* b a ea oGRrss IN THE FLA ONDERFUL x Crop veruttrent the cultivation of flax is destined to be- come vl immense importance in this country. It we bata few years since the attempt was first wade to raise the fibre; and new we fod that in Canada West alone 15 thousand acres have been under erop this year—and what ia the re- sull? The quantity produced per acre is esti- inated at two tons, for whicb the mills psy from | $ % to $14 per ton for the straw or fibre without the seed. shows the bundsome sum of S21U.000 paid over Phis 15,000 acres, at $14 per tun, | a ae ; ye Empress Kugenie will find her arrival ur CANADA. —Under the fostering care of Gu-| at Brarrite saddened by a domestic occur- | champague—well, rence among ber kinsfolk. The Dowager) Duchess of Alba (whose son was hasband of her late lamented sister) has been carried off by a stroke of appoplexy, ut that bathing place, where she waited the coming of her imperial relative. - —_—- The Emperor Napoleon's promise that im- ee for debt should be abolished in ‘rance caused great rejoicing in the debtor's te the farmers, in cash, and this too at a tune be-| jail, and the inmates illuminated their win- | tore they had the opportunity of preparing any! dows in honor of the Emperor on hia birth-| ether kind of produce for market. Tu show you day. The Corpse Legislatif were opposed tu the value of this crop I will go inte a few) figures. The quantity of seed produced on the 15,000 acrea may be estimated at an average ot ten bushels te an acre, which at current rates— $i1.S per bushel '—will produce 225,000, Then there ie the Gbre or atraw on the 15.000 acres, which, whew seutched aud wade ready tor mar-| ae ket, will produce from 300 to 400 Ibs. of clear fi-| A Wuotrsate Skepucer.—A Mr. Stowe bre te the acre, worth, at the lowest price, $10 | eloped from Burlington, Vt., last week, with per 100 ibe, showing the handsome suum of $450,| the wives of three prominent citizens. The GUD, tw say Hothing of Converting this raw mate-| guilty parties crossed the Canadian border rial inte yarn and hoen tor which we have a great closely pursued by one of the wronged bhus- demand in ourewn market. It is said there is less a bands.— American Paper. labour required to produce this crop than almost | * any other, except in pulling, Mr. Donaldson, Pale * the general agent under Government tor this ; branch of agriculture, to whom I am indebted for C88 bas been raging among the horses in thie informetion, informs me that in man) jnstan-| Some parte of Pennsylvania. At firet there cvs flax wae sown on sed land, where uly one | is @ swelling of the throat, followed by a ploughing was required in the spring, aud where | swelling of the bead and limbs, which proves the seed was put ote the ground about the mid-| fatal. die of April, the erop was delivered at the ewill | pore aaaNrereo—an und the money in the farmers pocket by the firat| The Pacific Mail Steamship Company and week io August. Whe would not be a tarmer,| the Adantic Mail Steamship Company have the refurm, however, and contrived to post- pene the passage of the tull to next session. |The debtors are therelore to wait anether year for their deliverance, and might have) saved their candles. j | | j Disease awone THE Horses.—<A fatal dis- with such prospects of making money with av! been consvlidaied—the former paying four) little trouble 1— Canada Letter. }and a half millions of dollars tor the vessels and other property of the latter, “eo =~ — 7. - The French papers ure filled with the de tails of a most berrible outrage comm) tted in Paris, and whose incidents are simijur to a/ case which caused great excitementin Dublin uw few yeare ago. A gentleman named \lausse had engaged » coachwan, Vincent, wlio svon heeds himself insvlent, negligent, aod drunken. Madam Ciausse besought her hus- band to get rid of him, but he neglected to du so. One evening lust August, Madaw Clausse was returning from a visit to her fa- ther and mother, whe lived in the neighbour- heod of Paris, and was driven by Vincent. | She was sccuw panied by two young c! nal und was shortly expecting the Birch of a Charlottetown, third. Ou stepping inty the carriage she noticed that ooly one of the lamps was burn-| ing, and © quested the other to be lit. Vio-| cent refused, and the lady, used to his rude-| a Ai eg bees, then entered the curriage. After driv. | Toronto, C W., Sept. 25. ing for some distance she nvticed that they) I left St. John on the 18th in the fine Steamer were not returning by the right road. At) Jast as they came tu a very durk and lonely | place she began to get alarmed, and called | : 3 out tothe driver. Le then descended, dig- | %¢ *¥bstantially built, and her appointments are tinguished the light, opened the door and| of the most elaborately eiegant description. That struck the unhappy lady upon the heud | she bears a high reputation, and enjoys a large with an iron key. She rushed out at the! measure of public confidence, is evident from the | other dvor, followed by ber children, the | Sick ted thie iniiee' 4 f a bi rufben pursuing her and striking ber upon | , that ber stu . Te ee sometimes the head. At iast she fell on her knees, and | ® week and sometimes a fortnight in advance ot Viwcent seizing her threw her flat on the! ber trips, and that generally this summer she has ground, and while the young children vainly | had from 500 to GUU passengers. It is said that Letters received in Paris from Lisbon assert that it is not true that the Papal Nuncio had refused to accept King Victor Emman- uel as godfather to the infant prince. eo Theresa Kossuth, wife of the Iungarian ex-dictatur, died on the Ist inst. at Turin. Che Examiner. October 9, 1865. EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE New Brunswick. This is said to be one of the best Colonial steamers now afloat; she seems te priety. The vinaads were fan)tless ; riunity. The toast of “the Kneats,’ uaval loyal ones, called forth a copious flo eloquence. The privcipal epeakera were, Hon. A. McFarlane, (a member ot the N Scotia Government,) the Hon. k. D. Wiliunot (a) New Brunewick Government, whe | Confederate before he came te of P. E. Island. Their) rnd ot the) ova member of the was a strong anti- Canada), and E. Whelan, speeches are published in all the Upper Canada pa- | pera, but are reported with much brevity; and 1} may remark that the specch of the briefly but incorrectly given. However, that isa) hat nobody need be concerned about. latter is not only | small matter t The question of Confederation was introduced, and discussed freely and candidly,—my own) views were expressed in the same way as I have expressed them in’ the Island. I contended for the right of the people to pass judgment on the question before they should be asked to ac- cept it. I answered the groundless fallacy about an attempt being made to force it on the several communities to be affeeted by it against their will, and showed that the very text