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. ‘ DISTRICT No. l—North Section.

EREBY give Notice, that 1 Will, on Monday, the

‘the 14th June, at 12 o’clock, set up‘and sell, to the lowest l‘ r, the building Canadian River Bridge, Lot 11, and the re- the Road from said Bridge towards Large’s Ferry. uesday, the 15m June, at 10 o’clock, the repairing the leading from Cuscumpe ue towards Lot 10. Same day, at nu“ ock, the Road leading rom Cascumpeque toward Hill’s

.Tlinrsday, the 17th June, at 10 o’clock, the Road leading Cascumpeque towards Halloran’s, commencing at Halloran's.

l" A On Monday, the 215! June, at 10 o’clock, the placing and main- :‘FO v ‘ng, for fimr years, two Buoys in Cascumpeque Harbour. “Qt e da , at 2 o’clock, the repairin Roads on Lot4 where most I It y , g )

"u. had, commencing at the Dock.

. a Friday, the 25th June, at 10 o’clock, the completing Tig— ht." ' Bridge. Same day, at 12 o'clock, the Road from Kildare

."‘- ge to Tignisli, commencing at Tignish. Same day, at? w ock, the repairiiigJKildtire Brid ’

e. A M ES VVAIIBURTON, Commissioner. but 1], May 15th, 1341.

;. DISTRICT No. l—North Section. \ Bu "HEREBY give Notice, that I Will, on Monday the I, ‘ 5th day ofJuly, at 12 o’clock, set up and sell by Auction, to ~‘e lowest bidder, the opening the Main \Vesteru Road—com- “. r' ncing at Hill’s Mills. There are £400 grants

jmpensation Act. - JAMES WARBURTON, Commissioner. MLot 11, June 3,1841. I \ ,. DISTRICT NO. l--Soutb Section. Us“ 0 be LET, by Public Auction, to the lowest bidder, at the several places where the Contracts are to be performed, 0

I it Monday, the14tb June, at 12 o‘clock, noon, repairing the , ‘ain Western Road—Sale to commence on the Western Road,

d for the above Road under the Road

@bs @ulcu PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND ADVERTISER.

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Intuit 10 Portage, leading from Egmont Bay, towards Cascum~ nqiie. - t On Tuesday, the 15th June, at 12 o’clock, noon, on Lot 9, re- iring the Road from Alexander Mucdonald’s, towards James nidnnald's, Brae, and repairing the Road toward the Grand v c. “'On Wednesday, the 16th June, at 10 o'clock, a. m. on Lot 8, 'umping and levelling the Road from George Cilcash’s towards tewart’s, at the pond, and repairing the Bridge at Hicke 's. 1309 Thursday, the 17th June, at 10 o'clock, a. or. building a id'ge at Macvvilliams’s Mill Stream, and rounding up the , d on the South Side. Same day, at 4 o’clock, p. m. round- the Road in the rear ofPatrick Reilly's, and repairing to the North line of Lot 7—Sale to commence at Mac- Sir - Mill. -' d security required for the fulfilment ofeach contract “ Com i'oncr’s Office,

JOSEPH HIGGINS, g ,iEgmont Bay, 51h May, 1841.}

Commissioner. _ . DISTRICT No. 4. _ . ‘ HE Subscriber Wlll sell by Public Auction, on the ,_ s or, to the lowest bidder,the repairing ofthe several Roads and Bridges in this District, as follows:

i A L , On Thursday the 17th day ofJune next, at noon, the repair- ‘h'q irig ofthe Abuitciiu athryon River; at 1 o’clock, the repairing .ofa Causeway near James Lord’s; at 3 o’clock,' the Lower «(Road to Crapziud, and from thence to the Shore, near James Milord's, Lot w- . , ‘On Wednesday the 23d June next, at 10 o’clock, the repair- m‘ing ofBridgc and Causeway near Bradshaw’s, Bedeque; at 12 "o'ciock, the Road and Bridge from Irving‘s to the South West ..Setilement, Lot 27 ; and general repairs of that part of Anderson’s “Road in Prince County.

