaucellor of ithe Exchequer was able to carry his point, and linduce his collegues to consent to bring in a bill. The principles of the bill having come Ito be discussed, the leader of the Government lin the House of Commons ® said to have ‘alarmed his colleagues by the bolduess and ex- tent of his views. He protested against brin ‘ving in a weak and unsatisfactory repetition of the Derby Bill of 1859, and wished tu out-flank j the whole Opposition DY proposing aw ier hand in some respect a miore democratic mea- jsure than that promised by Me. Gladstone last lyear. Itus said that Mr. Dis:aeli is in favour ‘ofa scheme of houschold suffrage in towns. | He would give up boroughs to democracy, pro- | maising his party, by the way, more successes funder the new suffrage than they dream of. Iu the hope of consoling landlord influence ig leounties, he would eliminate small tawus from counties, and give a £20 County quatilication. The Chaneellor of the Exchequer has been stoutly opposed throughout by the high Tory section in the Cabinet. Rumours bave beea current that General Peel first opposed the introduction of a Reform Bill at all, and then tendered nis resignation, which he bas consent ed, on Lord Derby's personal appeal, not to press for the moment. It is added that Gene ral Peel has been persisteutly supported by Lord Cranborne. Lord Johan Manners, of course, supports General Peel and Lord Cran- borue; while Lord Stanley, Sir John Paking- iton, aud Sir Statfurd Northeote are said to lrauge themselves on the side of the Chancellor of the Excequer. The Premier's political sym- pathies are with the Tory section of his Cabi- Inet. As chief of the party, however, it has }been his duty to consider the party consequeu- lces of a disruption among its leaders, as well vas the particular measure before the Cabinet. | He has, therefore, hesitated to ranze himself probability, supported by what may be termed his personal followers inthe Upper House— the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Malmesbury, and Earl Carnarvon. The rumour at the Carlton Club is that, if Mr. Disraeli should resizn, General Peel will lead the Conservatives in the House of Commons, with Lord Cran- borne as second in command. Lord Stanley, itis hoped, may be induced by feeling ot loyal- tv to the head of his house to remain in the Government. In this event the present Secre- tary of State for India will succeed Mr. Dis- racli as Minister of Finance. Many of the out-and-out Tories would rather see the party led by General Peel with the flag of «‘No sur- render” than witness another of Mr. Disraeli’s flank movements. These reports must not be taken for more than they are worth, but it is very likely a difference of opinion exists in the Cabinet on the question of Reform. pit in the moruinz, of whom only thirteen had | « ren taken out alive, and they a:e seriously in-| ar . jured. At the date of the despatch forty dead | i & ies Lica con cahee a wae awful | Che VAMUUT, calamities have excited a painful interest! er heing taken in London for the relief of the | suffering families of the victins. - ES — . { LATEST NEWS FROM EUROPE. Mas. Joun Moreissey. wie of the shoul. | ; der tittee Congressman elect, atvended «| ee hee ce pared den from Halifax via Pictou. Mrs. Morrissey wore a pearl colored eurd- ‘of news have been already furnished by the throu shout the kinzdom, and sulseriptions are | Charlottetown, December 24. 1866. Tue Eoyglish Mail arrived here on Friday The principal items The Herald, referring to the rumour that there have been differences mn the Cabinet, says the the recent frequeney of Cabinet Councils, and the absence of Mr. Disraeli from one of them. Both are easily explained. The meetings of the Cabi net are usually frequent at this period of the re- cess, and any one who knows the State in which the jate Administration banded matters over te their successors cannet wonder that the imme: j diate necescities of the public service sheuld re- | duire frequent and anxious consideration ‘The Feondition of the army, navy, ordnance; the re- | perts of reerniting Cominissions ; the foreign re HJations of the Goverumenut; the estimates; the ed silk dress, with black thread lace flounees | Atlantic Cable; but we give some detailed | questions connected with Poor-law adininistra- ever winch was thrown a black lace shawl, Her hair was arranged for full dress, and upon her head was a silver crown or wreath tiiekly studded with diamond stars. Upon) her acck was a coral and disanond necklace of great value. Upon her tect were slippers | af goid evlor. In addition 10 this gorgeous | foreign intelligence which will be found in- terestin J. DEPARTURE OF FRENCH FROM ROME. Rome, Fripay Nicut.—The 71st Regiment display, the lady's hair fwirly glittered | of French troops left Rome to-day tor Civita | with diamonds. The value eo! the preciwus Veechia, ou their way home. stunes which aderned her person would par-) Pawis, Tuvaspay.—The Patrie states that ehase not only all the dresses worn in the | the scheme which is being concerted between chneey, but the edifiee and its entire furmi- the Catholic Powers, and which is to be sub- ture." — Ex. | mitted to the Poutifical Government, has no ae ae |politieal character. It is simply a renewal of : A Loudon correspondent says :-—The betrothal | the proposal of 1°62 for an arrangement by Ue Min Bard eae ee “anes lady | which the Catholic Governments would cou fe burde ontte a hpeuw as airewdy | wedded te ter good Works). and Dam- Fortine in her bliadest qaned bas decreed that «he shall! ieee ill raeees a Sines find @ bridegrowm nearly as wealthy ae hersell. | FRANCE AND AUSTRIA. Such will Ge the case i the marriage of Earl Views, Faipay Nigur.