of the Que- bee Schewe strictly provided for an appeal to the people through their several Legislatures. The Hon. Mr. Wilmot, of New Brunswick, who is a member of a Government which displaced their predecessors by a furious out-cry against Conk -; deration last winter, when they knew the people had no conception of the magnitude uf the ques- tion, and were terrified at the illusory prospect of increased taxation — stated broadly that there are “vast numbers in the Province of New Brunswick favorable to Confederation, only that some of them are not prepared to accept all the details of the Quebee Scheme.” He repeated this statement publicly on our arrival in this City of Toronto on Saturday night. I have not time to write any thing more about the London Banquet. One or two words about the city itself. I had a ramble through its streets fur about an hour, sud saw many splendid commereial buildings, some fine public edifices, and numerous private ‘Twenty-five thirty years ago, it was partly a morass and partly a shooting yground—ecivilization had then made no advances towards it. But the great agricultural industry and enterprise of the west, and the enormous railway traffic of which it is the centre, extending in every direction cast and west, have made a thriving, bustling place of it. The stutionary population of the place is about 15,- 000, bat during the Exhibition the number of souls in the City was supposed to be not lees than 30,000. The Teeumseh at which I scjourned, is a huge edifice,—it is uct yet quite finished, but promises to be a superd estublish- = elegant residences. House, and the ) afford no one could doubt its supe) very 8 after the, the present prob | Funds of the Tenant Union ; nud also of the still a him, as well as our readrrs in general, a) tise. would be altogether in vain. We sball, ignifieant, if not satisfactory, inkling as to} therefore, assail it indirectly; and yet. we trust, able appropriation ud final des-| to some extent successtully, by exposing what | weuld by all—by the illiterate ard ignorant, as much as by the educated and well-infurmed—be senetated a most uawarrantable, a most unpre- tination and absorption of a part at least of the higher and more important position of public trust and hover to which somue of the special worthies voked, aud, in every point of view, a wost inde- fensible violation of common justice and the righta —‘ the plausible clever fellows ’—of the Union of property, should it—in practical observance of hope to attain. “CONVERSATION AMONG THE LOWER: On- pens.—I remember, some ten years ago, Jong im an effort of the London costermongers to eman- such fallacious reasoning as that by which it is attempted to vindicate the infraction of law and common honesty on the part of the Tenant cipate themselves from the usoriods clutches of the chipitalists who let them their barrews on hire. The union lasted seme months, and the poor fellows subscribed a considerable sum for them. I attended a good many meetings to put the rules they were trying to pass into legal forn, ao that they might pass the ordeal of Mr. ‘Tidd Pratt's office—a much more severe one than now. In my lite Euever eame across a body in which there wus a more thorongh difference ax io principles, or one more sturdy in standing by their viewa. The majority were strong Tories, by the way. Unluckily the Society came to an end through the impatience of their treasurer, who spent th: funds while the debates were going on. He was a most plausible clerer fellow, with a gift for stump oratory such as I have rarely heard equalled. lufterwards saw inan Australian paper that he was making some noise in that part of the Empire ; indeed, that he had offered hunsefl as a candidate for a large constituency there, and had been most thoroughly beaten.” ->s THE TENANT UNION PLEDGE. “Art. 21, Every tenant belonging to thie Unieu ehall unite with the other tenants on the Estate ov which he livesto make a reasonable offer tor the purchase of the freehold of his farm. He shall pay neither rent, nor arrears of rent, and shall contribute a reasevable share te the funds. both for the working expenses of the Society, and the aasistance of thase members who may sustain a loss of time or property by the action which may be taken against them for rent or arrears.” —V ide Constitution of the Tenant Union, as published in Ross's Weekly of the 14th ult. AFTER reading. in the Weekly of the 7th ult., the article en the Tenant Union, in which the writer—the apologist and detender of the Organi- zation—eondeuns “ the foolish bravadves, uttered by professed supporters of the Union,” that is by members of the Society; and rpeaks of * the bad and uuprincipled meu" who are found in ite rank-, a3 well as of others, who go to swell its numbers, “‘ whose sense of moral rectitude,” he adinits, “is net so high aa it ought to be,” in auch reprobative language, as it would become any honest man to use when speaking of them; and in Which he—the said apologist and defender of the Organization—besides most indignantly denies that its members had ever bound themselves by any pledge or obligation to withhold the payment of rent; many sincere friends of the tenantry who, solely out of a disinterested regard for the tenautry themselves, and a patriotic concern for ment. I cannot give the Island reader an aecu- the general well-being of the country, had la- Union—be evidenced with respect to a transuc- tion of every day life and business. Let us suppose, then, that, amongst our country shopkeepers, there ia one, gifted with the atrongest perceptions as to what, in any of his business trane- actions, or worldly dealings, would be the most for his own advantage; but who, although moat tenacious of all his own real or mmagined rights, entertains but very lax and unsettled notions of the rights of others—especially if a just recogni- thon of them would be lkely te operate as an obstacle in the way of any of his schemes of gain. And let us suppose that this man has, for several years, been supplied with the goods in which he deals, at the market prices, and on the usual terme of credit, &e., by a certain merchant in Char- lottetown, in whose ledger, ever since the com- mencement of their dealings, there bas always stood a debt, or balance of account, of greater or less amount, against him; and ihat be has, as at this fall, got, on credit, from the said mercbant, his stock of goods, both for the present season and the coming winter, although at the time there stood an old balance against bim in the merchant's books; and, further, that having got this said supply safely warehoused and shelved ; and having made a loving and pleasing survey otf the whole, a wish—long cherished in his bosom— to be able to call everythiag in bia possession positively his own, has taken such full possession of him, that he ean no longer rest until be bas made a most determined effort to realize it, be the weaus what they may—benest or