Hsszsangs cAzE1**ri3:, MAY 30.

A Bins. so Loan Doitnoitu.n.—A mechanlcian nasn Fcedsrer, a Swiss b birth, but long resident in this city (sayst e Solu: we 0 Lyons), has just left for Paris, in order to submit to the examination of competent men a warlike machine of his invention. It has cost him many years’ meditation and labour, and will, he says, throw 700 rojectilesa minute, and destroy, in a ver s ort time, either a town ora whole aqua on.

UNITED STATES.

WIIECK OF THE BTEAMIR GOLDEN AGE.

The United States Mail steamer Illinois, James .

McKinstry, U. .N., commanding, arrived on Sunday morning from As inwall via Kingston, on Sunday, May 3, 8 P. bf, and from Kingston,

ay 7, . M. Experienced strong northerly winds during the entire passage.

e steamer El Dorado, with New-Orleans mails and passengers, was to leave Aspinwall on the morning of the 4th inst., for Havana.

The Pacific Mail Steamship Co‘s. steamer Golden Age sailed from San Francisco, April 17. at l P M., with $1,372,000 in treasure and the United States’ ails. 21st, at 10 A. M., spoke whale ship Wm. Lee of Newport, 3 months out, 700 barrels, all well on board. 24th, 7 . M., arrived at Acapulco, and sailed from thence at 2 P. M. same day for Panama. 29th at 2 A. M., the ship struck on a sunken rock oil‘ the north-west end of the Island of Iiicaron. She commenced leaking badly, and it was deemed advisable for the safety of pas- sengers, mails and treasure, to run the shi ashore; which was accordingly done, a smootii sand beach having been selected for the pur- pose. There is a strong probability of the ship

eing got oﬂ‘. A ter a detention of two days, the passengers, mails and treasure were transferred to the steamer John L. Ste hens and landed in Pana- ma on the 2d inst., a l in good health.

The Golden Age was 2,691 tons register and considered one of the finest steamers ever built. Her or_i inal cost was about $340,000, $325,000 of whic is covered by insurance in Wall-st. and the balance supposed in Liverpool. She was built in 1852 by Mr. '. H. Brown, and made the quickest passage from Liverpool to Melbourne ever aceom lishcd, since which time she has been employe regularly on the Pana- ma and San Francisco route.

PROBAIJLE Loss or PACIFIC iuii. !'l'EAllSlllI' GOLDEN son, ox iucrmox isi..i.\'n.

To the ﬁrm of Joseph llawes & Co., who have succeeded to the business of Adams ii: Ca. be- tween New York and California, we are indebt- ed for the following additional account of the accident to the Golden A e :

“ The beautiful steamship Golden Age, under the command of Commodore Watkins, went ashore on ii reef extending in a north-westerly direction from Ricarcn Island, about lat. 70 north, and 210 miles from Panama, on Sunday, April 29, about 2 A. M. The passage between this Island and Quibo, its neig her, is not dilii- cult, but perhaps the bri htness of a ﬁne moon- light night and the perfgct smoothness of the water rendered the Commodore fatall conti- dent, for he stood calmly on deck, with Mr. Aspinwall by his side, when his ship went on. It is on his part an instance, common toal.l men, of the apparent temporar absence of the usual strong power of the min . No doubt, his error is as unaccountable to himself as to his friends.

“ The steaiucr was quietly backed from her position and ‘ beache ’ in a small cove inside the reef, perfectly protected from the ocean swell. There she ﬁlled to the lower cabin ports with water, and formin a bed for herself in the soft sand, stood almost perfectly npriglit. Seldom was the work of destruction more sud- denly accomplished. It is to be hoped, it will not rove entire, however.

-* he method adopted to rescue the passen- gers was one that could not fail of success. A out dispatched to Panama was ordered to kce in the track of the steamers bound outward and to speak the nextono bound upward. if ssible: if that should prove impossible, the irections

given the ollicer in command were to rocec straight to Toboga and return with the anaiua, the steamer on reserve there. Singular to tell, both these ob'ects were accomplished; for the boat fell in with the J. L. Stephens, and while we were going in her to Panama, we in turn fell in with the reserve steamer, which the agent had dispatched, simply because being overdue we were considered in danger as a mat- ter of course. Such are the excellent arrange- ments of the Mail Company. The mails an treasure were saved and crossed the Isthmus as usual, bein about three days behindhand. We lost another day at Jamaica, as the Illinois was prevented stopping there on her downward trip owing to a case of small-pox on board. Mr. Aspinwall remained at Panama and will return via Havana.”

