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     vour readers witha few remarks on a 
     
    
   
   
    
     signed * Observer,” that appeared in a late 
     
     r ofthe Herald. This letter ia really a hite-| 
     
     ty. Itis chiefly made up of the abu- 
     
    

    
     and epithets currei n the lowest 
     
    

    
     * Observer” has 
     
     pose, | assure 
     
     trong language 
     
     ible The bril- | 
     
    
   
   
    
     newspaper literature 
     
    
   
   
    
     wepapers to some pt 
     
    
   
   
    
     ' 
     
     j & jmdiseriminate use of 
     
     13 + queerest effect immagit 
     
     lant correspondent of the Herald 
     
     ider the impreasion that all he | 
     
     t+ make the reputation of his b 
     
     eroney, Joseph Murphy, Esquire 
     
     Heace, of spotless whiteness, 18 to throw an in | 
     
     measurable quantity of filth on any one who} 
     
     aheuld have the temerity to say one word against | 
     
     that ornament of the Magisteri#| Bench. “ Ob-| 
     
     server” inakes no attempt to deny the charges | 
     
     bronght against the prudent and patriotic Joseph 
     
     Hie fully adimits that at a time when every hones- 
     
     Catholic made it a poiat of honour and of con- 
     
     ience to withdraw his support from the Conser- | 
     
     tive party, the pious Joseph Murphy fawned 
     
     tipon the men who insulted his Clergy, and indus- 
     
     triously seeved those who held up to publie ridi-| 
     
     cule the most sacred mysteries of his religion. | 
     
     acknowledges that the unambitions | 
     
     liish Joseph applied for the ofice of Ma-| 
     
     istrate; aad he dare not deny that he served | 
     
     the Liberal Party only eo long as he had any} 
     
     hopes of obtaining the much coveted and long- 
     
    
   
   
    
     aut Bl-ior bb 
     
    
   
   
    
     wems to labour | 
     
     2 to du in order 
     
     vom friend and | 
     
    
   
   
    
     Justice of the | 
     
    
   
   
    
     lie tacitly 
     
    
   
   
    
     «at i une 
     
    
   
   
    
     hor, j 
     
     Phe elegant and erudite “ Observer” slurs over 
     
    

    
     aflair of the Magsstracy by a eveering allusion 
     
     * musty old letters’; but allow me ft» tell that 
     
     i d thinker and original writer that “ musty 
     
     eid letters” are often very valuable documents ; m- 
     
     deed musty, torn and almost illevible vid letters 
     
     i equeniy contain highly wmportaat information. 
     
     They are often the means ot correcting the mis- 
     
     takes of centuries. They sometiines expose the 
     
     rest artiul kypecrisy, and stiow (he insincerity of 
     
     the ioudest protessions. The biographer and the 
     
     histurian would be very ill off, indved, were it not 
     
     for very old and very musty letters. Certain old 
     
     letters bearing the signature of Joseph Marphy 
     
     give the reader a deeper insight into the cha- 
     
     racter and attainwents of that individual than | 
     
     could be gained by years of intercourse’ under | 
     
    
   
   
    
     ordinary ciretiustances, 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     sferny 
     
    
   
   
    
     , 
     
    
   
   
    
     “Observer” attempts to justify Murphy's ad- 
     
     herence to the Conservative party by using one of 
     
     the paltriest quibbles ever resorted to by a news 
     
     paper correspondent. He plays upon the word 
     
     “Liberal” afler this contemptible fushion: He 
     
     says: “If be (* That's Me’) were conversant with 
     
     liberal parties over the world, he wonld say that 
     
     of all parties that ever banded together for the 
     
     suppression of the Catbolic Charch and the de- 
     
     famation uf the priesthood, the Liberal Party, 
     
     wherever they were, bad takea the lead. Look 
     
     atthe Canadian Liberals, the Belgians, the Italian 
     
     Liberals; the P edmontese, who are not Italians, 
     
     et course liberals,” &e."" Does my dignified friend 
     
     “Odserver” include [righ Liberals in this ef cetera? 
     
     Were Irish Liberals ever defamers of the Priest- 
     
     Hood aud destroyers of the Catholic Church? Is 
     
     net the word Tory associmted in the mind of every 
     
     mitelliygent and true hearted son of Erin with 
     
     eruel laws, anprincipled confiscations, and fierce 
     
     persecutions? Has net the same Tory becowe 
     
     a byeword and a reproach even-among the igne- 
     
     rany and ‘unthinking of the Irish people? Is it 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Che Examiner, 
     
    
   
   
    
     Charlottetown, June 25, 1865. 
     
    
   
   
    
     et 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     We have neither time nor inclination to follow | 
     
     the writer in Ross's Weekly, of Thursday last, 
     
     through the long rigmarole—ftrothy and trashy in| 
     
     the extreme—with whieh he bas attempted to} 
     
     abuse the patience of the public and disgrace the 
     
    
   
   
    
     | paper into which his stuff has been unwisely ad- 
     
    
   
   
    
     mitted. We would be fully justified in not taking 
     
     the least notice of it, owing to the recklessness 
     
     with which the unprincipled writer, whoever he 
     
     is, resorts to the most palpable falsehoods. We 
     
     were compelled, some time ago, to cut, for all 
     
     time to come, acquaintance with a paper whose 
     
     writers, in their controversy with us, substituted 
     
     b'ackguardism for argument. We should not 
     
    
   
   
    
     | like to do the same with friend Ross, whose be- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ginnings in the newspaper line we were the first 
     
     to encourage, as far as we could, and whose 
     
     enterprising spirit we have alwaysadmired. We 
     
     are astonished that a sensible man of the world 
     
     like him, with a keen eye for business, should 
     
     devote his columns to such ineffable balderdash 
     
     as that which is made to do duty as ao leader in 
     
     his last No. 
     
    

    
     Having said so much about the general charac- 
     
     ter of the thing, we will say a few words more. 
     
     We assure the writer in the Weekly that we did 
     
     not “ lose temper,” nor are ever likely to *‘ lose 
     
     temper” in dealing with such a jackanapes for 
     
     a controversialist as him ; and, therefore, we pitch 
     
     bis words of sorrow and sympathy for us, full in 
     
     his teeth, being false, toul, and worthless as other 
     
     things that emanate from the same quarter, 
     
    

    
     The Weekly's (what d’ye call him? not editor 
     
     surely!) persists in saying that we charged the 
     
     Tenant Leaguers with having set fire to the Tra- 
     
     eadie barns. We showed very clearly in our last 
     
     We merely placed 
     
     before the general public the indisputable facts 
     
     connected with the buruing, just as those facts 
     
     were kvown to hundreds in the community besides 
     
     ourselves. Are there any guilty consciences in 
     
     the League that require to be soothed before a 
     
     direct charge of criwe is made against their 
     
     owners? 
     
    

    
     We are told that Mr. Whelan is now “ advo- 
     
     eating principles which, during the greater part 
     
     of his hie, be was opposed to.”” The assertion is 
     
     made without proof, and is incapable of being 
     
     There is no doubt that this falsehood has 
     
     reference to our recent articles on the Tenant 
     
     League; but the essential principles laid down in 
     
     those articles we have always adhered to, through 
     
     evil and good report; and never—never have we 
     
     countenanced the abominable socialist and sedi- 
     
     tious doctrines of the League. Our fyles are open 
     
    
   
   
    
     that we made no such charge, 
     
    
   
   
    
     proved, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     deeguse the enemics of the Church in Ituly call 
     
     thewseves bberals that a Cathebe in Prince Ed- 
     
     ward Island is to cringe to the enemies of his 
     
     Is the Catholic of this country a less true 
     
     sen ef the Church because duty, and honor, and 
     
     every right prioeiple induced bun to join the party 
     
     bere called Liberal? O, my elever * Observer,” 
     
     { there were bo other traces of the baud of Joseph 
     
     Murphy, Esqu re, Justice of the Peace, in the 
     
     letter that bewrs your siguature, this nuserable 
     
     wweaking subterfuge alone would be sufficient to 
     
     cemovstrate that you and that worthy official are 
     
     one and the same person. 
     
    
   
   
    
     But I have yet a word or two to aay about this 
     
     Magistracy affair. I fear that what I am going 
     
     te staté will net be believed by nine-tenths of the 
     
     readers of the Exaoviner. Particularly do I dea- 
     
     paw of being erediied by honest Insnmen and 
     
     pious Catholes—by those whe love their country 
     
     and venerate their Church. Who will believe me 
     
     when [tell hits that Joseph Murphy, an Irishman 
     
     md a Catholic, refused to sign the petition praying 
     
     Her Majesty to disallow the Bill jor the incorpor- 
     
     atwon of Orange Ledges im this Island? Au 
     
     Irishman and a Catholic must be abject, indeed, 
     
     tw reiuse to set his hand toe a petition which many 
     
     Protestants of the Conservative party signed with 
     
     the utmost readiness. Was thereesera politician, 
     
     sv slavish an Lrishman, so degenerate, or a Catho- 
     
     lie so undutiful or so spiritless? 
     