dishonest— fair or foul. Well then, let us still further suppose that, after having deeply cogitated thereon, a scheme presents itself te his labouring wind, which, wild and dishonest as it is, be determines to endeavor to put into practice forthwith; and, for that purpose, hastens off to Charlottetown “to try conclusions" respeeting it with his mer- chant—without whose coneurrenee, madly covet- ous as he is, he is yet sane enough to know that his echeme can never take effect. Having, then, completed his journey and found the merchant, we still turther suppose that he thus commences to unfold his scheme: “ My business with you, at this time, Mr. ,is of a very important nature, but not of the usual character of our transactions ; and, so out of the common course ee a reprobation as wovld be due to the first, were it as Whelun dues sbout the Tenant a reality, much more ie due to the other. The the cunning rogues that are deluding the people. first would only—although in a very disagreeable Mr. Editor, it would bave dome you goud tu seg manner—put an end to ell business relations be- | poor Mac stare at me. “ Weil.” ead be, when tween two individuals; but the last, in its disben- | he could speak, “I didn’t think that you'g tur, est ond rebellious spirit, threatens us, not only again the tenante that way.” “I'm wt ae with local riots and general ferment and commo- | the tenants, man,” says 1; “I'm for them, Im tion; but, what is worse still, with the extinction, | more their friend a hundred times than the biggeg toa very alarming extent, among our people, of | bully belonging to tke Union. I'm again the all sense of buvesty and regard fur moral ubliga- | Union,” said I, “for two reasons: I'm again it tions. because it's not right, and I’m again it because it We have spoken very plainly; and, we doubt ean do nv good. If the Unionists,” says }, « not, in so significant a manner 9s will draw down | any thought at a) they would see that they beens upon us anew the vindictive and malicious slan-| wrong. Let them preach up now whatever dera of the venal mea whose nefarious designs we | like, they were bound, when they remmenerd, ty have endeavoured to expose; but we shall pa- | use fo ce — real brute foree — to hinder the Pre tiently endure them, in the hope that what we | prietora from getting their rent. They have written to that end may yet be the means | shoot a sheriff as soon as look at hia. If they of arousing some of the infatuated dupes of the | didn’t intend to nse force against the League to a just sense of the unlawful and rebel- | what did they get them tin trempete for? Bat lious attitude they bave assumed ; and of inducing | they soon found that that cock wouldn’t fight, tn them to consult their own safety by a speedy | was a good deal easier to talk about than to fight. Pistole and revolvers end were the arguments that made them change the, tune mighty quick. It wasa precious sight Ptsier to bluster about resistance in a schoolbouse tha, to faee cvld steel on the field. So their ope, active resistance is now changed into parsing resistance. They say active resistance ig Wrong, but passive resistance is right enough. That a as wnuch as to say the horse that bites and §i4, like blazes, and takes the bit between bis teen and runs away, is a vicious, veelvss brote: byt the one that backs up im the bréechen, poly back hie ears, turns his bead a one side a, as Old Nick, and won't ge one way oF the other, is a valuable animal. Of the two, give me the plucky brute: something can be made of bim, by Rarey bimeelf ean do nothing with the sulgy, pig-headed, stubborn one. It seems plain enoagh to me that if resistance to law ie right, active mp sistance is just as right as passive Tevistanee ; but if resistance to law ia wrong—and it ig everybody knows that —it don't make » pim’s gig ference whether you resist one way or the other, The horse that kicks dorsn't pull the load, ang the horse that sulke doesn’t pull it neither, b comes ty the same thing in the long run. Tu my part, I have a great dea! more respect for thy feliow that shows fight than for the fellow that sneaks out of his duty. How would it do if we were to resist the laws in every thing? Hf we wouldn't pay onr debts because we tound it jp. convenient, and because we believe that our er. diter had overcharged ue? Mac,” saye I, “itit wasn't for the law, we conldn’t sleep sai in og beda—we couldn't call anything our own. We would be at the mercy of every one that wa bigger, bolder, and cuter than ourselves. Bet the law protects us all, whether we are weak er strong, bold or cowardly, wise or simple. The abandonment of it. And new having, as we trust we have, by means of our parable or hypothetical case, wade the enormity of “ the Pledge’’ most clearly mani- feat; we shall next have a few words to say con- cerning—not the reprehensible action, but the re- rehensible inaction of the Gor ernment, as respects the rebellious declarations and proceedings of. “the League” ; which, if not speedily checked by the law, cannot fail to bring about a disruption of the legal and couservative bonds of society. This, however, we must defer for the present. ‘seaside RETURNED.—Amongst the passengers by the Steamer Princess of Wales, on Saturday night, were the following persona, en route from Cana- da :—The Hon. T. H. Haviland, Mayor of Char- lottetown, Mrs. Alexander, Miss Haviland, Hon. T. Heath Haviland, Solicitor General, and daughter ; Rev. George Sutherland, Hop. E. Whelan, and Andrew Mitchell, Exq. ——~~>>——__— C8 His Excellency Major General Doyle ad- ministera the Government of Nova Scotia, the late Lieut. Governor of that Previnee, Sir Richard Graves McDonnell, having been appuiuted to the Government of Hong Kong. -- QueRY.—Will the Editor of the Examiner be able to survive the contempt of James Callaghan, William Smith, Edward Cody aud Fraucis Me- Aree, of Fort Augustus? scemnrsisie aiiniiieasiiiili spc We learn from reliable authority that Confederation is gaining ground in New Brunswick. riacis a einige ceaiblalish al tw” The High Sheriff of Queen's County, Thomas Dodd, Esq, accompanied by a Magistrate, a number of Bailifls and twenty-five men of Her Majesty's 16th Regtment, with captain and other officers, left town for Bagnall’s, on the Princetown weed their feeble efforts te defend their mu- ther, the monster attempted to perpetrate even greater attrocities, which we cannvut | she has cleared tor her owners a theusand dollar jeaeh trip, during the season. The practice of rate idea of its proportions, but I should think it | mented tosee the most indefensible position which would lodge without much difficulty a number) had been assumed by a portion of them — and equal tu ene third of the population of Charlotte- | that, as to numbers, not inconsiderable — styling Road, on Saturday morning last. It is reported that this detachment will remain in the country for some tune. is it, that what I have to propose may not, at