Asornsii Wsncx.—-From Peru we learn that the steamer Riinao had been wrecked, and nearly 100 persons on board perished.

Terrible H.ail-storms have

tak in several districts of the United

on place At

States.

Corning, the hail-stones are said to have measured nearly nine inches in circumference, and weighed about eight ounces.

lidently of important changes in the British

Cabinet. Their speculations ap r to be foundedn is private advices from ndon. It

is asser that Lord Palmerston is not ex- pected to weather the storm; and that " Pitt's measures" and “ Pitt's victories” contrast most signilicantl with the existing unsatis-

. factory state of t e war.

Horace Greely. Editor of the New York Trilrune, writin from London under date of 26th ult., states that aﬁhirs there do not wear anything like the smiling aspect they did at his previous visit, on the opening of the Crystal Palace in 1851. John Bull's countenance is clouded in contemplation of the Eastern war; but he (Mr. G.) heard nothing to induce him to suppose, that the people of England were ‘disheartened at the want of success; on the

* contrary they express a determination to thras_h

the Russians, at all hazard and cost what it may.

The launch at Toronto of a ship built_ for ocean navigation seems to have created quite a

* sensation among the Torontonians. The vessel

in question has been christened “ The City of Toronto." Iler dimensions are as follows:— Length on deck, 168 feet; length of keel, 156; feet; depth of hold, 18 feet 6 inches height between decks, 6 feet 6 inches; breadth of beam, 32 feet Ginches. She has a poop cabin on deck aft 40 feet by 30, and a spacious forecastle for the accommodation of the crew ; and is to bea full-rigged ship.

Holloway’s Oinlnmit and Pills, a certain Cure for Sculd Heiids.—Henry, Maria, and John Amos of Bras d’0r, Nova Scotis, were all three affected with this disagreable malud ; Maria in particular was in s wretched plight with it, and ulihou h there were many remedies tried, yet the malady did not seem to decrease, indeed the disease spread itself all over the surface of the head, to the great zinnovsnce of the parents and discomfiiure of the child; the blood of the others was equally impure. At last the parents put the three under a course of Hollowsy's Ointriient and Pills, which cured them all in the space of nine- teen aye. These remedies are also wonderfully etiicacious in all diseases ofthe shin.

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Wednesday, May 30, 1856.

We received a note some weeks since, inform- ing us that the Bog School would be examined on a particular day. We attended, and were greatly pleased, not only at the line healthy appearance of the children, but with the man- ner in which they passed their examinations, a

art of which was conducted by J. M. Stark, Esq” on the principles of the Training System. And here we take occasion to express our con- viction, that for masses taken up at random from the lower classes of the community and educated at the ublic expense, and who but for institutions ofp this nature might he suffered to become pests to society, the s stem of Mr. Stow is perhaps the best t at coul be devised. It enables a great number to receive training and education at a racticable cost, who under the old system must rave gone without it, and so long as conﬁned to Charlottetown may succeed, but for the groatb lk of the people of a country so thoroughly agricultural, and which for years will be nothing else, the old system with certain modifications and improvements is the on] one that can be adopted with any certainty 0 suc- cess. It was with feelings of great satisfac- tion and pleasure that we istened to the sharp eager answers of the little grou of all sizes, ages, and hues, and a smile invo unturily suc- ceeded cvery repetition of question and answer, for we could not help mentally comparing them to a flock of chickens to whom corn is thrown, and who make a simultaneous rush to peek up what has been scattered, and like them too, we fear that the sharpest, strongest, and most ac- tive, bear away the greatest rtion of the food, leaving the du l, weak and s uggish to get but a vcr scanty ortion. It is the great fault, in all p aces of e ucation, that the precocious and forward are most likely to be encouraged, and naturally, for it is a positive pleasure to teach when the eﬂects are so visibly displayed, and the elforts of the pupil gains a degree of appro- bation and applause which are reﬂected back on the master. What is most wanted is, that the timid, the retiring, the obtuse and the dull should be kindly brought forward, and quietly fed with such portions of knowledge as the weakness of their mental constitutions enables them to take and di est with beneﬁt and satis-i faction. It is the judicious blending of the public class instruction with the individual parental fostering that is wanted.

