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: Bills of Sale, Charter Parties, Arbitration Bonds and Awards, | General Kmety complains that Sir W. I’. Williams has not | and the principal work. Hussein was hard pressed, but re-| indomitable tenacity of purpose and courage. We can only ; Petitions, &e., peoperer with accuracy and despatch ; Mer-| dso him justice. As a soldier, General Kmety has a right} inforcements, first from Fort Lake and afterwards from the | describe what Dr. Kane went through by saying that, al chants’ Books, Partnership and other complicated Accounts, | oe ore . ws - a's) {oe é : Scie ee ae &e., arranged and balanced at moderate charges. to be keenly susceptible to the tone in which his services have | town, came to his assistance ; and almost at the same moment | alone, and with none of the excitement of warfare to help ' Charlottetown, Dec. 29, 1856. r been referred to by the General under whom he served ; and| General Kmety charged at the head ofa portion of the troops | them, he and his crew’sustained for nearly two years infinitely ’ i a we should have thought that his commander would have been | who had been victorious in Rennison’s lines, retook the| greater hardships than the most exaggerated statements of f re ? of all men the most anxious that the merits of his able! Yuksek Tabia, and, again advancing, recovered the northern | the least reliable newspaper correspondents ever affirmed] to JOHN CAIRNS, coadjutor should beduly appreciated. In the many speeches | outworks of Tachmas Tabia, and re-established his communi- | exist during the very worst times of the Crimean campaign, 2 ae Plumber Soma aoe which Sir W. F. Williams has made since his return home,| cation with the defenders of the redoubt. This was the/in the worst managed part of the army—tnese hardships f fent-strect, two oors from the Honorable George Coles.) \he has seldom failed to give to his English aides, and even | turning point of the battle, and the discomfiture of the| being only varied by risks hardly Jess fearful than those s Hp} ING served for many years in the works of Gas | to his Secretary and his St psickis, the praise which they one| assailants was completed about the same time by the repulse iene at a hacdeda or on ‘he slopes of the Redan. , towns in Detiehatiind asin bh yf Hs oe tao-tnanitibinn,inon and all so richly deserved. But for some reason, the namé}| of the force which had in the first instance assailed the Ingliz | Sickness, despondency, famine, mutiny, death by ice, by cold, ~ City, in WATSON’S Drug Store, Reddin’s Buildings, 11 years ago. J of General Kmety has been scarcely mentioned, and never | Tabias with so much success as to carry nearly the whole line| by fire, by water, by wild beasts, by savages—all these did ° c. — by any nd punctuality to merit a share of public! with the cordial recognition which his brilliant services of works except Fort Lake itself. The fire from the Kara-| these men face for nearly two years, and that almost . Oo ge a eed ee he despatch. Tinware and Stove | throughout the campaign, and especially on the glorious 29th dagh and Arab forts on the other side of the river contributed | incessantly. But for the grand lessons which it reads us of a Piping, always on hand. Force Pumps, &c., repaired. of September, deserved. It may be that the English | greatly to force the enemy from the position he had won; and | the all but unlimited power which courage and energy possess a November 17, 1856. (All papers 3m.) General considered that it was not for him to bestow com-| when he had been fairly driven out of the Ingliz Tabias, the | for overcoming what appear insuperable difficulties, the story of A CARD, mendation on a brother soldier who was not technically under | guvs of Fort Lake were brought to bear at a critical moment} which Dr. Kane relates would be almost too horrible to 4 Mr. J. T. JENKINS . his command ; but it is difficult to suppose that any such} on the Russian troops, which were already yielding before|read. As it #8, we cannot but feel proud that the English " EMBER. and Licentiate in Midwif - the Royal Col- | pedantic modesty can have been the real motive of the British the forces of Kmety and Hussein at the Tachmas Tabia. | language should be the mother tongue of the hero of such a : Ms ee ne Se Oe ye eT la Laat Orel i Th f the Russi ly effected with frightful | tal f lege of Surgeons, London; late Surgeon in the British Commissioner, who was, de facto, Commander in-Chief of | 1be retreat o t he Jiussians was only eflected with frightful | tale. 5 . ; . 