first, meet with your apprebation. It is, how- law is our best friend. It is a thensand tima better for us te pay rent till the day of doug, dvecribe. Fora long time there wav a des- | crowding 500 or 600 human beings into a vessel o porate struggle. lle broke the unba; py wo-| 00 extraordinary capacity wust, however, be de- man's teeth, tore out her hair, and at last +| commodation, I should think, for balf the number; | plored. The New Brunsicicker las not sleeping ae- exasperated by the desperation of ber defence, | lnct blow with | 4 these whe are net fortunate enough to get raised bis haod to give ber a the key. when he heard an approsching foot- | ' step and ran off. Madam Clausse b sought | berths must either loll in chairs about the saloon, aseistunce uf the passer-by, but was unheed. Walk the decks, or streteh upon the floor, some- ed. She then got upon the box of the ear- | times with the luxury of a mattrass without cover Fringe, and placing her children inside, pro-| ing. ceeded, all biceding and exhausted as she! \ was, to drive herself wo Paris. It was not! emt esstesess wntil she had gone some distance that she) "ms were engaged a fortuight betere, and the | could obtain help ; and when she reached common berths were eagerly taken possession of | her own house she was in such a deplorable as soon as the steamer left the wharf. state that her servants at first did not recog- nize ber, and refused to receive her. Won- derful to relate, she survives, without suffer- ing the serious consequence that mig!it have been teared fur @ woman in her condition, and her deliverance from death 1s ascribed to the thickness of her hair, which, worn in the modern fashion, saved her trom a fractured ekull. As it was, she received no fewer than, twenty-three blows upon her head. The villian Vineent is now upon Lis trisl, and pleads that he was drunk. On the oceasion of my trip, there were at j least GOO people on board. sight presented was very striking, reassuring. Every toot of space in the upper and lower saloons, and, in short, in every place | Where there was protection from the night arr, | It) . | ificult to move backwards or forwards | without treading upon a prostrate human being. | Had fire or shipwreck overtaken the gallan was covered with wearied, heavy sleepers. was d (and there was much reason to apprehend either | or both during the night,) the sacrifice of human life could not tail to be enormous. j -_-- >. | Aw Eartnaevie in Porto Rico.— Advices fron Porto Rice, to Sept. 1, say that there was a Vielent earthquake on the wight of the ath of August, consisting of termfic esellations from! a vigerous public opinion, although individuals | wnat to west, preceded by « tearful subterrancan | ,: _ . ; jee . rumbling. The houses were violently shaken, | night accasionally suffer at being rejected when | though nene tell. The people, in terror, rushed they applied for a passage. | taking too many passengers should be checked by | town. On Friday, 22nd, a Dejeuner was given at the Tecumseh House by the Reception Comuiittee, at which, of course, there was again a great deal more speech-making. At half-past two o'clock we left in a special train of the Great Western Railway for Niagara Fails, running over themselves the Tenant Union—must have rejoiced to think, as we did, that that association—opposed as, at first, their pledge had been, not only te reason, law, and justice, but to every principle of common honesty—having, before it was too late, been driven to adwit the truth of the old adage, * Honesty is the best policy,” had wisely resolved ever, in wy opinion, so fair, just, and honorable, that but little reflection will be sufficient te con- vince you that, as you regard your own interests, you ought at once to accede to it. Now, Sir, you know that I have dealt with you for several years, and that I have paid you, first and last, a very large amount of money ; and, you must admit, than to five among people who do not respect the _ lawe. The Jaw yives proprietors rights the sam as it gives you and me rights. If the law ie tee weak to protect the proprietor, it is toe weak fo protect you and me. Then again, where ie the use of saying that we will pay no more rest, when the law says we must pay rent? When the <ck ciisclliaandinn Tux Teve Resctcrs oy Conraprration — The New York Albion gives us the tollowing expression of opinion, which, we take it. is not very far from the fact, though entirely opposed to the oonsense which has been talked in Canada about Confederation as the bend of Br.tish connective, * The scheme : | #ur entertainers to accompany us during our Up- | ’ : Bite greed Te per Canada tour, and he was indefatigable in his | hope, any mere than they can justly endeavour, | pose, and will engage, to pay, by anual instal: | | exertions to promote our conifert in every way. | the ground at the rate of fifty miles an hour. At | to abandon their unlaw ful, rebellioua, and danger- you have, in a peeuniary point of view, been| of Confederation,’’ says our New York Hamilton the Board of Trade entertained our | ous design; and—instead of, again, “ individually party at a public dinner, got up in the usual atyle of entertainments in thie great Province. More | expressed it, “ pledging their honor and fidelity | : Sas extensive speech-making—P. Lynch, Esq, of | te each ether, to withhold the further liquidation and collectively, virtually and solemnly,” as they At mid-| Halifax, leading off in reply to the toast of the| of rent” — “to resist the distraint, eoereion,| | bave come tothe determination—as enlightened | wight, (up to which time I had not turned in), the | gueste—Hon. Mr. Wilmot, ef New Brunswick | ejection,seizure and sale for rent and arrearsof rent | °¥ the fair, equitable, and honorable principles of and not quite | following, and E. Whelan following him, who in: | until a compromise should be effected in conformity | the Tenant Union—that, as fom om your debt tea | dulged ina little badinage at Mr. Wilmot's ex-| with the resolutions proposed aud carried by the | much greater amount than it will ever be con- pense, congratulating that gentleman on his ap- | meetings in Lets 48, 49, ard 50”—convineed that parent conversion to the principles of Confede- | —how galling suever their bondage, as tenants, ration We arrived at the Clifton House. at the | may be~—how great seever their grievances—and Fr was prepared for us by our indefatigable cicerone, | for many of them te fulfil the eonditions and ob-| able to pay you without iuconvenienemg mys It. ably) 3. a. Daley, Esq., who from the time he jeined | ligations of their leases — nevertheless, as their! Phis I find to be exacily one third of the sum | party at Kingston, was the special agent of | DOs | voluntary engagements, they can never reasonably our ition is merely the consequence of their own | | to better it by a repudiation of the covenanted | Stopping to rest amidst the roar of the Great | demands