These normal training schools are types of the world for which the school is to lit them. The hold, the determined, the aspiring, make their own way, pushing aside t e weak, the timid and the wavering, who are trampled to death in the contest, or left in the rear to qlgd their weary way as they best can. The g

Some of the Washington papers speak con-i

the Mistress—Miss Harvie—can keep a ret

keen eye over the whole of her little lies , an

they do her great credit. Even the malapro 3 answers that the inte tors occasiona ly received, and which were highly amusin , served to show that the mind was at wor , that the process of thinking, reasoning and reflection, was in on in their young

right direction. We were high

_ tiﬁed to find, _that there was nothing of K“

a sectarian

‘description in the reli ions and moral part of

the instruction. Simp e facts in biblical his- W7, and plain moral precepts enforced b the rule of Christianity, and adopted by all e asses of Christians were taught, not only by the Mistress, but by Patrons of the school, and inculeated with asimplici ,earnestness and anxiety, for the present an future welfare of the children, that was highly praiseworthy, and reflects as much honor u n the i ' tution, as it must be productive of heartfelt satisfaction to the benevolent founders and su rters. ith respect to the munificient contributio

of Ca Beazley, what can we say but that it (I968 im honor? and our only regret is, his and his family's departure; for when men such as himself leave such noble memorials of their worth, we are, alas, forcibly reminded that like monuments in a church yard they, however much we may admire their workmanship and beauty, serve but to shew that those whose virtues they commemorate are lost to us for ever.

(For Haszurd's Gazette.)

LONIAL ciiuacn AND SCHOOL SOCIETY. r. Editor ;

As the Education of the young in the com- munity, is a subject in which many are inter- ested; I have been directed to communicate to you for insertion, the following extract from the minutes of a Committee meeting of the Colonial Church Society, held here on April 18th ult.

" A letter was read from Captain Beazeley, lconveying a collection of oil paintings, the cost price of which amounted to £165 Currency, which he wished to be disposed of, and the re- ceedsa plied towards the maintenance 0 the Free Sc ool in the Bog, under the auspices of the Colonial Church Society; whereupon it was Resolved, that a vote of thanks be given to Captain Beazeley for his handsome donation and that it is our intention to carry out faithfully his benevolent wishes.

ma take this opportunity of stating for gznera informaticn—that theabove mentioned hool has now been in o eration for seven. years; that from forty to fty children have annually received gratuitous instruction, the girls are further instructed in needle-work &c., and ever endeavour made, irrespective of differ- ing one s, to instil right princi les and form these habits, which may, with od’s blesssng, reclaim them from vice, and make them here- after useful members of society. It is always open to inspection and the smallest donations towards its expenses will be received by the mistress or Your obedient Servant,

Jonx HANCOCK. Sec’y. to CorrespondinghCommittee of Col. Church and ‘chool Society. Charlottetown, April 19th, 1855.

(For Haszard’s Gazette.)

" Give me the spade and the man who can use it,

A ﬁg for your lord and his soft silken hand;

Let the man who has strength never stoop to abuse it, Give it back to the giver, the hind, boys! the land."

Mr. Editor ;

In order to place beyond the possibili dis utc, the assertion made in mine of the ultimo, vis., that the Legislature are not pre- vented from settling the Land Question, it will be necessar to note from the Dispatch of the date of 1 th eb., 1851, accompanying the draught of the Civil list bill which may be said tobe the Kc of instructions, relative to the settlement 0 the haneful state of a itation in which the public mind has been an still con- tinues to be kept, b the unsettled state of the landed interests. Ten will observe, Mr. Edi- tor, the Lieut. Govcrnor’s attention is particu- larly called to lend his assistance towards that end, and it also points to the necessity_for such advice being carried out at that time, for reasons given, as follows :

“ On proceedin to assume the Government of Prince Edwar Island I am particularly

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which the pol munity. _ _ “ It ap rs to me of the highest importance, that some satisfactory arrangement of it should now take place, when the inhabitants of the Island are soon about to exercise a still larger share of control over its ublic aﬂairs, than they have hitherto enjoye . I allude to the sub’ ct of the landed tenures.”

haps, aifects more than any other, lan and social well-being of its com- I!