Approved Security will, be required for the due completiori

V! of each contract.‘ "as, JOSEPH POPE, Commissioner. “on: , May 1st, 1841. r L I.“ _ DISTRICT No. 11. i'1‘ng Subscriber wrll, on Monday, the 14th day of June next, Let by Auction, the repairing the Road across ‘1‘ lhe Barren from George Douglas’s, t0 the St. Peter’s Road—the Road from the Back Farms to the Highway—the Road from ‘ Carey’s, round the Head ofthe Hillsborough, to the County , line—tho Road from the County line to M‘Dermot’s—and the “1 Road from M‘Dermot's to Morel—Sale to commence at the ., Barren Road, at 10 o’clock. » on Tuesday, the 15th, at 9 o’clock, the repairing the Road through the Settlement along West side ofthe Morel—Morel Bridge—and the Road from Charles Dingwell's to the High- wa .

(In Wednesday, the 16th, at 9 o’clock, the repairing the Road from Morel to the Head ofSt. Peter’s Bay, from the new Church to the Muscle Beds, and the Migelle Bridge.

On Thursday, the 17th, at 10 o’clock, the repairing the Road from St. Peter's Bay to the line of Lot 42—Bay Fortune . Road—from the head of St. Peter's Bay to O’Hanley's—aud g the New Road from Whelan’s to John Maclellan’s, Cable Head.

On Friday, the 18th, at 10 o'clock, the rcpairin the Road g; from Leslie’s Mill to Cable Head, and the Road Tending past ' Greenwich to St. Peter’s Harbour, on the North Side of the Bay; ‘ On Saturday, the 19th, at 10 o’clock, the repairing the Road ‘ from St. Peter’s Bay towards Cardigan River. 2 Good and sufficient security must be given for the due per- formance of each contract. “ JOHN JARDINE, Commisssoner. May 25th, 1841.

DISTRICT No. 14.

'_ HE Moneys appropriated to be expended on' the ' Fourteenth District, for the repairs of Roads and Bridges for abs present year, will be let by Auction to the lowest bidders, on , flhe respective Roads where the work is to be performed, in the f \ rfollowing order :—

Monday, June 14th, at 10 o‘clock, forcnoon, part of the Road from Brudenell River to Montague Bridge, to be repaired—Sale . to commence at Brudeuell Turn. At12 o’clock, noon, it Bridge to be built near Maclean’s, head of Montague, on the Road lead- ing from Buck’s Road to Murray Harbour Road ; and immediate- ] afler, part of Buck’s Road to be repaired, commencing where the work oflast vear ended. .

On Tuesday, t to 15th, part of Georgetown Road to be repaired, . commencing at 10 o’clock, at Fair Play Portage. At 2 o’clock, nhe Road from Georgetown Road to Cardigan Mills; and imme-

v «ditter afler, part ofthe St. Peter’s Road to be repaired, commen- 9’05 It a large Swamp on the fifth mile._ , ~ I

w a Wednesday, the lfith, commencing on Launching Place

M, at Mitchel River. At 11 o’clock, several pieces of that

will be let, and the sale will continue until the various

“In! appropriated to be expended on the two Grand River Ronda,

' and for a new line from the head of Grand River to Gofi’s Mill

than let. . .

on'mlursday, the l7ih, several Swamps wrll be let, to be “Voted with bollghl and earth, on the Road leading from Cardi- .§;fl t0 t’i uid—Sfle to commence at the Western Brook of the

oral, on. ot'S’l, n11 delock, forenoon. ' . .

THOMAS OWEN, Commissioner.

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M“! 27th.!841.

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Wineries Greenfis stare, Bedeqne. "l‘HE Subscriber will let by Public Auction. to the lowosl’blddel'mn Frida the 25th .da chune, at 12 o’clock,

moon, on the spot the bail ' » - wharf.“ :Grecn'alflhore, eelrilngSLOCP and SPACE m "w

‘“ “gamma urn-e “gopher. “Keir- will be received for ~tting down an reserving z ra ermo .. 6,, entrance Bedegue flarbour. y r" “"8" BUOY an!”