of their landlords and resistance to the | law; they had, therefore, resolved that, whilst patieatly, honestly, and honourably endeavouring | Falla, 1 must reserve for another letter a notice of what I saw there, and some of the interesting } . . . oa alls, about 9 p.m, where an excellent dinner | very difficult, nay, perhaps, impossible, as it is | contemporary, ‘‘although st the present held in a abeyance by the unaccountable opposition of New Brunswick. for the time bemyg, is really the only road, except a Le- gislative uniun, — to an carly independence. und nationality for Britweh North America. This group of cvlonies. which less than a century agochose to adhere to the British Crown, bas grown combined, to the dimen- sions of a respectable nation, while their kindred neighbour has. in the same space of time, risen from the like position to that of a first-class power. The Imperial Go- vernment has long since perceived the natu- ral tendency of things, and has intimated its willingness lo set apart this new nation, whenever sufficient internal organization warranted the step. The Colonists hesi- tuted und duo still hesitate. From = their long tutelage they seem to lack eelf-reli- ance. But from the rapid progress of event's during the past few years, some change becomes imperative; and Great Britain has come now to almost demand— not only in, her own interest but in that of the Uolonies — that immediate action b+ j greatly benefited by my various dealings with | you—much, very much more so than I, in a | similar way, have benefited by thein—therefure, | to wake all things square and even between us, | venient for me to pay, a compromise on that} | seure ought to be agreed to by you, and you | should freely consent to take from me, in liqui- | dation of the whole debt, just what I am charged by youm the Invoice, for the goods which [ have just had from you; and this amount I pro- ments, running over a period of ten years; pro-| vided that, on wy entering into an engagement to make good such instalments, you, at the same time, freely and gratuitously cancel, or remit the Unionists say that, they prove themaelves to be illegal. The law says one thing: they say yo the ecvntrary. Does that look like being legal and constitutional? The law says a lease is bind. ing; the Unionists sey it ® net. The law aap that » man must pay hie lawfnl debte: the Unionists say we won't de any auch thing. The law saya the rights of all men must be respeeted; the people of the Union say we won't respect the right« of proprietors. If yon make wp your wind to pay no rent, then you must make up yosr mind to resist law one way or other, and I leave it to yourself, if people make wp their minds to resist, how long will they stick te the passive, patient way of doing it. The people of this country are not quakers. Thry're « mighty jong way off being quakere. Scotch blood, and Irish blood especially, when it ia heated with whiskey and white-eye, doesn't flow so smooth as quaker's bleed. Our Island beys would show something else to the fellow that struck them on one side of the head than the other side. They haven't had late the streets in their night clothes. The shock | lasted forty five seconds, but was not rr peated. | It was felt all over the Isiand, but most tereibly | in the capital. ee - —— Iurontaxt To Marines.—Captain Cathorn, | of the Shap PM Miller, of Nova Scotia, who. We arrived at Portland en the morning of the 19th (Tuesday, without any mishap. The train was about siarting for Moutreal as the steamer | reached the wharf, and ouly a few of our party— (1 mean those who accepted the invitation te | ‘incidents that followed. _ @. -<<—_>- THE FUNDS OF TFHE TENANT UNION. A day or two ago we aceidently forgathered, —vach according to the best of his ability — to old balance which stands agaiust me in your fulfil the conditions and obligations of their lenses, | D0Oks and give we a pertect and satisfactory re- they would. still earnestly and unitedly isl ceipttheretor. This offer, Sir, no doubt, surprises vour to emancipate themselves from the bondage you; und you may, perhaps, think it unfair. But of the leasehold system,—but ouly by such means | you will please to remember how much more | | - ' a i ry its yr ar b ° j * arrived at Falmouth on the 16th ultim >. trom ™#*e 4 tour of Canada) succeeded in reaching | in the street, with an old friend—a worthy man a8 are freely afforded them by the constitution | profitable my regular and long coutinued deal- Ragvon, reported to the agent for Lloyd's, | it as it was on the point of starting. They had. | and an honest tenant of King’s County—a County | and the laws of the empire. that, whiie crossing the Gull uf Martadan, he) by their own account, a toilseme, Wearisome diwtmetly suw » reek vf some diwenrivns : +, journey to Mont ; i D ‘ir whieh he immediately laid down us in long. | * a te ee wee font rn 93-40E.. and ist. 11 N. He further sepers- passage by that tram were the luckiest fellows ed that, while this rock is mentioned currect-| *!'*¢- 1, whe have the reputation of being late ly as te position in the Admiralty chart of | ®)ways,—(that is, I am not fast)—were amongst the indian Oceen, (-astern sheet, trom Cape | the number of those who did not eateh the first ae saad oo a ee train; and we had not been an hour in Portland we omits it altogether, but suys ** . cantina” duagere Seoettonnel see ettas| before a Deputation from Moutreal arrived by shuuld be immediately corrected. the cara, specially charged to conduct us to the bua | latter city. A special car, amply provided with Tue Attantic Casie.—The on! slteration | refreshments, was placed at our service, in which | thas will be made in the new Atlantic eable| we started at, I think, 2 p.m, Tuesday, and ar- Will be the eubstitution of strands in the place | rived at Montreal on the following morning about of solid iron wires fur the external covering. | 4 We had = deliahth ; These strands will each consist of three! : ae » yee Oe me utful ride with the wites, and exch strand will be covered with | 0" horse, and a» good rest in a sleeping car set wanille. It ie thought that by this meang! apart fur the use of our party. We here sepe- ‘ail chance of the gutta-perchw being pierced | rated from our “ guide, philosopher, and friend” by the external wire will be prevented. as! each wire eingly would be tou weak to be | thrust into the interior of the cable. —— we are proud to know, there are many euch ten ante as he, honest and contented; and few, very few of an opposite character. With this friend, whom we had net seen for a long time befere, we were naturally very well dieposed to have a little free and familiar talk; and, after due ex- change of greetings. we wiilingly enough allowed ourself to be drawn, by him, into a rather search- ing discussion concerning the principles und do- ings of the Tenant Union; which, indeed, appear to be, just now, the principal subject of discussion amongst