—It is stated that Meanchamp with Miss Dundas Cliistepter Hawal-| the final negotiations for a treaty eo: commerce tou Fisbett, in whem each patronymic is under) between France and Austria have been con- steed tr imply a fortune. Lord Beanehamp, well! cluded. The French commissioners will leave cee _ soy wt neon + - stanuneh next week. Daron Beust will entertain them meervative mruiber for Woreesfershire, ae) oy day at abanquet. The treaty of commerce yea tee Bete: earn will come into bids onthe Ist January, U67. forty theuaand a year, Bat bir bride is even more richly eadewed, foc it t« admitted that ashe will ultimately euceeed te an income af more tien sixty thousutd a pear, le ney aednng of an fwmeuse and increasing aneeouut of veady uemey — ee -——- Foary-Tuner Years is a long life for a pa- tent medicine : few of them in tact live to over- oun ee. ees eae upon moet reliable authority that the relations evet is a honorable exception, baving increased | between Russia and Austria are most satisfac- ia popularity during the period above mentioned. | tory, and that ni thing whatever has taken place el lealculated to disturb themerin any way. No The Morwoas threaten to invade Lowell. conceutration of troops has been made by Aus- Brigham Young said, a a late diecourse at) tria in Galicia, nor is sack a measure contem- Sel¢ Lake :—** The last tim: | was mm the! plated. Russia, on the ether hand, has not eaty of Lowell there were 14.000 more females | effected any military movement out of the ordi- then wales in that one city. Chat is many | nary course, oF of a nature to vive rise to any years ago. Chey lve and die in @ single apprehension.” stete, and ape forgotten. Have they filled | the measure uf their creation, have they we | eomplished the demgn of Heaven ta bringing) Bertix, Tuvespay.—The debate on the them upon the earth? No; they have not | Dotation Bill was resumed in the Chamber of Two thousand good, God-learing wen should Deputies today. General von Stavenhagen go there, aod take ty theiuselyes seven Wives | made a speech, in which he said, “ May the epiece."” jact which the Chamber is about to perform, in A man atid Sides whe waratly conaht reeoruition of the services of our brave army, Jodiass, near Ruby City, Mahe. Woden pins | Medound to the honour and prosperity of the were driven through bie bedy tte the ground, | Mtheriand. Hover Hoverheck s Motion, pro- gud they be legs and arms cut off, te whieh po. | Pine that the dotation list should comprise ouly the names of Genera's von Moltke, THer- webu yo me found. : i os litical warth, von Bittenfeld, von Steinmetz, and von These are pow building in England, er ander) Palkenstein, was rejected. The proposition of etders Ww be bentit, Aweniy-six bon-armer-plated | the committee on the hill was subsequently seeevis of war, The estimated expendiiure on | adopted by 219 arsaiust 80 votes. vessels tre A dast te Mareh 3) owext.) 4 oe a. . hailed agereryets ee geturn moved for by Mr Phe pe oe “= 7 Darmstadt has Leied priatize searou-pleiad ship< aud batteries, | WON Nethed the f tussian puyerpineey os Hs it seuss thet there are Ubirty tron-plated ships | rendiness ” send representatives to the “Hinis- afrat end four building. Tee Crating batteries | '@%4! Conference, to be held ov the 15th inst., arethe Erebus, Terror, Touaderdit and Tuunder. | #t Berlin, and «iso that it will give orders tor lati letbiatealpen jcarrviug out the elections for members to the Milwaukee is uw terrivie place. The Young | North German Parliament without delay, This Meu's Christian Association af 4) at city have re- | the Govermaent of Hesse Darmstadt had not that $2,000 00 bare bees iuvested in) yet taken ang steps to effect, and it is believed there during the lust year, wud wue damily | that the utmost encryy will require to be dis- iu seven is deatituie. | played in order to complete these elections in ~“? - eer ’ ‘time for the opening of the Parliament. Style of living ix ouly a awatter of eomparizon.| Jt is stated that the King of Saxoy will ar- ar oo erate: ene) rive here on the 17th iast., on a visit to the , er! eS ae | King of Prussia. a ae ae The personal intercourse of Count Rismarek want babite That woman provevly bas ne wpe Fil be limited for the present to the King, the meary gy Merow away on sub rete of charity | Ministers, and the Privy Councillors. The than etme gbe would be conten: eth @ dollar a | Mithater of War will attend the meetings of the day. The goat Have is aiways (oe alurt in the | Diet when the Income Bill for the army is being siveves tor thetady Want. Ciseusest|. It was for this purpose that he has woe . Iseved bit waturn to Berlin. tribute towards the Pope's Civil List. AUSTRIA AND RUSSIA. Viexsxa, Tucespay.— The — semi-official Vienna Journal of to-day, publishes an article upou what it desiznates us ** wilfully dissemi- uitted rumours’ resoecting alleged tension in the politienl relations, between Austria and Russia, and concludes as tollows :—** We learn ——_—- PRUSSIA. se” of pewing urine, or thieg water. — straine iv attempting to urinates the AUSTRIA. Diesen sae Or co ie Re pom ays Suenna, Sarcepay, Dec. 8. ‘ ‘ we, Give Sheridan's Cas-- ’ ae Play Caudition Pow ders. | Phe officiel Qeaelte of to-day publishes a iJetter of the Barnewor, dated the dth inst., and ———-e Thee inst time George Peubody pot his addressed to the Binisterof War. His Majesty ieee” he pulled out $150,000 takes note of the resolutiwns of the supreme to . W. Chandier, of Yanesville, military trilunal, accoviigy to which an in-| 1 at io , ety is happy wo est! him uncles A « uiry should tae justituted ‘jutoythe conduct of planation the Minister of the United States was | ply, B20 0 Conse wus throws an. | Field Marshal Beuedek and Generals Henik- | ton--these and mony ether topics demand the first ition. Among the manny Cabmet Councils neid or merely trivial business; and frow one of these Mr. Disraeli could without difficulty absent bim- self, whether trem need of a brief rest or trom: tno- tives of simple convenience. All this may be true; bul iv vot quite satisfactory. MORE FENIAN ARRESTS IN| IRELAND. Five Fenian arrests took place on Wednesday, viz, James Hannen and Samuel Jorusten, m- migrants from America. A Federal uniterm was found with Jolustea. ‘Three otter persons were discharged. Jawes Treacy, the young man whe waa arrested atier the seizure of arms, Was brought ap at the police-office ou Mouday morving, aud adinitted te bail, finding twe securities of £25 each, and jyiving his personal security in the sum of £00, alter which he was discharged. Yhe Titania, which was seized coming inte Queenstown with a carge of coals for Haul- bowline, iste be discharged inte the uian-ol-war trigate Liverpool, whied is expected to xail ina day or so on a eruise round the coust. No arus were found on board the vessel, and there seems little probability that there will, A rumour has gone abroad, with what cegree of truth we can- not say, that the object «f the seizure war not alone to look tor arwes, but for the Head Centre himeel!, With that view a most minute and searching examination of the entire ship and crew was made, and se zealous were the officers that they penetrated even wute the privacy of the captain and his wile, wht were ou beard. Re- port has it that suspicion was attached to the captain's wile as the vudeubted Fenian chief dis- gutsed in woman's dress, bur the husband threat- ened to shoot any of the officers who attempted to couvinee himself of the question at issue.