    
   
   
    
     THAT'S ME AGAIN. 
     
    
   
   
    
     creed? 
     
    
   
   
    
     Se:nev here. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     to any person who will have the temerity to look 
     
     | for proof to the contrary. 
     
    

    
     | ‘The writer in the Weekly makes another clumsy 
     
     | attempt to deny that the League is opposed to the 
     
     law. A school-boy that would use such trashy 
     
     reasoning on any subject would in all probability 
     
     be first whipped for its silliness, and again whipped 
     
     for its leaning to dishonesty. Here it is:— 
     
    
   
   
    
     “ Now, a8 to the second issue: Whether or no 
     
     resistance to the payment of rent is a first principle 
     
     of the Union. We denied that such was the tact 
     
     in our previous article, aud we are prepared at 
     
     any time to battle wilh Mr. Whelan or any one 
     
     else as to the truthfulness of our denial. When 
     
     the famous Land Commission was holding their 
     
     Court on this Island, they recommended that po 
     
     rents be paid uutil they had given their Award. 
     
     This was nothing but just and proper; and it is 
     
     on the same principle that the Tenant Union 
     
     abstain from paying rent until they gain a settle- 
     
     ment with the proprietors. ‘They enter into 
     
     hegeciations with the several proprietors for the 
     
     purchase of their several Estates on fair and 
     
     equitable terms, and they hold that while those 
     
     negotiations are pending, that rent should not be 
     
     paid. This is merely acting on the recosnmen- 
     
     dation of the Land Commissioners, and is not, 
     
     We think, in any wise ucjust or dishonest.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     The “pledge” we republished a fortnight ago is 
     
     a sufficient answer to this stuff. Is it not therein 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     MISCELLANEGUS, 
     
    
   
   
    
     LI LPL LL LE 
     
    
   
   
    
     We wish we could convince our young men 
     
     that at the present time there 
     
     be gained by emigrating to the U atted States, 
     
     Liard as times are here they are likely soon 
     
     to be much worse there, and tha number of | 
     
     people out of employment is out of all pro- | 
     
     portion greater than in this Province. We 
     
     transier to our columns from the Gleaner | 
     
     some very opportune remarks on the subject : | 
     
    

    
     «We hear of Jate, especially, long and bit- 
     
     ter complaints, that our young men, ‘ the 
     
     tone and sinew of the country,’ are con- 
     
     stantly leaving the country, and seeking a 
     
     livelthood elsewhere, more particularly in 
     
     the United States. And what are the re- 
     
     ports from thence respecting them? That 
     
     they are roaming from place to place, doing 
     
     nothing or some menial employment, at 
     
     which they would turn their poses upat 
     
     home. ‘Tiere is no necessity for our young 
     
     men to leave home for a living. if they would 
     
     be satisfied to labour, and gradually acquire 
     
     a home andthe comforts of life: but they 
     
     expeet to become rich soon—ani that by an} 
     
     easy and genteel a way as possible, by 
     
     standing behind a counter, and at an office- 
     
     desk. * Better, far better, seek it on a farm, 
     
     which never jails to yield a return in con- 
     
     tormity with the labour bestowed.— Sz. John 
     
     News. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     —— > Cae 
     
    

    
     Ex-Pazstpent Davis’ Duxcron .—The For- 
     
     tress Monroe correspondent of tie Philadel- 
     
     phia Jnquirer furnishes the following des- 
     
     cription of the apartment in which Jefferson 
     
     Davis is imsrisoned :— 
     
    
   
   
    
     * As has already been intimated, the cell 
     
     of the rebel chief is a strong inelosure, built | 
     
     within a gun casemate ; literally a dungeon 
     
     within adangeon. The port-bole of this ease- 
     
     mate has been secarely closed with heavy iron 
     
     hars, through which the prisoner can see the 
     
     beight light of day without, and the little 
     
     patehes of the green waters of the bay and of 
     
     the ocean, which commingled beat against the 
     
     base of the frowning stone walls which at a 
     
     distances encircle his cell. The monotonous 
     
     beat of the waves must possess a dirge-like 
     
     sound for the guiltiest traitor of the nine- 
     
     teenth century. ‘The furniture of the cell is 
     
     plain and seant. consisting of a cot-bed and 
     
     three chairs. Neither koife nor /ork are per- 
     
     mitted the prisoner, for manifest und praden- 
     
     tial reasons, and he is foreed to manipulate 
     
     his food in the most primitive mianer.”’ 
     
     eo 
     
     The Roman cortespondent 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     of the Lendon 
     
     Tablet, writing uuder date of May 5th, says:— 
     
    

    
     The American Minister, Gen. Rutus King, had | 
     
     an audienee with the Pope last week, as well aa| 
     
     with the Cardinal Minister, for the purpose of! 
     
     couveying the offigial intelligence of Mr, Lincoln's | 
     
     death The Pope, while expressing his profound | 
     
     horror of aseassination in any form, took eceasion | 
     
     to express also his sense of regret at the disregard | 
     
     vt all religious feelings evinced in Pi esident Lin-} 
     
     evla’a last public act in outraging the common} 
     
     aenvae. of Christendom by attending a theatrical | 
     
     representation ou Good Friday evening. “ Can} 
     
     you expect,” said the Pope, “thatthe blessing of 
     
     Ged ean follow sueh a want of al respect for 
     
     religion io the ruler of a great mation?” 
     
    

    
     _ 7 _ 
     
    

    
     A proposal has been set on foot, says a Turin 
     
     jetter to eatablieh a regular line of steamers be- 
     
     tween Italy aud the United States. The vessels 
     
     will leave New York and Genoa cionthlyand 
     
     tauch et Cadiz and Maderia. King Victor Em- 
     
     ssanuel’s Governwent has guaranteed an anoual 
     
     audsidy of $160,000, which is equivolent to four 
     
     per eent, interest on a capital of four million of 
     
     dejiars, Toie new line will probobly bave no 
     
     difficulty in eetablishiug a place among the means 
     
     of comunuication between Europe aud America. 
     
     It besides regponds to a real requireient by open- 
     
     ing to American trade and travellers the direct 
     
     road to Lialy, The service will com.ueace in the 
     
     cyuree of the summer. 
     
    

    
     cinaiiwail . 
     
    

    
     The Canadian delegates return next week to 
     
     Canada. We are glad to kaow that | heir mission 
     
     hae b-et successful; that their interviews with 
     
     Mr. Cardwell have resulted in com plete unison 
     
     between their views and those of ber Majesty's 
     
     Government, for the fortification of Quebee and 
     
     Montreal, and tor the general defence» ot Canada; 
     
     and that they feel eoutideut that the confederation 
     
     of all the North Awericap provine:s will be ar-| 
     
     ranged to the entire satisfaction both of the | 
     
     imperial Government aud of the varic is provinees | 
     
     of Evitish America.—Oul, June 3. | 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     in 
     
    
   
   
    
     4% nothing to} 
     
    
   
   
    
     | views of the proprietors. 
     
    
   
   
    
     distinetly set forth that no rents should be paid, 
     
     even when the law commands the enforcement of 
     
     payment, unless the landlord agrees to terms ct 
     
     purchase that may be agreed upon by the 
     
     Leaguers? The latter, it may be said, will not 
     
     adhere strietly to any particular price—that they 
     
     will modify and compromise so as to meet the 
     
     But suppose the pro- 
     
     prietors refuse to open negotiations with the 
     
     League—and this will unquestionably be the case 
     
     With nineteen out of twenty, if not the whole 
     
     twenty—what then? Is not resistance in that 
     
     case enjvined upon Leaguers ? 
     
     then “‘a first principle’’? 
     
    
   
   
    
     Is resistance not 
     
     What a miserable de- 
     
     lusion it is to keep up that the proprietors must 
     
     sell their estates because the League has so willed 
     
     it! No one likes to be threatened or bullied, and 
     
     never is threatening or bullying wore offensive 
     
     than when it is used by one person: to extort 
     
     teruts in matters of barter from another. Mr 
     
     Smith, we will suppose, goes to Mr. Jones 
     
     with a tareat in one hand and an offer in the 
     
     other. “I will give you,” says he, “just so much 
     
     for the article I hold belonging to you, and if you 
     
     don’t take that I will keep it forever in spite ol 
     
     you.” Mr. Jones would, we think, be a spirit. 
     
    
   
   
    
     | less dog if he did not feel an almost uncontrollable 
     
    
   
   
    
     impulse to kick Mr. Smith out of his sight. 
     
