Oh, improvident Minister!

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“Ig it not strange—is is not sadly and mournfully in- structive—to see and hear these exhortations to ‘ united exertion’ fall from the lips and pen of an English Mi- nister? The old maxim of England was, ‘ Divide and govern ;’ establish separate interests in Ireland for the subjection of her people ; make friends with the Mammon of iniquity, and through that crush down the energies of

hersons. England, it seems, drained off millions for the ed the Commons to choose a Speaker. discharge of part of an ordinary duty of charity, and proposed, and J. E. Smnith, Esq. seconded, C. S. Lefevre,

threatened with new demands of millions, now finds

. ® . - a perienced—that the gloom which overspread the com- Swirzertanp.—All hope of avoiding a civil war in mercial horizon is gradually disappearing, and that bet-| this country is at an end, and hostilities are reported to ter prospects and brighter hopes are beginning to exert mee actually commenced. The Diet finally resolved, sista Ghension iedhenaiins on the 8th inst. to carry into execution by force of arms,

its decrees for abolition of the Sunderbund. ‘The de- cree was notified by an elaborate manifesto. The 8th

THE PARLIAMENT was the day appoi i t Assembled on the 18th ult., for the despatch of business begin their mee i adiead Gell Se Geom

—Both houses met at two o’clock, when the Lords direct-/there are reports of trifling conflicts having taken place, Lord Seymour and at least two officers have been killed.

Sparn.—There re indications of a hitch in the

Esq. Lord George Bentinck and Sir R. Inglis express-

that ‘division’ is, after all, but an imperfect mode of government. Division made and keeps Ireland poor; division makes and propagates famine; division makes Ireland a beggar; division poisons Liverpool and New- castle with fever, fills all English workhouses to over- flowing, increases rates, augments the National Debt, drains the country of gold, makes silent the noisy loom, | bows the merchant princes to the ground, snatches the scanty meal from the enfeebled Saxon operative, and corrupts the blood that flows through every vein of our social life.

“Amazed at these evils and at the responsibilities they bring with them, the Minister—the English Minister— piteously entreats Irishmen to lay aside their division, | and to meet their difficulties with ‘united exertion.’ Does the Lord Lieutenant! know the meaning of his words ? What can he,a Whig! statesman, mean by summoning Ireland to ‘ united ex- ertion? Does he not understand that these words mean Repeal ? that whenever Ireland can be brought to unite} it will be a union of division—a union hostile to England a union against Union—aye, perhaps even a confedera- tion against the Lord Lieutenant to boot? Jf Lord Cla- rendon by any advice of his could produce ‘ united ex- ertions’ throughout Ireland, he would himself be one of the first to deprecate the inevitable result. If Ireland could really be united, the Union would not be worth six month’s purchase at the opening of any session of)

{ Parliament.

“ We cannot understand how any English statesman, 's

Jooking a-head of the present difficulty, can really desire | to see the dissensions of Ireland healed. For the pre-| sent, however, English statesmen, like most other Eng-| lishmen, absorbed in the present troubles, and over-| whelmed with the labour, expense, and burden to which, Ireland subjects them, would give anything to see Irish-| men ‘unite,’ set their shoulders to the wheel, struggle | manfully against the disasters ef the time, and thus put)

an end to the wasting tribulation that now beset them. |

elected. Mr. Lefevre returned thanks, and the house

arrangements of the Narvaez Ministry at Madrid. There have been retirements in the Cabinet, and displacements in the diplomatic body. The vacancies have been filled up 7 ae reget: = a Regent. These facts oe : would tend to show that Queen Christina is i i THE CORN MARKET. now the dictatress, and that Narvaez is crags The Corn market since the Acadia left has not vatied|strument. There were alarming reports current in Ma- to any great extent. Qn the Sth instant the advance} drid, and that the government-had ordered all the troops

ed their concurrence, and he was declared unanimously

adjourned at three o’clock.

