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HASZ.-UK D, would respectfully intimate that he has taken into nrtners 'p Mr. George W. Owen. The Printing, ookselling ml Stationery business heretofore carried on by him. will from the lat of January next, he conducted - ruler the Firm o Haszard and Owen. Mr. Haszird will attend more particularly to the ‘ rioting department, and Mr. Owen to the Bookstore. I1 this means and with increased Capital, they hope pecislly to merit the patronage of the Public. Just muJr..i.i. T H E *1 PRlNCE EDWARD ISLAND ‘ AEMAEAE. FOR 1855. H conuining the ‘present (‘rovs‘rninent of ll’I:‘HI'lllllI American Colonies, Imports, luxporis and even!!! of this Island, and ‘till the usual lists of Loans, Ma- “i’"‘“°" C°'"'"i"'°"°"'c:8i:3f 'ii.°'ttAsz.iun. Queen's Square. '" _fs$iJ3§.Ti3Eii.nen. The Spelling Book Superseded. on Alnew and easy way of teaching the spelling, - ' f ll d'll'ic It words in h:a||_-13:15lgl:n;|.a|:I$:lI;l::utl:l‘l'lI:l:|’c#I oh. verbal dis. ncuomdy ROBERT SULLIVAN, I... L. D. . ' ed ' - ' fiat.-rallies:-ii.i‘liivl.fio':roli(rutihitvililttnl |:tl|l“'=°Pl°‘:"|l"° for Sale in this Island. Price Is THE MIN iSTEll’S FAMILY. 7 run REV. W. M. IIETIIRRINGTON. AL"l'll0l. or A HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OI-‘ SCOTLAND. yr‘ The above Book of 304 pa s. has Jll" been printed for a fi_rm In New _E;|'k_s 3 I9" copies have been retained for Sale in this Island. It is an interesting and entertaining work, _us the following extract from the preface will ll w 1-- 3 swim. the Author of the following littlc \VOI:l( suites, that it is not.onl " fourided on facts," but is indeed almost devoid 0 an fictitious admixture what- cier, he would not be un erstood to assert, that she events of the narrative occurred exactly in the qr res; nnd connexion in which they are related, and gee the members of exactly such a family as is _here ea; cribed. Had this been the case‘, the pr0(_llctl0lI_:0|Ih },,,,,,, been manly 3. biographicaltreatise, Wllsl. is‘ real parties thinly veiled under lictitious names. uc is not its nature ; and yet there is not a_character, attempted to be drawn, nor an event of any importance narrated, which is not an exact transcript of some chm-actor or event that occurred within the range of the Author's own knowledge. At the sam_c time, it is hoped that the work contains .l|0llIll|‘ which, even were it divulged, could in the slightest degree prove offensive or painful to any person to whom it may be conjectured to refer. _ _ But, while both facts and feelings are, in a very strict sense, true, the. names ol'_pe|'|_0|‘|' Ind Pl,‘°°' "° intentionally and entirely fictitious in over instance but one. 'l‘lic name here referred to III. at of her ltuynl H' lines: the Princess Auuvsra, in the In- cident re uted in the. last part of chapter 8. Thu! incident occurred recisely as there related ; and the Author thoughtit no to t s illustrious Lsdy to record this specimen of that frankness. lN°°'°l°“°'o "' kindly considerate attention to all around IW. P! which her Ileyul Highness isdistiuguiebed. Having in this one instance withdrawn the veil: M "W" ll. snd states the rsasoo.—l|°P|9l “'0 l° P"°""'° ll“ inference, that what remains more concealed me] on that account he considered the less _roIl- VIVMS he has not withdrawn it. ll! '-"'1'" ‘A "m 5‘ ‘l M’ to rust -—-and believes that any ll-ION?‘ r"u‘" ‘° within‘. it, will prove insflsctual. II '00‘ '9' ' NEW ADVERTISEMENT. TIMOTHY AND FLAX SEED. THE highest price will be paid for TIMOTHY and FLAX SEED, during the present your, at George '1‘ Hssxai-d's Book Store. MONEY T0 LEND O.N‘ FREEHOLD ESTA TE. T. HEATH IIAVILAND. Barrister at Law, Queen Square, Charlottetown. November, 11th, I854. Dixon's Pulling, Dyeing and DRESING ESTABLISHMENT, sr. rr.'ri:it’s BAY. 