    

    
     The Weekly's writer alludes, in the above ex- 
     
     tract, to the Land Commission, and seems to be 
     
     foolish enough to suppose that there is a close 
     
     analogy between that and the 
     
     League—in fact that the League, in resisting the 
     
    
   
   
    
     Commission 
     
    
   
   
    
     law, is merely acting on the recommendation of 
     
     the Commission. It is no use arguing such a 
     
     point with a fellow who is ass enough to put it 
     
     forth; but let us tell his poor deluded dupes that 
     
     there is wot the faintest resemblance between the 
     
     two bodies. In the first place, the Commission is 
     
     dead and buried; its acts were not sanctioned by 
     
     the Crown frown whom it chiefly derived its 
     
     authority. But it never advised a violatiun of the 
     
     law, ner gave any advice that could bear such a 
     
     construction. It merely suggested that the pro- 
     
     prietors should not exact mere than one years’ 
     
     rent prior to the closing of the Commissioners” 
     
     Court—they (the Commissioners) believing that 
     
     the whole land question would be speedily settled 
     
     by their report. Their recommendation, in any 
     
     case, had no virtue in it. They had no authority 
     
     to enforce it. The proprietors might accept o1 
     
     reject it, as they pleased. But, as we before in- 
     
    
   
   
    
     } timated, the Government of Great Britain gave 
     
    
   
   
    
     a death biow to the Comwmission ; and its sayings 
     
     and dvings are now of no more use to the Colony 
     
     than if it had never been thought of. : 
     
    

    
     Now, io the next place, is it not superlative 
     
     impudence in the Weekly's writer to suggest, for 
     
     one moment, @ comparison between the League 
     
    
   
   
    
     jand the Land Commission? The latter sprung 
     
    
   
   
    
     into existence from the joint authority of the 
     
     Crown, the local Government, acting ou the ad- 
     
    
   
   
    
     | Viee of the Legislature, and the Proprietors,—the 
     
    
   
   
    
     former raises its silly and impotent head in de- 
     
     fiance of all those great powers. The League, 
     
     though it has some sort of spasmodic life in it, is 
     
     banned by the law and by the Queen's authority, 
     
     as represented in this Culony,—it is shunned, as 
     
     we would siuo a leprous thing, by the lovers of 
     
     law and order geverally,—and no man of charae- 
     
     ter and influence cares to see his name used in 
     
     conneetion with it, as a participator ip its designs 
     
     It is the covlest of impudence to suggest that a 
     
     society thus outlawed is engaged in, or capable of 
     
     earrying out the unfinished work of the Roya! 
     
     Laad Commission. 
     
    

    
     Another word or two and we are done; and we 
     
     are ashamed to feel that we must make wiles 
     
     ence to ourselves. Mr. Whelan is accused of in- 
     
     consistency, of having chauged bis opinions, get- 
     
     ting his * mouth stopped.” and the Lord knows 
     
     what, because be accepted an appointment as 
     
     delegate to Canada on the Union question, having 
     
     previously opposed that question in the House of 
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
         
     
    
   
   
    
     Assembly, We state the charge, in eubstance | 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘as it was made, but it is quite untrue. Mr. Whe-| an article “On the State of Political Parties 
     
    
   
   
    
     lan went to Canada to consider, with the other 
     
     Delegates, whether a Iederal Union was practi- 
     
     cable; aud if so, on what principles it should be 
     
     based. The Union he opposed was a Legislative 
     
     one—as different from the other as day is from 
     
     night. Mr. Coles was as much opposed in the 
     
     House to the Legislative Union as Mr, Whelan was 
     
     —he went to Canada to consider the merits of 
     
     the other Union—was he inconsistent too? Mr. 
     
     Heath Haviland made an excellent speech in the 
     
     House on the same side that Mr. Whelan spoke— 
     
     he went to Canada as a Delegate,and now strongly 
     
     advocates a Federal Union—is he inconsistent 
     
     likewise? Mr. McDonald, of the Legislative 
     
     Council, was another opponent of a Legislative 
     
     Union—he went to Canada, also as a Delegate, to 
     
     consider whether a Federal Union could be car- 
     
     ried out—ecame home a firm believer in it, and 
     
     awears by the doctrines of Colonial Federation 
     
     still. Js cur friend Mr. McDonald open to a 
     
     charge of inconsistency in this matter as well as 
     
     Mr. Whelan? If the latter has erred, the error 
     
     woukl look like virtue in such excellent cor- 
     
     pany; but he denies most emphatically that there 
     
     is any error at all in the case. 
     
    

    
     There is some more stuff in the Meekly’s article 
     
     we might notice with damaging effect to the 
     
     author of it, but we must let it pass for want of 
     
     time and space. We observe that the unprin- 
     
     cipled fellow has again resorted to the dishonest 
     
     and infamous trick of putting certain words be- 
     
     tween inverted commas, and stating that they 
     
     were used by Mr. Whelan in controversy with 
     
     his opponents. We defy him to prove where Mr. 
     
     Whelan used the words quoted. He cannot do it. 
     
     This development of a disposition to practise the 
     
     crime of forgery, even on a small scale, is worthy 
     
     of a Tenant League adyocate. There is no doubt 
     
     that be is capable of exploits on a larger scale in 
     
     the same line; and we would not be surprised to 
     
     hear any day that he is connected with business 
     
     transactions as an associate in the Firm of Ewen 
     
     Amos & Co. 
     
    
   
   
    
     >> 
     
     THE DETROIT CONVENTION. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The projected Convention, which is expected 
     
     to frame the basis of acommercia] treaty between 
     
     the United States and the Provinces, iz the sub- 
     
     ject of much newspaper writing at present. That 
     
     it may lead to a better understanding between the 
     
     Americans and the Provincialists, in commercial 
     
     matters, we sincerely hope; but as the former 
     
     had, by long odds, the best of the bargain in the 
     
     Reciprocity Treaty, and as they were so far dis- 
     
     satisfied with it that they were nearly unanimous 
     
     in their desire for its repeal, we are afraid the 
     
     Provincialists are not likely to get concessions 
     
     equivalent to what may be demanded of them. 
     
    

    
     The Convention can, however, make nothing 
     
     binding in their negociations. Whatever princi- 
     
     a treaty must be submitted for acceptance to the 
     
     Government at Washington and to Cungress ; 
     
     and also to the Provincial Governments and Le- 
     
     gislatures. There is. to say the least of it, a 
     
     coolness and suspicion existing between the Fe- 
     
     deral authorities and the Provincial Govern- 
     
     ments, arising partly out of the ill feeling 
     
     engendered while the civil war was waging—the 
     
     Northern people supposing that the Colonists 
     
     sympathised with the South more than they ought 
     
     to have done; partly out of the disgraceful 
     
     bluster of the American press ; partly out of the 
     
     haste and petulence with which notice was given 
     
     to repeal the Reciprocity Treaty, and to put gun 
     
     boats on the great lakes—vstensibly for the pro- 
     
     tection of American interests, but covertly as a 
     
     menace to British autherity; and, partly, be- 
     
     sides, from the fact that the Americans shut out 
     
     British subjects from having free intercourse 
     
     with them by their abominable and despotic Pasa- 
     
     portregulation. There is no love lost between the 
     
     Washington Government and the Provincial Go- 
     
     vernments—they are watching each other pretty 
     
     closely : and the demand lately made on England 
     
     for indemuification to the American people for 
     
     losses inflicted on American commerce by the 
     
     Alabama, is vot likely to produce an increase of 
     
     affectionate feeling in the bosoms of all good sub- 
     
     jects of the Crown. If that absurd demand should 
     
     be urged beyond the bounds of peaceful corres- 
     
     pondence—and we cannot see why it has been 
     
     made uuless there is an intention to enfurce it 
     
     when the opportunity shail arrive—all thoughts of 
     
     commercial treaties with the United States must 
     
     be scattered to the winds. In fact, we can see no 
     
     prospect of a free, frank, and liberal intercourse 
     
     with the United States until that demand be 
     
     formally withdrawn. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Since the foregoing article was written, we 
     
     understand that the Mayor of the City has called 
     
     a public meeting for to-morrow evening, at the re- 
     
     quest of a number of our fellow citizens, to cun- 
     
     sider whether representatives should be sent from 
     
     tins Island to the Detroit Convention. We don’t 
     
     know where the money is to come from to pay 
     
     the cost, if it is decided upon sending representa- 
     
     tives. The City Government has certainly 
     
     no eash to spare for such an object—we have 
     
     no Board of Trade with a long purse—pri- 
     
     vate subscriptions are not easily and promptly 
     
     come-at-able, even if there was a thought of fall- 
     
     ing back upon this forlorn hope of raising the 
     
     wind ; and the Government has no money at its 
     
     disposal. The Legislature has not voted a 
     
     dollar for the purpose ; and the Government will, 
     
     or should be, chary about sending Delegates 
     
     again on any business not anthorized and provid- 
     
     ed for by the Legislature. They have been pretty 
     
     well scolded for doing that in connection with the 
     
     Quebec Convention, during the past six months. 
     
     They have been told that in sending Delegates 
     
     to that Conventior, without the authority of Par- 
     
     liameat, they acted most illegally and unconstitu- 
     
     tionally. ‘The parties who were loudest in making 
     
     this charge seem to be the most anxious for repre- 
     
     sentation at the Detroit Convention. They surely 
     
     will not ask the Government to do another “uncon- 
     
     stitutional” act; but then where is the money to 
     
     come from, to pay the expenses of Delegates to 
     
     the Detroit Convention? The Meeting to-mor- 
     
    
   
   
    
     row evening may solve this difficult questiop. 
     