— Corl: Herald. SE neers BY TELEGRAPH. News from Europe by the Atlantic Cable. Panis, Dee. 18.—It is said that M. Monstier ‘has resizned his position iu the Imperial Cabi- inet, and that Lavolette will be his suecessor. | Berwry, Dec. 18.—Itis reported from Vienna | that the Austrian Cabinet is in despair of satis- fying the demands of Hungary, which proposes to give all the various nationalities comprisin, ‘the empire liberty to agree upon a general scheme of reconstruction. Loxpoy, (Tuesday evening), Dec. 18.—It is reported that the fortifications on all the froa- iters of France ace being steenzthened, and that jwew ones are pri jected. | Lua Vaterra (Matra), Dee. 18.—The U. 8. Uman-of-war * Swatara’’ oas left here fur Aiex- laudvid, Keypt, where she will take on board stein and Krismanie during the late way. His| Lonpox, some must have been occupied with truly formal | ——— nj pn Dec. 18.—The delegation from British North America has agreed upon the ‘basis of a bill for the Confederation of the ' British North Amorican Provinces, and as soon ‘as it is perfected, the bill will be sent to the British Parliament. The amount of the Inter- colonial Railroad luan has been raised a million | of pounds sterling. | BY TELEGRAPH TO EXAMINER. December 20th, 1866. Cable despatches reported that the fortitica- itions ou the frontier of France are being strengthened... ..Reported Bazine ordered to enter negotiations with the United States for the establishment of a suitable Government to succeed Maximilian, Bertix, Dec. 19th. Rumored that strong feeling exists in the Austrian army making Maximilian Einperor of Austria... .No news by the Java... .Gold 1354. idee iia de esis THE COUNCIL ELECTIONS—LIBERALS VICTORIOUS. Tue all-absorbing topic of discussion, during the past week, has been the result of the elee- tions for the Legislative Council. Out of the six seats that were to be filled, the Government or Conservative party succeeded in gaining only one. We have not received, up to the time we write, a full statement of the poll im the several districts, and will probably nos know it untilaftter declaration day— Wednesday next. But of this fact we have the most un- doubted testimony, that the Liberal Opposition members have carried their cleetious by ty- umphant majorities, in the three Counties—the Hon. Mr. Warburton alone excepted. Tn the first district of Prince County, the Hon. Mr. Yeo has suceceded in getting re-elected, ax there was very much reason to believe he would, on account of his extensive dealings in that part of the country, We cannot suppose that the defeat will prejudice Mr. Warburton’s chances of re election to his former seat in the lower House, where we very much prefer to see him. In the second district of Prince County, James Muirhead, Psqr., a staunch Li- beral, has taken the place of the Hoa. Donald Ramsay. In King’s County, first district, the Hon. James Dingwell had an easy run over his op- ponent, Mr. Michael Campion. In the second district of the same County, the Hon. A. A. McDonald left the Road Commissioner Hamil- ton a long way in the rear. In Queen's County, John Balderston, Esqr., has triumphed over his opponent, Donald W. Palmer, Esqr. The influenee of the Tenant League was unquestionably exercised in this The Hon. election, and is patent in the result, lasainst Mr. Disraeli, and he has been, in all/ the seat now due to Mr. Balderston, worked | pondeat if itis not a waste of time to discuss S j exceedingly hard, all through the County, for the Conservative Candidates; but it is clear now that his influence is gone. This geutle- man held a seat in the Executive Council— does he hold it yet? we have not seen his re- signation gazetted; but if he has not the decency to resigu, he should be told that his occupancy of the seat, while not connected with sponsible Guvernment.—Although Mr. Balder- ston declared, on Nomination Day, that he would not. of Smail | would be sufficient to drive lem into Opposition. | numerical streneth, and in the watfied state of | Pl policy, i its adoption, whole and uiun- In the second district of Q igen’s County, Mr. | Havthorne has beaten Mr. Golf by, we under- stand, a handsome majority. There immeuse deal of boasting about Mr. Golf's in- fluence, and what the Couservatives in the dis- i trict would do for him. | by hundreds of a majority,” said one of his 'touters on the hustings on Nomination Day, “and every Conservetive will show his colours.” 