3 Medical Staff attached to Omar Pacha’s army during the | the army of Kars, and who has never hesitated to speak of | loss—-the remains of the columns which had attacked Tachmas} Looked at merely in a literary point of view, the book is Crimean War,— is prepared to practise the different branches | himself in that character. Indeed, if the apparent slight | returning to their camp, aud the troops who had been repulsed |a very remarkable one. Dr. Kane frequently apologizes for of his profession in this Island. ' ‘ offered ‘to General Kmety had arisen from any such scruples from the Ingliz Tabias, some three ox four thousand strong, | the haste, the roughness, the compression, and the fragmentary -§ ute a has paid particular attention to the diseases of | as these, nothing would have been easier than for General | retiring on the village of Ainalli, which was within an hour | character of many parts of his work. We do not think the s Wes ye; on coe — oe a ag at the Royal Wijjiams to remove all irritation by returning a frank reply | and a half’s march from the lines of the besieged. apology is necessary. The general impression which the -; a. oan Rene T atteke — tn Date Aiea to the letter which General Kmety sent both to him and; The importance of General Kmety’s part in the battle| book conveys is graphic to the last degree, and its effect is ) gi President of the College of Surgeons. , f ’|to the Times as long ago as the beginning of August. The | cannot easily be exaggerated. He was in command of the | greatly heightened by what Dr. Kane speaks of as defects. g Consulting room—Desbrisay’s buildings. tone of that remonstrance was as temperate and gentlemanly | heights on which the attack was directed. He fought in| It consists almost entirely of extracts from a journal kept at F tal Charlottetown, Oct. 20, 1856. [all papers. ] as could be desired; and considering that General Kmety | Person at the point where the severest struggle occurred, and | the time, connected by narrative matter more or less com- ' on awe Lhe A CARD. had some reasonable eause to feel aggrieved, Sir W. F. Wil-| which was in fact the key of the position. Of the six or| pressed fromit. An attentive reader'can trace the feelings : HAMMOND JOHNSON. M.D liams, who can write to the newspapers himself’ on occasion, | S¢ven thousand Russians who were buried by the garrison, | and prospects of the little knot of icebound prisoners, and of 9 MiB. dlss might have forgiven the appeal to public opinion which the | more than six thousand fell in the attack on Tachmas; and | their gallant leader, with extraordinary clearness ; for Dr. | ate ieemmanraen AND SURGEON,) j brave old Hungarian was almost compelled tomake. Instead the success of the defenders at that point was due to the) Kane is obviously a cultivated map, and by no means ' July oo canes ° gaRton poneney 8 hie ae residence, ! of this, he appears to have muintained a sullen silence, and | dispositions of General Kwety, and the obstinate courage | unaccustomed to watch the processes of his own mind. The . PO N, P.E.T. to have taken no pains to soothe the wounded feelings of his | with eo Hussein earried out the instructions of his hoping on pe, Se Sree to ow _ pee £ . . WER, ° com panion-in-arms. : commancer, side of things, and | efor rite himseil into a er “] Commission Agent and Auctioneer, Under these circumstances, General Kmety has taken the) This battle was the crowning achievement on which General | frame of mind, which may be detected in the lines penned ia’ SUMMERSIDE, .....c0eeseeeeeeeeee+see2 BEDEQU E | only course open to him, by publishing a narrative of the Williams’ reputation has been built. Itso chanced that the by the light of the dim perpetual lamp, in the filthy little 7 aa PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. battle of the 29th of September, for the sake of vindicating | brunt of the affair fell upon the quarter where the Hungarian den into which the crew was crowded—penned, too, when if JOHN HARPER his title to the share of glory which fairly belongs to him for “eneral commanded, and that, from the necessity of the case, |all but the writer had haif forgotten their troul 1s in sleep— : aad : 6 his part in the memorable repulse of Mouravieff. The story | the result depended more upon his generalship aud gallantry seem to us far better worth having than any amount of . ne oneer & Commiss on lerchant, is told simply and without pretension. It tallies with the than upon anything else. Under these circumstances, if 18) artistic composition. One of the most curious vestiges of I Queen Street, in Mr, Desbrisay's Buildings,) report sent home by General Williams, and with the letters not surprising that he should look for a cordial recognition these feelings which the book displays is to be found in the 4