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     TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     The communication of “C. R. O’L.” on the 
     
     assassination of President Lincoin, is respectfully 
     
     declined. 
     
    

    
     J. H. F., Orwell. Your communication was 
     
     overlooked, because, perhaps, it did not seem to 
     
     be of sufficient public importance to require in- 
     
     sertion. It is now, however, too late te make any 
     
    
   
   
    
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     use of it. 
     
    

    
     Several of our correspondents, whom we highly 
     
     respect, put themselves to a great deal of unne- 
     
     cessary trouble in writing us long communications, 
     
     occasionally, respecting matters of a purely local 
     
     nature—soine dispute, perhaps, with some other 
     
     correspondent who happeus to have found bis 
     
     way into another paper ; aud we are not merely 
     
     asked to publish those long communications, in 
     
     which the public cannot be expected to take 
     
     the least interest, but, innine cases out of ten, we 
     
     are coolly requested te prepare the MSS. for the 
     
     Printer. When we find a communication on eur 
     
     table, hastily and slovenly written—personal and 
     
     offensive in its style, not relating te public affairs, 
     
     with a note from the writer requesting correction 
     
     at our hands—the thing is very speedily and un- 
     
     ceremoniously despatched into the Balaam box. 
     
     It is a heavy tax on our patience to read any 
     
     such communications : and when we discover the 
     
     character of them by a cursory glance we are apt 
     
     to postpone the entire reading of them until such 
     
     time as to make then thoroughly useless. Com- 
     
     munications from the few correspondents we 
     
     have who really can write well, are always very 
     
     acceptable; and their well-known caligraphy in- 
     
     sures instant perusal a: d attention, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ples they may please to lay down as the basis of 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
    
   
   
    
     re —— Se a a 
     
    
   
   
    
     We had partly prepared for this week's No. 
     
     in 
     
    
   
   
    
     this Island, with a view to their reeonstruction,” 
     
     in which we propose to answer the questions—Is_ 
     
     a Coalition of the moderate Liberals and Conser- 
     
     vatives pragticable and necessary? And if so— 
     
     Upon what basis should such a Coalition be 
     
     effected? These questions are engaging much 
     
     attention out of doors, and pablig opinion seems 
     
     to be drifting rapidly towards a Coalition. We 
     
     hope to be able to give our views upon the quee- 
     
     tions at some length next week. 
     
     anotinensieiinistiind 
     
    

    
     We have received a copy of a printed Address 
     
     tu His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, now 
     
     cirenlating for signature through the country, 
     
     which seems to baye the object of prolonging for 
     
     another term of office His Excellency’s stay in 
     
     this Colony. ‘The Address has nothing objection 
     
     able in it; but~ well! we will take an early 
     
     opportunity of printing the document, and giying 
     
     our own opinions, firmly and independently, on 
     
     the subject of it, 
     
    
   
   
    
     We tender our thanks to the Hon. Mr, Me- 
     
     Dougall, Provincial Secretary of Canada, for 
     
     his courtesy and kindness in sending us a large 
     
     handsomely bound volume, containing the debates 
     
     of the Canadian Parliament on Confederation. 
     
     This work was sent so us some short time ago in 
     
     sheets, by the same obliging gentle:nan, and ac- 
     
     kowledged. It occupies one thoysand and thirty- 
     
     two pages—has a copious index and some other 
     
     valuable matter beside the debates. We should 
     
     think the question of Confederation ought to be 
     
     pretty well exhausted in such an immense mass 
     
     of matter. 
     
    
   
   
    
     BiLackwoov's MaGazine, for May, has com 
     
     to hand, and contains admirable reading matter 
     
     We can bear testimony to the excellence of seve- 
     
     ral of the articles. ‘‘ Sir Brook Fossbrooke” is 
     
     the opening paper,—it is a story evidently by the 
     
     same hand as that which produced “ Tony But- 
     
     ler,” and promises to be no less interesting. 
     
     * Life of Sterne,” is a genial, homely, pleasant 
     
     article from the pen of one who was no doubta 
     
     most enthusiastic admirer of the author of “ Tris- 
     
     tram Shandy.” “ Cornelius O'Dowd ” is as full 
     
     of wit and wisdom, and rollicking jollity, asin any 
     
     previous number; and the article on the “ State 
     
     and Prospects of Parties,” which is the only 
     
     other article we have read, contains a great deal 
     
     of information for the student of English polities, 
     
     albeit it is strongly spiced with high Chureh 
     
     Toryism. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ” 
     
    
   
   
    
     Tue EpinpurGu Review, for April, is also 
     
     upon our table, and presents as the first item in 
     
     its literary bill of fare an admirable article on 
     
     “ English Literature.” There are other attrac- 
     
     tive subjects dealt with amongst the ten articles 
     
     which constitute its contents; but we can do 
     
     no more than recommend those whe have a taste 
     
     for choice literary reading to go to Laird & Har- 
     
    
   
   
    
     vie’s and procure the work. 
     
    
   
   
    
     icc cbidibeaaaSin 
     
     THE PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL, for July, bas 
     
     paid our sanctum its welcome monthly visit. It 
     
     has two portraits of President Johnson; one of 
     
     Julius Ceasar; also portraits of the Emperor of 
     
     Russia and General Todleben; portraits of the 
     
     Queen of England and the Empress of the French; 
     
     besides many other attractive engravings. The 
     
     letter press is of the usual varied and intereeting 
     
     character. 
     
    
   
   
    
     doin illieigei 
     
     The Steamer “ Island City,”’ Capt. Elijah: Wood, 
     
     which left Queen’s Wharf on Monday morning of 
     
     this week for Shediac, Richibucto, and the ports of 
     
     Miramichi and Restigouche, arrived at Dalhousie 
     
     with several of the officials of the Government of 
     
     New Branswick, and a large party of ladies and 
     
     ventlemen from Bathurst, aud ports below, on 
     
     board, on Wednesday evening. She left Dalhousie 
     
     Thursday noon, and returned to this port by way 
     
     of Shediac last evening—making, as the pilot in 
     
     charge of her informs ua, from Shediac full twelve 
     
     miles an hour, and on an average for her whole 
     
     trip of from ten toeleven miles. She was visited 
     
     at every port on the route by crowds of the citizens 
     
     who were kindly permitted to visit and examine 
     
     freely every part of her, not excepting her engine 
     
     and fire wards. Her visit to the Northern Ports 
     
     has been a succession of fetes, such as has seldom 
     
     been accorded to any steamer plying in our waters. 
     
     Her ample eabin accommodations, her carrying 
     
     capacity, her steady and even tread upon the heavy 
     
     sea, the gentlemanly courtesy of her officers, ex- 
     
     cited the warmest admiration of our New Bruns- 
     
     wick brethren, for whose benefit, and under the 
     
     liberal policy of whose Government, she is special- 
     
     ly engaged to ran. It is to be hoped her proprie- 
     
     tors will be able to coutinue her route as proposed, 
     
     to this place, and soopen for our business and trade 
     
     direct and speedy cummunication with the New 
     
     Brunswick Bays ; and thus furnish not only stimu- 
     
     lus to our enterprise, but facilities for recreation, 
     
     health, and travel. We trust this new 
     
     will receive her share of the cheerful support and 
     
     sympathy of our people —Prot. Satunpay. 
     
    
   
   
    
     stranger 
     
    
   
   
    
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     The Steamer ‘“‘ Greyhound ”’ arrived here on Fri- 
     
     day afternoon from Boston, Halifax, &c.; and we 
     
     understand jeaves with passengers this evening ov 
     
     an excursion trip to Boston for the 4th of July 
     
     celebration. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     LATEST NEWS FROM EUROPE. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ARRIVAL OF THE ‘ASIA’ AT HALIFAX. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     The R. M. 8. Asia arrived at Halifax on, 
     
     Tuesday last, having left Liverpool on the 10th, 
     
     and Queenstown on the 11th inst. 
     
    

    
     The present Parliament, it is now declared, 
     
     will be dissolved during the first, or at all events, 
     
     the second week in July, 
     
    

    
     The Pall Mall Gazette also says that although 
     
     Lord Palmerston did not attend the House of 
     
     Commons last night, he has not experienced any 
     
     relapse, but his right arm is still somewhat stiff 
     
     from the effects of the last attack of gout. 
     
    

    
     Sir Joseph Paxton, the designer of the Crys- 
     
     tal Palace, has died at the comparatively early 
     
     age of 62. 
     