‘noticed in our last was fully maintained, and the arrivals/to be kept under arms.

at Liverpool being comparatively small, the country markets generally showed considerable firmness. On a. es the market day of the 8th instant prices continued firm, DREADTUL GHIPWRECES.

but Wheat was generally slow of sale. On Monday| The melancholy news of the total loss of the splendid last, at Mark lane, there was a liberal supply of grain;|packet ship Stephen Whitney,on her passage from New and although the best parcels of Wheat were readily York to Liverpool, has been received. The event took taken off, the common runs could not be sold unless at place on the night of the 10th ult, on the coast of Ireland, a reduction of 2s, to 3s. per quarter. T'he operations in| in the vicinity of Skibbereen. Itappears thata dense foreign are quite upon a restricted scale; holders are fog prevailed on that day, and the Captain had been un- unwilling to effect sales at a reduction of more than 1s,|able to get an observation. She had on board 110 per- to 2s. per quarter. The exports to Ireland continue to| sons, out of whom only 19 were saved. Among those bevery large. The price of best Western Canal Flour|drowned was Captain Popham,the commander, his wife has reached 30s. at which price holders are not disposed | and children.

to make a sacrifice.—European Times, 19th Nov. | The J enny Lind, of and from Prince Edward Island, Drody, master, arrived at Southampton on Satur- 'day. She reported that she met, on October 28, the

THE MONEY MARKET.

The Money market since the 4th instant, has materj-| ally improved. Consols were at that date about 328,

barque Amity, of and for Liverpool, from Richibucto, water logged. Sutceeded in saving Capt Allen and

and since that period, with occasional fluctuations, have |€!even of tie crew, who had been three days and four kept steadily advancing. On the Gth instant Consols/nights on the wreck, lashed in the mizen rigging. had almost reached 84, and during the week ending|Six persons were unfortunately drowned previous to the the 13th, they improved almosta further one per cent.,/"emninder of the crew being taken on board the Jenny

closing on that day about 85. For the opening on the 18th January they reached 852. As far as the indica-

Liad.

—_—— —_ ee — ee ee

tions of the Stock Exchange can be taken as proofs of [INSTALLATION OF SIR DONALD CAMPBELL.

returning confidence, nothing is left to be wished, as the advance in public securities has been regular and steady,

His Excellency Sir Donald Campbell, Bart. having

without those abrupt transitions which of late have Been! arrived in the Mail Packet, on Thursday morning last,

so frequent. were at 35s. discount, have risen to about par. The rate of money in the Stock Exchange is easy at 4 and 5

per cent. per annum for short periods ; but for mercan-|Sorn into office. tile purposes, whilst the Bank rate continues at 8 per! occasion, were observed.

. ; 1 > ny . Exchequer bills, which a few weeks ago proceeded to the Council Chamber at 12 o’clock, accom panied by his Honor the Colonial Secretary, and was

The ceremonies usual on such an A Guard of Honor of the 23d

cent., private bankers, however abundant their funds may! received His Exce llency at the Colonial Building, anda

be, have a pretext for keeping up a high price for money. | — Jb.

THE LIVERPOOL BANK. The Royal Bank of Liverpool, the stoppage of which: caused so much mischiefin Liverpool, it was announced | would resume business on the first instant, under cir-|

isalute was fired from the Queen’s Square. jland Society, under the direction ofthe Hon. J. S, Mac-

‘trance to the Colonial Building.

The High-

Donald, turned ovt in their national costume, and formed

‘a line, through which His Excellency passed on his en-

The oaths were ad-

“Short-sighted policy, but, for the present, SeMUINC. | -umstances which it was hoped would enable it to attain! ministered by his Honour the Chief Justice, in the

ie . : at . ay 7 ee ° ° . 1: } ee am . ® ° Yes; it is with genuine earnestness that even a Lord the high position it has hitherto occupied as a Banking presence of all the Members of the Executive Council,

Lieutenant calls upon distracted Ireland to lay aside her, dissensions, and to combine for the common good. Even| he, not falsely nor insidiously, but with a true purpose, | shouts for union among Irishmen. And how is this ex. hortation received ? What practical comment on this: wise counsel is given by the current affairs of this week? Resistance to rates—resistance to rents—deep-rooted disorganisation even in Ulster—siege laid to workhouses --money laid out by .starving men in the purchase of powder and ball—so that, ‘in the town of Kenturk,, more powder was purchased by these out-door relief folks on that day than was sold for the previous year.’ |

“And while the poorer people of Ireland thus act, what |

symptoms of union are there amongst their more power- cantons forming the Sunderbund in their opposition to

ful neighbours—the leaders and guides of the life? Far from agreeing upon measures, far ing on any course of policy, these men, im the t awful crisis of Ireland’s fate, cannot even agree to meet together inthe same room! From this censure, we are bound to say that John O’Connel], Smith O’Brien and

speak and work for Ireland. But on the whole, and it is a general fact, the ‘leaders cannot be got to enter the game room, at the same time, to deliberate about the same things! Admirable{prognostics for Repeal !— London Tablet.