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Literature.

I PRAY YOU, LOVE, REMEMBER, BY E. L. HERVEY. *T was the fifth of old November, I pray you, love, remember,

W hen, spite of wind and weather, Far down among the heather,

pugned. The following description of the assault is derived from the account which General Kmety has published. The Turkish entrenched camp was divided by the river Kars into two nearly equal portions. The city Jay on the right bank of the river, which was nearly level, with the exception of

two fortified heights, called Karadagh and Arab Tabia. On the opposite bank, the ground was steep and rocky, and the various works which had been there erected formed the key

of the position. “,)\Aévost immediately opposite to the western

suburb of the town a small elevation, close to the river, was

Midst the ferns and mountain yorses, you won me for your| crowned by the Tchim Tabia, which commanded the citadel

bride.

Now remember, love remember, Ever since that old November, When the earth was lit with glory, and the heavens smiled above, We have vowed to keep it solely Asa joy, to memory holy, And from an old dead custom draw a living fount of love.

Let us forth at Nature’s summons To the wild, wood-skirted commons, There we'll kindle every withered hough that drops around our way ; With our children gathered round us, We will bless the fate that found us, Down among the reddened gorses in the dying of the day.

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And remember, love, remember, When around each dying ember

and fun, What it is to feel the glow Of the loving hearts we know, Will ne’er with life desert us till the dark day’s done !

We may weep or we may smile, Ay, do all things but revile ; We may rue the bitter louring of the cold world’s frown ; But while simple pleasures please us, Winter’s self shall never freeze us— We can wait with patient faces till the storm dies down.

Leave we the dear old door For the heath and upland moor ; Let us tread them, love, together, while the ways seem fair : By and by the dimness—lameness, When ali things shall wear a sameness, But to-day for hope and gladness, and for Ged’s blest air !

Let my willing arm sustain you : Does your wound of battle pain you? Does the rugged pathway shake you? So—lean heavy on my breast ; There is health and vigour coming Where the swollen streams are humming, And the lights of autumn playing on the wild bird’s crest.

Remember, love, remember, THlow soon comes blest December, With its precious gifts of spirit, and its happy household cheer ; Though the leaves are dropping fast, love, And the flowers have bloomed their last, love, When our days are at their darkest, then a glory shall be near !

(From the London Saturday Review.) SIR W. F. WILLIAMS AND GENERAL KMETY.*

There is no character so difficult to sustain with propriety

and town. Further to the right lay a higher range of hills, upon which a system of connected works had been constructed in a line nearly parallel to the river. These were the Ingliz Tabias, and comprised the closed position of Fort Lake and four minor redoubts, united by a continuous breastwork facing to the north-west. At a greater distance from the river, and nearly a mile west from the Ingliz Tabias, a still higher plateau, called the Tachmas, ran in a direction from south to north. Upon this a system of works had been con- structed, of which the principal position was a closed re- doubt, known as the Tachmas Tabia, at the .outhern ex- extremity of the plateau. On the right of this was a slighter work, called Yuksek Tabia. And further still to the right, a breastwork, styled Rennison’s Lines, bad been erected. The highest point of the plateau was the Skirs- hanni Tepessi, which formed the extreme right of the Tachmas heights, and had been strengthened only by an in- significant earthwork in addition to its natural defences. The strategic position of the defenders was consequently this:—The rugged height of Skirshanni commanded the Tachmas lines. Tachmas in its turn commanded the Ingliz Tabias, which looked down upon the Tchim Tabia, and this last post commanded the city itself. The left bank of the river, comprising the positions which we have described, was held by rather more than 5,000 troops under the command of General Kmety, to whom tho defence of the heights had been committed, with instructions to hold Tachmas as well as he could, and in no event to retire on the inner post of Fort Lake until the enemy had suffered a loss of from 2,000 to 3,000 men.

The Russian camp was opposite to the Tachmas lines, aud, from the nature of the ground, it was obvious that the prin- cipal assault must be on that side, and that the success of the defence would depend mainly on the determination with which this commanding post might be held. General Kmety accordingly, after establishing a sufficient force in the Ingliz lines, fixed his own head-quarters on the Tachmas plateau, and the greater part of his force was encamped immediately in the rear of the Tachmas Tabia, at the southern extremity of the range of heights. On the night of the 25th of Sep- tember, it was ascertained that the Russians were advancing against this side of the defences, Hussein Pasha had the immediate command of the Tachmas Tabia, against which the heaviest column of the enemy was directed. Another column advanced on the left flauk of Tachmas, so as to operate on the rear of the redoubt, and, in the event of the success of the main attack, to penetrate to Fort Lake by an easy route between the Tachmas heights and the river. A third and less numerous column advanced at the same time against the more assailable breastwork of Rennison’s lines, on the Russign left of the main body. Simu'taneously with this attack, another body of the enemy was directed from the north upon the Logliz Tabias.

every word that may fall from him. The threat to mark Omer Pasha with his ink, is but one of many instances in which he has evinced his own sufficient sense of the effect which may be expected to follow from the praise or blame

that he may think fit to award. By virtue of his heroship,

he has assumed the chair of judgment in all matters military. Surely a man so conscious of his own altitude might have condescended to bestow at least one honour-giving sentence on the Hungarian General, who fought so nobly and so suc- cessfully under his command.