    

    
     A notice from the Foreign Office is published, 
     
     to the effect that the ports and coast of the Re- 
     
     public of Paraguay were about to be blockaded 
     
     by @ Brazilian naval force, which, on the 24th of 
     
     April, was on its way up the Parana; and further, 
     
    
   
   
    
     that the ports in the province of Mattu Grasso are 
     
     closed to all vessels. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The ceremony of consecrating Dr. Manning as 
     
     Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster 
     
     took place on Thursday, at St.;Mary’s, Moor- 
     
     fields. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The season of Whitsuntide is almost invariably 
     
     accompanied by some terrible railway disaster, 
     
     owing to the number of excursion trains and the 
     
     sinall pains which appear to be taken on some of 
     
     the lines for the adequate protection of life and 
     
     property. Misfortunes, it is said, seldom come 
     
     singly, and this is realized in the case of the Great 
     
     Westeru line, where two calamities have occur- 
     
     red—one at Rednall, near Shrewsbury, where 
     
     ten deaths have already taken place, and others 
     
     are expected to follow, and where the smaller 
     
     casualties of broken limbs, dislocations and other 
     
     injuries, exceed thirty; and the other near Bris- 
     
     tol, where, though there was no absolute loss of 
     
     life, the injuries inflicted ou many of tie travellers 
     
     were very serious, 
     
    

    
     The splendid weather which bas prevailed in 
     
     all parts of the United Kingdom during the moutb 
     
     of May and the first week of June renders jt cer- 
     
     tain that this will be one of the wost productive 
     
     seasons ever kuown in England. Whether the 
     
     produce of the earth will be seeured in good con- 
     
     dition depends on the kind of weather that we 
     
     may have in the mouths of July and August, but 
     
     that there will be great abundance on the ground 
     
     is no longer a matter of doubt. The weather 
     
     during the last six weeks has been all that could 
     
     be desired. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Ear! Russell's order in reference to the ron-re- 
     
     cognition of the beiligerent rights of Confederate 
     
     cruisers was publisbed in the London Gazette of 
     
     the Gth. In this document itis declared that 
     
     armed ships bearing the Confederate flag shall be 
     
     sent out of all British ports, but that, at first, 
     
     they shall have the usual twenty-four hours’ grace 
     
     allowed them. Afterwards, no such allowanve is 
     
    
   
   
    
     to be made. 
     
     FRANCE. 
     
    

    
     France has issued similar instructions to those 
     
     given by the English Government for the with- 
     
     drawal of protection from Coutcderate ships of 
     
     war. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     The courtesy shown by his Imperial Majesty, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     in Algeria, is said to have produced a salutary 
     
     impression upon the minds of the Arab chiefs, 
     
     many of whom travelled more than 200 miles to} 
     
     see him; and when he entered Biska he was| 
     
     surrounded by a mounted cortege of nearly 30,000 
     
     Arabs. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Emperor arrived at Toulon on the 9th inst 
     
    
   
   
    
     An impression prevails in Paris that the Em- 
     
     peror of the French is dissatisfied with the pro- 
     
     gress of affairs in the Ewpire since his departure 
     
     tor Algeria, and that his pleasure is vot likely to 
     
     be lessened by the course which the debate ou the 
     
     budget has taken. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘The statement that “ owing to the peaceable 
     
     condition of the French possessions in Africa, a 
     
     portion of the troops which were despatched to 
     
     Algeria at the beginning of the troubles in that 
     
     colony are about to return to France,” is regarded 
     
     in Paris as authentic, and gives general satistac- 
     
     tion. 
     
    

    
     A despatch dated Paris 9th says :— Letters 
     
    

    
     received here frem Saigon announce an important 
     
     victory gained by the insurgents in Tonquir, 
     
     Cochin China. 
     
     In the Corps Legislatif M. Rouber, Minister of 
     
     State had delivered a speech, in which he stated 
     
     that the jntelligence received by the governumnet 
     
     from Mexico inspired it with full security and 
     
     coufidence relative to the empire. The assassina- 
     
     tion of Mr. Lincoln bad, be said, caused considera- 
     
     ble excitement in the north east provinces, but the 
     
     movement was promptly repressed, and the 
     
     United States contributed to this, by hastening to 
     
     declare their formal intention of making their 
     
     neutrality respected. 
     
    

    
     The text of a despatch of 22nd ult. addressed 
     
     to M. Rigmour, the American Minister foi 
     
     Foreign Affairs, expressed a grateful memory 
     
     preserved by Government and people of the 
     
     United States of sentiments expressed by the 
     
     Emperor, Senate, and Corps Legislatif on the 
     
     assassination of Mr. Lincoln. It reverted also to 
     
     the old friendship existing between the two 
     
     nations, and also, adds the Minister, which 1s 
     
     cordially reciprocated on our side. 
     
    

    
     ee 
     
     ITALY. 
     
    

    
     The Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph 
     
     says that if the reports which reach France from 
     
     Rome are reliable, a reconciliation between King 
     
     Victor Emmanuel and the Pope is imminent. 
     
     According to some authorities the very form of 
     
     vath to be taken by the bishops is arranged. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The letter of the Emperor of the French to 
     
     Prince Napoleon bas created a profound sensation 
     
     in ail parts of Italy, and the retirement from 
     
     public affairs of one who has always shown hiuself 
     
     a friend to the Italian cause is regarded as a cir- 
     
     cumstance of ill omen, particularly at this juncture. 
     
    

    
     The capture of the two Enghsh photographers 
     
     by brigands within a few miles of Naples, excited 
     
     considerable interest. When Mr. Murray, the 
     
     liberated artist, reached Naples, the excitement 
     
     was naturally great, and the English residents 
     
     there actively exerted themselves to raise the 
     
     required sum. Hearing of this, the brigand chief, 
     
     who passes by the name of Giardullo, immediately 
     
     raised the terms of the ransom and iz now 
     
     demanding £10,000, or eight times more than 
     
     the original sum. It is added that the English 
     
     Consul in the capital of Southern Italy. is 
     
     actively negotiating with the head of the brigands, 
     
     who, in addition to the sum named, stipulates 
     
     that be and his band shall be permitted to leave 
     
     Italy in safety. An English frigate has been 
     
     despatched from Malta, and is now achored in 
     
     the reads of Salerno. Meanwhile, the treops of 
     
     Victor Emmanuel, to the number of 15,000, are 
     
     scouring the mountains of the Abruzzi in search 
     
     of the photographer, but they act cautiously lest 
     
     the unhappy prisoner shyuld be assassinated. 
     
    
   
   
    
     A terrible tragedy occurred in Saugus Centre on 
     
     Tuesday afternoon last, which caused much excite- 
     
     ment in the vicinity. George Holliday, a boy 
     
     sixteen yearsold, shot h‘s father, Mr Gavin Holliday, 
     
     without any warning, while on the way from the 
     
     latter’s shop to his dwelling Louse, a distance of 
     
     about half a mile. The boy subsequently com- 
     
     mitted suicide—shooting himself through the neck. 
     
     The fatber, after he was shot, managed to get to 
     
     his home, where a physician was called. ‘The next 
     
     morning be was taken to the Massachusetts General 
     
     Hospital in this city, and the ball baving been 
     
     removed from the wound, there are hopes entertain - 
     
     ed of his recovery. Mr. Holliday is a Scotchman 
     
     by birth, aod is about fifty years of age. He is 
     
     much esteemed by the citizens of Saugus, and is said 
     
     to be one cf the most skillful mechanics in the State. 
     
     Formerly he ttved at Lynn, but he bas resitled at 
     
     Saugus eight orten years, He has a wife and eight 
     
     children. George Holliday was very strong for his! 
     
     years, and @ manin stature, The kindest feelings | 
     
     had existed between him and his father. He was 
     
     considered a god boy, and had a kind disposition, 
     
     and it is the belief of those acquainted with the facts, 
     
     that be bad become insene in conseqyence of a sun- 
     
     stroke. The distressed family have the hearty 
     
     sympathy of the citizens of Saugus, by whom they 
     
     are highly respected.— Boston Advertiser, Saturday. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In addition to the above, Monday’s Boston papers, 
     
     by mail this morning, bring us reports of several | 
     
     other tragedi:s, one of which, at least, is traly| 
     
     horrible. I'wo children, a girl, about fourteen years | 
     
     of age, and a buy, two years younger, left their 
     
     father’s house in Boston on Monday week, to walk 
     
     towards Roxbury, and never returned. Unavailing 
     
     search in every direction was made by their dis- 
     
     tracted parents. On Sunday afternoon, two merchants 
     
     of Boston, walking in a piece of woods near Roxbary, | 
     
     came upon the body of the girl, ber silk dress torn 
     
     and saturated with blood, her person fearfully 
     
     outraged, with no less than sixteen stabs, from a 
     
     dirk knife, in her body. A short distance away 
     
     her brother was found lying dead on his face, with 
     
     several stabs in his back ; and the inference was, 
     
     that after trying to save his sister, he ran away, 
     
     was pursued and stabbed from behind, The young 
     
     lady’s name is Isabella Joyce; she is described 
     
     as @ most prepossessing gir!, and had the appearance 
     
     of being four years older than she was. Near the 
     
     scene of the diabolical crime were found several 
     
     wreaths of fowers and evergreens, wrought with 
     
     great care and taste. They were apparently en- 
     
     gaged in this innocent and childish amusement 
     
     when set upon by the brutal murderers. When 
     
     they left home each had ten cents, but only three 
     
     cents were found with them on Sunday. They had 
     
     probably spent the rest to pay their fare in the 
     
     horse cars. The discovery of this dreadful crime 
     
     has caused great excitemeut ia the vicinity, and 
     
     heavy rewards are offered for the apprehension of 
     
     the murderers. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Among the other events which belong to this 
     
     chapter of horrors, is the probable suicide, by 
     
     drowning, of J. H. Page, President of the Cape 
     
     Cod Railway Company, a prominent citizen of 
     
     Boston ; the accidental killing, by a pistol shot, of 
     
     a little girl in Kneeland Place ; a tatal accident on 
     
     the Broadway Horse Kailroad in Federal Street ; 
     
     the sudden death of a painter on Washington 
     
     Street ; the suiciue, by hanging, whilst her family 
     
     was at church on Sunday, of a yery respectable 
     
     lady ; and a fatal accident to a woman by falling in 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     LATEST BY ‘TELEGRAPH. 
     