1 t latiencion of the Ministers, and must have tur | Weil, the display has been a very edifying one, tished ample ocenpation tor their recent councils. | Gt oe Aen ae ’ The Herald questions whether a Retorm Bill has | but we do not think that Mr. Goff rejoices TROOPS | yet been discussed among thea, though it wust ne} over it, |deubt have had place m their thoughts, as ms ee sine ail meatier ce I these of men Whe do not fill 40 “exponsible a posi | Os here is the result in a few words. | There ave seven Opposition members in the There ‘anust be an election shortly to supply the va | Council to five Government members. eancy caused by the death of the Hon. James McLaren, who was Mr. McDouaid’s colleague. The easy return of the latter shows that a Li- forward—can take the vacant place; and thus racnt members in the Legislative Council; but in any ease let the election for Mr. McLaren's place vo ous it will, the Opposition will still have a wajority inthe Council. This is a great change from last year, and indicates a great change iu the public opinion of the country. The result of the elections for the House of Assembly, which must very speedily take place, Let the Liberals be up, and organize, and choose their can now hardly be a matter of doubt. candidates, and let them not be wholly misled by the ery against Confederation, throwing everything else out of view, because all parties are apparently agreed to oppose Confederation. The party in power, new wofully shattered and tottering to their fall, must get up some other ery before they can indulge the least hopes of sueeess at the fortheoming elections. Mr. Gof and some of his followers took care to assure us, previously to the election, that the Legislative Couneil represents “the property and inteLizence of the community.’ We hope he thinks so yet; and ifso, he ought to be con- | vineed now that Ais party, in the Council, do inet represent “the men of property and intel- ! . . . , : . | ligenee in the community,” otherwise popular | elections cannot be accepted as tests of such a fi. | fact. _ <a> {FoR THE EXAMINEL.] OBITUARY. Died on Wédnesday last, between the hours of 3 and 4 o'clock, afternoon, by a constitu. tional visitation, the Hon. J. Koff. His remains | were attended to their resting place,at the home- stead, by sume 270 devoted friends. The demise of tus lamented peer and most valuable public jimun—a sound patriot, a profound statesman, and a geutleman of high classic attainments, { ‘the assassin Surratt, and immediately sail fur | viven a severe shock to the entire popu- | \merica. dent Johnson, which has been received in fuil by mail, is the zeneral topie of discussion by the press and the public. It és argued thatthe treats the Fenian question, but that a ot the messave which refers to che highly spoken of, session. pressed his regret to Mr. King, the American Minister, for the article that appeared in the official journal of Rome, denying the statement made by the Holy Father in regard to Canada, Cardinal Autouelli explains what the Pope in- tended to say was, that if the Canadas were to be given up by Great Britain, it wea better they should fall into the hands of che United States than into these af the Fenians. With this ex- j entirely satisfied. Loxvox, Dee. 18.—The message of Presi- President rather weakens the strength of the | Alabama elaims, by the manner in which he : : Ala el » bY ! .,statesmanuly coneeptions and yreat achieve- | ‘enians is, Rome, Dee. 18.—Cardinal Antonelli bas ex! lation; and his unexpected removal to the j cold shades has entailed an inealeulable loss | upon this people. As a statesman, possessing rare political astuteness, and broad and culti- vated legislative wisdom, the dead peer has no |liviny rival. Ju view of his yreat public ser- vices we may proudly instance one of his ments, cousummated in’ the perfecting and carrying triumphantly, elause by clase, through ‘the House of Lords, by masterly inzenuity and of humanity to Loraed Cattle, : As a ventleman of educatien and refined Kenneth Henderson, who was the occupant of either branch of the Legislature, is a flagrant | outrage on one of the first principles of Re- would be independent in his political action, yet it is very clear he cannot support the Go- vernment in the Council, as indeed he said he | He was dismissed front the office Debt Commissioner for connectins | wes aul “We will put him in | bera!—if a man of good standing be brou-sht | ¥ ru there will he eight Opposition to five Govern.) Hterary status, cradled by fine natural genius, | —_———se ; | ed periods, has commanded very weneral adini- ration; and upon its great merits, as a literary production, his fame in that class of letters may rest in undiminished splendour. : As an orator the deceased peer may not vie, with the polished Grecian models whose elo-| quent thunders shook the forum, nor be held) wecisely on a par with the accomplished and | amicable Morrissey, who adorus the Congress | of the adjoining Republic. Yet justice to a publie memory accords him the laurel for elegance in declamatioa, aud for scrupulous avoilment of unfounded calumny and purely) fabricated slander, in hix oral addresses. These | meritorious qualities, W hich he inherited in an extraordinary degree, were most gracefully dis-| plaved in the course of a distinguished speech which he delivered at the yrand stand, in the market place, a few days previous to his lamented death. In this brief obitaary to the deceased peer we have spoken of him in his public aspects of statesman, and vrator, aud as an accomplished student of the Belles Lettres. In these several departments of public life and polite literature his name OCCUPIES the proudest plunactes On Fame’s sublime summit. But, alas! the glow- ing galaxy of his great public virtues, and the nobie achievements of his polished mind and diamond pen, could wot avert the doom of con- stitutional fate which suddenly arrested him im the plenitude of lis greatness. Then, in much mental agony, he fell as the archgenemy ot mankind fell, “aever to rise again. But his i memory and ienown are written ou the deathiess record; aad that name surrounded by a cordon of brilliant sucesses shall have an honored inimortality, whie public gratitude for vreat pubic works Shall pay due homage to public worth. The great man, the talented peer, has passed away; aud his rest vow is in glumous repose beneath the Haythorne tree. BEREAVED. Oe (Or taleuted correspondent who has lately coutributed several able articles to these columns under the head of * Liberalism and Conservatism,” still keeps in view, in the fore- going part of the following article, the project ofa Coalition, We remarked, some time ago, that it was premature to entertain such a pro ject uutil the etections for both douses of Parlia- ment were concluded. We are more convineed now than ever of the impropriety of discussing the question of a Coalition, when there is not the least prospect whatever