Josnru mp . - - “dam I”, , 1841. V E, Commissioner.

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CHARLOTTETOWN, SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1841.

AN INFANT SLEEPING. (FROM POEMS 3v nu: anv. n. c. Tnsxcn.) Orr! drinking deep ofslumber's holy wine, Whence may the smile that lights thy countenance We seek in vain the mystery to divine, For in thy dim, unconscious infancy No games as yet, no playfellow are ihine, To stirin waking hours such thoughts of glee, As recollected in thine innocent dream, Might shed across thy face this happy gleam.

be?

It may be, though small notice thou canst take, Thou feelest that an atmosphere oflove Is ever round thee, sleeping or awake: Thou wakest, and kind faces from above Bend o’er thee; when thou sleepest, for thy sake All sounds are hushed, and each dntli gently move, And this dim consciousness nftender care Has caused thy cheek this light ofjoy to wear.

Or it may he, thoughts deeper than we dream Visit an infant’s slumbers: God is near; Angels are talking to them in their dream, Angelic voices whispering sweet and clear; And round them lies that region’s holy gleam, But newly left. and light which is not here; And thus has come that smile upon thy far-e, At tidings brought thee from thy native place.

But whatsoe’er the causes which begiiiled That dimple on thy countenance, it is gone: Fair is the lake disturbed by ripple mild, But not less fair if ripple it has none; And now what deep repose is thine, dear child; What smoothness thy unriifiied cheek has won! Oh! who that gazed upon thee could forbear The silent breathing of an lieart-felt prayer.

APPALLING OCCURRENCE AT SEA: ‘ snocxmo MASSACRE.

An arrival at Havre has bronth intelligence of one of the most appalling occurrences we ever re- member to have taken place—the massacre ofa number of helpless creatures, part of the survivors of a wreck, by their more vigorous companions in suffering, on the plea of self-preservation. ,

The following frightfiil statement, made by the mate, has been (forwarded to the American Consul by the Captain of the Cresent. per the Ville de Lyon :

At sea, on board the ship Crescent. April 29. [84L Account of the loss of the shin William Brown, of Philadelphia. Captain George L. Harris, which left) Liv- erpool the 13th of March, having seventeen of theatrip’s crew, and sixtv-five steerage passengers, nearly all Irish, freighted for Philadelphia.

“ The passage was verv rough, accompanied by squalls and loss of sails. On tbe’night ofthe 19th of April, in lat. 43 30 N.,,and 49 W. long, making all sail in open sea, and running ten knots an hournthe lar- board side of the vessel struck upon an iceberg, which stove her in. At ten minutes past nine at night we struck upon another. I then proposed to the Captain to take up sail as quickly as possible, which he did; and sounding the pump, found two feet of water in the hold. On going below, I found that the vessel was rapidly making water. All hands set to work to disen-

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the boat, nd, favoured by the darkness of the nicrht crouched under the bows and was saved. All the Iva: men saved are young. except the mother of a Scotch family from Dumfries-sliire, who, with her five dauuhiers and a servant girl, was saved; her name is Eduar.a Her husband and son are .settled in Gerrnautownfuear Phi- ladelphia. A young ,woman with her infant at her breast succeeded‘in' getting into the boat with her hus- band; they are amongst the survivors. His name is Patrick, from Cook’s-town, county Tyrone, the property of Colonel Stewart. Several persons from that gentle- man’s estate or neighbourhood have met with a watery grave. One family of the name of Levdon (sixteen in all) sunk with the vessel; another family, named Carr —.—-fathcr, mother, and five children—sunk at the same time; the little .boy who was thrown from the boat was one of that family. He.had not a soul left belonging to him. They were also from Colonel Stewart’s property. A Mrs. Anderson, with three children, who was going tojom her,husbrrind, a medical gentleman, settled at Cincmnaiti, sunk with the ship. Miss Anderson and a Miss Bradley were thrown into the sea from the long boat. The tales which the survivors relate are piteous and horrifying. The crew and passengers ,have been examined by the British and American Consuls, this morning, and the impression is, that the dreadful act of throwing their fellow-creature‘s overboard was of im- perious necessity; but it is hoped, that the two con- suls will give publicity to the examination, in order that the public mind may be satisfied on this point. Truly the circumstances must be made out in the clearest way to palliate such an act. We have emigrant ships sailing every week, and if it is held as law that “might is right,” it had better be declared so, and that the crew are justified, under extremities, in throwing overboard who and as many as they think right, without casting lots, or making any choice than their will.