    
   
   
    
     New York, June 37.—The arguments in the 
     
     conspiracy trial will not be made out till Monday, 
     
     The evidence yesterday showed some money trans- 
     
     actions between Jacob Thomson and Hon. Ben- 
     
     jamin Wood, members of Congress from New | ‘ 
     
     York city...-- A warrant is out for Wood's arrest. 
     
     ---- Young Men’s Christian Association are nego- 
     
     ciating for tne purebase of Ford’s Theatre for 
     
     $10,000 to be converted into a chureh..... Ad- 
     
     vices from Texas state that Kirby Simith has 
     
     gone to Mexico with 15,000 truops and halfa 
     
     million m specie. He proposes to fight against 
     
     Maximilian... - Gen. Howard, head of the treed- 
     
     man’s Bureau, reports that 40,000 freedmen are 
     
     now in South Carolina industriously cultivating 
     
     the svil, and that 9000 of their children are at- 
     
     t nding school,....Gold 144, 
     
    
   
   
    
     New York, June 17, Pp. M—The Times’ 
     
     despatch says among the applications tor pardon 
     
     is that of Robert E. Lee and Alexr. H. Stephens. 
     
     The latter enters at length into an apology ur vindi- 
     
     cation, and among other reasons cites the fact 
     
     that the Tribune advocated the right of the South- 
     
    
   
   
    
     why property is held trom 100 to 300 per cent. | 
     
    
   
   
    
     of the disbanded Texan soldiers, with a view to 
     
    
   
   
    
     pedition, and the hope is said to be entertained 
     
     that large accessions will be made from this side 
     
     of the Mississippi to the ranks of these Texan ad 
     
     venturers, 
     
     under different auspices, of the conflict which has 
     
     just terminated here. 
     
     tain, is said to entertain high hopes of a “brilliant 
     
    
   
   
    
     it that he is busying himself to obtain recruits 
     
     for this daring enterprise. In view of these move- 
     
     ments, our Government would do well to main- 
     
     tain an efficient patrol along the Rio Grande and 
     
     Mississippi rivers, 
     
     foiled in their mischievous designs, serious cow- 
     
     plications may be the result, for all the indications 
     
    
   
   
    
     leon to maintain Maximilian at al! hazards. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Bay Bulls had gone to the Ibay of Islands to set- 
     
     tle permanently and prosecute the fisheries. 
     
    
   
   
    
     to prosecute the whale fishery—having been fitted 
     
     out for that purpose. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Commissions to several gentlemen, who do not 
     
     appear to possess the contidence of the various 
     
     Volunteer Companies, the whole organization is 
     
     a railroad culvertin Lynn.—St. John Globe, June 21.| in a fair way of being broken up. One Company 
     
    

    
     has withdrawn, another bas sent in a tormal pro- 
     
     test, while members are withdrawing from the 
     
     remaining companies, 
     
    
   
   
    
     The fishery still continues very slack, and, from 
     
     present appearances, I fear we are going to have 
     
    
   
   
    
     the best. Some boats that were a fortnight at 
     
     Lanialine returned with nothing. I believe the 
     
     bait trade is working the ruin of the fishery; dur- 
     
     ing the past week we 
     
     ot every herring, fully four thousand barrels 
     
     have been left on the shore dead, or thrown into 
     
     the sea between here and St. Pierre, being unsale- 
     
     able, while an equal quantity has been given to 
     
     the French, at from one to three franes per barre] 
     
     thus giving them the means of cutting off our 
     
     supply ot fish. 
     
     to make use of. 
     
     and the country should be aroused to strike a 
     
     blow at this eut-throst traffic, even if the blow 
     
     should be in defiance of imperial policy, 
     
    
   
   
    
     trip en Friday evening. 
     
     the whole coast as far as Cape Ray. The ac- 
     
    
   
   
    
     — PE NEE TENE ON “eee 
     
     sell to any Northern purchaser. This explains given to the Government in the vill, [ passed tage 
     
    
   
   
    
     higher than before the war... The Times’ des-| 
     
     patch says the claune to the Savannah captured | 
     
    
   
   
    
     cotton are now being presented, and nearly the 
     
     whole will be claimed, though well informed citi- 
     
    
   
   
    
     zens of Savannah say, not more than 6000, out of 
     
     30,000 bales dan be proven ty belong to loyal 
     
     citizens... .. The arguinents in the assassination 
     
     case are being given to-day. Gold 142. 
     
    

    
     New York, June 20.—Reporte from Georgia 
     
     represent that starvation is imminent along the 
     
     line of Sherman’s march. .... In the assagsination 
     
     case yesterday Reverdy Johnsen submitted his 
     
     argument in behalf of Mr. Surratt. The counsel | 
     
     for Harrold, Arnold, and McLaughlin also pre-| 
     
     sented arguments in their behalf... -- Among the 
     
     rebel dighitaries recently landed at Fortress 
     
     Monroe were Brig. Generals Maury and St. John, 
     
     and Ex-Governor Moore, of Alabama... .. One 
     
     hundred and sixty thousand troops have left 
     
     Washington fur the North and West since the 
     
     review. About thirty thousand are yet to leave. 
     
     3.. Gold 139. 
     
    

    
     New Yoru, June 20th, p. m.—The Herald's 
     
     despatch says Secretary Seward, in his despateh 
     
     to the British Minister on the subject of the with- 
     
     drawal of belligerent rights to the rebels, renews 
     
     his protest against the joint action of the British 
     
     and French Governments in conceding such rights 
     
     to insurgents as an untriendly act, and contrary 
     
     to International Law; also expresses regret at 
     
     the reservation in favor of rebel cruisers, and 
     
     demands that such piratical vessels shall be given 
     
     up to the United States; also declares the right 
     
     and intention to capiure such eraft, under what- 
     
     ever flag they may be placed, refusing to recog- 
     
     nize the validity of any transfer that may be made. 
     
     .--- The Raleigh Progress says there is 2 great 
     
     rush of secessionists to Unat place to solicit pardon, 
     
     .---Gold 1374. 
     
    

    
     New York, June 21, Pp. M—The Times 
     
     Washington despatch says those who met Hon 
     
     James Johnson, the newly appointed Provisional 
     
     Governor of Georgia in Washington, were pleased 
     
     with his views on reconstruction. He takes the 
     
     strangest Union ground and will at once inform 
     
     the peuple of Georgia what their true condition 
     
     is and how to recognize the local Government. 
     
     .--- The direct tax commissioner for South Caro- 
     
     lina reports that the people of Charleston, not- 
     
     witstanding the scarcity of money, paid imto the 
     
     United States Treasury over $90,000, direct 
     
     taxes for which they were in arrears... - - Orders 
     
     have been issued to reduce the Mississippi squa- 
     
     dron to fifty vessels. Rear-Admiral Lee will re- 
     
     main in command... .. The late rebel Secretary 
     
     of the Treasury, Trenholm, has been arrested at 
     
     Colambia and placed io confinement in Charles- 
     
     08.45 <i Charleston has again assumed a business 
     
     aspect. The burnt district is being rebuilt. 
     
     Wholesale merchants are rapidly disposing of 
     
     their stocks, purchasers comiug in frow the in- 
     
     terior..... Gold 141. 
     
    
   
   
    
     New York, June 22, p. a.—The rebel Gen. 
     
     Jeff. Thompson in his farewell address to his 
     
     troops says :—“ The fact is evident that as an in- 
     
     dependent nation we are badly whipped. Let 
     
     each man determine when ke leaves this place 
     
     that he will go to his home, there to remain and 
     
     work night and day te repair the damage that has 
     
     been done by the war, and never go off his farm 
     
     except to go to mill; and if there are private 
     
     quarrels between himself and neighbours he bad 
     
     better pack up and hunt another neighbourhood, 
     
     and if net willing to submit to the laws of the 
     
     United States he had better leave the country.” 
     
     ----The Times Washington despatch says, 
     
     among the petitions fur pardon teday were Gen. 
     
     Ewell, Ex-Gov. Aikin, of South Carolina, Tren- 
     
     holm and Gen. Echols. The latter is charged 
     
     with inhumanly hanging 5 citizens of Virginia for 
     
     being Unionists... .. Gold 141. 
     