of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion, One series of elec- tions, those fur the Council, have just ter- minated, — the Liberals have won a splendid victory. They feel satisfied that the same thing can be done in the elections for the | House of Assembly, because the country, from lone end to the other, appears to demand a | change of rulers. The Liberals are in no hu- | mout to listen to proposals fur a Coalition, un- | der the present condition of affairs; and, ‘therefore, we respectfully sulnut to our corres-| | the question further at present? If the House of Assembly elections should result in a tie— fifteen to fitteen—or even fourteen to sixteen— it may not then be out of place to discuss the question of a Coalition ; but not sooner. Now, therefore, we hope our able and learned correspondent will postpone the publi- | cation of his further views on a Coalition until the character of the new House of Assembly be clearly defined at the hustings.—Ev. Ex.] [POR THE EXAMINER. ] CONSERVATISM AND LIBERALISM. ( Continued.) The object T have had in view in penning ‘ : a ; he preceding observations, is to shew that, in | the present relative positious of Conservatives t ‘ ‘ ‘ superlative composition, embellished by polish. honor and d ifliculty which, notwithstanding the | great amount of ability, individually possessed by several other members of the party, there was not another man among them competent to) fill: and, indeed, such was his veal superiority | that it continues undisputed to this very day ; and, perhaps, were eS now to decline the leadership of the party, there is uot another! man in their ranks whe would willingly place | himseif «in the fore front of the battle,” as he! has long done, as a target to the sot of the well-maoned battery of the Conservatives, The preeminence, however, to which, as 0 statesman, he has attained, aud the many wise, beneficial, and patriotic measures which he bas brought forward and carried in parliament, have not been accomplished so much by Coles the man, as by Cols the embodiment of the popular character and will, le is indeed not only of the people, but the property of the peo- ple; and, as such, they will, 4 trust, long retain him. Were he, by any chance, to be excluded from the Grand Council of the country, it wouid bean exclusion therefrom of the people's spicuousty manifest a just and independent judgment and integrity of public principle us in the elevation of the Hon. Robert Hodson to the office of Chief Justice, When, by the death of the late Hon. Edward James Jarvis the office of Chief Justive became vacant, the Hon. George Coles, as the Leader of the Ge. vernment—unwarped by party prejudiee, wain- fluenced by party claims, or party whlisations, and altogether regardless of the fact that the Hon. Robert Hodgson had been numbered among the opponents of the established Govern mental Reform—beheld in that gentleman ouly the man, to whom—as the lawyer, the patriot, the philanthropist, the man of unblemished henor, the man of * firm, unshaker, sseorrupt- ed soul’ — immediate succession to the appoint ment Was preeminety due; and, witha tuly noble and generous independence of spirit, We at once, On his own responsibility, gave effees tof his jugdment, even to the complete exch. sion of claims which, according to preeedent, might possibly have found acceptance bad it been left to the Imperial Government to deeide best and firmest friend and advocate. Such a never deliberately draw dows unou themselves. esteem as the assertor and contirmer of their rights—as the man who revealed to them a knowledge of their true moral strength, who clothed them with power to use it, and taught thein how best to exert it for the common weal. The present generation throughout the land wil! continue, until the end of their sojourn heve, to hold him in the highest honor and es- teem, as the statesman who has pianced upon our Statute Book the best laws which, in the peculiar position of the country could possibly have been devised either for the remedy of the great political grievances, or for the correction of the most erymg of the social evils, under which the people had long groaned and trayailed. And their posterity will hold his nuine and memory in veneration as those of the lawgiver whose statutes, framed in the light of true philo- sophy and benevolence, bear upon their face nothing but peace and good will to all men, The reeords of his wisdom and patriotism which stand most prominently forward upon our Statute Book, are the Act for the Estab- lishment of Responsible or Parliamentary Go- vernmeat, the Free Education Act, the Land Purchase Act, the Oue-ninth Bill, and other acts fur the protection of the rights and the promotion of the well-being of the tenantry ; and to which otbers of a like character, framed at the instance of the great proprictors, been disallowed by the Home Government. As a speaker or debater in the Assembly, his eloquence, if not most ornate and brilliant, is never surpassed, in point and efficacy, by that of any other of our parliamentary orators. And this has been especially observed in him —that, however unexpectedly any subject may be brousht forward, however suddenly any de- hate may arise, he is never ong uninformed }as regards tie one, or unprepared as respects the other. What is entangled he cau unfold readily and lucidly. And not only is his per- ception quick, but itis, ina manner, instinctively true: so much go, indeed, that, with reference | to thé many instances of it which IT have ob- served and noted on his part, I have frequently said— stiil more frequently thought—of him: * Tarp him to any canse of policy, The Gordian kuot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter.” But that the Hon. George Coles has been esseutially the true statesman of the country, has been acknowledged, even by his most de- termined political opponents. Not, indeed, verbally; not “in good set terms” of oratorical eulozium; but by the more convincing—and surely to Mr. Coles the more gratifying—fact of his great legislative measures having been adopted by them, as affording the only sure remedies fur the evils of our State. In this respect he may