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The most destructive and scientific arm of the service is horse, or flyin artillcry—the performances of a troop of wiiic are sometimes astonishing. A battery of horse-artillery is, in fact, is beautiful machine, com osed ofit eat number and variety of parts. y it is a attory, of six nine-pounder guns, with their coucomitauts. It is waited upon by one hun- dred and ninety men and one hundred and seventy horses-—augmeuted, during the resent war, to one hundred and eighty-two orsos. Among the men we find six oflicera; that is, the captain of the troop, a second captain. three lieutenants, and one assistant-surgeou—there being no want of medical aid for such an im- portant arm. Then there are two experienced stall‘ scr ants, and thirteen other uon-commis- stoned 0 cars. The unners and drivers form “I8 ivates, amounting ggpater portion 0 the r _ one hundred and sixty men. The residue is made up of two trumpeters, to trans- mit the signals which are given to them by word of mouth from the ollicers; n. fan-ier; four shoeing smiths, (each horse requires twelve sets of shoes is year); two wheolwriglits; and two collar-makers, with some others. Of the orses, two each are allowed to the ollicera; there are four to spare; and the rest are at- tached, with their riders, to the nine-poundcr guns for firing solid shot; the twenty-four pounder howitzer for firing shells, which no- companies them; the aniunitiou wu on, the store limber wagon, the store cart, t e forge wagon, and the rocket and spare gun carriages. The list of the articles carried with the guns and wagons is it long one. Round the gun and limber (tho limber is the binder port of the gun carriage, containing ammunition for int- mediuto use, and which, like the tender to a locomotive engine, can be detached from the trail of the gun-ca.rringe,) are placed felling- nxes, bill-hooks grease-pots, ropes, spades, pickaxes, buckets, lifting-jacks, swiugle-trees, to which the traces are fastened, it prolonger or drag-ro , port-fire, s are sets of horse-shoes, tent-po es, pegs, pic ct-posts, i-en ing-hooks for cutting forage. mauls, camp-kot cs, blank- ets, aud corn-sacke—sll, of course, packed ' the most perfect apple-pic order. Among the contents of the various boxes attached to each gun-carriage—neitr-box, oil-box, . middle-box, and so ou—arc corkscrews, files, funnels. fuse- boxes, knives, linch-pins, wallets, piucers, saws auda setter, scissors, needles, and a homely ball of worsted; accompanied by solid shot, cartridges, shrapnel-shells, bur-sters, quick- mutoh, and fuse-bugs, with other inflamiuublcs. Close to the gun are boxes containing a slow- mutcli, it set of priming~irons, a tiu-primcr—e. gnu-lock, ten llints, two punches, two spikes, u. sponge-head for the gun-cleaner, and thumb stalls; which are lluuked by a wad-hook, sporo sponge, hammers, hand-s ikes, wrenches, and iucers. So much for tie gun-carriage and imber. Upon looking tit the ammunition wag- ou,we see is little magazine with duplicate supplies of every sort of uiunitiou—seveuty or eighty solid shot, abundance of cartridges, port-tires, tubes, shrapnel shells, fuses, and other scientific appliances for mowing down “ good tall fellows ‘in the most decisive man- ner. The very sight of these would have utterly extinguished the dandy lord who tried the patience of Hotspur, when “ drv with rage and extreme toil," after it hard iglit. ii are carefully stowed away, according to the home- ly Teresa Tidy maxim, which is the soul of military art-augements—a place for everything, and everything in its place. To these tire added store-cart and store lumber-Waggon, carrying supplies of rough iron, wood and leather for r irs; also, tools and miscellaneous necessa- ries aud light be o. The forge-wagon cur- ries smiths toolsgfilzlows, iron, shoes and coal. era is, beside. it spare gun carriage, with stores, besides a rocket-wagon. I‘ivelve-pouud- er rockets nro destruction ngatinst troops at eight hundred to it thousand _v:irds range. and against buildings at six hundred yards. They are especially useful to frighten horses; but they require careful management; without which they are as destructive to friend as to foe. In this train, the heaviest load is it twenty- four pouuder, on carriage complete, for which ten or twelve horses are required. he won- > = lecrst;r'y":‘0I00.¢'i |.... \ dcrfully rapid evolutions of this expert cor ought to be witnessed on it review day at their headquarters, Woolwieh. n 0 Id. Kl *1 . . d.IT.