    
   
   
    
     New York, June 23d.—Late advices from 
     
    
   
   
    
     se be a New Orleans represent trade reviving since the 
     
     UNITED STATES. removal of restrictions... .. Great destitution is 
     
     — said to prevail in the Sewth beyond Rail and 
     
    

    
     RECENT TRAGEDIES. water communication... .. it was reported that 
     
    
   
   
    
     Beauregard had been arrested aud seat to Wash- 
     
     ington... -The latest information from Mexicosays 
     
     the Empire is waning fast. The Emperor Maxi 
     
     inillian is a mere peppet in the hands of Marshal 
     
     Bazaine. The Empress displays more firmness 
     
     and decision of character than ber busbaud, and 
     
     exerts great control over him. French ‘troops 
     
     only are reliable, and look te Bazaine fer or- 
     
     ders. The Mexicans in the imperial service will 
     
     rebel on the first opportunity... -- Gold 1414. 
     
     at +e + 
     
    

    
     MEXICO. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Official news from Acapuleo, dated the 9th 
     
     of May, gives the following intelligence, which 
     
     was suppressed in the despatches sent through 
     
     French sources froin Havanna: 
     
    

    
     “Gen Reguies, with a part of the Ist division 
     
     of the Central national ariny of Mexieo, attacked 
     
     the city of leambaro, in the State ef Michoacan. 
     
     on the 10th of April, and took it by sterm, eap- 
     
     turing all the garrison, including 200 Belgians, to- 
     
     gether with ammunition, artillery, &e. A few 
     
     days before the National forces captured a train 
     
     with suppiies and ammunition sent from Morelia 
     
    
   
   
    
           
     
    
   
   
    
           
     
    
   
   
    
     a 
     
    
   
   
    
     session | aud the power, almost amounting to carte 
     
     blanche as to terms, that it gives them, if in thy 
     
     course of two or three months we bear of arrange. 
     
     ments being made for the construction of the road 
     
     from Truro to Amherst, and perhaps to Moneton » 
     
     Of Dr. Tupper’s visit the Citizen saya: « yy, 
     
     goes, in company with the delegates from N 
     
    

    
     Brunswick, who will no douly be Prepared ty 
     
     treat with the same company on behalf of that 
     
     Province for the construction of the ling from the 
     
     border to Moncton.” Easternextension jg j 
     
    

    
     fair way to be secured, but what about 7s 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     este 
     
     Extension ? a 
     
     ~~» - 
     
     CANADA. 
     
     TERRIBLE CONFLAGRATION, 
     
     A LARGE PORTION OF BRANTPORD IN RUINS 
     
    
   
   
    
     Brantford, June 14. — Brantford this morpi 
     
     was visited with a very destractive fire, a 
     
     pared with which all her former fires sink into 
     
     utter insignificanee. Originating in an old frame 
     
     stable attached to the Brauttord Hotel, it Spread 
     
     with surprising and fearful rapidity, and ¢' 
     
     not in its work of desolation wntil it had well 
     
     nigi laid one-half the business part of Brantford 
     
     in ruins. The devouring element found an 
     
     abundance of dry fuel in the sheds adjoining the 
     
     aforesaid stable, and in the stables and out. 
     
     houses attached to the large hotel on Dalhousie 
     
     Street, known as the American Hotel, and, in 
     
     an incredible short space of time, destroyed both 
     
     those buildings, which were rough cast buildings, 
     
     and all the buildings on Dalhousie Street up te 
     
     the office of the Courier newspaper. Had the 
     
     mischiefended here, one might be disposed te 
     
     consider that the advantage of baving all these 
     
     wooden structures out of the way would counter. 
     
     balauce the regret which the large destruction of 
     
     property occasioned. But the fire extended ty 
     
     the rear portions of nearly all the buildings which 
     
     front on that part of Colborne Street, (the King 
     
     street of Brantford.) which hes between Queey 
     
     Street and the Market Square. Se rapid was 
     
     the work of the flames that in less than half an 
     
     hour after the alarm was given, your correspon 
     
     dent, from the flat roofs of the buildings on the 
     
     corner of Colborne Street and the Market Square, 
     
     counted no less than fourteen bouses burning at one 
     
     time. The beat vecasioned by such aconflagration 
     
     greatly impeded the work ef the firemen and 
     
     others who were anxious to assist, and the ren- 
     
     dering of assistance in staying the progress of the 
     
     fire was furthermore impeded by a gusty wind, 
     
     generated by the fury of the flames, which swept 
     
     in eddies in all directions dense spires of smoke 
     
     and clouds of burning cinders, So dreadful was 
     
     the sight that a very unusual torpor was at first 
     
     visible in the actions of all, each one wondering 
     
     where the fire would end. As soon as this feeling 
     
     wore off, the great crowd which had assembled 
     
     busily oceupred themselves with saving as much 
     
     as possible of the goods in the various stores on 
     
     Colborne street. Mer and women might be seen 
     
     in every direction bending under loads of dry 
     
     goods, boxes of millinery and hosiery, hats and 
     
     turs, &e. It is only a just tribute to the Brant- 
     
     ford ladies that while many able-bodied men stood 
     
     stupidly gaping at the devouring flames on the side- 
     
     walks, the women, like African slaves, were toik 
     
     ing past them with luads of wool, dry goods, and 
     
     various Commodities, te which their strength was 
     
     quite unequal, 
     
    

    
     44> >-—-_—___ 
     
    

    
     Destructive Fire.—About half-past three 
     
     o'clock yesterday morning a fixe broke out in a 
     
     shed in the rear of a dwelling house in Gottingen 
     
     Street, Halifax, occupied by a man named Con- 
     
     nell. The building being ef wooed, and the eather 
     
     very dry, the flames spread with considerable 
     
     rapidity befure tue efforts ef the firemen were of 
     
     much avail. Four buildings were nearly des- 
     
     tryed, and four others badly damaged. — Halifax 
     
    
   
   
    
     paper. ‘ 
     
     Pa 
     
    

    
     _Among the guests entertained by the Colo- 
     
     nial Seeretary at dinner on the Queen's 
     
     birthday, were the Lion. Mr. Me@ee, and the 
     
     members of the Canadian delegation now in 
     
     Londun. The Canadian News of the 18th 
     
     ult., Says that previous to the reception at 
     
     the Queen’s Court held om the 15th at 
     
     Buckingham Palace, the Right Hon. Edward 
     
     Cardwell, Seeretary of State for the Colonies, 
     
     presented the Hon. John A. McDonald, the 
     
     Hon. George Etienne Cartier, the Hor. Alex- 
     
     ander Tilloek Galt, and the Lon. George 
     
     Brown, all of whom had the honor of kissing 
     
     Her Majesty's hand. ‘The Delegates dined 
     
     with the Prinee of Wales at Marlboro’ House 
     
     on the T9th alt. They were expected to 
     
     leave England for home this day, June 10. 
     
    
   
   
    
     <> 
     
     _ Some of the Northern papers are taking excep: 
     
     tion te that portion ef Mr. McGee's address af 
     
     Wexford, Ireland, in which ke said that Lrishmew 
     
     were despis: d and looked dows upon in the United 
     
     States. The statement is true, nevertheless, 
     
     The New York Express says now that the 
     
     “Loyal Leaguers” have conquered the South, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     to Parcharo, deteating the French forces at Ber- | 
     
     nandio, Cluste, and Zinapearo, ali in the State of | 
     
     Michoacan. Gen. Ortega, Commander-in-chiet | 
     
     of the centre, has taken the field, having recover-| Catholic War.’ 
     
    
   
   
    
     ed of his wounds.” 
     
    

    
     MICHMOND, June 8—Rumors are prevalent 
     
     here of an eflort being made on the part of the 
     
     French agents to induce the emigration to Mexico 
     
     their enlistment under the French banner to 
     
     maintain Maximilian’s pretensions. It is said 
     
     that Gen. Magrudder has consented to take com- 
     
     wand of such as may choose to engage in this ex- 
     
    
   
   
    
     If these rumors shall prove correct, 
     
     Mexico will become the theatre for a renewal. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Mosby, the guerilla chief- 
     
    
   
   
    
     tuture in this new field of action, and rumor has 
     
    
   
   
    
     Ifthese adventurers are not 
     
    
   
   
    
     show a determined purpose on the part of Napo- 
     
     —————_ >> —___ 
     
     NEWFOUNDLAND. 
     