be regarded as having been more fortunate even than the great Wil- liam Pitt; for although of the immertal statesinan,”’ it has been truly said, he ruled by voverned during his life,—Mr. Coles, now— ious as it is since his actual ruling power was exntombed in the cool shades of opposition— jand Liberals, in the sameness of their policy whole story arose out of two very simple facts— | himself with the League; and that of itself) oq principles, in their near equality as resoeets ,pubsie sentiment, —if the country is to havethe benefit of being ruled by a Government having nits composition ali the elements of efliciency, | stability, and permanence, it is to be looned for jouly ina Conservative and Liberal Coalition, | Even as our parliamentary representation ; 1 ensucng General Election, of some of the dim and uncertain lights of the present Assembiy, | ; and the election, in their stead, of such as, | Vou to the assauiting. storm, althouch not luminaries of the highest order, | might be able to throw at least an oceasional ray or glimmer of intelligence upon the le zis- lative path, there are within it a sufficient} number of mea of general knowledye, shrewd. | jness of apprehension, grasp of intellect, and | political sazacity,—aye, aud, I believe, of poli tical honesty also—te afford such a Government to the country: a Government upon which every one might depend for the preservation of order, the security of property and persons, and which would enable all, without fear for the present, to look forward with hope to the future. | How far, by what I have already written lupon this subject, I have succeeded, or failed, in gaining over to way own views and opinions icoucerning it, any of our party chiefs, or any | of those among the fevel ranks of the peopie | who have power aad influence enough to enable ‘them, at such seusational times as the present, 'tu vive tone and direction to the political senti- ments of the masses in their several localities, I indeed know not; but, as believing myself to be possessed of information and judsment suf ficient to enable me to approach, very nearly at least, toa correct solution of the question which I have raised—in the honesty and sincerity of my convictions regarding it, I feel almost as- sured that scarcely one of any of the sensible, thoughtful, and moderate men who may have accompanied ae so far in my investigation of it, can, in his own mind, have determined other. wise concerning it than I have done, As to the correctness of my last assertion,— that, in the event of a Coalition of parties, it would not be wecessary to look beyond their foremost and leading men now in Parliament, tu find the best materials for the construction of an enlightened, prozressive, and patriotic Government, I think [ shall be best able to prove it by an impartial estimate of the individual political or public characters of these men. Such an estimate I shall, therefore, now essay, commencing it with an attempt at a political portraiture of the Hon. George Coles, who, as the statesman to whomthe countrv is mainly, if not wholly, indebted for the free Constitutional Government which it now enjoys, is undoubted: ly first entitled to consideration, | HO¥. GEORGE COLES. Tn whatever light we view Mr. Coles, whether as respects his private life, or his public career, we shall find “ He is not in the roll of common men.”’ The disadvantazes upder which he labcured in in early life, were not few, nor of little weight; and yet by sheer energy of character, by in- domitable courage and indefatigable perseve- rance, he overcame them all. As a man of business and as a politician, he has becu the architect of his own fortuue—teuly, in the worldly sense, a selfanade man. He was not born to vreatuess, aud neither had he greatiess thrust upon fim: but most certainly he has honorably achieved it. His education, although the best which, in his bwyish days, this Islaad could afford, was but of a limited characger, and very far from being such as to enable him to aspire to reputation as a learned manu; but much of his leasure time, after he grew to mgp- hood, having been devoted to the study of merit, his miad is well stured with veneral aud P useful knowledge ; and most undoubtedly he may justly claim to be a man of great polyical erudition. [a his parliamentary career, under . . 0 lian erence | * “ oo ° a's i: Beawiy, Yee, ae The Conference of the subtle reasoning, the famous Straw Bill,| the Irresponsible System of Government, he Northern Germau Stetes has eommenced its | philantrophically founded upon the principle ‘ | Was ever the foremost of those, * Who, steady to their country’s ¢laim, Joldly stood up in Freedom's name, Ken tothe teeth of tyraut Pride, now stands, and althoush no. improvement | vf the merits of those who nobly, bravely, aud a } 7 . . , ie Ss i shoud be made thereia by the rejection, at the | faithfully kept side by side with him throughout | citadel, and stormed their stron zholds + yet can- historical, scicutitic. and political works of Aud al? ite tyrant power defied.” the deceased peer’s reputation ranks high in | the various departments of literature. Tnacon-; The position to which he, at that time, at- densed obituary of a great man, as this neces. tained as a statesman, he wou by tact, coura,e surily must be, we cannot detail the productions | asd perseverance when surrounded by ditlicul- of his fine mind; hut we may select one of the} ties, to which any other member of his party, extraordinary efforts of ‘his peculiar genius, | in his place, would have suegimbed ; and when, elegantly conveyed ina reply to an address from | to crown his patriotic laboges, Responsible Go- fa Liectenant Governor. his celebrated re-| vernment was conceded to the Colony, the po- distinguished for sound mental digest, | sition of Premier, unawimously accorded to thas, whilst still vigorous in the body, had the felicity to wituess the full triumph of his Libe- | paired, by his Conservative opponents. Wluist thus, however, with referenee to the struggle for administrative reform awd those who were engazed in it, preeminence is most justly assigned to Mr. Coles, still such ensineuce must not be awarded to him to the obscuration the contest. His was, indeed, the spirit which It is mosi true * that, like au eagle in a dove-cote, he fluttered tre Exclusives’ in the very heart of their not he say, in the words of the haughty patrician, ** Alone I did it!’ He was, in truth, ihe Napoleon of our political Revolution ; but just as ali the military talent and energy of **the Emperor,’ without the assistance of geuerals scarcely less energetic aud less versed wm the science of war than lLimself, would never have enabled him to subjugate rulers and peo- ples, as he did; so neither could Mr. Coles, with all his vigor and ability, independeutly of ihe attachment and assistance of such patriotic “aids” asa Swabey, a Warburton, a Rae, a Lord, a Young, and a Wizhtuain, have succeed- ed in the overthrow of the drresponsible, and the establishment of the Responsible System of Government, in Prince Edwaid Island. Mar- shalied and led by him, the Liberal phalanx steadily advanced to victory; and, tually, in the complete triumph of their principles, the honor and credit individually achieved by them were, indeed, scarcely less than his. In the cause of Liberalism—of which Mr. Coles has been the triumphant champion—we may now look around us with honest joy and pride at the accession which, in the open and honorable avowal of Liberal principles, has lately been made to its rauks in the persons of a few of the most intellectua!, the most enlight- ened, and most publie-spirited of the Con- servative School. In them we behold the most gartifying, the most cheering spectacie of deep-rooted prejudices and the strongest fears entirely giving way before ‘the light and beauty and religion of Liberalism.” These men, although, 1a the days of its infancy, they were nambered with those who must bitterly scoffed and jeered at its doctrines, are now—as the most sincere, the most noble-minded of converts to the truth of its creed—to be count- ed and relied upon as men who will yet, in the impress of the Christian spirit which breathes ea pieces performed and the songs sung were ren- by him, would have been added had they not,: iis principles after his death, as much as he had. rode the whirlwind of agitation, and gave diree- | concerning them, disgrace and calamity, however, the people | Thao the upright independence and gener. POU s appreciation of worth, though in one whe They will never cease to hold him in howe: and) had been numbered among his political enemies '—which, with respect to that appointment, were manifested by the Hon. George Geles, nothing that he has ever done as a publi man — reat and many as his meritorious public acts have undoubtedly been—has reflected so much honor and eredit upon him; and justly nay that appointment be referred to as afford. ing indisputable evidence that, in his determined struggle for the accomplishment of Adminis- tratwe Reform, he warred against prineiples - not against men. i. _—- Garrison Tuearnicats.—Several of the Officers of the 4th, King's Royals, gave two theatrical entertainments at the Temperanee Hall on Wednesday and Thursday evenings last. The Hall was crowded by the elite of our fashionable society on both occasions, and tlie dered in excellent taste. The performances ,. on both evenings, aie spoken of as being highly entertaining. ne CEP ere —cenyeeeee THE PURENOLOGICAL JOURNAL FoR Decrae BEK contains five Portraite of Dore, the great Freneh Artist, the King and Queen of Prussia, twelve distinguished American Clergymen, Mite Kate Bateman, with Biographies and Sketches of Character. Also otber interesting matter, in cluding What is Education? by Jou Neal; Charueters of Shakspeare ; Thiers, the Freneh. Statesman ; Orang-Outangs, ete. Only 20 cente; $2 ayear. Now isthe time tosubseribes A New Vourme begins with the next eumber. Address, FowWLer AND WELLS, 339 Broadway, Now York. ER TRADE BETWEEN CANADA AND THE MARIFIME PROVINCES. We are glad to perceive by a prospectus before us that steps are being taken by leading men in Toronto, Hamilten, London, and the Westera portion of Canada, by means of an association styled the Iutercolunial Steamship Company, te establish a tri-weekly line of first class iron serew steamships, which are to ron between Hamiltom and other Lake ports, and Shediac, Charlottetoww and Pictou, from which place the railroad, now nearly completed, with afford a ready conveyance to this city. The list of Directors of this com- pany ewbrace the Hon, W. McMaster, M. L. C., and Heu. W. P. Howland, M. P. P., Minister of Finanee, beth of Toronto, the Hon. John Carling, London, C.W., Donald MeTonis and Adam Browa, Esqrs, Hamilton; David Allen, Exq., Guelph, &e, &e. The Provincial Treasurer is Jobn Proctor, Esq., Hamiton. The proposed capital of the company is $250,000 (with power to in- crease), and the shares S100 each, so as te em- brace a large nnmber ol interests. We eopy from the prospectus : The Steamers will be constructed afler the nest approved Cesign adapted tor the navigation between the ports on Lake Ontario aod the Porte in the Maritiiue Provinces, with first class accom- modation tor passengers, and with a carrying capacity equal te 6000 barrels of four, or ite equivalent, 4000 barrels could be carried through | the Locks on the St. Lawrence Canals, and the | balance of the cargo taken on board at Montreal and Qurbee. ~Cunada offere te the Mavitime Provinces a large aud profitable srarket tor their Coal, Fish, Oile, Kc, as well asx Sugars and ether West India products—with any, or all, of whieh the return carge could be completed. The Coal of Nova Scotia is of excellent qua- lity, both tor household and furnace purposes, and also for the manufacture wf gas. It ie bully equal to, if vet better than, the eval now so largely im- ported from the United States. The consumption of coals is yearly increasing in Canada and must continue le inerease. The Nova Seotia eval can be purchased at Pictou at about $250 per ton of 2.240 bos; se that alter allowing a very remune- rative rate et freaght 'o the stea.uers, it could be laid down ia Toronto or Hamilton at $5 00 per ton, a priee considerably below that of the coal imported tram the