minds, and that it would be eas to give it the im

former instructions on the subject, which the Coles Government have declared to be unfavor- able towsrds the establishment of a Court of Esch_eat_. Sir, this opinion cannot be maintain- ed, it is a delusion to mislead the public, it capnot be upheld, unless the very words and s irit of the dis tch as well as the Civil List ill are rverte ; it must be evident to every rtia observer, that in referring His Ex- ce e_ncy to former dis tches, it was not with the intention he shou d rake up these which were unfavourable towards the attainment of the end in view, but rather that he would be guided b the instructions favourable thereto, such as t e one to Governor Fannin , recom- mendrn the Legislature to enact a biﬁ for the establis ment of a Court of Eecheat. If the whole_ tenor ofit was not so, why does it wind up this point towards which it relates in the following unmistakable manner, viz., “The subsisting rights of parties cannot therefore be allered in any other manner, than by an equita- ble adjustment.”

Tlie dispatch also re udiates the scheme of buying up the public nd at the expense of the Imperial Treasury, thus leaving only one wiay, a just and e uitable one, for solving the di culty which, i it had been adopted would have settled the minds of the country for ever.

It is true, this important dispatch while

articularly calling the attention of the Lieut. overnor to the unsatisfactory state of the landed tenure, recommending as it does, in the fourth paragraph, that he will lend his assis- tance in passing any Legislative measure which may be required to complete the arrangement, also calls upon him to maintain the supremacy of the Law, that is as much as to sa , as the Law now stands, it is your duty to en orce obe- dience to it, but at the same time you will assist the Legislature in passin a bill author- izin a Court of en uiry into the nature of the lan ed tenures, an when that tribunal is established, the existin claim of present holders of roperty will there be iinall set at rest. ow, sir, the spirit of this is atch and the passage last quoted is evident y directed to- wards effecting a settlement of the difference between Landlord and Tenant. This difference is and has been well known at the Colonial Oliice, and the tenor of the dispatch from the ﬁrst line to the last recommends an enquiry into the subset in dispute and it points out the necessity o amending the existin Law, if it should be founded upon a one-side pix-inciple. You are aware much ambiguit as been thrown in the eyes of the pubic y the crea- tures of the proprietary, as well as by the present Government, who have fully coincided with that faction in allowing such opinions to be freely circulated with cut, contradiction, with the view no doubt of leading their constitu-

anxious to direct your attention to a question, 4

encies into the belief that they were debarred from legislating on the question. It has been a pleasurable theme, for them, from time to time to dwell on, to quote from the Section of the dispatch which directs the Lieutenant Governor to employ the military, should any extreme case occur. There cannot be a doubt that this direction applies to the intermediate space of time which would ela se between the‘ receiving of the dispatch and t e enacting and passing a Law, subjecting the titles of the pro- prietary to an investigation, if such instruc- tions had not been ‘van and made known, it is ver robable the whole body of the tenantry woul ave refused yment of rent-there- fore it is plain, that a though the instructions spake positively as to maintaining the existing right or rather claims of the proprietary, it in no wise debarred the Representatives of the people from Legislating on the question, but on the contrary recommends such a step, and oints out, that there was no particular time or deciding the question at issue. In my next, I shall draw from the Civil list bill reasons to show, the Government had full ower to carry out the recommendations of this Bispatch, which they would in my opinion have done, had they not been led astra from the path of rectitude by the hope 0 oﬂice, and the vanity of imaginative greatness which their folly conjectured, in raisingthem to share in the executive power. Yours, Conosrsr. Charlottetown, May 28th, 1855.

We omitted to mention in our last. that Asparagus had been cut a few daisaprevicusg l‘)y our hi hly respected friend, wrence .

orthy, sq., who last season gathered the first mess.

_ arrled,

Yesterday, at the house of the Bride's Father, by the Rev. Dr. Jenkins, the Rev John Knox, the Pse- tor of the first Baptist Church, to Margaret, the ygungest daughter of Mr. Malcolm Ferguson, of Lot

med, . 0 th sea. A Ill 1.». It "°"""" °°'""-r Wu- ? Irrilend. whither he had gone for the beuelit of his health. Mr. Martin Dcgheity, of this Island. and 65 cars, sincerely and deservedly reg:€lted- I. edeque on Wednesday last a er_ a lingering illness of 18 months, which he bore with christian fortitude. Mr. James Mc‘MIIr<l0. Farmer. used 65

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'1 e dispatch further refers His Excellency to

_8chool is however of that limited number. that

cars. He emigrated to this Island, 84 years since from Dumfrieeehira, Scotland-