    

    
     A number of the most respectable inhabitants of 
     
    
   
   
    
     The steamer Wolf left St John’s on the 6th inst., 
     
    
   
   
    
     In consequence of the Governor having issued 
     
    
   
   
    
     A letter from Fortune Bay of May 31st says :— 
     
    
   
   
    
     vir turn of a short catch, but we must hope for 
     
    
   
   
    
     have had the shore swept 
     
    
   
   
    
     Our fishermen have now the bait 
     
    
   
   
    
     It is high time the Government 
     
    
   
   
    
     The steamer Ariel returned from her western 
     
     She brings news from 
     
    
   
   
    
     ern people to independenee, and he was led to 
     
     believe it would be accorded them without the 
     
     fear of war....- The rebel Governor Allen has 
     
     published bis farewell address to the people of 
     
     Louisiana, wherein he advises temperate lan- 
     
     guage, manly dignity, and submission to the laws 
     
     in the inevitable course of events. They must 
     
     depend upon the United States to make them 
     
     contented, prosperous and happy. 
     
     advised to retura home, take the oath of alle- 
     
     giance, work with redoubled energy, and prove 
     
     true and substantial citizens. 
     
     himself an exile, but prays for permanent peace 
     
    
   
   
    
     Retugees are 
     
    
   
   
    
     He announces 
     
    
   
   
    
     aud prosperity to those who live under the flag 
     
     of our Common country... .-. Gold 144. : 
     
    

    
     New Yokk, 19.—Sidon at New York and the 
     
     Hibernian at Farther Point bring dates to the 
     
    
   
   
    
     Whitsuntide recess... .. Great Britain and Franee 
     
     have given notice that recognition of belligerent 
     
     rights heretofore accorded to the rebels has been 
     
     withdrawn..... All restrictions upon our naval 
     
     intercourse is removed... ... Anxiety about Mex- 
     
     icao affairs continues undiminished in Paris... .. 
     
     Itis reported that the Spanish troops are ordered 
     
     to withdraw from San Domingo at once..... Fif- 
     
     ty (50) wrecks and mach loss of life occurred 
     
     from a storm in the Baltic... .. Lreadstuff prices 
     
     nominal: Corn 37s. 9d; provisions dull... . 
     
     United States Hotel and the Union House at 
     
     Saratoga were destroyed by fire last evening. 
     
     The United States Hotel burned so rapidly that 
     
     guests with difficulty saved their lives, lusing 
     
     their effects. Geld 1424, 
     
    

    
     New York, 19th, p. m.—There is little news 
     
     of interest to-day... .- The Tribune's Washington 
     
     despatch says there is a secret combination among 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     the rebel real estate owners in Richmond not tu 
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
       
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Grace are much the same in extent as in former 
     
     years. The latest accounts from Cape 
     
     — os Bay, are, that the fishery was poor, 
     
     ; i t | and similar accounts have been receiv. ; 
     
     8th inst....- Parliament remained adjourned for Twillingate, Along the Eastern Capel stnaticens 
     
     and South of St. John’s, 
     
     and of good quality, and were more plenti 
     
    

    
     d vy, plentiful than 
     
     usual, but few had been caught except 
     
     for the local markets. r a supply 
     
    
   
   
    
     early to form any decided opinion on th 5 
     
     oo season's fishery. f ‘anann denies ie 
     
    

    
     eter’s is that the Bank fishery w i 
     
     ree Y was progressing 
     
     Mr. Murray to continue the i 
     
    

    
     fr.) geological sury 
     
     Newfoundland. ‘Three is ao other news ae 
     
     auce ur lnterest by this arrival. 
     
    

    
     willie di a 
     
    
   
   
    
     Mr. MacFarlaue have all gone to Eny! i 
     
     ane have al and. 
     
    

    
     eee my mission is to arrange for the _ 
     
    

    
     ruction of the railway f, a 
     
    

    
     Brunswick frontier. ee ty 
     
    

    
     It need net surprise 
     
    
   
   
    
     counts of the fishery are very indefinite, but, on 
     
    

    
     the whole, little progress had been made upte the 
     
    

    
     present time. The bait is just now coming on, 
     
    

    
     and we trust svon to be able to give a satisfactory 
     
    

    
     account of our industrial operations in this res- 
     
     ect. 
     
    

    
     The present month has not so far been by any 
     
     means so genial as was the last, and agriculture 
     
     bas been almost at a stand for the past fortnight, 
     
     except as regards grass, which has been a good 
     
     deal forwarded by the copious rains we have had 
     
     of late. 
     
    

    
     The Labrador vessels and crews were leaving 
     
     aud the outfit from beth St. John’s and Harbor 
     
    
   
   
    
     St. Mary’s 
     
     fish appeared early, 
     
    
   
   
    
     Toe St. John’s Express states that it is yet too 
     
     The latest news from St. 
     
     The papers announce the arrival ot 
     
    
   
   
    
     of im port- 
     
    
   
   
    
     NOVA SCOTIA, . 
     
     Hon, Dr. Tupper, Hon. Mr. Dickey and Hon. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Halifax Citizen says: 
     
    
   
   
    
     they are being transformed into “ Protestant 
     
     Leaguers,” for the killing off of Catbelicism. Phe 
     
     Cincinuati Enquirer heads a column of extracts 
     
     from the religivus Press as follows: * Fhe Anti- 
     
     “Opening of hostilities against 
     
     the Catholics.” Sweeping charges made again 
     
     them.’ *Whuat doves it uiean ?” 
     
     a fire 
     
     THE RECIPROCITY TREATY AND CON- 
     
     VENTION AT DETROI?. 
     
     (From the New York Economist.) 
     
    

    
     Alluding to the Convention to be held in 
     
     Detroit in July next the Economist says that 
     
     the invitation bas been accepted by upwards 
     
     of thirty Boards of Commeree, including 
     
     those of New York, Boston and Philadelphia, 
     
     and the second Tuesday of July has been 
     
     agreed upon as the time for meeting. ‘The 
     
     British Provinces are expected to be fully 
     
     and ably represented on the oceasion. We 
     
     are glad to witness a movement thet will af- 
     
     ford an opportunity for remedying the un- 
     
     wise course of Congress in voting the repeal 
     
     of the Reciprocity Treaty. How far sbis 
     
     Convention may be intended to correet that 
     
     blunder we are not informed ; but this muct» 
     
     is certain, that it indicates a disposition tu 
     
     continue @ reciprocal commerce with our 
     
     Provincial neighbours. If measures can be 
     
     suggested, mutually satisfactory to the Cana- 
     
     dians and ourselves, for a broader commerce 
     
     and a more complete reciprocity of exchanges 
     
     than exist under the present treaty, all the 
     
     better. No friend of commerce would object 
     
     to the substitution of the present treaty by 
     
     one still more advantageous. We hope, 
     
     however, that our boards of trade have not 
     
     invited their neighbours across the border 
     
     merely to reiterate to them all the nonsense 
     
     about the one-sided advantages of the pre- 
     
     sent treaty that has been circulated in paw- 
     
     phlets, reiterated by the press and echoed in 
     
     Congress. The only fault in the existing 
     
     treaty is thet, on both sides, it excludes tov 
     
     many articles from free interehange. The 
     
     true interest of both countries lies in admit- 
     
     ting all the products of each other entirely 
     
     free of duties ; but unfortanately both Govern- 
     
     ments have based their revenue largely upon 
     
     customs duties, which on both aides gives 
     
     rise _ difficulties in making the reciprocity 
     
     equai. 
     
    

    
     We trust our boards of trade will be re- 
     
     presented by men who understand that the 
     
     advantages to the United States ere not con- 
     
     fined to our exports to the Provinces. That 
     
     is one of the exploded errors of a talse econo- 
     
     my. I¢ is as important to us that the Pro- 
     
     vinces should be open to sell us anything it 
     
     i8 to our interest to purchase as it is that * 
     
     they should be free to buy anything that we 
     
     can offer them cheaper than others. If thers 
     
     be anything Canada can sell to us cheaper 
     
     than we can produce the same commodities 
     
     ourselves, let nothing limit our freedom to 
     
     buy it; for by such purchase we effect a 
     
     saving of both labour and money, and econo- 
     
     mise wealth. The same view, too, should 
     
     control the representatives of the Provinces. 
     
     Really, the great point for both parties to 
     
     aim at, is to secure a market in which they 
     
     can purchase cheaper than at home. That 
     
     being secured, there need be no fear about 
     
     the exports; for our economy in buying in 
     
     the cheapest market will enable as ‘all the 
     
     better to compete as sellers. We buy but to 
     
     sell again ; and the only way by which we 
     
     can be enabled to sell commodities cheap, is 
     
     to procure them cheap. There are certain 
     
     things which Canada can produce chesper 
     
     than ourselves, and others which the United 
     
     States can produce cheaper than Canada; 
     
     and the main purpose of a treaty of eom- 
     
     merce between the two countries should be 
     
     to admit of the unrestricted interchange of 
     
     such commodities. As, however, it is impos- 
     
     sible to say, definitely, what such commudi- 
     
     ties are, and as there are constant changes in 
     
     the relative prices of all the products, as be- 
     
     tween the two countries, it becom2* necessary 
     
     in order to ensure the fullest possible advan- 
     
     tage, that all prodacts should be admitted to 
     
     free interchange. Nothing is more certain 
     
     than that neither party will either buy from 
     
     or sell to the other, except for an advantage ; 
     
     so that only good could result from unre- 
     
     stricted intercourse. Those are the views 
     
     that will prevail in the coming Convention, 
     
     if it be composed of men who comprebend 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     us, With the extreme latitude 
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     the simplest rudiments of politic=! economy. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Pes