STATE OF TRADE IN ENGLAND.

We notice by the European Times of the 19th Nov.

that the names of twenty-six commercial houses in dif- ferent parts of the United Kingdom, have been added to the list of failvres since the Mai! of the 4th Nov. The liabilities of some of these are represented to be vary large. Yet, it is gratifying to perceive from the

~tgne of tho English Press, that the worst has been ex-|

day by a report of another attempt of assassination in high ‘life. It appears that Count Mortier, who is French Am-

possibly some others are free. They, at least, are wil-| bassador at Turin, has been for some time past in a state ling to meet each and all—every one who will think, of nervous excitement, and that, inthe hope of an im-

institution.

THE NEW UNDER SECRETARY For the Colonies is Mr. Merivale, long and favorably| known tothe public as a promoter of Reform. Mr. M.,

is an able Lawyer, and is the author of a long series of, « Lectures on Colonization.’

FOREIGN NEWS. The most important Foreign News is from France, Switzerland and Spain. We give the principal :— France.—-The King and Queen of the Belgians lef, the Palace of St Cloud on Saturday for Brussels. The, affairs of Switzerland occupy a great deal of the atten-| tion both of the French Government and of the public. M. Guizot, by the encouragement which he gave to the

the Federal Directory,has brought the Helvetic’republic to the

Switzerland was the exclusive subject of consideration. A considerable sensation was created in Paris on Mon-

‘provement in his health, he has been for the last few ‘days at Paris. On Sunday he attempted, in a fit of in- sanity, to assassinate his daughter and his two sons. The mania of the Count, it appears, is that of jealousy. He was immediately arrested and placed in a lunatic asylum. Count Bresson has committed suicide. He was ambassador to the King of the Two Sicilies. He is known in Europe as the agent in the Spanish mar- riages. Important negotiations are at present going on between the Directors-General of the English and French Post-offices, and the Directors of the London and Dover, Boulogne and Amiens, and the Great Nor- thern Railways, with a view to the acceleration of the mails between the two capitals. Three cases of decided Asiatic cholera are said to have shown themselves on Sunday in the Faubourg St. Germain. This is the first time the Asiatic cholera has shown itself.

i(except the Hon. Mr. Warburton), and a large concourse iof our Townsmen.

Respect for the Representative of Majesty prevaded all ranks and classes of the Community. Flags and banners waved from many 2 house-top during the day, as well as from the several vessels in harbour, and at

‘seven o'clock in the eveniug a yeneral illumination was

made in honor of His Excellency,—guns firing at inter- vals; persons of all shades of politics joining heartily in the manifestations of respect.

IMPORTANT CHANGES.

By our private advices from England, we are warrant-

ed in stating, that some very important changes, con-

stein of civil war. On Thursday week there was|nected with the Government of this Colony, will shortly , sarong a Council of Ministers at the Palace of St. Cloud, at a: which the King presided in person, when the affairs or

be put in progress, by which aclose approximation to British principles and practice will be attained. We trust to be able at an early day, to inform our readers fully as to the nature and importance of these changes. It will suffice for us at present to say, that the country should not suffer itself to be deceived by the misrepre- sentations of a knot of Tory officials and their adherents in Charlottetown. The friends of Reform and good Government will not long be denied the most satisfac- tory opportunities for the complete establishment of their principles.

An Inquest was held on Thursday last, before Daniel Hodgson, Esq., Coroner, on view of the body of Patrick McGuire, who had been a labourer in the employ of Mr. John Davis, jun., of this town. The body of the deceas- ed was observed at an early hour on Thursday morning lying near the Queen’s Wharf, from which it 1s sup- posed he had fallen on Friday night last. The Jury re- turned a verdict of ‘Found Drowned, but as no marks of violence appearing on his body, or how or by what

jeans he became drowned, no evidence appeared.’