Tun Wnscx or THE Win.er BROWN.—Tl’le Con- suls of England and the United States have addressed thevfollowing letter to US (the Iiavre Juurnal,)which pla- ces in their true light the lamentable facts which took place after the loss of the William Brown ; from it we learn that the frightful act of sacrificing some of the passengers, in order to save the rest, is justified by the stern law ofnecessity. Assured of the truth of this, by the honourable representatives ofthe two nations inter- ested, all animadversions on the subject ought to cease,

necessary at nine o’clock at night, when the following morning, by daybreak, assistance was in sight :— “ To the Editor ofthe Harare Journal. ' ' v » “ Havre, May 14. “ Sir; As the unfortunate accident to the William Brown has been the subject of much conversation, and as the minute details cannot as yet be laid before the public,

Ave hayodecidcd amnion the principal facts 1—— LL £41.

and we can but regret that such an alternative became»:

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proving his identity, as be doubted whether his uncle, who was eighty years of age, would recollect him. It was agreed between the two friends that they should set off together for France, but in the evening before the day fixed for their departure, M. S. was arrested and taken to Worship street, on a charge ofhaving forged some Bank of England notes. His pocket book, which he had about him, was examined, and in it were ten notes, four of which were ascertained to be forged; M. S. was committed. On reaching the prison, he sent for his friend, and received for answer that he was gone with all M. S.’S baggage and his own on board steam- packet, having first paid their joint bills. It was in vain that poor S. stated and proved these circumstances, and protested that the forged notes were received by him of B. He was brought to trial, convicted, sentenced to be transported. for ten years, and sent to Botany Bay. In the meantime, B. came to Paris, presented himself to the old canon as his nephew, assuming his name, and, by means of documents in his possession so completely ' imposed himselfupon the aged ecclesiastic as his nephew that when he died two years afterwards he made the pretender sole inheritor by will ofall his property. After a lapse of eleven years, M. S. was at last carried back from Botany Bay to London, and thence made his way to Paris. After two months’. search, he discovered the retreat of B. and claimed the fortune and name of which he had been robbed by him. B. of course maintains himselfto be the true nephew, and proclaims the claimant to be the impostor. A suit is about to be commenced,ivhich cannot fail of being long and intri- cate; for not only will it be difficult for S. to maintain his case by proofs, on account of his long absence from France, but it is a question whether he is not precluded by the law of prescription—The interest of this case is greatly heightened by the circumstances that B. has for the last. six‘years been living in one ofthe northern towns ofFrance, making a most honourable use of his wealth, was two years ago married to the daughter of one of the greatest landowners of the department, and had it, it is said. in contemplation to offer himself. as a candidate for the Chamber of Deputies at the next election.

CONVERSION TO Paornsa‘xxrrsm—The Leipsic Ga- zclta states, that the'Prince of Lucca has recently been. converter] to Protestantism, a circumstance which has created a great sensation at Rome and throughout Italy.

DREADFUL Finn iN Noawxv.—Cliristiana, April 30. The mail from Drontheim has brought us to-day the af- flicting news that the third and the best built part of the city was burned down on the 24th of April, in the after. noon, till midnight, during a violent storm: 314 houses were, destroyed, and 4,000 persons are without shelter. The fire, which broke out in the house of a carpenter, is said to have been caused by the negligence of a ser- vant maid.