all classes of the people, from one end of the Island toe the other; and in whieh cer- tainly the whole tenant class, whether as indi- viduals they are members of the Uniwn or not~ cannot fail to be deeply interested. As our discuasion progressed, our friend, think- ing, doubtless, that—as editorial journalists are presumed to be almost ubiquitous and omniscient in their professional capacity—we should have little or no difficulty in fully answering him, plied us with many pertinent queries anent the tenant organization, and the working of it, by the jugg- ling engineers who direct and control its move. ments. Amongst others which he put to us, he rather posed ua by this, which was very evidently suggested by a want of faith in the honesty of the tenant organization engineers: * What do you think will beeome of the money whieh they—the said engineers—are so eagerly and successfully collecting throughout the country.” In reply, we said, that, transcendent as our professional knowledge and wiedom most un- undoubtedly were, we were obliged to confess that, with ali the power which those qualities gave us te unravel mysteries and penetrate secrets, we could not divine what would be the —Mr. DeLivle—who sustained the triple charae- ter, especially the triendship partef it, with great | satisfaction te us all—and I cannot omit to nutice Boston, with its immediate subur!¢, says) the many kind offices we reevived at the hands the Boston Traveller. now contains & popu-! of hia co-deputy, Mr. Gregilstaine, who was un- ee — red eee et rewitting in his attentions te us. on onnet 7 quae) canteen a cleat After a rest of two hours and a half in Mon- lation on this continent The valuation of | ''¢a!, we started by special train for London, C. Bueton and suburbs will nearly reach ee W. There was a splendid dinver prepared for hundred millions of dollars (the city alone! us at Kingston, on our way u ,at th having $379,000 000). This vast som will) o¢ the is turipatiene A bp siidiieite place Boston as the richest city, per capita,| . , , prepa gee prohably in the world. New ¥ rt b 6 brme! night again, we arrived at Loudon on Thursday STUV 000,000 ; Philadelphia, $150,000,000 ; morning. On the evening previous there had Haltimore, $100 000,000 yuluation, or one| been a grand Ball at the Tecumseh House; but oh ose arty The eleventh ward! [, for one, am glad we eseaped that part of the of Boston nearly the same population and icitten, ‘ Seiad valiiatina tb Podehena. Be "ena isvildided a] feativities. During Thur ay, I am almost 7 : 7 ; ’ : jashamed to confess, the testivities were of the city itself, being in many re«pects @ distinct qaerter.’ Since 1850 this ward has alumust| ost overwhelming character, A splendid din- by rung intd existence. ner was given at the Tecumseh House at three + ; ; ——_- a v'clock—a Reception by the Mayor and Corpo- e crop of Indian curn in this county is i ’ ] ‘ far idaho tb average y there has been no- ome ve ~ navi Lee ‘ om ne or rr thing like it since In31. A few days ago ay er eee " ie ee ae Walter Kickettson, E-q , predetted us witha | replied tu by the Hou. L. N. Shanuon, M. PLP, of huge ear of this grain, on which were enght-| Nuva Scotia; by Laugbliu Donaldson, Esqr., Presi- een rows and 664 kernels. — Bridgeiuwn | dent of the Board uf Trade of 8t. John, N. B sand | Press. i a oe ” | by E. Whelan, M. P. P., of PLE. Island. Their | Porte Rico and Cuba are to be connected, «peeches, together with the address, have been | with the Florida coust by the submarine | publidbed in all the Upper Canadian papers. The ee ee bas been turmed | remainder of the day was spent in visiling the f maak ce mpl wid | grent Agricultural Exhibition, held at London. I The Troy papers report that the cattle die | will not allude particiilarly to this Exhibition, con ue appeared im that part of New York. leat I might raise the ‘euvy of our P. E. Island Abe duwase resembles erysipelas, the attacked | ists ‘the gist in- pert ewelling up aupitiints under the breast, | oe ee — - ‘ Piet s+ vther times on the side, but more fre. ””* a ee quently under and un the one side of the | the higest terms of the greut industeial wealth thrust, the wietim dying in trom twenty-four | and euccers(ul husbandry bere exhibited—they ty fut ty-eight bours in great agouy. declared they had never before seen such horned ————--. $0 = _ . | cattle and borses, auch sheep and bogs, such Tine 2 nee ents cage ted ve ell farming implements of the latest desigus and ‘ger. uré leaving that country in large nem- highest finish, such delicate, and at the same bers, and coming to the United States. At, time, substantial productions of the loom and Torvetw, ve 12,000 Catholics in 1860, | needle; and such mammoth cheeses from the there are now only 8000 left. Among the | dairy, such big, luscious fruit from the orchard ; | — ee ane Cauada there isp rain in all ite varivties ; and the root crops were. - on saiaees represented by specimens of gigantic proportions. | According to the Providence (Riode Is-| The list of prizes awarded is published in the, land} Juurnal, disciples of Mi-s Lurris are Upper Cavada pupers, and vecupies from seven mabe chee tnt thee NUE® tech ng een Hse) woe eed wb sad Ime shut down her husband. Chicago|™ "*ptures with the Great Show, the farmers) busounds will have to eee whether their | moat especially. Wives aré ered, belure they venture to differ , Fa the evening the Loudon Committee appoint-| with them um go grave a subject as whether ed tu receive the guests from the Maritine Pro- they shall buye mutton or beef tor dinner. vinees, entertained them at a Public Dinner in the ob f.0, POW a The fieat coboured student hus entered Har- ward College. Me buils from Boston. | chair, abd discharged its duties with great pro ultimate destination of the greater part of the large and daily inereasing funds which the diree- tors of the organization boasted were at their disposal; but, doubtless, we humbly suggested, a considerable portion of them were being disburs- ed to pay the wages of the itinerant delegates, and of other need{ul, and, perbaps needy worthies, employed by the body for the dissemination of their principles and, eke, for the levyirg of contri- butions; and, further also, to defray other ex- penses unavoidably incurred for the purpose of keeping the rather uncertain and ricketty affair in something like trim and working order. Thi answer, although the best we were able to aflord at the time, was very far from being fafisfactory to our friend, or from freeing his mind‘ from the suspicions, which, be said, wany more, udt only in bie own locality, but through- dut ‘the’ countr)—ynionists as well as others—~ entertaived, tliat ‘the contributions which the difectors and delegates uf the Union had suc. ceeded ‘in “lebying, aud were’ atill contriving to levy, aoiong bheir many easy dupes, were chiefly —aye, ‘se far as possiblo—iitendeds ultimately, if not immediately, Jor their own especial