(sIa.:ro t:so:’:pq:I::0‘k°:f it mile,) fired- Iwo rounds, retired five hundred yards, and fired one round, in three minutes and four seconds. To appreciate this feat, it is neces- sary to remember that, besides getting over the ound, at each halt the guns have to be un- firmbored, loaded, pointed, fixed and limbered, up again. . ricochet fire should be tried as much as possible; that is, the shot should be made to graze the surface at it ground-hop, and then fly oil‘ agaiu—like a boy playing at ducks and drakes in the water. It will sometimes hit the ground ten, fifteen, twenty times, and more. The most elevated positions are not the best for artillery, for the greatest olfects are produced at a height equal to one hundredth part of the ran so the shot. V hen carrying it non-commissioned ofiicor, the wei ht of the man rind his appointments is reckone at two hundred and forty pounds. This is loss than for is heavy dragoou-horse, which, on ordinary occasions, curries two hun- dred and sixty-three pounds, exclusive of six pounds ration for the man, and twenty pounds ration for the sat. Troop horses tire not altogether teetotallcrs. They find is wine glass of spirits in hulfa pint of water a very refrcsli- ing co ial. They are very fond of sweets also. In the Peninsular war, they throve remarkably well on a daily ration of ei ht pounds of supr sud seven pounds of hey, it tli no corn. When their drinking-water is hard, a knob of clay mixed with it softens it. Six horses with s. nlne- under can march four miles in one hour so a half, or sixteen miles in ten hours, allowing for periodical halts. The trot is at the rate of seven miles, and the gallop at eleven miles an hour. Captain Lefoy gives, in his Hand-Book for Field Service, some rules for choosing a military horse, followed by useful chapters on the diseases to which be subject, and rules of age. The latter be iuniu with, “As a horse never dies of oi age’ sounds like a cruel doom; but it is true, that be generally dies by the band of the executioner, either in the battle-field or in the knaekci-‘s yard. The formidable list of equine iuflrmitics will remind the reader of the practical knowledge Shaka re displays in his description of the steed ri den by that mad wag, Petruchlo. “ His horse hipped with an old motley saddle, the stirrnps of no kindred; besides, possessed with the lenders, and like to move in the clinic; tron led with thelam , infected with the fashions, full of wiudga s, sped with spav- ins, ruicd with the ellows, past cure of the fires, stark spoiled with the staggers, begnawn with the bots; swayed iu the buck, and shoulder- shotten." Inferior horses are useful in the he go- truin ; for which mules and oxen are also ouud useful ; the lattcr,especially, for heav drau ht in a rugged country. he ox is we come or ii more substantial reason, as he yields, when the time comes to cut him up. three hundred and seventy-five to five hundred rations of beef of one pound and a quarter to each man ; while it sheep furnishes only forty to fifty rations. Aitliou h the camel, in a sandy soil, oes only two iui cs an hour, he will kee it up for twen- ty hours, and carry six to ten undred weight. Camels are important assistants in Indian war- fare, and they have been found of great use in the Crimea. Cattle employed for the convey- once of be go are technically called but (sounded “ aw") animals, just as ollicers’ ser- vants arc styled “ bow" men. rom an interesting chapter on strategies! science, we learn, among other things, that " a. gentle slope is the most advauta as ground to have in froutofa battery ;” an that ,'-lift to one hundred and filly yards of soft, mars iy ground, where the enemy's shot would sink; gullies or ravines crossing the enemy's fire at right angles with a terrace of six to ten feet elevation, about twenty paces in front of it buttery ; are all good obstacles to the enemy's fire.” This almost describes, verbatim, the best points of the Russian position above the Alma. ' Some curious facts and calculations relative to the distauctfieauddprpxipiity oi sip enemy, so im rtuut to 'u o in war re, are set forltxli by the sam"c aiiethority. It is calculated that if the enem ‘s cavalry are one thousand yards of!