FIRE AT ANTIGUA.—The _Antigua Herald, of the 2d

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d On the arrival of the vm‘é’ ,m. crew, it was deemed advisable to examine them at the

American Consulate, and since the arrival of the Cres-

gage the boats, and, at eleven o’clock, they were along- side. I descended into the longboat with eight ofthe crew, and thirty-three of the passengers: the Captain, Lieutenant, a lady, and five sailors, embarked in the jollvboat,and we fastened the boats together. At mid- night the vessel sunk, carrying with her thirty-three persons. We remained alongside each other until five o’clock in the morning. Captain Harris then informed us of his intention of leaving us, and making; the best of his way to Newfoundland, and advised me to do the same.

“ My boat being full and heavy, I could not manage it ; to pursue that route was impossible: I therefore di- rected my course south. In the afternoon we fell in with a large quantity of ice. Throughout the night the wind blew with violence from the north in squalls, with rain and bail, and a very heavy sea. Finding that the boat was literally surrounded by small and large masses of ice, that the water was gaining upon her, I thought it improbable she could hold out unless relieved of some of her weight. I then consulted the sailors, and we were all of opinion that it was necessary to throw over- board those who were nearly dead, until we, had room enough to work the boat and take to our ,oar’s. The weather becoming worse, it was almost impossible to keep the boat afloat and disengage it from the ice. At daybreak we were still surrounded by icebergs. On counting the passengers, sixteen were missing, and the

‘ rest were in a desperate state and almost stifi' from cold.

At six o’clock in the morning we perceived to the west- ward a sail steering an easterly course. We exerted every effort to approach it. The Captain, being aloft in order to steer his ship through the ice, saw our boat, and, notwithstanding the danger to his own ship, made sail lbr us. On Thursday morning, at seven o’clock, we were along-side ofher, and before she had received us all on board, was struck by the ice, Which stove in the boat. We, however, succeeded in saving her. Banks and islands of ice were in sight as far as the eye could reach. I then ascertained that it was the Cres- cent, of Portsmouth, (New Hampshire,) Captain S. J, Ball, bound from New York to Havre. We met the kindest reception on board, and assistance in the Way of food and clothing were lavished upon us.”

(Signed) S. J. Ball, Captain of the Crescent.

Haves, May 13.—The American ship Crescent, Captain Ball, arrived here yesterday evening With the remainder of the passengers of the William Browp who were saved in yhe long-boat. The arrival of this ve5- sel has confirmed all the horrid details given of the dreadful scene which took place during the night of the 20th and Qist of April. 0f the sixteen passengers thrown into the sea, fourteen were men and two women; of the seventeen saved, fifteen are women and two are men. One of these men was seized for the purpose ‘of being thrown overboard by the crew’of the boat. He cried out to the mate to save him and not tear him from his wife. The mate told the men not to separate man and wife, if it were possible to help it. He fell into the bottom of the boat, and was saved. A boy of twelve

* years old was thrown overboard. He caught hold of t .

cent we have also examined the mate and some of the passengers. From the result of this evidence, it is proved that when the boats had separated in the morning, after the vessel had sunk with the 30 passengers on board, the long-boat, crowded and deprived of her rudder, was in danger of sinking ifthe wind arose; it did so in the night, the sea ran high, and the boat making a great deal of water, presented the painful alternative of all on board perishing. or saving some by the loss of the rest. 16 passengers, 14 of whom were men, and 2 wo- men, who were the nearest to the crew in the centre of the boat, were thrown into the sea. The principal leak was discovered, and the men were enabled to bail out the boat and row, which they could not have done be- fore with effect. The terrible sacrifice of lives was commenced at ten o’clock at night, and the Crescent was in sight at six o’clock the following morning. From the first, the women had heen‘placed at the stern and bow of the boat, so as not to prevent it being work- ed, which explains the reason they were saved in such numbers. All were more or less overcome by the cold, and almost all the passengers who were thrown into the sea made little or no resistance, the greater number be- ing extended as dead in the bottom ofthe boat.