b-nefit ; and nut, by aiiy means, for the general good of the Union. These men ‘Sepresented themselves ss struggling to beiefit the tenantry; but the fact was, he feared, that-they were ouly strugg- ling to benefit themaclves. Since then, however, we have, in our news- in which, we gladly take this opportunity to ray, | | Great, indeed, must have been the pleasure which the prospect of such a change in the prin- ciples of the Tenant Union afforded to every such sincere and disinterested friend of the ten- antay; and, consequeutly great indeed must have been his mortification tu find, after his hopes had been so agreeably excited, that—to the certain ruin of themselves inthe end, and very probably, to most serious damage to the public interests, and most injurious consequences to the community at large—the Tenant Union had determined, after having had their eenstitution under deliberate re- view, madly to adhere to their original wicked and dangerous, although moat preposterous, design of repudiating renta and resisting the law. The Artiele of their Constitution, wherein the Tenant Unien expresa their determination te adhere to that design, is that which we have quoted above. It is a little varied, as respects words, from the form of their original pledge ; but the dishonesty of the obligation is as manifest in the one form as in the other. | ings with you have been to you than to me, you must, Sir, be willing to confess that — as trade | transactions between any two parties should al- ways be nearly equally beneficial to both — the vuly fair adjustwent of our accounts which ean be made, is that which [ now propose. I see you hesitate, Sir, aud cannet, just at once, determine What answer to give to my proposal. I will, therefore, leave you, apparently undetermined as you are, for the present; but I shall expect that, a8 sven us you have made up your mind concern- ing the watter, you will make me acquainted with it. But, betore I go, and leave you to me- ditate upon the subject, it may be as well to let you know that, unless yeu aceede to ny proposal, I shall never pay a single farthing, either on ac- count of the old balance, or for the double stock of goods with which you have recently supplied me. Ido not, indeed, propose whelly to repu- diate your claims upon me; but, it 1 de, observe it will not be my fault but yours,in having refused to accede to the fair, equitable, and bonvurable offer which Ihave made to you.” Now, after this full and undisguised avowal of their determination to repudiate their honest and legal obligations, it is not likely that the Weekly will again flatly deny that tLe Tenant Union are prepared to resist the payment of Rent; or that it will again declare that * no such idea was ever entertained, for one moment, in the mind of the most ardent member of the Society.” No: the Weekly will not exactly do that; but sophistically, we doubt not, it will endeavour to prove that, al- though they are resolved not to pay rent, or at- rears of rent, yet, a8 respects landlords, their in- tentions are honest; fur does not their constitu- tion declare (Art. 9), That the object of this Society shall be to eecure free land for the whole tenantry,on fair, equitable, and honorable terma ?” That their Constitution declares this we adunt; but, unfortunately for the credit of that Constitu- tion, it does not provide for mutuality of opinion between the tenantry and their landlords, as to what ought to be accounted “ fair, equitable, and honorable terms.” The tenantry are to be the sole judges of what are “ fair, equitable, and honorable terns"; and if, in offering such terms to their landlords, the landlords should decline to accede to them—what then? Why simply this— “the tenantry will pay neither rent por arrears of rent.” But there will be no dishonesty i thus withholding rent and arrears of rent; for did they not offer to buy the fee simple of their farms on what they themselves considered “ fair, equitable, and honorable terms,” and did not their landlords most obstinately and unwisely refuse to accede to those terins? The absurdity of such reasoning as this cannot easily be surpassed; and yet it is the only mode or line of argument of which the defenders of the Union can possibly avail themselves. But te convince the many simple-minded aud ignorant men, whe have been duped by the erafty leaders of the Society into a belief that the object—free farma—being a good and desirable one, they Ought not to boggle at the infraction of any or every obligation of law and honesty to attain it— that, in fact, the end sanctifies the means—to con- Vinee such meii, We say, of the fallacy and danger of such reasoning, ‘by any thing we could direetly paper readings, met with a paragraph beaded Drill Room. The Mayor of the City was in the “ Conversation among the Lower Orders,” the! ou perusal of which, by our friend, will, we think, Now, granting that, under such cireumstancer as here supposed, so impudent and nefarious a preposition could be coolly and seriously made to “ne of our reputable merchants in Charlottetown, What 18 it reasonable to suppose would be the nature and purport of the answer returned to it? Would it not be something like this :— “Stay, Sir, you ehall have your answer at once. Your offer, you say, no doubt surprises me, and I may, perhaps think it unfair. Yes, Sir, it does indeed surpriee me: aud, not only do I think it unfair—] hold it to be as impudent and knavish a proposal as any man can possibly make to another in the way of business. It is not a proposal which can be regarded in any other ligat; and, as it requires no consideration, I tell you positively at once that I will not aceept it. It is true you are an old customer of mine: and it is also true that, as such, you have been favoured and indulged by me. The goods which I have sold you have always been what I represented them to be: and the velue set upon them has always been in ac- cordance with the state of the market at the time of the transaction. And not only have | always given you the usual credit; but frequently have I allowed you to extend it far beyond what was written in your bend; and yet, for such in- dulgence, I have never charged you one farthing of interest. Hitherto you have received from me the treatment, respect and consideration due to an honest man; but all claim to anything of that kind from me you have now forever forteited. You have exposed to me your real character. | find you are a knave, and us such I muet treat you. I, therefore, now give you warning, that unless you immediately pay we all that you owe me, I will have recourse to the law to compel you. Slippery as you may be, and cunniug as you may think yourself, you may, perhaps, find to your surrow—and soon too—that the law is tow strong for your knavery. Now, Sir, having had my answer, you can go.” In this supposition, extravagant as it is, our readers canrot fail to perceive a close parallel to the law-and-justice contemniug sud detying de- claration of the Tenant Union, and to the course bay againet it, in order te show them the hagard- ous dishonesty which acquiescence in its teach. inge bas brought them to sanctiva and to prac- of action whieh they have determined to pursue, Our imaginary case, in its worst features, bears, indeed, hut tuo close a resemblance to the fun- damental prineipleg of the League : j aod wuch «miner or any other paper, I'd say twice ae much | quaker training, and they dou’'t believe in quaker principles, se they can't make quaker resisters. Then again, what will the proprietors think of thix resolution net to pay rent? Suppose a feliow, whore note of hand you held, was te come te you and say: Mac. you're a cheat and an impester. You teok mein when I bonght them articles You knew I was in a fiz, and couldn't get them nowhere elee, so you piled on to me. IT ain't going to stand it any longer. 