‘ when t ey begin to move, they will take about seven minutes to come up—lirst at it gentle trot, then at a round trot, and finally at a llop; and, during thi_s interval,such gun can ischarge at them, with great precision, ten rounds of round ohol: and four of case-shot (that is, shot put u into a cyliudi_ir)_ ; or about one round every ha f-minute. This is exclusive of the fire of the infantry with their small arms. The efilacts of a stand fire may be instanced by what took lace at rcsdeu under Na leou’s 33.1‘. 3.3.? .i‘i.'.i‘il.§".i..‘.'.'.‘I“.l?."iI,l’li‘3pi‘.i‘l’i?; Frouch—a terrible sight to a young recruit; but on this occasion the were met by the Emperor’s Old Guard, w o_ were u to it. They reserved their fire, till the enem were close upon them; and, when they did re and the smoke had cleared away, four thousand of that immense host were on the ound, either killed or dismounted by the oath of their horses. A‘: two thousand yards oi‘, a. sin le i-..i.u or horse looks like a dot ; at twelve hun red yards infantry can be distinguished from cavalry ; at nine hundred the movements become clear; at seven hundred and fift yards heads of columns can be made out. In autry marching send out strong li hts, and, if the reflection be brilliant it is prp bis that they are marching toward you. 'lho.dust raised by cavalry spd artillery forms a thick cloud but this is fainter, when caused by infantry. Under tiio head of marches, we are reminded of Marshal Saxe’s rofouud dictum, that the whole secret _of wnr is in_“ the lo a.’ Marches preface tho victories which but gs decide, and .t:;.;"*:.°°a..‘?“:...?:'.; °':‘:.'u:'..;“"°" °"" cavalgy ; and a column of thirty thou _ a. thus isposcd, would occupy t rec in , an would require two hours a least to re_uge in two lines of battle. A day‘_s march with the lightly-arined Romans was eighteen_and a half miles; but, for ordinary armies, in. mo cru times, fifteen miles is allowed, in oonsidcratiop of the lllfil.lll0l')‘, bnggnget, andl otkher hl::p0(ll- merits. at we must no over 00 w can be done on extraordinary etner ucies_. _ For instance, Gen. Crawfor astonished even the Duke of Welliugltpn, when he Joined him after the battle of iavern, with big light brigade, having marched sixty-two miles in twenty-six hours. _ Lord Lake's cuvalr llop of seventy-three miles, to the scene of o af"s defeat at Farrultabed, was performed in the some uuiulger oflhours.h in fproe: margllresértpg reatest o stuco to t c in an v is is lleet, to prevent which, feet shou d be well beforehand. Tallow dropped from the candle into common s iri_ts, an rubbcd_well into the foot, is a cure o blisters already raised. The ordinary quick step is equal to three miles an hour ; but this rate cannot be he t_up after the lirst hour or_two. Double-quic is at the rate of seven miles_ an hour. On parade, a military pace is thirty inches, two thounnd one hundred and twelve ofwhich equal a mile. Where troops sleep without covsr—es we know will sot_netiuies happen with the best regulated nrmies—-and iuust_olien_ hop is in armies under red-taps rule, in which t men are governed by the general. their food by the ccnunisssriat, and their tests by the ordnance; out utterly lads dent of the sleep with their set toward the , tosixuieu;)butinarnursliy co flould be made to slsspbetwesu fig, psosao a free circulation of gi peat ssaet of health where fever and .1‘ t. use 1 cookery him- your ratios of asset, wr-pp it in a piece of ‘erduth uudccveritwi ecrustofclay; ,1, ,...syluo it in any sort ofholes well so ever with red hot embers; In_d_witli 'g;gusly.:oo; for not ajot ofthsyuics of .. V ' to ice, to mention a recipe pussafie across a ft-sexing pm’, the ice is t ck enough to bear a ;,by six inches of straw down and pour y on it; and when the whole iiiass_ has p together, lay down planks and it will be soon to bear a train oflleld artillery. Gulfssut is is used in passing a poptoou - ridge: bmgs, as we as a suspension _ and at counteract the dangerous rocking to wh there is a tendency, thp troo should ngy _ hop step, or halt upon it, nu esp it has beg; to rock. In swimming a horse, give him big if he is distressed throw your- send and hold on by the mans, or the tail: cannot kick in the water._ But, as he ueerly upright, the mane is more con- II "T II works in the field are hastily rai protection to the camp, and to sun the troops to annoy the enemy more clfe y. The main features are a parapet bro high, for a screen; and a ditch or trench out . The cubical contents