State of Ohio. “ Besides the great and huportant indireet benefits waieh will be conferred by the establish- ment of this bine of Steamere, freon estimates caretully made by persons of large experience in the shipping business, of the earnings and cust of running veh a line of steamers, the Investment cannot tail te be a good one, and the shares should command a high premium. Ne time will be lost in establishing the line and pushing it forward te completion “Tthas been determined te make the shares Bi00 each, im order that the bist) of shareholders thould embrace ae Qian; onterests as possible, and to place it im the power of almost every one to as- sist in the peometion of this truly national and patrietic interprise. “ By recent legislation of the Provineial Parlia- ment of Cauada, powers buve been conterred upen bodier of persons desirous of forming Joint-Stock Companies, for certain commercial purpose, with- in whch are included the objects of this Com- pany, Whereby the liability of the Stockholders is lunited to the amount of stock held by each ; and when one buléot the capital stock shall have been subscribed, ateys will be taken to bring this Com- pany unader thar pis loious,”” There is every veamon te believe that the under- taking will prove net only eminently neeful, but also highly profitable. The trade between the Canadas and there Atlantue Colonies is already considerable and is rapidly owthe inerrase. Even conjunction with some of its earliest apostles and disciples, give new energy to the spirit of its terchings aud more extended scupe to their operations. But lughly gratifying as, to all true and generous minded Liberals, it must be, to con- template, in these men, converts to their creed, —west honorably won over to its adoption by the logic of eveuts, which, of late years, has argted so powerfully and couvineingly in its favor; still more gratifying must it be to them to be able to assign, as I truly beleve they may, this acceptance of their faith to a gener- ous and full, although late, admission of the | fact that the spirit of Liberalisin, as embodied in Mr. Coles, warred not against men, but against principles. Now that the mists of prejudice no longer darken their mental vision, willing to acknowledge that Mr. Coles—firm and-uncompromising as he was in his endeay- ours to uchieve Self Governinent for the eoun- | y—was never actuated by feelings of personal | wuimosity or resentment but honestly souzht— at all hazards to his private furtunes—nothing but what he was in a manner prophetically eon- vinced would eventually be tor the common good—tfor the benetit of all classes of the com- munity—the establishmeut of popular treedom and politieal equality, upon the broadest basis of the British Constitution. | It is now remembered and acknowledged, by men who were formerly his political enemies, that, even in the first fall flush of his success— a success of that kind, before which the honor and wisdom of moderation and justice have, too often, altogether disappeared—not one cf his administrative acts could justly be ascribed to the influence’of ungenerous exultation, or of vindictive recollections. As regards the dis- tribution of oilices, he, in the first place, as it concerned himself, exhibited, in a pecuniary sense, & very rare example of entire abnegation of self; and, as respected others, noother man, in the position in which he was placed, could have manifested sounder discretion, more dis- cerning judgment, or a higher sense of pro- priety than he did. But in no appointment which he made, nor jgrammatical acumen, ornate language, and {him by the triumphant Liberals, was a post ot in any of his administrative ucts, did he su con- with the very indifferent weaas ef communication now ex.sting the trade of the past season is SU per cent. above that of last ywas, Hith@rte there has been no speedy aud relisble wean of transit. The effort te carry on trade between Halifax and Canada, by the Grand Trunk railway, owing to weufficiency of steam comm unigalion here avd Portland, o> from «thes canees, haw proved very satistactory. bt few, however, shown that all that-is required to bed wp a very large commercial wiercourse is vapid, cheap, and tee communication. We leara that it has been unusual thong tor packages of gorda te be delay ten days in Portland on the way to Habfax. Yet9e under this disadvantage, the trade is large and growing = With unfettered free trade, such ax we shall soon have, and a line of steamers such as that pryjected by the bnterwational Steamship Company, the commercial trassactions between these converts to Liberalism are found must |¥¢ Colonies aust assume proportions of which We have at present but » sery limited idea. All who wish well te the Pasvinces, whethet desivous of a political union » ith Canada or pet, must Jook with favour om this project tor fostet ing and enlarging their commerce. The abroge tien of the Recipreesty Treaty, intended ae uw was to cripple aud destroy sur trade, may prove to be a blessing. It has thrown us on on owe resources, and caused the several communities inte Which Briti-h America is divided, to look ty each other tor that whieh was formerly obla in the States. Tbe result sv far justities the hopes for the future. . The completion of our new railway to Pietot will be of the highest umportaner im earry ig 68 the trade between Nova Seotia and Canada; least ill the Interevlonial railway is eomple! As betore stated, Picton ia to be the Nuva See tian terminus of the hew line of steamers. We anticipate a very large traffic for our railway 18 cousequence.— Halifax British Colonist, Dee. 39- OS Tue ArLaAntic CABLE. — We base perm sion to slate that, duriug the week, two message? | have been sent diveet te Londen and Liv | pee the cable, from this eily, by eur ent ig merchants and tewuemen, Messrs, Hegh Mouaghan, of Charlottetown, and J. A. Me- ) Donald, of Summerside. ‘The two messages cost | $1ZS in gold, We wish them success, and hope Lucy will be fully remunerated tor their enter prise, and be always able to send many mere. These two messages are the first trean Pruce Ed- , Ward Island, by the Atlantic Cuble.— isl. » *