1 won't pay a far- thing of interest, and if you don't take se mack, and give me the note, you won't get a copper for it. Would you wait to hear the end of this civil, honest speech? If that fellow weuldu't walk pretty quick out of your house, I am mightily Yun mistaken. And if you wouldn't have him hauled up before the Commissioners, next eourt aay,\ don't know anything about you, that’s all. De you think the proprietors are mad: of different Besh and blood from you and me? De you think thet they're bend to put up quietly with what would | set you and me ramping, raging mad? You ain't such a fowl as to expect it. Depend upon it,” says I, “that the proprietore won't listen te them whe cowe to bargain with a threat in one band and an offer in the other. They will stand wpoe their nghts. They won't allow Tenant Unionists or any one else to bully them out of what the law gives them. They'll pnt the screwe upon the poor, deluded Unionists, and make them pay ep. It isnit in human nature to do otherwise. Soall that the poor fellewe will get for their Uniow Rent will be writs and executions, and no endef worry and expense. The proprietors Lave the taken. While offering the British Americans absulute control of nearly or quite half of this Continent, she secke only to be relieved of the trouble and inconvemence that their present relations entail."’ ——____--»~ gg pe— — A Halfax paper of a iate date says the Provincial beard of Works have now in course of construction three lighthousea, viz.: at Green Island, off Arichat: Little Hope, off Liverpool ; and at Egg Island, off Jehdore. The first men- tioned will be lighted on the Ist December, the second on Ist November, and the 3:d on the 15th of that month. A Mra. Eovitror :— Good nature ie always impcsed upon. was good enough to print two or three of my homespun letters, so IT make bold te trouble you again. What have I got to write about thia time? Why, what does everybody write and talk about these days? About the Tenant Union tu be sure. Now, being a plain country man, | ought to know more about the way people in the country think than you gentlemen editors that live in Charlottetown. Neighbour McDonald called in to-night to read the paper, and hare a chat about matters By the same token, neigh- bour Mac isn’t very fond of the Examiner, A while ago, when yeu, Mr. Editor, was hammering away at the Orangemen, he made a good many wry faces; and now, when you give the Tenant Unionists fits, he’s as mad as a hatter. He now allows that you were wore than half right about the Orangemen and the religious politicians, but he says its a real shame for you te handle the a 7 a backs, and if os poor tenant whe Unionists as roughly as you do. “I'd like te)” face of law doesn’t come out at the know,” says I, sticking up for the Examiner as I = ee: oe ot enon a wits always do when it's in the right, “ where the te ee im roe orppeteteen had chuck shame is?" “ Ixn't it a shame,” anys he, “to be iodal mbailiud 4. kore tree “ rielt. Th abusing the Union and Adams and the reat of | 0°. o nat chahby ence. it wan acta them. Ain't they the friends of the tenante— —f CADRES suguney; they wun ee almost the only ones they got these times?” says stuck te the Award.” “ Suppsse they did 7 he. “If T was to see a man leading you down to Sean pauls Setup soniene® wer the ice when I kmew it was bad, would you think rene eee The Anant am : yengre I was abusing bim if I called out pretty loudly to nisi es ae r ee een! a aaa turn back 1 And if he would go on in spite of| yoy cae i al all IT could eay, would you blame me very much m che — aa ee roe os if T poke pre*ty roughly to beth of you, and did ? enh nt o “oe = . ae aa all I could te hinder you from getting a ducking — partite & Spanien) — — and perhaps losing your lives?” “To be sure —s we would do? Wo would sign 0 0a ae ; binding ourselves to abide by the decision of the not,” cays he. “Whether you was right ¢F| chitrators. When the arbitrators gave in theif wrong. I ought to be thankful to you for trying to award, we could neither of a back We eg me out of the danger you thought me in.” ain re a ian “ coms eal “That's just it,” says 1. * Whelan "—excuse |. . . - one my bad manners, Sir, but that’s exactly what I set Hei - . weer aay oe = raid) —" Whelan,” eaye I, “*4eea that the tenante | °° 0" © ene Se ae belenging to the Union are venturing upon # pre. Me? A om mninate the lnct name was woald cious shaky piece of ice. He sees that they'll be ait ere cneaiee = sure to fall through, and many of them will get vb ne wreulond the <onetion 58 ony ae cold and wet— many will be sure to lose their rr concerned. Bat the Repost of the if it beasts, and som. maybe will lose their lives. es pe ale - wre oe What else can he do, ax 8 good neighbour and an the _ — eppectation. 3b was thee to ay honest wan and s Christian, than to hallo to | °° Proprieturs te sec if they bad anything tot them as loud as he can, and to use every weans, a a cena rough or swooth, to binder them from risking ae ene eee tbey their necks? Do you suppose,” says I,“ that a wighto’s. If t bey: night howe hited i man is to think about manners, and to cudgel bis| ney tod toand thet & brains for fine words to talk to men who are ee ne nn gener an enee ~ ~—_ leading the people to their ruin? And more than eae aes allowed to that, when be sees these fellows kuow the danger 7 Poe. A 19> WORD ust as well as he dues, and are ouly coaxing them ws heen tetris strhgton™ on thot they may make something out of the poor eel et ee ~—e wretches they are blarneying. “They are a intone ~~ a ' cel of teas” spys ania Souk of tol? said an, Mow Last you hada ur poor fellows whose wonry he pockets for waking good a right to say no as we had to ay ye , " The truth is that that Commission was 8 windy speeches and writing lying letters to the | affair frow first te last.” papers. Yes,” saya I, giving the table a thump! I had no notion, when I began, that I would with my fist, “ if I was able to write for the Ex-' bave said sv much. Yours truly, / HUMPHREY HOMESPUN.