One suggestion is made in General Kmety’s narrative, on which we do not venture to express an opinion. He thinks that the Turks were strong enough to have followed up the victory by an attack on the Camp at Ainalli, which Geueral Williams did not venture to make. It must be rewembered, however, that the garrison was destitute of cavalry, and that the Russians were able to cover the country with clouds of Cossacks. Besides, it is always so easy to suggest that some- thing which was omitted might have been done, that we are not disposed to attach over much weight to such problematical criticisms. Stillit is only fair to General Kmety to add that in this, as in every other part of the controversy, he has re- frained from the slightest exhibition of acerbity. As a mat- ter of professional judgment, he considers that the Russian General underrated his foe, and that the commander of the Turkish army overrated bis. Whether he is right or wrong in this opinion, he is at any rate entitled to an honourable recognition of services most gallantly performed and modestly related. And there is this peculiarity in the fame of Gen. Williams—that it depends not on the final success of his efforts, but on the belief that the neglect of others deprived him of the triumph which he had a right to expect. He is, perhaps, the first General who ever received an ovation after a defeat. His reputation rests less on what he did than on what it was believed he would have done, if adequately sup-

rted. In sucha case it is fairer than in most others to take account of the possible successes which he might have achieved by the means at his disposal, as well as of those which were snatched from him by the corruption of Turkish Ministers, or the want of more effectual aid from England. General Kmety’s estimate of the capabilities of the Turkish garrison, may be too bigh, and is at any rate only matter of opinion. But it is expressed frankly, and without bitterness; and even if it be erroneous, it is much less offensive openly to impugn the judgment of a rival than to depreciate his services by studied silence or faint praise.

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(From the same.) KANE’S ARCTIC EXPLORATIONS. *

Disastrous as Sir John Franklin's expedition may have been, it has at any rate occasioned the display of more heroism than any similar event of modern times. Very recently we took an opportunity of laying before our readers soiue account of Captain M’Clure’s success in discovering the North-West passage, which our lamented countryman Jost his life in seeking. We have now to call their attention to the record of an achievement arising out of the same transaction, and possessing even greater intrinsic interest. If Dr. Kane's expedition did not produce any single result so striking as the great discovery to which Sir Robert M’Clure put the last hand, he struggled with far greater difficulties, while provided with far smaller resources,

‘Dr. Kane is, as we learn from these volumes, the son of

Morning classes for pupils of both sexes ; as thatof a hero. As a general rule, your hero, especially} | General Kmety, appreciating the importance of repulsing | the well-known Judge Kane, and a naval surgeon in the service a4 Evening classes for soere Spats 1 with tl if he be a military one, should say and write as little as} the first onset, brought all his small reserves to the front at| of the United States. Towards end the of the year 1852, eee eae eee eee nee ee ee eeore i | possivle about himself, lest his tongue or his pen destroy the| once ; and after directing Hussein to hold the Tachmas Tabia | he was appointed, by the Navy Department of the United

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fame which his sword may have won. What little he does say should refer with as much modesty as the man is capable of to his own performances, and should show a generous ap- preciation of those who may have laboured on the same field, and perhaps contributed largely to the reputation of their chief. These are obligations which every man of right feeling must admit, and there is no way in which those who have been honoured with especial ovations can so effectually tarnish their own fame as by forgetting the duty which they owe, in this respect, both to themselves and their companions.

which have been more recently published by Colonel Lake; | of the serv and though of course it must be read as an exparte state- | On the pedestal on which he now stands.

ment, we do not think that its accuracy is likely to be im-

to the Jast extremity, proceeded in person to the Rennison lines, which, though threatened by a smaller column, would have been incapable of defence if the enemy had succeeded in penetrating to the rear on his first assault. Theattack on this last poiut was vigorously repulsed from the first, with a very heavy loss to the assaulting columns. At the same time, however, the Russians succeeded in forcing all the immediate outworks of the Tachmas Tabia, and shutting up Hussein Pasha in the closed redoubt ; and they possessed themselves also of the Yuksek Tabia, which lay between General Kmety

States, to the special duty of taking the command of a brig —the Advance—furnished gratuitously by Mr. Grinnell for the purpose of conducting an overland journey in search of Sir John Franklin, from the upper waters of Baflin’s Bay to the Polar Sea. His expedition sailed from New York on the 80th of May, 1853, and returned there on the Lith of October, 1855. The history of what passed in the interval between these two dates certainly enlarges our notions of the powers of human endurance. We know of no more terrible record of suffering, nor of any more glorious memorial of an

ices which did sg much to place General Williams occasional forced gaiety and levity of the writer—gaiety We should be sorry | which cannot be mistaken for anything else than what it is to think that a man whose services have been recompensed | —the only possible refuge from utter despondency. He by so large a share of honour and renown as has been be-'| * A Narrative of the Defence of Kars, on the 29th of September, 1855.' stowed on Sir William Fenwick Williams could be capable

* Arctic Explorations. The Second Grinnell Expedition in search of Sir

Johan Franklin, 1853, °54 ‘55. By Elisha Kent Kane, M.D., U.5.N.

souttatel them the Herman of ( eorge Kmety, late Hungarian General, | of any feeling so contemptible as jealousy of a fellow-soldier.

QUEEN-STREET, Illustrated by upwards of 300 Engravings from Sketches by the Author,

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