of these two are nbo nal ; so that what is thrown out of the tre st serves to make the rapet; as in in age railwa , the great art of the engi- uee to lay‘ his a at such inclinations, that the taken from the cuttings shall sulfica to yar per hour is the allowance for each soldier, who under these circumstances, works without ' ul pay; the use of the spade, iok_ax and his-row being as essential for the dc cusive opcrsihous of the army. An exception is, how- patly made for the performance of certain dutiu-at sisgss—my, the siege of Sevtistopol— and la spscsul cases. Where the soil is un- favoriiltls, or time forbids its use, sirtilleial are raised with gabions, fasciuss and . To obstruct the enemy, sharp pali- sadcssrs stuck in the ground here and there; and ahtis, or small trees in a rough state, are in all directions. _ The as is a large fa t, the full use of which is ei teen fact, an the weight one hundred an forty pounds; the gabiou is a coarse hsket, a foot and three-quarters to two feet sad three-quarters high, weighing, when filled, lbrty pounds. Along with tarred_sau - begs, thus are used in immense quantities, to build up the extcmporc walls of betteries, made on the same principles as the field-works. _It is the p business of e suppers and miners of the engineer dspsrtmcnt to construct such batteries, and it is usuallyogcrformed at night- time, that men msy ass exposed to the enemy's fire. Working purties are at the rate of eleven to fourteen per an, assisted by volunteers from the rest of e army. In the uieges of the Peninsular war, next to the as pins, the guards, we are told, were found to the best workmen; and this is the character they hear at Sevastopol. Such is the seal of their olccrs, that they do not disdain to act the part of foresneu over their men, under the di- rectiou of the engineers. _ _ _ The management of battering trains requires great euer , patience, and attention from the artillery 0 our. First, he has to consider the quantity of ordnsnoe—-six ans being used eve four howitxcrs or mortars, cs allow- ing or spare guns; then, the ammunition ; an next, the means of trans rt. With rcprd to the ammunition, it is stated that at the siege of Cuidad Rodrigo, in six days, eighteen hun- dred sud twenty-five barrels of powder were upended; at Badajos, in eight da a, two thou- sand two hundred and s_evcn rrels; and at the two siegss of Saint Se sand and twenty-one barrels. As to shot, the gun]-3 9 par gun may be (this is a king roughly about five hundred; and of she is, one huudr and twenty ; but the general conclusion froui forraer sis s is that a breach, one hundred feetwide,,can made i) the expenditure of ten tliouseud six hu_n 24-‘pounder shot, at live hundred yards distance. ith a command- in posliai, much less will sufloe. l) u ug into the execution done we and, ¢ t tr‘ ’ char e, at one thousan ," twclvt inc us into good rubble masonry, thirty inchs» into sound oak, and nearly six 1-“. mo . mu of earth, sand and clay. _Au .;aM.'.,,,h .t,.11penstrat_es twenty-tli_ree feet into compact earth. as thirteen-inch iron mortar, ., M, “at. offorty-five degrees, with aeharge onw.,,,y.fiy¢,iounds, ranged 4,850 yards: We_ak ',owd,,,. msibly improved by heating it. with P“, ,, mg, Exposure to the sun is useful. b|,..iotting, which is chicfi practised in 0,. mm osy be safely tried at s on distances ,,.;,g h,,,; guns. it would seem easy to sink a .5”, hyhitllnfl her below water; but the fact is, ,5. ,..,,,.ncs of the water is so great, that a shot on ymdiy penetrate it; and the oaly way to dun” ,,,¢ ship, would be to cateh.her as she , Steamers with their machinery below .line are as safe as suilisig_vsssels; "3. mny lioiss in the fuuuels are of slight con-, .¥::'c:';nooih-bored percussion musket will fire - , mud: in thirty minutes, and carry two zugd ,1 uils. The osrbinee used by the artillery ca xvslry carry one hundred and fifty yards. however. ‘I only penetrs s O are nothing to the'ncw rifle :---~;;'. -.:*.;.::*‘.-::;..:.."::..21.:-::..':.;::.;. ,'.':::.'r A'r.ti lery do not need] carbines carrying beyelid g hundyed yards, as their heavy ordnance :g':.'m", keep! the enemy at a respectful die- tnasportatiou of troops by “n'' hints for the A m’ horn the iastruetieas issued by the rail srs 430'“ ,